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  1. Re:I can't wait... on Mastering Light · · Score: 1

    enough of this punishment!!!

  2. Re:For how long? on Mastering Light · · Score: 1
    You can't keep on sending out higher frequency light than came in.

    As was mentioned a bit above, if you send pulses of a higher frequency in, you get a continuous stream of lower frequency light out. Similarly, If someone were to shoot a low frequency of light into this crystal, perhaps some sort of control could be developed to continually pulse higher frequency light out of the system.

    ...this technique could be described as 'saving' or 'borrowing' wave cycles.

    I would think of it more as compressing or decompressing the stream of waves as a whole, instead of adding or subtracting a few wavelengths.

  3. Re:I can't wait... on Mastering Light · · Score: 1, Funny

    Also the amplitude of their low quality.

  4. Re:Simple... it's antiwater on Water Flows Uphill · · Score: 1

    At first, when I read your post I exclaimed "Ah HA! We're on to something here!" Then I realized that there is an error in your theory.

    The water flows up the ramp and down the side of it into a collection pool, where it procedes up the next ramp. If Hoover-man was using anti-time, wouldn't the waterfall part of this contraption also travel from the collection pool to the top of the glass triangles?

    It makes you wonder... If the water finishes traveling down (but because of the anti-time coating, up) the glass, does it just traverse the time continuum and head down the other side of the glass into each pool? How much energy is lost in each conversion from time to anti-time, and anti-time to time, time after time? Also, in the collection pools, where the water is not as thin, is there a layer of Anti-Time too? What happens to the water molecules affected by the anti-time that touch the forward-time water?

    Perhaps we'll never know, or on the other hand we could get some explosives and detonate what do not understand.

  5. Re:It's not a waterfall then, is it? on Water Flows Uphill · · Score: 1

    Possibly a waterrise?

  6. Re:is it me or is that kind of weird? on Wireless Wine Monitoring · · Score: 2, Funny

    This whole idea sounds like sour grapes to me =)

  7. Re:Embedded... on The Internet and The War · · Score: 1

    Oh my it looks like I did. Well, that's an interesting idea, but pick a new word dammit! Make one up or something!

  8. Re:In Australia... on The Internet and The War · · Score: 0

    In America our oxygen is evaporated at room temperature...

  9. Embedded... on The Internet and The War · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The news ruined the word "embedded" for me...Embedded reporters watching soldiers fight, take a piss, talk about this war like it had been going on for even two months, watching them do whatever...I will always hear that word from now on and think of soldiers doing mundane things.

    As for them using "Microsoft Chat" or whatever they called it, that's just plain irresponsible. If people have trouble using computers for simple email every day then why on God's (sandy) earth do they think those same technologies will hold up in much more mission-critical military conditions?

  10. Holy Shrooms, Batman! on MacHack Theme Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Uh, I've never thought of it that way but god it's scary now that you mention it...

  11. Re:Touchy subject on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    God, I hope it wasn't Half-Life (*wink wink*, CS) that you missed out on...

  12. Re:Whose computers still crash? on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    A couple buddies in the dorm gawked when I (yes, stupidly) ran out of battery power whilst installing Jag onto my iBook, and it recovered without even noticing.

    They also thought it was incredible when that was the last time they ever saw me log in (the day Jaguar came out).

  13. not first post on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    6000000...that's a lot of posts...

  14. As O'Reilly goes... on HTTP: The Definitive Guide · · Score: 1

    I've kept "Web Design in a Nutshell" within arm's reach for about three years now, and while the only reason I need it nowadays is when the bud kicks in, it was an enourmous help when I was trying to learn HTML and related technologies. YES, I know the submitter said HTTP, I'm talking about a different O'Reilly book.

    Even if it doesn't seem like the smartest thing to do (I just posted yesterday about how I'd never buy a programming book), O'Reilly makes some damn good books.

  15. Re:Is there any wonder? on Does Gaming Reduce Productivity? · · Score: 1

    I can see where that might be true, but how does that explain the fact that America, one of the younger countries on this planet, is also one of the most powerful? It looks like somewhere along the line a few or maybe even a lot of Americans figured out how to manage to be free and be productive simultaneously.

    Maybe due to the hard work of our predecessors we are a bit lazier, but I don't see America just having an economic cardiac arrest anytime soon.

  16. Re:previous version was good on PHP and MySQL Web Development, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    Actually I just thought of a book. Web Design in a Nutshell by O'Rielly got me started on HTML a few years back and I kept that book near me a all times until I'd memorized every single page.

  17. Re:Now that you bring it up... on Does Gaming Reduce Productivity? · · Score: 1

    Hey, if I can make money saying that then it doesn't bother me that you don't like it.

  18. Re:What companies should do on Does Gaming Reduce Productivity? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree that it does sometimes spark companionship between people that otherwise might have not met. I met a couple people at work through this very manner and I must say it was easier than your usual talk of weather or perhaps a semi-uncomfortable lunch where very little is exchanged until you warm up to someone.

  19. The best wireless solution... on The Wireless Networking Question Roundup... · · Score: 3, Funny
    for any problem can be made with a few household items:

    1. A tin can
    2. Another tin can

    Since it is a wireless system no string or twine is neccessary. You'll find that with a little imagination The Tin Can System is effective at several kilometers.
  20. Re:at some point... on New G3-Based Platform Runs Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The article makes mention of Debian (go Purdue!) and MorphOS shipping with the computer, so It may be hard for Apple to come down on them for a EULA violation. Individuals would have to be the target .

  21. Re:Uh, really? on Apple Considering a Break-Up? · · Score: 1

    You'd never catch me using windows on a PPC unless I also happened to have a large automatic weapon strapped to my head, currently being operated by someone who dislikes me.

    The whole point of switching OSX to x86 is that Windows is a horrible operating system. If I had enough know-how to maintain a Linux OS I'd be doing it. If OSX was on x86 I'd be there. The main advantage of having a mac is no longer superior hardware; those days have past. Apple's strength now lies in its OS...for now.

    Putting Windows on a PPC machine would only *decrease* it's usefulness, not increase. They could stand to gain some money if they threw windows onto Apple hardware, as that's the bulk of their income anyway, but why would they offer their biggest competitor (who already has enough help as it is from monopolizing everything) a chance to outsell OS X more than it already does?

  22. Am I crazy? on Monday, The Death of Websites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    or do those developers need to possibly develop on a copy of the website not accessible to the public? I mean, it's not hat hard to hit cp -R and transfer your updated functioning website to the primary directory...Maybe I'm the only one that doesn't tinker with things that people are hitting as I type.

  23. Re:previous version was good on PHP and MySQL Web Development, 2nd Edition · · Score: 0

    It seems sort of odd to have a book about a language which makes dynamic that which isn't already. The book can't change with the times. I've never really understood that about any sort of web programming book. For any programming language, google is a better reference tool than almost any book. I only say almost because I'm sure someone can think of a good example.

  24. Re:Already been done on Power-over-Ethernet: IEEE 802.3af Draft · · Score: 0

    you put a space in "humor"

    click here to view.

  25. Which department? on Power-over-Ethernet: IEEE 802.3af Draft · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "like ma" or "Look ma!"?