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  1. Re:My favorite designs on Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners! · · Score: 1

    For that I would have to be at home, not stuck behind a Windows machine...

    <sarcasm>Yeah, shame they don't make a version of PERL that runs on Windows.</sarcasm>

  2. Re:color choices on Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, deodorant doesn't work after there is a smell, because the smell is caused by bacteria. Deodorant doesn't kill bacteria. It only covers it up. You can use more natural deodorants instead, such as apple cider vinegar or salt stone. Both kill the bacteria and make an environment where the bacteria can't rapidly grow.

    These are very handy when you are riding a bicycle across the country and only get to shower every third night. Vinegar works very well, and the smell evaporates in a minute or two. If you already stink, it eliminates the odor.

    What finally made me switch to natural deodorants is realizing that the number one ingredient to my Speed Stick was anti-freeze (ethylene glycol).

  3. Re:NiMH on Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can usually find the lithium AA in the photo battery section of a store. It is 3.6V, so using it in regular devices would require a AA blank, which is a conductor shaped exactly like a AA battery.

    I haven't seen these, since very old 12 V powered radios. They were used with the radios when alkalines were used. Normally 10, 1.2V NiCad AAs were used in the radios. If you used alkalines, you needed 8 1.5V AAs. To keep from hurting the radio, you used two of these AA shaped conductor blanks.

  4. Re:NiMH on Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is an important thing to keep in mind when choosing battery types. I will generally put up with the reduced run time in a CD player for my NIMH AAs, just to keep from having to buy alkalines in bulk. Alkalines have higher internal resistance than NiMH, which is higher than NiCad. NiMH is best for most moderate draw devices, because the increased energy density overshadows the extra losses do to internal resistance compated to NiCads. When you get up into the exterme draws, like high performance electric motors for R/C airplance and cars, or even full size electric vehicles, the lower resistance of the NiCad makes up for the reduced energy density in run time.

  5. Re:NiMH on Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? · · Score: 1

    But this doesn't help when they are in devices that use up the batteries charge in a couple months. Using rechargables in low power devices allows you to let the battery's internal discharge use up most of the stored energy. It just isn't a great solution. It is, however, better than throwing away a bunch of Alkaline (or whatever the new disposable battery fad is these days) cells.

  6. Re:my dear lord.... on Specs for Sony PSP Handheld · · Score: 1

    Actually, the dimentions have 2 extra lines to keep everything devisible by 8 or 16. This makes video memory allocation, processing, etc. much nicer in a digital world. No doubt, the two "extra" lines will be used for display.

  7. Re:Whoops on Specs for Sony PSP Handheld · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I can't do that. I'm not a lawyer and I don't even play one on /.

  8. Re:More details on Specs for Sony PSP Handheld · · Score: 1
  9. Re:7.1 Audio? on Specs for Sony PSP Handheld · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the .1 thing that hurts on a hand-held with headphones. To get good enough bass, they have to tap a screw directly into you skull. Don't get me wrong, the results are amazing. And it allows you to also mount your head onto a tripod, so it can't be all bad. Just a little freaky.

  10. Re:In other news on Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge · · Score: 1

    Driving on public roads is not a right. This means that legislation can control when should be allowed there. I'd love to see your response after that person who should get to drive what they want crushes your car with their Sherman tank. Get real.

  11. Re:Screen captures? on Disney to Make Movies Available Online · · Score: 1

    The fact that is much easier to just use SmartRipper or similar to copy the DVD to your hard drive and convert that to whatever format you want?

  12. Re:In other news on Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge · · Score: 1

    Moderated as Funny. It should be motderated as "True, but sad". Average gas mileage has been going down over the last decade. Who needs to drive around a Hummer H2 anyway? What exactly are you compensating for?

  13. Re:Now... on Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it would cost about $20,000 to fix you car after an accident and most body shops don't know how to work with solar cells. :)

  14. Re:Waiting for Laserdisc... on Matrix Reloaded on DVD Before Revolutions · · Score: 1

    They aren't forcing anyone to do anything. If I want to see Reloaded just before Revolutions, I'll pay a video store $3 to rent the DVD.

  15. Re:It's no wonder... on Suborbital Rocketeers Ask FAA For Fair Rocketry Rules · · Score: 1

    If someone wanted to do this, they wouldn't aim for a jet at cruise altitude and speed. They would aim for an airliner just taking off with full fuel, flying slow and hot, over a populated area. Any SAM made in the last 40 years, that is still functioning can take down an airliner pretty easily. Reduced restrictions on Commercial Sub-Orbital flights will do nothing to help or hinder this possibility. The fact is that no matter how much fear the government puts in the people, they cannot protect us from all possibilities of harm.

  16. Re:Waiting for Laserdisc... on Matrix Reloaded on DVD Before Revolutions · · Score: 1

    My hope is that you wait a little longer and get a much better selection of supporting material. After seeing Matrix Reloaded on IMAX, I don't know if DVD will be good enough. :)

  17. Re:computer modeling on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 1

    Having a previous mission with a non-fatal hot gas burn through isn't "not broke" in my book. I would classify it more as foreshadowing.

  18. Re:Failure ahead for Replay... on ReplayTV DVR to Remove Features · · Score: 1

    If Replay drops these features in the 5500 series, it will just create a very hot secondary/used market for the older 5000 models that still have Commercial Advance & Send Show features.

    This is shown by the used Series 1 TiVos that are still being sold at incredible prices, because they have much more capabilities to hack the software than the Series 2 boxes.

  19. Re:well on ReplayTV DVR to Remove Features · · Score: 1

    I get through 3 minutes of commercials on the TiVo at 60x. That takes 3 seconds. I actually get to see a few frames of each commercial. This is enough to stop and view things I actually want to see, such as ads for new shows or movie trailers, etc. The hardware on Replay is better than TiVo (component outputs, etc.) Unfortunately, the software is pathetic compared with the UI and features on TiVo. For a PVR device, TiVo just works so much better.

  20. Re:What keeps it going? Nostalgia on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what you mean. I ran into a group of model-T enthusiasts during my cross-country bike trip last year. (Scroll down to near the bottom.)

    The group trailered their cars in and were based at this motel and going on 40 mile day trips as a group. It is interesting, because some of them were born after Model-Ts we no longer being produced. I had fun going for a ride in one. When I think of add-ons to the Apple II, I see a parallel with the Model-T. One of the pictures I show a converted bicycle computer used on the old car to get a more accurate speed display. There are many other things that are so easy to add onto these old vehicles for which the original designers would have died to have.

  21. Future looks good for AMD on What's Microsoft Up To? · · Score: 1

    "I believe they're going to announce a sub-operating system that will not be accessible to the end user. This will run on new add-on hardware associated with the Intel processor. While you can use Nexus for secure operation, it will also enforce digital rights management."

    Looks like with its advances in 64-bit and this in the pipeline, AMD has a good future indeed. If AMD doesn't jump on this bandwagon, they will get my business instead.

  22. Re:Why single out SDI? on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 1

    There is now code in some turbo-charged diesel engines to limit the rpm of the main impellor. See, at very high altitude the blades would try to maintain air pressure. The thinner the outside air, the faster the turbine would have to spin. There are structural limits to metal. Who would drive an 18-wheeler that high anyway? There is a nice shrapnel explosion when a turbine lets go. Needless to say, there is now code limiting rpm.

  23. Re:Is taxation best? on E-mail Tax As Way Of Preventing Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would gladly pay $0.01 per email to get rid of the 50-70 SPAM messages I get per day. Unfortunately, this really can't work until there is a good way of authenticating the sender.

  24. Re:yay on High Density CDs · · Score: 1

    Ordering on-line, you can cut that DVD-R price in half. I'm getting 100 for under $99.

  25. Re:Alternative to CDs for games on High Density CDs · · Score: 1

    Not if your users were now forced to upgrade their CD-ROM bios to even think about installing the game.