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  1. Re:Just what I need... on A Car Navigation System That Takes Pictures · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not built in, but the Nikon D200 can be hooked up to a GPS reciever and let the images be tagged with GPS data.

  2. Re:Virtual bots on The Question of Robot Safety · · Score: 1

    "Jag känner en bot, hon heter Anna, Anna heter hon. Och hon kan banna, banna dig så hårt." (For those who Don't speak swedish the lytics above is from a song played a lot on the radio in Sweden, about an IRC-bot who bans spammers and turns out to be not a bot but a beautiful girl.)

  3. Re:It's a shame on Senate Bill To Prohibit Extra Charges For Internet · · Score: 1

    No, that's not where the market wants to go. That's where one part of the market wants to go.

    Remember, the market is a constant tug-o-war between different interests, groups and individuals.

    Now, if one party does something that other groups and individuals that they depend on - such as suppliers, customers and partners - don't agree on, they will be immediately punished.

    Remember. On a free market you can only be screwed over if you agree to be screwed over. Under government regulation you will be screwed over everytime 51% of the voters wants you to be.

  4. Re:Depends... on Does Company-Wide Language "Standardization" Work? · · Score: 3, Funny

    English.

  5. Re:$13,000 on World's Most Powerful Subwoofer · · Score: 1

    Even if you might not be able to hear low frequency sounds, you can definitely feel them.

    I think this might be the next big thing for Movie Theaters. Imagine being able to not only hear a helicopter and see it hovering on the screen, but also feel the low-frequency vibrations from the blades.

    Of course, as the price goes down (it will eventually), high-end home cinema systems will probably also be a market.

  6. Re:It is still in doubt actually on Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ethanol and Methanol DO have roughly the same effect. You get the same intoxication from both of them. What kills you is not the methanol intoxication but the methanol hangover.

    Methanol is metabolized by alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) via formaldehyde to formic acid, being responsible for the metabolic acidosis in methanol poisoning.

    That's why ethanol is given as a cure for methanol poisoning; by adding ethanol to the bloodstream the metabolization rate of methanol decreases as the body will also metabolize ethanol, and thus the level of toxic methanol byproducts in the blood will be kept at a non-lethal level.

  7. Re:contents on Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of important personal info that my family might like to have just in case.

    And probably even more you absolutely _don't_ want your family to find...

  8. ImageMagick on How Can I Donate Old Hardware to Developers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've built a media database for a customer where you drop originals in a folder to be converted to different sizes/formats for web/print and indexed in a database.

    The script is written in VBScript to script ImageMagick to process the images but a combination of ImageMagick and any scripting language (even .bat-files) would do.

    ImageMagick is quite powerful and really easy to work with so you can whip up really neat things in notime.

  9. Re:OSS projects often need hardware on How Can I Donate Old Hardware to Developers? · · Score: 1

    You can get a tax deductionn too And if it's donated to FreeBSD there might be a tux deduction as well

  10. Adam Savage? on Top 10 Web Fads · · Score: 1

    That guy with the bad teeth and glasses surely must be Adam Savage with fake teeth goofing off, no?

  11. Re:Volvos on Humanoid Robot HR-2 · · Score: 1

    Well being a geek, the hard part is not throwing away the instructions and figure out where all the pieces go. It's getting up from the floor afterwards that is the problem.

  12. Re:Volvos on Humanoid Robot HR-2 · · Score: 1

    Well, actually the robot was constructed to help people with the, until now, almost impossible task of putting together furniture from flat packages.

  13. Re:Spread-spectrum on 'Whispering' Wireless Internet · · Score: 1

    Wireless Internet over spread-rectum?

  14. Re:Drivel on Is Programming Art? · · Score: 1

    I mean really, let's say you get your answer. "It is art" or "It isn't art", what has been accomplished other than the ability to puff up about what you do?

    The question does not have one correct answer. There are just opinions. It is not the answer that is inriguing but the question itself. Intellectual (or even pseudo-intellectual) conversation can be an accomplishment in itself no matter how silly the topic.

    If you fail to realize this you will not be able to fully appreciate art either as good art (like good intellectial conversation) more often than not raise questions rather than answering them.

    The importance of those questions are rarely significant, sometimes the silly ones are the most intriguing. Not many pieces of art has intrigued more people through the ages than a small, in many ways mediocre, portrait of a woman named Mona Lisa. Why? Because it raises the very silly question of a smile...

  15. Re:Mitsubishi F-2 Versus Godzilla on Japan Probes Mysterious Vapor Eruption · · Score: 1

    The F-2 is the new Japanese frontline fighter and employs stealth technology developed by Japanese engineers.

    You said stealth! See you in court...

  16. Re:False cognate. In English, it's called a Moose. on Tracking Domestic Animals? · · Score: 1

    Although he probably means alces alces (European elk or moose) there are wapiti (cervus elaphus) in Sweden. In Swedish, they are called Kronhjort.

  17. Re:Invisible Fence on Tracking Domestic Animals? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Invisible fences are illegal in Sweden (they claim that they are cruel to the animals), but since the dog is blind you could just get a regular visible fence. The dog wouldn't be able to see the difference anyway...