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  1. One word: Pixelvision on VideoNOW PVD Reverse Engineering · · Score: 0

    You're forgetting the Fisher Price Pixelvision camera, which is still a cult classic. It recorded about 5 minutes of grainy black and white onto a 90-minute audio tape. You could get the things for cheap as hell back in the day and now they're extremely rare as they're wanted by film students and art snobs around the world. I kid you not. I once drove a fella around town while he made a short film on one of these things.

    The pixelvision.

  2. Re:Site is slowing - here's the text before its SD on The Business Case for Reusable Launch Vehicles · · Score: 0
  3. Re:Oh boy on Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen · · Score: 0

    Doesn't that also describe another amazing and underrated show - Witchblade? I jest, of course.

  4. Re:RIAA Price Cuts on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 0

    I agree. I think ignoring someone's stupidity (especially someone like Lars) is the best course of action. It's like Ted Nugent. Sure, his compound-dwelling, antelope-gutting, shit-spewing antics annoy the hell out of a guy, but THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS!

  5. Re:Netflix? on RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics · · Score: 0

    I've heard said that Whole Foods also starts their employees out at ~$10/hr. Can anyone verify this?

  6. Re:I like freedoms and stuff very much but... on Testing The Right To Resell Downloaded Music · · Score: 0

    The idea of iTunes is that they control the DRM, though. A user's promise to delete has nothing to do with it. All Apple needs to do is create a transfer interface. The song immediately stops working on your machines, and the buyer gets any remaining unlocks.

  7. Re:And what am I going to do with 10TB ethernet? on 10 Terabit Ethernet By 2010 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And you'll be able to buy it with Whuffie.

  8. Re:Not my cup of tea on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 1

    They could have cut out her speaking parts entirely, and just lent her face. I found her nasal whisper-voice extremely grating the entire time, especially when it was digitally echoed.

  9. Re:Wisconsin has already decertified touchscreens on Virginia Begins to Worry About Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Thanks for looking out for us here in Wisconsin. I'll write a few letters today as well...

  10. Or the kegelcizer? on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1

    I particularly loved the kegelcizer machine in 'Why must I be a crustacean in love'. Shot of a grunting woman's face and some weights shooting up in the background for a few reps. That entire episode, really. The scuttling Zoidberg is always a hoot.

  11. Re:Typical USian. on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 1

    LOL. Telling a person looking for a friendly computing experience to not only RTFM, but RTFH, RTFF, RTFPP, RTFDB, and RTFU. Intuitive software is intuitive software. Plain and simple. I don't know what the Ugly American has to do with any of this. Windows is not to Linux what English is to French.

  12. Re:the patch is really a trojan (funny) on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Did the immensely useful Gator program show you that trick?

  13. Re:Color scale for Dummies on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Speaking of color levels and little icons, I was thinking about the Emergency Broadcast System. That's certainly not a weather-only system, and they didn't use it on 9/11. What are the criteria?