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  1. Re:Once upon a time... on Five Years Later, Newton Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    I've used palms. However I can't seem to write well on those little screens. Doing text entery one char' at a time is rather limiting. To get around this you need to carry a keyboard (not a thumb board, those too are too slow) with you that makes the total package not much smaller then a Newton.

  2. Re:Competition on Five Years Later, Newton Still Going Strong · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are corected. Newtons work just fine with BeOS, Linux and Windows using Apple and third party software. The Newton died because Jobs didn't like it since it wasn't from "his" Apple Co.

  3. I've still got mine. on Five Years Later, Newton Still Going Strong · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To this day, no one has created a PDA device that is as natural to use as the Newton. I still keep mine around for notetaking which I then sync to MS word via a VB Script.

  4. Re:battery??? on The Riddle of Baghdad's Battery · · Score: 1
    Prior to this discovery, the first battery known was created by Alessandro Volta in the 1800s. This early battery was constructed of many layers of zinc and silver separated by blotting paper soaked in salt water. This form of battery is called a Voltaic Pile.

    A more modern approach is to suspend a carbon and zinc rod in an acid solution. As an experiment try doing the following.

    Take a jar of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and place a rod of zinc into it. The acid will start to eat away at the zinc and in turn hydrogen bubbles will start to form along the zinc rod as it heats up. What's happening is that the acid molecules break up into three ions: two H+ ions and one SO4--ion while the zinc atoms on the surface of the zinc rod lose two electrons (2e-) to become Zn++ ions, the electrons from the zinc atoms then combine with the hydrogen ions in the acid to create H2 molecules (hydrogen gas).

    Now place the carbon rod into the acid and connect a wire between it and the zinc rod. This causes the free electrons to flow along the carbon rod and combine with the hydrogen and causes it to bubble off the carbon rod.

    Since electricity is jut the flow of free electrons you now have electricity (and less heat). Connecting a light bulb between the zinc and carbon rods will cause it to light up.

  5. And here I thought.... on More on Grid Computing and Gaming · · Score: 1, Funny

    And here I thought the network interface for my PS2 I purchased was just a fancy means of colecting dust samples from the sournding area. You mean some one may release soem software for it after all this time?

  6. Re:Not with my source codes! on Open Source Code And War · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yea, its worth it if my software helps kill people so long as it hurts Microsoft. You realy need to figure out whos side your on, its us VS Microsoft, everything else is just collateral damage.

  7. Lets make Google a pejorative instead. on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lets make Google a pejorative instead.

    I need to take a google.
    He's a total google.
    What a google.

    Seems to work.
  8. Re:Well, heres the new testbed for freenet. on U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, i guess you have no problem with ME running around in your living room wearing my boxer shorts and nothing else? I mean, since you feel its ok for you to do it, its ok for me to do it.

  9. Re:No DSL and no Jolt make Homer somthing, somthin on FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition · · Score: 1

    No cabel modem service in my area. No cable modem with 1.5MB upload speeds anywhere. I refuse to pay PacBells fees for installation since they wanted to charge me 900$ to move my DSL service to my new address while Speakeasy wanted to give me a Playstation 2 (guess which one I picked). If I get realy pissed I'll wip out the Nerf(tm) crotch missles ans Nerf(tm) Nerf.

  10. No DSL and no Jolt make Homer somthing, somthing. on FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition · · Score: 4, Funny
    Go crazy?

    Bottom line is if they do this they'll have a Jolt crazed tech geek attacking their office with a Nerf(tm) crotch bat. I need my Speakeasy DSL service.

  11. Can't be true. on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    But, my mom says I'm cool.

  12. Re:Ask Slashdot: Stereo Gaming? on Gamers, Upgrade your Systems · · Score: 1

    Well any nvidia based card supports stereoscopic graphics. So just grab a Gforce4 and you're good to go. However for the "best" stereo effect you're going to want to find a sheet of polarizing liquid crystal to go over your monitor. It would be simple to adapt the stereo connector built into many of the high end nvidia cards or to pull the sync from the green pin from the VGA out and use it to toggle the LCD (however in the case of using the vide sync you would need to add a switch to reverse the single in case it syncs on the wrong eye). Then you just need a pair of bi-polarized glasses so that each eye can only see what one polarized state of the LCD allows. The main advantage of this is that there is no flicker from the ambient lite as you don't have active LCDs in front of your eyes. The last setup like this I built cost around 500$, but that was years ago.

  13. Oh dear god. on KDE And Gnome Cooperate On Interface Guidelines · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cats and dogs... Living together. Panic in the streets.

  14. Re:No one mentioned... on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 1

    Come on. The CD-32 has Psyco Killer, one of hte best games ever. It is from there that we get the quote "eat my Nikes puck" said in a think british acent. Hell, that one game alone was worth the price.

  15. Re:Virtual Boy on Dismal Console Failures · · Score: 3, Informative

    oods are that one of your eyes is stronger then the other and your weak eye objects to being forced to be used. This is common with all steroscopic display systems.

  16. Re:AMD on Athlon 64 Pushed Back to September · · Score: 1

    My UltraSparc desktop claims otherwise.

  17. was quite suprised with the results.... on Xbox Linux Cluster · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all that, chicks still didn't dig him.

  18. Sure, we have lifetime employment. on Lifetime Careers in IT? · · Score: 4, Funny

    When we fire you, we kill you.

  19. Re:Wow! on Tetris AI System · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know. Being able to use a computer to get the right long piece into the right slot could be useful. However it could end up like my old boost of having a big Wang in my bedroom. Girls always left somewhat disappointed.

  20. What a great idea. I can see it now. on [H|Cr]acker Insurance · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guido: Nice network you gots here, it would be a shame if something where to happen to it.
    Customer: What do you mean?
    Nunzio: You know, accidents, like your customer records being posted on slashdot. Accidents happen you know.
    Guido: But your in luck, my brother and me can, for a small fee, grantee your network wont be hacked by disreputable people like us. Think of it as "insurance".

  21. Say what? on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who the hell has their SQL server in the public side of their firewall? These things shouldn't be directly accessable to any worm.

  22. Re:They will fail on Software Libre: DoHS Switches, Commerce Slights · · Score: 4, Funny

    Da Comrade. The Capitalist Swine will fall any day now, overthrown by the will of the people.
    Hey look, a Starbucks opened up down the street.

  23. Re:The best? on The Long-Awaited MOO! · · Score: 1

    Pitty about the third one. J/K

  24. Great idea... on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it breaks they can just go to postgresql.org to get updates and.... oh wait.

  25. Holly batshit fatman..... I mean. on Robin's Report From LWCE · · Score: 3, Funny
    Robin: Holly Beowulf Clusters Batman! There's a start menu on that guys computer.

    Batman: That's right my spandexed teen sidekick. It would seem evil is afoot. Start menus are found in windows, windows are something you look through, you also look through MySQL datasets, datasets like the list of blond jokes I downloaded this morning, jokes are like riddles. THE RIDDLER HAS INFILTRATED THE TRADE SHOW!