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  1. Re:Marathon... on Industry Folks Talk Underrated Games · · Score: 1

    Except a lot of those Mac gamers made their way into the broader game community, and have been telling everyone within earshot how great Marathon was for the last 10 years...

    It's funny because it's true.

  2. Re:First launch! on Arianespace Ready for Liftoff · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only commercial vehicle that can lose two mainstream telecommunications satellite payloads on the same mission. ;)

  3. Re:Cracking passphrase-based keys on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 1

    A number of encryption methods implement this. A quick search found StegFS and TrueCrypt. The idea is to simply hide an encrypted filesystem within another encrypted FS. With StegFS it is, as far as I understand it, cryptographically unfeasible to prove the existance of a hidden encrypted filesystem.

  4. Re:Pardon the obvious... on How Long to Crack an 'Encrypted' HD? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Quoth the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms:
    Article 6 Right to a fair trial
    1. [entitlement to a fair and public trial]
    2. Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.
    3. [...]
  5. Re:Really? Given notebook hard drives on Intel PowerBook Rumor Mill · · Score: 1

    7200 rpm laptop drives are becoming available now. Not exactly what you'd want in an ultraportable, but fine for desktop replacements and also for HTPCs. Capacity per buck is terrible, though.

  6. Re:Short Skirts on UK Female Sci-Fi Viewers Now Outnumber Males · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Star Trek isn't just TOS, and neither Xena nor Buffy are sci-fi. That is all.

  7. Re:Meta post on Two Megapixel Cameraphone Shootout · · Score: 1

    Those don't have any value really - if you look at them later on, you'll always just think "damn, I wish I had used a real camera back then".

    I don't know about you, but I'm not carrying a digital camera with me everywhere. Not yet, anyway, and I'm not excited about increasing the number of electronic gadgets I have with me all the time to three. So the choice isn't really bad shots versus good shots, it's either bad photos or no photos at all. And yes, you've got that right, it is handy to take snapshots of stuff, even if they suck.

  8. Re:Not for the weak on Overclocked Radeon Card Breaks 1 GHz · · Score: 1

    It's pretty cold, but it's also fairly well isolated, with space being, well, a vacuum. The only way for heat to escape is via thermal radiation, ie. slowly.

  9. Re:LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD Brothers and Sisters!!! on Recommend a Tech Toys Bag? · · Score: 1

    I can't quite decide if you're mocking me or if you're taking my own mockery with a light heart... WRT (another one to look up?) my nickname, I wish there was some way to change it, but short of losing my friend/foe list, my history and of course my precious karma I guess I am stuck with what I came up with years ago. (Oh and this is horribly OT, etc etc.)

  10. Re:I think you nailed it. on Why Have PDAs Failed In The iPod Era? · · Score: 1

    I only use my PDA for reading. 1 read a book a week...how long did it take to pay itself off? Considering that books are about $6 apiece, and that my PDA is $170 retail, it took just over half a year before it started to pay for itself.

    Wait, so you're saying you aren't paying for those ebooks? Project Gutenberg aficionado, eh? Riiight.

  11. Re:Wiki on How To (Really) Share A Simple Calendar? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you might have to revise it again and again, if people keep getting their changes in. Happened to me a few times on Wikipedia (running MediaWiki) when editing current topics or community pages like Articles For Deletion. On MediaWiki you wouldn't need to split the calendar into multiple pages, multiple sections which can be edited individually would do the job. It's a perfectly viable solution for small groups and light usage, not so good for large groups or very heavy usage. We determined a common time slot for a weekly meeting recently on our wiki, worked fine.

  12. Re:LIGHTEN YOUR LOAD Brothers and Sisters!!! on Recommend a Tech Toys Bag? · · Score: 1

    AND I don't look like a total jackass wearing a leather coat in the summer!

    That's true, but you still manage to look like an ass by calling yourself an Alpha Geek/Yoga teacher and using really odd emoticons like "(:-{p}". Or is that some arcane programming language of the late Seventies, grampa? ;) SCNR.

  13. Re:Better than the corn growers on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 1

    Heh. Sounds like a hoax to me. The Arts are free to display the Hitler salute (and the swastika and so on), and all the movies on that era do so. But you're not allowed to do it yourself, in public, under certain circumstances. I know I know, that's a limitation of freedom of speech -- I'm just reporting here, not taking a stance.

  14. Re:Note to developers on Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches · · Score: 1

    One person's bloat is another person's most sensible feature. You want spellcheck in input boxes, I couldn't care less about that. I'm sure you don't want your browser to do email, I'm quite happy that I don't have to use another application for that.

  15. Re:Missed the Point on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hilarious! :) You forgot the obligatory iPod flop prediction though: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

  16. Re:Missed the Point on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 1

    No, you'll have to convert them. This typically has two downsides: it takes a while, and re-compressing an already lossy format lieds bad results. However, the latter isn't as big a problem as it usually is, since the AVIs you might have typically are in a higher resolution than the iPod plays. This should help making compression artifacts hard to notice.

  17. Re:Usefulness? on AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    X is carrying is still passive. X carries is better.

    The first sentence isn't a passive construction. It's just progressive aspect.

  18. Shocking News on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity · · Score: 1

    Sadly, Brig. Gen. Harold Relativity was not available for comments.

  19. Re:And in 10 years... on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Science just isn't definite these days, is it?

    Maybe.

  20. Re:2.0? on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to Wikipedia: The first widely-distributed version of GNU Emacs was 15.34, which appeared in 1985. (Versions 2 through 12 never existed. Earlier versions of GNU Emacs had been numbered "1.x.x", but sometime after version 1.12 the decision was made to drop the "1", as it was thought the major number would never change. Version 13, the first public release, was made on March 20, 1985.)

  21. Re:an australian viewpoint... on Mystery Australian Big Cat Shot · · Score: 1

    Any army of a country part of NATO could reasonably be referred to as a NATO army, to imply that the army complies with some NATO standards. It's also reasonable to use "the NATO army I was part of" to refer to one specific army of a country part of NATO without divulging which country, although it's probably not correct to simply refer to "the NATO army" without further specification since there is no single NATO army as such, I guess.

  22. Re:Somebody hunt down their web master and beat hi on Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome' · · Score: 1

    Why would you have an HTML form to enter input data for a Flash application. If you have Flash, use the Flash form element, if you don't have Flash what's the point of entering anything.

    That said, there actually is a valid reason and maybe, just maybe that is what you were thinking of, namely accesability. I don't know how easily blind or otherwise disabled people can use Flash forms, but it's most likely far more inconvenient than HTML forms.

    Anyway, Flash is horrible if it's used incorrectly. But for small games and stuff like this, it's great. The only viable alternative, I guess, would have been a Java applet, and I think I prefer Flash. Or maybe a standalone application.

  23. Re:Meaning of "Satellite" on New Tenth Planet Has a Moon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Etymology is amusing, but it's really fairly irrelevant when it comes to the actual, current meaning.

  24. Dell Ultrasharp 2405FPW on PC World's 100 Best Products of 2005 · · Score: 1

    This 24" wide-screen panel made the list - I'm currently looking into buying the relatively affordable smaller kin of this, namely the 2005FPW - any current owners got any thought about it?

    (Sorry for veering a bit off-topic.)

  25. Re:"I don't think that means what you think it mea on Office 12 to Include Native PDF Support · · Score: 1

    Acrobat Reader is slow because it comes with a crapload of plugins used only extremely rarely. Remove them and it's great. The copy/paste abilities are really good with the most recent version, came in handy recently.