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  1. Re:Bovine mixed-metaphors on Valve's Counter-Strike Condition Zero Done · · Score: 1

    Pedantry: Half-life is the Quake 1 engine with a few graphical tweaks and a couple of things backported from Quake2.

  2. Re:Powerbook users screwed on Apple Sets Oct. 24th Release For Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened to me with my 15" TiBook. So when the apple rep was showing off the new powerbooks on his visit I asked about this and he said "you should have our support contract anyway".

    I said I'd advise all my users against buying any new macs until 10.3 was released.

    I guess it does help them in a small way, they do seem to have supply problems even with the disincentive of an old OS.

  3. Re:real application! on What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Woah, useful! Now, where the hell is this type of stuff documented?

  4. Re:Bizarre huh? on Nobel Prize for Physics Announced · · Score: 1

    If you think you understand Quantum Mechanics, that only shows you don't know the first thing about it.
    -Niels Bohr

  5. Re:DICOM on Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI · · Score: 1

    Having written a (simple) dicom reader I agree. Interfile forever!

  6. Re:So who do I pay on IETF Draft Sets up Public Namespaces · · Score: 1

    WRT identification/resolution, I think it's similar to the nntp: URI. When you omit the server your software defaults to your preferences, which may include a payed for nntp server for alt.binaries.* etc.

  7. Re:Elite 3 on Elite Creator On Attracting Mainstream Gamers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ian Bell (the other half of elite) has indicated that he doesn't want to make a new elite until processors are up to real-time ray tracing, none of this cheating with graphics acceleration.

  8. Re:encryption key? on New PowerBooks, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    Oldest? I have an 4MHz 8088 based Zenith laptop and a powerbook 150 (33MHz, woo woo). Never say you have the *est computer thing on slashdot, there's always someone who collects more junk than you.

    They're both in working order too.

  9. Re:I always wondered on New PowerBooks, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse · · Score: 1

    I'd listen to moofing noises for as long as it took.

  10. FFMpeg on TV "Broadcasting" Over Wireless Networks? · · Score: 0

    I've used ffmpeg so I can watch sports events at work. I record them at home and stream at realtime to my work machine over http.

    Just noticed their page is closed due to the patent thing. Try here

  11. He's not dead! on Open Source Community Approaches SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    Though history books claim that McCarthy passed away in 1957, McCarthy is still obviously alive and kicking today. He claims he was actually cryogenically frozen by the C.I.A. and is thawed out occasionally to battle manifestations of international Communism.

    Source

  12. Re:Video/mpeg confusions! on Walk-thru Fog Screen · · Score: 1

    Only on x86. To display the wmv it requires the directshow components from a windows install.

    I'm on a Mac here.

  13. Video/mpeg confusions! on Walk-thru Fog Screen · · Score: 1
    MPEG video of the musem prototype (windows media 9 format (720x576, like DVD). You need a new version of windows media player to view it. 1 min. 15 sec., total 21 MB)


    Just because it's computer video doesn't mean it's mpeg!

    Alas I can't transcode it to mpeg either.
  14. Re:better mirror that geocities page on When Good Spammers Go Bad · · Score: 3, Informative

    How much is the hourly cap? I have mirrored it, although the formatting of the rant is pretty dire
    http://blue.doosh.net/~yarn/elgreen.html.gz[4k]

  15. UV? on Disinfection Technology/Methods for Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    I used to work in a hospital, and in areas where bacterial contamination is possible the room is flooded with UV when unoccupied.

  16. Re:Try LyX for technical writing on OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I tried it, I didn't like it. However, that was when it used xforms (ugh), I've not tried its qt incarnation.

    I didn't like the lack of flexability compared to raw latex.

  17. Re:Missing features still... on OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    LaTeX is there for physics papers. I wrote up my notes in LaTeX after getting fed up with writing my reports in OpenOffice

  18. Re:Architectures on eMac Video Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I have a 486 with pci slots, bought it as the price dropped when the P5 60MHz was released

  19. Learn to draw, in a generic style on Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I looked at the 'before and after' section of the learn to draw site. It did seem that the variety of the 'before' pictures was squashed into the standard 'after' style. In particular I personally feel that the before in this picture shows more promise than the after.

  20. Re:the most annoying thing is on Declaring War on Mobile Phone Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you reply to the sms you can be charged for any further smses *they* send to you. This is how companies get money for weather announcement services etc.

    Vodaphone is more or less as the forefront of this worrying trend.

  21. Re:I thought... on RealPC For Mac Delayed By MS Cease And Desist · · Score: 1

    There are other reasons. I run Virtual PC to allow me to back up my mobile phone, the software is Windows only. I have however made some progress deciphering the protocol so I should be able to write my own perl backup utility soon. (I can currently backup, but not restore)

  22. Re:It Still Isn't Out of the Lab? on Quantum Cryptography: 100km Barrier Broken · · Score: 1

    I imagine it's all on a set of reels.

  23. Re:put in a repeater on Quantum Cryptography: 100km Barrier Broken · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I forgot the mention the eavesdropper, E. S/he doesn't know which schemes are in use, and she can't validate her scheme with the sender, so her data's useless. It also interferes with the stream such that the interference can be detected statistically.

    Slashdot doesn't allow me to post the maths, but I'm sure you can google for it.

  24. Re:put in a repeater on Quantum Cryptography: 100km Barrier Broken · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can't measure the exact polarisation of a photon. The photon always either passes or doesn't pass. As you can't measure it, you can't duplicate it.

    When A & B communicate A first sends the stream of photons using two types of polarisation (typically horizontal/vertical-linear and left/right-circular), and B measures randomly in the two different schemes. When the polarisation is measured in the wrong scheme the outcome is random.

    The trick is that A & B now communicate over an insecure circuit and agree to throw away data where B was using the wrong scheme. They now have a clean stream of bits to use as a one time key over their insecure circuit.

  25. Re:How they manage it still has them puzzled... on Camouflage in Motion · · Score: 1

    Dragonflies tend to predate upon smaller insects, with simple visual systems, so I still think that a kind of pattern maching technique would work. When there's a change in the image of the prey the dragonfly can make a small move in any direction and if it improves it can continue, if it doesn't improve it can revert.