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  1. Re:Bad Patent for a Bad Invention on Dean Kamen Awarded Patent For Robot Competition Rules · · Score: 1

    During my high school years my favorite time was when the GM sponsored team showed up in a brand new H2+trailer to haul their robot and accessories. My team, from a relatively small town in central Virginia rolled up in our teacher sponsor's beat down conversion van.

    What irked me about the engineer mentors was when I would overhear them say "it's doing exactly what we designed it to do" and other bits like that. My team never finished very high, but we designed and built all of it by ourselves in our school shop. We only had about 5 people that were really dedicated and about another 10 that half cared what was going on. Sure we had local engineers helping us, but it was for helpful input rather than whole ideas.

    FIRST was fun, but the sponsorship generally throws everything off balance.

  2. Used this years ago on Virgin American In-Flight Internet Review, From In-Flight · · Score: 1

    I used Connexion by Boeing over the Atlantic on SAS about 5 years ago or so. The speeds were good considering I was 36,000 feet above the water somewhere between Iceland and Greenland. The prices were similar then, I think. I used it for a few hours just browsing and chatting and didn't run into any problems. I would pay for it again, but only on long haul flights.

    Connexion shut down due to financial feasibilty, is this the same satellite network but with new owners?

  3. Re:The market can only decide if it CAN decide on French Lawmakers Approve 'iTunes Law' · · Score: 1

    Oh I've already had it for a few years, but I'm out of the country until August. The quality is great, someone spend a good amount of time on it. It's for a 2004, but most everything applies to 2002/2003 as well. In fact I think it covers some 2002/2003 specific content as well but don't quote me on that. What are you trying to fix? I might be able to tell you if it's covered in the manual. Also, check out http://forums.nasioc.com/ There is a lot of very good information you can search for that would probably help you out.

  4. Re:The market can only decide if it CAN decide on French Lawmakers Approve 'iTunes Law' · · Score: 1

    Ebay is a great place to find the service manual for Subarus. I got my Impreza service manual for about $25. The legality of it is questionable, though, as it was all scanned and put on a CD. I'd offer to help you out, but I have no access to it until mid to late August.

  5. Re:Reminds me of... on Crunching the Math On iTunes · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just delete whatever interviews/songs you don't like? Or take them out of your playlist/library? Seems like all this metacrap is getting out of hand.

  6. Re:Cool. on $20 Cellphones Possible with TI's New Chip · · Score: 1

    Not really, if you can get a contract from a company to work then that's basically all you need. My sister (Swedish citizen) and her husband (US citizen) both got jobs with Sony Ericsson over here and decided to move. He had no trouble at all, but my sister risks losing her Green Card because she isn't in the US enough.

  7. Re:It Took Them Less Time to De-orbit Than The Dri on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    Wow I didn't even look out that far. Thanks for the info, now I know they're different numbers in different directions.

  8. Re:It Took Them Less Time to De-orbit Than The Dri on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    The big runway I see is 04. Is the other end of it 22? I can't make it out because of all the tire marks. I'm a bit uninformed as to how they name runways.

    I guess it could be runway 22 the other way as the shuttle had to make a greater than 180 degree turn

  9. Re:Good to know. on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. "and was the commander on STS-93 (July 22-27, 1999)." http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/collins.html

  10. Re:anyone else woken up by the sonic booms? on Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely · · Score: 1

    Untrue, there was a third possible landing site for this mission in White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico. Then there's a long list of other possible places: http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/facility/sts-e ls.htm Notice that some of those are regular commercial airports like Arlanda, Sweden (Stockholm's airport) and Orlando IAP.

  11. Re:Cool. on $20 Cellphones Possible with TI's New Chip · · Score: 1

    Exactly what we've got here in Sweden. We call it Refill, free voicemail, texts cost the same as any other plan. Want to move? :)

  12. Re:No Services on Boot? on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 1

    The only time I've had spyware was when I wasn't paying attention and hit the spacebar accidentally at the same time my machine asked if it could install something. The dialog box went up and away so fast that I almost missed it. Ran adaware immediately and it was gone.

    I don't use that much protection, either. It's all a user issue.

  13. Re:Holding your breath... on Star Wars DVD Set Previews/Reviews · · Score: 1

    APEX DVD players are (according to my movie-buff friends) supposedly the best DVD player out there as far as playing anything you put in it. It may not be the best quality player, but it won't spit much back out at you.

  14. Re:Does it matter? on Ericsson Pulls Bluetooth Division · · Score: 2, Insightful

    True, SE have mostly the same cell phones in both markets (except for which GSM bands they have), but the US cell phone market is still far behind the European.

    The 2-3 year gap he was talking about is with the networks, the adoption of the superior GSM tech; just basically the slow movement of the US cell phone market in general.

  15. Re:I Have Something Even Cooler... on The iPod Gets WiFi, Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Great, now you've ruined it for all of us. Thanks. There goes the last free and legal source of music.

  16. Re:Just my luck. . . on GPS Cell Phone in Soda Can Form · · Score: 1

    You do realize cell phones work in planes, right?

  17. Re:Computer Science != Programming on Math And The Computer Science Major · · Score: 1

    You know, they told us that here at VT too, but all I saw was codecodecode... Changed majors to more using computers than making them work.

  18. Re:Morons didn't even check out the website on A Camaro That Leaves A Wake · · Score: 1

    His point was that if it still has the boat underbody it will create lift. Take this boat underbody away by sliding panels away or however they do it, you reduce lift.

  19. Re:Knight Rider 2000 on A Camaro That Leaves A Wake · · Score: 1

    Also it wasn't a series, but a movie.

  20. Re:1100 nodes=? on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    1100 computers, each one has two processors.

  21. Re:Video cards... on Drooling Over VA Tech's 1100-Node G5 Cluster · · Score: 1

    They all have dual DVI-out cards...

    ohohohohoh - I got to plug a bunch of these babies in, too :D

  22. Re:is that so? on Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer? · · Score: 1

    Haha - I was there too. Know anything about the new date?

  23. Re:MS Failures... on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1
    Ehm - would you look at the close and maximize buttons again? There is separation there.

    If it's such a pain, why not just double click on the title bar?

  24. Re:a shame then on Next Wave Of Hard Drive Tech: Perpendicular Recording · · Score: 1
    and am a photoholic

    I am a perfect example of someone who needs a sub 200$ terabyte in a few short years.

    Sounds to me like you need some kind of professional help.

    Unless it's for business related needs, I don't see why anyone needs that much data storage.

  25. Re:Steam engine??? on Nanotech Pinball and Miniature Engines · · Score: 1

    Scientists have developed a nuclear, coal, and gas generators that power entire cities with STEAM!!!