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  1. Re:Tubes=Distortion on AOpen Debuts The Funniest Motherboard Ever · · Score: 2

    The best makers of solid state tube imitations:
    http://www.line6.com/main/main.cfm

    But only insturment amps, not stereo amps.

  2. Re:What about the motion trackers used for animati on Motion Capturing in Three Dimensions? · · Score: 2

    Another similar tool is the actual real stick figures which are about a foot high and feed into a modelling program. More of a frame by frame too, these have been used for a bunch of 3d fighting games.
    Also if the only goal is to make people return to earth, there is a slashdotter's company Animats.

  3. Re:No Better Sound Than CD quality? on SACD-CD Hybrids -- A Way Out For Us Both? · · Score: 2

    Spoken like somebody who couldn't tell the difference between a live performance and a CD if you were blindfolded. Or a vinyl record and a CD. Noise isn't the quality killer it's fidelity. That's why better DAC's sound better and cost more. Of course if you do have a tin ear, by all means enjoy the money you're saving. And the only reason CDs won out is because they sound better after many listenings, not because they sound better.

  4. Re:Use both sides on SACD-CD Hybrids -- A Way Out For Us Both? · · Score: 3, Informative

    They can be manufactured using current methods. Redbook on one side, SACD on the other. No need for fancy layers.

  5. Re:How about this? on SACD-CD Hybrids -- A Way Out For Us Both? · · Score: 2

    The point of the hybrid is that you won't be charged again if you don't want to be.

  6. Use both sides on SACD-CD Hybrids -- A Way Out For Us Both? · · Score: 2

    The simple solution is already being used by some people (not Sony tho'). Of course then we can't use cover art (no loss) and must protect the product better to preserve it (industry gain!).

    BTW IMHO SACD rox :).

  7. Re:Raido Sucks? So what? on Homogenized Music · · Score: 2

    Excellent, I can avoid boredom with money! Money for XM or money for albums or money for live music (which I can't listen to at work). My radio cost me $15 and college student that I am, I'm not spending more than that. It's too bad only the weenies here at GMU get the dj gigs. I'd do it, but I need a well paying job because I need more . . . money!

  8. NY == USA? on NY AG Sues MonsterHut Over Marketing Spam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Okay, Niagra Falls is in NY so suing is cool, but 500 million emails to just New Yorkers? Of course if all of the 19 million people (last census) in New York state received an equal number of emails that would make about 25 per person which seems reasonable, but if we extrapolate that same rate to the 280 million in the US they sent about 7.5 billion emails from March last year to April when they were cut off. (Think about it, the extrapolation is reasonable) At a very conservative 1kB per html-email this makes about 7.5 terabytes of data they've sent in a little more than a year. Which makes about 20.5GB of email a day. That seems like a bit much to me.
    This is all mental math, so please correct me if you've got the time.

  9. Re:Coming from Gracenote website... on Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release · · Score: 2

    Or they've got a geek with a sense of humour who writes html that only renders with gecko instead of iexplore . . .

  10. Re:Multihead support? on Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity · · Score: 4, Informative

    Were you running xinerama? wm's need it for decent window placement w/ multiheads. See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html , Specifically http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO-7.html . If you are, sorry for the condescension.

  11. Re:On the Train Tracks on Pittsburgh Launches Large, Free, Public WiFi Network · · Score: 2

    Or use the tracks as a really big antenna. Of course you'd need a very large amplifier connected too . . .

  12. Re:Seductive lure of the Game of Life? Bah. on A New Kind of Science · · Score: 2

    Go read/watch "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". It was written by Cameron Crowe, another "wunderkind". Based on his experiences after spending an undercover senior year in high school.

  13. Live?! on Stringless Violin to Bring Soul to MIDI Music · · Score: 2

    What the heck is the point to a live performance with this thing? I could see this at something like NAMM where people care very much about both music and electronics (and the combination thereof), but otherwise I'd give it a hearty "Whoop de doo."

  14. Re:Generating $1bn a month?? on Microsoft's $40 Billion On Hand · · Score: 2

    Quoth me: "How long have they been making this much?"

    Emphasis added on the second go.

  15. Generating $1bn a month?? on Microsoft's $40 Billion On Hand · · Score: 2

    Haven't they been around more than just 38 months? How long have they been making this much? Seems that either the number is wrong, or they should have more than just $38bn . . .

  16. Why don't they just on "Deep Linking" Controversy Renewed in Texas · · Score: 2

    . . . use refferal checking like babelfish, and quit complaining.

  17. PS2.5? on Playstation 3 In the Works · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It darn well better be backwards compatible, or they'll piss off a lot of developers. And the majority of the world that doesn't have broadband . . .

  18. Re:Space Elevator? on Camera Flashes Kill Nanotubes · · Score: 2

    Also what are the ramifications of the Power Tower effect on the space elevator?

  19. Re:Addendum to the article post on Sandia Releases DAKOTA Toolkit under GPL · · Score: 2

    If you can afford the hardware to run this stuff on the scale the website suggests, then licensing shouldn't be that much of a percentage-wise increase.

  20. EBomb, wrong Name on ASCI White Detonates The First E-Bomb · · Score: 2

    E-Bomb already means an EMP bomb (See anything by Carlo Kopp). Try P-bomb (pseudo) or f-bomb (haha).

  21. Washingtonpost on Alternatives to the Entertainment Industry? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/
    Local to washington area bands. More newspapers need this feature.

  22. So . . on Apple Cuts Off Under-18 Darwin Developer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're throwing away his donated code then right?

  23. Re:pbs on Open Source... Television? · · Score: 2

    Think of it like a genius grant. We don't own the art, we just get to enjoy the art. We don't own Arthur and Friends, we get to enjoy having it for free over the air. Same with the old movies PBS shows on occasion.
    The only problem is when a gov't sponsored product (university research) gets own3d by somebody who prevents us all from enjoying the fruits of our tax-payer dollars, which isn't the case with PBS.

  24. Re:Power? on US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms · · Score: 2

    With the extra strength they get from the armor, they'll be able to carry reasonably large armored batteries.

  25. Re:Light bending? on US Army to Try Out New, Anime-based Uniforms · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually the light bending will be incorporated into the very skin of the soldiers, with a light mask to cover the eyes. They will have to fight naked of course, but this is causing the Joint Chiefs to rethink allowing women on the battlefield.

    Of course, if the light gets bent around the soldier, how will any hit their eyes so they can see?