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  1. Re:Too bad my modpoints expired... on Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn't Add Up · · Score: 1

    I know a guy who printed a lot of his own photos at home. He said that by using a clear paint to varnish the photos it would make the prints last for 100 years. These could even be put in and out of frames without worrying if the ink would rip off onto the glass.

  2. Dell on Advice On Notebook Backpacks? · · Score: 1

    has a variety of nice bags. They aren't too pricey either.

  3. Chewie's pants... on Star Wars Minutiae · · Score: 5, Funny
    This character has no pants on!' This went back and forth. They did sketches of him in culottes and baggy shorts.

    Clearly Chewbacca needed a nice Hawaiian print pair of bermuda shorts. :-) Or maybe some dockers...

    Leia: "Could somebody get this walking carpet out of my way... Hey, nice pants." ;-)

  4. Hmm... on Anti-Spyware Bill up for Vote in Congress · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It will be combined with another bill, passed by the Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), that would establish criminal penalties for those who use spyware to commit identity theft or other crimes.

    So now it's going to be a crime to commit a crime?

  5. Physics lucrative you say? on IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yay! Now all I have to do is graduate!

  6. Something I noticed... on Josh Ledgard On MS's Future Open Source Efforts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He keeps saying that he wants the users to give him feedback on what MS needs to improve and if people would be willing to contribute to the programming, but no where does the software get mentioned as becoming free, or even discounted, but "improved, repackaged, and resold." This seems more like customer service than "open sourcing."

  7. One master, one apprentice explained on Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 1

    Because there were so many Sith, all with agendas of evil and domination, they inevitably clashed. After a big fight amoung the Sith, they decided that they should go with one master and one apprentice to avoid the internal fighting so that they could focus on combating their real enemies, the Jedi order.

  8. Re:This could be good news... on Marian The Robot Librarian · · Score: 1

    Even still, the robot would have to run through all the titles, authors, whatever, until it found the selections that matched. Another problem is, what if they mispronounce the title, or have an accent or something? The robot would have to scan its entire database until it popped up with an error message, or a bunch of possible titles, or whatever, for you to scroll through and select.

  9. This could be good news... on Marian The Robot Librarian · · Score: 1

    ... such robots could help children and people with handicaps and paralysis find the books they want to read or can't reach on the shelves. Would be better if it didn't have to go check the data base every time a request was made though. For example if you could point to a book or tell the title of one you're looking at on the shelf, but can't reach, it would be better if the robot could just grab it for you, than have to access the data base, and scan, and all that other stuff.

  10. Here's a site for all you puzzle fans... on 2004 U.S. Puzzle Championship Winners · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A great online puzzle site can be found here.

    Warning! can be very addictive, especially since the pieces make a most satisfying click noise when you snap them together. The site logs your completion times for the puzzles and the various types of pieces, so this can help everyone practice for next years contest.

  11. Hopefully this will catch on on First Linux-only Retail Store? · · Score: 0
    I'm sure there are lots of people out there with problems finding hardware that will all be compatible with Linux. This is a great solution.

    I am all too familiar with hardware compatablity problems. I have a Dell all-in-one printer that is utterly useless in Linux. Wish we had an all Linux store around here!

  12. What StarTrek really needs... on Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek · · Score: 0

    ...is a coffin. I say just chock this one up to the shows that have jumped the shark. There isn't anything that they could really do to save ST as a television series. They have some potential as a movie franchise, but they need to get some entirely new script-writers and totally break away from all previously used characters. And I still want to know what happened to the Klingons' foreheads.

  13. Re:Morrowind on Thirty Years in Computing · · Score: 0

    Sorry, guess I didn't read it the way it was intended. My apologies. Besides, why didn't you bother to be logged in when you said this, correcting mistakes isn't that big a deal that you needed to hide.

  14. Morrowind on Thirty Years in Computing · · Score: 0

    Actually, I completed the Imperial Legion quests, and am now Knight of the Imperial Dragon. In Mournhold (Tribunal Expansion Pack) I met a guy who as I ran past him hailed me as KotID. He gave me lots of secret information that my brother can't get, as he did not complete the quests. The guy in question, isn't actually a part of the legions, nor does he give any of said quests.

  15. Re:Planting the Plant... on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 0

    Sorry, statistics aren't my strong point.

  16. Planting the Plant... on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 0
    France already has some large portion of their power (like 90%) that is produced by nuclear power plants.

    Japan probably has more big power-eating industries and would need more and cheaper power, but they probably don't really have as much room to build the plant.

    I also noticed that the United States wasn't on the short list to having the experimental plant. Too much fear of nuclear power started it, and so it will probably be a long time before we can ever break away from the dependency of fossil fuels.

  17. Step 2? on Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die · · Score: 0

    Brain-wash the masses into believing that minor improvements (aka new design for controllers, etc) are really great

  18. Re:Luke as a woman on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 0

    Thanks for the info, I was unaware of all of this. I just remember seeing a concept art calendar from the origional trilogy. Can you send a link for an article about it? I'm interested in learning more.

  19. Re:Luke as a woman on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 0

    Actually, for trivia fanatics, Luke was origionally visualized as a woman in the preproduction stage, however they scrapped the idea. I guess a love triangle was more interesting involving 2 men, and an ass-kicking chick was deemed unneccessary.

  20. it is stupid on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 0
    limiting the throttle is a stupid idea. i don't care how things work in france, but here in america, more often than not, people don't move out of the way for ambulences, so i'd rather take my chances being driven in a car.

    people are liscensed to drive responsibly, they don't need more limitations on how fast they can drive, because in theory, they should be able to drive safely at any speed. if you want to return to the nazi regime, then go ahead. maybe that's why your country surrendered in the first place.

  21. exploration? on NASA Extends Rover Occupation of Mars · · Score: 0

    maybe this time we'll get to see more pictures of rocks that they can crash our bazillion$ enterprises in to...

  22. lies and propaganda... on James Gosling On The Sun/Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 0, Interesting
    did any part of this NOT seem like it was trying to brain-wash everyone? (i am now expecting many an angry respons, should i get any responses at all, so let them come...)

  23. ...my school's internet? on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1
    wide-spread failures? denial of service?

    sounds like wku has cisco's internet software...

  24. Re:The title will be on Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    seriously, it pretty well sums up what all of us star wars fans feel too. after the disappointing episode i and the debacle that was episode ii, i'm really not expecting much out of episode iii. however, i will go see it, out of fangirl duty. btw, here's a little something to my fellow fans, or perhaps those who would like to see star wars mocked in an amusing way... http://people.cornell.edu/pages/slp29/starwars.htm l