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  1. line doubling? on New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray · · Score: 4, Informative

    Q: What exactly is a line-doubling DVD player?
    A: Progressive scan from an interlaced source.

    Hardly something that should be mentioned... you know, we've had progressive for quite a long time now, and from experience most DVDs are interlaced.

  2. Re:Use for terresttrial power generation? on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    Patronizing ftw!

    You could look beyond the raw text of what I wrote, use a wee bit of brain power, and understand exactly what I meant. And if you don't, you could try responding without that patronizing tone. Because after that, ANYTHING you say/write in response will be discounted. Good way to win an argument, that!

  3. Re:Shoot him on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    Punishments hardly fit the crime here. They are frequently proportional to the social taboo rating of the offense, with a coefficient for "example making."

  4. Re:I got nothing to fear on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an overreaction. Hell, it might not have even been on, and he was just saying that to play with you. Perhaps he even thought you were her.

  5. Re:"Can't find ass with both hands" comes to mind. on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, we're just well conditioned into the response. "Oh, government fucked up? Must be ours..."

  6. Re:Timing? WTF? on SpaceX Launch Failure Due To Timing Problem · · Score: 1

    Me either. I think perhaps the detached stage being right-up-in-your-business with the next stage may have interfered with it's thrust, but not being a rocket scientist I think I'm reaching far past my understandings.

  7. Re:Timing? WTF? on SpaceX Launch Failure Due To Timing Problem · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bottom stage detached, continued burning. Less mass against the thrust, it accelerated and pushed on the top stage (but not perfectly centered as it would when still attached).

    I'm sure they do communicate, but after detaching that's gone.

    Basically the thruster(s) dieseled - continued running for a moment after fuel/whatever was cut.

  8. Re:Use for terresttrial power generation? on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    Um, you just said the same thing. By generating electricity you... generate electricity??

    An electric motor and generator are the same thing, only the input is swapped.

  9. Re:Frist post? on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    Thats not what I meant.

    The digital data in an "analog" music CD does not have to be read perfectly, and errors can be interpolated out. You can't do that with "data" cds, for obvious reasons.

  10. Re:too big? on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 1

    I'm not much of a chatter, so the only acronyms I tend to remember are the really simple ones like 'ty' 'btw.' I generally don't use them. I'm far to verbose!

  11. Re:But can I play Quake on it? on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 1

    Hmm, true. But, I bet a renderfarm on this would be awesome!

  12. Re:But can I play Quake on it? on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 0

    Being a supercomputer, I would imagine it could play Crysis comfortably in a pure virtual machine, emulating a graphics card as well.

  13. Re:So where can I on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I have story icons off and that still showed up.

    Now, what if there was some reason I had those turned off? Would I have been unable to properly read the front page until it pushed off the bottom?

    Bad Taco, bad!

  14. Re:too big? on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what those two acronyms mean, sorry.

    But yes, I think your right about the cause of the issue. Simply not enough blood to run through the machine and the baby at the same time. A transfusion at the same time would be a bit complicated, dangerous, wasteful, and messy.

  15. Re:What is the power source? on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I was thinking of voyager. Not sure about deep space 1 then!

  16. Re:Use for terresttrial power generation? on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    No, this uses energy with fuel to function. What your asking isn't be very far from asking "will an electric motor generate electricity in a cost efficient way?"

  17. Re:too big? on The DIY Dialysis Machine · · Score: 1

    Oh, I would think there would be more than two tablespoons... that doesn't seem right to me.

  18. Re:that's all good, but.. on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    Have we considered the option that no meme is required?

    I wonder, aggregate across the internet - how much storage, energy, and bandwidth is wasted by pointless memes?

  19. Re:What is the power source? on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    Most likely an RTG would be used, but one "hotter" and shorter lived than what deep space 1 had. After all, it would only need to last a year at most rather than the years upon years the cooler ones go.

  20. Re:that's all good, but.. on NASA Plans Test of New Plasma Drive · · Score: 1

    No. Will this 'joke' blend?

  21. Re:IBM PDF and SWF Would Be Better on IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops · · Score: 1

    When I can generate a PDF file as easily as "ps2pdf inputfile.ps", this means that PDF creation is no issue. Postscript is hardly unsupported.
    Reading PDFs? Do you have ANY idea how many options you have for that?

    Now... Flash - as much as I hate the idea of it being "standard", I agree with you on this one.

  22. Re:This time, you just gotta read the article! on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Well, what about us who just don't like people knowing who they are? It's not like I have anything to hide - I can't say I would be embarrassed or uncomfortable with anything I've attached to this name. But just like I don't walk around with my driver's license pinned to my shirt, I don't want my identity freely given to anyone with eyes - I want to give it out myself and mind who has it. Joe Schmuck doesn't need to know my name.

    Just because you have nothing to hide, doesn't mean it's wrong to hide.

  23. Re:Fsck Insurance Companies! on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Strippers don't usually screw random people, so I would say the stripper is MUCH more innocent than Big Bubba Insurance, Inc.

  24. Re:The Sick and The Dead on Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale · · Score: 1

    Unless they sell life insurance, in which the dead may be much more costly.

  25. Re:Two things: on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    cdparanoia is just the ripper though. Usually you want to use it in conjunction with ID3 taggers, cddb stuff, etc.

    I use 'abcde' - a better cd encoder. There are others also, just use your package manager to see what packages depend/recommend/suggest/whatever the cdparanoia package.