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  1. Re:I was going to joke about DNA... on Scientists Find Doublehelix at Center of Milky Way · · Score: 1

    I was going to joke about DNA, but then I realized it wasn't a double-helix.

    It isn't?

    A horse with 2 back legs and fore-legs has 6 legs-an odd number of legs. The only number odd and even is infinity.

    Please explain.

  2. emerge 'in a very natural way.' on The Physics of Friendship · · Score: 5, Funny

    Calculating dependencies
    emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "in a very natural way.".

  3. Re:Can somebody please explain... on Tech Support to the Stars · · Score: 1

    In other news: celebs take dumps!

    Jennifer Aniston too?

  4. VPX Redline on An Energy Drinks Roundup? · · Score: 1

    VPX Redline. Just don't drink it. I thought it is just another energy drink, but it really screws you up. If you wanna try it, make sure it is a friday night. Don't drink it on an empty stomach. This drink just makes you shivering.

  5. Re:Here's the idea Mr. Ellison on Court Rules Ellison Must Donate $100M to Charity · · Score: 1

    Donate it to Gentoo or a specific project like PostgreSQL. Ubuntu is backed by Mark Shuttleworth.

  6. Re:open on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but this is about a small wireless home router replacement and not a Shasta or something. BTW: 500 MHz are really enough for Gbit traffic, but only for basic routing and not packet mangling - did some tests long ago.

  7. Re:open on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 1

    What for? I mean, do you need Gbit NICs in your router? Do you have a Gbit internet connection?

  8. Re:open on Linksys Adds Linux WRT54G Model Back · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Two words for you: power consumption. One more: noise.

  9. Re:Linux vs. WIndows? It's Time for... on A Continued Look at Linux vs Windows · · Score: 1

    Very good post! It brings the fundamental difference of thinking to the point.

  10. Re:Should be obvious but isn't on Helpful Linux Links · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. Re:Slashdot has really gone down hill :( on Helpful Linux Links · · Score: 1

    Parent is not a flamebait. Since when is a private list of links news, especially when we have del.icio.us and powerful search engines? The bigger part of the link list is about linux distributions, but one link to Distrowatch would have been sufficient. From now on every submitted article about a private link list could be accepted.

  12. Re:AMD on G5 on The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers? · · Score: 1

    I haven't done anything with my AMD Athlon XP sticker yet. There's a black/green rectangle at the bottom. Does it change colour depending on the temperature?

    Good question. I don't know. Somebody should just try it. I was googling for it, but it seems that the sticker doesn't change its color. But there are GeIL RAM modules with attached color-changing stickers on it.

  13. AMD on G5 on The Funniest Places for Hardware Stickers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I put one of the AMD stickers that came with a boxed AMD processor on a co-workers (QA) Apple G5 machine. It looked pretty native and later as Steve Jobs announced the move to the Intel based Macs, my co-workers told me that my prophecy was utterly wrong. :-(

  14. Re:In other news on Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs · · Score: 1

    The sun has risen this morning, and the Earth is rotating around its axis.

    The big wheel keeps on turning
    On a simple line day by day
    The earth spins on its axis
    One man struggle while another relaxes

    -- Massive Attack

  15. Re:Oooh...this could be good! on Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Can somebody explain why parent is modded flamebait?

  16. Re:Actually that sounds a little generous... on Microsoft Claims Firms 'Hitting a Wall' With Linux · · Score: 1

    She ditched Windows once it was no longer a work requirement. She's now my wife and we have several Linux boxes I should put that on bash.org.

  17. What do you want? on PC Cloning Solution? · · Score: 1

    Mondo is a extremely impressive product. It does what you want. If you don't like Ghost images, use Mondo Rescue. If you wanna do filesystem-based incremental backups, use BackupPC. Stupid name, but truly enterprise-ready(tm).

  18. Smells fishy on Obtaining Multi-Tier Application Logs for Reseach? · · Score: 1

    I can't help, but it smells fishy to me. Why don't you tell us the name of the "well-known university"? Where is your email address? Why don't you answer the post that asks for your email address? Why are the questioners of an Ask Slashdot question never replying to the answers?

  19. Does it on IBM Develops New 3D TV Technology · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... run linux?

  20. Re:Sony just lost ~5000 euros (Offtopic) on Sony Music CD's Contain Mac DRM Software Too · · Score: 1
    It's a shame for the artists though, they didn't get thei $0.50 or whatever they make per sold CD.

    Where do 15.99 CDs come from?
    • $0.17 Musicians' unions
    • $0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
    • $0.82 Publishing royalties
    • $0.80 Retail profit
    • $0.90 Distribution
    • $1.60 Artists' royalties
    • $1.70 Label profit
    • $2.40 Marketing/promotion
    • $2.91 Label overhead
    • $3.89 Retail overhead
    -Almighty Institute of Music Retail
  21. Sued FFII on German IT Outfit Bans Whining · · Score: 4, Informative

    The same company that sued the FFII.

  22. Re:synthetic remix/rerendering of video speech on Can Your Mouth Become Multilingual? · · Score: 2, Informative
    They had some visually convincing video showing people saying things that the researchers claimed they never said.

    This is not exactly the same, but you should see this movie (get it with wget first, if it's not working).
    This technology is called 'Motion Portrait' and developed by Sony-Kihara Research Center that designed Graphics Synthesizer for PS2. It generates realtime (30fps) 3D facial animation from a single 2D picture, and is possible on an ordinary PC (you don't have to have a massive render farm). As you see in the movie, you can add facial animation to anything including pineapples and anime characters. The researcher says in the movie its application to games is interesting, for example animating your face or an anime character face in a game. I think with CELL it's almost inevitable to see it in action in PS3 games.


    Another extremely impressive video.
    This new image-based rendering demo converts user's face into polygons and applies makeup to it by texture-mapping, template-matching and motion prediction by matrix calculation, and makes it into 720x480@30fps in realtime, on a half-mirror. Here's a news movie including this demo, ring-shaped bone-conduction phone, bicycle robot, SED, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray
  23. Lets collect the money on Underground 'Cold War City' For Sale · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... and buy that thing for the slashdot community! It's only 5.5 £ / user.

    We could do whatever we want with it. Put in a thick internet pipe and have some fun. Lan parties, new secure location for the /. servers, underground soccer, ...

  24. Re:New Virtualization HW may be key on Red Hat CEO Decries Open Source Pretenders · · Score: 1

    And I acknowledge that VMWare and others can do this today, but they 1) aren't free, 2) are already growing in use.

    You can get the VMware Player for free.

  25. Re:Subjective? No, defensive. on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 2, Informative

    His articles are in fact not very Linux friendly.