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  1. Re:99.999%? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    That's how Chuck Norris can round-house kick everybody without anybody being able to see or record it.

  2. Re:Microblackholes? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    No, a black hole contains dark matter.

    Unless you just had a klysma.

  3. Re:I am a genius on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    No, they would travel at the same speed (speed of light) for an observer.

    From the perspective of the pilot; the bullet can travel at max with the speed of light and the environment he passes with the speed of light would be standing still in time.

    Sounds like a contradiction but it's not.

    For instance. We are traveling through space at an incredible speed, around the core of the milky way. Still the speed of light in all directions is the same. It's called relativity.

  4. Present state of rendering? on Safari 3 vs. Firefox 2 and IE7 · · Score: 1

    This is a year ago:

    I always had troubles creating webpages that looked acceptible in both IE and firefox. And when I managed to let these show the pages like I intended, konqueror positioned everything slightly different. For instance an '#sectionX img:hover {width: XXXpx;}' in CSS gave much trouble. The same with body-margins and the like.
    What is it like nowadays?

  5. Re:That's easy on Which ISPs Are Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    You have a twisted world perspective anonymous boy.

  6. IRC logs on Which ISPs Are Spying On You? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Slightly offtopic, but ...

    I seldom spend time on IRC.

    Two weeks ago I was on #debian.

    I asked the people if the conversations get logged.

    Nobody present could tell me.

    Is there a place when you can look up such things?

  7. Re:Cool on Vacation Photos That Inform Instead of Bore · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not known for liking Microsoft, but check Photosynth:

    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

  8. Misread on first sight on Historic Shuttle Spacesuits to Meet Fiery End · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Historic Shuttle Spacesuits to Meet Fiery End"

    Who also though on first sight that it was about Shuttleworth and Feisty Fawn?

  9. Re:oblig... on Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX · · Score: 3, Funny

    That was user error.

  10. Origami on Touch Sensitive Paper With Built-In Speakers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Making a tweeting bird that moves it's eyes and responds to you touching it and all from a single digital paper.

  11. Re:Intel - The Software Company on Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Who else do you want developing a compiler but the people who made the hardware it's running on."

    You mean like nvidia making nvidia drivers for linux?

  12. Re:Risk what you can do without on RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs · · Score: 1

    Ah I see; you've never been a poor student and are quite the opposite of the audience I was talking to.

    "So for those who do not have the luxury that the poster has"

    I'd better use 2$ a week that I save to pay off debts.

  13. Re:Risk what you can do without on RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs · · Score: 1

    No, I'm converting VOB files on HD.

    And burn my favourite movies to not lose them.

  14. Risk what you can do without on RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs · · Score: 1

    I have a lot of data (500 GB of music/movies/pictures/wallpapers/audiobooks/ebooks ; filled to the last GB)

    I'm a student and I do not have the money for redundant storage.

    I rsync my documents and pictures over the two drives and burn my favourite movies to DVD. I use ffmpeg to turn DVDs into Xvids and oggenc to turn flacs into ogg q5s.

    If I lose one of the harddrives; that's life.

    So for those who do not have the luxury that the poster has; make sure that you backup what is really important and risk what you can do without.

  15. Three years of problems on Insight Into AMD's Linux Driver Development · · Score: 1

    I've had three nvidia videocards (one that is onboard) and one ati.

    I've always had, and still have problems with them when I use the proprietary drivers under linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Slackware, both packed and from the nvidia site). A few months back I just gave up and stopped blaming it on the videocards and drivers since I seemed to be the only person whose screen froze up upon switching to terminal mode and back.

    The onboard videocard gives the same problems and I have exactly zero problems when using the slow open source drivers from x.org. That's why I excluded the posibility of my motherboard being broken.

    Is there anybody; a single person who had the same problems or could anybody smarter than me tell me what I overlook?

  16. Re:I'm not from America on Pro-ODF Legislation Loses In Six States · · Score: 1

    "..., and stop fucking with people"

    That 's the latest form of population controll?

  17. Re:Official "In Soviet Russia..." thread on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 2, Funny

    I Soviet Russia, Siberia includes you!

  18. Re:And what do you buy with that currency? on Online Reputation Is Hard To Do · · Score: 1

    This is a bit offtopic I must say but it just came to my mind because of your post.

    A week ago I was impressed by somebody's (who I will not name) post so I read his previous post on different subjects. Although he almost got modded down as often as up, I was impressed by his honesty. He dare to say things that I'm quite certain other people would not say, just because they are afraid to offense people or be modded down for other reasons. His posts were more insightful than they appear.

    The next thing that came to me is that he got a chance of being threathened by people who can't stand or understand some things he said. So I tried to see if he left a trail on the internet.

    Amongst many other sites I found his personal website.

    There he explained that he keeps his real life seperated from his online life. The site did not say if he did it out of precousion.

    I think anonymity on the internet is a great thing and could give people the chance to really get the chance to communicate with no boundries.

    Makes me think; how is the 'freenet project' doing?

  19. I'm not from America on Pro-ODF Legislation Loses In Six States · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm from Europe and don't know too much about the different states of America.

    But when I read the summation of state names that rejected ODF it rang a bell.

    Are these some of the most republican states?

  20. Re:Yet at my job on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    Because I like to use Ncurses based apps and use Abiword (kinda like Word 97) for wordprocessing when possible.

    I use mc (midnight commander) a lot; it's like norton commander (since '86).

  21. Re:How about 'neither'? on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    Since you didn't follow the link I put in my little post; let me spell it out for you.

    wikipedia.org:
    "The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated to RTF) is a proprietary document file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange."

  22. Re:Yet at my job on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    Word Perfect 5.1 and MS Office 97.

    Why oh why did we ever buy any office suits after these?

    The world would be a better place if all energy would have been put in maintaining these and having them interoperating.

  23. Re:Doc Formats? on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    Did you ever receive PDF's with diagrams and images and had to merge them together and edit them?

    PDF would worse.

  24. Re:It's always a surprise on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm quite sure that some of the brightest minds would not want to spend time to juggle with Tex. They have better research to do.

  25. Re:How about 'neither'? on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1