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  1. Re:Bullet time on 107 Cameras to Scan Discovery for Damage · · Score: 1

    Actually most of the camera effects were done with many cameras at the same time ... then they had to paint out the cameras that were in the shot.

  2. Re:Al Qaeda group claims responsibility on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Bin Laden is pissed because we shut down his funding after the russians pulled out of afghanistan. Just goes to show how we should be more careful picking our allies.

  3. Re:Al Qaeda group claims responsibility on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    I know more than one person who thinks the French did it :-)

  4. Re:Al Qaeda group claims responsibility on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    I thought some other group beat Al Qaeda to it. It's a bit late claiming responsibility when somebody else already claimed it.

  5. Re:The Russian court has got see reason, here. on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    But what you're talking about here is variations in an existing organism that happen by killing the bulk of a population and leaving ones with certain traits intact. IE only short dandelions are left after you mow so when they breed you get more short dandelions.

    Where the Evolution vs Creation debate gets going is how one type of organism evolved into another one, how do you get from a single celled lifeform to a mammal, reptile, bird etc. When does cell-division stop working as a method of reproduction and how do more complex reproductive systems evolve at the same time as the complex organism require them ?

    Personally I don't really favor either position, neither is without huge problems.

  6. Re:Build your own slide rule on When Computers Were Human · · Score: 1

    One of my elementary school teachers has us make our own slide rules. I think I still have one somewhere.

  7. Re:The Russian court has got see reason, here. on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    Evolution isn't really that scientific either, you can't reproduce it under lab conditions because of the timeframes involved. Most science involves a theory and a series of experiments that prove/disprove the theory.

  8. Re:NEYT! on Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet Probe · · Score: 1

    You mean this ?

  9. Re:Common sense on Sunscreen Not So Good for You? · · Score: 1

    could this be the problem ?

  10. Re:Forest Gump on The Lawsuit of the Rings · · Score: 1

    The studio made money, but they way their accounting works, they get to skim all the money for their own profits while claiming that the movie itself lost money. It only lost money because they use mathematical trickery to steal the profits.

  11. Re:Compaq Proliants are ~$50 on eBay... on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For anybody that's wondering what the answer is, assuming your proliant has 256mb then this is what you need :

    mem=exactmap mem=640k@0M mem=255M@1M

  12. Re:And you're surprised by this... on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Monopoly or not in the antivirus market, buying up makers of other software to stop them from making products for competing operating systems is still questionable behavior.

  13. Re:Don't Give Up Hope on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 1

    We're talking about an early shutdown of the first stage, it could be that the subsequent stages were enough to loft the payload to a sufficiently stable orbit. People on the ground thought they detected the orbit insertion burn ... so it doesn't seam like the rocket just shutdown and fell back to earth right away.

  14. Re:Simple logic on Solar Sail Launch Failure Confirmed · · Score: 1

    In particular there was some evidence that the orbit insertion burn took place ... if thats the case then clearly the early shutdown of the first stage was followed by ignition of the later stages. Often with rockets what looks on instrumentation as an early shutdown, can be anything from catastrophic failure of the combustion chamber to simply an instrumentation problem. Without knowing the extent of other information received it's hard to guess what happend.

  15. Re:Now lets get some NTSC on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card · · Score: 1

    The phase alternation only applies to the color signal not the luminence information.

  16. Re:Here's two good reasons on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    They've always been happy to video tape the whole thing around here.... it's not away work they just put the tape in and hit record before they start.

  17. Re:Here's two good reasons on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't post on slashdot pretending to have a life, nobody will believe you.

  18. Re:Now lets get some NTSC on Digital TV Transmitter Using a VGA card · · Score: 2, Informative

    Both of those are interlaced too ... pal is really NTSC with some minor tweaks and I expect the same goes for SECAM

  19. Re:The sad part is on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 3, Informative

    Tatooine is a town in Tunisia (north africa) near the sahara desert, It's pretty dry and hot there.

    Luke skywalkers cave house is an example of the kind of homes you find in southern Tunisia, I forget the name of the town.

    Those Jedi robes are worn by a lot of people because of the cold nights in the area.

    Lucas recycled most of this into the movie, because it was already there and therefore cheap.

  20. Re:Technological developement on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    There's evidence to suggest that the civilization that built the pyramids in egypt was around for about 10,000 years. Specifically a list of rulers and how long they ruled for.

  21. Re:Pulic Right to how it works on Closed Source -> Charges Dismissed? · · Score: 1

    I got pulled over one night for "not using my blinker" when changing lanes. This lie would have been more convicing had my blinker not still been turned on when the cop pulled me over. (I had only driven half a block total). Of course the real reason was to quiz me about whether I'd been drinking or not.

  22. Re:Convenient... on Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats · · Score: 1


    4X is a beer

  23. Re:$12? Hardly... on Juicebox Hacking · · Score: 1

    I noticed that one ... I once found the same product at three different prices in different parts of the store. When I asked why I was told that as the number of unsold units goes up, they put out more inventory at progressively lower prices. The lowest price in the store is the one you get.

  24. Re:Why are Spaceships so easily OWNED? on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    The reason gravity doesn't hold you on the floor of your spacecraft in orbit, is that you and your spacecraft are in a state of constant freefall just with enough sideways velocity that the ground has curved away from you before you hit it.

    If you could stop the spacecraft but maintain altitude (big engines running constantly) then you'd feel gravity.

  25. Re:Why stop there? on Tracking Sex Offenders via GPS for Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is where it gets funny. Ballistics experts will testify to just that at trial. But when people talk about registering such patterns in a database, the same experts come out and tell you that these pattens can change from one firing of the gun to the next.