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  1. Re:An Important Question... on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film · · Score: 1

    "We do not -speak- of it." or some such. So did the experiment create the bumpyheads? or did it create the humanform klingons?

  2. An Important Question... on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film · · Score: 1

    Will the Klingons be the BumpyHead varity or the Looks like humans with swarthy skin tones and sahses kind.

    I suppose it'l have to be the "bumpyhead" kind becuase they were also shown in Enterprise. The Human looking kind from TOS must have been "kabuki" klingons.

  3. Re:They could bring him back... on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film · · Score: 1

    He *Did* do an "Android-mindmelt" with B4.. At one point he and B4 are back to back with a small console between them in engineering and Data was downloading his "programming", and remember at the end B4 was humming that "sunshine" song to himself.

  4. Re:Discrimination / lower education level on EOE Concerns w/ Electronic-only Job Application? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say you've yet to be shot... but have you been snakewhipped?

    Enquiring minds want to know...

  5. Re:Microsoft Monopoly & Windows Genuine Advant on Aero To Be Unavailable To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Even worse... I wonder if MS could get away with "If you write a driver for Linux your driver for Windows will be un-signable"

    Yes I know I should go get my Tinfoil Hat (tm)

  6. Re:What you need to do: on Is Corporate Speak Invading Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    *bluaaaaarrrrrrrrrffffffffffffff*

    Thanks for making me puke on my keyboard. You owe me a new one.

    There you go... the act of getting you a new keyboard (and perhaps installing it and removing the old one) is
    a deliverable.

  7. Re:"Deliverable" on Is Corporate Speak Invading Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    Places I have worked used "Deliverable" to mean "That which i promised to do" as in
    Boss: Jim What are your deliverables out of this meeting?

    Jim: Well I need to get Joe a listing of the entrypoints he needs, and Mary nees a finished and tested module"

  8. Re:0o on VR Treatment for Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    I *have* this very problem... I was cross-eyed when I was young, at 7 (almost too late) I was able to get the operation to un-cross my eyes, they moved muscles around on my left eye (I think) Then for a long time I went with an eyepatch on my good eye and I used a "ViewMaster" (round cardboard disks with small pictures in a binocular looing thing)with special disks for excercice. My Dad made slides with colored lines and shapes.

    Anyway my right eye is still much more capable than my left. Looking at the same text with one eye then the other, with the right the text is clear and easy to read, with the right the text is fuzzy, but what is even stranger even when I can make out the shapes of the letters (and that is hard)The letters look strange, sort of like using a font in 15 point when you only have 12point, blocky and distorted, reading becomes very hard. My eye Doctor says my brain just never really developed the circutry for my left eye because it was the crossed one.

    I tend to close or cover my left eye when I read a lot.

  9. Linux Complete in 7 disks vs Windows incomplete on How Open Source is Faring in Retail · · Score: 1
    Windows runs on anything and always has all drivers on a single CD - it doesn't even need the 7 CDs of a typical bloated Linux system...


    Install Windows and Office(koffice&OpenOfice) and Photoshop(gimp)and a full C/C++ compiler (gcc) a Webserver (apache for both) Then compare.

    Sure if I installed only Linux, it's utilitie and X windows it would all fit on a single CD.
  10. With Slashes we could drill down... on Tim Berners-Lee on the Web · · Score: 1

    If you go with slashes instead of dots then the path could drill down to individual directories..

    (p.s. please ignore that slashdot finds links for these
    examples)

    http://co/tld ... (for the nationalistic )
    http://tld/co ... (for the NewWorldOrderOneWorldGovmnt) ... /entity/subenitty/directory/subdirectory/file

    for example, calcula might be found at:
    http://us/org/pentamino/home/pentalive/calcula/ind ex.html

    (and as it is currently "/index.html" is the default and might be omitted)

  11. What? April 1st already? on Fleischmann to Work on Commercial Fusion Heater · · Score: 5, Funny

    My first though was "What is it, April 1st?" heat a home with fusion?? Hmm nope, not april 1st. Rent is not due.

  12. Re:We should think about polution as well on Laptop Fuel Cells Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even better, what about several of these running in a closed environment, like a plane in a 4 hour flight! re-cycled smog!
    What does methanhol burn to? probably CO2 and water vapor?

  13. Re:Terrible Summary on Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia · · Score: 1

    Doug? Is that you Doug?

  14. Re:their portfolio on The Optimus Mini Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I like the "Fax Quixote" http://artlebedev.com/portfolio/fanquixote/ ...I wonder if the blades are soft, or if it slices and dices like the best of them! It must make an interesting sound when running though due to the holes
    at the ends of the blades.

    (ps I know it's a one off for an exibition)

  15. Re:Not such a big deal on MacBook is Speedy, but no FireWire 800, Modem Ports · · Score: 1

    Mod UP! for posting via ESP!

  16. Re:Not such a big deal on MacBook is Speedy, but no FireWire 800, Modem Ports · · Score: 1

    I use my modem all the time, I am using it right now. But a USB modem would be ok.

    Instant Poll
    Subject: Your main connection to the Internet
    ( ) DSL
    ( ) Cable Modem
    ( ) OC3
    ( ) Local Hotspot
    ( ) Open Wifi
    ( ) Dial Up
    ( ) Smoke Signals or Carrier Pigeon

  17. Re:Art Bell on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    If you wanted to create consumption it makes perfect sense that you would destroy some of the poorest areas of the country to cause them to rebuild. Yeah shure like they can afford it.

  18. Re:If my boss on Torvalds Gets Tough on Kernel Contributors · · Score: 1

    Sure they can quit, apply their skill to some other project. Enough of them do that and the kernel just stops in it's tracks. For that matter, what's to stop a group of them from forking the kernel?

  19. obhomer on Nestle Patents Coffee Beer · · Score: 1

    Homer no function coffee well without?

  20. This is going in my fortune cookie file!!! on Fighting FUD with Humor · · Score: 1

    Here's one for you...

    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion,
    It is by Caffeine that thoughts aquire speed,
    The hands aquire shakes
    the shakes become a warning
    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion

  21. What of the phones? on Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    In these pay as you go services you usually have to buy the phone.. I wonder if you get anything back if you recently signed up or if you phone is useable for another service.

  22. Here's one... on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1


            1 = 1
        10 = 2
    100 = 3

    10110 = ?

    I hope this is not too easy... :^)

  23. Don't read this Microsoft on Dell's Open PC Costs More Than Windows Box · · Score: 1

    I hate to give Microsoft any ideas but..

    couldn't they get around all this by only putting the installer in the box. When you buy the box you are only buying the installer. The installer offers you the EULA, which says "The program (word excel ...) is only being lent to you, you are not buying it, you only bought the installer. In return for agreeing to this EULA we agree to let you use a copy of "MSOFFICE" for an unlimited period...blah blah..." I

    If you click the Agree button, the software is loaded off a secure server and installed, you click Disagree then the installer quits and nothing is installed. The box you buy would be plainly marked "Microsoft office installer for version x.yz"

  24. Why can't each country controll their own TLD? on Internet Power Struggle Reaching Climax · · Score: 1

    With each country behind somthing like a NAT / Masqurade router so each country can assign from the full range of addresses?

    Perhaps if a user in one country accesses a server in another country, that server is given a temporary "local" address which it keeps for a time. With each packet exchanged that time is renewed.

  25. Re:No, not the case on Dell's Open PC Costs More Than Windows Box · · Score: 1

    You do *not* need to accept the EULA. An EULA is a contract offer, and you are perfectly free to decline contract offers. If you do not agree (and note that the A in EULA stands for Agreement), if you do not agree then no contract exists. If you do not choose to agree then EULA is null and void. Of course if you do not accept the EULA then you receive nothing that the EULA offers, but in general you do not want or need anything EULAs offer anyway.


    In most microsoft products (and most others...) the EULA is presented as a part of the install, and you have to click "Agree" or "Don't Agree". If you click "Don't Agree" the installer thanks you and quits without installing anything.

    How do you get around that?