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  1. MTV on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some clever hack needs to add a sountrack to this thing.

  2. Re:Word to Wikipedia? on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1
    Either come up with a HTML-Wiki converter or develop or find a Word Add-In to do the conversion:
  3. Re:HTML Tidy on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    I've also written several COM-Ad ins to export Word to HTML and XML. A relatively simple one automated the "Save as Filtered HTML" method and used a Tidy COM component to run Tidy on the output. A little extra Regex work after that produced decent formatted HTML. And it was pretty quick. I also wrote one to crawl the Word Object model but it runs slower.

  4. Automate Word -COM Add-In or Macro on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    I mentioned HTML Tidy already, but you could also automate MS word and crawl through the Word Object model and reproduce the page in HTML. One advantage of this method is you can identiry all the parts of the document including footnotes and formulas. Here is some code to start with. The tricky part is to realize you have to crawl through each paragraph/range at the word level and check styles. Do it at the character level and the thing is a dog. Another tricky part is crawling through the document in the correct order. The link isn't my code but was the closest I could find on the web before I sat down and figured it out myself.

  5. Tidy Flags on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Almost forgot. The Tidy Docs will tell you to select "--bare" and "--word-2000" and I also recommend "--output-xhtml" and "--indent".

  6. HTML Tidy on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Save the Word document as filtered HTML and pipe the HTML through HTML Tidy. Nice clean HTML.

  7. Stupid on It isn't Easy Being Green and Getting to LEO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure it makes sense to worry about such things if you are making 100K+ cars, but a few space vehicles that already have to deal with some serious mechaqnical stresses? Dumb.

  8. Please Explain on A Serious Contender for the Couch Throne · · Score: 1

    What si so special aboout this thing? Becasue it can take input from an anaglog or digital source? Hos is this better than a simple Soundblaster Audigy?

  9. Loser Mentality on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    In life, wherever you have to do somthing really difficult there is always someone in the group with the loser "but it's too hard" mentality. Sometimes it takes more than a few days to get something done. If you think this world situation sucks just wait till the future as the technology to commit widespread chaos becomes more and more accessible and the ability to more to another place in the world becomes easier and easier.

  10. Conspiracy Here, Conspiracy There on Rackspace, Indymedia, and the FBI · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For you paranoid freaks outthere, sooner or later you need to come to the realizationthat the folks enforcign the law are just like you. They don't like their rights trampled either but they are just as prone to making mistakes.

  11. Sideswiped Again! on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    I just love the little bullshit remarks that get posted in these stories. Uhhhh killing for cause vs killing without cause? I think I'll go dump my used car oil in the sand just to get even.

  12. Opposing Ideas Not Tolerated on Equal Time For Creationism · · Score: 1

    I just love all this ID bashing from folks who probably have not bothered to read some real information on the theory. Yeah it does sould too much like philosophy for hard science folks but Darwin had to fight a lot of closed minds too. First off, ID and evolution aren't opposing concepts/theories. Second off, I'm an athiest/agnostic and I find ID theory thought-worthy.

  13. Complicated on Using Technology to Protect Anonymous Sources? · · Score: 1

    On the one hand the editors need to verify sources to prevent the kinds of made-up-story scandals of the last decade and on the other sources need to be protected.

  14. ZibBee for the Clueless on Simple-to-use ZigBee Hardware · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Here is a link to a Wikipedia explaination for ZigBee.

    ZigBee is a published specification set of high level communication protocols designed to use small, low power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs).

  15. Read my sig! on Successful Strategies for Commenting Your Code · · Score: 1

    See below.

  16. Re:Enemy Communications on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    Enemy Communications == Al Quaida

    Valid discourse == Al Jazeera

    By being members of Al Quaida they have already decided to kill and maim innocents to sew terror.

    Both sites may be distastful to many westerners but we see the latter as valid and allow it to be broadcast via satellite. If Al Jazeera's reporters were busy showing terrorists how to conduct terrorist operations and incite them to do so, they would be shut down.

    As a side note, I lived in the mideast for three years, the first two in a Shiite village. People are people everywhere.

  17. Re:Enemy Communications on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 0

    You missed my point entirely " :: sigh ::" you fcking loser.

  18. Enemy Communications on British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites · · Score: 1

    This is nothing about preventing another person or person's their right to express themselves. This is about preventign the enemy from communicating and sharign information to conduct terrorist operations. Al Jazeera continues to grow unimpeeded by the west.

  19. Never on Governmental Servers Wiped? Never! · · Score: 1

    Where I used to work for the government we would put a high power magnet on the HD and then pull out the discs and then smash them.

  20. JSP/Tomcat Sucks on Choice of Language for Large-Scale Web Apps? · · Score: 1

    Running your enterprise app on Tomcat is like building your house out of crepe paper. Sure it can be elegant but sooner or later the rain is gonna come.

  21. Horribly Expensive on Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors · · Score: 1

    I suremise that such a system is cost prohibitive for home use. If it was practical and even moderatly expensive someone would be sellign them already instead of three decades of Beta testing. Sure you can get cheapo sun tubes but they don't put out much light and aren't usable just anywhere becasue of limitations of distance between the roof opening and the interior ceiling and the number of bends/reflectors required.

  22. Aesthetics? on AMD and Intel Notebooks Head to Head · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would be nice to have a decent picture for each model too. Personally I like to have a decent looking notebook too. I've been to quite a few meetings where people were distracted by weird looking notebooks.

  23. Where did you get eight minutes? on Driven to Distraction by Technology · · Score: 1

    I thought the statement about "eight uninterrupted minutes for the brains to get into a really creative state" was interresting but where did it come from? I'm trying to talk my manager out of a really bad office design and this kind of information would help.

  24. OS/2 Info For Fellow Clueless on User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've heard of it and used it a little back in the day but wan't too up on the history: Wikipedia to the rescue!

  25. Don't Misinterpret - Could imact Mozilla too! on MS Urging Developers To Prep For IE 7 · · Score: 1

    Many websites check the browser version from the UA string to account for older browsers(browsecap). Poorly wirtten code would not account for newer browser versions. This could also impace Mozilla.