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  1. Re:omg spoiler! on Cinematics Do Matter? · · Score: 1

    WarCraft II had cinematics in single-player also, as did all of the Civilization games. So explain how StarCraft was not just another RTS?

  2. Re:Collaborative Documentation on Other Uses for Wiki Software? · · Score: 1

    I remember reading about a project trying to make a wiki implementation to do just that, but they seem to have since disappeared (probably was a pain to grab the needed source to compile)

  3. Collaborative Documentation on Other Uses for Wiki Software? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Documentation for open source projects, such as this example from VideoLAN's wiki. Also, collaboration on new features

  4. Re:A related story on DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes" · · Score: 1

    It's VELOCITY, not SPEED.
    What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
    Oh, and the answer (examines the simple matter of weight ratios): http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

  5. Re:Two Words: on Equipment Suppliers You Can Trust? · · Score: 1

    2 or 3 Rolls, plus a roll of Gaffer's Tape, a roll of electrical tape, and a roll of "Electricians Bundling Tape". Oh, and don't forget the WD-40 or the C-47s.

  6. Didn't survey us. on Of Internet Users, Only 4% Knowingly Use RSS · · Score: 1

    They should have surveyed on a slashdot poll, then it would have either been overwhelmingly in the other direction


    (or towards Cowboy Neal)

  7. Re:How did you use yours? on Leap Second At The End of 2005 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most NTP servers use UTC time, so yes.

    http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat - leap second bulletin

  8. Re:Tax Season !?! on Best Tax Programs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was a joke, obviously commenting on how many (perhaps most?) people wait until the last couple of days.
    Don't you mean hours?

  9. What? on Earbud Headphones May Cause Hearing Loss · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I couldn't hear the article, could you please repost it?

  10. Re:Gee... on Digital Content Security Act · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is called a "Time Base Corrector" or a "Frame Synchronizer"—the former stabalizing and rebuilding sync for every line, the latter doing such on a field-by-field or frame-by-frame basis. Both of these are used in production environments and would be apparently outlawed by this.

  11. Re:This outlaws ADC hardware as well on Digital Content Security Act · · Score: 1

    It also seems like it will ban many pieces of video production equipment—including Time Base Correctors, Frame Synchronizers, many digital video production recorders (with analog inputs), and the film scanners that are used by the MPAA members to edit and recapture their films for DVD distribution.

  12. Re:Gee... on Digital Content Security Act · · Score: 1

    It is called Macrovision.

  13. How will production switchers operate? on Digital Content Security Act · · Score: 1

    If they ban all video ADCs, how will smaller-scale video production switchers operate?

  14. Re:Teach all on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    So then you teach only evolution and get sued by people who believe in ID and creationism. All of these are 'theories' from a scientific standpoint.

  15. Re:Look out on Xbox 360 File System Decoded · · Score: 1

    I wonder why MS doesn't just release a *usable* version of Windows for their game systems that can compete with 'modders'. I know many people who would rather buy some disc they can put in to run a 'standard' operating system than hack their box with a hacksaw.

  16. Teach all on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shouldn't they be allowed to teach it, so long as they teach all of the current theories?

  17. Re:Extra Disk on A Storage Solution for Lots of Digital Photos? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Film. No, seriously, there are labs that will project your digital files onto slide film. Usually you can find them if you look for presentation preperation companies. They usually advertise this service for converting computerized (read: PowerPoint) presentations to slides for showing in venues that do not have video or (SX-/X-/S-)VGA projectors. Good film has proven that it lasts for a long time. Go check your 30 and 40 year old slides.

  18. Custom Layout on Batch Cataloging of Scanned Documents via OCR? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many pieces of OCR software allow you to create a 'layout' for OCRing, that is, specify where images and textual data are. If your forms all follow the same layout, or you have just a few [relatively], you can set up these layouts and, in many pieces of software, reuse them. The only cavet is that you need to be sure that the forms are scanned the same way; if your forms have prepunched holes or markings in specific points on the edge, you can use animation software [like Bauhaus Software's Mirage] on a batch to 'pixel-track' the pages and align them based upon these marks, then export no-/low-loss TGAs, TIFFs, PNGs, or similar for OCRing.

  19. Kodak Gold on Best CD or DVD Recordable Media for Longevity? · · Score: 1

    Kodak Gold CD-Rs. Last I checked, they were only available in 650 MB, but I have some that I burnt 6 years ago that are just as good as the day they were burnt. They get scratched much more than my other cds, and still work much better.

  20. Re:Silly Canadians on Canada Unveils Internet Surveillance Legislation · · Score: 1

    You could always buy an Enigma...

  21. Re:It looks good on Mandriva Linux 2006 Review Continued · · Score: 1
    Not hard at all.
    1. Download Mandriva 2006 ISO(s).
    2. Burn to DVD/CD(s).
    3. Insert disc #1.
    4. Reboot, being sure that your BIOS is set to boot from CD/DVD.
    5. Follow on-screen instructions.
  22. Re:Slashdot Effect on How Can You Screw up a Network? · · Score: 1

    Ok, how is this?
    My site

  23. Re:Forget the hats, whadda bout my teeth!? on Aluminum Foil Hats Will Not Stop "Them" · · Score: 1

    the wires up the back of your nose
    Is that what itches so much?

  24. Re:Me too -- Toaster on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1

    You don't connect the Toaster to the internet. You connect the Amiga to the internet and the Toaster is inside of it.

  25. Re:I could have participated too.. on Vintage Computer Festival 8.0 · · Score: 1

    Semi-customized Compaq Portable III
    Tandy 1000 HT
    Sharp "Portable PC" (same as TRS-80 Portables)
    Amigas!!!
    a YIBM PC (IBM clone)
    TRS-80 Model II
    TRS-80 CoCo
    and alot more....
    Too bad I'm on the wrong coast for this—or is it they who are on the wrong coast?