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  1. Coming soon... e-asswipe! on E-Paper Moves Closer · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately it's not compatible with most septic operating systems yet.

  2. What do you get when you merge Unix and Linux? on Doug Michels & Ransom Love speak pre-Caldera Forum · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lunatix?

  3. Re:Author Stephen King, dead at 54 on Linux goes to Hollywood · · Score: 2

    Yes, just like the last six times he died. Tsk.

  4. The real advantage... on Linux goes to Hollywood · · Score: 2

    ...comes from buying a whole slew of cheap machines, throwing Linux on them and BMRT, then using them as the render farm.

    But what's most of the modeling being done on? That's what I want to know. Probably either SGI workstations or NT/2K...

  5. All a matter of what you need... on Will Open Source Lose the Battle for the Web? · · Score: 2

    I really don't think there's going to be any one winner in this battle. Some people are going to gravitate towards .NET; some will stick with Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL/etc and will get excellent results with it.

    Most of the time this stuff is dictated by the existing conditions of the company (or the prior experience of the employees). I know of two companies, both of which used Windows, for their web services. The first company had people who actually knew what they were doing; they had no problems more major than a memory leak that was traced to a bad .DLL and soon replaced. The second company were hot-shots who thought they knew everything and ran themselves quickly into the ground. (Second company switched to Linux.)

    All this proves, to me, is that the companies that thrive will be the ones with competent people at the helm, no matter what the OS in their servers. Apache works for you? Great! Don't bother with .NET; go with what you know. But if .NET has stuff that is genuinely appealing and useful to you, then learn about it and make good use of it.

  6. Stem cells, etc. on Stem Cell Research Moves Forward In The US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kind of odd that there's such a brouhaha about this, given that most of the real progress wth stem cells has not featured fetal tissue in any form. But the placenta/umbilical cord issue does seem to have been addressed by this, which is nice. I like the idea of that former waste product being put to something useful.

  7. The Whole Vexed Question... on Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    of Ogg Vorbis. It's enough to make you foam at the mouth and fall over backwards. Is he foaming at the mouth to fall over backwards or falling over backwards to foam at the mouth? Tonight's 'Spectrum' examines the whole question of frothing and falling, coughing and calling, screaming and bawling, walling and stalling, brawling and mauling, falling and hauling, trawling and squalling, and zalling. Zalling. Is there even a word zalling? If there is what does it mean? If there isn't what does it mean? Perhaps both, maybe neither. What do I mean by the word 'mean'? What do I mean by the word 'word'? What do I mean by 'what do I mean'? What do I mean by 'do' and what do I do by 'mean'? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.

  8. Do they have... on Little Linux Systems For Whatever Ails Ya · · Score: 2

    ...a Linux box dedicated for, say, nonlinear video editing? I know that there are NLVE apps for Linux out there, although I couldn't say how they shape up against Premiere (or Ulead MediaStudio Pro). Such things would include 1394 support and a 100GB hard drive, maybe even a flat-panel display...

  9. Re:New features on Mozilla 0.9.3 Released · · Score: 2

    XML teledildonics.

    ...asking too much?

  10. Stabler than ever? on Mozilla 0.9.3 Released · · Score: 2

    Meaning it only crashes every FOURTH time you load it, instead of every THIRD time, and there's only a 33% chance that your settings will be trashed when that happens.

    Sorry, waiting two years for a project this big and bloated wasn't worth it.

  11. DAMM those IBM people!! on Grid Computing and IBM · · Score: 1
    DAMN them for... for... for... talking about doing something!!

    It's so... so... misleading!

  12. Planned and unplanned proests on EFF Gets Meeting With Adobe · · Score: 2

    I've found that a planned proest can be every bit as insightful and useful to one's cause as an unplanned proest. Most proests are in fact planned a good deal ahead of time.

  13. Ten years? on Good Software Takes 10 Years? · · Score: 2

    I don't know about you, but it doesn't take most programmers ten years to write a REALLY good HELLO, WORLD script. Of course, there's always the chance it can be used as a buffer-overflow denial-of-service Trojan!

  14. The Best Damn Voting Scheme You Ever Heard on Caltech & MIT Urge Wait On Net Voting · · Score: 3

    1. Get everyone in the United States into a BIIIIIIG room.

    2. Everyone who wants to vote for one guy, they get on THIS side.

    3. Everyone who wants to vote for the other guy, they get on THAT side.

    4. A trap door opens up and drops everyone who voted for the other guy into a big-ass pit fulla scorpions 'n tigers 'n lizards 'n crocodiles.

    5. Now everyone in the USA votes exactly the same. Yay!

    Problem solved.

  15. "Truth or more techno-hype?" on A.I. and the Future · · Score: 4

    Techno-hype.

    Problem solved.

  16. Dear E-Data: on Patent On Software Downloads Upheld · · Score: 4

    Bite me.

    Love,

    The Internet

  17. Gene types... on Researchers Revamp Human Gene Count Estimates · · Score: 1

    ...can't be that many... Levis, Jordache... uh...

  18. "Can a Free Online Game Make Money?" on Can a Free Online Game Make Money? · · Score: 2

    No.

    Problem solved.

  19. "Are Men Obsolete?" on Are Men Obsolete? · · Score: 2

    Yes. Kill them all now.

    Problem solved.

  20. Wait, this is a good thing! on Embracing Digital Photography · · Score: 2

    ...because everyone knows how terrible Kodak's software is, anyway!

  21. I started to read this article... on The Poverty Of Attention · · Score: 2

    ...but it got boring really fast.

  22. Which is the most interesting headline? on Microsoft "Bans" Use Of GPL Code · · Score: 2

    "Microsoft" Bans Use Of GPL Code
    Microsoft Bans "Use" Of GPL Code
    Microsoft Bans Use "Of" GPL Code
    Microsoft Bans Use Of "GPL" Code
    Microsoft Bans Use Of GPL "Code"

    YOU decide!!!

  23. Killustrator! on Adobe Threatens KIllustrator Over Name · · Score: 5

    The new first-person shoot-em-up that's sweeping the nation! Use your vector and spline drawing tools to hunt down and exterminate art department interns gone BAD!

    Killustrator! For Mac, PC, PSX2, and X-Box. (An unsupported Linux version is available for alpha download.)

  24. Re:"Are these sorts of actions justifiable?" on Eco-Terrorism · · Score: 2

    "'Drugs are Bad, mkay.' There, I've just solved the world's drug problems."

    Yup!

    He learns FAST!

  25. "Are these sorts of actions justifiable?" on Eco-Terrorism · · Score: 4

    "Are these sorts of actions justifiable?"

    No.

    "Is it right to destroy property in an effort to prevent this sort of gambling with our quality of life?"

    No.

    "Is that the most productive way to deal with bio-engineering risks?"

    No.

    Problem solved.