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  1. Re: ad hominem on Few of OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mean like the slur made by a Microsoft employee against a Standards New Zealand representative?

  2. Re:Many problems with that study on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 1

    d) The paper was written by the scientists that don't get invited to "those kinds of parties."

    "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin. (Rather ironic - but perhaps Budweiser hadn't been invented yet.)

  3. Re:It's a refleciton of pre-test scores on The Reality Distortion Field Is Real · · Score: 1

    Given that the Apple logo is pictorial and the IBM logo is text, different parts of the brain would be triggered to recognise the logos. Whether this translates into measurable change in creativity is debatable - "more creative" is the kind of "statistic" I'd expect to see in a shampoo commercial. ("15% more shine! 13% more bounce! 8% more creative!")

  4. Re:Nehalem? Larrabee? on Intel Details Nehalem CPU and Larrabee GPU · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be a genius, but I bet the Young Ones won't get it.

  5. Re:funny on Vista Service Pack One Almost Here · · Score: 1

    Mod down (-1, Obsolete hardware).

    A complete "emerge -e world" rebuild shouldn't take more than a day or two, even with a "fully sick" installation on any salvageable system. Unless you're a complete masochist and install OpenOffice.org from source; life's too short for C++.

  6. Re:Airborne Laser Cannon on How The Latest in High Tech Works · · Score: 1

    Airborne laser-popped corn: fat free! (Replacement roofs sold separately.)

  7. Monsters on What's Your Favorite Monster? · · Score: 1
  8. Re:What about non-RIAA music? on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P · · Score: 1

    Where possible, I try to buy CDs and merchandise direct from the band (or at least their anointed web shop) - I figure that more of my money will actually get to the band that way instead of parasites like the RIAA.

  9. Difference? on A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Assembler coding? About the only difference in Congress that would make over your average Congress critter is when the lobbyists click their fingers and tell him to jump, he'll ask "how far", not "how high."

  10. Re:Pictures available later on Spacecraft to Fly Through Geyser Plumes On Saturn Moon · · Score: 1

    First image just in - film at 11.

  11. Re:WTF? on The Children of Hurin · · Score: 1

    It's rather like a Who's greatest hits compilation, one song different, but other than that all the same.

    Ah, a Led Zeppelin greatest hits: "The Song Remains The Same". (Ironically on the second CD of "Remasters", which is mostly forgettable - the first CD rocks, though.)

  12. Re:Dirk Gently on The Geometry of Music · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who immediately thought of the computer scientist in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

    No, but only because you looked like you knew where you were going with this.

    Follow up question: Am I the only one that thinks that the research was a waste of time, because the majority of "mainsteam" (*cough*RIAA*cough) music could be adequately described in only one dimension?

  13. Re:We should try to find a way to built the plane on FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade · · Score: 1
    Obligatory Red Dwarf quote (from "Psirens"):

    Starbug crashes on to an asteroid.
    LISTER and CAT are putting out small fires on the consoles. KRYTEN is checking the computer screen. RIMMER staggers in.

    RIMMER: Any damage?
    CAT: Not too bad. A couple of the sensors are out, fuel-intake chambers are both flooded and the left pilot seat doesn't go up and down any more.
    RIMMER: We came through that intact?
    KRYTEN: Starbug was built to last, sir. This old baby's crashed more times than a ZX81.
    LISTER: It's the material it's built from. Aerospace engineers discovered that, after a plane crash, the only thing that always survives intasct is a cute little doll. They built Starbug out of the same stuff.
  14. Re:Who Cares on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    You might also have noticed that the scientists were running out of ideas for new elements named.

    Scientist 1: We've just created element 116! What shall be call it?
    Scientist 2: Uuh...

  15. Calling Captain Obvious on Chicago Links School Cameras To Police · · Score: 1

    And when the cameras don't stop shootings, what next? RFID tags? GPS trackers?

    It's the guns, stupid!

  16. Re:Excuse me while I ignore the content of your po on Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At · · Score: 1

    I think they meant "sticking you in a tuba".

  17. Re:Want to bring down the Cuban government? on The Cuban Memory Stick Underground · · Score: 1

    Um, stationing ships off of a country's coast without their permission is generally considered a hostile act.

    And placing a trade embargo on a country for nearly 50 years means they want to be friends?

  18. Re:No problem on 'Death Star' Aimed at Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, exhaust port is out. I put some chicken mesh over the exhaust port and held it place with blutack and duck tape - nothing will dislodge the combined powers of the dark forces holding the mesh in place.

    No problem, we'll just use a frozen chicken.

  19. Re:Please define efficiency for me on MSI Develops a Heat-Driven Cooler · · Score: 1

    It would be even more efficient if they peeled off the MSI stickers that are restricting airflow from the fan through the radiator.

  20. Re:Embracing standards and deviating from them on Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More · · Score: 1

    For "embrace" read "rib-crushing bear hug".

  21. Re:Microsoft's REAL error on Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's hugely annoying for those on the inside.

    Good! Open source projects have their code and often developer discussions open to view and ridicule; why are Microsoft so precious about their steaming pile of code and internal emails?

  22. Re:Wrong guy surely on NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Admiral Ackbar led the attack on the second Battle Station.

    Allah'u to his friends.

    The thermal exhaust port weakness was on the first.

    If someone shot a proton torpedo up your exhaust port, you'd have a moment of weakness too.

  23. Re:I tried Firefox 3 today on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    It's the KISS principle.

    It's called a "bookmark".

  24. Re: How Do You Find Programming Superstars? on How Do You Find Programming Superstars? · · Score: 1, Funny

    By smell?

    "Listen! Do you smell something?" - Ghostbusters

  25. Re:Wow on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and of course salty lemonade!

    Gatesorade.