User: sharkey

Re:The difference over time

On: How Much Respect Do You Get?

Because I'm a programmer and I can't find a job to save my ass.

You should try selling magazine subscriptions. I hear that you can make pretty good money in that field.

Re:What about outside the office?

On: How Much Respect Do You Get?

When the IT staff starts nailing hot secretaries and interns, instead of goldchain wearing middle managers, you'll impress us.

I'd think the goldchain wearing middle managers would be more interested in the hot secretaries and interns than in the furry-toothed geeks, AND have the money/power to make sexual ladder-climbing desirable, but what do I know?

Re:Oh, crap!!!

On: Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming

Don't worry. Dose yourself liberally with Metaxa, and you'll be OK.

ObKarmaWhore

On: In Space No One Can Hear You Sigh

Privateer Remake
These guys have updated Privateer to be playable on modern PCs.

Re:Bugzilla vs. b.m.o

On: Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers

Whoops, too general. My bad.

Re:Links

On: Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers

BUGzilla blocks Slashdot referrers, not MOzilla.

Re:If they want high voter turnout...

On: Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election

Or grant the governer the authority to prevent the removal of the power tube from a Debian PC after it has suffered a kernel panic.

Re:Grrrrr....

On: PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS

That annoys me so much I could strangle a manatee in the nude.

You should shave that thing off. If your face wasn't overheated, you wouldn't be so irritable.

Re:Evidence is pretty overwhelming

On: PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS

What more could you want!

Automatic trash collection (bidet)

Re:not malfunction?

On: Sony Recants on Dead Pixels (Sort Of)

It's fine as long as you manage expectations properly.

They just need to appoint Frank as their spokesman.

Re:Top 5 : What's Next At Apple

On: What's Next At Apple

Just the luck: The Apple fanboys have mod points, and express their slavering devotion by ruthlessly crushing Apple humor.

Some folks are pathetically insecure.

Re:King of Prussa?

On: D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths

I thought Prussa dissolved?

Perhaps you are mistaken. Just catch the next Autogyro to Prussia, and you'll be able to find out for sure.

Re:Article Text

On: On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures

Developers! Developers! DEVELOPERS!!

Re:Top 5 : What's Next At Apple

On: What's Next At Apple

What do I win?

A one-button mouse!

Re:No.

On: Do Programmers Actually Use Assertions?

That's some assertion! You MUST be a real programmer.

Re:the 'good enough' argument

On: Java Fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS Community

I know I'm asking for it at work, but asking ain't getting. I'm still forced to spend the WHOLE DAY sober, or spend my own money.

Re:Nope, not buyin' it...

On: BBC Writer Tries PC Repair, Finds Poor Software

It'll make his work sticky?

Re:Um...

On: BBC Writer Tries PC Repair, Finds Poor Software

Of course! With all that Internet porn out there just WAITING to be viewed, he doesn't have time to have the thing professionally repaired.

ObFamilyGuy

On: William Shatner Pitches 'Starfleet Academy' Show

Sheriff Officer T.J. Hooker!

ObBloomCounty

On: Draft Guidelines for Space Tourists

Rule 7: Intoxicated individuals will be flushed out the airlock.

In space, it's never "Miller Time".

Re:Please Keep:

On: Draft Guidelines for Space Tourists

5. The enemy's door is DOWN.

Re:An easier way?

On: The Next Net

Dubya!

ILM would have used Linux for this...

On: Rodriguez uses Linux to Edge out ILM

but it kept core-dumping the renderer when ever Jar-Jar showed up.

Linux: The OS with taste.

Re:one thing that always bothered me

On: Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player

Too bad

about the new

excessive line

break

requirement, though.

Re:Please oh please push the reset button

On: Enterprise Finale Synopsis Released

And Skuzzlebutt too, of course.