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I'll stick to getting my books Second Hand (Garage Sales, Friends, p2p, etc.)
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I wish my TV had DVI-in.
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I propose reducing ESA's budget by the estimated worth of this frivolous spacesuit in orbit.

Really?! The ESA? Why!??

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I propose reducing ESA's budget by the estimated worth of this frivolous spacesuit in orbit.

Really?! The ESA? Why!??

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Far too many years ago I remember using Helios "parallel C" on a transputer network (in this case actually a network of PCs, each PC modeling one transputer). 1. The language "enhancements" available encouraged more parallelism than normal with only tiny changes to coding approach (a lot of work done by the compiler obviously) 2. A lot of work on parallelising, was done by the "controller" that parceled off work to the "transputers" (apols for bad terminoloy , this was around 15 years ago and my memory of those days is hazy). I'm sure these days similar minor "addons" to common languages to encourage high level parallelism, coupled with some beefy analysis at compiler level to enable extra parallelism and coupled to a dynamic run time analysis tool, which could spot parallelism opportunities (as all programmers will know, some optimizations are not obvious at code analysis stage, only become apparent when code executes) when application running. I'm currently working on projects that would massively benefit from multi threaded CPU's - currently work is farmed out from central server to multiple processing clients, being able to have multi threaded CPUS would help this enormously.
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I sympathize with you 100%. But as two failed marriages have taught me" "Sometimes Being Right Doesn't Matter".

We get the mistaken idea that the rules of Democracy extend inside the corporate workplace. Some do, but a suprising number do not. You are on private property...SOMEONE ELSE'S private property. You have been invited onto that property to do a job.

The dress code will change in accordance to how much you are in the "public eye", and how anal management is.

Don't expect to get a job at Galactic Headquarters with "Deth Rulz" tatooed on your forehead.

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Have misread this they way I did: "No, my exoskeleton doesn't hinder me in the workplace at all! I had to take that 'Deth Rulz' decal off, but after that, everything was fine..."

Guys, to this crowd, a "body mod" means a Borg arm!

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I've been considering the purchase of Delicious Monsters Library application, but have been putting it off since I don't really want to have to lug everything over to my computer for scanning (via an iView, or some other quick cam-like device).

I remember when Library was 1st coming out, I read some blog review of it, and the reviewer was talking about how they had a USB Barcode scanner which contained a small amount of memory onboard. This allowed them to wirelessly walk around the house scanning in barcodes, saving them to the units memory, and then when they plugged it into their Mac, it downloaded all the codes it had scanned and imported the items.

Sounds great, but I've never came across such a unit yet, and most of the USB-based devices I have seen are very expensive, especially when I just want one for "around the house" type scanning.

Does anyone know of a unit such as the one I've described? For that matter, can anyone recommend a decent, yet cheap, barcode scanner which would be compatible with a G5 Mac?
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I've been considering the purchase of Delicious Monsters Library application, but have been putting it off since I don't really want to have to lug everything over to my computer for scanning (via an iView, or some other quick cam-like device).

I remember when Library was 1st coming out, I read some blog review of it, and the reviewer was talking about how they had a USB Barcode scanner which contained a small amount of memory onboard. This allowed them to wirelessly walk around the house scanning in barcodes, saving them to the units memory, and then when they plugged it into their Mac, it downloaded all the codes it had scanned and imported the items.

Sounds great, but I've never came across such a unit yet, and most of the USB-based devices I have seen are very expensive, especially when I just want one for "around the house" type scanning.

Does anyone know of a unit such as the one I've described? For that matter, can anyone recommend a decent, yet cheap, barcode scanner which would be compatible with a G5 Mac?
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...and After Microsoft Purchases the Sun

All of Springfield goes dark and Mr. Gates asks. . .

"Have you ever seen the sun set at 3:00?"

Later he turns up dead.

Sounds like a good Simpsons Episode to me. . .
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I'm sick of people asking me if a browser could fail to render PHP.

They don't get it, what my PHP app is churning out is something between HTML 3.2 and 4 (I don't claim to be fully 4.0 when I'm not)

This is not JavaShit people...it is taken care of by the server before your browser even gets ahold of it.

*anger*
*anger*
*anger*

Ok, time for a coctail.
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Can you say "thoughtcrime"?

Mod the parent up "plusplusgood"! %D

"Not even Prozac can save us now!"
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Theres already 2 volumes out, episodes 1-6 at Highstreet Retailers (I remember seeing adverts),

i.e,
1-3
4-6

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What, exactly, are you concerned with this time around? Apple's porting difficulty should be _much_ less. In fact, it's been rumored that they already have a port of OSX to x86. FreeBSD (upon which OSX is based) most certainly runs on x86.

If Apple's been planning this way, for a while, I'm sure they're also working with 3rd. party developers, as well.

Cheers,

- Hawkeye
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Darwin/FreeBSD already runs on x86 hardware and it wouldn't surprise me to hear that OSX already supports x86, as well.

In other words, they've already done the port of which you speak and it's likely it would just be a matter of retargeting for other software vendors.

- Hawkeye
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People will always have desktop computers and they will always want to grab a round of UT2004 during their coffee break.

The PC market is quite safe.
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Um... It was a parody on the spelling of parity. Yeah. That's the ticket.
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Um... It was a parody on the spelling of parity. Yeah. That's the ticket.
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Commence with.....

Monkey Kombat!
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If I was not paying taxes, I surely wouldn't try to find a way around it!
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Only on Slashdot would this comment be insightful...*sigh*
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"Am I really Me, or am I a simulation of me? Do I still have a soul? If I'm not me, then where am I?"
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Exactly. The sales guy should NOT have to worry about how to patch his OS, deal with virii, etc.

Put the users on a locked-down *nix machine with alternative browsers and (especially) email clients. Not the ultimate solution, perhaps, but it's got to be better than dealing with virus, trojan and spyware problems.
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Kim Peek can't compete, he's able to do a few tasks extremely efficiently, very very well, and his brain houses an enormous amount of archived data but any challenge outside his narrow range of useless natural abilities and he falls flat on his face. He wasn't born a creative genius, just a genius.
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I can understand why the parent was modded down, but let me quote George Bush,

These are still dangerous times. There's an enemy out there that would like to hurt us and change our way of life and shake our will and shake our confidence. Friday, July 30, 2004. Springfield, MO.

It seems Osama has changed our way of lives, or has Mr. Bush and his closest friends?
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huh? The u.s. has a monopoly or some sort of copywrite on the fountain of knowledge... since when ? They paid for their education, one way or another. This reminds of the way the average american thinks in regards to nuclear weapons. Somehow, someway, America was blessed by the grace of god to unearth the secrets of the Atom... we did it before everybody else.. therefore it must be some god given right to possess vast stores of nuclear armaments.

These same people sit around all befuddled as to why North Korea has nuclear weapons. And they won't believe you if you mention India had them in 73, Pakistan had an active nuclear program running in the late 70's (most probably had nuclear weapons in the mid 80's, untested till the nineties iirc.)

This is just a stop-gap measure, it's too little, too late. India already has proven cryogenic rocket boosters. And only just emphasizes this war on terrorism is a load of god damn bullshit.
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I use my cock for a god damn computer scan, unzip these trousers and lay the head of my cock on this fucking thing... then I can take a piss down the throat of government for being so bloody ignorant to the spirit of American history, it's people and it's founding principles.

This country is going to hell in a hand basket, people need to wake the fuck up.. all of them, go ahead, chip me.. put it right in my fucking forehead.
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People should also realize that the world is becoming more cross-disciplinary. It's very rare to find a mechanical engineer for example who does not work with some software atleast. All (new) Engineers know MATLAB (basic script writing, using predefined functions) and hack together pretty useful code.
My point is that the era of having only pure coders or developers is on its way out. The future belongs to people who not only code, but also possess a strong understanding of other cross-disciplinary areas.
The sooner people realize this, the better it will be for them!
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Keep this in mind the next time you're scratching that itch.
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Who sucks more? Spider-Man or the Silver Surfer?
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troll
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troll
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Having GreaseMonkey add a random signature to comments was a feature that I felt was long missing from slashdot.
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Having GreaseMonkey add a random signature to comments was a feature that I felt was long missing from slashdot.
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First random signature.

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Thank you!!! When will people get it into their heads that the Holocaust was a very serious threat to society as a whole, and not a term to be lightly tossed around like a sack of potatoes?!
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Umm...wouldn't that be FOUR times?

1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3

Cocksucker.
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Haha this is great, look at the high scores!
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When everything becomes incompatable?
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