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  1. Re:$700 - That's a it steep for what it is on Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? · · Score: 2

    If cable, internet, and utilities are included then it becomes a much more reasonable price

  2. Re:Rubbish (pun intended) on Recycling Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Lead based paint may be illegal for some uses, but the lines on roadways/highways are pretty much all lead paint

  3. Re:Ironic, isn't it on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    guessing you never heard of Arabic Numberals, its cool if you look at how they are derived from the number of angles that make up the symbol that stands for the number it represents

  4. Re:Size matters? on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    From my experience in the datacenter where I work, the failure rate on 2.5" drives has been way higher than 3.5" (granted all of the drives we use are 15k vs the 7200/5400/4200 rpm ones commonly put in laptops). The 2.5" drives we've used fail at a rate of at least 2-3 times higher than our 3.5" ones. On the flip side, we can fit way more of them in a rack and the power requirements are lower so its been worth it to keep using them despite the failure rate

  5. Re:Why don't U.S. carriers also use ski-jump? on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    the new Gerald R Ford class will have electromagnetic catapults

  6. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? · · Score: 1

    can always pick up an older tape drive - we picked an LTO-2 drive dirt cheap and new tapes were only around $30 each. The tapes can be read by LTO-2/3/4 drives so gives you a little bit of easier time to recover if your drive ever gets hosed

  7. seamonkey on Firefox Is For "Regular" Users, Not Businesses · · Score: 2

    We currently use Seamonkey as the default mail/browser package in the department I work in and don't seem to be moving away from it anytime soon. We've been very happy with it for years

  8. Re:The pope should just shut the fuck up. on Pope Promotes Christian Netiquette · · Score: 1

    hi, I meet the criteria. Yay for Pizza fridays during Lent (I hate fish)

  9. flash version? on Portal 2 Gets Release Date · · Score: 1

    So is there going to be a Portal the Flash version sequel as well?

  10. Re:Fractured story on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    if they were leaking, then it would be easier for the soviets to find them since they could just go looking for traces of radioactivity in the vicinity of the crash site

  11. Re:Win2k WAS the only high point on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    don't forget about OSR2.5 which also added AGP support, that kept me on 95 for a few extra years

  12. Re:Needles, Haystacks, and Money on Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 · · Score: 1

    At $750 per month for a wiretap thats $566 million per month if we were to wiretap all these people.

    hmmm, makes me wonder if congress will bring back the money for evil bill to help pay for it

  13. Re:Not very accurate on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    It is. I don't have any idea where all this "it sucks crap" comes from

    Try doing something that is disk read/write intensive and you'll find out where what I hate about it comes from - copying 4GB file in XP takes a few minutes - in Vista, close to an hour

  14. Re:Total Annihilation on Ocarina of Time — Best Game Ever? · · Score: 1

    Glad I'm not the only one wondering how Total Annihilation got left off. Amazing game thats considered one of the best RTS games of all time yet no mention of it in the article, thats bs

  15. Re:Not true on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1
    And only the military Hummers last 300K miles the commercial version doesn't even come close

    I would think the diesel ones would last that just fine since its the exact same drivetrain the military uses, its only the sbc (regular gas) commercial version of the h1 I would question longevity on, but there arent nearly as many of those around.

  16. Re:flops per processor on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 1

    If you want to look at per cpu performance, look down around #69-70 and notice Hitachi has one that cranks out 112Gflop per CPU - seems the Apple and Intel ones both have a ways to go to catch up to that

  17. Re:"word processors"???? on Taking a Crack At Recycling E-Waste · · Score: 2, Informative

    besides software word processors, you used to be able to buy hardware ones that were the equivilent of a really fancy typewriter. I know I used one for a year or two before I got my first computer back around 1996

  18. Re:BMI = Worthless on French Scientists Link Higher BMI with Lower IQ · · Score: 1
    Second, actual body fat testing (reliable stuff, not Tanita scales) is expensive.

    since when is a caliper test expensive? I've gotten mine done for free a couple of times. You don't need a bodpod or dunk tank method to get your bodyfat.

    I dont see BMI as useful for 95% of the population either, I'd say its probably useful for about 60-70% tops. Bodyfat % - now that a useful measurement. Women and Men even have different healthy ranges, which makes sense. Lumping them together using BMI is retarded

  19. Re:Perfect time to re-install and re-play on Quake is 10 · · Score: 1
    Left out a few of the other great quake players - heck, of all those Thresh was the only one considered great - the rest of those were merely 'above average'. Coming up with a list of great players, you cant leave out guys like Reptile, KurtZ, Honus, Kleitus, B2, Thorn - heck I can run off a list of 20 more of the great Quake 1 players if you want.

    Most of the Tournaments once it had been out for awhile pretty much ended up being Legends (Thresh, B2, Killjoy, etc) vs Clan Gib (Kurtz, Honus, Gunpwdr, etc) with Postal, Ruthless Bastards, Xtremre Predjudice, and Nightbreed all doing pretty well usually - bunch of other clans that were decent as well and consitantly played good

    The no random respawn brings back memories - it was fun running around on DM6 never letting them have a chance to do anything

  20. Re:That begs the question on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1
    Well, lets do the math

    1 rod = .003125 miles | 1 mile = 320 rods
    1 hogshead = 63 gallons | 1 gallon = 0.01587 hogsheads

    3145 Miles Per Gallon = (3145*320)/0.01587

    1006400/0.01587

    which gives us approximately 63415249 rods to the hogshead. A wee bit better than the 40 rods/hogshead that Grandma Simpon claimed his car got

  21. or Diablo 3 on BlizzCon 2006 Unlikely · · Score: 1

    Diablo and Starcraft seem to be after thoughts at the moment sadly

  22. Re:Were games better with worse graphics? on Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago · · Score: 1
    I'd love to play my old games again. But my 486 recently died, so they don't run anymore. :(

    Check out dosbox - great little 286/386/486 emulator that enables you to run most of your old dos games on modern pc's

  23. Re:Lots of Misinformation here on Slashdot. on RX-8 Hydrogen RE a Dual Fuel Car · · Score: 1
    Mazda is the only japanese manufacturer to win Le Mans

    thats odd, looking throught the class winners history I see Mazda the most out of the Japanese manufacturers, but I also see Nissan twice (1994 GTS, 2000 LMP 675) and Toyota three times (1992/1993 LM Class 2, 1994 LMP C/90)

  24. Re:Uninstall?? on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 1

    thats why you create a GPO that doesn't allow it to run based on the hash value of the program. In a training class I took they said that was one of the most asked things to be shown, so they figured they would add a presentation on how to do it. Doesn't matter where you store it or even if you rename it, it doesn't work when you define the group policy that way

  25. Re:SATA on SCSI vs. SATA In a File Server? · · Score: 1
    unlike those horrific SCA connectors on many SCSI drives

    Horrific? maybe if you are using a 80 to 68 pin adpater and trying to mount them internally, otherwise I've never had a problem with any SCA drive. Every Server I've ever used them had rails on the drive and it would slide and click into place. I dont know how you could have any cabling issues since every Sun, Compaq/HP, and Dell Server that I've ever used that had them just has you slide them into an the array.

    Also, every SCSI connector I've seen that was designed for internal system use had no inherent method of securing it to the device.

    Again, see every just about every Sun, Compaq/HP, or Dell Server made in recent years. They slide in and click in. Sure you have to make sure you have the rails on properly, but thats easy