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  1. Re:What this means is on Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM · · Score: 1

    "I'm a virgin, so I can't say anything about the physical part of sex, but I do know that it's pleasurable, powerful, and not at all sinful - but only in marriage."

    You are sinning if you do it for any reason then procreation.

    I dont believe that myself, but if you want to be all holy about stuff better not be going against what is supposedly Gods will.

  2. Re:Q: Why kill OS/2? A: Support Costs. on IBM Officially Kills OS/2 · · Score: 1

    IBM is willing to support OS/2 for as long as customers pay for support.
    Beyond that there is Serenity Systems and the OS/2 version they sell called Ecomstation that for instance can install from CD Boot and use LVM/JFS2
    Windows still won't give you anything more then basic mirroring in a non server OS.

  3. Re:They're still in business? on White Wolf Withdraws Pay-To-Play Policy · · Score: 1

    "finally deciding take the "impending" out of "impending doom,""

    So this means instead of "Operation Impending Doom II" we get the much weaker names "Operation Doom II".

    Think of the S.I.R. units!

  4. Re:Lose? on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    Sadly all that will likely happen is Darl will "find God" like that Health South exec whose name is not worthy of speaking.

    Nothing like some Jesus to get you off for crimes most foul. And everyone falls for it no matter how many times it's used.

  5. Re:BAD idea on Independence Day for Transformers Live Action · · Score: 1

    "The first reason is postmodernism. The Transformers was *very* morally dualistic. The Autobots were depicted as "good", the Decepticons as "bad", and there was generally no blurring of that line whatsoever. The dominant contemporary moral theory, on the other hand, is relativism, and under that philosophy the Transformers' storyline doesn't work terribly well...primarily because fundamental reasons weren't ever really given for the Decepticons being the way they were...they were depicted as being bad simply because they were bad, most of the time."

    Try the Mainframe produced series Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Plenty of grey area and uncertanty.

  6. Re:What's wrong with Damacy? on We Love Katamari Review · · Score: 1

    Sometimes they do have a good point.

    Serial Experiments Lain for instance, had a girl named Alice. In the english translation Pioneer insisted on using the romanization "Arisu" and many Anime fans pointed out (rightly IMO) that her name is Alice, no matter how differnt it sounds due to Japanese pronounciation (r/l sound) and should be written for english speakers as Alice because they will recognize it.

    On top of all that in several places in the Anime, art books, and other related items her name is written as Alice.

  7. Re:Oh, come on on Clinton To Take On Rockstar · · Score: 1

    From all the ones I have encountered, they are a more of "do as I say not as I do" bunch. A priest who endlessly speaks about how evil sex (outside of procreation) is he gets caught abusing the alterboys, or the supposed devout couple who leads life outside of sunday services that aproaches the biblical description of soddom and gamora.

    Thats typically the types I see in the world.

    Oh I forgot the ones who preach hate, or abuse the poor/elderly in the name of God.

  8. Re:Thanks Hillary on Clinton To Take On Rockstar · · Score: 1

    "Second, the way that sex in the media tends to be portrayed is not as a beautiful thing shared between two people deeply in love. Instead it is a fling, or simply a lustful act."

    Sometimes sex between two people who are deeply in love can be a lustful act as well.

  9. Re:3 KW....pfffft on How to Build a 17-ft Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Starship Titanic.

  10. Re:120 Volts on How to Build a 17-ft Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    So "deep cycle" RV or Marine rated ones (cost much more then regular car batteries) are what you use?

  11. Re:Magnetics on How to Build a 17-ft Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    Are we talking lead acid or some other battery tech?

    Would it be effective to creat your own?

    I'm thinking of the electroplating tanks my mother used when she was a large scale jeweler. They were about four feet long, three feet high and three feet wide. for electroplating you had an acid bath (with disolved metal salts in it)with lead plates (in some kind of bag) as one conductor and what you were plating as the other one.

    I imagine there are many more lead plates and other things (pure mixture of acid/water) involved in a battery compared to the electroplating system described above, but I know the large tubs can handle the acid, and they have lids.

    Being spoiled by having grid power and bench supplies I have not really given much thought to this, but if your looking at doing a strange power system I would think this is somewhere a custom battery might be worth the trouble.

  12. Re:Anyone notice the power requirements... on Homebuilt 19" Mini-ITX Server Rack · · Score: 1

    His power consumption is nothing.
    I have a old p-200 MMX 200GB raid box (SCSI full hight drives) and it needs a 500W power supply just for the drives to spin up (with a delay between each spin up). I have a Sun a5000 FC storage array that consumes 600W supposedly but has 500GB across it's 14 drives (36GB max size per disk for this model)

  13. Re:Don't Waste Your Time !!!! on A Practical Guide to DIY LCD Projectors · · Score: 1

    Not to knock what you are saying but you are being a bit misleading about DIY projectors.
    First you dont have to use an old OHP LCD from the early 90's.

    You can use the LCD screen aout of quite a few monitors and laptops (that are more recent and not intended for OHP use).

    As for OHP bulbs you can replace the bog standard gear with a $40 (roughly I cant remember if the ballast costs much more) 20K hour lamp. Hows that commpare to a $300-400 1-4K hour lamp?

    You can using about as much money as one of the low end commercial refurbs cost (something you dont mention about the low price you quote) to make something much better.

    This is limited by ones willingness to do the work, and sometimes people get lucky with auctions or clearance sales and manage to get parts at a good discount, so it's always worth asking people who brag about the high quality projects costing under $300 how and what they bought.

    You can also make them quieter then the comercial projectors, again if you put some work into the design stage.

  14. Re:What a crock. on A Practical Guide to DIY LCD Projectors · · Score: 1

    Unless you weight the bottom edge or tie it down, it can move with air currents or when someone walks near it.
    It's better to spend under $30 on some plastex, wood (for a frame) and some black paint (frame again) because it wont wrinkle ot move around.

  15. Re:Why is this even a question anymore? on RockStar Speaks · · Score: 1

    And this is why chairs today now have tags that say they are only for sitting on, not standing and beware of pinch points (folding chairs/tables).

  16. Re:Nothing to see here, move along on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    According to what I am reading Intel is also fucking all non P4 Pentium users. If you have a P-MMX, P2-MMX, or P3-MMX it wont use MMX on them. Thats fucking stupid beyond all belief. I think Intel should be paying us the end users of this crippled software for all the wasted time.

  17. Re:How can this be done? on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    Games now a days won't work if you don't have an SSE2 capable chip. I had to replace my 1.3 GHZ thunder bird with a 1.5 GHZ AthalonXP2000 or several games in the last year would not run (or install).

  18. Re:The Limit of Lawsuits on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    So coders now need to buy a compiler for each x86 compatable chip the code is to run on and maintain as many code bases, and aplications need to have binary installs for each x86 class chip?

    Shit like that belongs in the 1970s.

  19. Re:WiFi for consoles makes sense on Nintendo Releasing Wireless Router for Revolution · · Score: 1

    The problem with the much flaunted 70 million number is that unlike the Xbox (after the initial release bugs) and Gamecube have a much lower defect/failure rate then PS2/PSTwo units. How many of those 70 million are actually functional? Does Sony count selling referbs as a new sale? How many people bought PStwo to replace a working PS2? How many are still in stockrooms and on store shelves?

  20. Re:Sony's nameing scheme on Sony drops Router Functions from PS3 · · Score: 1

    "PlayStation - The official name, although the PSX code was used in a lot of mags early on."

    PSX was used by gamers, mags, and everyone else (outside of Sony) for years until the PSOne was released, even a bit after that. The only thing that can cause any lack of clarity about the PSX is the stupidity of Sony releasing a product in Japan called PSX. I think they did it in the hopes of attaching some brand loyalty or something.

  21. Re:Perfect remedy for this problem on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    I think you will find that you can only eat two meals a day a toxic hell. Sadly they killed off the (much more tasty IMO) breakfast menu back in the mid 1990 era.

  22. Re:outgrowth of Political Correctness on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    In the mental health industry here in the US, they use Mentally Retarded and Developmentally Disabled (there are two differing conditions, from what I understand) all over the place, even in organization names.

  23. Re:100% Flamebait Guaranteed on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    But should they?
    I mean, shouldn't they be living a life of example, based on the teachings they preach?
    What of humility and a humble life?
    I'm not saying they have to be destitute, or wanting, but what in the world requires said preacher to own a luxury car rather then a economy or regular sedan?

  24. Re:Revenue Protection Officers on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 1

    Over ten years ago Blockbuster Video in the USA called all non management staff CSRs.

    My favorite bit of corporate bullshit was the star maker internal training and corporate rah-rah program.

    There was a questionnaire we had to fill out and turn into our manager in each chapter (if we wanted to maybe move up to assistant manager).

    It had questions like "How do you view your fellow employees?"

    I answered that one with "As a stepping stone to my place in management.

  25. Re:Wasn't Gator in Win98SE ? on Microsoft Denies Claria got Spyware Exception · · Score: 1

    I deny it. I have 2 win98SE pc systems at home (My wife wont let me upgrade her machine) and a machine for running legacy stuff that wont run well under 2K or XP. Both have adaware, spybot, and AVG loaded since install. Never have these machines indicated Gator infections.
    Do you load adaware imediately after os install or do you load up on 3rd party aps first?