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  1. Re:Secret to the fast release revealed! on MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate · · Score: 1

    think the only major issue with it on IE is that I use PNGs with transparency - these render with a white background.

    I posted one solution here

  2. Re:Wow! on PS3 To Use Blu-Ray Technology · · Score: 1

    I write Micro$oft with a dollar sign!

  3. Re:'Cyberathelete'? on Swedes Dominate Counter-Strike Championship · · Score: 1

    Driving a race car is considered a sport, sitting turning a wheel, pushing pedals and controls on a steering wheel.

    Do you know what g-forces are?

  4. Re:Same old engine? on GTA San Andreas Dripfeeds More Info To Eager Public · · Score: 1

    I know my karma will be punished for saying this, but I have to say it anyways.

    Who cares? Honestly.

  5. It will need good electronic paper on What Will It Take For eBook Adoption? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I will buy an ebook when I can read it as comfortably as a normal book. High contrast, high resolution, readable in daylight.

  6. Better late than buggy on Windows XP-64 Delayed Into 2005 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's better they release it a little late than with more bugs.

  7. IAWTTP on The Ultimate Nintendo Console · · Score: 1

    I agree with these two posts. Well except the "gay" part.

    So stacking the consoles isn't a mod, but putting a wooden box over the stack is.

    The article sounded interesting when he said that the consoles use different voltages, but then he just decided to put each console's power supply inside the box...

  8. Re:Ancient technology on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that adding three lines of code to a template and adding one javascript file to a site is unmaintainable? Especially since it doesn't break any other browsers. Other browsers just see a three-line comment.

  9. Re:Gif is only good for animation on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    Even IE users can see pngs, with full alpha. There have been at least two workarounds for IE that don't break other browsers. The one I have used unfortunately requires javascript, but those average users have not turned js off, so it's not a big deal.

    Even when they do have js turned off, they can still see the pngs on the page perfectly if you don't use the alpha channel.

  10. Re:Ancient technology on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    Full alpha.

    Using this code:
    <!--[if gte IE 5.5000]>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="fixiepng.js">
    <![endif]-->

    Include this javascript file to your page.

    This was possibly taken from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnginfo.htm

  11. Re:Ancient technology on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 1

    Fortunately there are some workarounds for full alpha support in IE that don't break other browsers.

  12. Gif is only good for animation on GIF Support Returns to GD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only thing gif does better than png is animation. Okay, on some rare occasions, gif compresses better. But most of the time, you have no reason to use gif instead of png.

  13. Year 2004 is the year of Linux desktop! on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just like the year before.

  14. Re:The Article on Using AI for Spam Filtering (w/ Source Code) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Up until recently, most researchers in the fight against spam have failed to classify it as an artificial living organism, hindering the development of effective tools and techniques to kill it.

    That is not true. I have been using POPFile for 1 1/2 years now, and spam is no longer a problem for me. I see maybe 1 spam per week. I think that all filters' "bayesian part" is just about as effective, the differences come from the tokenizer. The more data you can extract from the message, the more data the bayesian classifier has to work with.

    The article sounds like the author had just learned about neural nets and decided that they would be the best solution to spam without doing any real research on existing systems.

  15. Re:I remain: Unafraid, Undeterred. on Sneak Preview Of Vernor Vinge's Next Book · · Score: 1

    It's nice to know I'm not the only one that is completely tired of the Slashdot privacy loonies.

  16. Re:not even close! on GIF Slips Away From Unisys; Your Move, IBM · · Score: 1

    You can make it work without breaking other browsers, it just takes some IE-only html and javascript.

  17. Re:Get an eMac on Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures · · Score: 3, Informative

    Virii is not a word.

  18. Re:No, no, no on Microsoft's Rush To Xbox 2 A Danger? · · Score: 1

    Yes bahamat, of course it had.

  19. Re:M$ bleeding money on PlayStation 2 Sales Double Following Price Cut · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but typing M$ makes you look like a retard.

  20. Re:Who's gonna buy em? on 12GB CompactFlash Cards Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    It the camera has 30 megapixels, a raw, uncompressed, 24-bit image will take 90 megabytes. 180 megs, if 48 bits. 500 megs really sounds insane at that resolution.

    500 megs sounds realistic at around 100 megapixels. Or at a resolution of around 10240*7680 to 12800*9600.

  21. Re:A Bomb? I don't remeber a Bomb on Playing GTA On Phone Leads To Bomb Threat? · · Score: 1

    And you don't even have to read the quest description that thoroughly, sinde they're always something like this:

    "The Blacksmith said he was going to the Wind Cave to get some mythril ."

  22. Re:Shipping When? on Water-Cooled Half-Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you are saying that because he made an HL2 case, his PC should be the absolutely fastest machine in the world for playing HL2 when the game ships?

  23. Re:Shipping When? on Water-Cooled Half-Life 2 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    What makes you think you need a top of the line pc to play Half-Life 2? Valve has said that HL2 will work on older machines. It might not look as pretty and it might not run at constant 60+ fps, but you can play it.

  24. Re:caffeine on 13 Energy Drinks In 3 Sessions · · Score: 1

    True.

  25. Re:I had predicted 2050, actually on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 1

    So that would make it kind of like water, eh? You can drown in water, right?

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    (Yes, I got the joke. I also got the grandparent's joke.)