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  1. You are right it's not real on Debunking The Need For 200FPS · · Score: 2

    As most games the clock is not async, I doubt every object was updated by 1/200th of T and all polys resubmited 200 times a sec. More likely is 140 "No change frames" and 60 or so actual updates.
    TMOICBW.

  2. Re:Screw This on ICANN Board Members Squat · · Score: 3

    It has been suggested before but go back to trading Host files. Use CGI host, IP adresses, or even write a new dns-app. There are a number of ways you can remove ICANN from your sphere. Their relevence is only what we let them have. Issue has and will be how much power you give ICANN (or its replacement) for the service of propagation and housekeeping. Keep it powerless and Biz will flog it, give it to much and it flogs everyone.

  3. Re:"English" outdated on English, The Global Internet Language? · · Score: 2

    One science fiction author called English "The result of attempts of Norman MenAtArms to make dates with Saxon Barmaids" or close to that. Add several generations of German kings and queens too(vic,georges...).

  4. Re:Breadth of Gene Pool on Is Extinction Only Temporary? · · Score: 1

    Females cats eat stillborn and will also eat mutated or damaged kittens. As you said they as a group(small mam) do have some advantages. Example Cabbits(half bunny, half cat) however I have read breaders usually have to watch for the mother cat killing the kitten(bittens?, Kites?, collective noun needed on level three please) or other mothers(cats) killing them. DoggyMoms also eat mutants and stillborns. We are odd ones for not eating them up Yum! :)

  5. Re:There are Doors and then there are Doors on Diffie & Hellman Get $100,000 Fellowship · · Score: 1

    ok, you say I'm trolling
    but i'll bite anyway...
    1. If this is true, all I can say is poor fucks(the guys running the check points, can you imagine the back-chat). However still the methods proposed by the TLA's and others are more invasive.
    2. Is it absurd? If Co.A knows that Co.B is doing something "wrong" and that makes Co.A lots of cash but Co.A owns majority of Co.B. When B is shut down or must pay damages is A also in trouble?(see ISP/carrer threads) Should I go on to introduce the idea of the disposable company ala Hollywood into this broth? No not absurd at all.
    3.A bit preachy it may be. The loss of our privacy to gain control over information flow is what it is about. There are very few meatworld restrictions or monitoring of private conversation. If I tell you that a Soft Drink has Lemon in it via E-mail. Is that different than telling you in the livingroom? Should the Softdrink company be notified instantly that I have told A trade secret in a living room on Blue St, Anytown. Should food preperation rooms be monitored for trademark infringment by children drawing micky mouse on cakes for team bake sales?

    my 2 cents worth of Troll Food.

  6. There are Doors and then there are Doors on Diffie & Hellman Get $100,000 Fellowship · · Score: 3

    Take the following remark from FBI agent Jim Kallstrom as quoted in an article by Steven Levy in
    the New York Times Sunday Magazine: "Sure, we want those new steel doors ourselves, to protect our banks, to protect the American corporation trade secrets, patents rights, technology. But people operating in legitimate business are not violating the laws -- it becomes a different ball of wax when we have probable cause and we have to get into that domain. Do we want a digital superhighway where not only the commerce of the nation can take place but where major criminals can operate impervious to the legal process?"


    1. Exactly how does the meatworld highway give us this ability to restrict criminals from using them? Do wee look in every car that passes a tollbooth?

    2. Given that many "legitimate business" are in a perptual state of litigation, define criminal activity in wireworld?

    3. Ideas "trade secrets, patents rights, technology" do not fit in physical protected boxes why should we extend it to wireworld.

    Interesting FAQ too bad it is packed with lots of questions and few answers.

  7. Ah, memory on Timex Sinclair ZX81 Back On the Market · · Score: 1

    Try to tell kids today that successful programming included a thick rubberband and a soldering iron and they won't belive ya'. Put the kit togther in a couple of hours. Ah Sweet memories, not of that 16k expander tho...

  8. Small OpenGL demo's on Creating a Black Hole With OpenGL · · Score: 2

    More fun like that at the OpenGL Challenge.
    Most entries are GLUT or near enough to compile on Linux, Mac etc. Lots of cool ideas.

  9. Re:MS-Word, yeah thanks. on Followup On Paying Twice for Windows · · Score: 2

    XML anyone?
    No thank you, I hate Bloatocols.

  10. Yeah, right RSN... on Speak To Your Palm · · Score: 2

    If right now most Palm or Hand devices (other than a digital camera) have less than 32MB RAM and 160-mhz CPU. They are going to put a DSP and Vocab- ROM on these devices too!?!?!?!?

    I could maybe see this if they put a IBM-Microdrive and a LowPower DSP(+32MB highspeed RAM) for modem/SR/Playback in it, but the cost would be $2500 Retail. And Slow, baby Slow!

  11. Re:how do you feel about... on Metallica Vs. Harvard · · Score: 1

    How did I steal the free source code? Why did I pay for a copy of Redhat? And who am us anyway?

  12. Re:Why tether it at all? on Riding The Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    Simulation-Take wood stir stick spin coffee, lightly hold stick at top, watch, record results, drink simulation. [/:-)

  13. Make it out of Ice!!! on Riding The Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    Not a single ice tower but an Ice System. Put new layers of ice over collapsing and melting center take up waste water and use it again. It might need some Fancy guide materials to help keep a shape and it also might a bit bigger than a Light-wieght solution. Ice is easy to make/replace/repair on the fly than any thing else I can think of.

  14. Re:Question on CERN May Have Found The Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Well look at it this way...
    If you can not move your Viewpoint at the same speed(rel) as the object in question, slam it into some thing and watch the hubcaps^h^h^h^h^h^h^hparticles fly off. IANAHEP nor an ICEF but learned this one by smashing gear as a child "ohh look must be tubes in there as broken glass pours out now.

  15. Re:Hemos, Can I borrow it [Now I'm OT FFS] on Bruce Schneier Interview on Salon · · Score: 1

    Your here now and I/we are glad. To bad the moderators missed the point that were kinda on topic as the Book(altho not the contents) and the implication of 200K+ readers for one purchase (Re This) was lost on them. Stay Cool Dude.

  16. Re:GPL doesn't depend upon a licensing model of sa on Napster Court Date Set For October 2 · · Score: 1

    Sure any one of those is cool, or Full No Reproduction what-so-ever. My view is that the creater could/should define the usage rights as they feel. RIAA's one way view is wrong. There are too many different types of usage now (Net, games,radio, Club, Club Compilation, CD, Soundtracks...KEO-Packet) for such a limited view of usage.

  17. Re:GPL doesn't depend upon a licensing model of sa on Napster Court Date Set For October 2 · · Score: 1

    Not so fast there Tex

    If I made a remix I would be bound to provide that remix under the same agreement as I obtained the Source. I know every "musician" cringes at that thought, However his point is valid.

  18. Re:RIAA Trekkies on Napster Court Date Set For October 2 · · Score: 1

    Hahahaahaha, Good one... Layton Founder .... hehehehehe

  19. Re:Relevant Mark Hamill Quote: on R2D2 (Kenny Baker) Replaced with CGI for Ep2 · · Score: 1

    Spin ya dead fsck Spin!!!

    Sorry, I can not think of Guinness as anything but a british version of Clint Eastwood with a bigger vocab'. The man used the same voice and style in twenty some odd movies. Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth, hell that was fun, Macbeth!!!

  20. Re:So where are the big, SO supportive companies? on Hollywood Says If You Support Open Source, You're ... · · Score: 1

    My guess(only) is that they are already paid members Directly or Indirectly to the DVD Consort'.

    In addition those contracts will state that Member Companies or their Parents may not make any statement(on DVD subjects).

    I would put money on never seeing a single press release on the subject by any of the Majors. They need DVD Drives to sell boxes and will not risk any slowdowns in DVD-Drive supply.

  21. Re:As a Canadian, I'm scared.. on Hollywood Says If You Support Open Source, You're ... · · Score: 1

    And well you should be...

    If they(MPAA) tell Fed + Ont & BC, no more productions in Canada until we Sign International Agreement that all Non-Authorized(read OS,FS,FAIB) programming of Media Based Software will be criminal offence.

    Paul Martin would trample his grandmother and the Bugblatter beast in his haste to sign it.

    Sad, But true.

  22. Re:Disagree here..but great posts on this topic on Making Technology Democratic · · Score: 1

    I think you both miss a big point in this facination with size. You could argue that the size of the (USA)government is 250+ million persons.

    The fact that %45+ of the Boz^H^H^HWorkers in your government are slacking and not doing there duty in the descision making process could be a problem. However the number of 'paid positions' in your government and 'expenses' to implement policy on the other hand can be a drain on your GNP.

    Yoda got it right '...size matters not..'

  23. Re:double-A photon batteries... on Peeking At The Future: "Perfect Mirror" Cables · · Score: 1

    Only if you can keep the candle somewhere other than inside. That reflected heat is gonna melt(vaporize) that candle real quick if there is any storage at all.
    And...
    If you have a hole to put it[photons] in that hole it is also going to be an exit. See Lasers etal.

  24. Re:The problem with "manual or scripted" on Towards The Anti-Mac Interface · · Score: 1

    Nit-Picker [/:-)
    Yes, its true they are not intergrated in to the OS but the point is that if an Application wanted to add that functionality it could and the OS would not need any changes. I think localman is on to some thing in his follow up about "why is not already there then?". Crayons get blunted with use in the color picker too. hmmm

  25. Re:A richer representation of objects on Towards The Anti-Mac Interface · · Score: 2

    Already in the Mac altho manual or scripted...
    In order;
    1. Paste an Icon on it when you save it.
    2. Lable(Color) your files.
    3. Again Paste an Icon in Finder
    4. cmd-f, edit, click modified, play with list.

    Upshot is you have all these and several more techniques in MacOS now. To lazy to do that each time? Write an AppleScript to do any or all of these. Not being sarcastic just pointing out that you can do close to the same things.