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  1. Time to look back.. on 3D Visualization of Linux Kernel Development · · Score: 5, Funny

    And see what got +5's the last time this was posted and then claim them as my own, its the perfect plan to rebuild my karma.
    Unless this gets modded down as a troll, then I'm screwed once more.

  2. Re:Like we get the scifi channel down under not! on Children Of Dune Tonight · · Score: 1

    I have the Dune MiniSeries DVD in my Hand right now. And unless I hit the spice really hard last week I do recall purchasing it from a JB Hi-Fi in Birsbane, now I may be going insane but you can also rent the series on VHS and DVD from a couple of Video stores around here (Video Ezy at Kenmore used to have it, I haven't been there in a while, everyone not in Brisbane just ignore this).
    However this may just be Brisbane.
    Unless you don't want to pay for them($65Aus), then you are screwed I am afraid.
    You are right about all the other things however when it comes to Sci-Fi, Australia is waay behind and due to our wonderful Broadband fees(you want how much for a 3gig Cable plan??) we can't even use P2P to get what will never be shown here, I want my Farscape!!

  3. Re:Underground Networking on Can Game Developer Unrest Lead to Revolution? · · Score: 1

    The biggest obstacle to this of course is procrastination. Has anyone had success in this area..? How did you meet your goal?

    I'll tell you tommorrow, I'm busy helping CowboyNeil iron my socks(long story).

  4. Re:Like evolution you mean? on Seven Rules For Spotting Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    ....Do you consider the existence of other stars besides the Sun to be "anecdotal evidence" because no one can create a star in a lab?

    Exibit A: Britney Spears.

    The defense rests..

  5. Dance Dance. on Quake II Mods for Engineering Students · · Score: 2, Informative

    Whilst not a science or even in the opinions of some people a real educational subject, there was some discusion a while back about Dance-Dance Revolution being used in Gym classes to encourage Co-Ordination and exercise.

  6. Re:What Is The Animatrix? on Second Episode of The Animatrix Released · · Score: 1

    ...and thanks to the slashdot effect that ain't going to happen for a while.

  7. Re:Slashdotted already......... on Second Episode of The Animatrix Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ausgamers have a mirror up already, only for Windows guys not Mac and they only have the highest quaility one, but its still good.

  8. Re:I love my Trench Coat on Half Mast · · Score: 1

    "I'm sure it would have been a lot funnier if i did have a gun. I would of liked to see the look on their faces when they were staring down a shotgun barrel."

    I think that the moderators are too scared to mod you down....sir.

  9. Re:When the revolution comes... on Ask ISP Owner Barry Shein About the Spam Wars · · Score: 1

    You forgot the obvious.

    E) CowboyNeil was already up against the wall.

  10. Re:Can I complain to Yahoo about MSN??? on Dave Stutz's Parting Advice To Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are you talking about?

    Almost all the MSN portals work in the latest version of Opera, although I have to admit they seem to be in Sweedish for some apparent reason....

  11. I get four a week. on NYTimes: Tangled Up in Spam · · Score: 1

    The trick is to have 2 email addresses(I used to have 3 but the company hosting the third one went belly up). Private and Public, on the public one put everything, password confirmation, slashdot details, EVERYTHING, give this to all your friends, never check it, you don't have the time to wade through them all.

    The other one(private) don't give it to anyone, never reply to anything sent to it and if asked deny ever having regestered it.

    The first will get about 400 SPAMs a day, the second, only about 4 a week.

    And thats how you beat the internet.

  12. Re:Ok, reality check... on Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ..especially when Kubrik and Clark started to disagree towards the end.

    The reality was that Clark wanted it on one of Saturns moons(for the life of me I can't remember which one) because it had the unique trait of being brighter when seen from differant sides of Saturn and having an unexplainable black dot in the very center of it or something which was meant to be TMA-2(forgive me please for every error in that sentence I haven't read the book in a very long time) Kubrick wanted it on Jupiter because making Saturn out of models and making it look real(non-tacky) would have been very expensive and couldn't have worked anyway and that a floating TMA-2 would have been more visually impressive against the backdrop of Jupiter.

    It wasn't so much a disagreement, the two were good friends based on most accounts, as an understanding that the two mediums would have to be differant to portray the vision that they each had.

    The follow-up books(2010, 2061 and 3001) were pretty good although the 2010 movie wasn't as good as it could have been (the Russians wern't as human as the books made them out to be, instead portrayed as near robots, curse you cold war, curse you).

  13. Re:wahhh?? on Why Does Manga Succeed Where American Comics Fail? · · Score: 1

    Manga is a comic style popular in Japan, published on cheap paper in large books and sold for a few dollars.
    Its also the name of an Anime company that distributes soome shows around the world.

    Anime is the animated television shows often based on these, shown on television and traded throughout the net.

    There is a very, very, very big differance and you may not have known that these exist, so this is just a heads up.

    Also you missed Invader Zim.

  14. My plans... on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 1

    Reformat the Hard Drive filled with pr0n.

    And then start the quest to fill it once more.

  15. Re:Get used to it... on DVD: Degradable Versatile... · · Score: 1

    Its a good thing that the government is making it illegal for Americans to copy DVDs and protect the important interests of our hollywood elite now isn't it. Otherwise people might be able to actually preserve the Products that they paid for. I'll admit I'm from Australia, thus this won't affect my until our government get bought out by our benevolent overlords. PS The bidding is starting any day now.

  16. Re:Obvious on Top Ten Software Innovators? · · Score: 1
    You haven't been here very long have you?

    The CowboyNeal option always goes at the very end!

  17. Re:not what you think on Myst MMOG Details Announced · · Score: 1
    I'm a big myst fan so i've been following this game since it was titled mudpie.

    I'm a bigger fan, I've been following it since it was called 'Get some dirt and water.'

  18. Re:This is getting silly on RIAA nominated for "Internet Villain of the Year" · · Score: 1

    Also, let's not forget their journalistic bullshit, like claiming that 4x CD burners are the equivalent of 4 CD burners

    Shut up man I'm trying to sell my PC on eBay according to those stats, yes it has a 15 gig.. I mean 800 gig Hard drive, 40 burners and 12 gigs of ram.

    And three cases.

  19. Re:One mistake by the author on Still More RIAA News · · Score: 1

    In a street market in Thailand I saw MS Office and NT Server for $20 (with activation keys)

    I've always wanted a nice coaster, only $20 you say?

  20. Re:Arthur C. Clarke... on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Maybe if he had invented a spellchecker for slashdoters he might have made even more money.

  21. Re:waiting on Online Game Cluster · · Score: 5, Funny

    During the standard slash/dot.ing period, the cluster probably serves about two Quake players at max.

    And knowing online gamers, one will be cheating and the other camping.

  22. I'm guessing... on Just One Page a Day · · Score: 1, Funny

    "The Road Ahead" will not be included, at least in this round of distributed OCRing.

  23. Re:Fritz' hit list on New Anti-Circumvention Rulemaking Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I don't expect them to be so liberal, though.

    Why not they are with Patent Applications.

  24. Re:Go ahead and Jump on DRM in Real-Time and Embedded Systems · · Score: 1

    1. Most military gear does not use off the shelf CPUs. An example - F/A-18E/F - while SuperHornet uses armored Cat-6 cables and PowerPC chips, they are specially made hardened chips for military and commercial sat applications. F/B-22 uses 486s as does F-15E but they are special 486s that come out just for military applications. If you sell a part to the US military for a system, you must produce that system for 15 more years. Since the new F-15Es for the US/Israel/Korea are just delivering now, one can expect 486s without DRM for a while, since F-22 may be in it's current model production until 2011, expect 486s until 2026.

    I never knew Tom Clancy posted to Slashdot :).

  25. Re:Who is Janis Ian again? on Fallout from the Internet Debacle · · Score: 1
    Shes in the background of that clip by Spinal Tap: "The Majesty of Rock."

    Also famous for her earlier works in modern folk and alternative music, shes been at the lower end of the entertainment industry for most of the last 20 years and still sells albums from her website while ducking the Slashdot effect every few months.

    As for representatives for P2P systems its sad that the only people willing to embrace it are either relative unknowns(garage bands and the likes) or just inappropriate spokespersons for such an important technological debate(Love) but Janis is still pretty good, shes remembered fondly by the people that made her famous back then and respected by her musical peers.

    I guess she's better than no-one at all.