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  1. Re:Is this the new Slashdot? on Seeking a Simple Programmer's Calculator? · · Score: -1

    Yeah, and I'll sell you an 8" disk to go with that! ;-)

  2. Re:Market forces reduce variety on Seeking a Simple Programmer's Calculator? · · Score: -1

    With most VCRs these days have RCA inputs you could hook up a line out to your radio and use the timer functions of a VCR to record audio only on a tape. (no station setting ability unfortunately).
    Wonder if there's any VCRs that pick up AM/FM broadcasts directly?
    Or better still, some sort device (ala band expanders) that will allow your VCRs tuner to pick up AM/FM?

  3. Re:just weather? on Europeans Launch New Generation Of Weather Satellites · · Score: -1
    From the article:

    MSG-1 is also flying a payload for receiving and relaying, almost in real time, data from automated stations on the ground. In addition, a special transponder will relay distress signals from ships, aircraft and any other vehicles equipped with one of the beacons used by the COSPAS-SARSAT international search and rescue system.

    Hopefully it doesn't respond to these calls.
    (think Star Wars laser type stuff).

  4. Bloat on Europeans Launch New Generation Of Weather Satellites · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Two and a half times larger than the Meteosat-1 to -7 series, MSG-1 is...

    Obligatory MS bash...
    Must be a Microsoft implementation.

  5. The View on Europeans Launch New Generation Of Weather Satellites · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can see my house from here...

  6. Re:I'm not trolling on Newton Won't Die · · Score: 0

    Friend of mine uses macs exclusively in his recording studio.

  7. Red flag on JVC Announces Technology To Prevent Software Copying · · Score: 0
    thus thwarting illegal duplication, the companies said.

    Hey JVC, ever heard the saying "red flag to a bull"?

  8. Re:So why can't I do it? on Scientists Discover What Makes Geckos Stick · · Score: 0
    A thin film of water or oil can fill the crevases and make the bonding much stronger, if you want to try sticking your fingers to things. Don't try hanging off the ceiling, though :)

    I've heard that superglue also aids in the process.

  9. BBA Prices on Dreamcast Broadband Adapters · · Score: 0

    Given the prices of these things I'm suprised that someone hasn't hacked up a substitute.
    Of course I have no idea how difficult this is, but people have gone to extemes on this sort of thing before.

  10. spoofed faxes on Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion · · Score: 0

    At least with fax spam you don't get spoofed addresses and the like.
    Or then again maybe there's a bunch of guys running around with a fax machine in the back of a van and phone cable using your phone line in the dead of night...

  11. Re:embedded Linux on Interview With Shawn Gordon of TheKompany · · Score: 0

    Yes, but if it works well and looks nice people are going to want to know more about it.
    except perhaps for "the average user, is probably only dimly aware they are using Windows" sort of user.

  12. Quality of Programmer on Interview With Shawn Gordon of TheKompany · · Score: 0
    "The beta for Kapital... so a few months ago I put some really top notch programmers on it full time..."

    As opposed to what sort of programmers were working on it before? ;-)

  13. Re:Question on AMD Opteron "Hammer" Preview · · Score: 0

    You spelt criticise wrong dude. :-)

  14. Re:Question on AMD Opteron "Hammer" Preview · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Does anybody know how much drag a carflag puts on your car? How many MPG does it cost you?

    Bad grammer dude.
    (/grammer nazi)
    Not sure, but didn't know pirated music was currency.

  15. Re:Wow, the "forth quater", huh? on AMD Opteron "Hammer" Preview · · Score: 0

    Obviously, very.

  16. Re:dup dup * . on AMD Opteron "Hammer" Preview · · Score: 0
    Is the Opteron a stack machine????

    What, Some sort of socket economical SMP arrangement?

  17. Re:In the forth quater? on AMD Opteron "Hammer" Preview · · Score: 0
    Still not sure what a FORTH quarter is.

    Best not go there... just in case.

  18. Re:To mikeee, re: "hiaku" on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 0

    Spelling hard enough
    let alone Haiku nazis
    getting in on act

  19. hmmm on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 0

    aitch tee tee pee coln
    slash slash slash dot dot org slash
    wait and see slash run

    one two three four five
    once I caught a fish alive...
    more syllables please

    one three five seven
    nought two four six eight ten twelve
    some other sequence

    one hundred twenty
    characters for a dot sig
    is not enough space

  20. Re:Pathetic on Predicting The End Of Digital Copying · · Score: 0

    Not having experienced macrovision I'm now sure that I don't want to.
    That's a real screwed up situation.
    No doubt tomorrows display devices will fix the problem :-/

  21. Re:Linux has good games, laddie buck on LinuXbox Boots · · Score: 0

    +5, Funny

  22. Re:FPS on consoles on Carmack Expounds on Doom III · · Score: 0

    1080i, hmmm, love that interlacing.

  23. Re:uh, no on Carmack Expounds on Doom III · · Score: 0
    if they happen to get a foothold in a new market.. they'll buy up the competition

    Yeah, MS buy Sony, [LOL], Sure.

    WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER.

  24. Re:Strange incentive on Slashback: Activism, VOIP, Ivies · · Score: 0

    Yeah, it's kinda like the "wait till the last second to place a bet on ebay" thing.

  25. Re:"activism" on Slashback: Activism, VOIP, Ivies · · Score: 0

    The pursuit of power and status is what is at the root of the problem. Money is seen as a means to get and maintain power.
    What is needed is to fix the people. Attitudes and belief that people hold that say it is OK to let these sorts of things happen are what needs to change.
    Then the rest will follow.