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  1. Cool! on Paul Graham Makes "On Lisp" Available Online · · Score: 1

    Now maybe I can learn a totally wierd language. Might be useful someday...

    I wonder... would this be my 21st or 22nd language learned?

  2. How is this different? on Stem Cells From Nonviable Embryos · · Score: 1

    Reading that short part of the article has made me feel like that is wrong. For some reason, I do not know why I have never felt that way before with regards to this sort of thing.

    What makes this more acceptable than any other way that has been done before with eggs?

    You are still 'starting' a life (i do not pretend to know the scope of what anyone wants to place on that). Harvesting it like that just seems something that should not be done.

    How can an egg be tricked into fertalizing itself in the first place? Isn't it missing 1/2 of the chromosomes? (note: I am not scientist).

  3. Only 96mb max? on Structural Integrity of Laptops? · · Score: 1

    My 486dx2/66 (desktop) had more capacity than that (128).

    Even my compaq armada 7400 (P2/266) has a max of 256mb (its at 192 right now).

  4. Re:Closed to the public? on Judge Grants MS's No-Press Request · · Score: 1

    I am afraid you won't be completely correct. Pen and paper are still a recording device.

  5. You do know what would happen now right? on Ximian to Change License for Mono · · Score: -1, Troll

    The GNU-Nazi will have to start his own .Net clone. Because you know anything but GNU isn't truely free! (free as in shackles).

    GNU.Net must come out of this I am sure.

  6. Well... on Firewire or Gigabit Ethernet? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google found this:
    http://www.unibrain.com/products/ieee-1394/fw_vs _g bit.htm

    I would also like to point out the connectors. I would assume firewire was made partly as competition to usb. Thus it would be relatively easy to assume that firewire carries more current to power some lower powered devices.

    Ethernet isn't designed to power anything. I imagine it only carries enough power to carry the signal for the distances involved.

    Also comes into the cost of making hubs. With ethernet you must worry about ip addresses and routing all that information. I do not believe firewire would require this information to be dealt with in such a complicated matter.

    So firewire is probably lower cost.

    Regards,
    Jeffrey Drake

  7. Re:Why not demand all games 2+ years old be opened on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1

    there are already hundreds of units

  8. Freshmeat has some on Free Linear Programming Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    GNU glpk
    http://freshmeat.net/projects/glpk/

    "The GLPK package is intended for solving linear programming (LP) and mixed integer linear programming (MIP) problems. It is a set of routines organized in the form of a library and written in the ANSI C programming language."

    A survey of available software:
    http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/surveys/LP/lp4.ht ml

    Hope some of these might help

  9. Re:A network admin's perspective on Broadband In Australia Just Got Slower · · Score: 1

    Doesn't blocking incoming ports also block IDENT servers? They are absolutely required for most (if not all EFnet servers).

  10. Big Brother cheers on Microchips For Human Implantation As ID · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think this is an awesome idea, but I think governments would abuse it the first chance they got.

    If it was a short range device that you would literally need to be within a few centimetres then it would be ok.

    If it was a long range device (of satallite tracking ilk) then governments would be able to track criminals, and people who can't help themselves (eg. elderly people). But they could also put it on say a political foe.

    It is good with certain limitations.

  11. Linux Stability - not quite there on Making Linux Printing as Easy as in Windows · · Score: 1

    Linux is not stable by any stretch of the imagination. It crashes just as much as Windows does. On /. others have said XP is more stabler than Linux.

    (* Linux == the kernel, as Linux is only a kernel).

  12. @home... on Session Management and Mega-Proxies? · · Score: 1

    Look at the former rogers@home and don't do it

  13. Enviro Watchdog board on Hardware Monitor/Sensor Add-on Boards? · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.vme.com.au/vmedia/tardpdf/envirobd.pdf

    As found on google.

    It looks like a small isa board.

  14. Google finds it again on Benchmarks for Embedded Processors? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    http://www.eembc.org/

    Specific:
    http://www.eembc.org/Benchmark/score/ScoreFindSt ep 1.asp?BenchmarkType=PRO

    To slashdot: Can we please keep these questions out that can be found with keyword search in google within first three results?

    Regards,
    jptd

  15. Could this work? on Manuals or Documentation for IBM 6408 Printer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/6400m

    It looks like manuals and on another ibm page it listed 6400 and 6408 and a third one together.

  16. Memorex 'black' cdr's GOOD! on Worthwhile CD-R Media? · · Score: 1

    I find the 'black' cdrs that memorex makes are quite good, although they are really a very dark red.

  17. How does this affect others on Australian Censorship Legislation · · Score: 1

    In other countries how can a law like this affect us? Could we become criminals?