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  1. Re:High cheese factor on Revenge of the Sith TV Spots Revealed · · Score: 1

    Roddenberry decreed that every sentient race in the galaxy is humanoid.

    How many quatloos do you want to bet on that?

  2. Re:Skycar on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    I think it will come with a free copy of "Duke Nukem Forever."

    (Score -1, Too Easy)

  3. Re:You do know that gravity doesn't exist right? on Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    few of the scientists that supports creationism are involved with biology or similare ... They are often scientists in a complitly diffrent fields ... like computer science

    Dr. Fred Brooks would be an example here.

  4. Re:Oh yeah? on Intel Seeking Moore's Law Original Publication · · Score: 1

    I had a matchbox full of mint-condition, unfolded, bagged and carded issues of "Action Comics #1"

    A matchbox? I don't think they're worth much to collectors if you've cremated them...

  5. Re:just another *drama* (not SF) series on Battlestar Galactica in HD · · Score: 1

    robots believing in a god? get real. it's just not credible.

    "Then where do all the calculators go?" --Kryten, "Red Dwarf"

  6. Re:The doctor is a cylon on BBC Apologizes To Who Star · · Score: 1

    God, I have no life.

    Trust me, they're overrated.

  7. Re:It's a Trap! on Work Samples and the Non-Disclosure Agreement? · · Score: 1

    You know, that rule is two words too long...

  8. Re:Worse than Vogon Poetry on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 1

    And as far as he's concerned, he's got enough money thank you very much.

    So does that mean he'd license them to me, as a number two?

    ...Err, that didn't come out quite right.

    ...Err, that could also be misinterpreted...

  9. Re:Spaceballs? on Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL · · Score: 1

    I guess the Schwartz isn't with us...

  10. Re:I would like to know on Online Business Model for a Band? · · Score: 1

    NO!

    You could have mailed yourself an empty, unsealed envelope, and then sealed it later.

    If you want to establish an authorship date, notarization might do it.

  11. Re:Oh, no! on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    (maybe just to swoon over Lalla Ward mind you.... ;-)

    You sure you don't mean Mary Tamm?

  12. Re:Is piracy a barrier? on What's Next At Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple certainly doesn't want to be seen as a bastion of piracy.

    So they should do the iTunes approach. Use a DRM'ed format, support it in Final Cut Pro with restrictions that other formats have. Add TV show and other digital video sales to ITMS, perhaps with a BitTorrent-like approach to reduce bandwidth costs.

    As for modding the Mac Mini, make a base unit about the same size as the Mini with video capture, a big hard drive, and a firewire interface, designed to be stacked under the Mini.

  13. Re:NYT article. on Followup on MS and Brazil in NY Times · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're not offering Mac OS X either. Nor AmigaOS, BSD, Gnu/HURD, Irix, Solaris, VMS, MS-DOS, Plan9, BeOS...

    Get the point? Choosing one OS for a gov't program is not a paternalistic choice. the citizens of Brazil are free to choose another OS.

  14. Re:Duplicate! on What's Next At Apple · · Score: -1

    Next week, I'm hoping to get slashdot to switch to a new format and start rumors about my ex-girlfriend.

    You're on Slashdot. Wouldn't the rumor be that you actually had a girlfriend?

  15. Re:preorders and target on PSP Reception Lukewarm in US? · · Score: 1

    Nobody shops there any more. They're too crowded.

  16. Re:With the current state of our economy... on PSP Reception Lukewarm in US? · · Score: 1

    Right now, Techbargains lists a 5MP Sony camera, 3X zoom for $200. What, is nothing less than a D70 good enough for ya?

  17. Re:long O when you read this on Open Source As Legal Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    I think any descendents of AdT should sue for defamation of character...

  18. Re:Nice! on Bang But No Splash · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your Free Registration does not grant access to this item:
    Full Text : Cho,Sucking Away the Splatter,


    With a title like that, you would think it's "adult" content they're charging for...

  19. Re:Good step? on Canada Says No To DMCA · · Score: 1

    First the DMCA takes away our rights, and now it's posting on slashdot!

    Great! Now it will be completely unproductive!

  20. Re:PSP and DS not comparable on PSP Launch Coverage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But, something that people have largely stopped pointing out is that Nintendo and Sony target different groups for the most part. Nintendo targets younger gamers more than older ones.

    Yes, but it's not just the games. The DS has kid-friendly features like a clamshell design (harder to damage), cartridges (disks scratch, we've had gameboy games go through the washing machine ok), the resulting quick cartridge game-start time, and lower prices.

    The PSP is getting plenty of attention, though; I think it's actually making a new market as much as it is taking potential Nintendo customers.

  21. Re:Thank god for Jurassic Park... on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    That's a strange article. A "touch more hyena than lion"? That shows a lack of knowledge about hyenas and lions. All those images of lions gorging at the kill while the hyenas wait on the fringe, and pick off a small piece here and there? What tends to happen is that the hyenas make the kill, and then the lions come in and take it away from them. T-rex is perfectly suited to doing the same thing to raptors. That doesn't make it a scavenger, though.

    One difference, though, is that lions certainly hunt at times, and can be reasonably effective. T-rex seems more specialized, although perhaps it also hunted the slower, tougher types like triceratops and ankylosaurus.

  22. Re:Why Stop? on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yours must not be quite low enough...

  23. Re:DMCA == trade barriers on Australia-U.S. Trade Agreement Takes First Strike · · Score: 1

    Can someone please give me a valid instance of the DMCA's copy control mechanism clauses being invoked in a case that didn't involve keeping a potential competitor out of a specific market?

    2600 and DeCSS.

    DVD X Copy and 321 Studios.

  24. A better link on Sunlight in a Tube · · Score: 1

    A far better link is this. Reading that, you'll see that it's much different from a window or solartube.

  25. Re:One place to look on The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses · · Score: 1

    And a pretty good argument can be made that the terrorists we have down there are outside of the Geneva convention as they aren't members of any regular army backed by a real country. They are terrorists.

    By that argument, if the Soviets had invaded and I'd pulled out my rifle to resist them, I would be a terrorist.