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  1. Re:Holographic movies on Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers · · Score: 0

    As I recall, the Sports Illustrated hologram cover with Michael Jordan was in color. http://www.aardvarkstozebras.com/Sports_Illustrated_Michael_Jordan_Hologram_Cover_p/sim911223.htm

  2. Re:Snowglobe on Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon · · Score: 0

    We live in a relatively closed system. If we were trying to "heat" you up, that heat will come back around and hit our west coast.

    Stop using your oven, you insensitive clod!!!

  3. No crime for good taste... on BitTorrent User Guilty Of Piracy · · Score: 5, Funny
    Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality.

    Piracy is the least of his problems...

  4. Re:Bootable USB? on VMware Opens Up API to Partners · · Score: 1

    Well, if that's the case then it already supports it because that's what I'm doing right now. I have a 40Gb portable USB hard drive with a Win XP VMWare image sitting in a folder on it. I just plug it in, start VMWare, and it boots the OS from the USB drive.

  5. Re:Time? on Wireless Networking Speeds of 540 Mbps w/ 802.11n · · Score: 1

    Pre-N hardware is available now from manufacturers such as Belkin

  6. Re:Old News on Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight · · Score: 1
    I am an Iowa Physics and astronomy student. Van Allen works only two floors up from me.
    You mean you're an ex-student and Van Allen used to work two floors up from you. Posting rebuttals to tenured professors in your department on public forums is usually not a wise career move.
    Ummm, no, he was correct. As a former physics grad student at Iowa myself, I know that despite the fact that Prof. Van Allen is retired, he still works in his office on the 7th floor of the building named after him. I had an office on the 5th floor with about 20 other grad students, where I presume the parent poster is now. I occasionally see the prof. filling up his Jeep Cherokee at the Delimart down the block.
  7. Re:Insane on Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 2, Funny
    Reminds me of the Steve Martin bit:
    "You say, 'Steve, how can I be a millionaire and never pay taxes?' Two simple words. Two simple words in the English language ... 'I forgot.' How many times do we let ourselves get into terrible situations because we don't say, 'I forgot'? Let's say you're on trial for armed robbery. You say to the judge, 'I forgot armed robbery was illegal'."
  8. Also claimed by... on Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ABC Computer at Iowa State University, by John Antasoff and Clifford Berry.

  9. Not an endoresment of MS... on Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of Linux Today · · Score: 1
    From their Legal Notices (emphasis mine);
    10. Links.

    The Site may provide, or third parties may provide, links to non-JUPM Internet World Wide Web sites or resources. Because JUPM has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that JUPM is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that JUPM shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
    Advertising a product does not imply endorsement. If CBS advertises a Pizza Hut commercial, they don't necessarily endorse the product or it's claims. I think people can read a website and judge the impartiality of the news on their own.
  10. Simple: on Timeshifting: Cram More Into Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step 1: Obtain DeLorean.
    Step 2:: Invent Flux Capacitor.
    Step 3: Timeshift.

  11. Re:much simpler solution on Video Capturing Guide at Ars Technica · · Score: 1

    If you happen to own a Canon Elura 2MC (or similar), you have a miniDV camera that can record from analog inputs thus negating the need for a DV-bridge device.

    My encoding solution has been:
    1) record material to DV with videocamera;
    2) transfer DV to AVI video through Firewire with DVIO
    3) encode to some MPEG format with TMPGEnc

    I haven't tried this personally, but there is also a product called MyDVD, which claims to transfer DV to DVD directly in one step (they call it "direct to disc" recording).

  12. The Feynman Lectures on Physics Books for the Novice? · · Score: 1

    I think the Feynman Lectures on Physics are generallly considered a good overall reference, he seems to have a way of explaning the fundamental principals of physics that is easy(ier) to understand.

  13. wierdx on The State of Remote Desktops? · · Score: 1

    I haven't tried it myself, but you might check out wierdx, a Pure Java X-Windows server that runs in a browser.

  14. Re:Creative adaptation on Arguing A.I. · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a good book called Blondie24, which tells the story of 2 guys who developed a program to play checkers without telling it the rules. They used the idea of Natural Selection applied to neural nets, keeping the best nets for the next generation. Eventually this process created a neural network which could beat most everyone at checkers without even knowing the rules.