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  1. Re:3D idea for this setup on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1

    Or you could set up exaggerated stereo, as if your eyes were 10 meters apart or something. You would get the sensation of being in a miniature landscape though...

    This reminds me of a really crap 3D show I saw at Jodrell Bank (a big radio telescope in the UK - some of your seti@home data comes from there. They have a visitors centre). They showed simulated images of Mars seen from orbit, with a 3D effect. According to them, either the astronaut's eyes would be thousands of kilometres apart, or Mars is the size of a small car...
    They had a jerky frame rate too...

  2. Re:3D idea for this setup on Sim Icarus Boeing 777 Handmade Flight Deck · · Score: 1
    a video card that supported a steroscopic mode
    All you need is to be able to set up one view to be from a slightly different position...
    Can you do this with MSFS?
  3. Re:In other news on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    I wasn't being informative!
    That deserved "-1, Off Topic".
    I specially didn't use my karma bonus for that post.

  4. Re:No big deal on XBox Power Cable Fire Hazard and Recall · · Score: 1
    If I may quote Google:
    Your search - "electrical cord recall" - did not match any documents.
    Remove the quotes.
  5. Re:In other news on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Found it!
    (The quick hack extension to use for the rendering bug until FF 1.1.
    I don't use it myself, but they say it works.)

  6. Re:In other news on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Both
    There is a hack available now from somewhere, in the form of an XPI extension, which just changes the text size if the site is slashdot (try this manually, i.e. CTRL++, CTRL+-, and you'll find it's fixed).
    However, a properly fixed gecko will be in the next Firefox, and won't do this on /. or any other site.

    So I'm told...

  7. Re:In other news on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, several will have come from my sig being displayed in your web browser, another few off them were created by grep and your shell as soon as you typed the command, and, if your machine is like mine, the majority are inexplicable...
    Usernames of other users of the same P2P network that you use maybe? (I had at least one of those)

    Of course in my case it didn't help that I use the word llama at random, for example when I have already used the variable "test"...

  8. Re:Serious Question... on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    Switch to Linux, use Konqueror!
    Tabbed file browsing!

    Seriously though, I would also like to see Firefox get better file browsing capabilities. A nice, uniform cross-platform file browser would be good (one that isn't written in Java with tiny confusing icons and doesn't use a different set of icons for each OS).

  9. Re:In other news on Firefox Breaks 25 Million Downloads · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's fixed in the trunk build, and will be fixed in FF 1.1.

  10. Re:Next week's news on Microsoft Anti-Spyware to Be Free of Charge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That funny, I was thinking the same thing, only more along the lines of "someone slashes your truck's seats, because the door didn't lock properly and the alarm didn't go off".

  11. Re:Food in tin cans on Linux-Based Cat Feeder · · Score: 2, Funny
    Modern commands are less fun. Even the traditional
    $ make fire
    Stop. Do not know how to make fire.
    $ why?
    why?: no matches.
    (or something like that) has been replaced by
    $ make fire
    make: *** No rule to make target `fire'. Stop.
    $ why?
    -/bin/bash: why?: command not found
  12. Re:Hah!! on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 1
    When your product is as overpriced as Red Hat's you have to do everything you can to push out alternatives or the market will replace you.
    Is this a deliberate comparison?
    I sometimes think that if Linux ever pushes out Windows, Red Hat could prove to be as evil as Microsoft, maybe trying to breaking compatibility with other OSs/Linuxes.
  13. Re:No links? on Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage · · Score: 1
  14. Re:How can the optimized version be WORSE... on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 1

    IIRC, one of the optimisations can cause Windows to swap parts of Moox disk more often than it would swap stock Firefox. Maybe this was part of optimisation for memory consumption? (I found it used up more memory than a standard build though...).

  15. Re:Also on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 1

    Telnet is good.,


    You all grok http and html, right?

  16. Re:Obligatory joke on Mitsubishi LED Projector: Small, Cheap, Durable · · Score: 1

    A licence, of course!
    Don't you want to continue running Linux?

  17. My conspiracy theory... on Strategy Shift In The Air For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They want as much software as possible to be distributed in potentially multi-architecture .NET, so they can try again at NT for Alpha, and this time, actually have two or three third-party applications to run...
    j/k

  18. Re:Google + DOM = Mozilla Juggernaut on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 2, Funny

    Absolutely.
    However, I take this as a sign they are at least considering something more interesting.


    Unless it is just part of their well-known secret plan to produce a Google-branded Firefox, operating system and fast-food chain, of course...

  19. Re:Google + DOM = Mozilla Juggernaut on Mapping Google Maps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have you seen this

  20. Re:I disagree on QT/Win 3.3.3 To 'Reach Production State Soon' · · Score: 1

    k3b is a frontend to Unix(ish)-specific programs.
    Not to say that it would be very difficult to create a "drop-in" cdrecord clone that uses Windows's CD burning system...

  21. IE will be improved Longhorn... on Gartner Says it's a 2-Browser World · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that it will be skinned. Like Windows Media Player. And it will be really slow, but no one will notice because they will have appallingly good hardware to run it on.

  22. Re:mod 3own on Gartner Says it's a 2-Browser World · · Score: 1

    I want a copy of whatever program made that...

  23. Re:You Insensitive Clod on Cooling Down Hot Processors · · Score: 1

    I think the heat from my monitor makes this (small) room warmer...

    BTW is that sig meant to draw attention to that passage of the bible, or meant to imply that your post it a biblical quote?

  24. Re:You Insensitive Clod on Cooling Down Hot Processors · · Score: 1

    Do most (Intel) desktop processors use more power when they are being used more? heavily I had thought that they just did X billion cycles per second whether they had actual data to process or not.

    Would I save power by not running BOINC (it's like seti@home)?

  25. Re:...and.... on Spyware for Firefox Coming This Year? · · Score: 1

    Oh... Damn.