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  1. Re:I will not use Thunderbird yet on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean this one?

    Tools -> Account Settings -> [your account] -> Composition & Addressing
    Check "Automatically quote the original message when replying"
    And select "Then, start my reply above the quote"

    Granted, that's not the default, and not everybody will bother to change it, but there is indeed a configuration option. Even if it were the default, some people would probably change it back to what it is now anyways. If you're participating in a long email thread, you can always trim out old quotes yourself every three or four replies so it doesn't get out of hand.

  2. Re:ease the pressure on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 1
  3. Re:classic strategy on Blizzard Hints At New StarCraft, Launches Burning Crusade · · Score: 1

    Releasing another MMOG would be extremely foolish at this point in time; it would compete directly with World of Warcraft, and would do little more than take some subscribers away from a Blizzard game that they're already paying for. That's not to say there will never be a Starcraft or Diablo MMOG, but they would be wise to delay that until WoW is in decline and can't be saved by another expansion.

  4. Re:I wonder... Manna on Bill Gates on Robots · · Score: 1

    If you haven't already, read Manna by Marshall Brain: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

  5. Re:everybody's forgotten his dnd message on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Just one little nitpick, DND doesn't actually block the incoming whisper, it just returns a message to whoever's whispering suggesting that they're busy and may not reply. I don't use /dnd myself, but I've had conversations with another guild leader while he was main-tanking BWL, and he keeps /dnd on the whole time.

    So if a GM whispered him after the botting report, he'd see what the GM whispered. Except he probably wasn't really paying attention, and the GM would have seen the /dnd message.

  6. Re:$10K! on Space Tourism is Off and Running · · Score: 1

    Well, less than $100k, but probably still closer to $100k than to $10k.

  7. Re:$10K! on Space Tourism is Off and Running · · Score: 1

    The $10k was a deposit on a $100k flight.

    Still, it's not bad, not bad at all. I'll seriously consider it when I've won the lottery.

    - dorix

  8. Re:major dilemma! on Yet Another Big Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    I decided to take your advice, and I painted the novel. But now I'm in hot water because my wife was reading it, and now she can't see the words for all the paint on them. Gee, thanks.

  9. Re:well... on Brian Walker (aka Rocket Guy) Fires Back · · Score: 1

    because you avoid the "death bed oh i wish i did this and that" syndrome.

    But will he avoid the "death plunge oh I wish I didn't do this" syndrome?

  10. Re:Gone Gold? Huh? on Neverwinter Nights is Gold · · Score: 1

    It means that the final master CD (the "Gold") has been burned and shipped to the manufacturer. Barring critical last-minute bugfixes, this is almost always the version that actually ends up on store shelves, but not necessarily.

  11. Re:Quick theory on how Google Sets works on Google Experiments · · Score: 1

    I thought at first it was something like this, but I think it's even a bit more complex than that.

    If you enter three or four band names, actors names, etc., then ws would likely contain extra words and phrases that are commonly found associated with whatever you entered, like "band", "discography", "movie", "filmography", etc. But none of these show up. That's the part that really impresses me.

    I think your theory is about the first 75-80% of what Google does, but it has to be doing some context interpretation to eliminate phrases that don't quite fit in.

  12. Stunned on Google Experiments · · Score: 1

    The site's back up, by the way.

    I tried a set, and the results blew my mind:

    Glass Tiger
    Men Without Hats
    Grapes Of Wrath

    All Canadian bands, all active in the 80's.

    I got 20 results back, including my original three -- all Canadian, and all but two active in the 80's (one released their first single in 1990, the other seems to have appeared around 1997 or so).

    I had to pick my jaw up off the floor!

  13. Re:Windows Update hosed my system!! on MSIE Uber-patch Of The Month · · Score: 2, Informative
    I don't know how I'm going to back out the patch if I can't run the Control Panel Applet without IE/Windows Explorer.

    You should be able to run a control panel applet from cmd.exe by:
    rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl
    This example, for instance, would run the Add/Remove Programs control panel.

    Good luck!
  14. Re:Here's an idea... on The Story of "Nadine" · · Score: 1

    Let's go register billg@microsoft.com on every "sweepstakes" page we can find out there

    Why? Isn't he rich enough already?

  15. Re:I'd use Konqueror ... on Linux Web Browsers Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Note that you also have to edit src/kernel/qgif.h and change the 0 near the end of the file to a 1.

  16. Re:A few annoying bugs -- your own fault. on Downsides to the C++ STL? · · Score: 1

    BUG 2: He's using malloc to allocate memory for C++ classes. Thus constructors aren't being called, so the list member object is incomplete, and garbage. This isn't an STL issue; it's a C++ basics issue.

  17. Re:FTP download help on Red Hat Linux 7.3 Released · · Score: 1
    You could do something like:
    nohup (wget ftp://.../.../..disc1.iso ; wget ftp://.../.../..disc2.iso) &
    Then you could exit and the subshell with the FTP's should continue.
  18. Re:What kind of proof is this? on Neutrino Oscillations Confirmed · · Score: 1

    SNO uses heavy water, which is deuterium and oxygen (D2O). Deuterium is not radioactive; tritium is.

    So SNO isn't seeing radioactive decay from the D2O. However, there is a lot of sorting the wheat from the chaff that needs to be done -- SNO sees all sorts of things like muons, radioactive decay from (extremely small) trace amounts of elements like radon, etc. Predictions of what a neutrino event in the detector should look like are used to determine what actually has a high probability of being a neutrino. A muon event, for instance, is far more energetic than a neutrino event, and actually looks nothing like a neutrino event.

  19. Re:Why this matters.... on Neutrino Oscillations Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It's unlikely a single one of them would actually collide with a particle in your body.

    This is true. Most people will "experience" a neutrino collision in their body once or twice in their lifetime. Of course, you'll never know it when it happens.

    If there were a wall of solid lead, 1 light-year thick, out in space, only 50% of the neutrinos passing through it would actually collide with a lead atom. The other 50% would pass right through as if it weren't there.

  20. how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive on The Past and Future of the Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Geography data for next-gen flight simulators.

  21. OT: Solar mining? on NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Reserves in Earth's Crust · · Score: 0

    In a reply to an earlier comment, I jokingly mentioned a "vast reserve" of hydrogen about 93 million miles away, and that we should send out miner probes to it. This is somewhat offtopic, but...

    Actually, is there any reason why we couldn't do that? Say we set something up in an elliptical orbit around the sun, with perihelion close to the sun, and aphelion close to Earth's orbit. As the probe reaches the Sun, it scoops what it can from the Sun's corona, and as it returns to near Earth orbit, it transfers it to an H2 reservoir in Earth orbit. Once the miner's solar orbit is established, it wouldn't need much fuel to continue operating, except for a couple of course corrections as the mass changes twice per trip.

    Now, the biggest energy expenditure required once this is in operation would be getting the H2 down to Earth where it could be used.

    Does this sound feasible?

  22. Re:Is this sound science? on NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Reserves in Earth's Crust · · Score: 0

    Let's see 1 liter of water = 10 cm cubed at 1 atmosphere, so 1000 liters = 1 meter cubed. That leaves no room for the rock in which the gas is supposed to be trapped!

    But there's an awful lot of empty space between the molecules of any gas at STP, right? So there really should be plenty of room for that much H2 trapped in the rock.

  23. Re:Dependence on WHAT? on NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Reserves in Earth's Crust · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are you sure? Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. If we've found a large, easily tapped reserve, this is a good thing, I think.

    There's one about 93 million miles away from us. Let's send some miner probes out to that one!

  24. Re:Display adaptability on MAME On Xbox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who said anything about sugar?