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  1. Re:Patterns Not Visible From Ground? on First Company Logo Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    2000 years ago the Nazca culture in what is now Peru drew large figures in the desert by scraping away the top soil layers. These figures also are not identifiable from the ground. Were the Nazca an ignorant civilization or one skilled in science and mathematics? If this catches on, perhaps in two thousand years to come, archaeologist will be trying to figure out why our culture made these drawings.

  2. Re:Prior art on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 1

    One thing I've come across in regards to shaving technology is cryogenic treated blades. In my own experience, cold-tempered blades hold a sharp edge for 3X to 4X more shaves than I would from an over-the-counter one from the same manufacturer.

    Here is where I order from: http://www.greatrazors.com/

    (standard disclaimers, your mileage may vary)

  3. The future for Nintendo DS owners? on Modded DS Adds Hard Drive For Some Reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi, we're from the [RIAA | MPAA | etc] and we have a court order which allows our expert look at your NintendoDS to see if it contains anything we can sue you for.

  4. Re:Disease damages motor functions.. on Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal · · Score: 1
    The advantage of the two-legged walk for people is that it is lower-energy, not that it's faster.
    An evolutionary advantage to walking on two legs is that it frees up two limbs to hold tools which could make getting food easier or provide a better defense against predators. It would be interesting if this macaque makes use of its hands. While highly unlikely, perhaps this behavior change is representative of the "missing link" scientist have been looking for.
  5. Re:Any hope of draconian fines? on RIAA Forgets to Make Royalty Payments · · Score: 1

    If not draconian fines or jail time for these yahoos, how about lining up the CEOs of these music coporations found in violation and have them make embarrassing commercials where they admit their guilt like what was done to those teens convicted of copyright violations for downloading music.

  6. Re:Call me ignorant, but... on Rexx Is Still Strong After 25 years · · Score: 1

    I agree, AREXX was a perfect match for the multi-tasking AmigaOS, one of the really good decisions to come out of Commodore.

    I created a simple inventory system in a single evening using ARexx and a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet had a single line header/footer limitation and I needed reports with multi-line headers/footers. I used an ARexx script to extract data from the spreadsheet and create reports formatted to my requirements. The spreadsheet did allowed Arexx scripts to be attached to a cell, this meant it was easy to invoke it, just click on the cell and the script launched right from the spreadsheet.

    OLE-like abilities before Microsoft even envisioned OLE.