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  1. Re:Can you say "Esperanto"? on Real Language In Jade Empire · · Score: 1

    That would be the eighties. The 1880s, that is.

  2. Re:Question on Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Procmail recipe on Bounced Email - Dealing w/ the Latest Type of Spam? · · Score: 1

    This recipe is less comprehensive but works for me. It puts messages from mailer daemons (and the like) not specifically addressed to me into the spam-mailer mailbox. If my real address is forged, the bounce will unfortunately get through, but nearly always the forged address is just random_chars@mydomain.org. As a bonus, legitimate bounces are passed through. YMMV.

    :0
    * ^FROM_MAILER
    * !^TO(jim@|root@|postmaster@)
    * !^X-Cron-Env:
    spam-mailer
  4. Re:This is a good thing for IT managers on Longhorn Will Have Ability to Ban External Storage Devices · · Score: 1

    Any user technically savvy enough, and with enough time, to pop open the case and clear the CMOS (let alone flash the BIOS) can swap in a USB PCI card to replace the gunked ports. Either glue or software is equally effective against casual copying by unsophisticated users, such as your "janitor". Neither is effective against a determined attacker.

  5. Re:What a waste! on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    You can see stars in your city? Lucky.

  6. Re:"That's not a calculator..." on A C Compiler For The HP49g+ · · Score: 1

    Now that's impressive. I did the same experiment with 'calc' and 'nickle' on a 512M Athlon 1700 system.

    calc: 50,000! 7 sec
    nickle: 50,000! 11 sec
    calc: 1,000,000! -- No result after 15 min, used 3 megs memory
    nickle: 1,000,000! -- Used 500+ megs memory after 5 minutes, 500 megs of swap, and brought system to its knees.
    Hey, I thought the 2.6 scheduler was supposed to fix that.

  7. Re:Interesting, but... on Nintendo's Reggielution Continues Apace · · Score: 1

    I can't figure out why no console maker has designed a controller for what seems like a _natural_ hand position, with the "shoulder" buttons on the _back_ of the controller, kind of like a trigger.

    Dreamcast controllers are set up as you describe, with comfortable left and right triggers.

  8. Re:Well... on On Gay Themes In Videogames · · Score: 1

    In Ultima 6, 7 and 7-1/2 your male or female character can engage in some optional sexual encounters, which are not limited by your gender. It's not integral to gameplay, but neither is it much remarked upon by the game.

  9. "Apology" an old paper? on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 23-page "Apology" referred to in the press release is also apparently mentioned in this 1996 Usenet post. So is there a new proof? No one seems to know yet.

  10. Re:Not 'instrustrial strength' on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    Sun recommends you CapitalizeYourClasses and doNotCapitalizeLocalsOrMethods.

    Also, make sure you UseSuchVerboseNamesThatYouNeedAutoCompleteToAvoidG ettingRSIException.

  11. Re:Well... on GE Reaches OLED Milestone · · Score: 1

    Obviously you didn't read the article. The one described is a large flat source of white light. OLEDs -can- be linked together to form a display, but this could also be used as a replacement backlight. Most current backlights are either heavy or weak.

  12. Re:My Uncle Was In Chernobyl And He Survived It on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your story is the counterpoint to the callous bastard above saying the disaster was overblown, citing the low UN death figures and pretty frolicking animals. People are dead and disfigured, but the horses are happy! Get a heart transplant, man.

  13. Re:Like the American southwest on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Ask your eye doctor. I had this experience during an eye exam and mine said it was common when a bright light is flashed in your eye, I think the pattern of veins you see is called a "Purkinje tree".

  14. Re:I am an IBMer using Blue Linux on IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux · · Score: 1

    Could you introduce your CEO to zone.msn.com? My girlfriend would appreciate it.

  15. Re:Hard drives makers should take note... on SimpleTech Announces 8GB Compact Flash Card · · Score: 1

    With Flash getting more and more mainstream, and with the now high volumes being made available, hard drives are becoming less and less necessary for commodity products such as desktops and notebooks.

    Not too long ago people would have killed for a 1GB laptop drive, hard disk or otherwise. That was an unimaginable size. Now such a tiny capacity seems laughable. So, when flash finally catches up to today's drive sizes in several years, who will go back to 2004 storage standards? The same people doing it now: embedded systems developers, and hardcore geeks.

  16. Re:Pay off debt or buy a house on A Wireless Network for a 4-Story Apt. Building? · · Score: 1

    Nice try. If you were living with a roommate in the house, just like you stated with the apartment, your payment would be $600. That's only $100 more than the apartment, you'd have a -lot- more space, you'd build equity, and all that interest comes right off your taxable income.

    The truth is, for about the same price, you get bigger and better when you buy. The downside is the long-term commitment.

  17. Digital vs. analog (x vs. dx) on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    I far prefer analog watches to digital, but it still takes me 1-2 seconds to read time on an analog after years of practice, while digital is instantaneous. Analog gives you a better sense of change over time, important for speedometers but perhaps not for a spot reading like on a watch. In other words, digital gives you the value of a function, analog the derivative.

  18. Re:"clear" winner??? on GNU GCC Vs Sun's Compiler on a SPARC · · Score: 1

    I recently compiled gzip with HP's cc and saw perhaps a 10% improvement over gcc 3.3.2 with the right options. This is just a single data point, but I was surprised I didn't get more of a speedup. Even more surprising was that the stock gzip binary was even with gcc, so either HP's compiler improved, they didn't use it, or they optimized conservatively.

  19. Re:On the topic of DNA on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Kurzweil article contained a section titled "The Double Exponential Growth of the Economy During the 1990s Was Not a Bubble". Meanwhile, I'm reading "A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing" on the front page.

  20. Re:I'm not sure about you guys... on Phantom Releases, Retracts Game List, Debut Rated · · Score: 1

    Are you saying we would be multiplaying like rabbits?

  21. Re:Letter sent to European astronomers on Space Tug to Save the Hubble? · · Score: 1

    My buddy Stephanopoulos was operating in two-gyro mode the other day, one in each hand. I could barely stand it in the neighboring cube.

  22. Re:What I think's wrong with the dock on Tog Takes on Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 1

    Control-click or right-click on a dock icon and a context menu will pop up showing the titles of all open windows in that application. I think this is similar to what you're talking about with XP.

  23. Re:Netscape 4 on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you've looked at web design, by people who know what they're doing, in the last five years, but if you want to, start here.

    Things are much better than they ever were.

  24. Cutting patterns in cheese, not slicing it on The Cheese Slicing Laser · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ABC News article makes it sound like the laser was used to cut a block of cheese up into thin slices. This is not the case, according to the optics.org article. In reality, they've successfully cut patterns in a thin slice of cheese (making a dinosaur, letters and numbers--kids like that stuff), without using a stainless steel die cutter. In fact, the laser can't really cut deeper than 1 cm, less than 1/2 inch. So, slicing up a big block of cheese with a giant laser beam in an industrial setting, let alone in your kitchen, will have to wait.

  25. Re:A well researched problem already? on Stone Skipping the Scientific Way · · Score: 1

    This article indicates the research that went into the creation of the Dam Buster skipping bombs is still classified by the British military.