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  1. google cache on Learning About Full-text Search · · Score: 1
  2. Re:The metric system is the tool of the devil! on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    Righto, that's 0.5 mi/hr... I see they use the term "run" very loosely.

  3. The metric system is the tool of the devil! on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    14 m/s = 31 mi/hr

  4. Re:Babelfish translation.. on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now will someone translate the Babelfish translation please?
    The same straw raincoat dance announces to end. The latest dance the swing attaching has become new, but QRIO which had the Japanese fan, releases the hand from the Japanese fan in the middle of dancing and the good point that is added it appeals grip function.

    It obviously needs to be ran through Babelfish a couple more times...
    It announces the dance of the raincoat of the same straw in order to end. The hand which is released to QRIO where recent dance vibrating attaching thing is newest from the middle Japanese fan of dance, has the Japanese fan, it became, but the good point where that it is added entreats grip function.

    Wow, Sony has created the first lap dancing vibrating robot with a raincoat and straw fetish.
  5. But on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 0

    can it beat Darl McBride in the boxing ring?

  6. Re:Er, check your facts on (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight · · Score: 1

    Turn on your sarcasm meter and reread comment. Thankyou Captain Obvious. And the Hindenburg burned because a spark set it off due to static buildup on the skin. The other stuff was just fuel, not the source.

  7. no way on (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Hindenburg burned because of hydrogen, shaking a Polaroid makes it develop, Marconi invented the radio, and the Wright Brothers invented the airplane!

    Now some commie-pinko New Zelander tries to claim credit for one of the crowning achievements of Old Glory!?

    It sounds like New Zealand needs to be "liberated" from these tyrants.

  8. and idiocy is rewarded on PC Mag - Mac OS X Insecure · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PC Mag Exec: Look at all the free press we're getting because ole Lance wrote a stupid story! Give him raise!

  9. Well on Apple-Quality Intel Laptops? · · Score: 1

    CodeWarrior can target for Intel, and is available for Mac and PC... So buy the Mac you want and get CodeWarrior... if you need to test it on the Mac boot up VirtualPC.

  10. Re:Impressive turnaround speed on Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Uhm, CodeWarrior has always been a lot faster than GCC in the past, but I don't know about how it compiles for the G5, as CodeWarrior is made by Motorolla.

  11. Re:Here's a summary... on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1
    You forgot...

    Absolute genius points out trends in Slashdot posts, whoring for that funny modifier

  12. Re:This isn't that complicated... on 60G Nomad Zen vs. The iPod · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's bullshit. The iPod doesn't have an FM tuner for the same reason it doesn't have a goddamn calender in it... oh wait.

  13. Re:AxMan on Great Surplus Stores? · · Score: 1
    Ax-Man Surplus Stores

    Make sure to check out the iron lung while you are there!

  14. Re:What is more scary... on Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 · · Score: 1
    Is it going to get Googled?

    -rq

  15. Re:Security not *that* important on Electronic Voting's Fundamental Flaws · · Score: 1
    Voting fraud wouldn't be unique to electronic voting; however, it would make it a lot easier for fraud to happen on a larger scale.

    :rq:

  16. Re:A good fucking joke is.. on Open Source Mac Game Programming Competition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What makes more sense is "Anonymous" and "Coward" you lonely, lonely troll.

  17. Re:Quality Quantity on Open Source Mac Game Programming Competition · · Score: 1

    Yeah and you can tell all real 'PC' users because they say 'Personal Computer'.... What the hell are you talking about I've been a mac/apple user all my life and I say Mac. Mac mac mac mac mac.

  18. Re:"...already 42 games have entered the competiti on Open Source Mac Game Programming Competition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No but it'd double the amount of functioning neurons in your brain you lonely troll.

  19. Re:So if it's open source... on Open Source Mac Game Programming Competition · · Score: 1
    No. The source code is released after the voting is complete. The exception being if the developer for some reason want's to do it earliar. Read the rules...

    ::rq::

  20. For Mac game development... on Best Websites for Developers? · · Score: 1
    look no further than idevgames.com. Besides being an incredible source itself, there are great links to other great sites.

    -rq

  21. Wanna have some iFun? on Apple Reveals Mac OS X 10.2, 17" iMac, Windows iPod · · Score: 1

    Register a copyright for every single iWord you can think of.

    iTV, iWord, iSpeak, iFeel (oh wait), iSmell, iWeb, iBrowse, iMagazine, iSocial.

    Muahaha

    iSmart!

  22. Re:Well if Ebert is wrong on Quickies from a Galaxy Far Far Away · · Score: 1
    Then list five memorable lines from Phantom Menace

    1. Oyi, mooie-mooie! I luv yous!

    2. No...no! Mesa stay...Mesa yous humble servaunt.

    3. Oh boot tis! Tis demunded byda guds. Tis a live debett, tis. Mesa culled Jaja Binkss.

    4. Wesa goen underwater, okeyday?

    5. Count mesa outta dis! Better dead here, den deader in da core...Yee guds, whata mesa sayin?!

    Misa list mora, okeyday?

  23. Re:Can we trust Lucas? on Attack of the Clones: Less Plastic Crap, More Story? · · Score: 2, Informative
    "The last movie did not live up to expectations," writes Lucas in a pitch memo to toy maker Hasbro--one of the key Star Wars merchandisers--obtained by Newsweek

    Uhmm... is he saying the movie itself didn't live up to expectations or the toy sales didn't. This quote seems to be out of context...

    =rq

  24. Re:Can we trust Lucas? on Attack of the Clones: Less Plastic Crap, More Story? · · Score: 1
    How many revisions of Luke in Hoth gear are there? How many Nein Numb and Momaw Nadon action figures are there?

    And its kids like you who own multiple copies of every Star Wars memorabilia on Earth that coerce these companies to keep on making this garbage.

    -rq

  25. somewhat overlooked fact... on Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing? · · Score: 1
    is that practically everything in OS X is anti-aliased... so a lot of things are going to be slower just on that fact alone.

    -rq