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  1. Bill Nye, The Science Guy on Mars Sundials - True Colors, Ambiguous Hours · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can anyone even say Bill Nye, without feeling a compulsion to add "The Science Guy"?

  2. Re:In related news... on Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release · · Score: 1

    Too bad they can't spell their own companies name in their web address.

  3. Re:Holy hyperbole, Statman! on Semiconductor Employees Suing IBM · · Score: 0

    Only a geek can get choked up saying "statistical analyses".

  4. Re:Explosion didn't involve Halley? on Halley's Comet Imaged As Transneptunian Object · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot, you mean you actually read the article?!

  5. Re:Color Laser Printeres on Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess? · · Score: 1

    Just make sure that it will print a specific color you want first, as it can't do some specific colors... like the exact Pantone color of my company's logo, even calibrated and using HP's pantone color maanagement profile... I hate it when I see the someone from the marketing department on my work phone's caller id, I know what it's about.

  6. still waiting on Pods Unite · · Score: 2, Funny

    still waiitng for the Beetle with an Imac style flat panel popping out the top. 100 inches or so to keep the proportions...

  7. Re:Shades of Oz on Big Brother Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    Except Saddam is the Straw Man^H^H^H Scarecrow... no wait they both work. Saddam is supposed to scare us too.

  8. Re:Hey! on Pictures of Earth From Mars · · Score: 1


    Hey! I didn't know Bill Gates read Slashdot

    And posts as kidlinux!

  9. spaceship size comparisons on Slashback: Hawash, Monomania, Rocketships · · Score: 1

    And it does include an American football field for comparison, but not the end to end length of a LOC...

  10. Dupe Haters Handbook on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what we really need.

  11. Re:The Facts on Call for Papers: Chaos Communication Camp 2003 · · Score: 1

    stop worrying, 11 - 2 + 23 + 6 = 38, not 28. Mod me up: +1 numerate.

  12. to the developers on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    I'd just like to say thank you.

  13. paradox on Slashback: Revolutionism, Media, Oregon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Revolution OS now available on media that the Revolution OS isn't supposed to be able to play...

  14. Re:Cheating IS fun.... on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    It was even more fun when you tried "idkfa" in Mechwarrior 2...

  15. phone acting in the user's interest? on Tomorrow's 5G Cell Phone · · Score: 1
    He also said that sending a 10 MB email in a zone where carrier charges are high might cause the CR to alert its user
    Then again, it also might just send it anyway, as this would ensure greater profit to the carriers. In fact, it may hold messages until it can transmit them at a certain price.
  16. sordid on Slashback: Stupidity, Telebastardy, Fast Search · · Score: 1

    sex.com having sordid adventures... I sure hope so!

  17. easy for some concerts... on Instant Concert CDs? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...where everything is lip synched anyway.

  18. Re:PB keyboard backlighting is better on DIY Ambient Light Keyboard Kit · · Score: 1

    I never found the thinkpads light to be bright enough to be useful. The screen seemed to give off significantly more illumination than the lights on the machines I was using. So if someone was interested in this feature I'd tell them to see it in action first and judge for themselves whether it was bright enough.

  19. Re:not quite on Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project · · Score: 1

    Thank you once again.

  20. Re:not quite on Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project · · Score: 1

    Why isn't a list of known primes to make things much easier in the search for the private key? It would seem that such a list exists our could be compiled from various sources, and save the time taken to determine if a given x is prime. I remember there is a formula that determines roughly how many prime numbers there are that are less than a given N, and while I don't remember the formula it would seem to cut down the search space significantly.

    Other than that I bow before the clarity of your post.

  21. Re:This is why I buy german cars on Personal Jet Pack for X-mas! · · Score: 1

    The Ford Focus has been recalled to fix problems by Ford 11 times since it's introduction in America 3 years ago, and yet it still makes "10 Best" lists. I'd have to attribute that to car magazines not keeping the cars very long. That being said, I agree with you about rather driving a Focus than using a jetpack.

  22. Re:Very interesting on Ghost Stations of the London Underground · · Score: 1

    A Canticle for Leibowitz is one one my favorite books, and I will take the opportunity to recommend it. Walter Miller was supposedly inspired to write it by his experiences in the army during World War 2, while being among all the bombed out cities (Not sur why it wasn't published until 1959 though).

  23. the real question on AMD's 64-bit Plot · · Score: 1

    I think the real question here is going to be what's the 64 bit line in the old saying that ends with:
    "a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition"...

  24. Re:Wow on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the lowest priced Mac for non-educators is the 15 inch monitor iMac G3 for $799 at Apple's online store. However, I used to work in education, and the discounts available to me were more in line of $50 off a roughly $2000 machine. I can see them selling the eMac with more of a discount though, since that line was initially targeted only to the education market.

  25. Re:Hardware Costs on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1
    1) Teachers are already eligible for discounted hardware (just like almost any major computer company, Apple has educational discounts).

    Yes they do, and where I used to work it was a rather underwhelming $50 off a roughly $2000 machine. I'd like a Mac just to play with OS X, but the discount was too small to be a real incentive to me.