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  1. Most slashdot geeks, could build their own on Motion Simulator for Home Theater · · Score: 1

    I myself have access to a unit with full 360 motion and big screen TV....
    Draw back is you have to strap yourself to the seat. No drinks or popcorn...

    Most slashdot geeks, could build one for a few hundred dollars with some spare parts and a used computer.

  2. Exchange for other then e-mail? on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 1

    You mean I can do more the get e-mail with it....

  3. Just don't use it on a vampyr. on Solar Surgery · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doctor: "Nurse what happened? I just hit him with a small burst of sun light and he went up in flames."

  4. How to read/write to a CDROM on CD Copy Stopper · · Score: 1

    I can see how it could be possible to read/write data to a smart card embedded in a CDROM disk.

    First understand how a CDROM is read, a laser beam is sent to the surface of the CD and the laser beam is bounced back based on the pit's in which the data is stored on the CD. A photo collector picks up the bounced laser light and determines if it is a one or zero.

    I do not know how much control of the laser or collector one has on a CDROM drive.
    But if you can control the modulation of the laser in the CDROM drive you could send a message to a photo collector embedded in the CD.

    Then you only need to have the CDROM drive laser turn off and then look for light from the CDROM disk.

    Thus you have two-way communications!!!

  5. Re:Just pretty lightning.. not effective, here's w on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 1

    I think that you need to be corrected.

    You are better to be hit with 1+ amp then with less.
    What happens is with less then 1 amp of current passes through you, it will not cause your hart not to stop but go into defiberlation. Which your hart is working but not pumping blood.

    A large current passing through will stop your hart but normally will start back after the current flow stop's. The only problem with large current is it will cuase burns.

    Ether way, is best to be take care with electricty

  6. Chip's generating there own power!! on HP Marries Inkjet and Robotic Technology to Cool Chips · · Score: 1

    At the chip level, the problem isn't the overall heat produced by a chip, but the heat density. Although Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger first noted publicly that upcoming chips could produce more heat per square millimeter than a nuclear reactor, HP engineers said they first began thinking about the problem in the mid-1990s.

    Just think, super heated water comming of the CPU, used to run a steam powered electric generator!!!

  7. And people said playing D&D would warp our min on Dungeons and Dragons Knowledge Compendium · · Score: 0

    Back when I would play D&D with my friends all night... people would say that we where playing with evil and we would be warped for life, becomming axe murders and the likes...

    BTW anyone seen my battle axe!!!!

  8. Any link's to hacking your DVD player? on Perens Backs Down from DMCA Violation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Also anyone have a hack for the ATI DVD player?

  9. How IBM/Linux could beat Micro$oft on Microsoft Says IBM/Linux Their Biggest Threat · · Score: 1

    The problem is that IBM has in the past tried to beat M$ with OS/2. But a lone I think IBM does not have as good a chance as if it could get one other group in with them.

    AOL also has tried to beat M$ using Netscape over IE.

    Now if AOL made a linux verson of there ISP software and bundled it with a IBM computer running Linux. Then they would have a biger chance since an most people just used there computer to surf, read e-mail and maybe a little word processing.

  10. I hate people with a limited imagination.... on Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' Movie · · Score: 1

    "It's kind of hard to imagine anybody but Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel -- somebody check Michael Keaton's schedule."

    I did not like Christopher Reeves, when he was picked for the Superman moves.... He sucked as Superman.

    I as for Michael Keaton, he sucked as Batman.
    Him playing Superman would suck even more.....

  11. 100000 mile Nuclear fuel cell car!!! on Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for my nuclear powered De Lorean, with time trival option. :-)

  12. Re:Appointees of the President on Baby Bells Victorious Over Sharing Rules · · Score: 1

    Both parties took money from Enron, have of Clintons staff after he left office went to work for them!!!

  13. At the end of the book the final answer is 42! on A New Kind of Science · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe Douglas Adams was right about the Earth computer!

  14. To err is human on A New Kind of Science · · Score: 1

    I wonder if any of his data was based on programs that ran on the first Pentium chip!!!!

  15. College vs. Career, or High pay vs. Low pay on System Administrators - College or Career? · · Score: 1

    If all that you are interested in is running a small companies network or run CAT 5 cables around an office for some company then all you need is the standard certifications.
    But if you want a high paying job in a large company, then a computer science degree will be what you will need after which you get your standard certifications.

    What attending college shows to an Employer is that:
    1. You can handle a challenge.
    2. You can handle stress, In which there is a lot when you have a exams in all of you classes and have to study late every night to get the subjects nailed down in your head.
    3. You can do paperwork. About every day in some classes you will have to write a paper on something.
    4. That you can carry a project to the end. Completing college shows that you can finish a task that is set before you.

  16. Re:sorry on First Looks at Suse 8.0 / KDE 3.0 · · Score: 1

    This guy should also not wear any cloths ether, most textiles around the world use German made machines.

  17. Making Spider-man more realistic on Spider-Man 2002 vs. Spider-Man 1992 · · Score: 1

    You know if Raimi wanted to be more relistic to a genetic change or mutation, then he should have had Spider-man spin web's just like a real spider... out his ASS!!!!!

  18. MS has done stranger things on Slashback: Blender, Pictures, Servitude · · Score: 1

    Does anyone remember when MS was touting the Windows 95 multimedia features at a press event and the demo they featured was really done by an Amiga they had under the table.....

  19. Wasyu's keyboard from Tenchi Muyo on Virtual Keyboard a Reality · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is for them to do it in a 3D holographic keyboard like Wasyu uses in Tenchi Muyo!!!

  20. Microvision on Laser HUD Projected on Retina · · Score: 1

    What a copy protection scheme, beam the movies right into the eye.
    Soon we can have individual viewing licensees, you put this on to watch a movie and get this message "You are not licensed to watch this movie!"
    I bet Disney is already lined up to use it!!!

    Oh, wrong Micro-vision, god I hope I did not give them any ideas!

    "Some say the end is near, some say we will see Armageddon soon!
    I certainly hope so, I could use a vacation from this stupid shit!"
    Tool enema

  21. Life on Earth, and how some need to get one!!! on Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses · · Score: 1

    I remember as a kid watching the cartoons and this one character going around with a sign saying, "The END is near!"
    Then ever time a new century comes around, oh it going to be the END of the world!
    Well look's like we made it through to the new century with out Armageddon happing!

    If anyone has not notice the Earth has went though quite a few changes over the last Millions years. And if any one believes that the climate will always be the same where they live and the Earth is stopped changing have their heads too far up there ass to see.

    And the Environmentalists and PETA should be jumping for joy if it is true that man is about to self-destruct. If there is no man, then all the little furry animal well be safe from harm. They should be promoting pollution not trying to stop it!

    "Some say the end is near, some say we will see Armageddon soon!
    I certainly hope so, I could use a vacation from this stupid shit!"
    Tool enema

  22. DLS/CABLE on Chained Melodies · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Hollings, who has received $264,534 in campaign contributions from the TV, music and movie industries since 1997, has attempted to argue that standardized copy protection is the key to encouraging the continuing rollout of broadband Net connectivity. According to this theory, customers won't sign up for DSL or cable Internet access if they can't get top-notch entertainment via their computers. But Hollywood won't make that content available unless it is confident it won't be pirated. "
    I guess it would not occur to him that is it possibly the COST of the service that is keeping people off of DSL and CABLE internet services!!!!
  23. Say goodbye to Seattle!!!! on Washington State Debates Taxing Software Creation · · Score: 1

    It is not like Seattle is the only place you can write software. They can always move to another state to avoid the tax. If they stay in Seattle, it is their own choice; they should not complain about it. Since it is their own fault for staying!!

    That is what I would do if it was my software company and they where targeting extra tax's on me, I would move the day after the law passed to another state!!!!

  24. Lost in a sea of C's! on C · · Score: 1

    Are not all other programming languages that are popular today, just extensions of the 'C' base? If you look back 'C' it is the first cross platform language, take JAVA which is really 'C' with an OOP style and a few syntax changes.

    A quote from the reviewer: "C is difficult enough to present without a language barrier introducing more problems." I think he is confusing 'C' with 'C++'; which can be a very confusing implication of 'C'.

    I think a first time 'C' user would be well advised to get one of the 'K&R' programming books. I found it very helpful when I was learning 'C'.

  25. Microsoft does not pay tax's on More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie · · Score: 1

    First thing you should understand is that Microsoft does not pay tax's, it is employ's and the people who buy their product who pay's the tax's.

    When a company makes product or service the first thing they figure in is how much it will cost them to produce and sell it. Then they decide how much money they want to make on each item sold. Then they take that price and increase it enough to cover the amount of tax that will be put on it. As the tax on them increases the price to you and I will also.

    The same for Bill Gates and other CEO's, they know how much money they want to keep after tax's. That is why CEO's salaries are so high, every time the tax increases on them they just get more money to cover the tax!!!!