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  1. Re:GTA 4? on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of an old DOOM partial conversion based on the Simpsons. It was described in the book, "Tricks of the DOOM Gurus" ... Health packs were donuts, and monsters were replaced with characters from the show..

    I wanted to be a game content developer all the way back in the 5th grade. :)

  2. Re:Been done on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 1

    Well, put it in the SC2K file format, but launch Streets of SimCity instead.

    I loved that game...It was always fun using a car to tear down the city I'd spent days building up in SC2K. SimCopter was fun, too.

  3. Re:Filesize? on Fermilab Builds 500-Megapixel Camera · · Score: 1

    I wonder if pngcrush works on a cluster system...they'd need it.

  4. Re:Tinfoil sales skyrocket on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    The point was the idiot'd be trying to peep...and would see himself trying to peep. And wouldn't realize it. Which is why he's an idiot. QED

  5. Re:Data from Startrek TNG played poker on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 1

    Early on, though, you could always get him with a bluff.

    I wonder how Vulcans faired. I'll leave Spock's STIV: TVH quote as obvious.

  6. Re:Tinfoil sales skyrocket on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    The problem is that if you make your house one big mirror, you reflect a lot more sunlight. Possibly into the eyes of drivers or pilots. Or you neighbors might complain that you're trying to play peeping tom on them.

  7. Re:This thing is the future of mobile computing no on PDA Buyer's Guide Reviews The Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 · · Score: 1

    I wasn't really responding to your issues, per se...just spouting an idea upon inspiration.

    It makes sense that the backlight would be a heavy user of your battery. Can you adjust its brightness?

  8. Re:Assembly is weak on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    Gah!

    Make that...

    #define true false

    // At which point it becones
    // 'false && false == false'

    // Which is false. :)

  9. Re:Assembly is weak on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    Oops. That should be:

    #define true false // At which point it becones // 'false && false == false' // Which is false. :)

  10. Re:Assembly is weak on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    You accidentally left out a line:

    #define true=false

    Then your statement works out just fine.

  11. Re:Everything I need to know about life I learned. on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's Road Runner.

    And you don't want a coyote to drive a truck through your front door. ;)

  12. Re:This thing is the future of mobile computing no on PDA Buyer's Guide Reviews The Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 · · Score: 1

    Nice, but I was thinking along the lines of the Linux Kernel, since that's what I use. (Almost exclusively.)

  13. Re:Cool Game Levels on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    I'd given that thought. I wanted to make a map of my high school a long time ago. Then Columbine happened. Then came terrorism scares.

    While it would certainly be fun to play an FPS in a familiar environment, a map designer would have to go through all sorts of trouble once he was targeted in a terrorism investigation.

    It's just not worth it. I'd rather get a professional architect to build fictional maps.

  14. Re:I'd love this if it were made public on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    I'd help for finding your way to an address. For instance, I don't know what my uncle's house looks like, but a picture to go along with the address would help me find it with fewer drive-by's.

  15. Re:I'd love this if it were made public on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    I like taking photographs of buildings and attempting to make them into textures...unfortunately, my computer curently is in a cold, damp room in the basement, so I don't like spending a lot of time on it.

  16. Re:Tinfoil sales skyrocket on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 0

    While it might make cooling your house in the summer cheaper, it could be illegal. (Blinding drivers and such with reflected sunlight.)

    Better stick with a wire mesh like normal window screens.

  17. Re:Doubt it'll happen... on Rendering Shrek@Home? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Oh, great. Fansubs.

    Now I'm trying to erase those mental images of Shrek speaking in a high tenor, and Fiona singing bass.

  18. Re:Figures it involved Orrin Hatch on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    That's why I use the "fax" option on EFF Action Alerts.

  19. Re:Doubt it'll happen... on Rendering Shrek@Home? · · Score: 1

    And of course, rendering is a "trial-and-error" process

    I'm reminded of a in-the-making-of extra that was included on the Shrek DVD, where they were talking about the tweaking for the clothing model. When Shrek picked her up, Princess Fiona's dress went up over her head. /me watches the local stores for the run on Shrek DVDs.

  20. Re:Double fucked... on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    Your money is neither your life nor your limb. Like it or not Double Jeopardy is only for criminal prosecution.

    I doubt a judge would allow the RIAA to file the same suit twice. I imagine they'd get a "Well, why didn't you include that in your initial damages claim?"-type response.

    Since both suits are civil, and are on behalf of the same party (the copyright holder), doesn't the logic follow?

  21. Re:Hey, wait a second... on 'Pirate Act' Would Shift Copyright Civil Suits To DoJ · · Score: 1

    So followup lawsuits are legalized. Haven't they ever heard of something called "double jeopardy?"

    Or does that not apply when the civil suits are by two different entities, even if they are both on behalf of the same entity?

    I'm not sure if double-jeopardy applies to civil suits, but the logic seems to me to closely follow such as if the RIAA had filed suit against the same person twice.

  22. Re:Price? on Battery Development Off The Beaten Path · · Score: 5, Insightful

    prohibitively expensive.

    So is just about everything till the patents expire and commodity-level competition kicks in.

  23. Re:interesting math on Cisco Reveals Its $500 Million Router · · Score: 1

    I'm picturing one of these things at the heart of a large cluster. It would significantly reduce the impact of poor information locality in a problem set.

  24. Re:Sounds like a truly awful idea on SPF To Be Integrated With MS 'Caller ID' System · · Score: 1
    One issue I'm concerned with, that I haven't seen answered yet, is mailing lists. I usually see something like this:
    From: Joe User <joe.user@grnet.com>
    To: T Ward <t.ward@scinet.edu>
    Reply-To: bbs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
    The message is being sent by SourceForge, but has a "From" address as at grnet.com.
  25. Re:SPF 30 on SPF To Be Integrated With MS 'Caller ID' System · · Score: 1

    Laugh! It was a joke!

    A joke?!

    The last time I got a sunburn, I moved my computer away from the window!