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  1. Re:Tyrannosaurus Rex on Impressions From A Second Shipment 360 Owner · · Score: 1

    A little bit. they look about the same size as the ones in the movie (or at least the trailer)

  2. Re:Interesting Background... on Hubble finds Mass of White Dwarf · · Score: 1

    I've heard of the Pioneer anomaly before. Could it be that Pioneer isn't really slowing down, but it's just the signal being blueshifted?

  3. Re:Interesting Background... on Hubble finds Mass of White Dwarf · · Score: 1
    If the star emitting the light has a really strong gravitational field, light climbing out of that gravity well will show a red shift. If you had your telescope sitting in a big gravity well, light falling into that well (and being detected by your telescope) would show a blue shift.

    OK, so would that mean that to some degree, light leaving the sun is slightly red shifted on the way out, and slightly blue shifted when we see it on earth? Would a telescope at one of the Lagrange points not have that blue shift? Has this been detected/Is it enough to be detected? (I don't even know if there are observatories at the L points yet)?

    Brian - not an astronomer

  4. Re:took a while.... on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    Well, they are work PCs, have a Mac at home. I can play both of the Mac games without a hitch. :-)

  5. Re:Is this going to slow down graphics performance on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    My guess would be that video cards are a lot better at doing those kinds of things than general purpose CPUs do. Something Apple started doing years ago.

  6. Re:took a while.... on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 0

    Wink 2k moved the GDI to the Kernel. At the time it was announced (late '97, as I recall), they said it was for performance reasons and, of course, people complained that video drivers would crash the machine. For my usage, I've never had a video problem bring down either a Win 2k or XP system.

  7. Re:Interesting Background... on Hubble finds Mass of White Dwarf · · Score: 1

    I wikipedia'd redshift to gain some insight as to the gravitional red shift, and I can understand how that works (thanks to the nice diagram), but how does a gravitational blueshift work?

  8. Re:Politically Incorrect on Cyber Attacks on US Linked to Chinese Military? · · Score: 1

    Of course not! The Tiananmen Square incident happened in 1989! Or didn't happen in 1989.

  9. Re:Damn Commies! on Cyber Attacks on US Linked to Chinese Military? · · Score: 1
    Save Cuba because once Castro is gone, it'll be a nice place to visit.

    Haven't they been saying this for 40-odd years?

  10. Wheelchair ramps on Challenge to Transfer IT Power in MA · · Score: 1
    Why not tear down the wheelchair ramps while we're at it?

    What does this have to do with document formats? If you're claiming equal access, people that need wheelchair ramps don't have a choice. Running OSS is.

  11. Re:Hard to admit, but that is quite clever on Sober Code Cracked · · Score: 1

    Well, Germans have that funny way of compounding words. Apparently they're compounding sentences together now.

  12. Re:The children will ask themselves on The Prodigy Puzzle · · Score: 1
    To me it's a little like math classes: you never really know what you're doing in a class until you get two or three classes beyond it. Likewise, a child can't be expected to both learn material and piece it into the bigger picture, most of which has not been exposed yet.
    Amen to that! After going through 2 years of University Calc & Diff Eqs, I really didn't apprciate it until my Senior year when I started tutoring.
  13. Re:What about Tolkien? on Top 20 Geek Novels · · Score: 1
    You haven't read the Silmarilion until you've read it in the original Elvish.

    Nobody alive in the world has ever read the Silmarillion in the original Elvish.

    You could've stopped right there but,

    JRRT read it in the Red Book of Westmarch, where it was included as Bilbo's Translations from the Elvish; this would have been written in Westron, the common language of the countries of northwestern Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age. He translated the Red Book into the English with which we are familiar, and later published Bilbo's diary There and Back Again and Frodo's The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King

    Could've stopped here too, but

    as fiction because nobody would take all this elf stuff seriously otherwise. The Translations from the Elvish seemed to have posed more difficulty in translation to English and in editing, though Christopher has done a pretty decent job in cleaning up the conflicting versions to give us the Silmarillion we know today.

    I'm sorry, that's just wrong.

  14. Re:Change is.... on Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1 Is Out · · Score: 1
    Really it looks like they have attempted to improve the interface, bringing common tasks that where hidden several menus down to the top. On the other hand the interface looks so alien to the old one I can see this being a support nightmare for large companies where some users have not mastered using the left mouse button yet, let alone understand anything other than picking the menus they where shown long ago and repeating..

    Most of the people I work with don't even bother with formatting, which is good and bad.

  15. Device Drivers on The Microsoft Singularity · · Score: 2, Interesting
    While this is still very much a work in progress, the results so far look promising. For example, we have a dynamic web server that uses child processes. Also all of our device drivers run in child processes.

    Does anyone know if this means no restart required after a driver update?

  16. Folder management on Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    If you have files with the same name it can get messy.

    My first thought is the VIDEO-TS folder when using Mac the Ripper (Yes, I only use it for my own DVDs, handling DVDs on the whims of a two-year old leds itself to DVDs getting droped, scratched, etc). I'd hate to have to remember that VIDEO-TS1 is for Nemo and VIDEO-TS35 is for the best of Thomas.

  17. CCR on Apple Sells 1 Million Videos in Under 20 Days · · Score: 1
    The real crime is to get work distributed you nearly have to give up all rights. The distributors demand all rights in a given market for such a long period of time you are in effect selling it outright. Whatever amount they are willing to pay is largely all you'll ever see. Musicians back in the 50s and 60s weren't allowed to keep any rights to their work especially the black ones. Some of those practises carried through into the 70s, remember Creedence Clear Water Revival?
    Or the manager suing because Fogarty's new music sounds too much like the old music. I heard that Fantasy records has some new people running the show, and they've kissed and made up.
  18. Re: the washing machine on The Man Behind Apple And Pixar · · Score: 1

    I looked around at their site. Convection drying for the dishwasher! Very, very nice.

  19. Re:Old news on The Decline Of The Desktop · · Score: 1

    Nearly half of all Macs are laptops. It's been that way for a while.

  20. Re:I'm not an expert... on Office 12 Exposed · · Score: 1

    I like Tiger, and that spotlight feature in the System preferences is fine for finding things when you don't know where things are, but I'd hate to have to go through all of that when I just want bold something.

  21. Mac Shuffle on iPod nano, iTunes 5, iTunes Phone · · Score: 1

    No, the Mac Shuffle was back in the late 80's on mac's with only one floppy drive (pre SE days)

  22. Re:World of Starcraft/Diablo/etc? on Ask Questions of the World of Warcraft Team · · Score: 1

    at first thought, this seemed like a good idea, but how would one become a level 60 zerling? Give me SC2 first! That said, most of the Protoss units would be good starts for MMORPG characters.

  23. Re:My new iPod on Apple Replaces B/W White iPods with Color Screens · · Score: 1

    What OS are you running?

  24. Re:Cooling Techniques on MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    Schroedinger's ice cream cone?

  25. Re:The question is... on First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the bytes are in a different order!