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  1. Re:A big stick and a dead horse on Star Wars TV Show, And An Unmade Trilogy · · Score: 1

    the 3rd series will be about how luke turns dark and Leha pulls him back. if you notice, Luke had a pretty cold and dark manor about him in Jedi.

  2. Re:Star Trek Univserse has gotten corrupted... on Is Science Fiction About The Future Anymore? · · Score: 1

    eh, I just needed a big number. the point is still the same. heck if I wanted to be really anal, I could say that it is not even realistic that so much advancement was made in technology to allow for what we saw in TNG.

  3. Re:my wish list... on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 1

    why in gods name are you promoting that spam site in your sig?

  4. Re:Nit picking on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 1

    don't for get, on the speed side, that the recycle time is way longer unless you have a huge cache to buffer the writes which means continuous mode is out of the question as is getting a quick shot right after the first.

  5. Re:Nit picking on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 1

    well, I assume they are 6 Megapixles with very strong Jpeg compression. do you use Tiff for yours or RAW? now everyone does.

  6. Re:Speaking of cameras... on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 2, Informative

    it depends. 13 gigs at normal and about 18-20 on extended.

  7. Re:Star Trek Univserse has gotten corrupted... on Is Science Fiction About The Future Anymore? · · Score: 4, Informative

    like the LCD screens?

    well, you have to consider that today the technology we have was not imagined by Gene in 1967 but to make it a believable future you need to incorporate some tech that appears to have evolved from our world today.

    I think it was a mistake to make a pre-series because it had to reflects an evolution of todays society. Gene knew that and that is why his next series, TNG, took place 250 years after TOS.

    but for the non anal of us, the continuity is fine.

  8. Re:Isn't it an approximation method? on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    if it is useful, then it most certainly is not revolutionary...it is more like some one just kinda over looked an application of well known theorems. the news makes it sound like he will be the next fields medal winner.

  9. Re:Very Skeptical on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    I just got modded down..Moderators should not mod something down if they do not understand the subject.

  10. Re:Isn't it an approximation method? on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    sounds more like he learned the usefulness of infinite series and decided to apply it to polynomials. Mathematicians are lazy, I am sure you are right that this is either a wash or more difficult than other methods of finding the roots.

  11. Re:Very Skeptical on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    no, it does not. this merely approximates the solution. it is no more impressive than using taylor series to integrate a natural log.

  12. Re:Its no big deal on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is basically like this:

    student gets ahead of teacher's lessons plan...news at 11.

  13. Re:Man does the impossible on General Solution for Polynomial Equations? · · Score: 1

    yay.... a formula for doing something people have been doing for irrational roots since the beginning of time!!!

  14. no more weather interuption!!! on DirecTV Plans 1500 HiDef Channels by End of 2007 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    YAY for Ka Band!!!!

    BTW, you can get Ka Band broad band internet access for like 40 bucks a month and they give you the dish for free.... I for get the name of the company.

  15. Re:Not Scrapped Yet... on New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life · · Score: 1

    hmm, republican congress passes amendment that removes the provisions, evenly divided senate..I think that they will pass it.

    Democrats were raging against this provision. to not pass it would be stupid.

  16. Re:I will be impressed when on Sony's HDV 1080i Consumer Camcorder · · Score: 1

    that is what I was talking about you moron!!!

  17. Re:I will be impressed when on Sony's HDV 1080i Consumer Camcorder · · Score: 1

    well, that was sort of my point, still images that is. I was referring to the fact that new tech at 3500 dollars is not exciting. and new tech that does not actually do what it says is not exciting either.

  18. I will be impressed when on Sony's HDV 1080i Consumer Camcorder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    -I get a piece of brand new tech for 500 dollars.

    -I get a digital camera that uses the X3 sensor and has a true 8MP CCD, not this 1.5MP x 3 garbage that you see.

  19. Re:DEC? Ha! on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    the PDP line was a frigen mainframe system, the earliest of which used teletype machines as interfaces.

    hardly a desktop machine.

  20. Re:G5 on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    that would be the fault of the MS process scheduler.

  21. Re:G5 on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    prove that having 2 processes running concurrently in an OS will complete faster than 2 processes running concurrently on a single processor? well, if you need the proof for such a simple idea then you are truly an idiot.

    proof: open an operating systems text book.

  22. Re:G5 on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    here is a bit of real knowledge that you seemed to have missed. Operating systems run separate processes and having more than one CPU makes the system more efficient. again, a Duel CPU system will be better than a single CPU system. the original comment said nothing about single app performance, it referred to simply being faster.

    and just so you know, I do not have a CC education.

  23. Re:G5 on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    yeah... an over clocked Pentium chip is faster than a dual 2.5 GHz G5 box.

    do you have any education in Computer science?

    if you say yes, then you are either lying, were not paying attention, or just stupid.

  24. Re:G5 on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    your an idiot.

  25. Re:erm ... on Alienware Reveals 4GHz desktop · · Score: 1

    umm, yeah well the computer still uses the extra processor to run jobs on which frees up a lot of time for an application that is CPU intensive.