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  1. Re:fair enough :) on Laptops Required for Freshmen · · Score: 1

    The act of writing can help with encoding.

  2. Re:Useful for some on Laptops Required for Freshmen · · Score: 1

    A convertible tablet would bridge the wacom issue. Why Apple doesn't offer a convertible tablet is beyond me. If they only reason to pay for a Mac is the quality of design you'd think a hinge would be a small issue. I have found a after market shop that repackages a powerbook into a tablet w/o a keyboard.

    I have looked at the x41t for the PPT notes too. You have to use a strange print driver and print the PTT into OneNote to use the pen to add info to the slides but that's not too bad. I have spent almost $100 on printing PPT in the last year at college. The dick profs. only have 1/2 the slide posted so you will come to class then inevitably pause for only a second on the slide you don't have.

  3. Re:Backwards on Add 8GB of Storage to Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Or just backup IMDB to your phone and OWN the Kevin Bacon arguments

  4. Iain M. Banks on Flexible Body Armor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like gel suit armor. Let's hope you like your suits personality.

  5. Re:Make sure you account for everything on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's the stopping that makes them weapons.

  6. Re:The Hills are Alive With the Sound of Gunfire on Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax' · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

    What is far left? Communism.
    What is far right? Fascism.

    What was Clinton described as? "Moderate."
    What is Bush described as "Radical right wing."

    Is Bush a "conservative?" HELL NO, he is a radical right wing. e.g. Privatization of SS is a radical notion, akin to changing horses in mid-race in fact. Invading a foreign country is a radical notion esp. on the basis of preemptive defense. Bush is far more closely related to fascist than Clinton was to commies. e.g. Both support open markets. e.g. deregulation of telecoms, energy and free trade. Both are capitalist free market pro-business. The difference is that Bush thinks defense of the population is more important than defense of the constitution, his vowed duty.

    Bush turning his back on the Powell doctrine was a radical notion and because Bush has failed to study history (despite his Andover education,) he has repeated it. The greatest failure was Powell's. Bush is an idiot, and asshole, and exactly what we asked for as a country. Powell was smart enough to know better and so his shame is the shame of wasted potential and squandered trust.

  7. Re:"Defense" Department is offensive in nature on Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax' · · Score: 0

    Wow! Troll? Hmmm.

    " I have 7 serving men..."

    Who would want an imperialistic U.S.
    What would such a governement mean to the writer?
    Where would their levels of critisim be if we were 'imperialist?'
    Why are 'hostile" nations critical of us as a non-imperialist nation?
    When in the course of human events...
    How big an asshole are you really?

  8. Re:Why I Love the ACLU on Two Groups File Domestic Spying Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Not to dog the ACLU, becasue I support them, but they do do wacky things from time to time. When my Dad was the assistant secretary of state for a western state he was sued by the ACLU for busting pimps, at the time the ACLU claimed he was violating their cultrual rights.

  9. Re:What about a balance calculator? on New Uses For LCD Technology · · Score: 1

    No shit, I know a guy who invented a diaper indicator badge, they told him to go away becasue if oyu don't know you'll change it anyway.

    The only problem with you poo-pooing is that there are these magical things call credit unions. I know they care communist bullshit but they have no vested interesting is fucking you in the ass for you 2nd to last dollar. They might do it and once you have them in the market the banks might pick it up.

    p.s. sorry about the shitty puns.

  10. What about a balance calculator? on New Uses For LCD Technology · · Score: 1

    I have always thought it would be great to have a LCD that show what your balance is. Have a small calc. that allows you to add and subtract checks. That way you would never overdraw etc.

  11. Re:Debt is not necessarily bad on Blockbuster's Offensive Against Netflix Flops · · Score: 1

    Some debt isn't bad but that much debt would make me pass on investing with them, and in the end that's all that accounting really means; do I want to invest with this company. What's their acid test ratio, their statement of cash flows, thier PE ratio, their current debt ratio, and their long term debt ratio. Anyone have a quarterly report for BB on hand?

  12. Re:Iain M. Banks on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1

    Interesting note. Feersum Endjin is the same as Arthur C. Clark's "The City and the Stars" the story of the jackasses who stayed behind.

  13. Iain M. Banks on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1

    The culture novels own.

    I am sad to see Vernor Vinge missing from the list. I really liked "A Fire Upon the Deep" pack mind network topography was great.

  14. Re:Mouselook is oldschool? on Old School Gameplay Collides With Modern Graphics · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are looking for old school. God back to the PDP-1 and an oscilloscope and fire up Spacewar. Or if you're stuck with new fangled hardware download Ur-Quan masters. sc2.sourceforge.net

    Without a doubt Starcontrol2 was the best multiplayer game and the best single player game ever.

  15. Re:Unfortunate release timing on Review: Serious Sam II · · Score: 1

    Above all its a fucking lame name for a video game. Either way those alien bastards are going to pay for busting up my ride... ohhh strippers!

  16. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 on VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012 · · Score: 1

    One of the dumbest polls ever on Slashdot was "When are you going to a 64 bit CPU" or something like that. There was no option for 2038.

  17. Re:Perpetuum mobile or what? on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Or you can use turkey offal.

  18. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 on VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012 · · Score: 1

    No no its the sigularity! The great mountain of time! the I-Ching! ack. Thrrrpt its Bill the fucking Cat, eating out Jean Kirkpatrick (one of the founders of the vulcans.)

  19. Re:``If humans had these [resilin] pads ... on Insect Substance Synthesized For Science · · Score: 1

    Your comment makes me think og the gasoline powered stils that russians had, ~40 feet or something in height but landing was a BITCH.

    Powerskip.de would benefit from these protiens.

  20. Re:This would be cool on Microgrids May Provide Distributed Energy · · Score: 1

    Another way to make this type of system work even better is to add flywheel batteries. That way you have distributed production and storage. UPS the whole damn grid.

  21. Re:Where the fault lies... on Virtual Muggings in Lineage II · · Score: 1

    I blame the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his Noodly Appendage. http://ystig.com/spaghetti.jpg >

    For more information on this and other fun... http://www.venganza.org/

    Did anyone else notice the Illuvitar Melkor theme in this months SciAm about background microwave? Seemed VERY Silmarillion to me.

  22. Re:frozen camera on New Digital Camera Lens Made of Liquid · · Score: 1

    Petzl makes head lamps that have an external battery pack as well. Good for winter camping and caving. I found it to be annoying much of the time but my batteries lasted a lot longer on NOLS than the people I was with.

  23. Re:For only $6499, you can have... on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 1

    There once was a site called 'we hurt the ones we love' about Real Doll repair. Oh the humanity.

  24. Re:Apple isn't stupid on Apple's Colossal Disappointment? · · Score: 1

    Apple's biggest proc mistake was killing the BiCOMS Exponential 704 when it had the PowerPC clocked at 533 Mhz and was the fastest chip on the planet. Oops. Where did that patent portfollio go? Last stop I guess was Cyrix? Or National Semiconductor?

  25. My datacenter door is a HUGE magnet. on Death On Demand Drive Tech · · Score: 1

    Um. Yo. Thank N.S.

    Yeah I have a data center like I have no plaurized this idea from the Cryptonomicon