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  1. Re:Water & Exercise on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Best way to quit is to substitute coffee with something like sparkling water and starting an exercise regime.

    you sound like someone who's never had a cup of coffee in his life.

    if yr a caffeine addict (as i am) you know that during withdrawal you are too debilitated to type let alone exerise.

    now, i've quit coffee twice successfully in my life (and returned voluntarily and deliberately) and have developed a "formula":

    • take a week off work - and everything else.
    • take a lot b-complex vitamins. four b50's a day shoud do it
    • make liberal use of vasoconstrictor spray. something with xylo in it like otrivin.
    • ibuprofen combined with the xylo will releive most of the sinus headaches.
    • if you can get melatonin, get it. this will get you over the withdrawal insomnia.
    • drink lots of water. sparkling's okay - i'd suggest s'pelgrino or grolschteiner (sp?)
    • if this fails try again with a mild antidepressant. st. john's wort for instance or if you want something stronger you can get wellburtin from your doctor for "quitting smoking". be careful with antidepressants though! and remember they take a couple of weeks to "pack".

    good luck!

  2. Re:Hmm on The Best and Worst Technologies of 2003? · · Score: 1
    There's this thing called "two-point-six"

    i notice that you didn't say "two and three-fifths". interesting. i vote for the best techs of last year (in no order)

    1. the decimal system
    2. base ten
    3. base two
    4. the inclined plane

    can you imagine how crappy 2003 would have been without those things?

  3. warning! offtopic on Tim Berners-Lee Attains Knighthood · · Score: 1
    Kind of like the "all your x belong to us" fad...

    anybody remember any of the following?

    1. natalie portman
    2. hot grits
    3. penis bird

    no? thank god!

  4. Re:I'm flattered, but ... on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1

    hrm. looks like it's a-workin' to me...

  5. Re:I'm not even sure of your nom de /. on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1
    ill having this /. "conversation" with you lead to my being put on an enemy combatants list

    you didn't notice the little blue dot by my name?

  6. Re:Solar? on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 2, Interesting
    and just turning on the lights can kill birds regardless of the power source...

    the mccormick place exposition centre in chicago had ornamental lighting that casued navigational confusion for birds (ie. it looked like the moon) resulting in a total of 1,500 bird deaths between 1982 and 1996.

    i am not making this up. there's a good article on how light kills birds here.

  7. Re:Not allowed into the US? on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1
    Okay, Frymaster (if that is your real name): Why is it that you're not allowed into the United States?

    do i work with you?

  8. Re:I Was In Prison on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Probably not that much worse than leaving the last two years open...

    ah yes. be careful about leaving that stint blank though (q: "what did you do for those two years?" a: "played cards. lifted weights") - i work for a company that's owned by americans and it was a bit awkward after a year of employment to confess that i wasn't allowed into the united states.

  9. what i hate about cvs on Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS · · Score: 4, Insightful
    look at this:

    cvs checkout -r mytag repository

    cvs log -rmytag -d 'yyy-mm-dd'

    two -r switches but... the first one has a space before the tag, the second one doesn't. when you look at the cederquist doco online the html really doesn't make this clear.

    if this book addresses this one quirk it's worth a hundred bucks.

  10. Re:Aiming at the low end on iPod Jr. Rumors Become More Substantial · · Score: 5, Insightful
    you are exactly the target market apple is gunning for.

    the ipod has been out for a while now and given its fairly long use-life just about everybody who was willing to get one at $300 has probably done so already.

    now apple is gunning to pick up the people who wanted one but balked at the price point. kinda like publishers who put out the hardcover for the the $30 crowd and then eight months later release a paperback for the $7 folks.

  11. Re:What about their bottom-line strategy? on A Look Back at Apple's 2003 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    How are they working to increase market share

    and market share is important because why?

    the goal of apple is to be a successful, profitable company - not to "beat" windows. bmw and mercedes-benz are successful car companies. and you don't hear the shareholders whining that they're not beating ford on the market shart front...

  12. Re:Applause on A Look Back at Apple's 2003 · · Score: 4, Informative
    my favourite "firsts" for apple:

    1984: first to include 3.5" floppies
    1998: first to ship a machine without a 3.5" floppy

  13. Re:Right Track on A Look Back at Apple's 2003 · · Score: 2, Informative
    But seriously, if the price were much lower...

    well, you can at least pick up the new "mini-ipod". only 65 pounds sterling... (source is here)

  14. Re:Except on G5 vs Opteron, Finally · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The real question is whether you can pass 64-bit pointers to system calls

    well, since darwin is opensource you can just go and check it out for yourself.

    for windows, this might prove to be a bit more difficult.

  15. Re:Bad link. on Stop Christmas-Gift PCs From Feeding Worms · · Score: 4, Funny
    xp.homepc.org not found.

    it's been clobbered by blaster.

  16. Re:Linus on Internet History In Pictures · · Score: 5, Funny
    The server will be slashdotted

    don't worry, someone will post the entire... uh... text.

    nevermind.

  17. Re:POWERBOOK EATS YOU. on 90nm 3GHz PPC 970FX by Summer · · Score: 1
    I seriously doubt they'd slap a G5 processor into a G4 design

    well, they've done it in the past on the desktop model... when the g4 debuted the first model was the "yikes" line that was, essentially, a g4 chip on a g3 motherboard. it was a couple of months until the "sawtooth" line with the g4-specific mobo came out.

  18. Re:India on Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads · · Score: 5, Informative
    Israel was only formed recently, thanks to a British grant and UN intercession, yet is a world power today.

    israel is a "world power" because it is completely propped up with american handouts. the state of israel is the single biggest recipient of american foreign aid. thrity per cent of all u.s. foreign aid money goes there. thirty percent! that's $3billion a year.

    not hard to be a "world power" with those kinds of freebies.

    oh yeah, here's my source... and here and here

  19. Re:Bollywood movies are terrible, though. on Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads · · Score: 4, Funny
    Think of the most predictable dross about a boy and a girl you can, add in a load of songs

    and hollywood doesn't make trash? man, i've got three words for you:

    1. beverely
    2. hills
    3. ninja
  20. Re:Duh! on MySQL & Open Source Code Quality · · Score: 3, Informative
    Take your pick. http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html

    those are just bugs! what about lack of features?

    • no subqueries
    • no stored procedures
    • no triggers
    • no foreign key constraints
    • no updates on joins

    at least there's row-level locking now... finally.

  21. Re:How about... none. on Digital Music Stores Reviewed · · Score: 4, Informative
    Unless you are buying music from unsigned bands at these concerts

    unsigned? i think you mean non-riaa-signed. there are lots and lots of non-riaa labels run by folks who sign bands because they like the music, not the sales projections.

    if yr looking for non-riaa music, try:

    cd baby
    the associatio of inedependent record labels
    riaa radar
    southern records
    your local college radio station
    or my local college station

    that should keep you busy... and the riaa labels idle.

  22. Re:Why has this taken so long? on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1
    Nah, not even close.

    i was gunning for "funny".

  23. Re:Why has this taken so long? on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Why has this taken so long?

    it hasn't. we used to call it "usenet".

  24. Re:But too old... on Perl is Sweet Sixteen · · Score: 1
    and speaking of the relationship between programming languages and heinous crimes (is this a lame sequay or what?)....

    why the hell isn't larry wall featured on the programming language or serial killer quiz? hm?

    nb: i only got four out of ten... and that was only because i recognized the son of sam. sheesh.

  25. Re:and how to brew that ultimate cup of coffee on Coffee Flavored Breakfast Cereal · · Score: 1

    did you just compare jamaican blue mountain with folgers? yikes!