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  1. of course on Improving Digital Photography · · Score: 1

    and I'm sure they dont use a high quality scanner either

  2. Re:Ring Bearer's License Agreement on Lord of the Rings, as Written By Everyone Else · · Score: 1
    This AGREEMENT does NOT grant you permission to allow others to bear RING, except where circumstances make such a transfer desirable. Such circumstance will be interpreted as a transfer of license, and the new bearer shall be bound by the TERMS put forth in AGREEMENT.

    So didnt Frodo transfer the license to Tom B. then?

  3. Re:There is something wrong here. on U.S. Pushing Conservative Science · · Score: 1
    Persuade teenagers to abstain from sex? You've got to be kidding.

    They should be taught self control in the very least - too many that I know seem to think using a condom makes them immune to any reprocussions. abstainence is an exercise of self control, just taken to the extreme - while it might not be an attainable solution for many of them, teaching them at least some self control isnt such a bad idea.

  4. Re:Why should this surprise anyone? on U.S. Pushing Conservative Science · · Score: 1
    Just one correction:

    saying he (Eisenhower) would decline the nomnation provided Truman did not seek a second term in 1952.

    Actually would've been impossible for him to run since that would've been a 3rd term in '52 - and one year before that the 22nd ammendment was ratified so that truman could run again.

  5. Re:The matrix? on Return of the Independent Game Developer? · · Score: 1
    Can you even simulate the natural world using only mathematics etc?

    Watch the movie Pi - the guy in it has a theory that anything in the world can be represented mathematically

  6. Re:Stop protecting the incompenent Perl programmer on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 1
    Anyone who would willingly choose to program in Perl is absolutely incompetent, and deserves to be out of a job.

    and why should that be? Perl is great for use as a system/network admin. It runs on most platforms, is fast, and if you already know shell should be able to pick up quickly. There are many things we write compiled programs for where I work, but for many tools & scripts - Perl does a great job

  7. Re:Here's an *idea* on The Pentagon, MMORPGs, and Catching Osama · · Score: 1

    I always have wondered how it could be called a war on terror or even linking it to a 'war on Islmic terrorists/fundamentalists' when Bush has almost completely ignored groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Thats one of the reason I think Bush just is using this so called war to push for his personal agenda in Iraq

  8. Re:Spandex on 85 Big Ideas that Changed the World · · Score: 1

    Wearing spandex is a privilage, not a right. Those women in your scenario should've had the privilage revoked

  9. Re:So you don't like Terminator 3, huh? on Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines · · Score: 1
    Yeah, and 36D should be enough for anyone

    I'm gonna hold out and wait for 38GG. I hear that one's gonna be big

  10. Re:Faramir got jobbed (SPOILER) on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1
    I must have missed that part when I read (and re-read) the Return of the King. What was their relationship? (Denethor, if I recall correctly, was the Steward of Gondor, right?)

    If I recall correctly Denethor is steward of gronder, Faramimr is his son - and they, along with Gandalf have the ability to sense things (I dont have the book handy to look it up). Its because they have a line of the old blood, and well, Gandalf is just old and has always had it. Supposedly it is a trait that has always passed down in their family every generation with only one exception: Boromir.

  11. Re:More power to 'em on Hudson River Shipwrecks Secretly Mapped · · Score: 1
    the water is actually a lot cleaner than most people would (rightly) suspect

    only down where near nyc, try swimming up near Troy and you will be exposed to large amounts of PCB's. The water up there is pretty nasty, the only body of water worse in NY is probably onondaga lake

  12. Re:Other problems as well on DOD vs. 802.11b · · Score: 1

    in the data communications class I took in college we looked at cells in planes and even if it didnt hit multiple cells - the planes normally travel too fast for the cellular tower to finish its passing of the signal - so even if altitude werent a problem, high speed tower hopping would still be.

  13. Re:For god's sake!.... on EA As The Next Disney · · Score: 1
    Fuck Disney - they dont represent anything but corporate greed and the fact that the consumer is justa number with a pocketbook full of money that the arebent on liberating you from.....

    But I've heard Michael Eisner is such a nice, caring guy ;)

  14. Re:A wise investment? on Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games · · Score: 1
    You'd be right if you weren't totally wrong. people collect old cars because of their beauty, power, etc. It is not a total function of nostalgia or vicarious vitality. For example, I am only 24 but I would really enjoy a 57 Chevy Bel-air or a 57 Thunderbird. My PARENTS weren't even born then.

    At least from what I have see - the price those 57's are going for is going down, and the price of late 60's/early 70's muscle cars is going up (hemi chargers/challengers/cudas have been going way up in the past few years which follows the previous posters logic). As for Magic cards, What I could get for most of mine (beta-4th edition) the price has gone way down from what I could've gotten a few years ago. Many Rares were reprinted, and the value went down because it was now only worth something because it was rare, not because it was a good card. I used to be able to sell my dual lands for $30 each - now I can get maybe $5-10 if I am lucky

  15. Re:Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy... on Top Ten Most Collectible Video Games · · Score: 1

    Parsec & TI-Invaders are 2 of the greatest games every made. Between those and munchman (the pac man rip off) I spent many hours in front of my old beat up tv that had the TI 99/4A. I still have the games, but my TI has long since been fried

  16. Re:My Christmas Wish for Bill. on Geek Christmas Gift Ideas · · Score: 2, Informative

    bill's married and has kids - I'm sure he hears the 'Hey Bill, wanna go fishing?' from them. Well, maybe more 'hey dad, wanna go fishing' - but its pretty much the same

  17. Re:Not a chance on Critics Pan Nemesis · · Score: 1
    The idea behind Trek is that it's supposed to be fun. You want hard SF, or at least serious SF, look to Solaris (no, not that Solaris, Tarkovsky's Solaris), 2001, or Alien (maybe Pitch Black; though a lot of it smelled like warmed over Ridley Scott, it did have a good idea behind it and some very interesting performances).

    Also for action/sci-fi - go for the alien sequals, predator, total recall. Only problem I had with Pitch Black was they killed Claudia Black :( (but in retrospect, I liked how they showed not all the people you think will survive make it)

  18. Re:About the movie (no spoilers) on Lord of the Rings News from New Zealand · · Score: 1
    of course its the least faithful, the opening scene was cut out and added to a different movie ;)

    But in all honesty, people wouldnt like a strict following of the book format of this one, where the book tells what happens to one group, then the other halfway into the book. I dont think that would translate too well in a film where people will wonder, 'what happened to so and so?' and would not want to wait until an hour into the movie to see some of the charaters for the 1st time

  19. thing i found strange on Amazon Releases 1-Click Patent Sequel · · Score: 1
    was this statement from one of the articles:

    Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos responded to the criticism by calling for patent reform and by sponsoring an organization that investigated dubious patent claims.

    Yet then he goes and files his general common sense business practices as patents, seems like a hypocrite

  20. Re:MPAA should take notice... on Inside One Of the Last Vinyl Record Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    ok, they did make one then, but that was in the late 50's - long before tapes and cds were common, which is my point, would anyone make one now? I'd have to say doubtful

  21. Re:Routing, not Bandwidth is the Last Mile Problem on Dark Fiber: A Case In Point · · Score: 1
    Then, the CO needs to put in routers to handle peak capacity, dump all those Cisco 2500s and buy loads of 7500s, because 45 guys in my neighborhood at 1meg each will overload the existing equipment (Hint: that will cost lots)

    I didnt even know any were still using 2500's. I used to work at a broadband ISP and the smallest thing we had were cisco 7246 ubr's and we had TONS of them. We also had about a dozen or so 12000 series. This was about 2 years ago when I left, from what I've heard, they more than doubled the number of 12000's they had

  22. Re:MPAA should take notice... on Inside One Of the Last Vinyl Record Manufacturers · · Score: 1
    its not that much harder to rip, the record player runs through the receiver which can output sound to the computer - simply record from sound input. I even had to do it for my parents old LP collection when their player broke and they wanted to still be able to listen to everything.

    Also - why would they even think to go back to vinyl? Can you make a portable LP player? you think anyone would ever seriously create an in dash LP player? cd's and tapes were portable, which is one reason they won out in the end

  23. Re:With that salary... on New Mad Max Film · · Score: 1

    maybe he'll dontate some of the $ to the Halls of Justice to buy a few more V8 Interceptors ;)

  24. Re:A Letter to Mr. Jackson on Psst! Eight Bits Gets You "The Two Towers" In China · · Score: 1
    Those of us who have seen The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring know what an amazing director Peter Jackson is.

    ...

    Some people are stupid. ;)

    I know, I mean, they should've realized he was an amazing directory after Dead Alive ;)

  25. Re:Color me clueless, but... on Wi-Fi Spreading Fast But Lacks Profits · · Score: 1
    I have a home thats 100 years old. Try snaking cable from the basement to my server closet on the 2nd floor. Not happening

    There is something called a drill. Its very simple, The house I installed cat5 in was about 100 years old and involved drilling 2 holes in the attic to drop cable down between the walls to the 2 rooms I ran it to. Just had to figure out where to drill to go down into the wall, cut the cable, install the punchdown block and run the wires from the basement to the attic and down to the rooms I wanted. Total cost: 4 hours time and $130 (most people don't need/want a punchdown block, so you could subtract another $70 from that if you wanted to be economical)