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  1. Not Safe on Buy a Moller SkyCar Prototype on eBay · · Score: 1

    Even a helicopter can land if it's engines fail. That thing will fall like a rock, and the passengers will die.

  2. Duh on Evolution Of The Online Tax Debate · · Score: 1

    Probably for the same reason catalogs have been around for so many years...

  3. Re:what about overseas tax? on Evolution Of The Online Tax Debate · · Score: 1

    They would have been purchasing something worth the S&H in the first place. If they come for a visit and make a purchase, they pay tax don't they?

  4. The author on Effective Java · · Score: 5, Informative

    J. Bloch wrote the collections framework. His code is clean... I mean, really clean. Given the author's credentials, I suspect this'll stand out in the vast ocean of Java lit...

  5. I'll tell you what went wrong on Voters News Service: What Went Wrong · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So they're having a meeting dicussing requirements for a stable system, and an idiot say's "we must have voice recognition."

    Java, Oracle, DB2, BEA - nope, those were symptoms of a deeper failure...

  6. Stupid - dumb - moron on Internet Taxation May Be Imminent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey, I have an idea - let's just tax folks who can't or don't know how to buy online! Let's tax the ignorant people - they're all black anyway.

  7. Re:780000 lines ? on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 1
    Lots

    of

    line

    breaks

    within

    functions

    I hate that shit.

  8. Bad design? on Buy Your Very Own Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even helicopers can land if their engines fail. It looks to me that if those engines fail, the passenger is outta luck.

  9. Great! on Myst MMOG Details Announced · · Score: 1

    Myst has been a family activity in my house. Quality time solving puzzles together. Now we won't have to wait for the next game!
    I think I'll have to buy a wireless keyboard/mouse and connect my tv to my graphics card. This could replace must see tv...

  10. No! on Slides Of Microsoft Anti-GPL Advocacy · · Score: 1

    It's free markets... not free software. Communism is so passee.

  11. I'm really really hoping on William Gibson's Latest Novel · · Score: 1

    the movie will the movie will star Sandra Bullock!!! His books a so kewl ;-)

  12. Java bytecode as the native inst set... on Build Your Own Crusoe-Powered Computer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We in the Java world were creaming all over ourselves at this prospect.

    Why didn't they persue the embedded device executing bytecode natively path?

  13. Does this mean there is less chance on Linux Used To Make "Star Trek, Nemesis" · · Score: 4, Funny

    of it crashing at the box office?

  14. Minilla on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 1
    The name of "son of godzilla" that naver made it into into the english versions of the movies.

    http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/son-of-godzilla.h tml

  15. Add a distribution clause on Protecting Your Code While Allowing Source Access? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Add a clause to your license/contract preventing the sale or redistribution in source or binary form. Don't get a lawyer. Find an existing clause and paraphrase it.

    An honest client simply needs to know the rules. If they are unsure of your intent, their lawyer will ask you to clarify.

    Even if you got a lawyer to write it, a crook isn't going to care...

  16. I don't know why anyone on Massive Two Towers Battle · · Score: 4, Insightful
    would care what effects are in movies anymore. They can do anything, they have BIG computers.


    This is a good thing. The last Star Wars finially convinced me that Lucas is a POS because I wasn't distracted by his "special effects."


    Hopefully effects will now be more relevant to the story if we are taking cgi for granted.


    My guess is TTT can hold it's own without the gee whiz cgi.

  17. 100% Java on Professional Apache Tomcat · · Score: 1

    For tomcat to do this would require a bug that would show up on all platforms (ie maintaining strong refs to unneeded objects). Perhaps it is the Solaris VM? Hmmm, I doubt it... Perhaps it is your developers ;-)

  18. Re:New battle zone for old fans on Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62 · · Score: 1
    No, but I'm aware of it. I keep meaning to try it.

    I believe Pointblank was radically different. There were 3 tank types type, one aircraft, and three types of tank ammo. Network play was the best...

  19. New battle zone for old fans on Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you were a fan, check out pandemic's battle zone II: http://www.pandemicstudios.com/games/bz2/index.htm It's like starcraft from inside a tank, only better. And does anyone know of a pc port of the Pointblank that used to ship with SGI's?

  20. Re:Java! on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 1

    But I'd still have to pay for it... These programs can be totally independent of the os, and they are what I really want, they are what I'd pay for.

  21. Java! on What's Keeping You On Windows? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CPU's are fast enough and the JDK is good enough. If games were written in Java we wouldn't need windows. WE NEED JAVA GAMES!!!!! And quicken too...

  22. Re:Buried in the site on Incredible Images of the Sun · · Score: 1

    It's a simple concept - so no doubt it will happen. The barrier is the processing power to combine these images in real time. I'll be excited when it finds it's way to my video camera. Combine that with nightshot and a dark infrared filter and a pool, and oh yeah baby ;-)

  23. Buried in the site on Incredible Images of the Sun · · Score: 5, Informative

    Took me awhile to find out how it works. In a nutshell: "The adaptive mirror actually changes shape 1000 times a second in order to adjust for the rapidly changing blurring of the image. Finally, we are using techniques to further sharpen the images after they have been captured by electronic cameras. In the best images the resolution is close to 0.1 arcseconds. This is a factor of 1200 better than 20/20 vision."

  24. Forest Gimp on Film Gimp · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well, that's all I got to say about that...

  25. It's "funnier" than you think on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    Trial lawyer Dan K. Webb represented him during Iran-Contra. Microsoft hired Webb during the remedy phase of the antitrust case. Hmmmm