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  1. Re:plot as a function of time on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil · · Score: 1

    It would make movies the equivalent of dish rags, just wring them out and reuse them over and over. Why not adjust the the Mona Lisa? Her clothes are out of style, maybe a belly shirt?

    Instead of offering creativity and new ideas we keep getting more and more rehashes. Going back to the same source and beating it to death isn't art or even entertainment, it is like a never ending SNL skit that refuses to die.

    Maybe they'll update movies every few years so they can update the product placements and keep those ad bucks flowing.

  2. Re:You fucking moron on ATT Raises Prices for Cable Modem Owners · · Score: 1

    It is not, "You fucking moron" but "You are a fucking moron", unless you meant that the moron in question was actually in the process of fucking when he wrote that.

  3. Re:Speaking of whorish sellouts - New 9/11 ideas on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 2

    How about "Sep 10 and Sep 12th, can we find meaning for other dates?

  4. Re:While I'm all for space exploration... on Space Exploration Act of 2002 · · Score: 2

    If Bush keeps avoiding the elimination (not just storage) of nukes then we may end up needing a moon base for a new home.

    Just 8 more planets to go before we've f-d them all up!

  5. The high cost of cds on CDs Want To Be Free · · Score: 2

    Here is what the cost of cd's has done to me:

    1. Listening to my collection a lot more
    2. Put off indefinitely buying anything new
    3. If I do buy anything I am VERY picky, it is never an impulse buy

    If they keep upping the price of cds they'll have to start marketing them like cars.

  6. Re:Jack Scalfani is an idiot on CDs Want To Be Free · · Score: 1

    You've managed to pass judgement on a total stranger and his business based on you being a Paula Cole fan and him not. Real bright. I could just as easily say you are an idiot for being a Paula Cole fan, and make about as much sense also. Your taste in music is just that, a personal taste not a reflection of "business acumen".

    I wouldn't boast too much about grammy awards either, I've flushed down many of them. This is the same organization that gave a "Best Metal Performance" to Jethro Tull instead of Metallica. I respect him more for not following the awful grammys, not less.

  7. Re:The Internet Brought To You By COKE on CDs Want To Be Free · · Score: 1

    "Sometimes I just wish the internet were owned by one big corporation"

    I wish that was true for operating systems also...oops, oh yah, Microsoft.

  8. Re:$18/CD? A Big Whoop De Doo on CDs Want To Be Free · · Score: 2

    They must be the same people paying $200+ to see concerts.

  9. Next up, Sim War Crimes on E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool · · Score: 2

    Finally I can imagine that I'm strafing Korean civilians or at My Lai!

    Nobody worships the military more than a peacetime civilian population with no personal experience of war.

  10. Get out of San Jose! on Which IT Certifications for Specific IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    How about being a big fish in a smaller pond? Get out of San Jose, it is flooded with people like you. How about going to a smaller city that would appreciate a gung-ho Boston boy like yourself?

    Remember, if you are having trouble getting work it probably means there are lots of people just as good or better than you with EXPERIENCE who are laidoff and looking too. Don't be so quick to slander others, it hurts you in the end.

  11. Re:Cyberspace will never be secure...EVER on Hacking Web Services · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Based on your logic we shouldn't have doors because someone will always be able to break them down.

  12. Memories!!... on What is Well-Commented Code? · · Score: 2

    Beagle Bros! *eyes tearing* I remember those halcyon days! So innocent...so much in so little RAM.

  13. Go Vader Go! on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    Expanded universe, bah!

    Who hasn't rooted for Vader to kick that whiney Skywalker's ass or nuke those damn Ewoks? Lord knows I have.

  14. Re:How about the Biggs scene that was cut... on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 2

    But it was cut from the movie. He was basing his essay ONLY on what has come straight from Lucas himself in the final versions of his movies. You might as well pull out old versions of the scripts while you are at it.

  15. The secret of India, Italy, Spain... on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    The real secret to staying cool in these places is that the food is so good you never leave the shaded restaurants.

  16. Re:.5 inch gives... on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    I thought the person drinking it was the one who ended up releasing the gas?

  17. Not a good idea on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    "The theory is: If the ice caps recede, so will glaciers, releasing land for use"

    And what happens when the ice starts to return and you've built Antartic Disney World already?

  18. Re:"Baffling" Logo on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    Obviously they also manufacture pick-axes and dolphins. They are truly a diverse company.

  19. Cooling /. flames? on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they can slap some of those chips on some of these postings.

  20. Clothes? on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    If they can make it in the form of a flexible film I can finally get a shirt that won't make me sweat in August! Just think, air conditioned undies!

  21. Re:More suspicions on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    My suspicions were aroused by the fact that virtually the entire upper management structure are all from the same family (Cox). "Meet the CFO, Mr Corleone, and the CEO, Mr Corleone, and the CIO..."

    On the other hand a lot of people probably dumped on early investors in CISCO, as long as they knew when to sell of course!

  22. Flat A/C on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    First we got flat screen monitors, now we'll have flat A/C units sitting in our window frames. What next, a flat car? That would be a flying carpet, right?

  23. Look at the patents on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen too many people here look at the patents they have on their site to get an idea as to what they are doing. They seem to be using microfabricated "pits" on the surface facing the gap to generate destructive quantum wave interference thus encouraging tunneling. They also have developed a method for producing the 5-50 nanometer gaps between the surfaces that they need. Also, the materials they reference frequently are interesting, especially diamond (via deposition I assume). I wonder if they are doing something with carbon nanotubes or buckyballs?

  24. Not capacitors on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    No, this is different. Capacitors rely on electrostatic charge seperation, these devices reply on quantum tunneling. Capacitors use an insulating layer as the plate seperator, these devices use an actual void as the gap.

    They have a technical decription on their site for more info.

  25. Re:Structural integrity? on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    Even if the possibility of fracturing, due to rapid temperature change, existed then they could easily get around it by setting the chips to change temperature more slowly, sort of like not turning up the volume on the radio too fast.