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  1. Re:Old index indeed... on Google Image Index Just Not Updated · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Why so long? on Google Image Index Just Not Updated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe they are focusing resources on other things.

  3. Re:Really quite amazing on Underwater Robots for Everyone · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    And if you look at the maps of its movements the answer becomes pretty aparent.

    Look here

  4. Really quite amazing on Underwater Robots for Everyone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a studying EE stuff like this facinates me.

    Just uses a small Li Ion battery to change its relative density to float or sink..it jsut does this at 45 degrees to make forward progress. No prop or anything.

    Stuff like this is NOT easy to do, although quite a bit easier that a land vehicle that has to navigate an obstacle course at speed. But to have these little guys make long distance treks MULTIPLE times while doing very well to keep its line and make measurements while its going it..VERY good engineering for the amount of money spent.

    I wonder if they ever have a problem with ocean life? Plenty of larger fish and sharks in that water..would be kind of funny/sad if one got eaten.

    They say in the webpage about it that one got ran over by a surface vehicle and still completed it run, since it has an antenna in each wing and only one wing was damaged.

    I say again, this is great engineering.

  5. Re:OggVorbis Support? on Creative Zen Micro Ships Today · · Score: 1

    Try this. DONT rip to ogg. You will have to settle for a piss poor mp3 player.

    If you are worried about quality..rip to flac and encode the files to mp3 that you want to put on the player.

    I cant think of a single good reason you'd want to rip to ogg..just shooting yourself in the foot.

  6. Re:C&D time? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    Fire in the hole!

  7. Re:C&D time? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    Hey I hunt with hand grenades!

  8. Re:OT but, What's Legal to dl??? on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another reason to move to canada :)

    Downloading music and probably movies is 100% legal.

    Dont even need to own the stuff, just download it. Legal!

    Course uploading is still illegal.

  9. Re:A fun experience: on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aparently you dont get it. With the PATRIOT act..there are no rights of that kind. If you are a 'suspected' terrorist, it is perfectly legal to detain you, search you, put you under surveilance, etc. None of this needs a court order.

    A waste of resources? Yes.
    A breach of his rights? Not anymore, he had no rights.

    Good ole USA.

  10. Re:NEC rules of course on An Exhaustive 16X DVD Burner Roundup · · Score: 1

    btw.. use Riteks

    Ritek? Ritek is alright, but no where near as good as TY.

    Buy Taiyo Yuden. Or any brand made in japan. Might pay a tiny bit more, but its worth the amazing quality of the media.

    Use The DVD media database to search for media and see what problems with any others had with the media and read their comments. Has pretty much all media in it, so no worries there.

  11. Mod parent up--excellent program on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 1

    I use AnyDVD for the same purpose.

    It just sits transparently in the systray and as far as the OS sees now, your discs are unencrypted and region free, and no more PUOps.

    While I have never used dvd-region-free, I have heard its a good program. I know anydvd is great.

    Unfortunatly I dont think either are free, unless you make them free

  12. Re:Neurosmith Babbler on How Infants Crack the Speech Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the world WOULD be better if everyone spoke the same language..thats not the way the world IS.

    So since the world is extreamly multilingual, its better for people to be multilingual.

  13. Re:Heater core on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 1

    I actually happen to agree here. Thats kinda why i said that the block is the one part you might wanna buy yourself.

    The other reason is its very work intensive to make and you arent saving muhc cash like you said.

    I like the waterbed idea..toobad i hate waterbeds. No idea bout 100 degrees as i have no concept of how hot that is and too lazy to go to google and convert to celcius ;)

  14. Re:Heater core on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 1

    See now this is an informative post, not the junk above.

    Thanks for the info.

  15. Re:Heater core on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 1

    I'm keeping up fine. You will notice I said homebrew watercooling.

    Those kits are shitty as hell compared to even the one i described.

    If you purchase the waterblock a heatercore is a much better rad than any of those shitty ones you get wiht kits like swiftech or danger den.

    Thermaltake and every single other one of those 'fits right in your 5.25 bay' coolers are total garbage. These are barely an improvment over air cooling, although quieter.

    Inside springs work much better than outside springs because the tube can still kink on an outside spring setup, but the inside type impede flow so they are bad for this reason.

    Coming to the end of your post here, You talk about a watercooling setup that costs horrendous amounts of money, and doesnt do that good of a job.
    The main reason to roll your own watercooling setup is price.

    You get a better setup than anything sold as a kit on the market in terms of performance, and it costs you under 150$ for everything.

    $20-30 for a fat aquarium pump
    $40 for a nice commercial waterblock
    $30 for misc springs, tubing, and antifreeze..resevoir
    $20-40 for a new heatercore, or very cheap for a used one which does work fine if you clean it out well.

    Basically, if you have some technical knowhow but for some reason decide to spend 300bux on some BS pre-made kit, you're throwing money in the garbage for quite a bit worse performance. Actually considering this last example of 'the best' i think ive been trolled.

  16. Whats the deal... on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 1

    With the benches only beeing at 2.4 ghz if he can hit 2.5 ghz so smoothly?

  17. Re:nice costume, but on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: 1

    That or 'Knock me down and steal my candy (and my tablet PC)'

  18. Re:hmm on NetBSD Chooses New Logo · · Score: 1

    Overruled.

  19. Heater core on Water Cooling With A Car Radiator · · Score: 3, Informative

    What most people do with home brew water cooling is take the heater core out of a car.

    The fins are generally finer and denser, and the core itself is a much more managable size.

    Then you get a beefy aquarium pump, small resevoir...and make your own waterblock with a drill press.
    The waterblock is the one part you might want to buy.

    Throw some fans on the heater core, hook it up with clear tubing (put springs inside where the tube needs to bend to avoid kinking), install, fill, add some antifreeze to avoid growth and corrosion, and up you go.

    Its really not that hard, even for a layman.

  20. Re:Hmm not that impressive. on Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse · · Score: 1

    Jesus its not that bad, kind of neet to see the moon come out of eclipse like that. He did all this work just to show you guys something he thought was neet and you cut him down.

    I wouldnt say simply stunning but I wouldnt say its 'pretty lame' either.

    Try constructive criticism or none at all.

    That beeing said, my constructive criticism is..dont shoot something as small as the moon with a wide angle lense. It would have been okay to see less of the city to see more of the moon apear. Keep it up, not all of us are assholes.

  21. Re:Does hibernation slow or stop aging? on Hibernating to Mars · · Score: 1

    Your muscles would weaken at a slower rate just like the rest of the things in your body.

  22. Re:Firefox in the FAQ? on Microsoft Just Wants a Little Look · · Score: 1

    They way i have it setup is have FF download all files to a directory immediatly without me giving it a location
    then i immediatly double clikc the top link in the manager

    This is as close to IE's behavior that i could get.

    Just did a lot of googling but still couldnt find how to do it..the way ive got it setup is the closest i could get.

  23. Re:The naked truth about canada on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1

    The thing with that law is...

    We have another law up here that says whatever certain percentage of content must be canadian...

    Kind of unenforcable with american TV..ergo we have (had :D) a law about not beeing allowd to import american tv into our homes..

  24. Re:Probably... on What's Going On in Canada? · · Score: 1

    Music 'piracy' isnt even a problem in canada since all forms of it are 100% legal.

    Not sure (doubt) the same rulings have been made for software/movies on the otherhand. Although i dont see a difference.

  25. Re:Firefox in the FAQ? on Microsoft Just Wants a Little Look · · Score: 1

    Can you explain your reasoning behind that ?

    If someone is going to run a file anyways..it just gets ran by double clicking it in the download manager or whatever.

    If you 'run it from its current location' it still gets downloaded, just to a temp folder and then ran.

    Your virus scanner will check it out the same either way, its gettung run if the scanner lets it either way..

    Basically..wtf is the difference? I personally hate that you cant open exes like you can any other file 'from its current location'

    What is the security that this is fixing?