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  1. Re:Please could you help me on iWarez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please add to the troll library.

  2. Re:industrial uses on Segway Hits the Auction Block · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but where is he going to put his toolbox and whataver else he needs to lug to the job?

  3. Re:compilers on What's Next in CPU Land after Itanium? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And at +3. Now where is the turd report?

  4. compilers on What's Next in CPU Land after Itanium? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Itaniums will become commodities when people figure out how to write compilers for them. That will be in about 10 years.

  5. Re:US of today is Rome 2000 years ago on USAF Readies Laser of Death · · Score: 1

    The Roman empire fell because of lead poisoning. They used lead acetate to sweeten food, and pewter for plates and bowls.

  6. Re:Great more FAT cats ....next cloning cockroache on Project Copycat Clones A Cat · · Score: 1

    get your kicks here...

    http://www.tubcat.com/

  7. wifes pussy on Project Copycat Clones A Cat · · Score: 1

    I wonder if John Sperling cloned his wife's pussy?

  8. Make a profit on George Soros Funds Open-Publishing Software · · Score: 1

    I don't mind these journals making a profit. But after an article is ~10 years old the content should go to the public domain, especially since this is where the money for the research usually comes from.

  9. Peter Wright... on .NETly News · · Score: 1

    About the writer

    Peter Wright is a software consultant and the author of numerous books on Visual Basic programming. He is currently working on two .Net titles for Apress slated for release later this year.

    He will also be graduating 8th grade this June.

  10. maybe on Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    maybe they couldn't find a buyer for the data, so they just gave up storing it.

  11. Re:Delusions of Grandeur for Some... on The Laid-off Techie · · Score: 1

    Hell, i would of killed for a decent html guy.
    Our company let go of 'Dreamweaver People' when the boom ended.

  12. hairdressers have these problems too... on What Kind of PHB Do You Want? · · Score: 1

    I'm not a great hairdresser, but I love hair and especially hairdressing. Those professional hairdressers that I know often complain of their managers not understanding the hairdressing process and having unrealistic expectations of hairdressers. As such, I am considering a new career path: management. Since middle management is all about balancing, I'm looking for pointers before I start looking for positions. What do you, as hairdressers and hairdressers, want from your immediate manager? If there are any beauticians out there in upper management, what do you want from your lower-level managers who keep the hairdressers in line? I'm not asking for the basic 'stand-up-for-your-subordinates' advice, but rather requests from a hairdresser's standpoint. Hairdressers have special needs, and accommodating those needs (and 'odd' behaviors) is a good idea all around, for both employee morale and department output." I think many of us would rather like one who listened or who would at least take advice from the shampoo girls to heart. Many times managers will not consult their hairdressers when they make plans, they'll make the plans first and tell their hairdressing staff later, and this causes all kinds of problems. Generally, a superior with less "pointy hair" is something we'd all appreciate, but I'm sure the rest of you can expand what I'm trying to say here, or even say it better than I can.

  13. Re:THINNER books on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Jeez, on a per page basis Kernighan & Ritchie's
    'The C Programming Language' is one of the most expensive computer books around....

  14. Re:tv on The Napsterization of TV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is why your brain is turning into sawdust...

    http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.ht ml

  15. tv on The Napsterization of TV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    if you watch tv, you get what you deserve.

  16. Re:I think the real question is on In NZ, Sharing Ethernet With A Whole CIty · · Score: 1

    I think you are correct. For a small outlay, you can add 100 times the value to residents that desire broadband. I think this would contribute greatly to a citys growth.

  17. oracle junk apps on P4 2.2GHz Overclocked to 3.5GHz · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows just to use the Oracle database and throw away the other apps. Does anyone out there even use their application server?

  18. cmos or ccd on Start the Presses: Printable Circuits Nearly Ready · · Score: 1

    This seems to be a good application for a replacement of the CCD used in digital cameras. CCD manufacturers have been making their features smaller and smaller, but they are running out of room.(features can't be smaller than a wavelength of light) Another problem with the small ccd is that it is hard to open the aperature enough to limit the depth of field(to purposely blur the background). Ideally I would like to see an insert that you could put into your regular old film camera so you could 'go digital' without giving up all your nice lenses and bodies. One ill fated company that tried this was http://www.imagek.com, but it was vaporware (and their site just went down)

  19. Re:Methanol and Fuel Cells on Fuel-Cell Power With Methanol · · Score: 1

    'Fuel' seems pretty general to me. Where did you get this information?

  20. hdtv problem on To HDTV or Not to HDTV? · · Score: 1

    The problem with hdtv is that although the resolution is increased, the same crappy programming and lousy movies are being broadcasted.

  21. Re:profile your code on When Making a Comprehensive Retrofit of your Code... · · Score: 1

    Performance is nice, but so is fast time to market and maintainability. Unless a site is going to have high traffic and hardware constraints, the latter two come first.

  22. profile your code on When Making a Comprehensive Retrofit of your Code... · · Score: 1

    I have coworkers that throw around issues like performance, which can be a red herring if you are doing a web site with only a few users. (one guy insisted on doing all is string stuff as string buffer instead of as strings because it would increase performance)
    You may want to look at your code in a similar fashion. There may be just a few modules that are causing problems with redundancy(or whatever is making you want to rewrite them). Why rewrite the ones that have worked faithfully without any problems?

  23. Re:Indefinite copyright destroys culture on Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    This is actually purposeful. They would rather that you spend your money on 'new' things than on old things that will do just as well.
    And what about all the scientific journals mouldering away in university libraries? Woulden't they be much more useful if they were available on the web?

  24. Re:Forgetting the real problem... on All Work And No Play ... · · Score: 1

    Please, let's eliminate this awful practice of "sleeping." Those 6 hours a day should be spent working!


    Obviously nobody in this company has small children.

  25. Re:Spoiler-free? on Review:Fellowship of the Ring · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok then, just warn the people with aol email not to read the review.