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  1. Re:entertaining? on Dictionaraoke - Fair-Use meets Karaoke · · Score: 1

    Just go and find some of the songs by Blind Guardian... and there you go, some kick ass inspired by Tolkien rock. (and some bad covers of other things)

  2. Re:Not big iron, but... on When Shipping the Big Iron...? · · Score: 1

    Long term relyability of a machine shouldn't be comprimised by having it get waterlogged. Problems occure whena machine is powered up and in contact with water.

    So it's not really something new... had one box of mine get hit whem hot water tank leaked... still no problems with it, 2 years later

  3. Re:Enough on Windows on an iMac (says the invoice); Red Hat's Alternative · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stand in he middle and yell it at both sides. Save time and effort.

  4. Does this mean... on First, Do No Harm - A Hippocratic Oath for Coders? · · Score: 1

    That all coders working on military projects should refuse to now?

    Bah. it's stupid to expect this... I mean, you'll just have "renigade" coders doing the dirty work for huge sums of money...

  5. Re:Surprise! on HP/Compaq Merger Official Today · · Score: 1

    The point was that this is only the appearance of competition.


    Ie they make all the computers in the same place and slap a differnt sticker on 'em.
  6. Re:The Matrix: An Example of Bad Software Engineer on The Matrix is Reloading · · Score: 1

    Well, I think they're at least on matrix 2.0... the 1.0 version (Utopia) was a flop. so there was a major revision to have basically what emulated the flawed past...

  7. Re:Take That! on Photonic Structure Increases Light Bulb Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know this is a troll post, and yes i'm relying... buut...

    How does this break the law of conservation of energy? The imput equals the output in terms of energy, just it's done in a manner that produces the desired output energy more efficently,andthus reducing the unwatned energy output.

  8. Re:Nope, wrong on Spider-Man 2002 vs. Spider-Man 1992 · · Score: 1

    Few minutes? I thought that the webbing lasted ~1 hour. Else it would have been useless when he bound the various villans and left them for the cops.

    But in all honestly, i thought that the webbing was knowledge impressed on him by the biteing of the spider, of what chemicals to mix to get it.

    Although, you have to admit, the Scarlet Spider's impact webbing was pretty useful too.

  9. Re:The problem with organic webshooters on Spider-Man 2002 vs. Spider-Man 1992 · · Score: 1

    Actually, as i recall, while Peter designed the web shooers, the webbing itself, at least how to create it was imparted by the spiders bite.

    'though, i could be wrong... ben a looong time since I delt with spider-man.

    (incidently, the venom symbiote did have organtic web shooters, so at one point he -did- have them, just not usually.)

  10. Re:Isn't Hydrogen Abundant on Sewage To Be Turned Into H · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hydrogen is abundant. However, it's also very reactive and forms compounts rather easily. So we have lots of hydrogen, just not in the form of H2 which is the form that is wanted for fuel.

  11. Re:Transformer: Beast Wars! on Transformers On the Move Again · · Score: 1

    It wasn't low quality animation... it just lacked a lot in what other Mainframe CG shows had (Reboot, War planets). i can't put my finger on it, but Beat Wars/Beasties and Beast machines was lacking (although, Beast Machines did up the quality some)

  12. Re:They never stopped? on Transformers On the Move Again · · Score: 1

    Actually, Galvatron (and Megatron) is a dragon... rather poor looking one...

  13. Showing their age? on Rolling Your Own Business Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Some questions to think about:

    What are you useing these computers for?
    Who's useing these computers?
    Have you upgraded software that runs on them recently, so that it needs more prosessing power?
    Is the new software nessisary, or just because?
    Have you got enough RAM in each machine?
    Are any parts failing?

    Bu, if you are going to upgrade anyway, do something that makes sense. Auction off the MB and chip at the very least. get more money into the fund to upgrade more...

  14. Re:Identity verification at registration on Your Fingerprint Buys Groceries in Seattle · · Score: 1

    One problem with signatures... mine's not the same twice. Drivers licens, SIN card (I'm in canada) and credit cards have the same name but signed differntly, and it'll be differnt from the slip I sign.

    Photo makes a better start at least for ease in linking the user to the card.

  15. Re:A few questions... on Freespace 2 Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    I never said the data structures arn't released, just the data. Specifications arn't the data, they're what format the data needs to take to work with the engine.

    The specifications for the data have likely been known long before the release of the code, either as a aid to the mod community by the company, or just reverse engineering of if.

  16. Re:A few questions... on Freespace 2 Source Code Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like most releases of source code for commercial engines, the data for sounds, maps, textures, models etc is not released with the code. that's why it couldn't be run.

  17. Sounds a lot like my alarm clock... on Marking Time - Controlling a Noisemaker from a PC? · · Score: 1

    After realiseing just how quiet my alarm clock is, Ijust use my computer... set it to play full volume when I want to wake up (Beethoven's 5th Symphony is great to wake you up... rather starling too... never slept past the first 4 notes yet!)

    As others have said, there's countless ways to do it, the simplest is to have a audio player play a file at a given time (or, for a schedualed event. IE, all shift changes have one sound, breaks another etc). Provideing your computer has a sound card in it, should be simple enough to hook it up to your PA system.

  18. Re:Just in: NWN beta test slashdotted on New Preview of Neverwinter Nights · · Score: 1

    Actually, the beta tests have't been launched. Just the resistratio for the beta tests. Who gets to beta test won't be known until at least monday.

  19. Re:Why put the fee up front? on Recycle Fee For Each PC? · · Score: 1

    Uh... yeah... depends where you live. I know i pay an enviromental surcharge on oil and oil filters when I buy 'em.

  20. Re:Outdoors? on Geek Outdoor Hobbies? · · Score: 1

    It's that place where the air smells funny, with the really high blue ceiling (well, sometimes it's grey, or red, or black with specks of light), and you can't see the walls...

    oh, there's a big ball of bright light there too...

  21. Ya know... on Black Is The New Beige · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't they just make things easy to paint? Yeah, the case is simple for anyone and everyone... but things like drives, why don't they make the plastics easier to remove andput back in.

    Do that, and then there's no problems with colours... paint it hwever you want.

  22. Re:There's one minor flaw in your logic. on Mods: "Lifeblood of Gaming Industry"? · · Score: 1

    i knew it was one of the Quake engnes... thnks for pointing out the correct one.

    Dated, but oviously it was well designed.

  23. Re:There's one minor flaw in your logic. on Mods: "Lifeblood of Gaming Industry"? · · Score: 1

    "Half-life engine" Um.. As I recall, the engine that half life uses is a seriously altered Quake II engine.

  24. Re:Psychic??? on Evangelion Reviewed In LA Times · · Score: 1

    Yes and no, remember, that the AT field was projected by the pilot and EVA combo... so in a sense it could be psychic...

  25. Alright then... on Authors Guild To Members: De-link Amazon.com · · Score: 1

    here's an idea. If the Authors want everyone to by new books, then the publishers had best keep publishing to meet whatever demand there is.

    Oh, wait, that's not cost effective and the bottom line is so important... so, to get a book I want, I need to buy used.

    Sorry. I buy books, new and used, depending what I can find. There's times that the new copy of a book is sold out, and there's used ones around... i get used.