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  1. Re:Science Action on Joss Whedon Is Creating a Sci-Fi Drama For Fox · · Score: 1

    pseudo-science space-soap like Star Trek.
    Trek's not a soap, it's a documentary - isn't it?

  2. Re:Ripper.. on Joss Whedon Is Creating a Sci-Fi Drama For Fox · · Score: 1

    The big question is if the Beeb will shoot themselves in the foot and not let it show in the states
    Or they could do what they did with the last season of Due South - spend my licence fee on making it then not show it for two years...

  3. Re:Let's roll on Oceans Potentially More Common In Solar System · · Score: 1

    Not if they're a bunch of hairdressers, PHBs and advertising execs...
    Don't forget the telephone sanitizers...

  4. Re:MS Quote on Playstation 2 Outsells both Xbox and Gamecube · · Score: 1

    ...apart from the ones introduced in SP2 to fix SP1 bugs...

  5. Re:MS Quote on Playstation 2 Outsells both Xbox and Gamecube · · Score: 1

    Just a 20 mb service pack is all you'll need.

    But it will fix all the bugs that have already been fixed...

  6. Re:MS Quote on Playstation 2 Outsells both Xbox and Gamecube · · Score: 5, Funny

    But it'll be fixed in the next release...

  7. Re:Just Buy A Packard Bell Remote/Reciever Combo on Building Your Own IrDA Interface? · · Score: 1

    There's also a bunch of companies which do USB versions, which have the advantage of supporting higher speeds than a serial port solution. Probably more expensive though...

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  8. Re:C:\Windows\applog\sirc32.lgc on Confidentiality on Virus Sent Docs? · · Score: 1

    Yep. The applog is where Win98 keeps the data to do the "defrag so my programs run less slowly" thing.

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  9. Re:Well.... on Confidentiality on Virus Sent Docs? · · Score: 1

    No, you are both wrong, irony is like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Or at least like a traffic jam, when your already late

    Still wrong (but you're getting closer). Irony is when somebody writes a song about "ironic stuff" and none of the stuff is actually ironic. (Don't you think?)
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    When it Absolutely Positively Has to Get There, Mistsubishi Evolution VI. Accept no substitute

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  10. Re:Insufficient data provided on AMD Athlon Multi-Processor Under Linux · · Score: 1

    "The answer is four."
    Err, actually no. The answer is forty-two. Or am I the only one still old enough to remember that?

  11. Re:Open Source at it's best on PGP Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    I have a bridge you may be interested in buying...

  12. Re:gpg on PGP Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    > GPG shouldn't be used on WIN32 for example because there is no suitable source of crypto strength randomness
    The Win32 Crypto API contains a function called "CryptGenRandom", which may (or may not) supply cryptographically random data. Of course, the governments of some technologically challenged nations consider this kind of thing to be a munition...

  13. Re:Real Programmers on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1

    Real programmers don't use programming languages. They etch the machine instructions directly into ROM. By hand.

  14. Re:The PACE of technological growth . . . on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1

    >if French were the lanuage of choice...
    More crashed spacecraft too (Arianne Sank...:-)

  15. Re:*American* English Dominance on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1

    >Take a simple example from HTML A correct implementaion of HTML should, in fact, parse both colour and centre correctly.
    "Color" and "Center" are there only because of the huge number of illiterates in the world :-)

  16. Re:*American* English Dominance on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1

    >I guess had Britain WON the Revolutionary War we would be speaking the queens english Probably not - American is more widely spoken than English because of the US's huge economic clout (it's a bigger country, more mineral resources). And as for the "Queen's English" - I've lived in England most of my life and have met maybe two people who actually spoke anything one could describe as "The Queen's English" - and one of those was from Hong Kong (although he was educated at Eton)