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  1. Re:Why earth? on At Last, Mir to be Ditched · · Score: 1

    hummm, actually Mir is very close to Earth, a few hundreds kilometers, so a little boost from the engine and it falls into atmosphere
    The Moon is far far away, engine of Mir does not have the power to detach from Earth gravity, even if, it'll take some days before Mir can touch Moon.
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  2. maybe because black hole does not inflat on Black Holes May Promote Stellar Birth · · Score: 1

    As anyone know, black hole loose particle, and become more and more small, and at one time will have a 0 mass (i think it's Stephen Hawking that said that in the 80s).
    Because of the incertitude principle (quantic mechanic), a pair of particle/anti-particle can be created at the horizon (frontier) of the black hole, one of those fall in the black hole, the other can get away, and black hole loose mass. It's not the same particle that entered the black hole that get out of the black hole, i don't know really what happen to the particle into the black hole when it reaches 0 mass? anyway...
    Stars can use what get out of the black hole i guess.
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  3. uu.net on Mega-ISPs And Spam Support · · Score: 1

    i wonder uu.net is worth than psi.net
    i received each day spams from various account, and more than half of them comes from uu.net
    i send all my spam to spamcop, sometimes it tak a while to process more than 30 emails, and see than more than 20 come from uu.net!
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  4. spock's ear :o) on Quickie Twister · · Score: 1
    this one come from me
    • 2000-06-21 13:41:51 sound of spoon in coffee (science,humor) (rejected)
    • 2000-07-21 14:05:28 Light can break its own speed limit (articles,science) (rejected)
    • 2000-07-27 20:29:15 Potata web server II (articles,hardware) (rejected)
    • 2000-09-25 18:00:39 download QNX RTP for free! (articles,news) (rejected)
    • 2000-10-24 17:43:05 news from PetrOS (articles,news) (rejected)
    • 2000-10-26 15:36:14 Spock's ear sold at Christie's (articles,movies) (rejected)

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  5. Re:So, its another BeOS?? on Explaining The Symbiosis Between QNX RtP & Linux · · Score: 1

    Of course not! QNX is here for almost 20 years, the ymade the first HD driver, the first micro kernel on x86, the first true multitasking kernel on x86, etc
    BeOs is very very young, and QNX is very very old! This is really not the same thing. I use QNX4, BeOS, and now QNX RTP, the 3 are different (the 1st one is also more expensive :o)
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  6. Quake2 map? on Lighting The Future: Lasers And (Wild) LEDs · · Score: 1

    there's a link on the "A" in the article that point to a Q2 map, God is fun :)
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  7. from my experience yes... on Do Overclocked CPUs Need a "Burn In" Period? · · Score: 1

    even from the old age PII/Celeron, when i overclocked my PII 266 to 350 i had to put 2.9V instead of 2.8, and had some weird things, freeze, etc, after a few days it works well. No i'm running it at 300 (100x3) at 2.7V and it works :)
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  8. 3D != FUN on Are Virtual Worlds Worth It? · · Score: 1

    i will always remember the old days, when i was playing Boulder Dash, Out Run, Tetris, etc, all this games are fun! Even now i'm still playing at Sokoban for example. 3D games are fun to play, but i don't care about complexity, i see nothing about the superb texture of the wall when my character is running, and actually i prefer to play at 60+ fps instead of 30 fps with "beautiful" texture.
    anyway 3D does not mean fun, what's fun are games that will never end, like the one i mentioned, i'm sure i'm missing some good title, Space Harrier for example (BTW if someone can make a OpenGL version i'll be cool ;o)))
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  9. don't forget Amstrad on Timex Sinclair ZX81 Back On the Market · · Score: 1

    Amstrad (aka Schneider in Germany) built a lot of computer with a Z80, running at 4MHz instead of 3.75 in the ZX81 iirc. I have an Amstrad CPC6128, 128Kb ram, colors, sound, 3" floppy drive integrated, etc. This is the machine who killed the C=64 in Europe.
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  10. Re:What? on Timex Sinclair ZX81 Back On the Market · · Score: 2

    i know this site for years, and last year the kit was 29.95$ or 39.95$ i'm sure of that!
    i built my first ZX81 at 12 y/o with my father, in 1982, and this is on the ZX81 that i learned BASIC and assembler, pretty cool machine! it still working, have a bunch of wire outside now, to connect a joystick, and some I/O port. This is the machine you can build a lot of hack, 64Kb memory, color, sound, graphics, etc.
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  11. massive autodestruction instead on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 1

    everyone know that mankind will destroy itself... there's (still) too many nuclear weapons here on Earth. In some millenium humans will destroy themself. This is why also, we cannot discover extra terrestrial civilization, When civilization reach a certain amount of technologies, they missuse it and destroy themself.
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  12. a good telescope! on Your Holiday Present Wish List · · Score: 1

    a Meade LX200 16" is a great gift to give, and receive!
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  13. too expensive! on Techies Rampant on Drugs · · Score: 1

    damn, drugs are too expensive, each 6 months i have to buy a 3D card at 500$, each 6 months i have to change my motherboard and buy new CPUs, soon i'll have to buy a P4 MB with two P4 CPU, i really have no money for drugs! Without counting money for a Meade LX200 16" and accesories...
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  14. week-end on Yup, Somebody Cracked Slashdot · · Score: 1

    "The bad news is that we have to pretend that these guys totally took over, and rebuild everything anyway. Its gonna be a long couple of days."

    have a nice week-end rob!
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  15. funny :) on CueCat Goes After Online Barcode Database · · Score: 1

    i have posted a link to upcdatabase.com in the last discussion about the cuecat, yesterday i think :) saying i added some stuff to the database, eraser, cigarette, lighter, CD-R, etc
    i love this base :)
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  16. UPC Database on CueCat At It Again · · Score: 1

    now at UPC Database you can directly scan an object with the cuecat, and add it to the database if it's not into it. It's fun, i added a Staedler eraser, lighter, cigarettes, CD-R, "facial tissue" kleenex-clone, etc
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  17. mercury spinning mirror are old! on Dirt Cheap Telescopes With Liquid Mercury · · Score: 1

    i remember 10 years ago i read article on it, there's even at University Laval, here in Québec, a mercury mirror with other substances that allow you to move the mirror for +/- 10 degree or something like that, so you're not on one latitude only.
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  18. i already submitted it and it was rejected on QNX Realtime Platform Now Available · · Score: 2
    as always...
    • 2000-06-21 13:41:51 sound of spoon in coffee (science,humor) (rejected)
    • 2000-07-21 14:05:28 Light can break its own speed limit (articles,science) (rejected)
    • 2000-07-27 20:29:15 Potata web server II (articles,hardware) (rejected)
    • 2000-09-25 18:00:39 download QNX RTP for free! (articles,news) (rejected)

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  19. Re:How to disable cuecat id? on Privacy Concerns and The CueCat · · Score: 3

    here's the link
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  20. Re:QNX on Linux Ported to Cisco Routers, BSD chosen by router manufacturers · · Score: 1

    and i did a preview to check the link!!! but didn't see the "visco", of course read "cisco" instead.
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  21. Actually there's QNX in cisco router, so i guess it's standard x86? here's the press release on QNX web site. Maybe the visco router can be the next i-opener thinggy :)
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  22. ADD on Video Games and ADD · · Score: 1

    when i saw the title on the frontpage i thought it was about Advanced Dungeons & Dragons!!!
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  23. Re:microprocessor on Agenda's Linux Based Handheld · · Score: 1

    Be Inc. ported BeOS from PPC to x86 in a few months, kernel had to be rewrite, but all others apps onlt recompile. They even go from CodeWarrior in the R3 x86 release to elf GNU-C in R4 release, so i think their code is portable! You know, it's like QNX/NTO, it's "closed" but one QSSL engineer port NTO to the iMac in one week of spare time. This has nothing to do with open source.
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  24. microprocessor on Agenda's Linux Based Handheld · · Score: 1

    is a 66MHz 32 Bit NEC VR4181 MIPS, so i cannot run BeOS/BeIA on this thing :-(
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  25. one of the problem is weigth of gaz on Why Do We Still Use Gasoline? · · Score: 1

    propane is heavier than normal air, so instead of going into the air in case of accident, it goes on the ground, and in town, it can be dangerous
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