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  1. Yes, I have a question.... on Outsourcing is Good for You · · Score: 1

    Do these outsourced jobs fulfill all the reporting requirements of CMM ????

    We americans seem to be putting ourselves into a death spiral, partly fueled by all this CMM paper nonsense. I see my timeon projects being reduced to 20 minutes coding and 7hrs 40minutes paperwork checkboxes per day.

  2. Other Speilberg Innovations on PG-13 Rating Turns 20 · · Score: 1
    Lets not forget the other movie innovation from Speilberg...

    Million Name Movies!

    Credits that roll on and on for hours in type so small as to be indecipherable.

  3. Re:A quote... on Best Buy Sued By Ohio · · Score: 1

    Yup,

    You guys better keep an eye out for my dad. He goes into those things, particularly circuit city, and smoozes the sales guy into letting him buy the 'next up' at the orginal advertised sales price!

    Hope you still make money. You must, otherwise, you'd be out on the street.

  4. Blackmail works better. on Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 1
    Don't beg Lucas to release the 'originals'.

    Use Leverage you man-animals.

    Tell Lucas if he doesn't release the original versions you will post 'The Star Wars Christmas Special' to bit-torrent, for all to see...and hate GL.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
    Terl.

  5. Re:DLP, LCD Projection on Intel Delays TV Chip Launch · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I was watching this old English BBC show, Monty Pantone or something, and there was always this story about a man with 3 buttocks.

    And now for something completely different...

  6. Ahh Dune, and Wing Commander among others on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dune. 1980? w/ Lyle Mclaughlin
    every line is whispered...

    Wing Commander. actually any movie with Freddie Prinz Jr. is crap.

    Bourne Supremacy. the constantly jiggling camera makes me want to steal this movie, steady all the images and resell it to make a mint, as the rest was good, but hell you couldn't "SEE" anything. Directors like this should be shot on sight.

    Matrix Revolutions. Its like, the studsio heads said, yeah drop all this good braintease stuff, and just make friends at the end, even if it destroys all the continuity. Flying robots were too stupid to float solar panels above the clouds!

  7. Re:10-pt tiles? on Sun Working to Eliminate Circuit Boards · · Score: 1

    Hmm, so would a QUIJIBO be a 'Super' computer?

    Or just illegal?
    Or also illegal?

  8. Enter my Bolo Mk I on DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules Announced · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, I need more time to enter my Bolo Mk I.

    I have some details to finish before starting the fusion reactor and driving to the race site. :^)
    I predict I will crush the competition.

    Then I have an idea to add a WOPR, and with the new AI the Mk III will be really impressive.

  9. Re:The Real Problem is on Plans for International Space Station Cut Back · · Score: 1

    "You can probably trace the suckiness of manned space exploration to the decision to switch from cool names like "Mercury" and "Apollo" to crappy names like "Skylab" and "STS." When the Apollo blew up they fucking fixed it and came home, but when the Space Shuttle gets fucked up they make Powerpoints about it and ignore the problem."

    I think thats the best d4mn3d summary of NASA I've ever heard. You are right, after Apollo, the 'cool' engineers who wanted to DO something fun and useful were basically replaced with BEAUROCRATS. Really, you should see the geniuses that 'work' at NASA. Once I saw a NASA person put a "Government Property-If found drop in nearest mailbox" sticker on a piece of hardware fscking 8 feet long and 4 feet in diameter and weighing fscking 3000 pounds! My observation is that most NASA employees cannot get a job anywhere else, they are government quota fillers.

    I am also surprised yall here don't know that ISS has been suking money since around 1957. Just dig around a good aerospace library such as at Auburn University, and you will see multitudes of reports and 'studies' about stations.

  10. Re:Two words: on U2 Threatens to Release Album Early on iTunes · · Score: 1

    Two different words:

    WHO CARES?

  11. Re:Ceramic engines on Can Your Car Get 1,700 MPG? · · Score: 1

    As in a diesel type engine maybe.

    But for a gasoline engine, higher temps just mean more detonation/pre-ignition problems.

    Then theres the dissimilar thermal properties between ceramic-aluminum-steel components which would be difficult.

    Doing something with the normally wasted heat, that would be helpful. Or if ceramic provided a lighter weight cooling system (removing a radiator core and 4-6 gallons of coolant fluid.).

    I reduced my vehicle weight from 3000lbs to 450lbs, well at least when I ride my motorcycle!

    7/21/04 is Ride to Work day, ride your motorcycle to work.

  12. Re:The problem with Microsoft on Microsoft's Midlife Crisis · · Score: 1

    No.

    M$ bought, bullyied and pissed off all the developers of interesting things out there in the world.

    Now they have no one to steal from anymore!

    The die-hard people who wrote neat code in their basements moved over the linux, bsd and apple.

    Only took about 15 years but our revenge is at hand.

  13. Re:no doubt.. on Requiem For A Motherboard · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    2 possibilities:

    A) You used a heatsink with that pink gum like substance. Remove that and use some Artic silver heatsink compound.

    B) You did A as advised, but you used the whole tube of Artic silver compound, clean that off and use just a tiny BB sized dab of it.

    When building systems, I observed that the pink bubble gum stuff caused AMD 2xxxx series to run hot. Scraping that off and using tubed compound would get the temps back down around 45c instead of 58c.

  14. Re:Poisonous fuel on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1

    Yeah but, peroxide over about 85% concentration is very unstable. It self-decomposes into a oxidizer O2 and a fuel, H.

    As a fuel it need to be 90-92% concentrate.

  15. Re:I vehemently disagree on 'Satan' Missile Now Launches Satellites · · Score: 1

    Wow,

    I DID NOT KNOW you could use the words 'screw' and 'Clinton' in the same sentence and be talking about the economy.

  16. "LunaTrail" by Habitrail on NASA Considers Mobile Lunar Base · · Score: 2, Funny
    Man, NASA wastes so much money. They've already been designed, see here: "http://www.pet-shop.net/html/space.html"

    So imagine a large cylinder about 30-40 feet in diameter, and about 100ft long. Then put the exercise tracks inside at each end. Whenever the moon folks want to move the mobitat they just 'RUN' in circles. Same direction to go straight, opposite to turn. Brilliant I say!

    Maybe I should go patent that right now!

  17. Re:The worst part.. on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1

    Yes thats a notched case. Notched cases are (usually) PROMOS that the label sets up for the singers to GIVE away at appearances. My wife got 2 when some singers came to a fundraiser or something where she works. On the inside sleeve or on the back in insanely small letters is a statement with the actual words about 'notched' cases being promo items not for resale, etc. Its similar to ripped paperbacks, meaning they are already paid for (or were never for resale). Regards, JoeR

  18. Re:The worst part.. on RIAA Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1
    Hey, are all these cds 'notched'?

    As 'notched' cds are Label promotional items and are specifically labeled as 'not for resale' in the eual fine print (inside the booklet).

    I would think that dumping 'notched' cds and claiming a tax writeoff at full retail price is FRAUD!

  19. Re:Well what did you expect? on Cell Phone Customer Service Ranked Next to Last · · Score: 1
    "They replaced it with another 7135 after me explaining what it was doing in a reasonable manner (as opposed to me having to really bitch) at no charge."

    Yeah, but did you get another 2 year contract binder for "free" too???