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  1. Re:I still run Windows 98 at home and not upgradin on Microsoft Stops Supporting Win98 Early · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Every one of my Windows machines has a one gig FAT 32 boot partition on which I first install a patched version of DOS from bootdisk.com with USB drive support.
    I then install Win2K/XP so that I always have the option of booting straight into DOS.
    This not only allows me to play old games, it also allows me to run PartitionMagic for DOS (a real lifesaver) w/o having to dig out boot disks.

  2. Re:"even more catastrophic" ??? on Back to the Bunker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes he was, and I agree with him. More real changes to my lifestyle have happened as a result of those deaths than from Islamic terrorists.

  3. What if there was a Portal War on Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars? · · Score: 1

    and nobody came?

  4. Re:Or use Pandora on Napster Going Back to Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    If you want the KNN model, use http://www.last.fm/

  5. Re:Peeps; re: Re:Huh? on The History of Easter Candy · · Score: 2, Funny
    If somoeone sold White Castle & booze in the same location....


    the store would have to install 10x as many toilets.
  6. Re:Where did you get 40? on Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes · · Score: 1

    NVFM

  7. Where did you get 40? on Making and Breaking HDCP Handshakes · · Score: -1
    From the article:
    This sounds pretty cool. But it has a very large problem: if any four devices conspire, they can break the security of the system.
  8. Re:it came along and is called on Family Guy's Stewie to Host Talk Show · · Score: 1
    Basically Fox needs to drop it so Showtime or ABC can pick it up and give it the chance it should have.


    ABC?

    ABC, don't forget, cancelled 'Sports Night' and 'The Job'.
  9. Re:Not flamebait on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 1

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  10. Hmm on Moon Shadows Frustrate Astronauts · · Score: 1

    If only there was a way of Harnessing Horizontal Moon Temperature Gradient.

  11. Re:Swimming Fish = Flying Bird? on A Unified Theory of Animal Locomotion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Forget the penguin for a moment.

    Are birds buoyant in their fluid?
    That right there is a big difference.

  12. Re:Be aware of the facts, always. on Mount St. Helens Eruption Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Is there any limit to your expertise?
    Is there a topic you can't turn into call for libertarian policies?
    Is there a field in which you don't have high placed friends?

    More importantly, though, is there ever a source of yours who is willing to be named?

  13. Real easy (temp) fix. on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Start-->Run-->regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll

    You lose thumbnail view, and a few other (minor) built-in-Windows-picture-viewing tools break, but you use IrfanView anyway, don't you?

  14. Re:... and the reason is: on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1
    I mean, come on! The antennas for these devices are bigger than 1 cm! You're not likely to have accuracy greater than the size of your antenna.

    Sure you can.
    I often use a 16" groundplane antenna for GPS surveys with SUB-cm accuracy.
    It is all a matter of having modeled exactly where you phase center is. (and of having a stable phase center regardless of the elevation of sats, but that is a different matter.)
  15. Re:... and the reason is: on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But anyone tracking both L1 and L2 can get that kind of accuracy today with GPS.

    This is a fix for a problems which doesn't exist.

  16. Re:They actually built these things? on Roomba Vacuum Robot Opens to Hackers · · Score: 4, Informative
    Roombas really are quite well thought out - knows when to go back and recharge...dozens of sensors help it learn...maps each room after one pass, etc. Very cool to watch in action, and a real treat to come home from work to a clean floor.


    knows when to go back and recharge

    True, if you have the charging dock (optional on the base model, comes with the more expensive models), and if Roomba can find the charging dock before it dies.

    dozens of sensors

    Stair sensor, optical wall sensor, bump sensor, dirt sensor, wheel sensorx2, battery sensor.
    7 sensors.

    help it learn

    It does not learn, it has no memory.

    maps each room after one pass

    It has no memory, it stores no internal map, it bounces around in a semi-random pattern and attempts to follow walls in a counter-clockwise direction.

    a real treat to come home from work to a clean floor

    True!
  17. Low flow toilets caused enough problems. on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is just going to add to the problems the sewer systems face in heavily commercial districts due to the use of low-flow toilets.

    In residential areas there are not as many problems with clogged sewer lines. Laundry machines, showers, dishwashers - these all add lots of water to the sanitary sewer system and keep the percentage of solids low.

    Commercial districts, OTOH, are having increasingly large problems with plugged sewer lines. Low-flow toilets are pushing (or failing to push as the case may be) sanitary lines over the edge. The point is being reached where there just isn't enough water introduced into the lines to move the, um, solids.

    The only solution is either decreasing the solids percentage in the system by increasing water use, or increasing the pitch at which sanitary lines are laid. You can only increase the pitch so much, though, before you run out of drop and need to install lift stations (bringing their own set of environmental costs.)

  18. Re:Military applications make me shiver... on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1

    5mg every 2 hours not to exceed 30mg in a 24 hour period is a tiny amount of dextro-amphetamine, especially since we are talking about adults and adult body mass. This is clearly intended as an alertness aid and not an agression pill.

    I took larger doses as a child to help control my ADD, and take significantly larger doses now that I am an adult.
    5mg is almost subclinical for behavior modification.
    And did you read the disclamer pilots must sign to receive the Dexedrine?

  19. Re:evolution has already spoken on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1
    In evolution there is no winner.


    Tell that to the dinosaurs.

    Phrase it however you want, but any game with losers has winners.
  20. Re:Creative Left Out on Creative's X-Fi Audio Chip Reviewed · · Score: 1
    And the irony is that Creative cards aren't even considered by even Pro-sumer in the sound card market - mainly due to the fact that they used to lock their sample rate at 48Khz due to the ESS audio chipset the Audigy's ran off. (meaning that if you wanted to work in any other samplerate (eg: 44.1khz, which Audio CD's are sampled at) the card had to downsample to it - not good).


    That's actually not quite right.
    The problem was not that the DAC could only work with 48Khz material - no biggie - not uncommon. The problem was that the hardware upsampler was flawed - broken if you will - and did a horrible job at upsampling from 44.1 to 48.

    The solution is to have your CD/MP3 player upsample to 48Khz in software, so the broken hardware upsampler doesn't butcher it.

  21. To paraphrase Alford Korzybski on NYC & SF iPod Subway Map Controversy · · Score: 1

    The map is not the territory.

  22. Re:Doesn't take that long ... on The Digital Dark Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you suggesting that your TRS-80 had 1% of 1% of 1% the market penetration of CDs?

    Apples to oranges my friend.

    Besides, what is stopping you from reading that data on an ebayed machine, printing it out and OCRing it?

  23. Re:Where does the energy come from? on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car? · · Score: 2, Informative
    So the O2 increase likely increases fuel efficiency and power of the engine (better combustion, lower load on the engine to reach certain mph, hence lower fuel costs).

    The H2 is also burned, which increases engine output.


    Either / or.

    Either the brown gas' oxygen is used for "better combustion",
    Or the brown gas' hydrogen is burned - "increasing engine output."

    There is no extra oxygen produced to acomplish both.
  24. Re:Why doesn't the submitter do this? on Performance of 64-bit vs. 32-bit Windows Dual Core · · Score: 1

    Which is more rude?
    Slashdotting a server?
    Or Slashdotting a server WHILE depriving the host of their ad money?

  25. Re:"Earth" on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    This is a result of the "paperless office" and green-freak's recycling efforts.
    If everyone in the western world took it upon themselves to use all the paper possible and then throw it away we would quickly lock up millions (if not billions) more tons of carbon in sealed landfills every year..