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  1. Re:Fine... on Star Wars Sickout · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but most married peoples' kids that I know of were not 'accidents'. Granted my sample population is limited mostly to relatives and good friends. (I guess I just don't hang around with the type of people that would accidentally have a kid)

  2. Re:Damned good idea! (mod parent up!) on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Congress does decide, but the salary change doesn't take effect until an election has been held. So if a bill passed this year that doubled senator's salaries, only the 1/3 that are up for election in '06 would get the salary increase in '06, another 1/3 would get the increase in '08, and all would have it by '10. And for a member of a house, since they all get elected every 2 years, a salary change would take affect after the next election.

  3. Re:Who cares!!! on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 1

    That's it? My current home pc runs at a 33% (2.478 ghz on a 1.862 ghz processor)faster than it should fust fine without anything more advanced than a copper heatsink and fan, granted it is a Athlon XP-M so it wasn't hard to do. Anything faster starts crashing because of heat issues (except during winter), so imagine what I could get my processor to with this type of cooling and some more voltage.

  4. Where is Jar Jar? on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 0

    [quote]Where is Jar Jar? You see him maybe twice, and except for background noise he doesn't even have a single line. [/quote] this is the most promising information from one of the reviews there is.

  5. Re:Fascinating device. on PSP UMD Format Cracked · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I end up spending far more at a bookstore than I do buying new video games. (I could have bought another gamecube for what I spent on books last week)

  6. Re:Gosh! How unlike the real world on Revenge of the Sith a "Blood Bath" · · Score: 1

    And what justification is that?

  7. Re:Where's the -1 (Misinformation) option? on Liquid Metal CPU Cooling · · Score: 1

    I thought the common way to mispronounce it was (noo'-kue-ler) not even bush pronounces it (noo'-kye-ler)

  8. Re:A step in the right direction... on Azureus Decentralizes Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Because if you just wound them they'll sue you for millions and win.

  9. Re:Time zones on Firefox Breaks 50,000,000 Barrier · · Score: 1

    Isn't that 8 hours and 1 minute?

  10. Re:Slashdot's News Rotation on Google to use TrustRank for News, Possibly More · · Score: 1

    Get 2 MicroATX motherboards, and 2 powersupplies and put them in 1 case, with gigabit network connection between the 2. Then set them up with a version of linux designed for grid computing. (I wish I had thought of this when I first saw the question)

  11. Re:Microsoft has always gone "dog food" on Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit · · Score: 1

    maybe, they actually know how to set up their own OS properly so that it doesn't suck. I doubt anyone else can set up a MS OS quite as well as MS.

  12. Re:too much Halo??? on Dvorak Trashes Modern Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    The patent would have expired by now.

  13. I ain't paying money to see that story. on European Libraries Counter Google Digitisation · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Pyroelectric? on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 3, Informative

    but heat is a form of kinetic engery, so piezoelectric is still correct, pyroelectric is just more accurate

  15. Re:What's In Your Box? on Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows · · Score: 1

    so something like http://www.lessthanhonestsite.com/scriptpage.googl e.html would bypass the filtering

  16. Re:Send in the Clones! on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    This site will give you one side of the argument. and the Wikipedia link.

  17. Re:Wow on Tiny Holes Advance Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    When did you graduate from Starfleet Acadamy?

  18. Off Topic on RAM Manufacturers Fined for Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    about your sig: would this work?
    And is there a way to send a private message instead of posting off-topic in the future?

  19. Re:Price Fixing... on RAM Manufacturers Fined for Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    d) it's REALLY hard to get permission to build refineries in the U.S.
    It's not just that. People stopped building refineries in the US because there was no profit to be gained from the industry. It always ends up having the revenue less than the total cost it takes to refine the oil. No profit, no business.

  20. Re:ridiculously expensive on Custom Motherboards? · · Score: 0

    One nitpick: in SLI mode you have 2 x8 PCIe slots, even if they physically are 2 x16 they share a single x16 channel unless you go with the Tyan Thunder K8WE mentioned in a previous post that has 2 nforce 4 Pro chipsets on it.

  21. Re:Ok, I'll define it on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 0

    interesting list, problem is in real life use many of those words don't have nearly the precision that list does. (It would be nice if it did.)

    single = 1
    couple = 2 +
    few = 3 +
    several = 3 +
    gang = a group of 4 + people
    bunch = a lot of something
    case = 1 box full


    (these are all based on how I see people use these words, not what they should officially mean)

  22. Re:Demo it? on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The resistance to OOo comes from people who see something slightly different and panic. Do you have any idea how common that is in public school districts?

  23. Re:It's bad news, actually... on Dual Cores Taken for a Spin in Multitasking · · Score: 0

    That is actually more since 5 CPU years in a week is 260.7 cpu hours per hour, while if you were able to sustain that use for a week you would use 15.34 cpu years

  24. Re:Uhh....RTFA on AMD Dual-Core Performance Revealed · · Score: 0

    from RTFAs it shows that a single 275 is slower than 2 252s (mainly because it is a dual core at 2.2 ghz vs 2 processors at 2.6 ghz each) the most annoying is that andandtech compares 1 dual core vs 2 single core vs 2 dual core vs 4 single core but doesn't bother with 4 dual cores. (of course, I doubt they could afford to)

  25. Re:As a Canadian on Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff · · Score: 0

    In the US, you can get a 100 pack of cdrs for as low as $10 if you know where to look; if you don't know where to look it can cost you almost $40.