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  1. Re:Urge to Kill .... on Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    A vaccination is not a temporary solution that makes you dependent on someone else for the rest of your life. And between being immune to a disease or getting a $100 laptop, I'd go for being immune to the disease.

  2. I Saw That Movie on Stealth Sharks to Patrol the High Seas · · Score: 1

    ... on television. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/ - Deep Blue Sea with Samuel L. Jackson.

  3. Big Bird on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 2, Informative

    That article is horrible, and the posting is also not so good. Here's a link to the press release from the Field Museum in Chicago, where one of the co-authors of the Nature article works:
    http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/press/press _sinovenator.htm

    And here's a link to a non-subscription site that's carrying the Chicago Tribune's article, which a lot of outlets seem to be carrying because it compares the dinosaur to Sesame Street's Big Bird:
    http://www.newsday.com/news/health/chi-0510130118o ct13,0,1942769.story?coll=ny-leadhealthnews-headli nes

    Both articles said that buitreraptor probably could not fly.

  4. Re:ROV, Without the R or O or the V on Homebrew Underwater ROV · · Score: 1

    Erm. I mean gasping for water. Or just doing that fish mouth thing. In any case it's not a pretty sight. And then my dad moved on to the clipboard style - where a live fish was fileted with its tail pinned down.

  5. ROV, Without the R or O or the V on Homebrew Underwater ROV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmm, it seems like it's actually a frame with a camera inside it, that they sink and lift up. Which means it's not really Remotely Operated or a Vehicle. But really nice footage! Bluegill and perch have very cool coloring. And from growing up in Indiana I can tell you their heads even after being severed will continue gasping for air up to half an hour.

  6. Re:On Laptops, Put the Processor Elsewhere on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info! I'll have to check that out.

  7. Re:Tilt on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    I think they could move just the memory and the processor to behind the screen, stiffen up the hinges, and leave the hard drive and dvd/cd drive on the bottom, along with the battery which also seems to have some weight. By far the hottest part in laptops is the processor.

  8. Re:On Laptops, Put the Processor Elsewhere on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    Also, for software, have it so that you can save your workspace. So let's say you're working in Photoshop, using multiple documents. You can save the workspace and it will make copies of your currently open documents in whatever state they're in with whatever history they have and save it. When you launch again, you can pick up from where you left off.

  9. On Laptops, Put the Processor Elsewhere on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    On laptops, put the g.d. processor behind the screen. I don't want to burn my lap. Put it on the part that DOESN'T GO ON THE LAP. That also means that my lap isn't keeping the processor air intake from taking in air. Duh!

  10. AOL or EarthLink on PC Prices Reach $300 Milestone · · Score: 1

    Well, if you already have a monitor it's $250 BUT you have no option for not getting 6 "free" months of AOL or Earthlink. I'd imagine that the $299/$250 machine is actually subsidized by AOL or EarthLink in the hopes that people buying the machines will be signed up and never survive the hassle of unsigning up. This is more than likely a pc sale subsidized by the internet providers and is not actually a sub-$300 computer by a major computer seller.

  11. Re:Arrogant bastard on Revenge of the Sith a "Blood Bath" · · Score: 1

    Did you catch the sock puppet version of the incredibles on DVD? That was entertaining.

    :: On the second disc's "Setup" menu, wait until the little OmniDroid icon appears in the upper right of the screen. Press right to highlight the icon and hit ENTER on your remote. You will now be treated to a weird sock puppet version of the whole movie put together by Effects Artist Mach Kobayashi and crew. ::

    Actually, episode 3 might be more enjoyable with sock puppets - then they could do away with the handful of bad casting decisions from the first two movies and put in people who can act.

  12. Mac OSX Support on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm quite happy about this. The reliability of Macromedia products, Flash specifically, on Mac OSX has been horrible. Adobe products on Mac OSX have in general been reliable. Hopefully Adobe will kick Macromedia's programmers in the buttocks so that things like save dialog boxes being covered by greyed out panels like the actions panel won't happen any more. That's actually a small annoyance compared to Flash crashing half of the time when I click and drag my cursor, or the timeline problems that force me to open the file on my pc for certain operations. I love macromedia, but macromedia, she no love the Macintosh!

  13. Betrayal at House on the Hill on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 1

    Betrayal at House on the Hill is a fun tabletop game. It's from Wizards of the Coast but was originally in development by Avalon Hill. There's an online demo here. Great replayability, although there can be a lot of rule interpretation bickering.

  14. Now They Have Even More Information on ChoicePoint Data Stolen By Imposters · · Score: 1

    Now you've generated more data for their profile of you and informed them that you follow links off of Slashdot. Good suggestion!

  15. Re:Since when does slashdot==weekly world news? on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Since about 1998. Slashdot Article from 1998.

  16. Blast From the Past on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/04/2341226.shtm l... these are the same people who were awarded a patent for a mental clapper in a previous slashdot article. The private company these guys formed, Mindsong, Inc., appears to have folded since 1998. This article also appears to be relevant. Apparently they're dealing with really really small numbers in what would seem to be dishonest ways, like rounding 50.01% up to 51% when discussing their results. I am the 100th Monkee!

  17. For A Picture on Sony Launches First Commercial Electronic Paper Display Reader · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a link to the japanese LIBRIE site (http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/LIBRIE/) if you're interested in getting a look at it.

  18. Dreamcatcher on The Best and Worst Movies of 2003? · · Score: 1

    Of all the bad movies I've seen this year Dreamcatcher had to be the worst. If you haven't seen it yet, get some cynical friends together and give it a view. It's hilariously bad. Ooby ooby doo, we gah some work to dooooo!

  19. Re:She's Also a Photodisc Model! on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bill Gates owns Corbis. Getty Images is owned by Mark Getty and the Getty Foundation. They're in direct competition with each other, both in sales and acquisitions.

  20. Re:She's Also a Photodisc Model! on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just had a hunch. I'm surprised that Microsoft uses Photodisc/Getty images instead of images from Corbis, which they own.

  21. She's Also a Photodisc Model! on Microsoft Tries a "Switch" Campaign · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not only is she a freelance writer, but she also models for stock photography - check it out. Or maybe they just threw in a stock image of a person...