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  1. Re:no viruses for linux yet because.... on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    I suspect we'll eventually see the ability to "bless" an application with network access.

  2. Re:Of course on Emotional Bonding with Space Probes · · Score: 1

    What did you people think my sig meant, anyway?!

  3. Re:TCO on Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows · · Score: 1

    Make that an hour and a half, if you want to wait for the alcohol to wear off before trying to do anything useful.

  4. Re:Games are getting ridiculous on Perfect Digital Skin · · Score: 1

    It's not so much drinking it as getting it in your eyes, which is bound to happen if you're not wearing goggles, etc.

  5. Re:Wishlist on Nanotechnology: the Good, the Bad, the Hyperbole · · Score: 1

    "Atomically" precise manufacturing, for the cost of energy and material.

    Uh, how will the engineers get paid?

    One of the greatest properties of the advance in technology is that more and more engineering jobs are created.

  6. Re:Games are getting ridiculous on Perfect Digital Skin · · Score: 1

    Ever swim in a heavily chlorinated pool? You'll be seeing coronas welll outside the pool area.

    As for how appropriate equipment artifacts are: They give you the feeling that an event is really happening. Even if you feel you're not there, you can still empathize with the character in question.

  7. Re:Old news... (but still very cool) on Perfect Digital Skin · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of a raytracer that correctly reproduces the double-slit experiment? :)

  8. Re:KitchenSink@IDsoftware.com on Perfect Digital Skin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I suspect I'd get sick to my stomach if I played an FPS that realistic. I flinch when I see the arrow go through Will Scarlet's hand in Robin Hood.

    On a more technical note, I'd expect it'd be best offloaded to the GPU. Dynamically rendering a texture offscreen wouldn't be a bad thing. However, how would you describe it in the data file?

    If your model skin was PNG file with extension segments to include the Cg code, it could work.

  9. Re:Such a discovery! on NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC · · Score: 1

    And in xchat. And in epic4.

  10. Re:DVD+R? on First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I didn't finish the article, but the Nero screenshot doesn't list DVD+R or DVD-RAM as a supported formats.

  11. DVD+R? on First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed · · Score: 0, Informative

    Did anyone else notice it supports DVD+RW, but not DVD+R?

  12. Re:is 100% coverage necessary? on Estonia Embraces Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Better go with mesh network nodes. That way sections can still communicate within a region, even if that region becomes isolated from the main network.

  13. Re:Not improbable on Estonia Embraces Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Was this a journalism "feature"? I'm wondering if they were looking for something to hype, and didn't perform a proper test.

    Of course, when you're filming for a TV show, you don't want to cut production half way through on accound of a lack of proper evidence. You'll have already spent a good deal on equipment, crew, and possibly props.

  14. Re:Lady on the train on Estonia Embraces Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Well, their version of the FCC might not have the same power restrictions on transmission that exist here in the states. So a hotspot could be decidedly larger.

  15. Re:Can you say Apache? on Apple Uncommunicative About Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Under both Linux and Windows, services are considered part of the OS. In terms of bugs and vulnerability, Windows' http server has certainly had its share of the pie.

  16. Re:My favorite thing about my Zaurus... on Zaurus SL-6000 Review · · Score: 1

    WinCE, and PalmOS are simple to develop for.

    Then why is it so hard to find software to fit my needs on sourceforge.net? I've got a Palm Zire 21. If there was a decent calculator app for it, I could my palm for math classes instead of getting a replacement calculator for the one that I already had stolen.

  17. Telnet to on Zaurus SL-6000 Review · · Score: 1

    One friend of mine used telnet to connect to the SMTP port of his web server in order to send another of my friends.

    This second friend uses mutt to read his email, so when he got the message, all the typos kept showing up and getting erased, until the message finished displaying. :)

  18. Re:The screen! on Zaurus SL-6000 Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You too? That was my first computer. Well, it was my mother's first computer, that she got in 1989 when I was six. It first ran Deskmate. Later it ran Windows 3.1 (Which all but filled the 20MB hard drive.)

    I remember it was my first exposure to QBASIC. I'd written a lot of Applesoft programs on the Apple IIe at school, so I thought I wouldn't have any problem. I vividly remember my first program:

    10 FOR A = 1 TO 3
    20 PRINT "hi"
    30 NEXT A

    RUN
    RUN

    RUN

    RUN

    -
    Finally, I figured out how to run it. And it ran over and over and over on its own. Ever try to kill a program that restarts itself?

  19. Re:Hilarious... on Kinetic Sculpture Race 2004 · · Score: 1

    Whoa...I just had a flashback to hearing "A Fine and Pleasant Misery" read by George S. Irving.

    In particular, "Cigars, Logging Trucks, and Know-it-Alls."

    That book was humor anyone who's gone camping can enjoy. :)

  20. Re:GPL to the rescue on NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless' · · Score: 1

    Big difference. Those requirements of the GPL have been waved in front of everyone's faces thanks to SCO.

    I don't think it would take a judge long to decide that Novell had had plenty of time and warning.

  21. Re:Just a question... on There Must be a Pony in Here Somewhere · · Score: 1

    I'm still looking for the Steven Wright quotes.

  22. Re:Most Common OS on Ask the Egyptian Installfest Organizers · · Score: 1

    Haha. Whoops!

    And I even used Preview.

  23. Re:Well, yes.. on A Public Library's Linux Success Story · · Score: 1

    By "potential power user" I mean someone who's somewhat familiar with computers, but hasn't yet learned how custom-fitted computers can be.

  24. Re:LTSP vs. SSH + X Forwarding on Will Novell Adopt The LTSP Project? · · Score: 1

    LTSP already boots over a network, with no hard disk whatsoever.

  25. Re:Not a great assumption... on Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents · · Score: 1

    As opposed to those where an adult dies.

    When an adult dies, he's already made some contribution to his environment. Be it some famous scientific advancement, or an equally important relationship with his family.

    When an infant dies, people only experienced a small hint of what he could have become.

    Granted, neither are pleasant. But it hurts, a lot, to see a dead infant.