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  1. Re:Notebook != Laptop on Dell Introduces Laptop With WUXGA · · Score: 1

    I have a 2.4ghz laptop (HP) that is not the p4-m. It is a normal p4 and does not get very hot.

    Other specs are 15" screen, dvd/cdrw, 60gig 5400rpm, 512 pc2100, etc etc. It doesnt get that hot. No fertility issues here and i use it on my lap for hours at a time.

  2. Re:Wireless choice? on Pentium-M Notebook Put To The Test · · Score: 1

    I've asked several companies and they have said that when the 802.11g standard is finished (it is in a stage now that promises no physical changes to the chip), they will offer a firmware to "upgrade" to true 802.11g

    I have the DWL-G650 from D-link for my laptop, but have not gotten the chance to try it out with any other 802.11g equipment yet. I plan to buy dlink's router as well as some more cards for my other computer but it seems to work fine on 802.11b networks so far.

  3. Wireless choice? on Pentium-M Notebook Put To The Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is weird to me that Intel plans to have an 802.11a/b solution in these notebooks as a standard. It seems that going with 802.11g would be a better choice considering it works with B and is fast as A but has better range (some speculation here about speed etc since it is not as well tested).

    These notebooks arent planned to come out for a while, and considering there are 802.11g-draft products already available for purchase it seems that they would also go this route.

    Anybody know why they may not be considering this? Possibly it is in the works, who knows.

  4. Re:DC Metro Area on Escape from California? · · Score: 1

    Yea thats how it is instead of buying a new house people just roll them around. It's really nice but it takes forever to go anywhere. The traffic is so bad especially with the big homes nowadays

  5. Re:Crack Whore Nevada on Escape from California? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually tijauna is supposedly the meth capital of the world with san diego and El centro coming in for a close second

  6. Re:DC Metro Area on Escape from California? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you joking? i went to the east coast (specifically maryland) for the first time ever and the houses were MUCH cheaper than they are where i live. The houses being built around mine (i live in a 1000 sqft condo/duplex that is worth $300k) are averaging in price at about $800k with the low end starting at about $600k.
    The high end TRACK HOUSING goes for about $1.5million. I live in north county san diego, it isnt cheap.

    In maryland i saw houses as large as these 1.5million dollar ones for around $500k or less.

  7. Re:"I want to move midwest" on Escape from California? · · Score: 1

    I've lived in california for 18 years and never felt an earthquake.
    I live in san diego which is quite near the san andreas fault line. In fact, i dont know anybody that has sufferred earthquake damage (maybe some cement cracking from minor things, but nothing very destructive). I know it happens but it is just VERY uncommon

    I'd never want to experience a tornadoe!

  8. Re:"I want to move midwest" on Escape from California? · · Score: 1

    A lot of california is fairly conserivative.

    I've been hannitizing san diego by listening to loud talk radio in my car.

    DRAKON YOU SPIN!! (Oreilly)

  9. Re:Talk to the insurance company. on Salvaging Possessions from Smoke Damage? · · Score: 1

    This is the correct option. A friend of mine had her house burn down and they gave them $60,000 to live on while their house got fixed, as well as replaced everything in the house, and they had enough money to get nicer stuff, do an addon to their house, and rent a nicer house to live in while everything was being fixed.

  10. Re: Yeah, and it would be nice if on When Profiling Goes Wrong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is also known as "Preview"

    just preview your comments before you post them and you will not forget :)

  11. Re:Install OpenOffice instead on Plugins for Microsoft Office for OpenOffice Documents? · · Score: 1

    That is such an ignorant thing to say. I have used many office suites, and I do find Microsoft Office to be better than OpenOffice

    Not only that, but if you aren't allowed to install software on a system (at a job, etc.), it'd be nice to open a document that a customer sends with openoffice or any other hypothetical situation.

    I think the idea is alright, but like said above it would be better to make OpenOffice documents compatible.

  12. FDA on Drug Companies Plan Male Contraceptive Pill · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dont think there is a real need for this anyway.

    The FDA already approved EverQuest for Birth Control Use didnt they?

    It actually works for abstinence too

    Studies showed 100% of people playing everquest had no problems with impregnating women or being impregnated.
    However, 100% of people playing everquest were also found to not leave their house, so that makes it hard.

    Everquest Approved

  13. Re:Fixing? on Polymer Optical Transmitters Go Even Faster · · Score: 1

    Sorry about that, i forgot to add any line breaks above.

    :X

  14. Fixing? on Polymer Optical Transmitters Go Even Faster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is slightly offtopic, but still about the same type of thing. I was thinking about fiber optics the other day and talking about them in my E&M class (they added optics as an extra unit). We were trying to figure out how they "fix" fiber optic cables if they break? I looked around online and found out that they have to "pump up" the signal every half mile or so I think it was, so do they just go back to this junction and replace the entire thing? I had always thought the cabling was more expensive than copper but aparrently it is cheaper. All of these technologies are interesting but I still think that the future is in wireless technology. As our cities and states get more developed, nobody wants to go back through and lay a bunch of polymer cabling or fiber optics to have high speed internet. It has gotta be wireless. Easy deployment, cheap, etc :)

  15. Re:Easy. on What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I heard another good way to date an invention is to send a letter to yourself (certified would probably be even better) with it in there and do not open the envelope. Doing this gives you a date and everything from the USPS

  16. 2 Of my cards had this happen on Problem Fans on Video Cards? · · Score: 1
    I had a Hercules TNT 16mb AGP back in the day and the fan started making a lot of noise and seizing up so i just snipped the wires to it, a week or so later the video card fried... it probably wasnt the best fix

    Also, i had a tnt2 ultra after that and the fan on it seizes up and makes a ton of noise. I didnt clip the wires this time, but i've tried to oil it to make it work and it still spins very slowly. I currently have a gf2 32mb in my computer and the fan hasnt broken on it, *YET*

  17. Re:Gnucleus on The Best of Windows Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    I believe he just uses reshacker or some tool similar to this to get rid of the "spyware" parts of kazaa

  18. Re:Old Fashioned on High School + Physics + Linux = ? · · Score: 1

    I did the exact same lab and i live in san diego, maybe we went to the same school? Takashi Nakajima is my physics teacher for E&M

  19. Cant ever get on on EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections · · Score: 1

    I can barely ever connect to efnet... irc.prison.net works sometimes as well as irc.east.gblx.net, other than that its a no-go

  20. Motorla v70 is the coolest on Nokia 3650 Symbian Imaging-phone · · Score: 1
    I've never actually used one of these phones, but i saw somebody with one and i got to hold it and i was trying to figure out how to dial but i couldnt, then she showed me. It was SOOO small and the design seemed really cool. Checkout the manual or the demo at this site. I'm not sure how much it costs though

    Motorla v70

  21. Doesnt matter on Keeping Kids Interested in Math? · · Score: 1

    The amount that a child enjoys math even all the way up through high school is not what matters. Many kids are finishing high school these days with one or two semesters of calculus under their belts.
    However, I believe that even the kids that didnt do all that well in math can do just fine later because even though the math "builds on itself," it isnt like they are using a bunch of theorems from first grade to prove the fundamental theorem of calculus or any others.
    I say let them enjoy what they want to enjoy and when they get to jr high and high school you can start seeing if they want to be in something more. In elementary school not many kids are taking "Advanced" classes, and most all kids learn the same math. As long as she is passing dont worry about it

  22. Slide and Negatives on Scanning Large Amounts of Pictures? · · Score: 1

    Most slide and negative scanners will do automatic image splitting for you. I have the attatchment for my Epson flatbed scanner that does slides and negatives and i can easily scan 4-6 all at once and they will each come up as seperate files. You can then make actions to do certain things (auto levels etc) to them and make them a certain heighth or width

  23. Re:The real quesiton is..... on An Overview of Quad Band Memory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Athlons arent currently sufferring from lack of memory bandwidth, but instead they have some other bottlenecks. P4's on the other hand are not fed the memory bandiwdth they need with DDR ram which is why they run faster with RDRAM. Technology like this will hopefully help the future AMD processors but the athlons seem limited by other factors

  24. Re:I always love... on An Overview of Quad Band Memory · · Score: 1

    Anand is actually attending college in his junior year i believe (possibly sophomore) studying Computer computer engineering

  25. GOOGLE! on Where to Ask if not Ask Slashdot? · · Score: 1
    www.google.com

    (no other search engines give you real answers, but i guess you could Ask Jeeves