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  1. Re:Could this have other applications? on Pixar's Drawing Tool · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or sports announcers could even draw the plays that are being used in a football game so that home viewers can see what they are talking about.

  2. Isn't all that new... on Pixar's Drawing Tool · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This idea isn't all that new, the only new part is their application. TVPaint on the Amiga let me do this with renders (from NewTek's Lightwave).

  3. Re:LEGO(R) Bricks on Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego · · Score: 1

    when referring to Windows?
    Why would I want to do a silly thing like that?

  4. LEGO(R) Bricks on Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego · · Score: 0, Troll

    The proper terminology is LEGO(R) Bricks, not Lego, not Legos.
    If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun.
    For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs". [also from that link at lego.com]

  5. Re:Geez... on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 1

    Free like beer, yes; but not FREE like nux.

  6. Re:Ralph on PA Sues Online 'University' For Spamming · · Score: 1

    With sharp, pointy teeth.

    PS:
    Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

  7. Re:What's my lat and alt? on Weather Data Available in XML · · Score: 1

    Its also a repost of last weeks, to which I replied stating that all the data was available, I don't get it either.

  8. Re:Getting banned on Beating Roulette With Computers & Lasers · · Score: 1

    How so? If it pays 100%, why would they give you comps? they aren't making money from you.
    Also, a 100% payoff doesn't mean you get 100% back, it means that for every dollar that goes in, someone gets a dollar back (usually it ends up in the jackpot)

  9. Re:U.K. Gambling perceptions-Math Failures. on Beating Roulette With Computers & Lasers · · Score: 1

    Three: Statistics is a subset of Mathematics.

  10. Re:Land based weather 'robots' on Robotic Science Network Watches Our Oceans · · Score: 1

    Ok, my post was modded 'interesting', and you said to put probes in 'interesting' places and got modded Insightful, so if I say to put them in 'insightful' places, what do I get modded?

  11. Re:forward and reverse on FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy · · Score: 1

    That's what happens when cable companies think that the people who are installing their coax have the training and expertise as needed to operate Cisco switches and the like.

  12. Land based weather 'robots' on Robotic Science Network Watches Our Oceans · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now if only we had as many Standards Based land based weather observatories/robots, this would make NOAA much more precise (it is already very acurate with its predictions, just a higher level of precision would be nice, rather than each 'site' covering a 50 mile radius (or more).

  13. Re:forward and reverse on FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy · · Score: 1

    Mine does this to, but reverse DNS doesn't always return back properly, don't ask me why, it just doesn't (maybe its only configured properly for some IPs).

  14. Re:The search tool? on Search Engines for Handwritten Documents · · Score: 1

    That's my point.

  15. Old People/Walker Robots on Toyota Demos 'Partner Robots' · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Japan, only old people use walker robots.

  16. Re:National Treasure on Search Engines for Handwritten Documents · · Score: 1

    How? The map was on the back side, these things only scan the front.......

  17. Re:The search tool? on Search Engines for Handwritten Documents · · Score: 1

    No, OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This is Digital Character Recognition on an Optically Acquired Digital Image. Don't you see the difference?

  18. Re:Standards at risk on Search Engines for Handwritten Documents · · Score: 1

    it has been universally agreed that the most fundamental unit of information capacity in computer science, the "Library of Congress"
    Really? Whatever happened to the bit???????

  19. Already been happening on NOAA Adopts New Net Policy · · Score: 1

    "NOAA will make its data and products available in internet-accessible, vendor-neutral form and will use other dissemination technologies, e.g. satellite broadcast, NOAA Weather Radio, and wireless, as appropriate"
    Has been internet accessible for years http://www.noaa.gov/, and if you crawl around enough you can find where they put the raw data feeds and make an app that reads them (seem to be the same ones that go to the automated 'voices' that broadcast NOAA Weather Radio, yes, the Weather Radio network that has been around for a long time, heck, I have scanners and CB sets that have Weather Radio switches). The only one I don't understand directly by this is 'wireless', as the weather radio and satellite networks are wireless, and wireless internet and cellular telephone access is publicly available.

  20. Re:easy on China Blocking Access to Google News Site · · Score: 1

    We proceeded to piss it away over a half-century?
    In my history classes, the US got it in the treaty after the Spanish-American War (signed and sealed December 10, 1898, and signed by President McKinley on Feb 6, 1899 after an approval from the senate [52 to 27], ratified by Spain on March 19, 1899, and proclaimed on April 11, 1899), but the United States of America's military forces only held its sovereignty in trust, and on May 20, 1902, Cuba became an independant, sovereign nation.

    Let's see.... 1902 - 1899 = 3. 1902 - 1899 != 50

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    How'd you remember those dates??
    I didn't
    ?
    GOOGLE!

  21. Re:Boot-up time on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 1

    By not being developed, I meant the original Hard/Software, not the new AmigaOne and AmigaOS 4/Pegasos/etc. BTW, How'd you get a beta of OS 4?? I have yet to see any updated info since KMOS has taken over (although in interviews, they state that work is in progress).

    Related Links:
    http://www.kmos.com/
    http://www.amiga.com/
    http://os.amiga.com/products/one/

  22. Re:Boot-up time on Gentoo 2005.0: A Live CD And [No] Graphical Installer · · Score: 2, Informative

    So what if its not being developed? Many video postproduction houses and even Networks use the Video Toaster/Flyer (from NewTek, who is now making PC NLE systems with live switching capabilities) switcher/NLE which run on the Amiga. I personally have 2 Amigas on my desk over there (one of them is down right now as my toaster card needs to go out for recalibration). Without Amiga, there would be no LightWave!

    --
    Let it be, let it be, my Amiga works for me </SIG>

  23. Re:fp on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 1

    Thank you, captain obvious. Let me refer you to my friend, Sr. Oblivious. He really needs your help. You said 'You said "that that"'

  24. Re:Cheaper to replace? on Scientists Debate Robotic Hubble Mission · · Score: 1

    I didn't say develop a new one. They can use the plans they have for the existing one (with minor modifications to allow for the advances in digital imaging technology). Also, the JWST is not a traditional optical reflecting/refracting telescope, but an infrared reflecting telescope with a very specific purpose, with custom sensors, requiring custom cooling methods (as your wikipedia link states).

  25. Re:fp on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 1

    A whole other #!?? Not the same #!? Are you sure? I always thought all #!s were the same. Now that that has been said, not all interrobangs are, i mean it can be an interro over a bang or a bang over an interro. WTF?!