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  1. Re:Laptop Standard on Macworld to Bring Updates to Laptop Lines? · · Score: 1

    This summer the place I worked at had a similar problem. Many of Dell's OptiPlex GX270 machines produced in 2004 have a problem where the capacitors overload and fail, sometimes to the point of actually blowing up inside the machine. We had to call in our "gold-level" tech support two to three times a week to replace motherboards on these machines, but as far as I know they're all still there.

  2. Popup folders on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1

    Drag a folder to the dock.

    Right click to get a nested list view, left click to get the actual folder.

    Done.

  3. Re:Speaking of torrents... on TiVo Buries the VCR · · Score: 1

    No, if Apple made use of torrents in the iTMS, they would do so whole hog. There would be an option to turn off seeding buried in the advanced preferences, but it would be on by default.

  4. Re:Axis & Allies on Gen Con Indy 2005 In A Nutshell · · Score: 1

    I never got to demo it because it was always busy, but I played the basic game with a friend who bought a starter. It was fine, if a bit slow. The basic game mechanic is the same as any other minuatures game I've played, except this one uses massive numbers of d6's. The Panzer Tiger's short range attack against another tank uses 13 of them. I didn't get a chance to play a more involved game, but it seems like it could get interesting when there are more than two pices on a small board.

  5. Re:Not good for much else on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    The Avaya phones we have at work really are low-powered pc's with a small LCD screen. Hell, they even have a web browser built in.

  6. Re:Do I need to explain Everything to you?!! on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 1

    You have no reason to be calling yourself a nerd, sir. If you had followed along with the movie, you would have come to understand that the Mr. Fusion reactor was only used to power the time circuits. Doc used the DeLorean's own engine to get the vehicle to 88mph.

    Of course, the fact that the DeLorean can't, in fact, make it to 88mph shall be left unmentioned.

  7. Re:The Internet as a Intellect... on The Baby Bootstrap? · · Score: 1

    At least this Intellect hasn't tried to subsume the entire Universe. Yet.

  8. Re:Suing will not Bring Gary Kildall Back on MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court · · Score: 1

    Did you know that Bill Gates has a private sand beach at his house on Lake Washington? Did you also know that the sand that is on that beach is hauled in on a barge every year from the beach that him and his wife got married on? Did you know that beach is in Hawaii?

    This is what people do when they have obscene amounts of money.

  9. Re:Why back Sun? Why back Solaris? on Gentoo Announces OpenSolaris Port · · Score: 1

    There's no real TECHNICAL reason not to. However, since it takes a long time to compile gentoo from source, and since time == money, and since money is the God of Capitalism, I think it would be rather difficult to convince a manager to let you install gentoo on company machines on company time.

    It's all about cost-benefit analysis. Who do you go to when your Solaris instalation gets borked? Sun. Who do you go to when your Gentoo installation gets borked? Teh Intarweb, costing even more time and thus more money researching, diagnosing, and repairing the issue than it would cost to call a Sun engineer and have them tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it.

  10. Re:Good for the UK! on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 1

    Wisconsin has to be in there too. Two days ago the high temp was 37 degrees F. Today, the high is a balmy 8 degrees F. Not to mention on a yearly scale, we get highs in the 90's, if not hotter on some days in the summer, and in the winter some days it might not even get above freezing.

    Might not be as extreme as the dakota's however, because we have the lakes to regulate temperatures somewhat.

  11. Re:goodbye bank account on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1

    Um, DXanything compliancy doesn't particularly matter on Mac OS X that renders everything with DisplayPDF and OpenGL. Not that that dims your point any, of course, because the Intel integrated video isn't DXanything or OpenGL or DisplayPDF compliant.

  12. Re:Weight? on World's First BTX Mini-PC · · Score: 1

    Not until it stops thrashing.

  13. Re:Fine and Dandy on The Super Superhighway · · Score: 1

    Technically, the original document plus the ammendments are part of the Constitution. That's why they're called ammendments, because they add to the original.

  14. Re:Privacy problems, yes, but.... on Feds Propose National Database of College Students · · Score: 2, Informative

    Almost all Federal aid for people in college comes as loans, in one form or another. People who get grants are the ones who really need it or they could not possibly afford school, and from my experience they tend to study their asses off.

  15. Re:Practicality... on Which Compiler to Extend for a Small Project? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't implying that it couldn't be done. I was just curious how someone might do it, as I had never thought about it before.

  16. Re:Object BF on Which Compiler to Extend for a Small Project? · · Score: 1

    How would you suggest making a Turing Machine, for that is what BF is, object oriented?

  17. Re:Computer Game Shop on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 1

    At least as fast as the Longhorn base requirements.

  18. Re:The Real Question on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 1
    The baby seems sleeping.

    It's missing the verb, or rather, it needs a verb to address the object of the sentence. Seems is an adverb that is actually addressing the missing verb to be.

    I'm probably wrong about seems being an adverb. I haven't taken an English class in a while, so my knowledge of grammar rules is a bit rusty.

  19. Re:Slashdotted already? on NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats because it was a SECRET warrant issued by a SECRET court. The only reason he knows is because his tinfoil hat somehow intercepted the FBI's radio communications.

  20. I'm asking on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 1

    wtf?

  21. Re:What do most people drink? Duh. on Would You Drink This Water? · · Score: 1

    My stepdad is one of the water operators in my hometown. All of the equipment and procedures that are in place at the waste water treatment plant exists for the single purpose of cleaning up the water before they pipe it five miles out of town to the nearest river, which drains into the Mississippi.

    Most of the water for communities that are not near major bodies of water (lakes, large rivers, etc) comes from deep aquifers via wells that are more than 1000 feet deep. This water hasn't been through a living being for at least a few hundred years, if not more. It can take quite a while for water to get down that far, and by the time it does its some of the cleanest water available anywhere.

  22. Re:Unknown Error In The Submission on Nuclear Batteries · · Score: 0, Troll

    YHBT. YHL. HAND.

  23. Re:A question on Deepest Optical Image Of The Universe To Date · · Score: 5, Informative

    Technically, the furthest you can look back is about 300,000 years after the big bang, because thats approximately the point in time when the universe cooled down enough to become transparent. Before that, the universe basically consisted of a really hot soup of plasma.

    Try this page for some background information on cosmology and cosmic background radiation.

  24. John John Macky on Supercomputers Race to Predict Storms · · Score: 1

    John-John Mackey and the Stormtracker Accu-Cast

    "He doesn't report the weather, he makes it his bitch"

  25. Re:Already Done on Satellite Pics Going Dark? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you go here it appears that the roofs of the whitehouse and the two executive office buildings are already blurred out.