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  1. An award for a concept... on NIAC Selects 2005 Phase I Winners · · Score: 1

    ...you sure this story isn't about the patent office? :-)

  2. Path is clear on t/Space Demonstrates New Air-Launch Method · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, with the recent selection of Boeing/Northrop-Grumman and Lockheed-Martin as the two competing teams for the contract to build the Shuttle's successor, t/Space's future path is somewhat uncertain.

    I would think their path is clear: Get one of those other two to buy them!

  3. The Register has an article ... on REALbasic Linux IDE Public Beta Available · · Score: 1
  4. How about a WiFi mouse... on $70 Cordless Notebook Mouse with No Scroll Wheel · · Score: 1

    ...so I don't have to carry the usb stick around everywhere?

  5. I want high speed, not more press releases! on Nokia and Intel Group Up To Develop WiMax · · Score: 1

    I wish companies would stop inventing and reinventing techologies and just spend the money to get broadband access to people outside of major cities.

  6. Re:One Weenie's Perspective on SW Weenies: Ready for CMT? · · Score: 1

    Yes I have. Let me correct myself, they don't play music during prime time. This is their schedule for tomorrow night (all times central):

    6:00 pm Dukes of Hazzard
    7:00 Gretchen Wilson Documentary
    7:30 Class of 1975 (Documentary)
    8:00 American Revolutions (Documentary)
    9:30 Gretchen Wilson Documentary
    10:00 Dukes of Hazzard
    11:00 Small Town Secrets ("Hunting for Bigfoot")
    12:00 CMT Music

  7. This is awesome.... on SW Weenies: Ready for CMT? · · Score: 1

    ...now my code can look like this:

    Thread 1....waiting for user input

    Thread 2....waiting for user input

    Thread 3....waiting for user input

    All running at the same time!!!

  8. Re:One Weenie's Perspective on SW Weenies: Ready for CMT? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. They don't actually play Country Music. They're own by the same people as MTV. (ie. they don't play music at all)

  9. Didn't all cost that much on PC Prices Reach $300 Milestone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ten or so years ago, when PCs cost five or even 10 times what they do now

    In the early 90s, an Atari ST cost about $400.

  10. Tools and Libraries on Debian Upgrade May Cause Serious Breakage · · Score: 1, Redundant

    installation tool apt depended heavily on the changing C++ libraries

    If apt is that dependent on the libraries, maybe it should be staticly linked. I know static linking is usually considered a bad thing, but this is one case where an exception to the rule may be needed.

  11. Re:Huh? on PlayStation 3 HDD to Ship With Linux · · Score: 1

    When the PS2 was released in Europe they included a copy of BASIC with it. This was so they could have it declared a computer and avoid paying a tariff.

  12. Other side of the coin on SETI Disrupted By Cell Phones in Airplanes? · · Score: 1

    Isn't the opposite also true? Doesn't this add to the radio waves that an alien planet might be listening for?

    Wouldn't we also want the aliens to be generating a lot of radio waves (by using their cell phones) so that we'd have a better chance of hearing something?

    How can you ask the aliens to do one thing, and ask us to do the opposite?

  13. Re:Not just the USA on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    Look at it this way: The US is being used for beta testing. So while we get the cool stuff first, we also get all the bugs that you won't have to worry with.

  14. Slightly offtopic on HOW TO: Convert a Mac into an x86 · · Score: 1

    but everyone assumes that Apple is going to be running on a x86 chip. Couldn't it be some other Intel chip they'll be using?

  15. Nice summary on U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Lexmark Case · · Score: 1

    For those out of the loop on this one, Lexmark tried to lock in consumers and lock out competition by adding code to their printers and toner cartridges so that only Lexmark toners would work.

    Every slashdot article should have a nice sentence like this telling us what the story is about.

  16. Features on Laptops Outsell Desktops · · Score: 1

    Some of the features common in most notebooks are longer-lasting batteries, CD burners and wireless capability

    And some of them are even portable!

  17. Free on Google Never Forgets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google is allowing you to use their equipment to do searches and you're surprised they're keeping the results?!

  18. I don't think you need a new drug... on Trust in a Bottle · · Score: 1

    ...hasn't beer been having this effect for years? :-)

  19. What usually happens on Microsoft Ends Era Of Closed File Formats · · Score: 1

    Microsoft developers create something useful....until it gets squashed by someone from higher up and/or marketing.

  20. Ummm.... on Self-wiring Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    .....wasn't that the plot to Superman III?

  21. Great... on Coming Soon, Roadcasting · · Score: 1

    Now when I buy a car, I'm going to have to pay a royality fee too!

  22. No on Are Video Game Patents Next? · · Score: 0

    Will this be the real end of innovation in videogames

    No. Innovation in games ended 10 years ago.

  23. Re:So the timeline is really: on EU Deadline Approaching for Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course, they'll be using MS Office to track everything. And then suddenly the files just disappear...

  24. Which percent? on EU Deadline Approaching for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Is that 5% of the gross or 5% of the net?

  25. Bad idea on Coming Soon, The Google Translator · · Score: 1

    Great, we create an advanced translator and then use the words of politicans to train it. Now everything we run thru it still won't make sense!