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  1. Re:Solid Case on Bulkregister Sues Verisign Over Marketing Campaign · · Score: 1

    Heck they even slam there own customers!

  2. Re:For everyone saying "I don't like Celine Dion" on Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs · · Score: 1

    Are you sure on the ATOC CD? Not the one I found.

  3. Wonder what Amazon and Buy.com would say... on Under Attack by PanIP's Patent Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    Along with IBM how about running this by Amazon and Buy.com? They have forms, pictures, automatic services and a ton of legal people that would be put to use on this item. If they get presedent here then after a while it will affect the big boys.

    Reminds me of the mess that occured about interactive CD rom stuff from 93 or 94. It was tossed out very quickly when the big boy found out and figure out the whole thing.

  4. Build your own projector! on Arprotek e-Cube/gBox Barebones Review · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A few items bacck on /. is an article-thread on a DYI video projector. Now if you could combine this with that in one box.... :)

  5. Re:Why Bother Projecting the LCD on Homebrewed LCD Projectors · · Score: 1

    Was thinking the same thoughts. Sony has had the Glasstron for a few years and I think Olympus has the same thing. Wait a minute! There was some game company that went out that had some glassses that were set up for a game system or computer! Bet they are on ebay right now.

  6. Re:Whats to stop me... on Homebrewed LCD Projectors · · Score: 1

    Yep heat is the problem. Most of the pannels have special back glass to protect from heat and have colling fans.

  7. Re:Cool projection? on Homebrewed LCD Projectors · · Score: 1

    Hum. the number of LED would make it more expensive than a regular projector.

    If you want cool light put the lights in a seperat compartment cooled by its own fan. IE pipe the light in. The box with the LCD must be either silver or pure white inside to not turn light into heat. Any dark spot will generate heat.

    I love these "why not concepts!" Keeps the mind active and thinking.

    A very long time ago though of mounting a monitor over a photocopier to make a printer.

  8. Re:Orwellian Prognostication on UK Home Office plan: ID Chips in Everything · · Score: 1

    How about Fahrenheit 451?

  9. Re:8086? Why not V90? on NASA Parts Scroungers Resort To eBay For Parts · · Score: 1

    I though the V90 was a 8088 emulator? It had 5% speed increase due to hard wire . Used one in a crummy Tandy 1000ex to try to help that pile of junk. Funny the base unit had no DMA untill you added some stuped board inside. Without it it rand at half of 4.7mhz!

  10. Wonder what an RCA 1802 is worth on NASA Parts Scroungers Resort To eBay For Parts · · Score: 1

    The 1802 was used in voyager. Should say the one on non standar substrate. Last time I check the elf still fire up and work. Even have a Southwest Tecinical Products/ SSB that also fire up.

    Wow I have a lot of those ancient 8086 around. :)

    If you think this is funny check what it take to work in the engine area of a shuttle. its a plumer nightmare back there!

  11. Re:Superman's cape. on Comic Book Physics · · Score: 1

    Actualy the description of super ccompression of his civies and his cape goes as this: Circa 1970 and before:

    His sute is treated with a special chemical as long as it blue color it will compress. That is the reason give { Really black is harder to create with the three pigmented ink they use for comics. ;) } for only wearing blue suits in the series.

    His cape is not made of earth fabric but from part of the blanket he was wraped in from Kripton. Same for his Superman suite, belt and boots. So it as supper as he is so it does not rip super stretches or get tosses into a ball.

    Actualy check the from 1970 through around 1980 for stories based on his cape and the civies. The main write did a great job of filling in details in a very intersting way. There was one on a creature that grab his civies and one based on some one stealing his cape. There is always the field he generates to handle mass and velosity that would be kind of like being in the ey of the storm so to speek.

    There was also a story in Jimmy Olsen about the Planet of the Capes { around 1967~1970 ] that cover a bit more on capes.

  12. Re:Dont get excited on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    That would be even better! Would eat fuel but great for air shows if it was the Jet powered one!

    Just think of that flying around under the Confederate Air Force banner! Sitting next to the B17 they fly around! Wow! :)

  13. Re:...and COD being? on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The poor UPS man! Ouch! Wonder if he would leave it by the front door?

  14. Wait a minute!!! A greate Idea! on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Hey! The US has four shuttles. Why dont they buy this one? Heck it does make sense. They have been trying to create a rescure boat to remove crew quickly from the station. The Russans were going to do it but dont have the cash. The US is muddling their way and nothing yet.

    With out a device to transport more than three astronauts quickly back to earth they can only have three for a station design for seven people! This would be a way to do it!

  15. You shipment is on it way! :) on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Hello Comrade!

    Just wanted to let you know that your order have shipped and is on the way to your door:

    item sku 76982694538275677-007 Quanity 1 Russian Buran space shuttle
    This item is in route and will be there in the next hour or so. Unless its shot out of the sky.

    If you have any questions regarding this or any other order, please feel free to contact us at
    https://www.UsedSovietSpaceHardware.com.

    You can check Norad for any tracking concerns you have on your shipment. Just ask for "Unknown Flying Object Division".

    Thank you for your order!

    PS: We are having a sale on tourist class trips to the international space station next month. Only 19 million US dollars.

  16. Re:this isn't the first time on California to Cancel Oracle Deal · · Score: 1

    You forgot the paylola from the guard union stuff just a few months back. :)

    Also the comments on the Orcal thing is that it wont work on the computer systesm and its already outdated.

    One time I could buy...
    Two time I am suspect...
    Three strikes and your out!

  17. Re:has anyone noticed... on Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Printer Industry? · · Score: 1

    They still are around. Saw some at ComUsless the other day.

  18. Re:Printing... on Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Printer Industry? · · Score: 1

    Like you, I have an old Epson 570 just for that task. It impossible for graphics but pure test it was a speed deamon.

    I cant even count the time I ran printouts down hallways. Love using doors to hang long printouts. Basically spooled from one box into another back and forth.

    I remember one time at the start of a conversion project the other party drop a fanfold box of paper that had the complet source printout on the stuff to convert. ;)

    A long time ago ther was a laser that would take fanfold paper of all things. Cant remember who made it but was one strange looking beast!

  19. Re:It's about QA on Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Printer Industry? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry. Epson uses a seperate ink tank system for years. Both the acient Stylus Color Pro and other ones up through the hardware they cooked up for the Rolland's Cammjet.

    HP uses an explosive heating of the ink to blast it onto the paper. One reason why it tough to use pigmented ink with Hp heads without reducing the live down to nothing. Also the ink must be the right mix to allow it to be heated to create a bubble and be expelled.

  20. I have been wating for this to hit! on Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Printer Industry? · · Score: 1

    The concept is the same as razor blades concept of Gilette. Give the handles away but make them pay through the noise for the replacements.

    Its been this way since day one. If you check, the markup on printers is almost next to nothing.

    The wide format color printers Graftech, Roland, HP etc use seperate refillable ink tanks. Just empty boddle of ink in like the old xrox copiers. The really big electrostatic jobs around 1/2 to 2 million dollar size use direct pickup from gallon cans of paint.

    If you want to freek, add up the cost per page for the Epson C80. Sheeck! The black cart is 30 dollars and the other three total are about 36 dollars. It pop up at 10 cents a sheet using the 5% figures they have.

    For giggle try this. Tiger Direct had a sale of by three cart get referb printer for free a few weeks ago!

    I am wondering when the trully disposable printer will pop up. All the drive would be from the host computer. We are near that on some of these printers.

  21. Re:PT Barnum was right! on The Magic Box Hoax · · Score: 1

    Sounds right.

    If its too good to be true then it is. :)

  22. PT Barnum was right! on The Magic Box Hoax · · Score: 1

    A very intersting story. So this guy invented coax and vcr huh. ;)

    I forgot the exact phrase from Barnum but its goes like: "One born every minute". Or the one from a WC Fields old move: "Never give a sucker an even break!"

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    You can infinitly compress data down to nothing super easy.... It pulling it back out that hard. ;)

  23. Marvel Comics beat them to this! on Viruses Enlisted as Nano-builders · · Score: 1

    I remember an old 1968 or 1969 Marvel comic either Fantastic Four or Iron Man comic where the main character had to build a device and uses conducting microbes, program to move to a certain place and die. This created the layout of this device to activate some gateway. It may have been the Fantastic Four with help from Tony Stark.

  24. Re:A Smart Company.... on Attack of the Clones to Cost Economy $300m · · Score: 1

    In truth dont all companies do that? We do here. I am the boss and love the idea as a great perk!

    At the last major company I work at we took off for Terminator 2, Star Trek, Aladdin and Jurasic park. But we were working almost 24 hours a day at that place!

  25. Re:Old hat on Touchscreen Watch · · Score: 1

    Casio had one of those touch stile watches almost ten years ago for about 250 I think.

    Nothing new here.