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  1. Maybe I just can't find it... on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    ...but is there a way to make Calc create a graph that is its own sheet instead of inserting a graph into a data sheet? The lack of this feature alone keeps me from ever considering using OO.

  2. Re:no on Engineering An End to Aging · · Score: 1

    Except that age does have an effect on fertility. And the ends of the chromosomes are called telomeres.

  3. Re:Spy Hunter !?!? on John Woo to Direct Spy Hunter Movie? · · Score: 1

    There is also The Street Fighter from 1974 but since I never found a wayin the game to play as Sonny Chiba ripping off a man's testicles and screaming at them I'm going to bet that the game wasn't that inspired by the movie.

  4. Re:A bit hard to follow...... but funny.... on P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer... · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you had read through the article, like I know no one does here, you would have found that the guy bought this for a project that was canned 19 days after he purchased the item. The return policy stated that he had a 10 day window within which he could return it.

  5. Re:Verge? on Xbox for $99? Xbox 2 in 2005? · · Score: 1

    In what year has Labor Day (in September) come before summer (you know, sometime between June and September)?

  6. Re:Odd on Chimera Twins Story · · Score: 1

    Well, if you remember your immunology, the embyro goes through a stage where it inactivates the genes coding for antibodies that attack self cells or anything else that it is directly exposed to.

  7. In defense of the Zen on Newest iPod vs. the Nomad Zen NX? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since most comments here have been about the iPod and its features and nothing has really been said about the Zen, I'll take a shot.

    First off, I love my Zen, but then I would probably love whatever mp3 hard drive player I had (sweet, sweet 60 gig of musicy goodness). The biggest point for the Zen versus an iPod (at least in my clumsy opinion/experience) is that the Zen uses a standard notebook hard drive, which means that if you buy the 20 gig version now (or perhaps you, uh, drop and kill your Zen) and later want to go to a 60 gig, you can replace it fairly easily.

    Second -- the Zen sounds great, but I can't compare it to an iPod since I have never heard one.

    There are drawbacks to the Zen, however -- you need drivers for it (and, for a while, when transferring by firewire the music would be randomly corrupted with parts of the song being mixed up and transposed everywhere) which means no just plugging in and using it as a external hard drive; the Playcenter software that comes with it is just utter shit which makes it necessary to buy Notmad Explorer (and then something like Mp3/Tag Studio to tag all your files so they show up right on the Zen) and while that is a nice little piece of software, it is an extra $30 you have to spend that should have been fixed by making it a USB storage device like the Archos; the lack of any input/output jacks other than headphone-out kind of sucks meaning that I have to use the headphone-out with the fm-transmitter and line-in on the car and no recording without shelling out another $60 for the fm/mic remote; the battery is non-replaceable without sending it back to Creative and is supposedly only good for 300-500 charges (although the NX's battery is replaceable).

    While it may sound like I am coming down hard on the Zen, I do still dearly love mine -- having it full of 60 gigs of music means having my entire music collection in my pocket and being able to listen to anything on a whim or showing up at a party and having pretty much anything anyone else wants to hear.

    And as for size? Eh, I wear pants with big pockets. I've already got the camera, flash cards, and phone in there, what more is another big toy?

  8. Re:Depends on your OS of choice on Newest iPod vs. the Nomad Zen NX? · · Score: 1

    No, there is not a line-out or optical-out or anything out except a line to the headphones on a Zen, which is a major point against it (but mostly just when comparing it to the a jukebox 3) when, say, you want to hook it up to a fm-transmitter or your car.

  9. Re:Short answer on Newest iPod vs. the Nomad Zen NX? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you buy the remote, which is an extra $60 if you are lucky enough to find it (there were problems back a few months where no one was receiving theirs). And from what I hear, the recording quality is not so great.

  10. And if you need one, and I NEED CANDY! on The Star Wars Alphabet Project · · Score: 1
    And you missed it on the main fbtb site Jon's got some M-Wings for sale.

    Nice pieces that still fill me with lego envy. Maybe someday I'll actually get around to building that big gunship? Yeah... no.

  11. Re:Wow, all this.. on The Star Wars Alphabet Project · · Score: 1

    Ah, but this is very much not true. And, as I remember it, the gentleman is quite the accomplished cockblocker. Just be thankful I didn't rip out all your pubic hair over that, Jon, because you did break the rules. Seriously, though, congrats on getting your site Slashdotted and Metafiltered in the same day.

  12. Re:Radar Pictures... on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1
  13. Radar Pictures... on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1
    NOAA has a doppler radar track of the debris

    here
    .

  14. Re:Good riddance on Firefly Likely to be Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Um... no. There was a plot bible and the story arc was plotted out before they started the show but there was not 5 years worth of scrip written before they started filming. Check here.

  15. Re:Just my opnion, but... on Firefly Likely to be Cancelled · · Score: 1

    I don't know about cattle rustling, but fencing, in the modern form, been around for about 400 years and there are still those of us (United States Fencing Association, Fencing Googled) who still "[have] sword fights".

  16. Re:Linux? on Neuros - Portable MP3 player, FM radio, Digital Recorder · · Score: 1

    As was posted in the forums on their site: "A more complete listing of the tech specs will be forthcoming, but briefly: we use the TI TMS320DA150 DSP beyond internal RAM, we have 2Mb external SRAM, and 128KB flash (32KB flash on the HD unit) We have an NPC real time clock on the backpack we use the Philips PDIUSBD12 and the LCD controller is from Samsung (KS0741) which drives a 128x128 4 bit display"

  17. Re:The flaw: on How to Build a Time Machine · · Score: 1

    No. The "...as p approaches infinity..." means that the values of p get sufficiently large that in the equation a change in the value of p has no real bearing on the resulting value (do I have a quintillion dollars or a quintillion + 1?). Pi being transcendental has no bearing on its value (which is not infinite, it is pi). But as you say, it gets "just a teeny bit bigger". Does that teeny bit matter when you are a billion places out from the decimal point? No. And in a similar way, in the original equation, adding 1 to p when p=1*10^15 makes no difference. Neither does adding 1,000 or 10,000, or 10,000,000. Adding anything when it is already infinitely big makes no difference. That is p as it approaches inifinty.

  18. Re:Just old J.R.R. up to his old tricks on Star Charts From A Strange Book From The Past · · Score: 1

    Not Tengwar, it lacks any of the elven vowel characters that appear in any of the modes. Also, there is nothing that looks like the question mark-like symbol or any of the taller characters for that matter in the Tengwar.

  19. Re:Have you thought about CLX? on wxWindows vs. MFC · · Score: 1

    As I understood it, a later version or Kylix (one this fall, maybe?) is supposed to support coding in C++. Also, the CLX is sort of based on Qt -- from what I am seeing at the moment, it looks like the CLX is made up of Pascal bindings around Qt.

  20. Re:Cold Fusion and the duping of the Media on News Media Scammed by 'Free Energy' Hoax · · Score: 1

    "as the electrons of atomic hydrogen are induced to undergo transitions to lower energy levels"

    This here is,of course, bullsh*t, as anyone with a freshman chemistry course would know -- the electrons in atomic hydrogen are already in the lowest energy state. Fractional quantum numbers? Do they mean spin states? This crap reminds me of the pack of lies in my grandmother's quack health newsletters about how there is a Type II Diabetes that the medical community refuses to treat.