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  1. Re:We DON'T have an endless supply of Oxygen on NASA Reports Vast Hydrogen Reserves in Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    thats an interesting thought... definitely.

    we have a problem here, i think. earth is going to look like mars by the time we are done...

  2. Re:How about more firewire ports! on Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports · · Score: 1

    most USB2.0 hardware comes with their own drivers... so YES... it is supported. its just that microsoft hasnt released their own generic drivers...

    mabye their waiting to see what sorts of drivers get developed, and then they will pounce and push everyone else out of the market... i dunno...

  3. forget Titanium, use Zircadyne on The Sexiest Metal · · Score: 1

    http://www.alleghenytechnologies.com/WahChang/page s/products/cpi/cpi.htm

    Zircadyne® exhibits excellent resistance to corrosive attack in most organic and inorganic acids, salt solutions, strong alkalis, and some molten salts. Thats what im making my house out of. It will resist most forms of terrorist attack.... i hope. :-)

  4. Re:More Martian Psuedoscience on Is Mars A Green Planet? · · Score: 1

    oops... im a dork... your right...

    here is what i was trying to say:
    http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20 011130 mars1130p2.asp

  5. Re:More Martian Psuedoscience on Is Mars A Green Planet? · · Score: 1

    i think that if you study the chemical reactions between water and iron, you will find that hard water and hydrogen is a byproduct... this isn't real water.... there probably isn't any pure h20 left on the planet after millions of years of reacting with iron and hydrogen leaving the planets atmosphere... if you study further, you realize that all the water just disintegrated over time... there may still be some water frozen in ice, but probably is only hard water (H2O2)...

  6. as soon as i switch to linux on Apache 2.0 Goes Gold! · · Score: 1

    once linux gets a tiny bit better... mabye another year, ill start using apache probably..

  7. Brilliant is using Kazaa as a shield from DMCA on Distributed Computing Program Hidden in Kazaa · · Score: 1

    After reading this, I wouldnt be surprised if Brilliant has great financial interest in Kazaa and is using Kazaa as a shield from the DMCA, while they create a legitimate business behind it, and SECRETLY siphon resources from the free Kazaa network.

    I also wouldnt be surprised if Kazaa and Brilliant brought down Morpheus in the interest of pursuing this great idea. As a matter of fact, i get interesting results when i search for "morpheus b3d" in the Kazaa client.

    Hmmm.... anyone else have any comments on my theory?

  8. a great idea for research on Subliminal Learning Thru the PC? · · Score: 1

    you have a good idea... a computer monitor is a much better medium for testing the effects of subliminal messages... than television would be... because you have an easily controlled testing situation...

  9. yeah.... it will be called .NET on Online Brokerage With API? · · Score: 1

    yeah.... it will be called .NET

    simple enough, eh? the concept of web services should take care of this nicely.

  10. give him a honorary recognition award.... on Apple Cuts Off Under-18 Darwin Developer · · Score: 1

    give him a honorary recognition award....

    why not?

  11. Re:Morpheus still works for me on Morpheus DOS'd and Moving to Gnutella · · Score: 1

    for me, it seemed that the first few days after the Morpheus news hit slashdot, i could still get on Morpheus, but it just took longer to login to the network, like 2-10 minutes sometimes. about 2 days ago it completely stopped working for me.

  12. Re:HERESAY! what EVIDENCE can you really show me? on What Java Message Service Implementation? · · Score: 1

    are we talking about a centralized JMS system or a distributed system? its obvious to me that it scales just fine, especially in a distributed application, such as SOAP, for example. it just depends on the architecture beneath it. if there is a scaling problem, then its the person that coded it, because either 1. they cant code worth a shit, or 2. they used the least efficient design in a situation where there are multiple ways of doing things. show me the code that doesnt scale, and i can probably tell that person what they should have done. but anyone could do that, right?

  13. HERESAY! what EVIDENCE can you really show me? on What Java Message Service Implementation? · · Score: 1

    ok... this is all heresay until i see someone put up some hard evidence of a JMS scaling problem.

    any takers?

  14. why do cds cost as much as DVDs? on RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues · · Score: 3, Insightful

    why do cds cost as much as DVDs? why do DVDs cost the same but take many times more effort, money, and manpower into production?

    its easy. movie industry revenues are many, many times more than CDs. a typical CD is very lucky if 500,000 people listen to it, because that makes it a gold album. a gold album would earn the music industry mabye $500,000 x $12 . Thats 6 million. A super platinum album (with 3,000,000) in sales, might make 30 million for the record industry.

    a typical movie has already profited before it is released on DVD, and the revenues can be up to 2-10 times the amount of a good record album. (http://www.the-numbers.com/)

    Most importantly, the music industry spends a much larger percentage of profit on promotion and marketing... probably damn near 100% of profit... that means that they CANNOT lower prices, because if they do, they got to lay off all those marketing people, and if they do that, the other 4 big music companies will stomp all over them with marketing campaigns.

    its a catch-22 for the music industry as a whole.
    .

  15. the government knew about his all along... on Factoring Breakthrough? · · Score: 1

    actually, the CIA hasnt told us, but they have known about this decryption method for sometime now... how do you think they knew you didn't take a shit this morning?

  16. Re:C# on The Problem Of Developing · · Score: 3, Informative

    im not sure that something as "plagiaristic" as C# can be considered "different".

    hmm... as a matter of fact, pluggable ideas for .NET may have originated from early Object Oriented Software, such as Logic Audio... so i wouldn't consider .NET innovative.

    i use .NET Enterprise 2002 every day right now, so i think i can say these things.

    the only conclusion that i have come to (on the subject of the article referenced here) is that .NET basically is so WELL DONE that it is the first time that all the languages are unified to such an extent, that they all seem the same.

    its true... they werent the same to begin with, but one super large company seems to think that merging them all together is a good idea.

    hmmmm....

  17. Re:Halted firewall vs bridge on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    well... it turns out that the SonicWall SOHO3 and Netscreen 5XP both cannot do DMZ (which is required to host some credit card processing capable servers) but I think i may get the Netscreen 5XP because it DOES in fact support "transparent bridging" in its full fledged glory.

    it seems they added the capability to demonstrate to customers that there is no load difference in using NAT verses straight bridging. I verified that the SonicWall CANNOT to transparent bridging... this is important.

  18. Re:Misrepresented article.. on Sun Bashes Linux on (IBM) Mainframes · · Score: 1

    good analysis of the article. :-) i agree with you.

  19. Re:Tomcat + FOP is all you need on Zope or Cocoon 2? · · Score: 1

    I agree. Tomcat + JRun + SOAP is all i need.

  20. Re:Martian popsicles? on Water on Mars - Clues to Life? · · Score: 1

    thats easy.

    the water had a chemical reaction with the ground (which has a very high iron content) and basically disintegrated it into Hydrogen where it escaped the outer atmosphere (because hydrogen floats to the highest reaches of the atmosphere (being the lightest element) )

    4Fe + 3O2 = 2Fe2O3
    3Fe + 4H2O Fe3O4 + 4H2 !!!!!

  21. Shoes with "Heel Wheels" on Personal Transport? · · Score: 1

    Hey.

    I once saw a guy wearing a normal looking pair of shoes that would roll ONLY when you lift your toes because they had one small set of wheels in the back side of the shoe.

    Does anyone know where to get these?

    NOTE: I am not looking for "Roller Shoes"... ya know... the ones with a full set of wheels... I want the ones with a full set of tread on the bottom with just wheels in the heel.

  22. is broadband raising my electric bill??? on Electric Company Using Power Lines for Data · · Score: 1

    i don't mind as long as they don't try to raise my electric bill because they are running electricity through the lines also...

  23. Re:Why use a whole computer? on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    that is a great idea. i know this is easy on Linux or BSD, but what if i wanted to use a WIndows machine? what software firewall would fit this sort of configuration? is there a open source project that could do this for windows?

    thanks.

    i will probably still drop the $400 for either the Sonicwall SOHO3 or a Netscreen 5x but I want to entertain your cool idea.

  24. Re:Halted firewall vs bridge on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    thanks for your answer. i found that the following two products will do what i need:

    SonicWall SOHO3
    Netscreen 5x

    both cost about $400

  25. Re:His argument backfired too. on Bill Joy's Takes on C# · · Score: 1

    that is exactly my point. Java has features that make it usable only in special situations. who in their right mind would try to code a real application using Java, especially in windows? what makes Java so great is that it fits THOSE special situations better than C# does.

    Microsoft is approaching C# as if it is a "application" building language, but they are just forgetting about the fact that C++ already does this just fine, and they are naive enough to think that is what they need to do to compete with Java. C# will not compete with Java because it IS NOT an application building language. most people are brainwashed into thinking that Java is trying to replace C++. I laugh at that. That is like saying that Linux is "trying to take Microsoft windows' market share" . Its simply not true. Linux just IS. Its not trying to do anything but what it needs to do, and so is Java.