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  1. Re:Only one comment on OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Huh? Weren't you paying attention? They are going to use that money for new cup holders!

  2. Re:PDF import? on OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, GIMP just uses ghostscript to rasterize the PDF

  3. Re:LED lighting on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents · · Score: 1

    You could buy a ceramic heater if you're that cold. I don't understand the point in trying to heat your home with lights.

  4. Re:Whoever tagged this humor... on MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    At least "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" isn't showing at the moment..

  5. Re:This Is Rapidly Becoming Less And Less Of An Is on MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access · · Score: 1

    Nintendo DS. Just about the only reason I can't use WPA right now. And I don't think switching AP configurations often is fun.

  6. Re:Does this mean that ... on Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of sleep.. I usually wake up after 8 hours of sleep really tired because my alarm keeps interrupting me when I'm in REM. I know there was a special REM monitoring watch on Amazon, but cheap suggestions would be appreciated.

  7. Also from Stanford on Stanford Team Developing Super 3D Camera · · Score: 1

    Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera. A regular camera with a special lens that emulates the "thousands of tiny lens" from the thing in the article. Includes pictures and a video of how the focus of images taken with the camera can be adjusted as a post processing step.

  8. Re:And the problem is...? on Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places · · Score: 1

    Graceful degradation would mean that it's OK to install but the printer will only print in black and white.
    This is a nice feature sometimes but imagine trying to figure out why your friend's "new color printer" can only print in black and white. That would add a whole new dimension of frustration (since I'm imagining there would be little notification of disabled features.)
  9. Re:What this really exposes... on GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    I agree that the original poster's comments were particularly absurd at points, but seriously, you don't need to rip into them like that to prove your point.

  10. Re:I like it. on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Anyone have an audio clip of a unihammer printer printing? I'm having a hard time imagining anything that's louder than a dot matrix printer.

  11. Re:the model is dead... on Panic in Multicore Land · · Score: 1

    IE

    There, I found your problem. I run a lesser system than yours and never experienced the same problem with slow address bar typing in either Firefox or Explorer.

  12. Re:Multicores, but not on a chip on Panic in Multicore Land · · Score: 1

    more likely it would be built upon some higher level api, where app would simply tell "these things can run in parallel, this one should wait for that one to finish, and this one can start as soon as that one sends a particular signal".

    Threads?

  13. Re:This Just In: on Norwegian Broadcaster Evaluates BitTorrent Distribution Costs · · Score: 1

    Of course, you can already watch TV on the internet as provided by the large networks. It's known as Hulu, and you can watch stuff for free (with some commercials) at places like this. It's not as revolutionary as being able to download via bittorrent, but it's a step in the right direction. Adult Swim does their own thing though. They put new videos of shows on their web site every friday.

  14. Re:A test run on Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet · · Score: 1

    We should also create a second United States. That way terrorists will only have a 50% chance of attacking us!

  15. Re:IE7 is just slow anyway on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    This works with FireFox 2 as well. Same with holding CTRL+F4, apparently.

  16. Re:Where does the energy come from? on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 1

    Well it could be a rechargeable battery. I would guess that the electrolysis doesn't use a large amount of power so the car could probably go without a recharge for a while.

  17. Re:Where does the energy come from? on Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline · · Score: 1

    The car's battery?

  18. Re:QuickPath vs HyperTransport on Details of New Intel Dunnington and Nehalem Architectures Leaked · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that Intel's front side bus has lasted this long

  19. Re:I think I speak for everyone... on DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    All you had to do was copy the URL to the .divx file from the page, download the file, change the extension to .avi and enjoy.

  20. Re:risky defense on Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  21. Re:Pop-tarts... on Should Addictive Tech Come With a Health Warning? · · Score: 1

    It would be hard to not find a warning on food that happens to get fairly hot when heated.

  22. Re:It Required MSdotNET on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 1

    Read the post below this one..

  23. Re:It Required MSdotNET on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 1

    Another thing I forgot. The most recent .NET runtime that was installed enabled an "optimization service" by default in the background. Apparently it goes through bytecode and crunches SOMETHING for a long peroid of time (it noticably degraded system performance.) It's really annoying if you're not a .NET developer of have absolutely no intention of ever touching it.

  24. Re:It Required MSdotNET on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 1

    dot net is a mess. I'd rather not have it, but if you want to have developer tools that aren't completely out of date, you're forced to install it. And there are *almost* as many versions of the runtime as their versions of vista. (Time will tell.)

  25. Re:pictures are all well and good on Scientists Scan Striking Nanoscale Images · · Score: 1

    Smells like trouble. The inhaled nanoparticles cause unknown interactions with your body over time.