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  1. Re:Windows size? on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    Your post prompted me to chech the size of my windows folder, the result

    WINDOWS properties ....
    Size : 1.55 GB
    Size on Disk : 1.45 GB

    Make what you want of it...

  2. Re:Question of variety on Unlike Movie-Goers, Gamers Love Sequels? · · Score: 1

    ROFL! Your word mincing made me laugh. I'd mod you but I just posted!

  3. Re:Forever, or until the solar panels die... on Opportunity Rover Arrives at Endurance Crater · · Score: 1

    (of course, I'm sure they'll keep extending it until they die.

    You sound like you're talking about valve...

  4. Re:I saw these things on The FragBook · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Well lets see here...If those asians weren't working to make stuff for thinkgeek, may it be possible that they wouldn't have any money? Would it then be more likely that they will live longer whilst earning money and eating rather than sitting there and starving. I say support thinkgeek! It keeps asians alive (c)"

  5. Re:Survival Research Labs on Robosaurus · · Score: 1

    why slashdot doesnt follow their stories is a mystery.

    Stories can be submitted by any user. If you want to tell people about whats happening on that site, feel free to post a story on /. anytime.

  6. Obviously on Video Games - Lost in Translation? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Games such as 'Enter the Matrix' ... often vanish... without leaving a trace."

    I wonder why :/

  7. Re:Interesting feature... on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1

    rofl I came up with the stupidest scenario just then. All over the world these clockwork cars replace normal ones. Then people start getting lazy and put in engines to wind the clockwork.

  8. I know I know! on How does Google do it? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    more and more people want to know what makes Google tick

    Google has already told everyone what makes them tick! Imagine, a beowulf cluster of pigeons

  9. That is still too slow on Data Transfer Has A Speed Limit · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll never go back to that after you've experienced data transfer via bad news.

  10. Yes! on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    "tried to make Visual C++ more conformant to the ISO C++ standard"

    Score one for the team! Microsoft conformed to something!

  11. Did I read that right? on Virginia MagLev Project Back on Track · · Score: 1

    Virginal Maglev Project? I think someone needs to call up a metrosexual!

  12. Why buy one? on Exotic Wood Computer Cases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't see what's wrong with making a wood box and cutting the right holes in it. I s'pose that would also be a good opportunity to make my ultimate case mod (for LANs). Get a flatscreen monitor, and stick it to the side of the pc. And you could make a compartment in the computer for storing headphones, keyboard, mouse. Next time you go to a LAN, this would be all you need... (and it's a space saver). So, any entrepeneurs here?

  13. Re:Dear dear dear on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    Well this sucks. Now people under legal age literally can't look at themselves naked. Will I have to close my eyes to take a shower now?

  14. Re:UnfairPlay on New Tool Cracks Apple's FairPlay DRM · · Score: 1

    Hell, we can always rely on someone with an audigy-x to record whatever is coming out of their computer.

  15. Re:Share and Care on Canadian Minister Promises to Fix Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Like you said, when you download a song, you donate $x directly into the artist's bank account and this cuts out the record companies. While reading that I realised it cuts out the writers, sound guy, and any other hard working people. Remember most artists with record companies are hired help, they sing other people's lyrics and thus are probably less important than the writer or the sound guys. I say money should go equally to all of them.

  16. Re:Faster planes? on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth? · · Score: 1

    Use the same technology as sound cancelling headphones. Except you'd just steal the speakers from that youngun's car. Two birds with one stone I say.

  17. Re:Wow! on PC In An XP Box · · Score: 0

    Lol my dads XP basically came in between two pieces of cardboard shrinkwrapped. I was awestruck wondering how they got a computer in that.

  18. Re:Grand children? on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This guy is going well, age wise if he can have great grand-children alive in several hundred years. I assume several hundred is at least 300, probably more. For 300- This means he must have a child in 75 years, who will have a grandchild in 75 years, who will then have the great granchild in 75 years, and now it is 225 years later, and this great grandchild will have to live 75 years just so he can get infected.

    Not that I'm pedantic or anything

  19. Re:I don't think this is right... on A High-tech Wheel of Fortune · · Score: 0

    The story has not made a grammatical error.

    "London police have detained three people, for allegedly beating the roulette wheel at a London casino"

  20. Re:eh? on Is {pluto|sedna} A Planet? · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is interesting. What happens if there is a gas giant that is just under the required mass to ignite, then I throw a rock at it. Run like hell?

  21. Re:planet, definitely (both Pluto & Sedna) on Is {pluto|sedna} A Planet? · · Score: 0

    Finally! Someone here on /. does not have a Humble opinion. Must be because of unusually good self esteem.

  22. Re:space junk? on Delta 2 Rocket Launches 50th GPS Satellite · · Score: 0

    I'd be much more worried that, at any rate, eventually we will send all our metal into space :)

  23. Re:However... on Six Months Old, Eight New Organs · · Score: 0

    Now he just has to find children who are actually sick and need this many organ transplants.

  24. Re:Great for distance comparison, but thats it! on Worlds Largest Scale Model Solar System? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    LOL My science teacher spent two lessons doing this certain project. He gave each group of 4 an A2 piece of paper, and a sheet of the distances and sizes of objects in the solar system. We were to create the largest scale model we could and when our science teacher (probably laughing in his mind) asked us where we would set this up we said on the school oval. Turns out, in our scale pluto is a piece of paper 2cm(under 1") in radius, and would have to be placed 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) away. Obviously we didn't ever finish our scale models but it was funny when we realised we were never supposed to.

  25. Re:Stick to hardware routers and firewalls... on "Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers · · Score: 0

    I wonder what the results of a certain study would find, that study being, "Time taken removing a virus vs Time spent monitoring patch sites like crazy"

    Personally, I have a SOHO hardware firewall (+router). My HDD has a 7gb partition especially for the OS and my most used programs and I have a copy of ALL my programs install files + drivers hardware on another HDD partition and CD . I can do a regular format reinstall in an hour. All my files are on the other partition. If anything ultra-bad happens I can always do a full format and my whole computer is exactly the same. Works quite well vs. constant paranoia patching, I think. I don't think this method is destined for use with several computers though.