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  1. Re:Signing on Whistle While You Work · · Score: 1

    I don't think it will be too long before computers will be able to interface with the brain enough to replace either the sense of hearing or sight. I've seen some remarkable articles about artificial eyes. It would seem to me to be easier to create a sound sensor for most deaf people. Many still have some limited hearing via bone conduction. A transducer inside the ear stimulting the nerves directly might not be that far fetched.

  2. Re:Dumbfounded by the Feebleness on Whistle While You Work · · Score: 1

    How do you know space is a vacumn, have you been there to test it? How do you really know for sure that all the space walks and such on television were real? Take the blue pill.

  3. Re:Puckers up on Whistle While You Work · · Score: 1

    I don't know about heard, but it was sensed.

  4. Re:The historical importance of SCO on SCO News Roundup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's Mormon Vs. Mormon

  5. Re:Where does the power come from? on Epson Creates Tiny Flying Robot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Power: 3.5 V
    Power consumption: 3 W
    Wireless module/control units: About 2.5 g
    Sensors: About 0.9 g
    Mechanism: About 5.1 g
    Total weight: About 8.9 g

    Seems to me it would have to be tethered
    2.5+5.1+0.9=8.5g
    Anyone know of a battery that can provide 3.5V @ 3W and only weighs .4 grams?

  6. Re:oracle on Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison · · Score: 1
    Windows still runs the most servers

    Better check your facts!

    Most servers huh? Look again!

  7. Re:Out-Open-Sourcing Open Source on Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published · · Score: 1

    Pointy Haired Boss

  8. Chesapeake Public Schools on What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen? · · Score: 1

    In 1999 I was looking for a job in Hampton Roads Virginia. Chesapeake schools advertised for a Systems Admin with a 4 year Degree in CS or IS, MCSE & Solaris Certifications minimum. Salary: $10 - $24k depending on experience!

  9. Re:wierd dimensions - Oragami on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 1

    Fold it into a cube, or a bird your choice.

  10. If Linus needs a defense fund on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He's got my donation anytime!

  11. A ./ record on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    The site was down before the first post hit ./! That's got to be some kind of record.

  12. Re:What I've found on Ars Technica Posts Panther Review · · Score: 1

    Take a deep breath, relax and let go of the hate. It was a positive post. Not everyone can care about everything you do. That's why we have individual personalities and don't have a need to form a hive.

  13. Re:OT: vegetative state on Kylix in Limbo · · Score: 0

    Except if he divorces her his parents control 1.5 Million dollars won from a judgement on "her" behalf! He's no f#%Ckin hero. Most people never look at that part!

  14. PASCAL on Kylix in Limbo · · Score: 0

    Wasn't Delphi a pascal compiler? I was showed pascal in a class in languages. But I recieved much more education on C++, Java, Assembler and perl. My CS degree was almost all C++ & Java! I downloaded the trial version of Kylix, I didn't like it at all. I had a much easier time with C++, QT & KDevelop. And with eclipse, I can't see any reason for Delphi. Now Builder for Linux with either GTK-- or QT would rock.

  15. Re:OT: vegetative state on Kylix in Limbo · · Score: 0

    Well then as a doctor you should know that the brain has a remarkable ability to rewire itself. The husband has been told that with special therapy she could even learn to feed herself. Her husband recieved 1.5 Million to get that therapy for her. To this date he has not spent any money therapy only for lawyers. Her parents believe that the husband has a 1.5 Million dollar reason to see her dead. She is not on life support, just a feeding tube. Do you know what dehydration and starvation feels like? I almost died from it and it is the most horrible way I can think of dying except for servere burns and infection dragging on as long. This is not a right to die case, it's a right to kill case! Here on ./ people always complain when people don't read the articles. Well look at the whole case not just the soundbites from the right to die crowd. Their are alot better mascots for their cause. I support the right to die, but I can't support euthanasia!

  16. Re:Yeah but.... on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine a beowulf .....

  17. Re:Never create what you can't control. on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 1

    It was a joke! The line is from the trailer for the new Galactica series.

  18. Never create what you can't control. on Killing Cancer With a Virus · · Score: 0, Funny
    Numerous other third party studies show that the reovirus should be an important discovery in the treatment of 2/3 of all human cancers."

    Until it mutates into a deadly pathogen!

  19. Re:Holy shit! on Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE · · Score: 3, Informative
    Kylix, by Borland. This works great if your a c++ programmer. You can also take your apps direct from Visual Studio and use Visual MainWin. Visual MainWin is an enterprise-class application-porting platform that enables software developers to develop C++ applications on Windows using Visual Studio and deploy them on Unix and Linux. If your a visual basic developer, there is Phoenix Object Basic

    Or you could do what I did and buy a Qt programming book from orielly and just start using kdevelop. You can also develop your application in java using eclipse. A good place to start would also be using the tk libraties for perl, tkinter for python or tcl/tk. Oreilly has books on all of these.

  20. Re:GNU/First GNU/Post on Openfiler Storage Management Software GPL'd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shut GNU/mouth GNU/jabroney ---The GNU/Rock

  21. Re:Why? on Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Exactly! I love the new service, it allows me to download only the songs I want and burn them to cd. And play it anywhere! I'm not sure if could take the resulting wav files off the cd and then make an ogg file therby removing any DRM. I've never tried it, the resultant copy would most like be inferior to the source anyway.

  22. Worlds Largest Online Football Pool on Computers, Unemployment and Wealth Creation · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unfortunately it will have to be run offshore!

  23. Re:Huh? on Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed · · Score: 2

    No the Application Binary Interface (ABI) is the ELF format. They wanted to run linux apps without the need to recompile. Most OS's are only compliant with a subset of POSIX, I'm not sure how completely compliant linux is. There has been alot of information out about SCO's Linux Personality Kit (LPK), they have to have a complete distribution of GNU/Linux libraries in /Linux and they chroot linux processes to that. In addition they actually copy the shared library from linux to be able to use the ELF format.

  24. Re:In soviet Russia on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know about russia, but in redmond washington software owns you!

  25. Re:Rock? on Linux Kernel Benchmarking: 2.4 vs. 2.6-test · · Score: 1

    The author makes reference to it at the top of the page before the numbers. The actual figures are in the full benchmark link to in the message.