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  1. Re:Exposé? Gratuitous accent usage... on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1

    Bad? You must be French. Where I come from,
    language serves people. I just *know* there's
    a "Soviet Russia" joke in there somewhere.

  2. Re:Brushed Metal Appearance on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1

    Now I can understand why one would want, say, a
    media player, or an internet exploder, but unless
    I was on a safari, why would I want a panther
    finder at all, leave alone care about the
    texture of it's metallic finish?

  3. Re:Announcing 3Ghz within a year? on New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World" · · Score: 1

    ... faster and cheaper ...

    Except, of course, for Apples: Although they do
    certainly get faster, they never seem to get
    cheaper.

    Compare this with a dual Opteron, via pricewatch.com.

  4. Re:Let's not forget Dr. Vinton Cerf on Happy Birthday, Dear DNS · · Score: 1

    I think you meant "father, mother, and father's
    *ahem* friend".

  5. Re:Thanks on New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World" · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're not using it any more, I'll take that abacus, as knotting these cords is starting to give me blisters.

  6. Re:Market forces control software quality on Business Software Needs A Revolution · · Score: 1

    "Capitalism" doesn't care if they fail or,
    alternatively, reform and whoop Asia's butt.
    There's no organization so screwed up that
    a revolution can't fix it.

  7. Re:Very Impressive on Jaguar is Over · · Score: 1

    This is true. Look at the content of the updates.
    In the MS case, they are bug fixes, while in the
    Apple case they are feature enhancements. Don't
    believe me, go look for yourself.

  8. Re:Native Java on Red Hat Plans Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Actually, you *can* redistribute Swing 1.1
    independently.

  9. Re:Much needed on Red Hat Plans Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    SWT it hot stuff, but until JCP can push it into
    the J2SE, it's not going to get the kind of
    uptake that makes it a useful platform.

  10. Re:Much needed on Red Hat Plans Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    You forgot one: Delegates make it easier to
    pretend you have multiple inheritance.

  11. Re:Wow... no joke. on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    > he drew his criticism with his own radical statements

    This from the person who signs his posts with

    > Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes. ...huh?

    But yeah, honesty is subversive, without a doubt.

  12. Re:In before slashdotting! on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    filet mignon? you poor thing. I would choke on
    anything so coarse. I can only eat beef if it is
    grown in zero-g and raised on crocus stamens.
    perrier is very harsh on the skin, unless it is
    saturated with jamaican blue mountain, and frankly
    even then it's too septic without some astringent
    johnny walker blue label liberally admixed.

    hey, you want quality thinking, you need quality fuel.

  13. Re:Why keep Hydrogen in its basic form? on Building Longer-Lived Fuel-Cell Stacks · · Score: 1

    The issue is that the simple, cheap means of
    converting hydrogen into electricity (so to
    speak), namely the proton-exchange membrane,
    requires a "reformer" to liberate the
    hydrogen before it can be used. These reformers
    tend to run hot (think "Reform School Girls"),
    and nobody likes to drive a hydrogen-powered
    pocket rocket that includes a blast-furnace.

  14. Re:But GWB said... on Building Longer-Lived Fuel-Cell Stacks · · Score: 1

    Oh, but I heard that unicorns can also be attracted
    by the swarthy scent of Iraqi weapons of mass
    decept^H^H^H^Hstruction.

  15. Re:Why? on Building Longer-Lived Fuel-Cell Stacks · · Score: 1

    Freeze it. Those little fuckers aren't going anywhere at 0.1K.

  16. Re:Why? on Building Longer-Lived Fuel-Cell Stacks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Essentially anything with hydrogen or carbon in it
    is flammable in a sufficiently oxygen-rich
    atmosphere at sufficiently high temperature.
    In air, pretty much everything you are wearing
    is considerably more flammable than diesel.

    You are simply wrong about the Hindenburg.
    Hydrogen-oxygen flames are essentially invisible.
    Look at photos of the Hindenberg disaster. Those
    blinding yellow-orange flames are aluminum oxide
    in the paint covering the canvas burning like,
    well, an incindiary -- since that's what it is.

    Hell, the damn thing was dipped in rocket fuel.

  17. Re:Why? on Building Longer-Lived Fuel-Cell Stacks · · Score: 1

    > Scientists also said that transporting hydrogen
    > from fossil fuel plants to automobile filling
    > stations will be more difficult than anyone has
    > anticipated.

    Even more difficult than the "Scientists" who
    said this anticipated?! Wow, that's really
    difficult.

  18. Re:You're forgetting the major problem on Building Longer-Lived Fuel-Cell Stacks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the free market is like simulated annealling,
    while government intervention is like conjugate
    gradient, with bribery.

  19. Re:Wow... no joke. on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    Here's what really piques my ire about this
    thread: Cinege's critics are essentially
    demonizing stalkers who raise irrelevancies
    in order to conduct ad hominem attacks.
    He could be Jeffrey Dahmer in drag or the
    last remaining clone of der Fuhrer, and it
    wouldn't make one bit of difference relative
    to the truth or falsity of his statements.

  20. Re:Whey, what an ego! on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 2

    I didn't sign your social contract, nor contract
    your social disease, so you can flip off, Mussolini.

    The really pathetic aspect to this irrelevant thread
    is that I'm the one who will get the Troll mods.
    What a bunch of losers.

  21. Re:Wow... no joke. on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    As an employer, I can say "hell, yes". I'd hire
    Cinege, Garofolo and Penn long before I'd hire a
    simpering running dog lackey of murdering fascists
    such as you. I'm sure you'd rat your grandma to
    the Red Guards. Cinege would have the backbone to
    cap a few before they took him down.

  22. Re:Whey, what an ego! on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 2, Interesting


    > "The Oklahoma City Federal building bombing -
    > Americas first response to government abuse"

    Interesting. I'll have to re-read his rant now,
    because anyone who can make such a clear-sighted
    statement must be much more wise and clever than
    I thought him to be after first reading about the
    closure of the LRP.

  23. Re:Live by the GPL, die by the GPL on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    > such is life in the free market

    I think his point is that the free market,
    without any sort of mitigating organization,
    sucks.

  24. Re:Live by the GPL, die by the GPL on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    It was erroneous. "Troll" is a value judgement,
    and probably not relevant.

    It was erroneous in that he asserted that if you
    release your code under the GPL you thereby
    lose control of it, which is patently false.
    You can do whatever you like with it, including
    releasing binaries for which no source is
    provided: You are the owner of the copyright
    and may license the code under any terms that
    you wish.

    It is not releasing the source under the GPL
    that causes loss of control -- in fact releasing
    under the GPL is a means of exercising control
    over the licensees to prevent them from
    redistributing derived works without including
    the source code. What causes a loss of control
    is the very act of release. The GPL only
    mitigates that loss.

  25. Re:Live by the GPL, die by the GPL on Linux Router Project Dead · · Score: 1

    Please don't overlook the fact that the GPL
    does not require the author to distribute any
    source code. It only requires people who
    *recieve* the author's source code under its
    terms to redistribute that source code (and
    any instrumental modifications) on request
    if they distribute a binary derivative.