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  1. Re:my question on Fox to Purchase Myspace · · Score: 1

    they make IQ in Farenheit and Celsius now?

  2. Re:Impressive but... on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 1

    a nine year old?! *hits with a fish*

  3. Re:Well, here's my take on Asa Dotzler on Why Linux Isn't Ready for the Desktop · · Score: 1

    As is? No service packs for windows? *hopes this is not the case, but just in case, *pukes up some vital organ**

    I'm sure i've seen a java ssh client, that you use in your browser.. But they probably except their rules and ban things like that because of the inherent risks.

    Couldn't you just sumggle in a copy of putty on a floppy? Copy over telnet.exe, see if they even know the difference.

    NOTE: I "told" you what to do as an educational means of explanition, and am in NO WAY WHATSOEVER responsible for resulting actions and/or consequences.

    *grumble* goddamn GIMME generation...

    J

  4. Re:its funny how... on RockStar Speaks · · Score: 1

    Note to self: When in florida, only steal shitpot cars.

  5. Re:Good for the future on 107 Cameras to Scan Discovery for Damage · · Score: 1

    I don't recall that tidbit at all, but as with all things, is possible.. Early shuttle only flew with two crew members,all that is needed. A set of two ejection seats is far easier to manage then a set of 7 or 8. Might have been just no SPACE to put seven ejection systems in the cockpit of that thing.

    Ahh, stupid memory is failing; Don't the extranious crew members launch and reenter on one of the lower decks?

  6. Re:Vulnerable on Falling Window Cover Damages Discovery · · Score: 1

    Well. from what I understand, yes, big flat foam falls softly. BUT, it was also covered in ice. Ice is hard and heavy, remember? And it didn't just fall, Columbia hit it on launch, not at rest. By that time, it was going UP at quite the speed, while the big flat foam thing, wanting to float gently, was going slowly, and then BLAMMO, they colide.

    So... Beware running into large foam at high speeds.

  7. Re:Quartz 2D Extreme? on Apple Releases OS X 10.4.2 Update · · Score: 1

    You're right. It won't be added to 10.4 . I wouldn't like to run 10.4 either. I'd much rather be using 10.4.X where X equals $CURRENT . I'm sure 10.4.X will have Q2DX sooner or later. Even if it's LATER, it will be fine. Why? Because it works now. If it's fixed later, YAY, otherwise, it still works as is.

  8. Re:Good for the future on 107 Cameras to Scan Discovery for Damage · · Score: 1

    You're right, i'd known but forgoten that tidbit.

    If designed to do so, the idea of a detachable cabin + even just a parachute, or even better/any ejection systems. They've used ejection systems in the space program before, on gemini. But that had to do with the fuel system, or something... More tidbits I forget.

  9. Re:Good Lord, Have Mercy... on Harry Potter's 'Half Blood Prince' Leaked · · Score: 1

    hundreds of thousands of people?

  10. Re:Good for the future on 107 Cameras to Scan Discovery for Damage · · Score: 1

    Few things: Look at the ejection systems on a (semi or above) modern fighter jet.

    There is such a device known as a zero-zero, which can eject safely at low speed, (above zero) and low height (above zero). They also can make one that can eject at any attitude. I don't recall if anyone has put these things into one unit, but it doesn't seem to be a leap of faith to do so.

    As for the G forces: the shuttle launches at about 4 G's. BFD. They are astronauts! This is what they do... Train for the conditions of their job. They aren't going to put the "make seat leave plane" lever on the other side of the cockpit, it's someplace where G forces don't make that much of a difference.

    Uh-oh/KABOOM!!! difference is why you use some type of very redundent sensor system to watch for an Uh-oh type of event, and take care of things.

    All that said, no, the shuttle doesn't carry ejection systems in the traditional sense. That one is just bad design. The shuttles abort modes are mainly focused on a main engine failure, which would not be something catastrophic such as a reentry failure or a SRB going whacko and burning through the side of the main tank.

    As has been said, with anything, it is hard to predict the unpredictable.

    PS: noting what you said at the end about jumping into a plume of flame... Yes, very bad. Best thing you could do/design at that point would be something that even if the main structure fails, the peices can survive to a lower/safer altitude and THEN jump for it.

  11. Re:Chocolate or Vanilla??? on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 1

    No I can't say that i have been in a spot to be needing components like that, and even if i were,i'm not as handy with precision soldering as some others...

    But the (original) point I was trying to make, I guess, was since Apple is known mostly for selling PC's (in the original sense of the term, not IBM compatibles as it means now), and selling them as a package, OS, monitor, some software, etc, if intel ever had also, versus their obvious CPU's, network cards, assorted bridges and controlers, not even counting their non-PC stuff.

    And who is to say that anyone is less slashdotible then another? I don't like stupid people, granted, but elitism is just as bad in its own way. They make block buttons for a reason, ;)

  12. Re:Chocolate or Vanilla??? on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 1

    well, there are those. The problem is the time difference... The Shuffles just came out, but the intel whateveritis's are fairly old, if i remember...

    Either way, I should have said "whole-system", computer, os, etc., vs just components of a system.

  13. Re:Chocolate or Vanilla??? on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: 1

    Did intel ever make a complete product?

    Now i'm curious, would be interesting trivia if they did.

    Otherwise you'd be comparing Apples to Strippers. Both good. Both for lusting after. Just. Not. The. Same.

  14. Re:I am not an exterminator (IANAE) but... on Vehicle for Cockroaches · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I were an exterminator, i'd be more worried about cockroach anti-personel fragmentation mines.

  15. Re:Dangerous on Valve Developer Wiki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In case english is non-native to you, as I suspect from your .be website, "vandalism" has no silent E on the end of it... Don't want to commit any accidental grammatical vandalisme, do we? :-D

  16. Re:Nope on Apple Replaces B/W White iPods with Color Screens · · Score: 1

    Your alphabet soup sounds close enough for this hour. (I concure very much with your sleeplessness.)

    All I know about it, is that when the ipod-linux port was started, it was somewhat difficult due to some unknown customizations/hacks that the cpu uses... It's some type of a dual-core setup, one dedicated to decoding audio, the other for UI things. Linux ARM code ran on it just fine, but the hardware needed both pieces to do its job right.

    That said, that was then, and not now, and things may have changed... I seem to recall that the newly denamed photo's have a more powerful cpu in them.

    IANAP/CPUS (Programer/CPU Specialist)

  17. Re:Nope on Apple Replaces B/W White iPods with Color Screens · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean a third CPU? The critter already is a SMP device... The only one I own, somehow.

  18. Re:what I want from iTunes 5.0 on iTunes 4.9 With Podcasting Support · · Score: 1

    Dude: We've been over this a million times; Next version is 4.10. End. Of. Story. QED

  19. Re:So lemme get this straight. on Protecting My Daughter's Notebook? · · Score: 1

    It may be what he deserved, but it did not make his point any less truthful.

    So sayth the careful observing college student.

  20. Re:archive.org on PetaBox: Big Storage in Small Boxes · · Score: 1

    What do they do when Archive.org tries to index itself?

  21. Re:Home made? on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 1

    Somehow, "Rock the chemical bath trays" doesn't have the same ring as "Rock the Chasbah"...

  22. Re:Other people make it... on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Papaer? No *wonder* it was cheaper... You buy TV's from Magnetbox, Panaphonics and Sorny, doncha? ;-)

  23. Re:It's called change on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 1

    What kind of content are you using with that ogg wrapper? You know it won't play on an iPod, don't cha?

  24. Re:OSX as a server on Essential Mac OS X Server Administration · · Score: 1
    No conspiracy here

    Sure, that's just what they want you to think...

  25. Re:Seriously... on Britney is #1 Virus Celebrity · · Score: 1

    No no no... How about "BILL GATES BEHEADED.avi.exe"? Those who don't know much about Billy would just say, "Hey, free violence." and those that DO know about him, they'd probably click before thinking that they should check that thing for a virus...