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  1. Advantages of Widescreen? on Widescreen (Finally) Winning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am curios as to if Widescreen is really a better format for things beside movies? I am curious if there is any advantage to widescreen for standard made for tv/video releases? I know widescreen is good for the movies and therefore it is best to watch the movies in their original form but quite frankly, I don't see the problem with standard 4:3 for everything else?

  2. *sniff*.... on Childhood Memories Ruined by the Internet? · · Score: 4, Funny

    now my memories are slashdotted....

  3. Trojans... on The Virus Did It · · Score: 1

    I have been telling people this for awhile when referencing the extremely harsh penalties imposed on even accidentaly viewing child pornography on the internet. Another example that could get you into the courts would be being coerced into going to a site by your friend. I mean everyone has fallen for the old goatse trick at least once right? And who really wants to see that?

  4. All these new mp3 players are great and all... on Latest Crop of MP3 Players · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but do they support unicode?

  5. Maybe they are just looking for some press? on Games Workshop Tries to Crack Down on Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    I never heard of them before anyway.

  6. Re:I just did this with a PocketPC on Complex Language Support for PDA's? · · Score: 1

    I did this to an older casiopeia and can confirm that it works. I too am a student of the Japanese language. And for the input system I purchased Atok Pocket (and downloaded it) online. I don't have the exact site I purchased from on hand but if you have enough Japanese knowledge to go through the order process most sites with purchasble downloads will let you order internationally with a credit card.

  7. Re:No single source is "unbiased" on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 1
    extrapolate v 1: draw from specific cases for more general cases [syn: generalize, generalise, infer] 2: estimate the value of; in mathematics [syn: interpolate] 3: gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating (from dictionary.com)

    If we were creating 'new data points between two points' I believe you are correct. However I think it is more analagous to say that what we are doing is taking a whole line with a lot of points in between and sorting through it to filter out the crap and forming a new data set from that.

  8. No single source is "unbiased" on Looking for Unbiased War News? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There will always be bias in these kinds of conflicts. The best you can do is read sites that are from each side of the extreme and extrapolate the facts to form your own opinion. Although if you don't have the patience or time to do that...bbc,cbc, and reuters are the closest I have seen to unbiased (In english)

  9. Re:Winny on Freenet 0.5.1 Released, P2P Network Stabilizing · · Score: 1

    I have actually been using this for awhile, I love this thing ;) It is not exactly like Freenet though. All information on the network is encrypted and when being transferred is run through a third party so it goes from point A to point B through Point C (A->C->B) you can find out more (if you read Japanese) at winny.info

  10. Re:"The Game" on Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare · · Score: 1

    That also reminds me of "Jumanji"

  11. Re:Why "RF based/cash replacement? Metrocard on Sony's Cashless Smart Card Catching on in Japan · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, they are now eliminating tokens completely.

  12. Unicode in the titlebar! on Mozilla.org Launches Mozilla 1.3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Finally mozilla supports unicode in the titlebar properly and also the address bar! Not the most important feature but it certaintly made things ugly to look at when you look at sites in different character sets. (This is reffering to Windows rels. btw)

  13. Re:Society loves violence on Grand Theft Auto Released For Free · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then how come the most popular games in the world are "The Sims" and "Myst"?

  14. Re:iPAQ -vs- GP32 on RPG Sorcery PDA Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Actually the GP32 is only meant for sale in Korea, there are no Japanese games out for it to the best of my knowledge...(otherwise I would have one ;)

  15. Re:What media were they writing to? on Net Speed Record Smashed · · Score: 1

    I was wondering the same thing, my guess is they just sent data and didn't actually store it. And recorded only the speed of what they were transferring.

  16. Re:Huh? on Pennsylvania Court Forces ISPs to Block Porn Sites · · Score: 1
    How do they block it without knowing what the sites are?

    This is a very good point. Considering the fact that it is illegal to even view child porongraphy how is one supposed to know what sites violate the law if they can not legally check for themselves? And if ISPs are granted the power to look at these sites for blocking purposes only, I wonder what kind of people would take up the job anyway....

  17. eerily similar... on Computers Will Be Built By Living Cells · · Score: 1

    to Michael Chritons recent book (Prey)

  18. Re:Holographic Keyboard on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    How about a projection keyboard like posted in the link, but with customizable layouts? Every person could set it to project their own preffered layout and it probably wouldn't be hard to have a way of sharing layouts between different devices. So when you go to your friends house just load it off a disc to use your own layout.

  19. FTP through HTTP on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am not sure if there is really a purpose to this and am just throwing ideas around. But you could host an FTP on an internal network and route it through an HTTP CGI script. You can also use encryption over the HTTP connection to make it secure without resorting to SFTP. I just happen to use this method myself since SFTP requires special clients and is a bitch to setup...just some food for thought

  20. Re:excellent-Unicode? on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 1

    You should see what Japanese people make with SHIFT-JIS. One of my favorite examples of this insanity is here

  21. Re:SQL Server on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately that site is reffering to specific microsoft software (i.e. IE..heh) the windows life cycle is viewable here

  22. How about.... on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is the first thing that you have done with access to the internet?

  23. Re:Changes nothing on Honeymoon Over For Google? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It still does not change the fact: People love google Everyone is now using it - as it is small - light - fast - easy - and good People have irc scripts that use it - Embed it in their webpages I for one hope that google lasts - I would even pay a small amount if it would help keep them going

    Isn't this kind of ideology exactly what let to the 'dot-com crash'. People invested lots of capital in companies that people enjoyed but weren't necessarily very profitable. I think google is the latest subject to this phenomenon. Although I could be,and hope that I am, wrong.

  24. Re:Gender equality is a myth on Girls not Going into CS · · Score: 4, Interesting
    As long as there aren't restrictive sociocultural barriers preventing women from doing what they want, there nothing wrong with have gender disparities.

    I happen to agree, this whole mess reminds of this. That is to say, political correctness and 'equality' have gone too far in today's society.

  25. Re:Cartridges on Nintendo To Sell Old Consoles To China? · · Score: 2
    It's actually just a mini-DVD. You could make copies now that blank mini-DVDs are available.

    You know, it might be a mini-dvd however I do not think it is _just_ a mini-dvd...seeing as how I have not been able to read a gamecube disc on any computer with a DVD drive as of yet. I have also never heard of any reports of pirated gamecube games while considerable amounts of playstation 2 and xbox games are available.