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  1. Re:Expensive on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    I'd say 40% volume (ignoring rounded edges) is a pretty substantial difference, and volume is more or less the definition of "size". If all you care about is footprint, then yes, they are similar.

  2. Re:Expensive on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    "Mac Mini sized"? Are you kidding? The Mac Mini is less than half the size!

  3. Re:Debate? on Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Article Quality. on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds a bit like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

    Basically, it is a short piece of music that is to be played as slow as possible. In the church where it is played, it is expected to last more then 600 years. Ironically, it started with a pause of 17 months.

  5. Re:Validation or desperation? on Lord of the Rings Online To Go Free-To-Play · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, in Korea...

  6. Re:Oh Good... on Snails On Methamphetamine · · Score: 1

    This deserves a much better score. lol.

  7. Re:Was Not Impressed at All on Lost Ends · · Score: 1

    It was pretty obvious to me that the smoke monster was not able to do any harm to that cave itself (He even said so), so why would you need to protect it with the pylons? Also, technology breaks down or can be switched off, as Sayid did.

  8. Re:"Screen Sharing" for the Mac on Free Remote Access Tools For Windows and Mac Compared · · Score: 1

    Jollys FastVNC is not free in any sense of the word, except "free to try". It may be worth 40$ but Chicken of the VNC is free, open source and totally adequate.

  9. Re:Commercial vs. Academic focus in the badge on Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming · · Score: 1

    You could just skip that and pick your 5 out of the other 8 remaining requirements.

  10. Re:Orly? on Microsoft Docs Indicate Future Xbox 360 Support For USB Storage · · Score: 1

    The Xbox plays media content from USB Mass Storage just fine. This is talking about storing game data (savegames, probably DLC and so on), which is at the moment only possible on the internal hdd or custom memory cards.

  11. Re:What a steal! on OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June · · Score: 1

    I'd say most (not all) places where I would be gaming have a decent connection to the internet.

  12. Re:What a steal! on OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June · · Score: 1

    While you are right, the price is definitely too high, the "buy a graphics card" point is moot. At home we have 4 different pieces of hardware (work macbook, home macbook, SO home notebook, netbook) none of which is upgradeable with a new graphics card. The desktop pc is going away for most people, because notebooks are so convenient.

  13. Re:Value, Price, and Worth on 1938 Superman Comic Sells For $1M · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, there is a "Golden Age". Closing the circle to the article topic.

  14. Re:So good it's a verb on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Adobe is not interested in this because they want you to have a reason to buy their existing or upcoming server products.

  15. Re:The debate is long from over. on The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I would like to point out a particular risk of contracting measels at young age. I think it is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencephalitis where a child under 2 has a measel infection and then lives on normally for a few years (Wikipedia talks about 6-15) and suddenly the brain breaks down. So you see a fully functional, normal child grow up and then degenerate to a state of complete mental disfunction. "Death usually occurs within 3 years."

    The risk is 1 in 100000 if you get measels. In addition to putting up your own child to that risk, you put other parents childs at risk, that may have specific medical reasons for not getting a vaccine.

    You need to assess for yourself if you suspect the risk of vaccination as being higher than this and other possible complications.

  16. Re:no no no no no! on Displayport V1.2 To Take Giant Leap Over HDMI · · Score: 1

    ethernet to my display just doesn't sound useful.

    It makes more sense the other way around. You plug all your cables (Power, usb input devices, speaker, ethernet, ...) into your Monitor and can connect your notebook to it via a single cable.

  17. Blatant Slashvertizing on Own Your Own Fighter Jet · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's probably a refId for Slashdot somewhere...

  18. Re:Going in circles on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to say that one-fourth of Americans are retarded?

    That denominator seems way too big...

    (disclaimer: true worldwide)

  19. Re:READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE on Light Helps Injured Mice Walk Again · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the heads up, amazing read.

  20. Re:Nature Online on The Problem of Shards, Servers, and Queues In MMOs · · Score: 1

    Gameplay is shitty, though.

  21. Re:Not a surprise on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    robert.mueller@fbi.gov

  22. Re:Combo Button is hateful. on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    Hey, I was just suggesting workarounds to handle your problem, assuming you were interested in using Safari.

  23. Re:Combo Button is hateful. on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    I think F8 also works in some win-browsers

  24. Re:Combo Button is hateful. on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    I appreciate your opinon, but would like to suggest another way to handle it. I tested this in Safari / Leopard:

    If you want to stop the loading of a page, click with the mouse button, but do not release it yet. Now look at the screen. Is it still showing the x? Then release the button. Has it changed to the relaod symbol? Then move the mouse away and release. The button does not change while you hold the mouse button.

    Another idea, the clickable region of the "stop"-state of the button in Safari is quite a bit bigger than the reload-region, so it is possible to click a bit to the left to prevent accidetial reloading. Doesn't help with your problem #2.

    Not perfect solutions, but workable if you prefer to use more space for the url entry field or other stuff.

  25. Re:of all the things to copy from Chrome on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    In your current installation of FireFox, double-click your title bar.

    Wow, it minimizes the window into the dock. Didn't test chrome.