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  1. Re:Force Field? on Mysterious 'Forcefield' Tested on US Tanks · · Score: 1

    Care to back up that 2% figure, or where you playing a game of "lets pull numbers out of my ass, because my ass is filled to the brim with facts!"?

  2. Re:Right on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    What the hell is this? Tons of carbon? You need to state if you mean tons of carbon released into the air or what, otherwise you are just listing countries with lots of coal, graphite, and organic matter.

  3. Re:Force Field? on Mysterious 'Forcefield' Tested on US Tanks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is that what you call the citizens of Iraq who fight the oppresion[sic] of a foreign invader?

    You know that is only happening in 3 (arguably 4) provinces, right? (arguably because the force in one of province it is foreign insurgents by a vast majority fighting the US) Most of the "rebelling" is done by foreign Shiites, who are hoping to create and theocratic government in Iraq.

  4. Re:ABL Systems are old on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    My motto regarding military science: If they have publicly acknowledged it, it has already been used and the next generation is very far in development if not already seeing action.

  5. Re:Mega Watts are easy, and misleading. on Sci-Fi Weapons to Join US Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    88 miles per hour (at least in a DeLorean, it may be differant for a Boeing).

    Yes, I know that is not a unit of time but I'm pretty sure it still answers the question.

  6. Re:Too much buying power... on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    Drive 20 miles for everything?

    That's what I already have to do, you insensitive clod! Seriously though, my home (well my family's home, so when I'm between apartments) is 20 minutes from the nearest city. So for me it isn't something stocked at the gas station/country store/pizza place 5 miles away then you have to make a 20 min drive to town. Once in town there is a Wal*Mart, K-Mart, Meijer, Ric's, Kroger's, and a couple Mom & Pop stores making it very easy to avoid whichever one I don't want to support. I guess if you are too lazy for freaking drive (seriously I could understand that if it was walking) a few extra miles I think you deserve what gets "enforced" on you because of your laziness.

  7. Re:Can anybody give more details? on Apple Releases Remote Desktop 3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You must be daft. I am sorry for you. One of the hyperlinks in the F'ing summary is http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/. From the Apple page you have to be a complete dolt to not see the navigation bar on the top. If you click "New Features" you will find:

    Remote Spotlight search

    Leveraging the revolutionary Spotlight technology in Mac OS X Tiger, the new Remote Spotlight capability in Apple Remote Desktop 3 can perform lightning fast searches on remote client systems running Mac OS X v10.4 or later. Summary results for each client are updated instantly as results are returned. View details on results, or refine searches even further using additional qualifiers. Results can be viewed on remote client systems, copied back to your administrator system, or deleted.

    Remote Desktop widget

    If you just want a quick look at one screen and are running Apple Remote Desktop 3 on Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, launch the Remote Desktop widget from Dashboard. The widget is fully-integrated with the administrative application and will allow you to select a specific system from the list of computers under your control.

    Of course, screen sharing works both ways. If you want to demonstrate something to one user or an entire group, you can do so by sharing your own screen. Show them exactly how to accomplish a task by walking through the steps yourself.

    Curtain Mode

    What if you're doing some fine-tuning but would prefer to keep the work hidden from the outside world? Turn on Curtain Mode and the local user's view of the desktop is hidden. You can still view and have full control of the remote system's desktop, but no one else will be able to see what's happening. This feature is perfect for those managing systems that have public displays, such as in museums or kiosks.

    For your final one this is from the the first freaking page linked to, good job reading:

    User History reports

    Do you know who's been using your network? Apple Remote Desktop does, and can track it for you with new User History reports. These reports give you detailed information on who is using a computer, when they logged in and out, and how they accessed the computer.

    So hopefully next time you will look at TFA and actually navigate it if it resides on multiple pages (unless you want summaries to be filled to the brim with redundant hyperlinks).

  8. Re:Interesting screenshot... on Apple Releases Remote Desktop 3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the paragraph directly beneath that picture: Thanks to screen sharing, you can observe one, 10, even 50 screens in action simultaneously, allowing you to closely monitor your network. And that's your entire network -- not just Macs -- you can also view and control the screens of any Virtual Network Computing (VNC)-enabled computer, including Windows, Linux, and UNIX. When a user needs assistance, you take control of any individual screen and view the remote desktop in full-screen mode.

  9. Re:FUD? on Pentium Computers Vulnerable to Attack? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If system heat becomes critical they will simply shut the system down flat out. On a Pentium 4, overheating is not entirely unexpected, particularly on the high edge of the clock speeds. On an AMD or Via, overheating is a major failure condition, probably caused by a heat sink falling off.

    You are a little off. What a P4 does is "speed stepping" where if it is overheating it will down the clock and avoid areas on the chip that are the hottest, if it gets too hot it will shut down completely. This is designed so that permanent damage does not happen as a result of heat. AMD also has a similar feature now (or claims to, I've heard some cases of people having a heat sink failure and their AMD being trashed as a result), but they didn't used to (it used to be an AMD CPU would cook itself to permanent destruction if it was overheating, there is a good video of a few AMD chips lighting on fire at Tom's Hardware demonstrating this).

  10. Re:FP? on Bunk Camp - Apple Gets It Wrong? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was thinking I was going to rip this apart as I have a legit WinXP CD and key, but then I remember that I obtained that WinXP CD and key from a corporation. I never paid for it, a company I worked for did. Now I think the only flaw is all the people who buy Dells just happen to have a license for the first copy of Windows they got (usually all upgrade are from their teenage relative or that guy they know who is a floor manager at ABC Warehouse).

  11. Re:Uhhhh.... on Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' · · Score: 1

    I think he is more of saying "We are the Wal*Mart of Computers". I think he has a good point to, they have push and power over their suppliers (the same way Wal*Mart is able to bend suppliers to Wal*Mart's needs).

  12. Re:Sigh... on The .EU Landrush Fiasco · · Score: 0

    Of course we have ethics! There is an ethic food place around the corner from me, and an ethic fashion store on my main street. And what makes ethic people more scary when with christian fanatics?

    Just to be sure people don't think I am a complete idiot, this is a joke.

  13. Re:Said on IBM Hardwires Encryption Into Chips · · Score: 1

    BTW: I still think the SCOTUS justices should be elected... life terms, sure.. but they should still be elected. I think it is wrong to have so many aspects of our law decided by unelected officials.

    I have to highly disagree with you on this fact. The SCOTUS needs to be as separate from the masses as possible, I think if they were voted in you would have segregation mandatory, abortion completely illegal, sodomy in the books as a felony, ten-commandments in every classroom and maybe be living in the United Christian States of America.

  14. Re:How big is red hat and novell in the server mar on Is There Room for Xandros in the Server Market? · · Score: 1

    Something that can run linux executables for backward compatibility ... and it's own applications ofcourse should kick the %^*&$&# out of ms and linux counterparts.

    That bit sounds a lot like OS-X to me. Personally I want Haiku to really pick up, or s similar project created for OS/2, I really liked both of those systems.

  15. Re:Popov? on Advances in Bio-weaponry · · Score: 1

    It is alright for mixed drinks such as jungle juice (where there are other alcohols and lots of juice/flavor/sugar) and it is a little worse then Smirnoff when run through a $10 Brita filter three times. It is also great for giving out free shots, in my experience no one complains about crappy liqueur when it is free (they either take a shot or they don't).

  16. Re:What??? never heard of DSL then? on Negroponte says Linux too 'Fat' · · Score: 1

    Because I use DSL on my old Pentium laptop with 32 Megs of RAM. Austrumi requires 128 according to their web page. I don't see what would make it 10x better then DSL, I mean they seem to have about the same programs, and DSL is based on Debian and easily extendable/customizable.

  17. Re:Completely WRONG direction to take. on This Boring Headline is Written for Google · · Score: 1

    I think your comment is one generation off. The current generation is all about sneaking in links with referrals, talking about their own blog, or pointing to some site they want people to join. They may make a few good points (or copy and paste some good points from an unreferenced website) but then degrade in to just trying to get you to click on their blog so they can get more AdSense revenue. Apparently listing a website in their settings is not good enough so they have to put a link or three (to the same page) in every post too. You can read more about it at my blog http://brilliant-corners.blogspot.com/

    Actually you can't read more about it at my blog, it is totally unrelated, I just felt I really needed to be a hypocrite in this post :p.

  18. Re:Who cares? on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you call good drawing. Many of the ones that use computers are not good at cross shading and using charcoal and making areas light or dark. But on the computer these things can be easily added. It is trivial to use sponge, dodge, and burn in photoshop, as well as add gradients. It is not nearly as trivial to do so on paper. Likewise there are tricks that make shading and shadows simple on computers, while again they can be much trickier on paper.

  19. Re:Who cares? on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 1

    I will admit I only know a handful of people that do cartoons, and only a couple who have them published in a daily (The State News http://www.statenews.com/ and The Midland Daily http://www.ourmidland.com/), but the ones I know either start with a very rough sketch that is then scanned and pretty much completely redone in Illustrator and/or Photoshop. A few of them don't even bother with paper anymore and have tablet inputs and use Illustrator and Photoshop to create works from scratch.

  20. Re:Who cares? on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 3, Informative

    Many comics have moved to digital production. Almost all, even if they start as sketches, are early in their life scanned and almost all coloring and refining done digitally. In the same way more and more story boards are moving to the computer realm. There was an article here recently of LucasArts working with its game division on story boards that are interactive, or at least dynamic. In both computers are being used more and more as the digital form can be quickly manipulated and more importantly copying and transporting is trivial.

  21. Re:Happens every time. on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think this is more akin to fountain pens leading to a decline in ability to sharpen quills... or if sticking to the farms then it is more like tractors leading to a decline in ability to plow a field with horses, or by hand. This is a case of new technology replacing old, and some people not thinking it is a good idea and will be laughed at a few years down the road (like the guy who wrote the letter to Lincoln saying that steamboats are bad and God never intended man to travel at "breakneck speeds of 35 miles per hour").

  22. Re:Should have stayed in Brussels on The Forgotten Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    You sir are a comic genius. Good form.

  23. Re:Scientists Are Allowed To Say They Were Wrong on Sun Research Yields Unexpected Results · · Score: 1

    That's what makes you famous.

    Most people don't want THAT type of fame. I mean look at the electric universe people and the household fusion guy. There are plenty of people who publish opposing theories, and most if not all of them are heavily criticized by the community, laughed about at places like this, and have a much harder time getting research money.

  24. Re:It's not a missing link, and nice predictions on Missing Link Fossil Discovered · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's like having a 1970 VW Beetle and a 2006 VW Beetle then saying "look, this 1990 VM Beetle is the missing link" then someone else coming and saying "No, this 1980 VW Beetle is the missing link"

  25. Re:So I guess... on Let Goofy Track Your Children · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no no, that may get blood on the carpet and walls, they need to IMPLODE.