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  1. Re:What I've always wondered on Your Thoughts on the Great Ozone Debate? · · Score: 1

    There was also hole above Central Europe this Spring. In percentage not much of a reduction...but it was enough for me to get, in late March, sunburns (3h on the Sun). In March! When I can't remember I've had any sooner than in June previously.

  2. Re:Why not? on Google Instant Messenger all Rumor · · Score: 1
  3. Re:This is the next step on Japan Plans Test of 'New Concorde' · · Score: 1

    You don't want passenger transport at parabolic trajectory. You want normal gravity for passenger comfort.

  4. Case? on Mac mini Built Into Wall · · Score: 1

    How much for shipping to PL? ;P

  5. Re:FP?-Brick on a stick. on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    I think one of us is talking about "what is" and other "what could be" while evaluating the usufullnes of the shuttle...oh well, nevermind... And this change wouldn't be a small thing to do... Aaand...last paragraph...it's debatable. What you say definatelly was true in case of Energia, but, in its current form, you have to use the orbiter at every launch. BTW, the configuration similar to shuttle c (because it wouldn't be the same) was scrapped apparently, NASA goes directly to configuration in the style of Energia Vulcan/Vulkan

  6. Re:FP?-Brick on a stick. on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    or "vulkan"

  7. Re:FP?-Brick on a stick. on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    But that's not the Shuttle anymore, that's its derivative. And btw, the same concept as in Energia (with which, coincidentically, side mounting wasn't a problem because of not using cryogenic fuel). Turns out Russian incarnation of Shuttle concept was OK...(not changing the fact that it's insane...)
    and btw, google image search for "energia vulcan"

  8. Re:FP? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    Buran, yes; but Energia - twice. As for reasons...well, Russians were a little more sensible (only a little...after all they scrapped it only after first launch) and saw insanity of the concept I guess...

  9. Re:FP?-Brick on a stick. on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    Well, what your say is direct argument against Shuttle - that it has to carry all the dead mass (which is usefull only during descend...for a price of safety)

  10. Re:FP? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    Suicide only when ice can form. Energia/Buran didn't have such problem (not using cryogenic fuel)

  11. Re:Of course they changed the socket... again... on AMD to Adopt DDR2 Next Year · · Score: 1

    I was able to do something like this with Duron 600 :> Bought it when it was sweet spot, just when they come out. Was working good for almost 2 years...then mobo burned and I got as a replacement one that could go up to 2400+ (Stuck in 1700+, D600 also burned; shop wanted to five me D850 (slowest at the time), so I only paid the difference). And now I have one year old SiS746FX mobo with DDR...still with that 3,5 half years old XP1700...sometimes upgrades work...

  12. Re:Socket A on AMD to Adopt DDR2 Next Year · · Score: 1

    754 will live, with mobile CPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if longer than 939...

  13. Re:Socket A on AMD to Adopt DDR2 Next Year · · Score: 1

    754 has nothing to do with older athlons and socket A never hit 3,2GHz, 3200+ was only PR rating (cpu run at 2,2GHz) (and I assume that mentioning slot-a second time ("you can, 754/slot-a is still") was something almost in line with typo...) Although I agree that 754 will probably live a while...also thanks to mobile CPUs...

  14. Re:Finally Hardware Catches Up... on Resident Evil 5 Details · · Score: 1

    Silent Hill 3 & 4 still has dense fog...but it doesn't have to on PC, so..(btw, the fog in SH is simply superb - probably more computations are needed for it than 2x bigger scenery) In some cases it is justified...

  15. Re:problem is with the parents on Government Pressure on ESRB · · Score: 1

    Hm..perhaps these people you mention look in the worng way. bevause there is nothing wrong per se about violent video games (or anything). As a matter of fact, I would be able to raise a child in a way that invloved witnessing VERY violent acts for whole childhood and teen years, but the child wouldn't heart a fly (would a paciffist, in the better sense of the world). OTOH I would be also able to raise a child that haven't even witnessed violence on TV/newspapers that on first occasion would become a murderer, mass murderer if given opportunity. But I won't do the latter (and former...what for? why waste energy on something like that). That's not my purpose for studying psychology. What we witness isn't what makes us "messed up". What most important people in our life do to us is. And this DOESN'T include what almost everybody call "irresponsible" (I have life examples). Actually, quite the contrary.

  16. Re:Uh... paintball...airsoft? on Summer FPS - Lazer Tag and Super Soaker · · Score: 1

    ASG even more...but simply because of people (since trust, etc. is required, certain people won't ever play it; conciously they might think "hmm...I can cheat and say the opponents don't heat me" but at unconcious level thought that others might do the same (even though they won't) prevents him form wanting to play it)

  17. Re:Yes, XP has a large memory footprint. on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    No SCSI. No significant swapping.

  18. Re:Yes, XP has a large memory footprint. on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Consider this: machine at which I'm at right now is: dual p2 266 128mb ram And running win2k with Opera (~20 tabs), audio player, USB ADSL acces app, software firewall, google desktop search with lots of plugins, xchat and two IM programs which you haven't heard about (one is a little bloat). This machine is fully usable at the task Once I used: AthlonXP 1700+ 128mb ram With WindowsXP. Running the above (minus ADSL app, GDS and one IM) meant the machine was struggling in its tries to be productive. So yes, when using older machine 2000 (and of course 98, but it doesn't support 2cpu, so...) is MUCH faster than XP.

  19. Re:2000? Not Surprising! on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    Well, support is not so well as with XP (I've found recently some software that said XP only...uhmmm, I understand 9x, but 2000? Why?)

  20. Re:Murder, Theft, Swearing, Oh my on How the ESRB Rates Games · · Score: 1

    She isn't moved a damn. It's just doing what people want. People want fingers pointed at the "simple and obvious" reasons behind problems in society, they don't want to hear that perhaps they should look at themselves and change something (how uncormortable would be admitting that they're not perfect after all...) And Rockstar rides on the wave thanks to this...you could say that Rockstar and Hillary are on the same side.

  21. Re:Too Busty receiving a higher rating? on How the ESRB Rates Games · · Score: 1

    If they won't limit breast size in games we would end up with games in which 100% of females characters would need chirurgical operation that would make their beasts smaller for the owner to function normally. (but perhaps I'm just not obsessed with large breasts/implants at all...)

  22. Re:KDE Fork ... on KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE · · Score: 1

    Uhmm..beeing non-bloated is not about browsing or fixing bugs. Furthermore, it IS adding every popular feature request, among other things...

  23. Re:The big question is... on PGR3 Achieves Near Photo Realism · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's possible...but not many do it (scaling back etc. things...)...and that means also that a lot of power doesn't go to waste, nice thought IMHO.

  24. Re:Homebrew games? on PGR3 Achieves Near Photo Realism · · Score: 1

    Net Yaroze

  25. Re:Plasma looks like ass! on KDE's future: Plasma & SimpleKDE · · Score: 1

    Uhmmm...you mention artists...but what about useability experts? (I hate the word: lately it means "web designer" kind of people; I mean the REAL ones; I dunno, guys after psychology & cognitive science aren't bad at this among other types) You know, it's meant to be _used_ primarily.