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  1. Re:It's interesting to note what gets duplicated on Judge: Live Performance Copyright Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Fix the law to one that isn't unconstistutional and it wouldn't be seen as a problem. Don't blame it on the store. Blame it on the rain.

  2. Re:first post on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. The resoultion of print means you can get this many dots per inch. For text it is equivilant to the resolution. For images, you have to mix your distribution of colored dots accross a larger area than one dot occupies to simulate the various colors. Look at a dithered gif and then a non dithered png image to see the difference (though gif has 256 colors available, much more than print).

  3. Re:Smoking and not sharing... on Slack LCD TV Market Means Cheaper Phones And Monitors · · Score: 1

    I run my house off of power generated from the grid turning a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator, which turns a motor, which turns a generator. Changing from CRT to LCD saved me nearly 5 million dollars in power bills. Everyone should switch to LCD. Seriously man, don't say that "it allowed me to save $4700.00 on buying a 4th solar panel." if you actually have on-grid power available in your area. The $4700 would not have been something the CRT and faster computer setup cost you, it would have been something your hippy ideals cost you. Also, "I need an extra 400 watts and that was more than enough to start using mains power and therefore costing me money." I have a problem with this statement. You act like using the solar panels doesn't cost you money and yet using the main would break the bank. Shortly after we get the gem, "and it allowed me to save $4700.00 on buying a 4th solar panel," implying you've already laid down 14 grand on this thing... free.. pfft. Look at the total costs of ownership of these solar panels... while yes they may seem pay off in the long run, with the rate at which they are getting cheaper and cheaper, if you just switched to the low power setup and stayed on the main for power you could probably wait til you've spent half that 14k on power bills and then buy equivilent panels for 1/4th the cost, nearly netting you that 5k you were whining about.

  4. Re:Ford Exorbitant on Vehicles of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    No I'm pretty sure it was a Ford press release.

  5. Re:Good existing zoom implementations on Sony Develops TVs That Zoom in for True Close-ups · · Score: 1

    Snes9X has all the same interpolation modes as zsnes, kreed's, super eagle, whatever.

  6. Re:Should there be on Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature · · Score: 1

    They aren't "using it on [their station]", they are telling people to compare their station to the other station (and to do so (shock!) they kinda need to use a name).

  7. Re:Is that so? on The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III · · Score: 1

    "Since you cannot extrude the salt in the salt water (urine won't do it and neither will persperation), you will, over time, collect a lethal dosage of salt." Then how come people don't die from eating food which contains salt every day of their lives? Your body has ways of maintaining its salt levels, and obviously this means some salt has to be expelled as waste if new salt is coming in all the time. Now, can your body deal with salt fast enough to allow you to survive off of salt water for an extended time? No, but that's a lot different than what you said ("you cannot extrude the salt in salt water").

  8. Re:Well... on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    You're right. But you're out of context. The main context clue that was set here? "Anyway my point is that I find Java can do anything that C/C++ can do"

  9. Re:why? on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 1

    Whats your point? You can write a little proxy script that drops all the advertisements in gmail right now. I just don't see.. whats your point?

  10. Re:Bottles without labels? on The IOC's 'Clean Venue' Policy · · Score: 1

    And people believe in a god who is all powerful and who is the only god; if believing this made this god exist would it undo every creation that other people have "made" with their beliefs? Also, calling your random idea a theory is an injustice to the word.

  11. Much needed on Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many programs need to work on operating in a collaborative environment. If you've ever coded in such a setup you can really understand how this will be a good thing for office software.

  12. Re:WOW on Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Reading comprehension. Read the parents posts. Comprehend them. THEN use the reply button if you have something useful to add to the discussion.

    What the parent said was that he thinks this ruling is a good thing and will switch legal pressure off of the people providing the programs to enable file sharing and onto the end users who are using file sharing to distribute files which are covered by copyright. This does not mean in any way that the RIAA will be "[given] the power to control file sharing networks." It means that that power will be taken away from the RIAA (it was in ways given to the RIAA in the napster case) and that they will be forced to prosecute end users who are actually doing the copyright infringement.

  13. Re:The funny thing is... on MMOG Subscription Analysis Provides New Insights · · Score: 1

    I've seen articles showing that that is not the case at all.

  14. Re:Quake3 engine open-source? When? on Doom 3 Gets Reviews, Piracy Questions, Exultation · · Score: 1


    "Duct tape was originally developed as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition cases in WW II.

    Since there's no water on mars, there's no need for duct tape."

    Space ships were originally developed as a means of competing with the communists.

    Since there're no communists in the future, getting to mars doesn't require a spaceship.

  15. Re:I'm not one of the purists on Nvidia Releases Updated Drivers for FreeBSD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    " The open source drivers would be just as good if they had the specifications." This is untrue. Granted if the specs were available the open source drivers would be a HELL of a lot better and more importantly could be continued to be updated in the future (whereas with these proprietary drivers you can't put any bets on that) but to say they would be "just as good if they had the specifications" shows a blatant lack of awareness for what goes on in the drivers for modern 3d hardware. Having the cards not have full specifications does not mean that if they did have specs it would be as simple as "pump it these triangles in this format and these textures in that format." When you see new drivers released by nvidia in the past that give 20 - 30% performance boosts on some games, well lets just say the drivers are not as simple as you seem to think.

  16. Re:download.com sucks... on P2P vs. The Clones · · Score: 1

    Or you could try my uncles barn, its almost all cowshit and he gives it away for free. Its much easier than download.com. Come on man, your solution is in no way a substitute for download.com and neither is mine.

  17. Re:And that one stinks too! on WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP · · Score: 1

    Yes so you are telling me that if google had released its API without the limits it put on the developer's licenses (a set # of accesses in a certain amount of time) it would be cheap for google? Do you know the type of intense shit people will run with direct or near direct access to a database?

  18. Re:Huh? on Intel Discontinues Extreme Edition P4 · · Score: 1

    Say you have 256MB of mem, you have some programs running taking 65MB of memory and perform the copy. Windows will use all of the available memory and then the 65 MB and the 65MB will be swapped to disk. This will happen only to parts of the 65 that aren't read or otherwise touched during the file copy.

  19. Re:Chemical rubber? on Modding Game Controllers For Greater Grip · · Score: 1

    You do realize the difference between the actual meaning of a word and the meaning of a word in context don't you? When someone says there is a chemical plant near me I think I would be taken aback to learn it was a fucking bottled water company.

  20. Re:Not For Everyone on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    Listen fuckwad, all I said was it doubled the chances, NOT that the chances were high to begin with. When you say, "Neither of these discs are probably going to have problems for at least 3 years," guess what? I don't care, if something is a very slight chance and you double it, it might still be slight, BUT IT IS FUCKING DOUBLED. Learn to use some rudimentary logic please.

  21. Re:And that one stinks too! on WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP · · Score: 2, Funny

    why doesn't slashdot pay everyone a million dollars? because its expensive.

  22. Re:Oooerr Matron! on Modding Game Controllers For Greater Grip · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. Are you saying you took a sip of coffee expecting tea and spit it out all over the keyboard be cause you have never had coffee before? I don't get it.

  23. Re:but... on Walking In A VR Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh wait they should hold this advancement back until all those things are working perfectly just like the real world and then they should release it all at once. Wait, thats not how progress works you fucking whiney bastard.

  24. Re:Safe? Lifespan? on Smart Glass Blocks Infrared - But Only When It's Hot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First off light will still get through, but, onto the the main problem of the parent's post (not really a problem, it was modded funny): anyone who has ever played with the keychain ring of tinted plastic in kindergarden knows that with the parent's solution, you get green. The appropriate color to achieve a colorless tint would be purple, as it, not blue, is the "opposite" color of yellow.

  25. Re:Not For Everyone on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    Umm it verifyably at least doubles your chances of failure though. Your example is weak, personal, and not something anyone should base an actual setup off of.