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  1. zerg on C++ Creator Confident About Its Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    C++ Guru Scott Meyers just asked people, "Why do you program in C++?" If that's not relevant to this discussion, I don't know what is... (via Lambda the Ultimate)

  2. zerg on Why Did Adobe Buy Macromedia? · · Score: 1

    Do me a big favor, please. Do NOT tell Adobe that Microsoft is about to hire me and give me a job! ...

    Honest.

  3. zerg on Verizon's DSL Gets Naked · · Score: 1

    So what's the catch?

  4. zerg on The Philanthropic Arm of Google · · Score: 1

    The left hand should not know what the right hand does...

  5. zerg on Promoting Webcomics? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are you doing this comic by yourself? People who can draw aren't necessarily funny/entertaining/interesting, and people who are can't necessarily draw. You need to find someone to team up w/. (Note that Scott Kurtz has a wife, and w/out her, he'd just be another worthless fat man...)

    Great webcomickers who are solo acts are the exception, not the rule.

  6. zerg on Minority Report UI For The Military · · Score: 1

    If a billboard scanned my iris, it'd be the last iris it ever scanned. EVAR. (I'm not the only one who feels that way, right?)

  7. Re:Use the system, don't fight it. on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    *cough*

    Uh, thanks for the Windows-D tip. I'm embarrassed I didn't know about that. ^^;;

  8. Re:Can you ssssmeeelllll....? on Doom Movie Pushed Back to October · · Score: 1

    You're joking, right? If the Rock isn't the star, why would anyone want to see this movie?

  9. Re:zerg on Minneapolis To Go Wireless · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, but unlike conventional cities which just have to cover a 2D area with wireless, our new service will also have to reach our flying cars.
    Well, duh, just put pringles cans on your antennas @ the Lunar Base....
  10. zerg on Minneapolis To Go Wireless · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Didn't Popular Science just claim that Minneapolis is America's most technologically advanced city? Seems like citywide wireless access would be a piece of cake for these guys...

  11. Re:I was reading the it... on New York Computerizes its Subway System · · Score: 1

    I understand what you're saying, but you have clearly never ridden an MTA train. Basically, there is no room for passengers to move from point to point once inside, it would be completely impossible for a conductor to do the same.

  12. Re:What about the changes? on Battlestar Galactica in HD · · Score: 1

    Are these changes listed anywhere?

  13. zerg on Good Online Sources for Free Books? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you are interested in Bhargav's Book Archive?

  14. Re:To make money. on Why Don't PDAs and Cellphones Use USB? · · Score: 1

    As long as the phone isn't DRM protected, then there may be a market here for USB adaptor cables for your cell phone...

  15. zerg on What Can You Do With $100? · · Score: 1

    http://www.eff.org/support/

    It is easier for a zergling to pass through the needle of an eye than for a rich man to enter heaven!

  16. zerg on Chinese Huawei Takes on U.S. Telecom Market · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that the money the Pentagon saves by cutting basic research funding can be redirected to our poor struggling telecoms?

  17. zerg on Burn Grass, Get Green Biofuel · · Score: 1

    More moderator incompetence, April Fool's was yesterday!

    I demand that Roland Piquepaille and Jon Katz team up to write the ultimate slashdot articles!

  18. zerg on Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit · · Score: 1

    Two words: WANKEROUS TREACHERY.

    Anyone working for NASA automagically has more balls than I, but damn. It's been nothing but bad news these last few days, what the hell?

  19. [OT] Re:zerg on Pentagon to Significantly Cut CS Research · · Score: 1
    "The 'D' in DARPA stands for Defence"
    No it doesn't, at least not in the USA. :-)
    One day, secret underground cells of Esperanto speakers will rise up, and all English (US) and English (UK) speakers will be forced to do something.

    I haven't quite figured out what that something is, but I'm sure someone will come up w/ something.
  20. zerg on Pentagon to Significantly Cut CS Research · · Score: 1

    Ok, there seem to be quite a few people saying "The U.S. is at war, get over it" and "The 'D' in DARPA stands for Defence". Did anyone even try reading the article? They specifically say that basic research funding was not reduced one iota during the Vietnam War.

    Why is the Bush Administration so intent on driving our economy into the ground?

  21. zerg on Pentagon to Significantly Cut CS Research · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great! We didn't want to compete w/ India anyway...

  22. zerg on Gamer Behavior Categorized · · Score: 1

    Does average mean "median" or "mean"? Did they give the standard deviation? (No, why would they?)

    If this is a real "study", then I'm CmdrTaco...

  23. [OT] Re: protoss on Recommendations for Website Payment Systems? · · Score: 1

    Question: When is the zerg subject troll going to start getting modded down?

    What part of my post was a troll?
  24. Re:How can this data mining improve air security? on TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data · · Score: 1

    Ted Kennedy is a known positive. He hasn't been able to fly w/out getting pulled over and searched since pre-9/11.

    If a United States Senator can't shake the "ZOMG terrorist" label, then what makes you think they care about accurate identification?

  25. Re:The navy and OSS on Navy Commissions Open Source R&D · · Score: 1

    Two drawbacks, though. They may be good coders - and they are! - but they are LOUSY at keeping projects going and even worse at posting news items. The last news posting is dated November 14, 2003. Ok, sure, they might have decided to put their efforts elsewhere. That happens. So why not hand the code over to someone else? The stuff isn't classified, it's Open Source, why not keep the good stuff alive?

    Check the individual projects, they release updates that don't qualify as news. Yeah, yeah, they're still from half a year ago, but maybe the Navy hasn't quite adopted "release early, release often". New releases are most likely dictated by DARPA demo deadlines...