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  1. Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! on Color Seperation Under Unix? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Because Pantone is a trademarked name, you couldn't advertise the service with the name.

  2. Re:Robotic Cable Puller on Hardware Networking FAQs? · · Score: 1

    it scares me that thing is operating on the same campus as me... i thought a cinderblock chair was bad enough.

  3. Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! on Color Seperation Under Unix? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ummm no.... the CMYK process is not patented in the least. Pantone yes, CMYK no. (Before anyone bitches about Pantone patenting the colors: It's not the colors, it's the inks and mix formulas to make the color. You're not going to get sued for painting your house a color that kinda' looks like Pantone 413.) Hell I can make CMYK seps with a process camera if I have to---all by hand, no computer involvment, and no one is going to come and beat my door down 'cus there's a hell of a lot of prior art, no pun intended.

    Besides, this has been covered before in an Ask /.

    Ask Slashdot: GIMP and CMYK

  4. Re:Another good thing about being small on Big Hopes for Tiny Satellites · · Score: 2

    Yes, but it's far easier to see and track something the size of a Volkwagen than it is to see and track something the size of a basketball.

  5. Hey Cool: Sim City on Structural Damage to the Financial District · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's real world Sim City! Major metropolis, major disaster with collapsed buildings, all rendered in an iso 3D view! Looks like they've got the damage overlay up...

  6. Re:Grrrr.... on Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Lego · · Score: 2

    Hey it's cool... not bitching at you or anything :)

  7. Grrrr.... on Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Lego · · Score: 1

    2001-08-21 23:09:18 Monty Python and the Holy Grail animated in Lego (articles,quickies)

    I thought it worthy of only a quickie. Ahh well anyway....

    This was done by a friend of mine, Tim Drage and his associate Tony Mines. Together they form
    Spite Your Face Productions. Check that site for more Lego anim, including a condensed version of 2001.

    And oh, they got paid to play with Lego by Lego itself. Neat, huh?

  8. Re:Online casinos on Wireless Networks to Native Reservations · · Score: 2

    They're not faltering in that they are fufilling their intended goal: to make as many jobs as possible without running too deeply in the red.

  9. Re:Wampum? on Wireless Networks to Native Reservations · · Score: 1

    Preferred usage in Canada is Indeginous People changing, of course, "people" to "person" if used in the singular.

    Russel Means likes the phrase American Indian.. to quote, "Because it means I'm an American first, and then an Indian... we're the only minority that puts the American first"

  10. Re:Online casinos on Wireless Networks to Native Reservations · · Score: 1

    Only six of the native run casinoes show any great profit. Many of them barely break even and most are there simply as a job source on the reservations.

  11. Re:Construx? on Move Over Lego, Enter Atollo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well... at least this didn't happen, right?

  12. Jobs's full letter to employees on Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Snagged from Macnn.com:

    Message from Steve

    From: Steve Jobs
    Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 07:12:15 -0700 (PDT)
    Subject: Message from Steve

    Team,

    Last week's devastating and tragic events have touched everyone at
    Apple. We are all grieving for the victims and their families.
    Thankfully, no Apple team members were among them. I know many of
    you have taken time to support various relief efforts, give blood,
    and support those around you. We all appreciate your extra efforts
    to do so.

    I want to let you know that Apple is donating one million dollars to
    the families of the firefighters, police and other emergency
    response personnel who lost their lives, through the American Red
    Cross Disaster Relief Fund. In addition, we will donate one iBook to
    each of these families with children this holiday season.

    Also, today we are announcing the cancellation of Apple Expo 2001,
    which was scheduled to take place in Paris on September 26-30. We
    are very sorry to disappoint our customers and developers, but their
    safety must be our primary concern at this time. Apple is a very
    visible American company, and having a highly publicized event at
    this time would be irresponsible.

    We are also taking extra precautions to insure our safety. Apple
    security will remain on heightened alert at all our facilities
    around the world for the foreseeable future. Please immediately
    report any suspicious events or personnel to security.

    It's going to take time for the world to return to "normal", and
    some things will never return to the way they were. The next few
    months may be rocky. Please take the time you need for your
    families, and please lean on one another. Together, we will all get
    through this.

    I want to commend everyone for their efforts throughout this
    difficult time. As always, I am very proud of this team.

    Steve

  13. I can see the logic on Apple Cancels Apple Expo 2001 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The expo starts on the 26th, 15 days after the attacks on the WTC. Apple has to move a lot of key personnel from Apple USA to Paris for the expo, personnel which are not always American citizens and some are quite likely "Arab looking".

  14. Re:mpeg video on More Links And Updates On Terrorist Attacks · · Score: 1

    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/mult imedia.rescue.html

    CNN has it available in several different formats.

  15. Re:There are major apps... coming soon ;-) on Adam Fedor of GNUstep Says Stuff · · Score: 2

    Quark 5b1hit the streets a few days ago. It's a classic app: uncarbonized, not cocoa.

  16. Re:Trent Lott: Retaliation plans on More On Tragedy · · Score: 2

    Unconventional could mean ' tactical nuclear strike'.

  17. Re:national security... on Slashback: Errata, Futurity, Portality · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, anyone suspicious of being logged will likely do a physical search for the device, placing a 'classified national security device' in unauthorized hands.

  18. Re:How will they market that? on Itanium Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    And Intel will, of course, be working upstream against its own past marketing push which is largely responsible for the MHz Myth. Nice.

  19. Re:Apple to recieve Adult Video Award on Firewire Receives An Emmy · · Score: 1

    That's more real than you think - there's been an industry run on people who know FinalCut Pro. Why? Adult industry. Instead of having to farm post production out to a place with an Avid, then can do it in-house with a G4 and FinalCut Pro.

  20. Re:Web sites developed for MSIE on Getting Opera to Work with Hotmail? · · Score: 1

    Actually your comments on MSIE's rendering engine hold true for Windows only: if IE5 Mac sees a doc-type, it will render to that doc-type. Or should... or at least seems to most of the time :)

  21. Re:Slightly random... on Slashback: DCS 1000, Dmitry, Lizardry · · Score: 1

    owever, the crime occurred in the Soviet Union, not in the United States.

    'bout ten years late. The crime ocurred in Russia, not the Soviet Union.

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  22. Re:nope on Update on the Kite-Obelisk Project · · Score: 2

    You don't necessarily need an eyeloop embedded in the obelisk. The Egyptians had hemp and its known that they could make hemp rope. All you'd need is a well built harnass to wrap around the obelisk.

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  23. Re:Answer for the little guys: firewall. on Honeynet Project: Blackhat Attack Stats · · Score: 2

    And hey, if you ever have to move, you won't need to pack that machine up at least. Just write, "Fragile: Computer" on the outside.

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  24. Hippie anarchists? on Business Wants a New, Profitable Internet · · Score: 1
    The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive.
    Hippie anarchists with a DOD contract, by god!

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  25. Re:have to land near the martian equator? on Recent Evidence Of Water On Mars Near Equator · · Score: 1

    You actually answered your own question :-) If you land on the equator, you get the boost on takeoff. That extra push from the planet means you don't have to carry as much fuel, letting cut overall weight or put in more science.

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