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  1. Re:is map reading really that hard? by Graff · · Score: 1 · on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness

    Squints at digital readout on watch. "This wasn't covered in my Boy Scout manual. Where's the damn hour hand?"

    All you need is the time, having an hour hand is just a shortcut.

    Here's how to do it with a digital watch:
    Finding The North

  2. Re:Did they invent C too? by RDW · · Score: 5, Funny · on Unix Turns 40

    'I really, really want to say that Ken and Dennis invented C to make unix but I'm not completely sure. I could look it up, but I'm interested to hear what people have to say here'

    For the definitive account, see:

    http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/2U20.html

    'Dennis and I [Thompson] were responsible for the operating environment. We looked at Multics and designed the new system to be as complex and cryptic as possible to maximize casual users' frustration levels, calling it Unix as a parody of Multics, as well as other more risque allusions. Then Dennis and Brian worked on a truly warped version of Pascal, called 'A'. When we found others were actually trying to create real programs with A, we quickly added additional cryptic features and evolved into B, BCPL and finally C.'

  3. Barrel of monkeys by AlpineR · · Score: 2, Funny · on The World's Fastest Image Processor
    Could I get that in Libraries of Congress per fortnight?
    In addition to Libraries of Congress, I want to see barrels of monkeys become a standard measurement. Sort of the emotional axis orthogonal to the Libraries of Congress axis in information-space.

    • A game of Settlers of Catan = 0.8 barrels of monkeys
    • Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit = 1.5 barrels of monkeys
    • Cleaning the house = -2.7 barrels of monkeys

    AlpineR

  4. Better than h2g2... by Digi-John · · Score: 1 · on The Real Hitchhiker's Guide?

    I much prefer Project Galactic Guide to such things as h2g2 and the vogon.com project. It has lots of "non-real" articles, but quite a few are fun _and_ informative. We need some new submissions, so anybody interested should get writing!

  5. Re:1.5 million miles per hour!! by j1bb3rj4bb3r · · Score: 1 · on Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed

    I believe we should deign to this study for the definitive effects of acceleration.

    :)

  6. Shadow Photons? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Home Parallel Universe Test

    Sounds like the Dark Sucker Theory...

  7. Re:Wrong. Just a chicken. by anagama · · Score: 1 · on WB Cancels Angel

    "chicken and egg" implies that it is hard to know which came first, not that both must exist. Present existence of both is presumed - historical precedence is the real question. However, here is a Tongue in cheek solution to that age old dilema.

    • You said it yourself.. good restaurants get your business often, but bad ones get it a single time. Yet here you are saying you don't even give the TV companies the single time.

    Actually, I left out the part in which I could have explained that before 1990 I was a TV junkie, as in "wake up Sunday morning and sit around in my pajamas ALL day flipping channels feeling bored and frustrated" type of TV junkie. I gave TV a hell of a good chance to show me something good. It didn't and I decided not to waste my life.

    Besides, if a sci-fi show comes out, I'll get reviews here on Slashdot. If it sounds compelling, I could watch at a friend's place. Doesn't happen often - I get in about less than 3 hrs of television per year (not counting DVDs of course).

  8. Re: Normal European reaction.... by Adwin · · Score: 1 · on Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building

    "Just a hint, we are not all that stupid over here. After all we managed to put a couple of dudes on the moon, how many times has your country gone over there.... eh?"

    Sure.. Read the Moon Hoax

  9. Re:Free speech isn't the issue... by gilgongo · · Score: 1 · on Freenet 0.5.2 Released

    Of course it's bollocks that "everyone has to approve of everything or they oppose free speech", but like I said, playing the free speech card on this is not the issue.

    You say "FreeNet appears to have an all-or-nothing approach [by design]" - but that's because it's FreeNet! It would't BE FreeNet if it wasn't like that. It would some other peer-to-peer system and we wouldn't be having this debate.

    You're right about the individual's choice to weigh up the pros and cons of the system. I think on balance most people who think like that would decide not to use FreeNet. However, it seems to me like this is akin to Schrodiger's Cat: you can't know whether your hard drive contains kiddie porn, so in the end why should you care? Your mobile phone network might be used by drug dealers... and so it goes on.

  10. Re:Annoying by Bob+Uhl · · Score: 2 · on Douglas Adams Answers (Finally)

    It's less a ripoff of Everything and more a ripoff of Project Glactic Guide. Been around since 1991, a long time before Everything was a glint in the milkman's eye. But PGG is honest that it rips off HGTTG, so it all works out in the end.

  11. Re:Linkage by jonr · · Score: 1 · on RIAA Sued By MP3Board.com Over Right To Link

    Is this link legal? Who is to sue? Me,the poster, Slashdot, the site wich the link is on, Altavista, where the link can be found and I linked to, or galactic-guide.com where the link is?

    J.

  12. Real Versions of the Guides? by trintragula · · Score: 1 · on Ask Douglas Adams About...Everything

    How flattered are you by the appearance of tribute versions of the guide?

    http://www.h2g2.com/ - H2G2
    http://www.galactic-guide.com - Project Galactic Guide

    Would you like to see the next generation of mobile phones have easy access to a (slightly) frivolous version of the more serious travel guides we are sure to see?