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  1. Re:What is SideKick dev like? on Danger Makes Free Sidekick SDK Available · · Score: 1

    If the sidekick has a web-browser, why can't you r un a mini-server & serve up the JAD/JAR combo to it? Just make sure the filetypes are right.

  2. Re:More fuel = better emissions?!? on Increasing Fuel Mileage With Hydrogen? · · Score: 1

    Emissions result in these two kinds: C+N->NO and C+O->CO and of course the (complete combustion) result C+2O->CO2, though hydrogen has only one emission possibility, 2H+O->H2O, a completely clean emission, unless I am mistaken N&H don't readily bond in this situation, but its been a while since chem class, and H+C is much higher energy than H+O so it would break back apart if it ever formed

  3. Re:Been there, done that... on Back to the Trees · · Score: 1

    Just curious when&where you ran into M:tA, b/c I'm always looking for new perspectives on the game.

  4. Re:Slightly off topic... on Speeding up Evolution · · Score: 1

    Given that my concept of "beautiful" is against th e currently held concept of at the very least the American culture - I prefer something that used to be considered beautiful in at least some places, the voluptuous pear-shaped figure - narrow shoulders, straightish waist, wide hips, big behind, thick thighs, big breasts, generally soft/chubby but no 'rolls' and a flattish (not bulgy) tummy) - anyway, given that I prefer that and that is not what the american perception of beauty is (and I'm an american), I think that beauty cannot possibly be an absolute.

  5. Re:simple improvement to tabs on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    Opera 7 already has this feature, though it's probably slightly more like the windows Alt+Tab order, when you close a tab, it goes back to the most recently visible tab. As for closing tabs, I don't see why people think it's so hard, ctrl+f4 is very easy.

  6. Re:Personal coding standard on Funny and Irrelevant Program Names? · · Score: 2

    My [meager] karma will burn on this one but I just don't get it. Care to clarify?

  7. Re:Cost? on One 3G Phone Connects 21 Macs on School Bus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, on Sprint's 'Vision' network, their 3G data access is flat-rate per-month as long as your access is reasonable (that is, use your home connection to d/l those MP3s and ISOs). Generally their phones use a USB cable to emulate a modem, and you dial #777 (I think) into the virtual modem for a ppp connection at around 144kbps (pretty average 3G speed, about twice 56k dialup). As for what the flat-rate is, it's about $10/month.

  8. Re:Female Starbuck? on Battlestar Galactica to Return · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I never thought I'd see this post on slashdot.

    I'm very happy I am seeing it now though. It gives me back the hope I once had for the world and this site. That is, of course, as long as you are looking for something more than just something to fill a stupid male fantasy about what a lesbian is. I don't know you from anyone else so I can't tell, but I will just guess that you are as you appear, and thus again, say, thank you for making this post.

  9. Re:You asked for it... on Adopt a KDE Geek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm also, as you put it, practically married to an intelligent hottie, but I'll put it this way. If I were female, this might just "turn me lesbian" (though personally I don't believe someone can be "turned", just commenting on what was already said.)

  10. Re:Dirty trick... on Fighting Back Against Messenger Popup SPAM · · Score: 1

    GAIM has a pretty good MSNm client library, and the most recent Win32 GAIM alphas are quite stable and usable. http://gaim.sourceforge.org/ should link you to their homepage. I hope this helps.

  11. Re:lol on ALICE vs. ALICE · · Score: 1

    Because you are?

  12. Re:Actually... on Science Askew · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm...unless you've managed to see an anime I haven't, beautiful and anime princess do not belong in the same sentence. Those legs are incredibly too long, and skinny. They have no hips and ludicrously pinched waists. Call me old fashioned but I want wide hips, big behind, thick legs to match a big chest, straightish waist, etc. Pear-shaped. Natural.

  13. Re:Not a laughing matter on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain · · Score: 1

    There are many more female geeks than you'd like to admit. Intelligence exists on both sides of the gender equation, and judging by what I see here on /. quit often, there must be more intelligence among women (i am just assuming from the sampling I've seen that the average post is written by a man). I think the reason we see more men posting to this board is that they tend to enjoy the sorts of pissing contests that occur here (we'd see even more of them if we set our filters to -1).

  14. Re:Longhorn isn't .NET server on Longhorn Server Scrapped · · Score: 1

    To bring up a point and do a bit of self-promotion (though what I am promoting is just an idea at this point), a generalized UI will not work until the operating system is much more modular. Why has no-one built an operating system built on modules(classes) with (multiple) interfaces? The kernel would only have to support an 'interface descriptor list', a task scheduler, a VM system, and possibly some sort of messaging system, and even then I would think that the grunt work of the scheduler & VM could be moved into userspace. drivers would exist in some sort of limbo, userspace with extra privleges, maybe a thirdspace (with apologies to B5). Everything could be recognized as what it was simply by querying the IDL for a given interface. Files? Interface "data/file" or something like that. Drivers? Interface "application/system/driver" or something. Querying the kernel by interface would return a link to the valid methods as a tree structure of some sort, or possibly you'd have to query by method. If so, the IDL even would have to run in a thirdspace so as to not have page switching cause too much performance loss. Anyway, enough rambling, with something like this a fully generalized UI would come up from the structure of the OS.

  15. Re:Games! on Sega + Nokia = True · · Score: 1

    I would love to have a phone that played some variant of Sonic (preferably based on Sonic 3+knuckles), though it would have to have a downloadable level feature before I would consider buying it, otherwise once beaten it would not be worth much. Some sort of multiplayer might be cool but chances are this is a device to waste time with, not a dedicated gaming device you'd really schedule multiplayer games with, so unless it was battle.net-style, multiplayer would probably not work.

  16. Re:not all DDoS attacks.. on Pushback against DDOS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Well, you might be able to pull together some sort of queue whereby the users that would normally get denied just have to wait. Try handling 502 (overloaded) errors yourself, might be a good starting point.

  17. Re:1 GHz limit on 'Computer-On-Glass' Display · · Score: 1

    well once we reach the 1GHz hard limit, we'll almost certainly be producing massively parallel arrays in this material, or more likely simply have a better material. In either case, the 1GHz limit would rarely be a concern.

  18. Re:Interesting topic... on Smallest Possible ELF Executable? · · Score: 1

    I would love to see something like this implemented, but not on the Linux base. Unfortunately such a monolithic system would not lend itself well to this sort of optimization, and more exactly would make bugfixing even more horrendous. My friend and I are kicking around some ideas for a fully modular operating system, with an OO paradigm, every item thus being an object, and distinguished by what interfaces it exported. This would allow extensibility (new version simply exports proper interface), good optimization without losing the whole system in the process and finding debug nearly impossible, easy isolation of problems and application of security policies, and hopefully at least as fast of a core. Our system would be designed around reducing latency, as it is intended to be used in interactive environments where that is the common concern, as well as designed around being usable on a 486/66 - 32MB/ram or failing that at the very least a P1/100 - 32MB/ram

  19. Re:Even a GameCube release on Retailers Won't Sell New Acclaim Game · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about Conker's Bad Fur Day...admittedly it was vulgarity for comedy's sake but it was there nonetheless. I personally thought the game (the small amount I played of it at my friends' houses) was rather boring and unimaginative but that is beside the point. My point is that Nintendo has indeed shifted their policy and realizes that their core audience is the standard kiddie audience, as well as what used to be the kiddie audience around the time of the NES.

  20. Causality. on Speed Of Light Broken With Off Shelf Components · · Score: 1

    One very simple question. Why does everyone think that FTL travel/communications suddenly breaks causality or more generally, allows time travel into the past/messages to arrive before they are sent, etc.?

  21. Re:'lucky' bamboo on Caring for Your Plants in Unnatural Environments? · · Score: 1

    One point that people should know. 'lucky bamboo' is -not- the same plant as the bamboo most people are familiar with. It does not get much if any bigger than how you buy it, unlike real bamboo, which tends to...well....grow.

  22. Re:Not Quite Ready (OT) on Are Video Phones Back From The Dead? · · Score: 1

    I'm curious about her now. Maybe we can continue this in e-mail or something? I think /. is tired of off-topic discussions. my e-mail should be visible but it's trinn_99@yahoo.com if you need it.

  23. Re:Dont tell the wife on Reconfigurable, Modular Dream Home · · Score: 1

    I agree. This "traditional" separation of "masculine" and "feminine" roles has -got- to go. It exists to allow, in general, men to dominate women. It is really a sick perversion, and a departure from what most free countries profess to believe, that is that all humans are created equal, regardless of shape, size, gender, skin color, etc. This buisiness of forcing women to be weaklings and men to be heavy-lifters is just....sick.

  24. Re:Not Quite Ready (OT) on Are Video Phones Back From The Dead? · · Score: 1

    Just a stray OT question, really curious about how it really is. Was she one of those relatively unnatural looking women with big breasts & no hips, or did she actually have the nice wide hips/etc. to go with them, and a non-skinny body? Just curious, really, and attempting to get past the media stereotypes & see what the population is really like.

  25. Re:Scientists discover what makes Slashdot suck on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 1

    XML-RPC? CORBA? hmm....
    this comment is not important enough for me to remember exactly what any of this means, I just know they are related.

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