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  1. Re:here's an example... on Scientists Speed up Light · · Score: 1

    It's not the time it takes for the shadow to appear on the wall! It's the speed of the shadow relative to the wall.

    I find the opposite scenario easier to understand. Shine a spotlight on a distant wall. By changing the angle of the light, the spot will move. If the wall is far enough away, the spot will move faster than the speed of light.

  2. Re:FP! on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But if no one posted first, then no one could post second, or third, and there'd be no posts at all.

  3. Re:Wouldn't that be a "Gynoid" on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 1

    More like a metrosexualoid.

  4. Re:Kill two birds with one stone. on Free Web Hosting a Fount of Malware · · Score: 1

    For the love of God! </blink> Aaah... much better...

  5. Re:Use a Scanner on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 1

    Well, neither. Lower resolution was probably a bad choice of words. I meant less data per area unit, since the grooves are more sparse and the revolution time is shorter; meanwhile, the bandwidth is lower.

  6. Re:Use a Scanner on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 1

    Probably not. One of the competing project groups (*) managed to get even better sound than Springer from an LP, The Beatles' "Help". We think this is because that was an unusually low density LP, but still.

    (*) when we did our project.

  7. Re:Use a Scanner on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't have said that if you had listened to the samples from Springer :-)

    Sibling poster iainl is of course right. Also, since the LP grooves are denser and move less, they are represented by fewer pixels when scanned, which gives a considerably lower SNR.

  8. Re:Use a Scanner on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Standard plug: We did roughly the same thing, but with 78 RPMs. Of course, it sounded much better, because of the lower resolution of 78 RPM disks.

    http://www.s3.kth.se/signal/edu/projekt/students/0 3/lightblue/

  9. Re:Men in Black? on AMD Launches Athlon 64 FX-57 · · Score: 1

    Mi = Megabinary = 1024*1024
    M = Mega = 1000*1000

    Please, no more flamewars. Hard drive manufacturers destroyed M = 1024*1024 years ago.

  10. Re:All right.. on Three Planets Racing this Weekend · · Score: 1

    Scientists renamed Uranus in 2636 to end that joke, once and for all.

    Now it's called Urectum.

  11. Re:One little problem: MSN Messenger on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was pretty crappy even before AOL bought it. If AOL added the kitchen sink, then Mirabilis had already installed the plumbing.

    Nnow, even the "light" version is heavier than OpenOffice.org.

  12. Re:APB on First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Modern Å is the correct transcription of French (e)au and corresponding spellings in English: bureau becomes byrå; however, the letter å is originally derived from the long, back, semi-closed North Germanic a sound, spelt aa (pronounced roughly like "awe"). It is still spelt aa in many Norwegian and Danish names

  13. Re:What is this world coming to? on Bill Gates Claims OSS Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 5, Funny

    An OS should be like a screw driver.

    One part vodka, three parts orange juice?

  14. Re:Yes, but what is happening to opera? on Firefox Continues Gains against IE · · Score: 1

    That'd be too bad, it's my preferred browser, and I'm sorry to say I doubt they'd opensource it any sooner than Netscape did. That is, too late to save the company and the browser.

    However, Opera has another niche in mobile phones, which they might focus more on in the future. Does anyone know it there is there any progress in porting Gecko to these platforms? Goota love competition.

  15. Re:Isnt..... on New Netscape Browser Prototype Available · · Score: 1

    Mozilla is not GPL. The Mozilla Public License is even GPL-incompatible.

  16. Re:How is this a trade secret? on Apple Sues Think Secret · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe they were about to release a $600 Mac. Now, there will be great disappointment when they charge more than the rumours said, and they will have to defend themselves by saying "We never said we'd release a $500 Mac", but the damage is already be done.

  17. Re:FCP on Games Knoppix · · Score: -1, Troll

    Troll the ancient Yule tide carol!
    Fa la la la la, la la la la!

    :-)

  18. Re:famous quote from world war 2nd and the nazi er on MPAA Goes After More Bittorrent Site Operators · · Score: 1

    That would be Martin Niemöller.

  19. Re:Question on Revising the GPL · · Score: 4, Informative

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  20. Re:No way... a bug in IE? on New Spoofing Vulnerability in IE · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I wouldn't exactly call one single water molecule a "clear, wet substance".

  21. Re:Global warming? on Bad Science Awards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Kyoto does not require anyone to increse their CO2 emmissions. At most, it allows them to.

  22. Re:Google cache on Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego · · Score: 1

    Eh, wrong. They save a thumbnail for the image search. They don't save images for the Google cache of an entire page.

  23. Re:Speaking of misinformation... on History of the First Internet · · Score: 0

    political-defense algorithm

    So what you're saying is that Al Gore should have applied his political-defense algore-ithm?

  24. Re:0% IE, 100% Firefox on Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90% · · Score: 1
  25. Re:opera on Opera Facing Losses While Firefox Usage Grows · · Score: 1

    When you pay you get upgrades as well.

    http://www.opera.com/buy/upgrade/: All decimal upgrades within one Opera version are free (for example, upgrading from 7.23 to 7.54 is free).

    It won't be outdated in six months.