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  1. Re:Like all this growth in government on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    First you don't need a Driver's license to get around. You don't need photo ID in most cases either.

    Second In most of the states that I know of you have 24 hours to produce proof of ID.

    If you leave your license at home, you can show it to a police officer with-in 24 hours. Not having it on you won't help your case any, but if a police officer is stopping you, you already screwed up once.

  2. Re:What Science Really is... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Except the entire new testament of the bible, which is a valuable resource in finding historical sites.

    jesus existed, he may of even been a carpenter turned preacher(that happens today even).

    The question becomes did he truely produce miracles, or was he just a believer in something bigger than himself?

  3. Re:Dark matter and lightsabers on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 1

    Why these are way better, and you don't need the drugs.

    http://parksabers.com/fusion.html

    Though the drugs might help you utilize the force.

  4. Re:No it won't on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 1

    And this time qui gon Jin gets to shoot first.

  5. Re:Good on Apple to Release first Tiger Update · · Score: 1

    nope been running tiger a little less than a week now.

    My problems were that when I orginially upgraded it failed to install the new dictionary toys, and isync.

    I couldn't find those as seperate packages so i had to upgrade everything again.

    Tiger broke 3 applescripts I was using, and had loaded into my dock, causeing the dock to lock up. When i finally got those removed, Tiger behaved. Firefox though doesn't behave very well, it locks up if I leave it running for a day or so. I can force it closed, then restart and I am good.

    Under Panther the only bug I experienced with firefox was the need to use the menu to open a new window to restore the text input boxes.

    All in all no major problems and I haven't had any of the problems that others have had.

  6. Re:In other news.. on Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims · · Score: 1

    Open Solaris was promised for in June of last year for novemember 2004, then it became January, 2005 then June 2005.

    Sun has got a good track record so far.

  7. Re:Stuff that matters on Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims · · Score: 1

    Actually Sun did promise it by the first of the year.

    then in december it became June.

    June is still possible, though My bet was for August 2005.

    Lucas promised episode III after I and II,

    Sun has been promising Open Solaris for the year, but they have also prmised it in the past, and then withdrew those sentiments.

  8. Re:Server? on IBM Gives SCO the Works · · Score: 3, Funny

    don't forget SCO claimed IBM hacked their ftp server to get at the linux source code that sco was still distributing.

    that hacking went the following way

    username : anonymous
    password : billsmith@ibm.com

    And that was when SCO still had an IT dept.

  9. Re:Business Idea on Toshiba Demonstrates Cell Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    That is almost exactly what I have been thinking. Though I had Levono dropping intel chips entrely, and moving the whole line-up over to Cell.

    Man could you imagine Micheal Dell's face when his competition is produce 10times the computer for the same price.

    Damn that would be funny.

  10. Re:I am still on Toshiba Demonstrates Cell Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    The hardware deterimes what gets broken down and how. At least that's how I understood it. There is a General PU(PowerPC core) and the other cores send their completed data back to memory when done.

    I think. I could be very wrong on it though.

  11. Re:Actually... on Trek Producers Will Provide World A Break · · Score: 1

    YEA and in the mirror universe they killed the vulcan's, and Archer and to backstab his way to the rank of captin. quite literally.

    Both episodes were took place in the mirror universe. There was no cross over. The regular universe is the same as it ever was.

    of course, you couldn't of known that be watching the opening sequence or anything like that. I mean Earth bombing Vulcan is normal right?

  12. Re:Flying on High-Speed Trains in the US? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Um I can drive farther faster, than you can take a train. It's also a lot less expensive.

    I do agree flying between random points is very expensive, but flying to major points is cheap.

    ie from Syracuse, NY to Boston ma is $400 flying takes 3hours including time spent waiting.

    Driving takes 5 hours, non-stop

    Rail takes 12 hours, price I don't know.

  13. Re:Voice recognition on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can only build a machine cheaper if your time is worthless.

    I need someone to do some yard work can I hire you for $1 a day? That is your going computer assembly rate. So it won't be much of a difference.

    You do reaize that in order to put even a nano-itx board into a mac mini chassis, you can't have a cd-rom drive right?

  14. Re:And this is why... on Microsoft to Introduce PDF competitor 'Metro' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mentioned $1,000 plus printers but the ones that won't switch are the $100,000 pls printers. You don't switch document formats to an untested one in a press that costs that much.

  15. Re:Again, the keywords are: IN ONE BLOCK on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    That's hundreds of Meg's inside a 3MP camera.

    Professional's use 5-8MP camera's.

    My roommates personal camera is 6MP. And he isn't even a professional.

    It's quite literally a just because he could camera.

    At his work it's not unheard of to print banners 5' x 18". That's 90 square feet. a 9'x9' is 81 square feet.

    Now They have done multi-part printings, to create banners in the 20x 10 foot range, at photo quailty off of a digital press.

    Now would you like to manipulate that image?

  16. Re:Let me tell you about 16 to 32 bit on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    As I ahv esaid to many others.

    PHOTOSHOP.

    Those desktop publishers, are loving apple again. 64-bit processors with 4-6 gb of RAM are getting chewed up in no time.

    Combine that with Photographers are using RAW uncompressed image data, and you have a lot of pixels, and memory being used by a single image. on the order of several hundred megs per image. Now open up two or three of them, plus the OS, plus the apps in the background, 4 gigs can be chewed up in no time.

  17. Re:Trademark infringement? on Mac mini's New Friend · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What your forgetting is that Apple promotes third party additions. With the special requirements of the Apple crowd(style, form, function, design) third party toys are a tough sell.

    Take a good look around ipod accessories. Heck even Radio Shack has them now. With such a name they probably didn't get Apple's approval, but if it match's Apple style closely enough Apple doesn't care.

  18. Re:"Xtreme equipment" you say... on 'Xtreme' Equipment That You Have Borrowed? · · Score: 1

    Three words for you

    Battery Operated Sawzall.

    Cut the door locks off very quickly.

  19. Re:5 Acres isn't all that big on Mid-Range Wireless Deployment for the Home User? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Actually I was think he would need two or three base stations and a couple of directional antenna's .

    Remember Trees's, buildings, block, and there is no garruentee that the property is square.

    One Access point for each large building connected by a directional antenna. As long as you can bridge the points together it would work.

    Maybe two Airport extreme base stations one with the extended omni directional antenna the other with a directional antenna pointed at the first. The second one would be set to extend the range of the first one.

    Of course that option isn't much cheaper at $600 or so.

  20. Re:spyware on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1

    The question I have to ask is. Other than slowing a system down because of increase use of resources, has anyone ever seen a spyware app crash?

    MS Office, yep
    IE, yep
    Open Office, a couple of times
    Gator? Not me.

  21. Re:DMCA prevents Nikon from making money... on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 1

    Around 400MB. For a single image!

    Not to mention that Nikon Capture is generally slow as molasses, even on my A64 3500+ w/ 1GB RAM. Who do they think they're fooling?


    Um at 400mb for a single uncompressed image at 6MP there is a reaso why the program is slow. Damn, That doesn't make any friggin sense.

    of course the sudden drop of nikon sales ought to change things in about a year.

  22. Re:Translated Webpage on The Bender PC Case · · Score: 1

    Nice site you first post to a ste that can't handle the load.

    Too many translation requests by millions of users. Please click here or try again later.

    That is what I got they couldn't even format the link properly.

  23. Re:Good! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    The problem is which part survives?

    If Europe and/or the USA survives we just might do that.

    If the rock lands say in the mid atlantic crush both with debris, and tidal waves, china would then rule supreme.

    It all depends on who is alive afterwards.

  24. Re:Linux? on New 640-Node Apple Xserve Cluster at UIUC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course Slowaris 10 only runs on Opterons, and Sparcs. not PowerPC.

    Advantage Linux. It runs on more platforms than you can remember.

    Note x86 support is there but i wouldn't bet your hardware is supported completely. Between that and Sun's management telling the F/OSS community that the GPL developers don't matter they should get's lots of help.

  25. Re:SAMs? on U.S. Military's Hackers · · Score: 2, Funny


    These things are connected to the internet?


    isn't everything? I know I connect our bluegene supercomputer to the regular net. of course beta testing Windows for High performace computing, I got a virus which turned it into a massive spam relay.

    Do yo know how much spam you can send with a pair a t-3's the world's fastest supercomputer?