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  1. Re:I'm in the minority here - the movie was bad on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    It's not "Michael Bay" camera work, it's "Saving Private Ryan" camera work. That movie defined the style.

  2. Re:first post! on Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? · · Score: 1

    If you want to see this in action, watch the HD version of "The Shining". That has got to be the best HD transfer I've seen so far of an "old" movie.

  3. Re:You're Surprised at No Take Backs? on Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates · · Score: 1

    Wayne's World called....they want their colloquialisms back.

  4. Re:Why? on On the Advent of Controversial Video Games · · Score: 1
  5. Re:How do you buy an apartment? on Tata Building $7,800 Apartments in Mumbai · · Score: 1

    I guess....I've lived in several parts of the US and I've NEVER heard the word apartment used as something you can buy, only rent. Condos you can buy (or rent).

    Apartment = owned by apartment complex, rent
    Condo = owned by an individual, lived in by owner or rented to another person.

  6. Re:Sure, but on The Grid, Our Cars, and the Net · · Score: 1

    ameliorate

    Does not mean what you think it means.

  7. Re:This is a dead parrot. It's dead. on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT UP.

    I got my Master's in CS when I was 23, in 3 semesters (full time) with only a 1 semester break between undergrad and grad. THAT is the way to do it. Now I have a house, wife, kid, and 40-hour job, and I'm still in my 20s. Imagine my life another 5 years from now, it'll be even busier. It would be really, REALLY hard to put in that much school work now. I probably wouldn't do it at this point, just too busy.

  8. Re:Cupcake on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 1

    Okay.

  9. Re:Haven't these people learned? on German Gov To Ban Paintballing After Shooting · · Score: 1

    Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed.

    Except this part never seems to happen. Abuse of power is not usually punished, since their job is "so hard".

  10. Re:DARMOK! on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's the only episode of Trek of any stripe that made me....get a little dirt in my eye, or something...

  11. Re:Disappointed on The Ultimate "Doll House" For WoW Players · · Score: 1

    God I hate that bitch. Ever since Buffy.

  12. Re:Alternative? on Mininova Starts Filtering Torrents · · Score: 1

    astraweb is the best provider out there.

    Unlimited transfer, really fast, 200 day retention, SSL, 20 concurrent connections, for US$11/month.

  13. Re:Sure you can on 60GHz Uber-WiFi Proposed By New WiGig Group · · Score: 1

    Nope, check the big Bs and the little bs. :)

  14. Re:Am I the only one who imagines bioelectricity on More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol · · Score: 1

    As a bunch of (electric) eels tied with electric cord??

    Only if there are enough of them to fill a hovercraft.

  15. Sure you can on 60GHz Uber-WiFi Proposed By New WiGig Group · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure you can. A good quality (not insane quality, but good) movie at 720p is typically encoded to fill a DVD5 (4.37GB)

    4.37GB = 4474.88MB = 35799.04Mb

    So we need to stuff 35799 megabits down a pipe in 2 hours or so.

    2 hours = 120 minutes = 7200 seconds

    35799/7200 = 4.97208 Mb/sec

    So you need a sustained transfer rate of about 5 megabits per second to stream a 4.37GB movie in 2 hours.

  16. UNIX though on StarCraft II Beta Signups Open · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They've got UNIX covered though, that works for me.

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html

    "Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. Since Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX code, you can deploy it in environments that demand full conformance -- complete with hooks to maintain compatibility with existing software."

  17. DBAN! on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    DBAN to the rescue!

    http://www.dban.org/

  18. Re:please... on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because labs with electron microscope really need that $500...

  19. War on Drugs on Virginia Health Database Held For Ransom · · Score: 1

    Just another negative consequence of the "War on Drugs".

    Also, I can't my a single box of pseudoephedrine without giving Walgreen's my driver's license number. Now THAT'S some bullshit.

  20. Re:Whiskey and its age on Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey · · Score: 1

    I thought it was primarily the relative humidity of where the barrels are stored that causes more/less water/ethanol to evaporate, not temperature.

  21. Re:two ways to solve the tax "scam" on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    I don't think taxes "punish" success. Even if you're in a higher tax bracket, it's not like you're making LESS net income than you would at a lower gross income level. You make an extra $100K, they tax you an extra $10K, or whatever. You make an extra $1M, they tax you can extra $200K, or whatever. You'll still making more money...

  22. Re:Death to IE6! on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    And we're also about 15% Firefox! Pretty amazing in my book. And this is in a rural, "downstate" area; quite surprising really.

  23. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    "When running from a bear, you don't have to be the fastest, just faster than the slowest guy."

    I understand exactly what you mean.

  24. Re:No wire = big headache on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    TFTP to the rescue!

  25. Re:I can think of a few on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    Just curious, do you work for Raytheon (RPS)?