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  1. soon... on Gates Says No to Implants · · Score: 1

    Image playing Homeworld with that fancy all-sensory-input-output device.

  2. hmm ... on Best Way to Back Up Photos and Video? · · Score: 1

    I keep my originals (video, images) somewhere on DVD and use a smaller, screen optimized version to show to family and friends.

  3. the tv.. on First Shareable Interactive Display · · Score: 4, Insightful

    as the time goes, the tv will probably become less and less social activity...

  4. wow on First Shareable Interactive Display · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is great; Now, if only someone makes multiple streams of sound riding on the same speaker...

    How about using it in the bank industry? The bank equips the ATM's with this, makes sure that the user is informed that he should sit strictly in front. Then the ATM displays "bait" information on all sides except the front side.

  5. whatever you do... on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 2, Funny

    do not try to pick up fight with the natives ...

  6. Re:minimum mass on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    the article is great, thanks

  7. shai on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    dorsai :)

  8. Re:minimum mass on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    so, if 'they' are brought to earth, 'they' could probably be able to compete in bunch of sports. Provided that we figure out how to prevent them from exploding :)

  9. minimum mass on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The team measures a minimum mass for the planet of 5.9 Earth masses
    It seems that planet's gravity is quite big for "earthlike" planet. Is life possible at all under such gravity? Any examples?

  10. Re:hmm... on Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BTW: Straight from the SlashMash code:

    int iFirstPostRating = s.GetPostRating(0);
    if (OFFTOPIC == iFirstPostRating
    || FLAMEBAIT == iFirstPostRating
    || TROLL == iFirstPostRating
    || REDUNDANT == iFirstPostRating)

    But I never though I'll see the lastcondition fulfilled.

  11. Re:hmm... on Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond · · Score: 1

    thanks...

  12. Re:hmm... on Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny thing with the parent post. See, I'm doing a bit of research at present about /. . The stats can be found on SlashMash.com .

    To generate these statistics one has to be pretty familiar with the system. That means reading posts all the time, trying to track different paterns, and I thought I've seen everything, until I'm seeing the FIRST POST MODED REDUNDANT.

    I'm leaving to the public and to M2 to figure this one out.

  13. hmm... on Gentoo Founder on his way to Redmond · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any idea what his employment contract may hold?

  14. At first, it looked like a great story... on Homebrew Air Conditioning for Under $25 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    From the article: "cheap, environmentally friendly".
    From who.int: "Billions without clean water": link
    The guy has no clue how lucky he is in his "student ghettos don't have gardens" home to have clean water to throw around.

  15. Re: your sig... on What You Should Know When Taking a University Job? · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit confused about "times the story has already been posted?". I'm not checking for duplicates of any kind, on story level, if you are thinking about that. Maybe you can contact me at my email for this one (or post in the forums), I'll be very glad for ANY feedback.

  16. Same as any job on What You Should Know When Taking a University Job? · · Score: 2, Funny

    (1) smile, nod... repeat...
    (2) While doing (1), watch out carefully for impossible/stupid features proposed by the middle management
    (3) Return to (1).

  17. MS, good stuff? on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    I know people always point out how bad Microsoft is, but, I'm seeing plenty of advertising about all kinds of research sponsorship Microsoft does, and wondering if I should enroll (at least try) in some of them? I also have few new algorithms that people pointed out to me "try selling that to Microsoft".

    Can anyone tell me more about their good/bad experiences regarding IP and Microsoft ? And I'm not talking only for the bashing part, Microsoft is a big company and plenty goes on with them, anything positive?

  18. Re:recommendations? on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    PGP disk.
    You can then store your passwords in any format you like, xls, txt..etc

  19. sound reasoning? on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    which ran a few weeks back, and which has some pretty sound reasoning behind it.

    I do believe that there is also "some pretty sound reasoning" when the users decide to share their whole drive together with the passwords on P2P. I mean, by doing that, one can sleep peacefully knowing that his password is redundantly stored, for the next n years.

    Give me a break. Security is designed by the need for it. There is a need to protect your email password because even email has a legal standing as a form of communication. Same goes for your personal and work files.

  20. Re:Don't make such claims. on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lets break it to them gently...

  21. Let the games begin... on Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb · · Score: 1, Funny

    I vote for vi and fully expect to get troll, flamebait, or redundant on this post :)

  22. Re:PHP? on Effective C++, Third Edition · · Score: 1

    Average lifespan of a PHP script = 30 seconds + 1 milisecond.

  23. Re:Do people still write new C++ code? on Effective C++, Third Edition · · Score: 1

    No, but they NEED one anyway.

  24. Re:I recall... on Effective C++, Third Edition · · Score: 1

    Another idea, way ago, on the older IDE's , there was a foreign language 'o' which looked Exactly like 0. :)

  25. Re:Do people still write new C++ code? on Effective C++, Third Edition · · Score: 1

    You don't know what are you talking about. Java and .NET might be 'cool' languages, but from my experience the C/C++ projects are still paid more and have more stable salary. BTW, just for fun, the site in my SIG was done in C++. PHP (as a cool language) wasn't fit for a task because my server kills scripts after 30 seconds.