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  1. Re:I wonder... on Xbox 360 Lightsynth · · Score: 1
    Salvia is great at closed eye and low light visuals... But Shrooms are where the open-eye visuals are at in my opinion..

    Call me old school (shrooms have speculatively been used since pre-history), but salvia (even extract) can't touch the visuals on shrooms while leaving you in a state that leaves the rest of your brain capable of remembering just what the hell happened to you.

  2. Hot Spots... on The Xbox 360 Unveiled · · Score: 1

    While liquid in a confined area cannot drop overall heat at much of a faster rate, it CAN help with the issue of hotspotting. With three main cores, portions of this chip are going to be hotter than others. Fluid moving about inside the main sink will help even the heat out. You don't even need an external pump, capilary action would work.

  3. Re:Wait! on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then why does it frown when something is wrong?

  4. Re:Wow on Motorola Debuts Nano-Emissive Flat Screen · · Score: 1

    I prefer the inifinte apparent resolution while on LSD.

  5. Re:BSOD on Longhorn: Fewer BSODs, More RSODs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    WinXP hides most of its BSOD's. It just restarts explorer. There is an option to make it show when it happens. Most people think I am kidding, but it is true. We had some hardware issues at work that took way longer than it should have to diagnose before our "sysadmin" figured this one out.

  6. It does't matter if your dark or light.. he hee on The Art and Design of Quake 4 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Light this, dark that..

    These guys did the design work for the Jedi Knights games right? They know all about dark sides and light sides.

    Good choice for a game that has an amazing lighting engine I would imagine...

  7. Re:proprietary lock in? on Aviation Instruments Encrypt Engine-Monitor Data · · Score: 1
    And how do you do a secure digital signature without encryption on a thoretically open line?

    I know you you can tag on an encrypted checksum... But when you have the raw data, that gets easier to reverse engineer...

  8. Re:Carnivore... on From Carnivore to Herbivore · · Score: 1
    My thoughts exactly.

    I just figured that they wanted to give Homeland Security (AKA the distruction of civil liberties) a friendlier name.

  9. Re:Oh hells yeah on Red Hat Founder Offers Help in Apple vs.Tiger Lawsuit · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Actually, I would believe that would make you clumsy. Most paramedics wear gloves these days.

    On the other hand.. blood on your hands could be a product of a gunshot wound that you were on the recieving end of. Assuming you didn't know you were being shot at, and had no reason to be shot at... well then that would negate the sig.

    Dear Lord, I believe I am waaay off topic.

  10. Re:"Merge onto I-5 HAL" "Sorry Dave, I can't do th on Cars that Can't Crash? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I would like to point out that while ABS is a godsend on dry, smooth pavement, all of the benefits are completely lost when on a surface covered in sand or gravel.

    I have in fact nearly been been killed due to the effect of having two tires sand and two tires on pavement after a snow cleared and the road was dry. The brakes refused to engage because they asumed I was doing something stupid.

    There is also an intersection in my town that many cars fail to stop at (it has a stop sign) because surface irregularities combined with the fact that it is on a steep downhill grade causes damn near every new car with ABS to studder but keep rolling until they are 1/2 a cars length past the beginning of the intersection.

    I think ABS is an overall good thing (especially at highway speeds during emergency manuvers). But there are situations that I turn it off in my car. I have a switch wired to the fuse that controls the ABS in my car. (I drive on gravel a LOT, and I tend to drive like back when I used to rally as well)

    I guess my point is this... You will NEVER have an uncrashable car on todays existing roads. Highways would need to be on a computer controlled Rail System.

  11. Re:Battle Stairs! on Hitachi Unveils Humanoid Robot · · Score: 2, Funny
    In all honesty, if the steps are equal in length and hieght, the Hitachi could slide on its back by accelerating really fast. After sliding down, it would just keep rolling.

    For REAL fun, I say give the stairs various heights and widths, maybe a turn or two and some spikes. I LOOOVE me some spikes.

  12. Re:Aditionally... WTF???!?!?!?! on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    I stand somewhat corrected. IF you use the link from the IRS site to HR Block it is free. But you have to use THAT link. I was stupid enough to go from the HRBlock homepage. Man I am pissed. My own fault for not doing the homework I guess.

    My apologies for the misinformation. Mods please mod down my grandparent post.

  13. Re:What a bunch... on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    But they think they are The Shit.

  14. All I want is standards compliance. on IE7 Details Emerge · · Score: 2, Funny

    No more, no less.. OK, and tabs. And maybe some decent plugins.. and maybe.. Nah, screw it. I'll just keep messing with Firefox.

  15. Re:What is wrong with women? on Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT · · Score: 1

    As a God fearing member of the Arian race, so help me...

    Don't make me envoke Bevets

  16. Re:Why they use their own format. on Opensource Apple Lossless Decoder Released · · Score: 1

    Sure they can fork it. However, end users might be a little confused as to why this FLAC file works with their iPod, and the others don't. Forking is a Good Thing(TM) in some cases. When I need a specialized version of some business critical app, built to my exact specs, that is maintained by a (hopefully) well trained staff, a fork is probably an appropriate solution.

    And yes I understand that Apple can just encapsulate the files in the usual way to fix the whole end-user confusion thing, but the CODEC used by apple has somewhat differing goals than the FLAC CODEC.
    FLAC has little to worry about when it comes to efficiency. While it has to use a reasonable amount of resources, the iPod has some much tighter limitations. While FLAC compression schemas may improve overall compression at the higher cost of CPU usage during decoding, Apple doesn't have that option in order to maintain backwards compatability. It's honestly just easier to maintain a CODEC of their own and leave it be.

  17. Re:Aditionally... WTF???!?!?!?! on Open Source Tax Products? · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone who tried that...

    If your AGI is higher than $26,000, HR Block will most definately charge you. There are restrictions.

    Methinks you have had one too many pan galactic garglblasters or whatever that drink is you are always going on about Mr. Prefect.

  18. Re:No matter what free will always win... on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 1

    Can you email the name and ph# of this place to stephenisu-deletethispart-@yahoo.com ?

  19. Re:No matter what free will always win... on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I won't pay 10 cents online for one good song, but at 5 cents a song, I would buy whole albums. 5 cents is the sweet spot in my mind.

  20. Why they use their own format. on Opensource Apple Lossless Decoder Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When you have many embedded devices to program for, it is convenient to have control over the future of the CODEC you are using.

    While FLAC is great, Apple has no controll over what direction FLAC takes.

  21. Re:What is wrong with women? on Young Women Encouraged to Go For IT · · Score: 1

    And what does having a master's degree have to do with that? It only shows how long it has been since you were around 9th graders.

    I was making a crack at your age based credential system. I have a horribly dry sense of Humor. So dry the funny sublimates occasionally.

  22. Re:Whoa on SCO On the Rocks · · Score: 1

    Thank you,
    my sig is an experiment to see if people understand what we teach our kids... Nursery rimes and songs have some sick and twisted meanings. I love it.

  23. Re:Whoa on SCO On the Rocks · · Score: 1

    MODS: sorry, yes this is OT, Mod as appropriate.

    [1] replies to an email with a text resume of 'we did not receive your resume springs to mind. Just to top it off the entire text (including the resume) are in the reply.

    If you are emailing your resume out, many times they are fed to HR by a script of some kind that looks for an attatched MS Word *.doc file. While I am not a fan of the format myself, this could be the source of your problem.

  24. Re:Whoa on SCO On the Rocks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is is nothing immoral about suing a large corporation. Now, suing them for something unfounded costing taxpayer money while simultaniously raising costs that get passed to the consumer, THAT is immoral.

    I still feel kinda bad for the SCO employees who had nothing to do with the litigation and have faced an extra hard time getting employment after leaving because "They were there".

  25. Re:Better have something inline on When Should You Quit Your Job? · · Score: 1

    Fix the glitch... Office Space relationship therapy.