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  1. Re:Let's think about this for a second... on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 1

    If there are no faster than average routes, then there must not be any slower than average routes, and therefore this is pointless.

  2. Re:Let's think about this for a second... on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if everyone uses it [which is needed for true congestion reports], everyone will be spread evenly, slowing down those who normally take faster than average routes and speeding up those who normally take slower ones.

  3. Re:Let's think about this for a second... on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ummm, no it wouldn't speed up everyone's journey home. Those of us who already take back roads everywhere that are NOT congested will get more congested routes. It will only speed up the journey of those taking the routes that are congested over the average point.

  4. Re:Is it April Fools Day? - must be on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1

    Actually, each country is different. The US claims 3 miles, some nations claim up to 12. 7s and google told me that.

  5. Re:Is it April Fools Day? on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1

    How about outsourcing to The Principality of Sealand?

  6. Re:Mac OSX Issues on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    No, it hasn't, but the companies it was formed out of were around, and were making Macintosh software as early as 1984. Adobe started making Macintosh software in 1987.

    Adobe Timeline [PDF]
    Macromedia History

  7. Re:What? on Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well... He was working at the patent office and there was this....
    .....
    ...
    Oh, wait, that was a German Physicist....

  8. Re:so.. on To Pay With Your Credit Card, Please Speak Up · · Score: 1

    No, it cannot be done. Any security that can be made can be broken.

  9. Mac OSX Issues on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that they bought Macromedia because they [Adobe] were having problems with Macintosh development [for OSX]. Macromedia has been developing for Macs longer than Adobe and knows the systems inside-and-out. This would give Adobe more of a push to take back the Macintosh video market back from Apple [Final Cut (Pro) is big competition for Premiere]

  10. My PCs? on Robotics/Electronics Class - How Would You Do It? · · Score: 1

    Who said you could touch my PCs?

    sorry, couldn't resist

  11. Re:Backup Procedure -- What about the Master Recor on Ameritrade Customer Data Lost · · Score: 1

    Title: "Customer Data Lost" -- not "backup of data lost", but "data lost"

  12. Backup Procedure -- What about the Master Records? on Ameritrade Customer Data Lost · · Score: 1

    If you are shipping a backup tape, you should still have a Master record set, if you need to remove the masters from the live machine, you make a Master tape as well. The idea of backup is so that if anything happens to the Master, you have a second place to look. Since this is obviously the only copy, it is the MASTER and no longer a backup, and should have been copied immediately for a backup. -- My 2 shillings.

  13. Re:It Doesn't Matter on Nintendo Revolution Under Wraps Past E3 · · Score: 0

    So far, it looks like everything Nintendo has tried releasing with 2 screens has been a flop. I seriously doubt the new GBA will be DS compatable, yet alone continued production of DS games.

  14. Re:It Doesn't Matter on Nintendo Revolution Under Wraps Past E3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you trying to say that the VirtualBoy wasn't a major console?

  15. Re:Finally! on Multi-layer LCD Displays · · Score: 1

    last remaining serious flaw with LCDs so the contrast ratio changes based upon angle and the lack of a possibility to calibrate the colors due to this is not seen as a flaw?

  16. Re:Wow - this technology is so new.... on Minority Report UI For The Military · · Score: 1

    That seems to be similar what this thing [in the article] does, but it uses sets of coded white spots on a black background (glove) [like some 3d image acquisition programs/packages use].

  17. Re:Wow - this technology is so new.... on Minority Report UI For The Military · · Score: 1

    Yea, I think thats the same game, I remember you played against someone in some other Science Center somewhere [probably Pittsburgh] to try and get a better score.

  18. Wow - this technology is so new.... on Minority Report UI For The Military · · Score: 4, Informative

    It has been being done for years by the film and video industry, albeit mainly not in realtime, but such places as the Liberty Science Center had interactive games that used contrasting colors to determine what the player was doing [they had basketball for sometime where you wore either a chroma-blue or chroma-green glove]

  19. Possible problems, cited in the article on New York Computerizes its Subway System · · Score: 1

    This sort of thing -- and much worse -- has been happening quite a lot lately. Entire subway lines have recently been knocked out for hours on end by failing equipment,
    So? The NYC subway system has problems currently whenever there is radio interference, because every train is run by a driver that has nothing more than a throttle lever and a brake, he needs constant communication, without it, he cannot move safely.

  20. Re:Noggonnawork on Hacker High School Starts to Spread · · Score: 1

    My high school was like this, half of the kids are fascinated with it, but only about 1/100 to 1/250 are actually capable of doing anything, everyone else is just a want-to-be or a fanatic. Oh, and I knew more than 90% of the people in my high school and the attached junior high school when I graduated less than 2 years ago.

  21. Re:I would find this useful... on IRC On The PSP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thats why I got my 80286 on IRC! I couldn't stand the PSPs keypad, so I have a nice 86 key keyboard, and the entire thing is in a box. Not wireless yet, but I'm working on it. Check out my Journal for details [its the Compaq Portable III].

  22. Re:Funny on How To Head Off ATA HDD Password Abuse · · Score: 1

    DOS boots from a diskette in about 15 seconds [max] on my 80386, and that includes the BIOS POST, so really its about 1 or 2 seconds.

  23. Re:Universal OS. on Linux Coming to the Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    Unix != Linux
    Also, that is not a port, that is a rewrite. RTF-Link.
    Elks may still be targeting z80 based machines (note that each one is different, just as an m68k Amiga has a different kernel than an m68k Macintosh, so too would the TRS-80s require a different kernel than the TI Calculators, with a different one than my Nokia cellphone (yes, its a z80 also)), but it is not in development, and certainly is not implemented.

  24. Re:I found a link to the article on **No Title** · · Score: 1

    This should work on a few browsers.

  25. Re:Site slashdotted already - Cached here on **No Title** · · Score: 1

    Hey, that cached version is missing three CRs, can the site owner go fix it for us?