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  1. Re:Old-fashioned watches on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    The truely sad thing is that the parent poster lives in Australia.

  2. Actualy all these uses are good on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    This article should be titled, "The ten things that people are still using despite significant pressure not to."

  3. Re:Kind of obvious but... on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    Right, and this article would be better named, "10 things that people are judging on merit despite significant pressure not to."

  4. Re:Analog watches are better when you're counting. on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    Just try it, it doesn't work. Just looking at the numbers makes forget the pulse count.

  5. Re:What about the other values of a tech? on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1
    "B) look like something that should have an Apple sticker on it."

    Whatever, Apple doesn't use stickers. An Apple watch would be worth its weight in gold.

  6. Re:With respect to dot matrix printers... on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die · · Score: 1

    Funny you mention carbon paper, because that is my number one technology that will not die. There is no advantage to carbon paper over the xerox. The original signature is the only original signature--carbon copies are just as not original as the xerox. But maybe I only hate this because my employer makes me fill out a change of helthcare form that has 6 copies (just try to push that hard and have it be legable).

  7. Re: barquedo on Balance Technology Extended (BTX) Explained · · Score: 0

    sure, you may ask, but I forgot.

  8. Re:Article text on Balance Technology Extended (BTX) Explained · · Score: 1

    How can you tell there is no password?

  9. Re:dead already? on Balance Technology Extended (BTX) Explained · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it was one of those ones where you have to load a new page every two paragraphs, so I didn't get anything more than the main page had.

  10. Intels never overheat on Balance Technology Extended (BTX) Explained · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, you never owned a Pentium 60, did you... I could fry a barquedo on the case of mine.

  11. Re:Slashdotted... on Balance Technology Extended (BTX) Explained · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I actually think they just left the max_connections at the default 100 and despite having (perhaps) plenty of capability to serve the pages, they are not. Evidence is that the .php is being executed rapidly.

    Hmm why should php make more than one pool worth of connections?

  12. Re:Ask Slashdot on Repairing Speaker Foam Surrounds? · · Score: 1

    I agree that this was not a main page ask slashdot... but more appropos here would have been something like "I'm looking for some new speakers for my computer that I can buy online. Does anybody know of a place that will record an .ogg file of how the speakers sound so that I can listen to them before I buy them?"

  13. Re:just like MS on Apple Releases Security Update 2004-01-26 · · Score: 1
    I don't know weather to write this as troll, astroturfing or just ignorance
    Nope, it was genuflecting pissed offness at Apple. I love Macintosh, I am a devoute Mac fan (all my home computers are macs and all my work computer that I buy are Macs, including the servers if at all possible) however, since I started using OS X I have noticed that I have to restart way more than when I was a RedHat user, though certainly less than when I was a MS user. However, in the last two months, I have installed 5 updates that required a restart. That just sucks.

    Alright, posted a comment that is negative twords apple in an apple article, mod me down just like the grandparent post.

    Updates are

    1. Todays
    2. Security Update 2003-12-19 (Panther) 1.0
    3. QuickTime 6.5
    4. Mac OS X Update 10.3.2
    5. Security Update 2003-12-05 for Panther 1.0
  14. just like MS on Apple Releases Security Update 2004-01-26 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I feel like I update my OS 10.3 box more than my win2k system! Its time Apple went to Microsoft's monthly update system.

  15. Re:First, and... on Could Broadband Over Power Lines be Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    This makes no sense--Con Eds lines burried in most of NYC. Just looked through all my old photos taken outdoors in NYC and I don't see a single power line. I also remember one day looking around my neighborhood (way out in Brooklyn) and finding none.

  16. Re:Anything that helps... on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 1
    I would remind anyone who is inclined to think of America as an unusually heroic military force that they have never won a significant military victory without superior numbers or equipment.

    How about the battle of Trenton. The famous image , of course, is of Washington crossing the Deleware with his raged men. But the reason that we have that image is that he lead those me into sure defeat and came out victorious.

  17. Re:Durability of the Mac on Macintosh's 1984 Debut · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm trying to imagine the labratory notebook of the biologist who discovered that computers were toxic:
    10.00 AM: computer feed to mouse
    10.01 AM: mouse exploded.
    Conclusion: computers are toxic.
  18. Re:Lousy analogy on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    This ripple effect is actualy a result of an imperfect process while the glass was being cooled. Glass does flow, just so slow that no glass that is intact could be ovserved to have flowed. here is a summary of an excelent article on the topic (the article is in a journal that does not publish free on line).

  19. Re:Well how can they safeguard against this? on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    Okay, how do you check if the service doesn't tell you where the hit was (many don't).

  20. Re:Well how can they safeguard against this? on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    So would these services incorrectly say that a paper with a block quote that is properly quoted and cited plagerism? They would have to... Some of these services only say if the paper is or is not plagerized, not what it thinks was plagerized so this can be a problem. This then puts the burden of proof on the student and how do you prove that your paper is not plagerized.

  21. Re:Hrmm on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    5) Work at a college where tutorials have only 10 or so people in them.

  22. Re:Keep 'em coming... on Mozilla 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    The thing that gets me is that "show source" can't just show you the source for the page you are looking at. It has to reload... problem being if the page way dynamic (i.e. you just hit "buy" or some such thing).

  23. Re:Is the eMac the only one? on Upgrade Your eMac · · Score: 1

    If the world were rational, yes. However, all the labs I have worked at we just called it LN.

  24. Re:Is the eMac the only one? on Upgrade Your eMac · · Score: 1

    Sorry, good point, only Access chews up 100% all the time. Word only eats 100% when you are using it (and then for the next several seconds).

  25. Re:Is the eMac the only one? on Upgrade Your eMac · · Score: 1

    liquid nitrogen