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  1. AMD & nVidia: Don't forget about nForce on Intel Drops Tejas, Xeon To Focus On Dual-Core Chips · · Score: 1

    Remember, AMD and NVidia are already in bed with each other. nForce is an AMD chipset.

  2. Re:Pirates on Microbroadcasting Summer Camp · · Score: 1

    I'm calling bullshit on you.

    I hail from the Mighty Binghamton, New York (no 'p'). This is a pretty large area with a major SUNY university, and it's the birthplace of IBM. There are 110,000+ people here, but I can still find gaping holes in FM bandwidth. There are many, many frequencies that could support radio broadcasts.

    'Pirate' radio stations don't interfere with 'legitimate' broadcasters. Why would a microbroadcaster broadcast on an already-used frequency? There's no point. You wouldn't have any listeners. It makes far more sense to broadcast on an empty frequency, doesn't it?

  3. Re:Bad prescedent on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your post misses the point, but you also made some valid points.

    People developing OSes or 3D games don't need Java, nor want it.. The downfall of civilization started when OS coders stopped using C.

    C is far too advanced for your average high school. You may not think so, but it is. Java is a much simpler language for high schools than C. It's a great beginner language[1].

    The C++ AP did not go very far into C++[2]. For example, they never covered pointers. Rarely did you code your own classes. Most of the time, AP C++ revolved around the "AP classes", prewritten classes for the class. (I'm tonguetied.)

    [1] I still loathe Java like the plague.
    [2] C++ is a hideous language. OOP is a cult! C forever!

  4. Heavy nail polish remover, that is on Bubble Fusion Results Replicated by 4 Institutions · · Score: 1

    My coffee's too weak.

  5. Heavy nail polish? (n/t) on Bubble Fusion Results Replicated by 4 Institutions · · Score: 1

    N/T

  6. No correction needed. on The Average PC is Infested with Spyware · · Score: 2, Funny

    The average PC is a Windows box run by an idiot with 28 malwares on it.

    Makes sense to me.

    </slackwareuser>

  7. Not proven yet on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth? · · Score: 1
    I for one welcome our Scramjet overlords.
    But this will go nowhere until the near nucleus action of a gluon vis-a-vis the reduced mass formulae yields an energy greater than the potential fed into that. Until we measly humans can amass the electrical potential of the destruction of constructive waveform bosons into positrons and drive the scramjet engines, NASA's research will not bring real-world results. NASA's ScramJets are like Linux in a way; it may be fun to tinker with but it's useless in the enterprise. However, hadron-driven ScramJets will be such an innovation in the field of aeronavigation that it will trivialize the Wright Brothers' first leaps of flying in 1914.
  8. High rates of neurotypical birth? on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Linux branding oppoptunity. on Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name · · Score: 1

    Sir,

    Slackware would ship "Mozilla", "Firefox", "Galeon", "Epiphany", "Links", "Lynx", and "Konqueror".

    There will never be a Slackzilla. It's just not Slackware.

  10. Re:I bet nature is thriving ... on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 1

    It's thriving, except for the white-as-ash trees that got burned to death from the roots up.

  11. Re:Deserted town in the USA on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 1

    It is (was) PA 61. At the southern end of Centralia, PA 61 was closed permanently, due to the total destruction of the road due to the fire. It's literally a ghost road.

    I was there six months ago today. You can find some pictures from our Centralia visit at PAHighways.com by Jeff Kitsko.

  12. Re:Erm on Swap File Optimizations? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GNU/Linux uses swap partitions, dumbfuck.

  13. Re:about 63 different pages... on What's Your Browser Start Page? · · Score: 1

    I'll say.

    He's probably a virgin. Just a guess.

  14. Re:Ctrl+S in FPS == crawl backward on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1

    Sure, man. Sure.

  15. Re:sure, why not? on U.S. Plans Targeted Draft for Computer Personnel · · Score: 1

    Sure, if false analogies can be counted as "simpleminded" logic, I guess so.

    You, ma'am, are the one who lacks logic.

  16. Re:Root certificates? on Gates on Spam · · Score: 1

    What do you think PGP's for?

  17. Re:Here's a whole village screwed by IBM chemicals on IBM Cleared in San Jose Cancer Liability Suit · · Score: 1

    Yep. Even worse, IBM started here in Endicott.

  18. Re:The Problem with Letter Versions on Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded" · · Score: 1

    That's why I call it NT 5.1. But it's really more like NT 4.9...one step forward, two steps back.

    I think I'll stick to Slackware.

  19. Re:ugh. on Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain · · Score: 1

    You mean aluminum ions? In insoluble salts? You don't say!

  20. Re:Why code for anything other than IE6? on Designing Websites - What Browser to Code For? · · Score: 0
    I don't see any reason why any proprietary extension to HTML should be used on any page.

    Actually, proprietary HTML extensions are very useful to sadists.

  21. Less hassle coding to standards than to browsers on Designing Websites - What Browser to Code For? · · Score: 1

    Marking up to standards shouldn't be harder than marking up to a certain browser. It should be easier, since it's all documented. If a browser breaks, the coders of that browser will fix it[1].

    Second, separate presentation from content. It makes it much easier to make sense out of webpages. If you can't even do that, you really are "fucking lazy". If you're that "fucking lazy", get off the 'net, or at least tell us all where your site is so we can throw it in our /etc/hosts and be done with it.

    [1] Or they won't, as in the case of MICROS~1. With a quasi-monopoly such as the great MICROS~1, they have no incentive to fix IE, since everyone's already using it. But they're not a true monopoly! Download Mozilla Firefox (a better browser anyways, and it's extensible!) and pray to Life.Animalia.Chordata.Mammalia.Primates.Hominidae .Homo.Sapiens.Creator that IE6 will fall off the earth. Blech, what a nasty browser.

  22. Re:Poison on Which Instant Coffee? · · Score: 1

    "methylphenidate"?

  23. Re:Unnecessary confusion on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nonsense. Since words can have different definitions in different industries or professions (compare casual vs. legal usage of "property"), prefixes can too.

    The computing industry isn't the science or engineering industry.

    And electrical engineers are fine with base 2 prefixes.

    So, don't be a fruit and walk around talking crazy shit about kibi- and gibibytes.

  24. Re:Whats next? 56k!=56k/s? on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate to go AOL on everyone, but Damn Straight. I think it's time people accept this.

  25. Re:Yes it is. on Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size · · Score: 1

    Why can't you accept that "mega" and "giga" mean different things in different industries?