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  1. Use another model... on Tivo Plans Commercials On Demand · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing a report in the '80's that in Russia, Commercials ran for about 7 - 10 minutes at the top of the hour and people tuned in to watch them.

    I really wish we could subscribe to the topics of advertisements we want. I don't have erectile disfunction and need to "stay in the game" and I'm not looking food with "no rules" unless that means I don't have to pay.

    One day... one day...

  2. Save their agreement on Dealing with False AOL Spam Reports? · · Score: 1

    Of course, you must save the user's most recent record of agreeing to receive email from you and submit that to AOL to refute their report.

  3. Re:it's spelled: "catheter" on Balloon Helps Doctor Reach Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    In both the CNN article and the CincinnatiChildrens.org article, catheter is spelled correctly.

    If you know how to operate a computer, you should be wise enough to pick up a dictionary.

    I might be wrong though.

  4. Re:Why the doors? on Build a Robot out of a Car? · · Score: 1

    To get IN silly!

  5. Re:But no Xvid? on ExtremeTech Wages War of the Codecs · · Score: 1

    No 3ivx either. Bit of a bummer since I used 3ivx to produce mp4 compliant quicktimes for a 60 inch plasma screen for the boardroom of a company.

    Great quality, speed and ease of compression.

  6. Re: cheers on Coffee is a "Health Drink" · · Score: 1

    HEY! That's where my family name comes from. Circa 1360 AD.

    Figures I'd like TEA.

    I have offended my ancestors. Do I need to prepare to die now?

  7. Re:Cheers on Coffee is a "Health Drink" · · Score: 1

    SORRY - Caffeine and Cocaine work along the same reward processes.

    Monday morning and I haven't had my coc caffeine yet.

  8. Re:Cheers on Coffee is a "Health Drink" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Coffee and cocaine work along the same neurological reward processes.

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/u ot s-uss082802.php

  9. I'm a green tea man on Coffee is a "Health Drink" · · Score: 1

    This makes me what's what's better coffee or green tea?

    Good Japanese and Chinese green tea is light years away from Lipton. Personally, I like a hand rolled smoked Chinese variety that, when steeped 20 minutes, is smooth, not bitter, very tasty and makes an espresso seem like training wheels.

    Smoother come up and bring down than coffee too.

    Now with anti oxidents and tannins in green tea (like the article states for coffee), what's really better for ya?

  10. Re:There is something sad and beautiful on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Well, in case you really want to know, I'm a 5 minute walk from several of the hottest straight bars in SF. It's been a long week and Friday night is my detox from the work week. Downtime and lazy tv. No cable pulling required.

  11. There is something sad and beautiful on Chernobyl...18 Years Later · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is something sad and beautiful about being to look into a land that has been poisoned and shut down from the other side of the world.

    It is eerie that a beautiful young woman would be our guide. Eerie that she would chronicle this deadened scene for us to view while enjoying the freedom it gives her, well aware of the danger and of those who died and still suffer the effects of the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever known.

    As I slouch back in my chair, well aware of the life around me in this chilly San Francisco evening, it becomes clear that sometimes the internet offers us too much.

    Safe passage Lena.

  12. This looks great but... on Appleseed World Preview Minireview · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When will these GREAT animators STOP making the eyes so damn big?

    The rest of the animation is mindblowingly superb but the noses, eyes and faces are pretty disturbing.

    If a woman had eyes and an iris that big, she could star as ET's sister.

  13. Re:Flash is worse than spam on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at Director at all?

    Are you just interested in web delivery of content?

  14. Re:Flash is worse than spam on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow! You must be the ANTITROLL!

    Why to people actually like flash? Hard for me to fathom.

  15. Here are the USPTO patents on carbon nanotubes on NEC Demands License Fees For Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.firstgov.gov/fgsearch/index.jsp?dep=t&n r=20&de=detailed&mw0=carbon%20nanotubes&mt0=phrase &ms0=must&in0=domain&dom0=www.uspto.gov&db=www&rn= 1&parsed=true

  16. Re:Barking mad on See Spot Surf · · Score: 1

    If that makes you mad, then I won't mention the people thinking about a "queer eye for the straight dog", "let's make everything faahbulous" in one of the local SF weekly magazines.

    Ugh is too kind a word.

  17. quiet? on Quieting Your G5? · · Score: 1

    Buy a used g4 cube without a fan for recording.
    Turn the g5 off when recording.

  18. Re:Old news... on What The Internet Isn't · · Score: 1

    Yup. It is a repost. It's been several months though. That may be within the rules.

  19. Re: My Impressions.. on PowerBook Performance for Java Development? · · Score: 4, Informative

    "... but Apple laptops continue to operate at full speed when you're running off of battery."

    Untrue. Check your Energy Saver control panel settings. You'll find that the default is to clock down when unplugged.

  20. A true advance in science on At Long Last, Mice Produce Sperm From Monkeys · · Score: 1

    would be a four assed monkey.

  21. Re:Total is over $10,000.00 on Folded Newtonian Telescope · · Score: 1

    But according to /. trends, the development will be moving offshore to India, producing an equivalent product at 1/10th the price.

  22. Re:So why not QuickTime? on NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia · · Score: 1

    It will not open the popup if you open a browser window with QuickTime content

  23. Not much of a design flaw on Reduce CO2 With Phytoplankton Seeding · · Score: 1

    If critters eat the phtyoplankton then they carry the CO2 and keep some it circulating within the ecosystem. More critters that live and eat the phytoplankton and critters that eat the phytoplankton increase the holding capacity of the CO2.

    Yes, some will be released back but the critters become CO2 holding containers. The more biomass of critters available, the more can be held.

    Waste, detritus and dead critters that fall to the bottom of the ocean will carry some CO2 to the depths but the key is to increase the biomass available to eat the phytoP and those tho eat the phytoP.

    In short, this should also be very good for increasing fish populations. Free food. Nummy.

    Yes, I was a Marine Bio Major.

  24. Re:I say, Wow! on Tom's Reviews Expensive, Noiseless Case · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll go for one $1400 hooker bot.

    After all, you get what you pay for.

    But two $700 hooker bots ...

    Oh no.

  25. Hyper? on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 2, Funny

    What specifically makes this a "Hyper" robot?

    Did it drink too much coffee? Put too much sugar on its cereal? Does it have ADD and is a total spaz?

    Marketing dorks.