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  1. WiMax on When Pigs Wifi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why should there be mass public investment in WiFi technology that will be replaced within a few years?

  2. Re:And for $99... on Build Your Own DVR · · Score: 1

    Circuit City has them free after rebate occasionally.

    Free as in beer.

  3. Re:This was done 12 years ago with Gershwin on Concert to be Performed from Beyond the Grave · · Score: 1

    Wrong, it was a Yamaha disklavier, probably the same model piano.

  4. This was done 12 years ago with Gershwin on Concert to be Performed from Beyond the Grave · · Score: 2, Informative
  5. DVD cleaner disc on Short Lifetimes of Optical Drives? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stop using a cleaner disc.

  6. Re:Sony had digital storage in 1981. on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It uses three 1/2 inch CCD's and records video stills to a small magnetic analog diskette which must be played in an appropriate device. Otherwise, the camera produces a conventional video image output which can be cabled to a conventional video recorder, monitor, or video printer. It recorded analog video, not digital.

  7. Re:Sony had digital storage in 1981. on Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents · · Score: 1

    Read your link again, it specifically states that the original MAVICA was not a digital camera. It was a still video camera.

  8. Laws need to include all future forms of tracking. on Utah Leads the Way Toward RFID Privacy Legislation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why come out with a new law each time there is a new form of technology? Just make it illegal to use ANY electronic database to surreptitiously track people. This can include facial recognition, RFID, gait recognition, electronic nose systems, cell phone triangulation, licence plate OCR, or any possible unforseen technological advances.

  9. Re:The good days of INTV on Intellivision's Deathiversary Celebrated, Mourned · · Score: 1

    I think there was a talking Tron game as well.

    My favorite was the synthesized southern accents in B-17. "That was aaawwwn Taarget!

  10. Re:Average Slashdot user on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wonder how they came up with that figure, the average hairdryer uses over 1000 watts, not that the average slashdot user needs one of those.

  11. Re:Gods Must Be Crazy on It's Official -- Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought for a second that this might be a good movie to enjoy with my son, but then I realized that he has probably never seen a glass coke bottle either. Sort of ruins the joke.

  12. Re:i call bullshit on Computer Engineering Degree Most Valuable · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    MBA= Masters of Business Administration So your sister has a Masters of Business Administration in Psychology? What University did she go to, FU? or maybe STFU?

  13. Three Words on Armadillo Flies... Briefly · · Score: 1

    Black Electrical Tape

  14. plain old DVD players cannot reproduce DVD-Audio on More on DVD-Audio and SACD · · Score: 5, Informative

    They may play in dolby digital but unless you have a DVD-Audio player you are NOT getting what you paid for. There are multiple audio tracks encoded on the disc, you are only playing the dolby digital 5.1 track. While this sounds better than CD, its still not DVD-Audio

    A DVD-Video player will not recognize and play the ultra-high fidelity PCM and MLP encoded audio tracks on a DVD-Audio disc. To play these tracks, a DVD player is required that meets the DVD-Audio specification. These players can be identified by the DVD-Audio logo.

    This seems to be an extremely common misconception, one that is even perpetuated by Best Buy employees. Ironically, they sell DVD-Audio discs but not the players!!

    info found on www.digitalaudioguide.com