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  1. Outside this chain of trust... on The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...is a duped slashdot article.

  2. This Just In.... on 'Haute Cuisine' on Mars · · Score: 1

    FAMINE STRIKES ON MARS "It's like a fuc*ing desert!" says one astronaut.

  3. Doxygen... on What Makes a Good Design Document? · · Score: 1

    "...Make that shit up as you go!"

  4. Re:Be on the lookout for on Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be shocked if one of those 2 winds has nukes too. But that's another story.

  5. Re:And here I am... on Battlestar Galactica in HD · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bitme TV for all of your tv-related needs. got the entire season+movie in one fell swoop.

  6. Re:Oil industry? on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I beg to differ, while oil is still a significant power source, that outlet could still be powered by solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, or even nuclear power.

  7. Re:Oil industry? on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    More importantly, why has Honda/Toyota decided not to adopt these as factory options?

  8. Re:Probably bad for eyesight. on Health Consequences of CRT Monitors? · · Score: 1

    I think the condition you're referring to is "Diplopia" (sp?) where the eyes tend to cause you to "see double" past a certain distance - it can be aggrivatted by excessive computer use. The exercise is "pencil pushups - where you focus on a pencil that you being closer and closer to your face until your eyes "give up". Another is to look/focus at something far away, then something nearby - the idea is to force your eyes to work together. Yes, I have it. Yes a doctor told me all of this...It can lead to lazy-eye if you let it persist.

  9. Re:The rise (again) of console gaming... on Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Out of curiousity, would someone care to name a few examples of these "hobby apps?" I'm unfamiliar with the term/genre.

  10. AMD should... on Dell Rejects AMD Chips (again) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...make anti-Dell remarks in public - and refuse to ever offer them a bargain. Then maybe Dell will stop trying to whore wintel for money.

  11. Re:Theological Impact on Microbes Alive After Being Frozen for 32,000 Years · · Score: 0

    Marklar?

  12. Re:Phonelabs Dock-n-Talk is an universal dock on Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For the price of a landline AND two cellphones, you just might find an unlimited plan :-p

  13. Re:Past Employee\Prior art on Yahoo! Sues Xfire Game Browser · · Score: 1

    I remember ICQ's "Play Quake" option way back in 96

  14. Re:Yup...too far from now on Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029 · · Score: 1

    We may still own a palm pilots by then?

  15. Mod Parent Up on Google Raises Word Limit · · Score: 1

    It's true, I haven't been able to check it ALL DAY- - That's almost as bad as slashdot being down. Some of my other friends have access still, but my account is teh suxxor at the moment.

  16. Yeah, but... on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    ...the man who appointed that which *isn't*.

  17. Damnit.... on Being Free is Hard to Do · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "I hate the Bizzaros...except for turtleface, he's cute."

    "...I HATE the Stallmanites....especially Richard, he's a fucking Nazi."

    I know I'll get modded "-10 million, flamebait" because most of you hang out RIGHT HERE. You don't have a "right" to my sourcecode, period. You have a right to use free software, but you don't have a right to make me starve! I'm sick of people asking for the source of my apps just because they listen to that man like he's God or something. When I find that it's no longer paying the rent, I'll open it up. But as long as I sell a piece of software that outperforms your GPL'd equivalant, I eat - the end.

  18. Re:so incomplete, it's actually untrue on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    That's half the point, have you ever really sat and stared at the tvs in best buy? The reason CRTs do so well is because the pixel's *aren't* so clearly defined, that 1080i image is being presented via more *detail*, not more pixels. When I say interlacing, I meant to convey the fact that the pitch of the CRTs beam can be shifted - not that pixels are actually mixed/superimposed out of the air (though, given a large enough CRT, they can be.)

  19. Re:Horseshit on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Furthermore, later on in the article they point out that flat panels are better for digital because they can deal with the higher resolutions of HDTV. Now how can a CRT have better picture quality than plasma, but plasma have a better resolution making it better for HDTV?

    Interlacing

  20. Re:Only got to the first page but... on 2004 Indie Games of the Year · · Score: 1

    I think you need to look at some more pages before rendering your decision. There are no games out there like GISH on the shelf at Walmart or Fry's - there may never be.

  21. Re:I have a magic box on How Do You Make International Calls? · · Score: 1

    (the other day we had a network problem in my office but the Phone still worked! They must have some good QoS routing).
    You have to admit though, as *cheap* as VoIP is - overall internet reliability may never reach that of the POTS network.

  22. No matter what steam does for you... on Valve Bans Another 30,000 Steam Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please don't mod me troll for this, But if you changed "Valve" to "Microsoft" and "HL2" to "Windows XP", there would be ALOT more cries of foul-play.

    I don't approve of Valve suspending accounts that are potentially associated with even ONE paying customer. Steam is a (overall) good thing, but I think it's gonna go a little too far.

  23. Re:Appeal? on Valve Bans Another 30,000 Steam Users · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have a right to take it back to the store and excahange it, in that case. You can simply cite the product as "defective". Walmart is especially good about this, mainly bc they don't yet have any notion of the value of a CD key.

  24. I'd pay $35 for only one N64 Game..... on Emulation and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Zelda64: Ocarina of Time

  25. I'm having childhood nightmares.... on Open Letter to Doom Fans from Script Writer · · Score: 1

    about the Super Mario Bros Movie, and how it scared me into hating the game.