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  1. Re:Zero to seven? on Lego Goes Back to the Basics: Building Blocks · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of Duplo sets? I'm pretty sure even you couldn't swallow a Duplo block.

  2. Re:dont some use strobe detectors? on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red · · Score: 1

    That, and teaching drivers how to behave around those flashing lights (ie. pull over to the RIGHT if you are in the US - I've seen too many people on the freeway pull left, only to block an ambulance that was trying to get around traffic by driving on the shoulder).

    Ummmm, NO. Check your drivers manual again. The "law" is that you should pull over against the closest curb, be that left or right. That way the emergency vehicle has unimpeeded acces through the center of the road.

  3. Re:Intrusive and over-complicated on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red · · Score: 1

    Until the inductor fails and that is the only method of making the turn lane switch, untill you're so fucking tired of wating that you just run the damn red light......

  4. Full disaster plan on Preparing for Isabel? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Location: Virginia Beach
    Backups: Check
    Backup Server: Check
    Natural Gas Generator: Check
    Backup Network paths to PA office: Check
    Private Company plane fueled and ready to go to PA office: Check

    And while this may sound tounge in cheek, I'm 100% serious.

  5. Even the submitter didn't read the article on US Navy buys Apple as Linux Platform · · Score: 4, Informative

    From post: Are we talking clustering here?

    From Article On board clusters of the Apple rack server will be used for real-time image processing.

    Emphasis mine

  6. You're barking up the wrong tree on Recommendations for High Volume Color Laser Printers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    High volume Color Laser printers don't exist. They are instead called Networked Color Copiers. But forget cheap, you're looking at $16K entry, that will get you around 20ppm.

  7. Re:Why did Handspring split off in the first place on Palm to Buy Handspring · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Handspring was not a palm spinoff. Handspring was created by the original creators of the Palm, who had sold off thier company to 3Com, who then detached and became thier own comany. But by that point the original creators were well out of the loop and decided to re-do thier success "better".

    I have suspicions that with them selling off HS to Palm that they will sit around for a bit, get bored again and start up yet another hand held company.

  8. Time travel too!!! on Remembering Skylab · · Score: 2, Funny

    So among all the other feats it managed to reenter the atmosphere 4 years before it launched.... Amazing!!

    Perhaps it should say it reentered in 1989.

  9. Cool on Do RIAA Demands Violate FERPA Protections? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gee, I get articles from the future and I'm not subscribed, is this some benifit of my long standing user??

  10. Re:How about sub-tabs. on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    I'd love to be looking at php.net and then have sub-tabs of different functions I'm using at the time.

    This is a brilliant idea. Don't dimiss it because you wouldn't use it. Now where is the execution

    You right in a sense it would be a usefull, but I don't dismiss it out of dislike. I dismiss it out of complexity, A complexity which reall is unnessary, not to mention real-estate eating. And where do you stop at that point, just 2 levels of tabs.... 3 levels... infinite????

  11. Re:How about sub-tabs. on Hyatt Discusses Tabs · · Score: 1

    I'd have to disagree... That is the point where I open a new window. I use them both, each window is a subject, and it might have multiple tabs. Like I have one window that just has news tabs, and then I have a general browsing window.

  12. Virginia.... on Which US States are e-Commerce Friendly? · · Score: 2, Informative

    After all according to one of our license plate types, we are 'The .com state'

    But seriously look into it, a few years back the Gov. put in some e-commerce insentives to encourage internet buisness to come to VA. Three places you can go that are connected, NoVa (up by DC), Richmond (The capital), and Hampton Roads.

    Each has thier ups and downs.

  13. Re:Pirated? on Intermixing Cable TV and Internet Service? · · Score: 1

    one of the channels they get piped in this way is the feed from the video camera at the front gate

    And with a $40 modulator, and whatever the cost of the camera, you could splice that kind of thing into you own cable.

  14. Re:Pirated? on Intermixing Cable TV and Internet Service? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wonder if the satellite company knows they are redistributing their signal?

    Something tells me I should be moderating this as troll, but I'll respond since I don't have the points.

    You've probally never lived in suburiba if you are asking this question. Many of the "condo" type aprtment complexs have this setup. They have several big dishes on the complex, converters and multiplexers in a room somewhere, and they provide cable TV to the whole complex. The cost is usually built in to your rent, and it includes a limited number of channels compared to your local analog cable service. Although it does usually include a Movie channel or two.

    They have contracts with the networks/satalite people to do this, and it is very wide spread.

  15. Re:800x400? on Assorted CES Gizmos · · Score: 1

    Ummm, no it's not a mistake. Look at the screen, it has a much wider aspect ratio than most monitors. Many small format devices like this (and sony picturebooks) have non standard resolutions to better support more confortable shapes for the size.

  16. Site holding up well on Cross-Site-TRACE · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Supprisingly, while the click to page view is a little slow, the site is holding well under the strain. And my d/l of the book screamed. Someone was ready :)

    Started reading the prolouge on the screen, but just decided to print it out. Starting out as a neat story. Although the continued lack of specifics might drive me nuts.

  17. ummm, preprocessor directives on Pre-Processers for Inlined C Code? · · Score: 0

    Does this compiler not use standard preprocessor directives like #include. All that is is an insert text file b into text file a. So instead of including headers you just include code files.

  18. NASA survives on ISS Flashing Earth · · Score: 1

    NASA seems to have survived the /.ing, but poor Heaven's Above seems to be dieng.

  19. errrrr NFS? on Bernstein's NFS analyzed by Lenstra and Shamir · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's just ignore the fact that we're all a bunch of geeks, and the acronymn NFS usually equal 'Network File System'. Not 'Number Field Sieve' as it does in this case. Would it have been so dificult to say that in the post?? The first link doesn't even give you that information.

  20. Read the damn art, data NOT lost!!! on Years Of Human Genome Data Lost In UCSC Fire · · Score: 5, Informative

    The data was not what was lost. It's the actuall genetic strains that have been cultivating over the past 14 years. The lead of the project says that it may take that long to re-generate the same strains...

  21. Re:GC is the answer on Panasonic 'Q' First Look · · Score: 1

    Also, I believe you can only play mp3s (or run linux or MAME emulators, or anything you have to boot from CD for) on Pre-Oct-2000 units. I found one in summer 2001, so maybe they're still around, but I slightly doubt it.

    Do you have no shops around you that buy old games/systems and sell them back?? I can go out rith now and pick up one of those units for $25 and not have to hunt

  22. Re:slowness on Netscape 6.2 · · Score: 1

    Shit, I'm just comparing it to Mozilla, and NS6x is a dog comparetiviley.

  23. Yes, but there is another issue on Ring-Tone Royalties · · Score: 1

    And is is called sampling. By law you can sample something like 7 or 8 seconds of a song and have to pay no royalties. You can even loop that sample as many times as you like. So we get back to the fact of wether or not these ring tones are the whole song are not. If they are under 8 seconds, it's fair use.

  24. Re:The point... on Software Packaging And The Environment? · · Score: 1

    (The new DVD-like cases are bad enough.) Yes, but now I'm not throwingaway the cases. I'm actually using them. To think that I'm indebited to AOL for something. Makes you want to run a scream :)

  25. Re:Contact Info for Spectra on Self-Destructing DVDs: Son of DIVX · · Score: 1
    Will people be distributing DVDs through the postal service just as another way to send me junk mail?

    Why not, when DVD Players have enough market, send out "time sensitive" ad info out to people and give them a full multimedia presentation instead of just a leaflet. And with the degrading coating you can't view the ad after it expires.