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  1. Re:Boring? Maybe. Care? No. on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1

    If I recall, the guts from the 92 was repacked into an TI-8X form factor and called an 89 so it would be allowed for SAT testing. The QWERTY keyboard is illegal. I guess they figure you can type in notes before hand or the questions during the test and smuggle information one way or another. (They must completely ignore the PC-Calculator link cable.)

  2. Re:Yawn @ second movie on Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced · · Score: 1

    I am debating if you are intentionally alluding to Soul Music and Hogsfather (it's a weak link, granted), or its just coincidence. Or has Terry Pratchett done Death to death?

  3. Re:It's all highly ironic on Verizon Sells Off Rural Lines · · Score: 1

    My parents live two or three miles up dirt in Hartland, VT, and have had DSL since Christmas 2000. Of course, Hartland also gets its phone service from one of those small phone companies , too(VTel (Not to be confused with the electronics manufacturer VTel)), so there you go.

  4. Re:I'm all for it! on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that covered in 200?

  5. Re:I'm all for it! on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    When SG-A was in pre-production, one of the things they were supposed to find in the city, along with the puddle jumpers, were universal translators, which would covered this plot hole nicely. Surprised it got dropped. Of course, then you don't get Zelenka and his Czech rants or people who can't read Ancient, so its a trade off. Given that everyone's been speaking english on SG-1 for seven years at this point, its not a big deal, I guess. (Though there were those monk in Children of the Gods who didn't speak English.)

  6. Re:Gate Trek? on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got the feeling SG-1 seasons 9 and 10 were sort of a spin off of SG-1 that retained Teal'c and Jackson (and latter Carter) and the sets.

    Also, RE: spinoff count, don't forget the animated series. Its just the Star Trek:TAS in that it isn't considered quite canonical and it almost never on TV.

  7. Re:Check slashdots' headers on David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama · · Score: 1

    Unless there is an X-Fry header. (Don't think there is anyone else.)

    X-Fry: Please, Mr. Nixon! We're appealing to your sense of decency!
  8. Re:Yeah, but... on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    As landing platforms for their space ships, of course! (That still leaves the question of where the first spaceship landed so the Alien Overlords could get supervise the construction of the first pyramid, but hey...)

  9. Re:What about the GUIs? on Cross-Platform Development For Windows and OS X · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you use these things, do the programs look native to the operating system or do they look like Java?
    Java apps should look like native apps, at least, if the developer thinks they should. Its not to hard. Either use AWT for your GUI which will use native widgets (though shoots for the least common denominator at times), or use swing and have it emulate native controls (more or less) by calling UIManager.setLookAndFeel( UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName() ); early on in your code. Granted, neither is perfect, but they don't stick out like swings default (why?) Metal look and feel.
  10. Re:Well well well.... on Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community · · Score: 1

    The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. You can help Intellipedia by spinning this article or replacing it with the administration's position on the topic.

  11. Re:YAY! on Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gah. With proprietary CSS extensions, they all have the moz prefix. Why couldn't they have taken advantage of XML\XHTML's namespacing features and put the attribute in its own namespace (i.e. moz:spellcheck). For what its worth, though, been using the FF2 betas/RCs for a while, and I love this feature.

  12. Re:Undo for paper forms on A GUI For Books · · Score: 1

    Spell check would be nice, too. (Thanks, Firefox 2, for adding it to web forms.) And a backspace key is definitely lacking on forms requiring blue or black ink.

  13. Re:they are sony minions I tell you! on Buy a PlayStation 3 and Sink Sony · · Score: 1

    Has any console manufacturer dominated for three generations? Nintendo was the one to beat during the NES and SNES eras, but Sony took over with the PS1. Atari before them did pretty well wit 2600, but not so much with the 5200 or 7800.

  14. Re:done! on Weird Al Premiere Cancelled Due to Net Leak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, no. Slashdot's readership has been outsourced, so now its Indian and nerdy.

  15. Re:Will they migrate to IIS/.net? on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1

    It's slashdot, so its a logical thought. I was actually thinking of the websever for a spilt second when I read the title.

  16. Re:"Price Cut", that sounds nice doesn't it... on Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan · · Score: 1

    Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)

  17. Re:Thank God on The US Navy Says Goodbye to the Tomcat · · Score: 1
    Current Russian doctrine of engagement and specs for Su27 specifies that it must be able to engage an enemy aircraft within 360 degree horisontal and vertical (full sphere, no dead zones),
    Are they talking about the Su27 being able to get a lock on a plane behind it or being able to lock onto a enemy plane in front of it no matter what direction the enemy is facing? (Older IR missiles could only lock onto an enemy plane when they were behind it and were getting a good look at their jet exhausts.)
  18. Re:Do what you want . . . on Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day, Me Hearties · · Score: 1

    Ah, but ye have seen me.

  19. Re:Licensing on A Triple-Standard Disk · · Score: 1

    What are these "rights" of which you speak? Even a school child knows that a media owner may only use the content as the copyright holder sees fit to allow them too.

  20. Re:Degree in Russian literature on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1

    That was pretty much what they said on the show. Filtering cheap vodka will make it taste better, but your better off using the money what you would have spent on cheap vodka+filters on just getting a bottle better vodka.

  21. Don't blame me... on ESA Pushing for Gamers to Vote · · Score: 1

    Don't blame me, I voted for dod_colmar.

  22. Re:Vote or Die, P-Diddy on ESA Pushing for Gamers to Vote · · Score: 1

    Admins can't be kicked.

  23. Re:(sigh) on Voting Machines Wreak Havoc in Maryland Elections · · Score: 1

    We uses the same technique in the US. Granted, its a part of the US that nearly in Canada, but we in Vermont are still on the correct side of border. You go down to town hall, you get a sheet of paper the size of a placemat and a pen, you check off the check boxes, fold it up, and drop it into the box. Occationally, an election worker shoves a stick, yes, a stick, into the box to pack down the ballots.

  24. Re:Batman on The Physics of Superheroes · · Score: 1

    Is it any better that I know of this character because he was in the first episode of Batman The Animated Series?

  25. Re:Tom Bombadil wasn't in The Hobbit... on MGM to Produce "The Hobbit" · · Score: 1

    Bilbo also sings "Road Goes Ever On" in the movie as he sets out from Bag End. I haven't seen the Hobbit cartoon in ages; I have no idea if its the same tune.