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  1. Re:Elements of Style on 1936 Perspective on Television · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your second sentence is a fragment; it should be joined to the first sentence by a comma.

    It seems that you could benefit from reading the Strunk and White, too.

  2. Re:Appointees of the President on Baby Bells Victorious Over Sharing Rules · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but ten thousand votes given four million overall is well within the statistical margin of error.

  3. Re:Back-Handed Compliment on Linux To Run Sherwin-Williams Cash Registers · · Score: 1

    Like AIX.

  4. Re:Not my childhood on Nintendo Announces new Zelda, Mario & Metroid · · Score: 1

    Goldeneye. Super Smash Bros. Mario Kart 64.

    Sweet Jesus, have you not played a video game in the last five years? The games I mentioned above are awesome, and my only exposure to the N64 is playing it at a friend's house.

  5. Quiche eater. on A New Kind of Science · · Score: 1

    I could've done it with one line in APL.

  6. Re:What a great idea! on Why Doesn't Sci-Fi Hit the Bestseller Lists? · · Score: 1

    Well, since bestseller lists are supposed to be about popularity, and not quality, I don't see what your dilemma is.

  7. Re:In good standing ?? on TLD Registrar Wants To Charge $300 For .Pro Names · · Score: 1

    To get a P.Eng. in Canada, you first have to get your bachelor's degree, and then must spend four or five years working in the field. It's certainly non-trivial.

  8. Re:Wow... on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    Why should he? There are professors at my university who were well into their first decade of teaching before Unix was even conceived, let alone KDE or GNOME. I think you're misunderstanding something here: computer programming is not computer science.

  9. Re:recycle? on Recycle Fee For Each PC? · · Score: 1

    My 486 *is* a dedicated Master of Magic box, though it certainly runs Star Control 2, nethack, and ADOM as well.

  10. Re:Has anyone performed a... on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    5'10", 145lbs.

    Sorry.

  11. yeah? on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    I thought that way, too. Then I ran out of coke, and only had a 2-litre bottle of Diet Coke in the fridge.

    Man, it's vile at first, and then it's smooth smooth smooth.

  12. Re:Here's how I do it. on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I find that I have to fit music to the task at hand. My pet project for the last year has been writing a fairly complex fantasy roguelike in C (mostly to solidify my knowledge of C...if I was using the best language for the job, I'd probably use Eiffel or Java).

    Anyhow, I find that for this, fantasy- or dark- themed music works best, and gets me 'in the mood', so to speak. Try Johan De Meij (Lord of the Rings), Colin McPhee (Concerto for Wind Orchestra), and all the heroic romantic stuff - Wagner, Mahler (sp), Bruckner, etc.

    Just a thought.

  13. Re:Are they Really Dead on The Lone Gunmen Are Dead · · Score: 1

    you're right. I'm sure they'll be back next season.

    oh, wait.

  14. Re:Groovy, baby on Sandia Releases DAKOTA Toolkit under GPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, because a lot of the laymen I know do engineering analysis.

  15. Re:Removing the Mailto: may not be the best plan.. on Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap · · Score: 1

    Spambots have been doing this for years, along with automatically removing "SPAM" and "removeme" and other common anti-spam phrases from e-mail addresses.

    It's always been a case of trying to out-smart spammers, and then trying again once the current popular method has been noticed and worked around.

  16. Re:Hammered already.... on Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap · · Score: 1

    s/Spambots/Mr. T
    s/Website/Balls

  17. Re:Um, I'm a geek on Beer Stein Goes Hi Tech · · Score: 1

    I think you haven't found the right beer yet.

  18. Re:A few things Edison didn't invent. on Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did · · Score: 1

    we sure as heck don't use Turning machines anymore.

    Turing machines are not actual physical machines. They are abstract and theoretical, and while their definition is very simple, they can compute anything that is computable, thus making them extremely powerful.

    Turing machines are often used as the model of computation in undergrad complexity courses, having replaced Church's unwieldy lambda calculus.

  19. Re:How Incredibly Discourteous on KDE 3.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    Thank you, Kirk.

  20. Re:An important algorithm I use everyday... on Deep Algorithms? · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, but what is the time complexity?

  21. Re:Computer science is the study of Algorithms on Deep Algorithms? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Computer science is the branch of mathematics dealing with computation and computability. Algorithms is contained in that. :)

  22. undermined? on The Post 9/11 Tech Boom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The fact that we have undermined a terrorist network and overturned a repressive government in weeks...

    Have we really? Last time I checked neither bin Laden nor Mohommad Omar had been captured, nor seen, and few if any high-ranking officials in Al-Qaeda had been captured.

    I think the US was very efficient in how they handled the situation, but let's be serious: it's not even close to resolved.

  23. Re:yay on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 0, Troll

    You also need a mental enema, it seems. I'll get the concrete.

  24. Re:Two things... on Pennsylvania Law Requires ISPs to Block Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Remember, if you don't go to the Pioneer Festival this weekend, the terrorists have already won.

  25. Re:The Second Best Thing on Interview with Gary Gygax · · Score: 1

    What're you talking about? I've had sex before.

    Err, when I was eighteen.

    ...

    Damn it.