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  1. Re:Donuts, apples, I'm hungry on Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved · · Score: 1

    3 dimensional objects with only Cavities can be deformed into a sphere.

  2. Re:What about the Dunwoody paper? on Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved · · Score: 1

    Well, just because he has to wait for the prize, doesn't mean that the proof cannot be reasonably evaluated today... to acertain that the paper provides a valid proof... two years is rather a long time since most broken proofs, like Dunwoody or the various Fermat failures start to show holes in hours or days... and within a week or so the "holes" found, tend to be things that can be fixed or resolved...

  3. Re:Donuts, apples, I'm hungry on Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved · · Score: 1

    That wasn't a flying saucer, it was a flying donut.

    Of course, it was the O-rings that caused the first shuttle disaster.

  4. Donuts, apples, I'm hungry on Poincaré Conjecture May Be Solved · · Score: 2, Funny

    The subject of 3 dimensional objects with holes is quite fascinating... wouldn't it be awesome if it was discovered that toroids are actually some extradimensional manifestation... Or even that Toroids have special properties allowing FTL travel...

  5. Re:It cant be free forever but on EFF Lawyer Argues For Compulsory Music Licenses · · Score: 1

    All those 80s rock bands... owned
    MC Hammer ... Owned... that's why he went broke
    Prince... owned until last year... thats why the funky symbol
    Micheal Jackson, Will Smith ... owned

  6. Re:It cant be free forever but on EFF Lawyer Argues For Compulsory Music Licenses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IF the RIAA owns you, and you sell 10,000 CDs for $5 each,
    you actually just lost between $50-100,000 since the RIAA requires that you buy your CDs from their distro channels at $10-15 each. Unless you of course are suggesting that we get rid of all the middlemen, then people who don't go to concerts wouldn't get to buy music.

  7. Re:Heat = power consumption = money on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 1

    No, you will just upgrade your fan to a pair of Turbofans blowing at 50000 RPM, one in each direction so your case doesn't spontaneously take flight.

  8. Re:What happens when you tip the thing over? on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would assume that it would work in a range of angles. And that you could attach one to a heatsink on a tower case, provided that there was clearance "above" the processor.

  9. Re:yeah on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tiny bubbles,
    in my wine,
    makes me happy,
    makes me feel fine.

    Tiny bubbles,
    in my beer,
    makes me happy,
    all the year,

    Tiny bubbles,
    in my keg,
    makes me wonder why,
    I can't feel my legs,

    Tiny bubbles,
    in my whiskey,
    makes me drunker,
    makes me feel frisky,

    Tiny Bubbles,
    in my rum,
    makes me stumble,
    makes me feel dumb,

    Tiny bubbles,
    in my brandy,
    makes me smile,
    makes me feel dandy.

  10. Pumpless circulation on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought that with a properly pressurized closed system that convection and boiling would keep things cool enough. I know this isn't the first silent system, I'm just curious what special benefit the "tiny bubbles" and microchannels provide... unless we are going to another proprietary IBM standard bus.

  11. Re:2 light seconds.. on US & Russia Pencil in Mars Launch by 2018 · · Score: 1

    Why don't we use the height of a Human Male ~6ft or ~2m. Which makes the Moon ~ 20 000 000U away. Hmmm Thats a bit of perspective....

  12. Re:Eathlink does this too. on AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers · · Score: 1

    If you are paying $5 a month, check out the church of the swimming elephant. Secure POP, webmail, personal hosting... and serious spam filtering.

  13. Re:i hate to give amazon credit for anything, but. on Ethics and Video Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    Ok, you are posting on slashdot, reading reviews at Amazon and you seem surprised that there is Bullshit on the internet.
    I would venture to guess, that there is no better source of information than Amazon reader reviews. BUT, if you don't have a functional filter(on your mind) you don't belong on the internet unattended.

  14. Re:LISP in 100 years on The Hundred-Year Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    SO, what you are saying is that in 100 years, we will still be using E-macs for everything but typing source code and word processing.

  15. Re:Evolutionary dead-end? on The Hundred-Year Language · · Score: 1

    Well, The "cobol paradigm" was dealing with data using natural language, of which, the code

    SELECT Username
    FROM Userlist
    WHERE Salary >50000
    Definitely qualifies.

  16. Re:Not a new concept... on Anger as a Software Design Philosophy · · Score: 1

    You know I have NEVER seen SHIT misspelled on slashdot. Now, I've seen people misspell fsck before.

  17. In the future... on The Hundred-Year Language · · Score: 1

    Programming languages will still have the same 3 characteristics they have today.
    First: They will be closely related to spoken language... Even Assembly language has a distant relationship with spoken language,
    Mov ax,z
    has a reasonably obvious meaning.
    Second: They will be related to mathematics. Unless there is some quantum paradigm shift in processor technology, computers will still ultimately work with moving numbers around. And progamming will be moving those numbers around in a way to establish and observe meaning.
    I would venture to predict that some variant or descendant of C will still be in use even if the dominant language is no longer english and therefore the base language has changed.

  18. HUH? on Sun Considers Opteron · · Score: 1

    Sun is definitely considering the possibility of maybe adopting and AMD processor in a new blade, but nothing has been decided yet, for sure.

  19. Switch something on Sharing MS-Access Databases, Efficiently? · · Score: 1

    I've used Access over shares as a front end, and as a back end. And as others have said in their various ways, replace Either the front end or the back end. DON'T use Access for both. Whipping out a custom VB or web frontend to an existing database using standard automated tools is practically seamless, and with "ONLY" 50 users you can get away with leaving Access as the backside. You could also go with switching the actual data to any of the previously recommended Backends(MySQL, MSSQL,Oracle, etc) and leave the code/frontend in Access. That of course will require you deal with the mess that is Access and ODBC. So ultimately plan to replace both, but schedule one to replace first and phase into replacing both.

  20. Re:Sad but...right.... on Concorde to be Grounded · · Score: 1

    Hey, will that one be able to travel through time too??

  21. Re:what if my computer catches fire? on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, They insure all sizes and price ranges. I would guess however that since it would be a fairly one of a kind package that the research costs would cut into the premiums fairly substantially at the beginning. Perhaps someone with more money than I have could contact a Lloyd's broker and get more information.

  22. Re:what if my computer catches fire? on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    Yes, BUT you still pay the $75 OEM cost for that single license, which isn't signifigant for one computer but if 1000 computers blow up, starts to become signifigant quickly.

  23. Re:Dangerous Technology? on Deus Ex Writer Discusses 'Dangerous Technology' · · Score: 1

    When I referenced "organ farms" I was refering to the growing of clones and harvesting of parts... since the technology for doing that is very nearly available. Where the morally neutral technology of growing a spleen isn't quite so nearly complete YET.

  24. Re:what if my computer catches fire? on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    Lloyd's of London DOH That will teach me to use preview

  25. Re:what if my computer catches fire? on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    I would check with Lloyd's. Last I checked, they would insure anyone for anything.


    Oh, did you think I couldn't answer that...