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  1. Re:I thoght the California Condor... on The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt · · Score: 1

    Impossible-to-find items are the point, methinks. Or finding imaginative ways to satisfy the request. For example... perhaps merely a picture of a Condor would suffice?

  2. I'm sure it's better... on Trident XP4 Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    than my lowly i810. :) P.S. Am I the only one getting connection issues on Slashdot? Has Slashdot been Slashdotted?

  3. Re:Under Government Control +1, Insightful on Usability and Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Because mods are regular slashdotters, who are at once both easily amused and easily insulted?

  4. Re:Quality of slashdot coders on Usability and Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    10 YOU SUCK 20 GOTO 10

    Help! I'm caught in an infinite suckiness loop!

  5. Re:Oh Sweet Mother of God on Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney · · Score: 2, Funny

    And /.ers wonder why they're not accepted outside /. ;)

  6. IN SOVIET RUSSIA on Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You owned Disney.

  7. D000d, M@gl( l$ r341!!!! on Bigfoot A Hoax? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I saw David Blane take the head off a chicken one time, man, and it was off!!!!!!!1111!!!!! Totally gone! No camera tricks! Just headless chickens! There is no logical explaination for how that chicken lost its head and then got it back again, man! It can only be aliens! Er, Magic!

    And don't get me started on Jonathan Edwards! He so does not deserve Biggest Douche in the Universe, man! He's like in touch with God!

  8. Re:SWT? on Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think it's fair to say that SWT was left out because it is far from being a fundamental part of the language.

    Oh, but it should be.

  9. Re:SWT? on Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online · · Score: 1

    I didn't read all thousand pages, no. Nor did I notice any footnotes that numbered as high as 75 and 78. The footnote I referred to was on page 780.

    As for AWT, sure it's covered, but is SWT covered? Nope. This dispite the fact that it takes the best of AWT and Swing and combines them together in a stable, fast GUI package. The author talks about how great Eclipse is as an IDE, but decides to ignore the reason Eclipse is so wonderful... SWT.

  10. Re:Could you hook this on Fuel Cell Powered Backup System · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. Perpetual motion machine... that we can't see the motion of? ;) Seriously, the system would eventual break down as there would be a net loss of heat from the reaction.

  11. Re:The more I read, the more I'm scared... on Fuel Cell Powered Backup System · · Score: -1, Troll

    Had the Hindenberg been painted in a normal color, and not shiny silver, airships may have survived for some time to come.

    You mean they haven't survived? But I just saw the Goodyear Blimp yesterday! I must be imagining things again... ;)

  12. This sounds suspiciously to me... on Week-Long Free-Software Class for Kids? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...like indoctrination. I thought we /.ers hated indoctrination.

    Or is it just indoctrination that goes against our particular POVs??

  13. Mod Parent Flamebait... on Week-Long Free-Software Class for Kids? · · Score: 1

    ... cause how dare he think a MS OS is "good". P.S. JUST KIDDING! DON'T FLAME ME TOO!

  14. Re:Interesting read. on Did Life Originate Underwater? · · Score: 1

    *blush* Yeah... I caught that after I posted.

  15. Re:Interesting read. on Did Life Originate Underwater? · · Score: 1

    Ahh.. ahem.. forgot to hit "Preview"... that should be hydro-philic, not hydro-phalic. Freudian slip, I suppose. *blush*

  16. Interesting read. on Did Life Originate Underwater? · · Score: 1

    So, rather than self-replicating hydrocarbons forming in the air and dropping into the sea to become cells, we have half-hydro-phobic half-hydro-phalic molecular compounds forming cells from heavier chemicals and eventually developing self-replication later. It is rather topsy-turvey.

  17. Re:But... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1

    How about we throw a muffler on it? ;)

    Seriously. A simple vacuum spaced seal and stabilizers capable of handling the vibrations at connection points. It wouldn't add much bulk at all. Factor in the (effective) energy loss leaving the compressed air to the compression tube to the normal-pressure air, and you could end up with a virtually silent machine.

  18. Re:But they still can solve the *real* problem... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1

    I admit, the post was midly trollish (funny, it doesn't look trollish). But what post isn't? :D

  19. Re:But... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1

    Fine then, I'm off to Nutkinland. ;)

  20. Re:SWT? on Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online · · Score: 1

    Yay! SWT got a footnote! It's a start. Too bad the author is a Java purist who assumes Swing is the only way to build GUIs in Java.

    Swing Sucks! Down with Swing! Up with SWT!!!!

  21. SWT? on Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm downloading it now, but I'll be severely disappointed if there's not at least a mention of SWT in there.

  22. I'm still waiting for the Dune quips... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1


    Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooocho!
    </wierding-module>

  23. But they still can solve the *real* problem... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... the heat generated by the fridge. It's still more proportionately than the cooling it offers. Mark my words... global warming comes not from chloroflourocarbons (or however the hell you spell that), but from the heat let off by our refridgerators.

  24. Re:But... on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article specifically mentions that the sound intensity necessary can only be generated in a super-compressed gas. The sound wouldn't be audible to you at all. Or to your dog, for that matter. It would only exist inside the compression tube.

  25. Re:I'm confused on Oldest-Known Terrestrial Rocks Unearthed · · Score: 1

    Come on... somebody mod that post up!

    You are personally responsible for coke all over my keyboard, I hope you're happy. :)