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  1. One use for 50GB on Pioneer Electron Beam DVD · · Score: 1

    Since DVDs of TV shows by seasons is getting very popular these could store what a box set of say ~5DVDs on just one of these gems

    Kick back and watch 6 hours of Dilbert without the need of a DVD changer

  2. Employers will demand on Microsoft PR: Looking Under The Hood · · Score: 2, Funny

    Employers will demand that you submit your resume in Word format when they get wind of this!

  3. Match on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 1

    Come on, this is slashdot ... motorcycle riding photo-snapping babe through nuclear wasteland ... show me a geek that isn't drooling by now

    I'm glowing right now!

  4. Re:1669 hours... a perspective on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 1

    Apparently, on average, adults watch TV 29% of their waking hours watching TV

    Thats about how much time I spend on reading slashdot!

    Curious, is that because its my startpage on all my browsers?

    Anyone else ran into this dilemma?

  5. Re:OS X Talkback? on Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does anybody know why they stopped putting Talkback into the OS X pre-release versions since 1.6 alpha? I thought that was supposed to help them find crashing bugs. Kind of hard to do when you forget to put it in there in the first place.

    I can't speak for OS X, but as for Windows, I inquired about the removal of the talkback feature in the nightly builds they had this to say about it:

    No, it's not possible to enable it. It's either built into the official builds or its not. Currently the official builds are not being built with talkback because of some talkback server issues, so there is no way to disable it. Hopefully by Firebird 0.9 all of the talkback issues will be sorted, but it's probably not going to happen for the Firebird 0.8 release.

    Though if you page down it appears that we shall see it in this release of Mozilla

    "The installer releases of Mozilla 1.7 Beta now include Quality Feedback Agent again, allowing users to report crashes, ..."

    Hopefully all those new bug reports will help speed up development :-)

  6. Their gender detection code leaked already!! on Guilty By Association · · Score: 4, Funny

    #include
    #include

    void main()
    {

    if

    contacts more then 75 = female;

    anything else = male;

    }

    **any code monkey wish to do this properly it would be more humours :-) **

  7. when it's 20 on Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary · · Score: 2, Funny

    It will be taking your keys when its twenty!

  8. had enough of on Michael Dell Steps Down as CEO · · Score: 1

    1 Dell way, dude?

  9. Mirror to picture on World's Smallest Homebrew RC Unit · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have managed to get a picture off the slashdotted webpage. Appears small might be an overstatement of its size.

  10. Re:Doing away with 2D acceleration? on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 1

    Well the idea of the 3d accelerated desktop is that your video card will be able to do all the work. Considering how simple the graphics are on a 2d desktop (versus something like doom 3) i imagine almost any mediocre graphics card will speed things up immensly.

    That was exactly my point sir ;-)

    Considering some 128MB graphics cards are getting quite cheap think of how much load you can transfer to that idling graphics card.

  11. and in other news on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Warner Bros takes Billy to court over using the name Reloaded.

    Actually what I'm thrilled about (even if others say its horribly inefficient) is the 3D accelerated desktop that is supposed to be in Longhorn, and doing away with 2D acceleration. The Mac has it, why can't we?

    Though I doubt Reloaded will have it as it would take away the Longhorn hype

  12. Re:Residence is futile on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 1

    arrghhh, forgot to change it to plain old text,

    is it Monday?

  13. Re:Residence is futile on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 1

    That would be 'resistance'. Now if I used resistance I'd get getting assimilated by Paramount Pictures for stealing their phrase :-) Safety through obscurity? But thanks for the correction, as I didn't notice it till your post

  14. You will on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    prepare your p0rn collection for assimilation.

  15. Residence is futile on Borg Cube Case · · Score: 5, Funny

    your net connection will be assimilated at 933Mhz!

  16. 1:1 copy possible? on MPAA Prevails Against 321 Studios' DVD X Copy · · Score: 1

    Just curious,

    I've never tried burning DVDs but is it possible to do 1:1 copy of single layer DVD which would include the extras and the sort without recompression?

  17. This puts a whole new meaning on Hamster-controlled MIDI · · Score: 5, Funny

    to the song Hamster Dance

    Remember this when ICQ was in its infancy? :)

  18. Re:and the answer is.... on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 1

    If this is the way that Open Source treats its friends, I'd hate to see how it treats its enemies... [sco.com]

    Page not found

  19. Re:Steam :) on WineX 3.3 Out - Now Supports Steam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually if WineX is anything like Wine there is a nifty winefile program that comes with Wine that acts like a file manager.

    So if you drop to the terminal prompt and just type winefile, and you can now openly browse all configured volumes including your CDROM.

  20. Re:gimp and sane illegal on 27 Central Banks Push Anti-Counterfeit Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is money the same color across the EU? (serious question, I've never seen any european money)

    No problem, will just scan it and throw up a link for you...Oh, nevermind.

    note: All is to be taken sarcastically

  21. Problem with the internet is on No Harm, No Foul in Heavy Net Use · · Score: 1

    Problem with the internet is finding girls to date that want to do more then talk on MSN/ICQ.

    Well miss, even though you live three blocks from me you still don't want to go out and do anything, eh?

    Just my two Canadian cents.

  22. Three G5 CPUs! I can only say one thing on Leaked X-Box 2 Specs Include PPC CPU · · Score: 1

    With three G5 CPUs and if they ever managed to get linux on this baby think of how many SETI@Home Work Units you could crunch in a week? *drool*

  23. Geez! Now I'm going on Xbox for $99? Xbox 2 in 2005? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now I'm going to have to sell my Apex DVD player!!!

    C'mon 99$USD for an Xbox?? Most of my movies are in divx/xvid and only playable on a computer so this will be heavenly.

  24. as to what they found the easiest on Trying Your Hand at Level Design? · · Score: 5, Informative

    as to what they found the easiest

    The Cube Engine allows you to edit maps right in the game on the fly. There is also a cooperative edit mode, try and beat that :)

  25. So how long before? on UK Testing Wireless Broadband Via Airship · · Score: 1

    So how long before we see on slashdot:

    Breaking news: 15-year old charged with hi-jacking a microplane via wi-fi?