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  1. Re:School LAN party on Fragfest · · Score: 1

    Teacher Advocation? hahah.

    We made a sport of playing Q3 during class.

  2. Google ranking tips on Modern Day Search Engine Manipulations · · Score: 2, Informative

    I *do* actually run porn sites, and stumbled upon getting very good rankings.

    It all boils down to everything in moderation.

    So you have 'normal' amount of meta-keywords, say about 5-9, and the same effect in the title.
    Another one that is debated to work is
    http://keyword1.keyword2.com/keyword3

    Basically, IMO google trys to limit results to 'real' pages.

  3. Re:One ring to tule them all... on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

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    To-Address: DarkLord@mordor.org

    Original Message as follows:

    Interested in buying or selling jewellery? then come to our website, where all your jewellery are belong to us! http://www.shop.com/Jewellery@100.22.235.73

    You've recevied this email because of your expressed interest in jewellery. If you don't want to receive future emails, please send an email with the subject 'Confirmed Email Address' to spammer@aol.com

  4. New alternatives on Longer Bar Codes Coming in 2005 · · Score: 1

    I'm an AV technician, which means i get to sit in on a variety of meetings and business deals. I was recently sitting in on a meeting of the Australia Packaging (Agency ?).

    Anyhow, they were discussing the future of packaging, and labelling. Aparently, there's a few interesting options in the works.

    1- Extended barcodes.
    As discuesed here, longer bar codes. There's not much exciting about these, but rumours of 12 up to 25.

    2- passive transmitters.
    these things are great. I forget their name, but basically, they're a passive transciever, and can store up to from 96bits to 12k of information. They've also got technology to be totally unique - so even in a pile of 1000 of these, each one is individual. Aparently, Coca Cola is trialing these to be able to track individual bottles of coke, not batches. One step closer to taking goods, and walking through a checkout and being charged instantly.

    These things are almost paper thin [abotu as thin as those little security strips you get in DVDs etc], and cost about 10c US to manufacture. Theyre not going to be economical until they are about 2c, but all this needs is adoption by some large companies.

    Anyhow, thought i'd share my 2c :D

  5. ..finally! on Gone Fission · · Score: 1

    aha!
    Combine this with Lasers, and big, pink, bad worms..

    I can finally play real worms. Bananna bombs ahoy!

  6. ..well. on Speaking in Tongues · · Score: 1

    it's better than californication and expecting the world to speak english.

  7. ..it would be better on Rat Mind Control · · Score: 1

    ..the scientists could easily capitalise this with the headlines:

    Rats able to get beer and do mowing!

  8. ..hm. on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hm.
    I'm always wary of these sites. They show all this electricity zapping round, and guys with electrofingers.

    Only problem is this: Unless a tesla coil is specifically built for this purpose, the skin effect does not work on telsa coils. You actually cook your organs.

    I think it's highly irresponsible to blaze things like tesla coils.

    I've built one, I've used one, and had an enjoyable time, but safety must be the first priority, not pretty pictures.

    For more information about the dangers of tesla coils, Here[Chip Atkinson's Safety sheets]

  9. Pith on You Look Like You Need a Guinness · · Score: 1

    Just returning from the movie, my opinion was that it was pithy. Great ideas, but no substance.

    and for that matter, i just had to wonder if more effort was spent branding the movie as opposed to creating a 'beleivable' experience.

    ..besides, if coke has its way, there's not going to be any pepsi in 2054 :D

  10. ..treat as real code? on Are Written Computer Science Exams a Fair Measure? · · Score: 2, Informative

    ..I too used to suffer this - we used have to write chunks of code, and it was frankly painful. I found the best thing to do was use copious amounts of scrap paper, and develop the code like you normally would on a workstation...

    ie, get your structure down, then start to flesh it out, a page for each method etc. That way you can 'grow' your code a syou normally would, and don't feel pressured to write it all top-bottom-with-no-mistakes.

  11. Re:AOLpple on Apple Wants Your Input · · Score: 1

    You were in iCE? sweet.. what handle?

    you should drop by the site - www.ice.org - there's a lot of funky stuff happening there now..

    also, why not come by #ice on efnet or irc.ice.org and say hello.. we love reminiscing :)

  12. Re:AOLpple on Apple Wants Your Input · · Score: 1

    Oh rubbish.

    The so-called 'dumbing down' is called user accessibility - something microsoft has been trying to dupe for years. Apple's done it, and they don't even need a paperclip to do it.

    Have you ever used OS/X, or are you just making a lofy 'i use windows / linux' position? OS/X is a brilliant peice of software. Yes, it looks pretty, and it seems to me that too many people are scathing of anything that looks good - only because they make a microsoft-afilliation - prettiness == slow.

    OS/X is BUILT for the hardware. So it's fast.

    While you're busy being pretty, you can dive into a terminal screen [only one click] and control every aspect of the computer. every aspect, including the entire gui.

  13. ..old news on Select or Lock Hard Drives... With a Key · · Score: 1

    This is old news- the +folk have been aware of this trick for a long long time, and it certainly cost less that $16.95 [+P&H] - fravia had this idea long ago. makes me scruple the 'inspiration' for this idea a little more critically

  14. Re:why would anyone do that? on Web-based Collaborative Artwork · · Score: 1

    We're not trying to kid anyone. Perchance if you spent a little longer browsing the site, you might see that yes, it is a little more advanced than alpha blending [ which doesn't come into it incidently ] and gradients [ which are seldom used ]. And, just incidently, just one moment spent looking at a quilt such as http://tiles.ice.org/index_surreal.php?quilt_id=14 will show you that infact they are related. oops.

  15. Tiles is public on Web-based Collaborative Artwork · · Score: 1

    ..Just to clear up a thing or two.. Tiles is public, so please, if you're artistically inclined, join in on the mayhem. The posting was a little ambiguos / incorrect in reference to artists 'not seeing surrounding art'. In fact, artists do view the surrounding art, but only a small sliver [~15 pixels] and use this as a basis for their 'tile'. ..so come over, and sign out a tile!

  16. Re:why would anyone do that? on Web-based Collaborative Artwork · · Score: 1

    [..one may ponder as to why you'd post without actually looking at the site] In actualy fact, the user can see a small sliver of the adjoining tiles, and uses these as the basis for their art. So in actual fact, you've got a huge grid of completely blended peices of digital art with discernable and intentional pattern.

  17. Re:neat, but... on Web-based Collaborative Artwork · · Score: 1

    ..That's exactly how tiles.ice.org runs. Artists see a ~15 pixel sliver of adjoining tiles, and make their artwork blend off that. And yes, there are quilts that are totally visible, and allow for selection and knowledge of the surrounding tiles.

  18. ..but is it art. on Are Computer Graphics A Fine Art? · · Score: 1

    I've recently been submerged involuntarily into this debate in real life; the art department at school doesn't recognise digital art as 'acceptable'. ..it seems to me that for a person who has never created, or attemped to create art on a digital medium, it is assumed that it isn't art for one reason- computers make things easy, 'it's just a case of pushing a few buttons'. It's hard to impress people with digital art, because they are immersed in a majority of brilliant digital art - such as film effects etc. For me, it's just as challeging a medium as paper- the only difference b/w pen and paper and my Wacom and I is the undo button.

  19. Re:Gnome on Why Isn't BSD a Desktop Operating System? · · Score: 1

    Gnome works fine. Install it from the ports, or /stand/sysinstall, and everything is fine, and dandy too. Collect packages and try and install it that way.. Probably won't work.