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  1. Sun Drop on Gaming Fuel: 4-way Shootout · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the bigots will laugh and some people won't like it, but Sun-Drop beats Mountain Dew by a mile.

    Sun-Drop, Goody's powder, and a joint!

  2. Re:I sit next to our web developer on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1
    You want (NITROLITE). Download this and this.

    Syntax highlighting for HTML/XML/C/Java/C#/makefiles whatever, multi-file support, command line commands, and it's a 100k copy & run executable. It's tight!

  3. Re:SQL Limitations ? on The Practical SQL Handbook: Using SQL Variants (4th ed.) · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is a very good model for representing hierarchies in SQL. It's called a parts explosion table, and you can read about it in a book called "SQL For Smarties" by Joe Celko. This lets you answer queries like "what objects does this object and all its subobjects contain" and any sort of query like that.

    Your database has to require triggers if the data isn't slowly changing though.

  4. Re:Doesn't this sound realistic? on Andreessen on the Browser Wars · · Score: 1

    Yep, and I don't hate black people -- I just hate niggers! (Something I heard over and over again growing up in the South). Keep rationalizing that too yourself.

  5. Re:Doesn't this sound realistic? on Andreessen on the Browser Wars · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Jeez, you sound like a fucking mysoginist. I bet your secretary *loves* working for a jack-off who makes comments like that.

  6. Why not Distributed Checkers! on Distributed Chess Computing Project · · Score: 1

    I hereby take occasion to assert that the highest powers of the human intellect are more decidedly and more tasked by the unostenratious game of Draughts, than by all the elaborate frivolity of Chess. In the latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound."-"Murders of the Rue Morgue."

    http://www.acfcheckers.com/poeben.html

    Checkers _is_ better than chess.

  7. Communists! or Power Seekers on Lessig Proposes "Creative Commons" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will y'all quit trotting out this communist crap over and over and over. The damn bolsheviks kept thinking they was all smart and doing this for the greater good, and they just knew they had it all figured out.....

    And it ended up being a blatant power grab. Just like this Free Blah Open Blah Shared Blah will end up (is ending up, if you just open your eyes).

  8. Re:Those IBM Infrastructure Commercials on LinuxWorld rundown on CNN, HP and IBM Highlighted · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one of the players loves the game. The team he plays on is so unbelievably desperate that it's trying one last-ditch wild ploy before it's goes bankrupt. The rest of the players on the team suck and couldn't get the kind of money a pro ball player gets, but can't admit to themselves.

  9. San Jose and Seattle airports have this on Free Wireless Networks at Airports · · Score: 1

    And I think Dallas did too.

    San Fran, Chicago, didn't have it.

    Of course, it was free to Windows XP users only (by TravelPort.Net).

    The next best thing to do is to stand outside all the admirals clubs and try to steal some signal.

  10. Re:do the math on ATT Broadband Forfeits Mediaone Domain · · Score: 1

    Actually,

    50.95 / 45.95 = 1.1088139281828073993471164309032

    10.88% increase

    And they wonder why nobody can balance the books :-)

  11. Boy There's a Loaded Proposition on Cooperation Works if Majority Can Punish Freeloaders · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gee, what an enlightened statement.

    Folks like to ostracize and hurt people. Very lord of the flies. Once they get rid of the first freeloaders they'll find they like it too much and then keep on selecting somebody else.

    Jesus, how bold -- who can make a statement about punishing people with a straight face?

    Somehow I don't think that's what Jesus and/or Socrates had in mind :-)

  12. Re:WHat do you think on Info on the LOTR:FOTR DVD · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Tom Bombadil, was only like, you know, supposed to be God 'eru' 'illuvatar'...

    he's sort of mentioned in the silmarillion

  13. Re:No way on For The Love Of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Look, it's simple: "Programmers like Free Stuff" (TM). We're an ornery lot, and we don't like to be told no you can't have that.

    Me, myself, I solved the problem a different way: I have worked with for-pay software all my life, and I never paid for 95% of it, nor did I pirate it, but I am sure had all of it. What did I do? I made damn sure I was in a position where SOMEONE was willing to pay it for me. I made damn sure that I was useful enough to someone that someone else would write a check to cover what I need. Every once in a while, if I was getting friction, I bought it myself. I also downloaded tons of shareware, wrote code myself, posted it, went to user groups, and basically had all the things all the time.

    Tom-Ai-to, Tom-ah-to.

    As long as open source sticks to that, it's groovy with me. It's when you try to forget that the other half of the world needs a check to roll out of bed (and that other half of the world turns out to be you after all)! that OSS gets all icky and falls down.

    Just quit talking about shit all the time.

  14. How bout making the house changeable. on Wiring A New House? · · Score: 1

    I think, instead of trying to think of all things in advance, I'd try to make my house more easily rewireable. Think about putting conduits to the ceiling at reasonable places, patches, tubes in the floor somehow accessible.

    I can't imagine what the best practices are for this but I'd bet somebody's figured it out before. Then you're not stuck with whatever you think of now. That would be *really* cool.

  15. Re:VNC!!! on Porting Debian to... Windows · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's pro. My box is running Windows 2000 server -- the WINNT directory is read+execute for Users, no rights for Everyone, Modify (not full control for Power Users), and Full Control for Administrators.

    There is something similar for Program Files. Your Documents & Setttings directory is restricted to one user.

    It's only arbitrary directories that you create yourself off of c:\ that get all perms -- otherwise what perms would you suggest by default? If their different, just change the ACLS on C:\, tell it *not* to override ACLS already applied on subdirs, and then it inherits those defaults.

    Windows 2000 Pro may be different but you my friend are factually incorrect WRT Server.

  16. Re:Heh on Some People @Home, Some Not @Home · · Score: 1

    I went one better than that. I redirected them to a little machine on my network that has a custom listener on port 80.

    If requested for a .GIF or .JPG, it returns a 1x1 pixel white gif (IE displays a GIF correctly even if requested for a .jpg). Otherwise, it returns a blank html document.

    You should see stuff disappear!

  17. Was Redhat even a party in this lawsuit? on Red Hat Proposes Alternative Settlement To MSFT · · Score: 1

    If not, they just look stupid for butting their noses in when the *actual parties* had nothing to do with them.

  18. Re:We should all hate this new OS... on Review of AtheOS 0.3.7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, that's why we're such a fucked up country with no money or power, and nobody pays attention to anything we ever say or do.

  19. Re:AtheOS takes a Windows approach on Review of AtheOS 0.3.7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Term Services != PC Anywhere or that other piece of crap x-like thing that AT&T put out.

    Those things do all kinds of wierd stuff with your video drivers, and mirror the default window station on the wire, so they share the same keyboard and mouse. That's a piece of shit.

    Term Services is in a seperate window station (you can TS into the default window station on XP but that will lock the interactive console). Only Windows Server have "real" TS. It compresses on the wire, and uses the characteristics of the remote video card -- the actual video card does't matter, so sometimes the graphics will actually be better than interactive.

    You are *so* wrong.

  20. In Reality, Open Source == Shareware on Transferring the Leadership of Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    You know, when I read about projects like this, I think back on the tens of thousands of shareware programs written just like this. Same economic model -- if you like it, give me a few bucks or give me a job. Nobody ever paid for shareware.

    Some blowhard with a penchant for LSD and communism just steps up into the mix and you've got yourself a philosophy!!! but in practice this is just shareware. Nothing new to see here.

    You show me apache, I show you PKZIP.

  21. Re:not even close on Rage Against the File System Standard · · Score: 1

    You're thinking about the old Installshield installer. That's not true for the Windows Installer. Have a look at an .MSI in the SDK tool Orca -- it's a database. When you install, that database is merged into your system. There's lots of tools to inspect it.

  22. Re:w00t? no dynamic class loading? on C# From a Java Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    I love reading comments like this. Blah blah blah YOU HAVE TO REBOOT THE SERVER blah.

    That's so full of shit your eyes must be brown. All it demonstrates is your lack of knowledge in how to do your job. For one thing, even if the dll was locked, all you have to do is cycle the process. But .NET uses Shadowcopy to load the dll, so the original dll is never locked.

    Dumbass.

  23. Re:The tendancy to run everything on port80 on Web Services - More Secure or Less? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check out DIME. Direct Internet Message Encapsulation. The successor to http, and will be the preferred protocol for Soap.

    Soap makes me happy. If we all shut up, just shut up and be proper and diligent, we just *might* be able to put these platform wars behind us. Of course some amoung us will do everything short of homicide to fuck it up, because they have a vested interest in keeping us fighting each other, but maybe some people will get it.

  24. Fractal Music on Computer DJ Uses Biofeedback to Mix · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Grateful Dead used to do this song called "Space". Similar tunes were "Feedback" and "Drumz". Real freaky things with eletronic music. The Dead were also big into MIDI.

    The last Dead show I saw, in 1995, right before Garcia died, I saw a computer monitor just off the stage, hooked up to all the midi shit and the soundboard. When the band played Space, it was like no other space that had ever been played -- I swear to christ it was fractal music. The music began to play itself, the band stopped playing and left the stage and it began playing NEW patterns, not just ordinary guitar feedback. It would have never stopped. In fact, it continued during the whole intermission, always generating new patterns. Finally they just killed the sound.

    Ordinary fractal pictures take a complex valued function, and assign different colors to it based on its closeness to zero. What they had done was map the function onto different MIDI instruments and notes, sound instead of colors. Then they seeded it with their own playing, and took off.

    It blew my fucking mind wind open.

  25. Microsoft Tablet PC on The Dream Handheld · · Score: 1

    No offense, but you just described the exact specs of the MS Tablet PC. It's going to kick PDAs in the butt, for those of us who do shit for a living instead of talk about shit. (Talk about shit == need one of those little bookie things full of names & numbers at all time). (Do stuff for a living == need a terminal session into desktop PC for that and about a thousand other tasks you need to do).

    Check it out. http://microsoft.com/tabletpc.