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  1. Re:Beating a Dead Horse? on Sci-fi Channel's Children of Dune · · Score: 1

    I liked the first 3 prequels better then the butlerian Jihad one, however on the whole it will probably turn into a good series.
    As a whole I would rate them worst then the original 2.5 Dune books, the far better then anything after the Children.

  2. Re:In a nutshell on Understanding .NET: A Tutorial and Analysis · · Score: 2, Informative

    So the Ada code converted into java bytecode that some of my programs use is not really there??
    Sorry but Java is actually language and platform independent, however it is not as language independent as the .NET bytecode, but then again .NET forces languages to change to be compatible.

  3. Re:Well, there's a chance that it's not full of cr on Understanding .NET: A Tutorial and Analysis · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Press has release a bunch of good books including _Code Compelete_ and _After the Gold Rush_ to name just two.

  4. Re:Kudos to SA. on NYTimes: Tangled Up in Spam · · Score: 1

    Besides pulling them for mail lists and other things, such as random generations and using know username with other domains.
    Count yourself luckly they don't have your address, but if you say you don't get anything means you probably have a wierd name or address, but thoses spammers are percistent. When I got my past cable connection they had turned on the e-mail address of Friday, on Monday the installers came over and hooked it up, I checked my mail and already had spam.

  5. Re:a problem on The Future of Money · · Score: 1

    Yes they can however they need someone over 18 who is actually responsible for it, the under 18 does not pay thier bill the over 18 is responsible for paying it.
    The credit card companies got alot of flack a few years ago (4-5) because they were directly advertising to middle and high school students to get thier own credit cards complete with middle and high school designs on the cards, just get one of your parents to sign and had it.

  6. Re:Sounds good to me on Cashless Society · · Score: 1

    The Sacagawea coin will never catch on until the US government just decides to stop printing any dollar bills.
    I think the Euro and Canadian 1 and 2 coins are great, however they woul never be used if they also had bills of the same amount.

  7. Re:Oh yay... on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except for one thing, most of the things listed are already in effect in most of Europe.
    I am an US citizen living and working in Europe. If I change anything about my status, work address, home address, etc I have a few days where in which to inform the state and federal government. That is in addition to the yearly letters informing them about me and my living location.
    Even before I want to switch jobs I have to send massive paperwork(to get this job it was over 20 pages double sided) and this include information about my relative and financial status in the US to the government and get approval; this usally takes 6-9 months.
    If the government wants me out I am out, the government can even decide that I owe them money and take year to inform me of that, in which case I will also have to pay interest on that.
    As an other example I was recently down to Italy for 2 weeks of vacation, during that time the local police stations were provided a picture of me along with information such as my birth date,location etc.

  8. Re:gonna miss them as much as me?? on Atari Arcade Division Closes · · Score: 0

    Is the date for this topic off or have I been sucked into a time warp?

  9. Re:remember MSX? on Japan Subsidizes Linux Development, Considers Switch · · Score: 1

    Hey don't forget TRON(Time Real Operating Nucleus) it was another of theses japanese operating system/hardware that was rather interesting.
    Part of the basic design for the system was was different size keyboards.

  10. Make 1/2 million US a month and still a failure. on Sim-Dud? · · Score: 1

    At 40,000 current people paying the $10US a month that is still a nice amount of money each month.
    However TSO does point to a couple of things why SWG will also fail.
    1) Current MMORPG players don't switch games.
    2) Most people know about MOGs and if they were interested would be in them already.
    3)SWG is placing heavy importance on trading and Sims Online and 'A tale in the desert' do trade only stuff alot better.
    4) A big name does not really matter over the game, considering the vast number of star war games that have sucked and not really sold well.

  11. Re:Ouch on Comdex Operators File for Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    There have been some rumors that Comdex will join with CES.
    Probably a smart idea for Comdex since they are loosing people, but a poor idea for CES since most companies pulling out of comdex are already heading for the CES.
    Will be interesting to see what is happening at other computer shows, guess I will find out when I goto CeBit this year.

  12. Re:Actually you're not far from the truth. on Battlefield Medkits Improve · · Score: 1

    As of 10 years ago this was still in use. They would seduate the animals then shoot them, so that people could practice on the GS wounds.

  13. Re:don't beam ME up. on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They had a fun New Outer Limits on this.
    called 'Think like a dinosaur'
    synopsys from the outer limits web board:
    Michael Burr (ENRICO COLANTONI) is the only permanent human occupant of the Tuulen station, situated on a vast empty plain of the Moon. His companions are the Hanen, an emotionless lizard-like alien species who have developed a highly advanced means of long distance travel by 'jumping' through space. Achieved by creating an exact duplicate of the jumper, the copy is reconstituted at the destination point and the original destroyed, thus leaving only one. Kamala Shastri (LINNEA SHARPLES) is one of the test jumpers to arrive for travel to the planet Gend, but in the final stage of the transfer, something inexplicable happens. Confirmation of her duplicate's arrival is not received from Gend and the procedure is temporarily aborted. When it's later determined that Kamala's copy does indeed exist, Michael is called upon to balance the equation and eliminate the original. Michael knows the human race is desperate to access a technology that would allow them to leave behind a planet now virtually destroyed by pollution and over population. He also knows it is imperative that he avoid a protocol breach with the Hanen, but can he bring himself to kill Kamala?

  14. Solution on World's Most Annoying IE Toolbar · · Score: 1

    Get a copy of GoBack 3, and use it.
    Works great for the removal of viruses, fixing system crashes that damage stuff, etc.

  15. Re:You drink waste water anyway.. on Don't Eat The White Snow Either · · Score: 1

    I would think that is really low, could that of been in the last year of the waters life?

    Hey just think of all the fish waste you suck in everthing you out in the oceans.

    Got Urine?

  16. Re:surprising on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    Did not have one of theses as a kid, probably a good thing, what did was make blow dart guns out of piping and then rolling a magazine page into a cone. You put a pin in the tip of that and you would have something that would stick to dogs and cats.

  17. Not very likely on Mono - 'Breaking Down the .Net Barriers' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The only people from microsoft who will be working on Mondo is the legal Staff.
    Thier is noway that microsoft is going to allow mondo to duplicate enough of .net that it is worthwhile to even look at mondo.

  18. Re:ATI is crap. on GeForce FX Reviews Roll In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem I had the ATI and thier drivers was that they would always drop support for a card once they released something new, and for that reason I would take a long, long time before I will look at one of thier products again.
    If nvidia was doing as ATI does(or maybe did if they have improved) with the announcement of the FX they would have dropped support for all cards below the GeForce 4.

  19. Re:Cry me a river on Six Giant Music Retailers Will Try Online Sales Together · · Score: 1

    Just go out to the internet and you can get any number of recipes to duplicate them.
    Or goto Top Secret restrauant recipes if you other types of food, and most taste as good as the ones you would get from the original maker.
    However a muffuletta from the Central Grocery in New Orleans; now that is one to die for. *drooool*

  20. Re:Will it live up to the hype? on The Long-Awaited MOO! · · Score: 1

    Probably not.
    But then again last week I canceled my order for it and ordered Galactic Civilization instead. The original galactic civ was alot better game then moo2 and from what I have read this version is better then moo3.

  21. Re:Cross-language compatability on The Future of Java? · · Score: 1

    If it is bytecode compliant it will.
    From my own experience it works. We had a set of old Ada libraries, that they compiled to Java bytecode on a Solaris machine, we then pulled the bytecode libraries over to Linux and windows machines and made calls to them from pure Java programs. No problems.

  22. Next thing.. on MonsterHut Jammed for Spam · · Score: 1

    Go after what ever companies that keep sending me that pasta machine do hicky.
    3 of thoses a day is more then enough. I am almost of the verge of reading one of thoses just to make sure I never purchase one, but then I realize I am smart enough to know that to make good dried pasta just requires:
    water
    salt
    Big pot
    dried pasta
    heat
    collendar
    And since I have thoses why spend some amount of money of a stupid product that would add nothing.

  23. Re:Does this make my palm pilot illegial? on DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers · · Score: 1

    From my own use it was just a code to identify the type of equipment and manufacter nothing really encrypted. Also for most newest universal remotes you can point the old remote at the new one and press buttons, the universal remove will record the signal given for play back.
    I have a universal remote for my dvd/vcr/hi-fi/tv etc and for most things I just entered the codes given.
    However it is a worry if manufacturer started to encrypt the signals. I am not much worried for hi-fi equipment because if someone did that people would know about it and reviews would kill the device. However with a remote garage door the last time I purchased one I just searched the Sunday papers saw sears had one for sale with my requirements and purchased it.

  24. Re:Who needs a universal garage door remote, anywa on DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers · · Score: 1

    Or if you broke the one that came with the system or you have multiple cars.
    Also price wise the non-manufacters remotes are cheaper then the "official" remotes.

  25. profit.... on DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers · · Score: 1

    It all comes down to profit, doing a quick search the average cost of the company bring the suit is $35US. However for the same functionality and size you can purchase one from Skylink for under $20US.