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  1. Re:What did they eat? on When Computers Were Human · · Score: 1

    Pi are round, cornbread are square.

  2. Re:Not much of a turnaround. on Google Sued Over Click Fraud · · Score: 1

    That would be a busy signal (or more recently, an automatted on hold message/music. Though i rather doubt more than a handful of people would actually call or care.

  3. Re:Come on! on Impressive Benchmarks: Sorting with a GPU · · Score: 1

    When someone is reading a sentence and they use the wrong form of its/it's there/they're/their, most people will figure it out. On the other hand, giving a compiler theirfunction is not the same as therefunction, it generates a problem. I'd think that most people want to just get information (or lack thereof) across and if it gets the message across, even if its slightly wrong, thats all that matters.

  4. Re:compromised ergonomics on Inside Hardware Design - Competing Against the iPod · · Score: 1

    the most comfortable earbud headphones i ever had and still have a decade or more later are the earbud headphones that came with the original gameboy. The only problem mine now have are the wires are getting old and you have to play with the plugin to get it to work.

  5. Re:Let's do a Slashdot ISP rating. on PC World's ISP Service Rankings, as of June 2005 · · Score: 1

    Same experience as the parent It is a tad expensive, ~$45 a month for 6mbps/1mbps with basic cable (~$15). Otherwise its ~$60. Kinda fishy to me, but its the only thing available in my area besides dial up (middle of 3 suburbs, considered unincorporated but thats another story).

  6. Re:3 steps on Dell We'd Sell Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Because the stores buy bose speakers from...
    surprise bose. They sell them to the stores probably at the same price as they sell them in their stores. Hence somebody selling the speakers for less is losing money, etc.

    The analogy
    Apple sells system for $X
    Apple sells Dell pieces to make a system = $Y

    $X=$Y + $Z. $Z being profit/etc. Forbidding Dell from selling the system where $Y $X is illegal.

  7. Re:Scholarly researchers? on Too Much Homework Can Be Counterproductive · · Score: 1

    Why do the even numbers? I know most books i had in school had the answers to the odd numbers in the back of the book.

  8. Re:Multi-purpose CPU? on Inside the Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    They're both designed to take input and create output. I hope they made it so I play video games, not the other way around (ick, another 5 minutes of fmv...)

  9. Re:countering ... not on Information Overload Overblown, Says Gates · · Score: 1

    this is sorta like the mid term for my fluid mechanics class. most of the problems had way more information than was necessary to come up with a solution. And a lot of people in the class were complaining. (I'm currently working for an engineering consulting firm and taking classes for a second engineering degree), and i think to myself, get in the real world, there is usually more information or irrelevant information spewed about. Getting to useful info is the hard part.

  10. Re:What about cell phones? on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 1

    the thing is, it looks like a phone, it acts like a phone... but it isn't a phone (no 911).
    The case it appears they are wanting to make is where you have it set up in your house you invite relatives/friends/strangers etc for dinner/party/etc, something happens to you, the phone doesn't work. Now what?

  11. Re:How does it compare to Google's desktop search? on Microsoft Finalizes Its Desktop Search Software · · Score: 1

    The search tool has found the file. What do you do with it? Open it with this tool or that tool to the spot where it found it?, or email it here or send it there or what not. Why would it matter where it is? Now maybe if it was on a floppy somewhere not backed up it would matter, but that is altogether different from searching i think.

  12. Re:Quiet Macs on Mac mini Sans Wires - Batteries Inside the Case · · Score: 1

    The quest is silent, but for how long?

    I've built silent computers with larger slower moving fans and quiet hard drives etc., but after about 6-8 months or so, they start getting louder. The fans aren't so quiet, noises start to come from the hard drives etc. I've even heard computers that were on display at stores say they were quiet, but after being in the store for 2-3 months, they aren't so quiet anymore.

  13. Re:How does it compare to Google's desktop search? on Microsoft Finalizes Its Desktop Search Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point is to not care where a file is. Then they can move everything to a server, and then to their systems so you have to pay to access everything, ie while saying it makes your life easier and more convienient. Knowing where a file is stored isn't as important as knowing how to find it which is their point.

  14. Re:MPG science on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    'MYTHBUSTERS' did a show on this phenomenom, and basically said it wasn't valid.. but they were using trucks at slower speeds, and stuff. Though i think cars would make a larger difference it isn't going to be that big.

  15. Re:MPG science on Hybrid Drivers Provide Real-World Mileage Data · · Score: 1

    A lot of gasoline has detergent additives to help clean fuel lines / injectors / carburators etc. along with other types of additives that increase octane rating, decrease pollution, etc.

  16. Re:Hurrah! Real ID is bound to fail on Real ID: You Can Still Fight It · · Score: 1

    too many people who don't care?, because it doesn't affect them, they are lazy, say they can't do anything, etc (at times i feel like some of these also.) and even something like 100,000 people making a statement of dislike means 300 million+ don't dislike it enough to say anything, which can be read as 300million+ approve it.

  17. Re:concrete submarine on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    Concrete Submarines on the other hand work.

    http://concretecanoe.org/

    Its fun watching them build and race them.
    UIC has a concrete canoe club and its fun watching them build and race them.

  18. Re:This "news article" was sponsored by... on Alienware's Star Wars PCs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree, I've been building with legos for 20 something years. When they first started, you needed hundreds of pieces to make a rather detailed object. Now they come with these 12 inch models of cars/planes/creatures that are like 30 pieces. Its really depressing. I remember their early boat models, now that was customizing!

  19. Re:"Heavily modded sheep" on The Chimera Dilemma Manifested in Sheep · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Not an issue? on Ameritrade Customer Data Lost · · Score: 1

    I was meaning that if they have data, its only a matter of time/effort needed to get at the data, which you describe as sufficient protection. Encryption is only a temporary measure of protection in any case.

  21. Re:But.. on Traffic Studied Using Computer-Linked Cars · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of anything but the chicago area (my company is an engineering consultant for idot), but most roads in the chicago area have had traffic volume well in excess of capacity, and its getting worse, until you can sort out this problem first, just moving a little bit of the problem from here over to a big problem ----> there isn't going to solve anything. People always want their car, and want to be in control of their car, otherwise some would take public transport ( not convient, etc ), and the more cars, the bigger the problem. I don't see this changing anytime soon. As far as automated cars go, i remember reading somewhere about the autonomous robots challenge by like the DoD or darpa or whatever, and they can't even successfully navigate when nothing is around, so i don't think this is feasible and taking into account peoples obsessive need to have a car to go where they want practically when they want to, its back to the problem of way too many people trying to occupy the same space at the same time.

  22. Re:Not an issue? on Ameritrade Customer Data Lost · · Score: 1

    encrypted data falling into the wrong hands = no longer encrypted data.

  23. Re:Logo Program on Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions · · Score: 1

    speaking of ma bell being broken up, its certainly recombining at a quickening pace...

  24. Re:So is it... on Tiger Woods Signs Deal To Be Apple Spokeperson · · Score: 1

    Except if tiger is between 0.0 and 1.0...

  25. Re:When did the 'song' become the standard... on Samsung Cell Phone Features 3GB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Soon it will be feature length movies... whatever unit that is...