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  1. Re:No Thanks on The Wii's MEMS Inventor on Future Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personally, I find the easiest way to make the short putts is to reach a threshold speed but increase the angular movement. Not like a real put which has fairly small angle. I use ~40 degrees with a slowish acceleration.

    HTH.

  2. Re:Be realistic... on Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare" · · Score: 1

    because it has worked in debian for ages?

    Yes, but Ubuntu is not Debian.

  3. Be realistic... on Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Once you open your sources.list up to include universe and multiverse, all upgrade bets are off. How can you possibly expect the ubuntu team to consider every unknown eventuality.

  4. Re:so what's thier ip address? on Hell.com Domain Name Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    6.6.6.0 is the gateway to hell.

    don't you mean 6.6.6.1?

    .0 is the network

    :)

  5. Re:Nanotech on FDA Gets Mixed Advice on Nanotechnology · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new nano-enhanced overlords.

    Rings too true for me.

    I'd rather a 'softly, softly' approach with nanotech.

  6. Re:Games that I can modify. on Games That Keep You Coming Back? · · Score: 1

    Will try it out, thanks for the tip.

    Also a good excuse to update my Ti4200 video card. :)

    Regards...

  7. Re:Games that I can modify. on Games That Keep You Coming Back? · · Score: 1

    I too am a geezer and I love GTA Vice City and San Andreas. I like GTA-VC better. The dancing mission in GTA-SA gives me the shits. Anyone got any hints for getting past this using a PC with a Joystick? I think the game took pity on me after I failed this mission about 20 times. Eventually I got past it. To me the replayability is enriched by the wanted starts. I play the game again and again but with each iteration I add a wanted star. I have completed as many missions as I can while retaining 3 wanted stars.

  8. Re:You should listen on Retrofit Your Web Pages For Wireless Compatibility · · Score: 1

    The link doesn't like the trailing slash.

    Try
    http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm

  9. Re:You should listen on Retrofit Your Web Pages For Wireless Compatibility · · Score: 2, Informative


    IMHO you are 100% correct.

    I notice with interest that we are approaching 1 billion users on the Internet.
    http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm/

    How many people will have browser equipped phones in 1,2 and 5 years?

    Mobile/PDA/Small Screen Internet will be HUGE.

  10. Obligatory Windows Sledge on Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card · · Score: 4, Funny

    FTFA

    What's particularly impressive about Unwired's card over all other solutions is that it doesn't need any godawful proprietary software clients to log in to the network.

    Except Windows.

  11. Re:Autopilot on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 1

    The story about the plane losing pressure then flying on autopilot before crashing is interesting. Doesn't the plane know it has lost cabin pressure? If it's on autopilot why can't it reduce altitude so the people can regain consciousness?

    What if there is a bloody great big hill in the way?
    What if there is another aircraft in the way?
    What happens if the automatic Lateral Navigation system has been disconnected to divert around weather?
    Do you know what happens to the range of an aircraft if you cruise off optimum altitude?

    Please let me say that commercial aviation is a VERY complex arena, technology is making it safer and more efficient but we are a long way from allowing the computers full control.

    Hell, why can't it just declare an emergency and automatically land at the nearest airport after receiving an OK signal from the airport that it's safe to land.

    We have all this technology but it's implemented by idiots.

    So Boeing, Airbus, Honeywell et. al. are idiots are they?

    Every airliner I have flown has known software bugs and every year with millions of hours flown we find more.

  12. Weather. on How Would You Define a Planet? · · Score: 1

    No Weather, No Planet, just a rock.

  13. Re:Rice? on Branden Robinson Lays Down the Law at Debian · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Lucky Bastard. lol, prefect comment in my opinion. my only possible response is... Cartman: "am I to understand there will be no side dishes with our waffles tonight?"