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  1. Welbutrin helps my game play on Anti-Depressants Used Against StarCraft Addiction · · Score: 1

    Welbutrin is actually a minor stimulant and i find I concentrate and react faster. In short it may help with game addiction, which i don't really have a problem with, and when I do play I play better.

  2. Apple II at 30? on The Apple II At 30 · · Score: 1

    I hate to sound like a troll here, but isnt that like saying The Model T at 90.
    It was an innovative computer but do we need to constantly go back these Apple II's and Tandy's and Commodore 64 references all the time to feel the nastalgia?

  3. I've seen this 1st hand on "Free Wi-Fi" Scam In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Flying home for thanksgiving I was sitting out Regan National Airport for a few hours. I pulled out my MBP to see if i could get a signal anywhere. There were a free wifi's ad-hoc, only they didn't offer any net access. And had no itunes for me to listen too. I turned off my wireless at that point.

  4. Pathetic on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    Apples lawyers are going to own. Cisco should have filed in 2001 when the iPod came out. If you don't defend your trademarke early your chances to drop dramatically. Apple on the other hand defends thier patents with increased vigilance.

  5. Blood Lust for the Masses, FINALLY ! on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    It has a multiplayer!!! I'm buying a copy right now I can't wait to kill some christians then I'm going to kill some anti-chrisians. Miltary and spirtual forces at my finger tips i won't need to PVP in wow for weeks.

  6. Windows Chief taunts virus writers, a second time on Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus · · Score: 1

    ...and your mother smells of elder-berrys!

  7. Surviving Growth on Transitioning From Small Shop IT To Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    I worked for a VoIP company that did way to well way too fast. I was the lead provisioner and built the process. Being a very competent well rounded Geek I was doing customer service, orientations and provisioning all at the same time but pushing 60 hour weeks with not great compensation. And In hindsight if the Management had hired up more people and made service and excellence the priority they would have done even better, and good people would have avoided burnt out.

  8. As a Counseling Grad Student I've researched this on Depressed? Net-based Treatments Can Help · · Score: 1

    There are so many ethical problems and lack of safe guards. From kids pretending to be someone else, to someone who was completely anonymous and then says they're going to kill themselves. If they do the therapist is held responsible. This could be an interesting area but its ethically and legally dangerous.

  9. Too much pharmacutical telivision on A Gator By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    I guess cholera was taken...hmm lets try a name that sounds like a new alergy perscription instead.

  10. Re:not sure how easy this would be... on Sign Language Out Loud · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not a chance...For those that use ASL it is not uncommon for new words concepts and images to be created to express an idea. Almost all of the grammer is facial expression and without it the message is completely different. ASL is not mearly about words like english but more like mental pictures capable of expressing thoughts, emotions, and indepth ideas. It truely is its own lanugage. If you had two gloves, and a way to monitor eyes and face movements it might work. Other wise its simply an English Trasnlation. Deaf people in the US use ASL and only sign english when to communicate to those who only know the English signs and don't speak there language.

  11. A Sci-Fi Cult Classic - Split Second on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    The acting isn't great, the plot is about the same but the dialog is priceless.
    It's all about the:
    Coffee.
    Chocolate, oh yeah and we need BIGGER GUNS!

    "What you want me to do? Put out an APB on someguy 7 feet tall, looks like the Devil, Answers to the name of Lucifer. Yeah and you! Probably got big horns and tail too...

  12. Re:Trespassing on Los Alamos Security Infiltrated By Reporter · · Score: 1

    Actually in that case you would become an accessory to any crimes that he tells you he will commit and would be aiding and abedding a criminal. Not to mention obstruction of justice if you didn't at least cooperate with the police When he attempts to contact you again. Free speech is protected...but preventing the capture of a murder is not acceptable in profession not even journalism...

  13. What a ridiculus Debate on Cloned Cat Not a 'Carbon Copy' · · Score: 1

    This cloning issue is really stupid...Identical Twins have the same DNA and ussually VERY different personalitys, although they share many little, genetic quarks, or heriditary dispositions to disorders.

  14. Speaking of lack of money on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    Do you plan to take legal action against the US-Government for violating your constitutional right to a quick and speedy trial?

  15. Ok, I'm prepared to be flamed on NASA Cancels Moon Hoax Book · · Score: 1

    This is a dumb question no doubt...but does it really matter. I mean look what we got form the space program Velcro, microwaves, simple radio network patkets. It created or started off so much technology that we used today, that the authenticity of the landing itself isn't big of deal. If you want to complain about nasa complain that they are underfunded to begin with and that we shuold be dumping tons of money into it rather then military. One new of the fighters, the vertical flying bomber, or the new fighter costs about 220 Million US Dollars. If nasa got just the equivelent of funding used to build one jet...they might actually be able to develop something useful in reasonable amount of time. The conspiracy debate about the landings is absolutly pointless one way or the other. If we focused on building new, faster, and more effectient space traveling vehiecles we could indulge them and check it out...but not before why waste Nasa's little precious funding indulging groups just interested in saying I told you so.

  16. Re:I'm seeing double! on 3D/2D switchable LCD monitor from Sharp · · Score: 1

    So is a double post a /. st st Sudd-der?

  17. Re:Has anyone tried wine on Mac OS X and had succe on Running Windows Games with WineX · · Score: 1

    Very good point, x86 hardware would definatly make that diffence. Mach kernal? I understand calling it BSD is wrong because it was a rip off of the BSD Kernal, but are you saying that it's called Mach?

  18. Has anyone tried wine on Mac OS X and had success? on Running Windows Games with WineX · · Score: 1

    I've never used wine myself, because I have a seperate computer for gaming. However I'm wondering since Mac OS X runs a BSD kernal and there has been much success compiling other nix stuff on it, if you could play your windows game in Wine on OS X? It would be cheaper for all those who have windows games and other windows software then buying virtual pc for the apps. I'm still trying to focus on games though. So what do you think?

  19. I'm sure some one beat me to this but remember... on Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Pentium 4 makes the Internet Run Faster !!!

  20. Cool toys but it had compatability issues. on Gyroscopic Mouse · · Score: 1

    While I was interning at my last college we used some of these for our presentation classrooms. After about a month of use the faculty was demanding something be done about these pointing devices. Like any buricratic system we hadn't heard about any problem. We were informed that the computers, would lock, crash power point, or just stop working. We adjusted channels, changed radio recievers, batteries you name it we tried it. The conclusion was that windows pointing device drivers would seizure if you will and the device would try to rsync the connection. Sometimes it worked other times it didn't only 1 or 2 out of the 5 classrooms have them anymore. I do have to say though that this was a really fun toy to play with and would be awsome for a tv, or simple presintation style pointing but other then that its, too hard to be precise.

  21. I've water cooled, modded, and overclocked...wtf on Transparent Water Cooling Case · · Score: 1

    This guy modded his Hard Drive so you could see it. Wow real "G-Wiz" Factor there. Only ignorant or very,very well connectected people mod hard drives. It doesn't matter how you do it unless you own or have access to a REAL clean room. One particle, UNO as in singulary dust particle gets in the drive and it will not last until the warranty exprires(which modding violates). Let me paint you a picture if a Grater or a D8+ Catapiller had a 6-8ft plow made of Solid Titanium attatched to the front of it and then started plowing the paved asfault. That is kinda what one micron (millionth for the layman) of dust does each time it touches the platter. Also keep in mind that the head hovers at .XX microns above the plater. Throw wrench into a spinning blade and watch sparks fly. I have to admitt I think that building a clear case and water cooling is cool and fun, but if you want to just throw money away on hard drives...you could always send it to me. Funny I always thought the data on the drive was more valuable then anything else, because often it's unreplaceable(unless you back up very regularly). It just goes to show any idiot can make the front page and have 15 minutes of fame.

  22. Its about Friggin Time! on Death to the 3.5" Floppy? · · Score: 1

    The floppy has had almost not real use for a year or so. In fact Compact Flash should replace it. At least they don't die if you look at them wrong, like floppy's. $50.00 for 128MB disk seams like a really good idea to me for protable media. Especially if every new system had a CF and Smart memory reader built in.

  23. Re:The problem with Hammer. on Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win · · Score: 1

    I find in the winter I can save on heating costs by play quake 3 or Rendering some horrificly complex graphic. But seriously AMD will get the power specs figured out they just tend to do that on the second release of the processors.

  24. Re:uhm... on Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win · · Score: 1

    Good point, but all old programs need to be ported over, emacs Vi, the lag time could really suck.

  25. Re:uhm... on Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the iA64 benchmarks? Intel markets a product a year before it's even close to being ready so that they can scare the competition and maintain an image of continued development and production, while only they stall. When the iA64 hits the market I'd put my money down that Intel will have major issues delivering the supply the public will demand. That's when AMD will fire up all there plants and run them around the clock to fill massive hole Intel left and pick up the slack. AMD practices agressive smart business. In the PIII 500-900 days intel had a major shortage on chips arguing about some part that cost $1. AMD tuned all there plants to produce 900Mhz Athalons and then underclock what the ones they need to sell to the 700Mhz and 800Mhz market. It was a lot cheaper in the long run and it got things done.