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  1. Here, in Switzerland... on How's Your Cell Service? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember being called while I was on the top of the Schilthorn (the Piz Gloria is the restaurant in which G. Lazenby plays "At Her Majesty's service").
    So I guess the coverage is quite decent, even far up the mountains. :)

  2. Re:Why not use a PDA? on New High-End HP Calculator? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could indeed run GNU/bc on a Zaurus (which an exam guard would anyway notice as a an unauthorized tool tool), but you'd lack the extra geekiness of a true RPN calculator.

    BTW, where's the RPN troll when you need him ? ;)

  3. Re:Cheating in Exams? on New High-End HP Calculator? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While I was a teacher, I also happened to guard exams.
    I can assure you that I met very few people (nobody would not be a big lie) who'd recognize a communicant calculator.
    Also, in France, calculators are allowed only if their sizes are within allowed specifications so, you can happily go there with such a (geeky) "toy"...

    BTW, when I was a student, I once met a guard who'd consider my Casio FX4000P as the data storage (550 signs, enough for most formulae in sms-style) it was.
    He took it with a pen and pushed the data-reset button, on its back.
    What he didn't know is that I actually disconnected it before, so we both had a reason to be satisfied, this day ;)

  4. volumes ? on AMD, Transmeta Edge Up In Market Share · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about sales volume ?
    Why do we only have percentages ?
    What does this survey count ?
    IT looks like they forgot ARM half a billion units, or Motorola and IBM increased sales of G[345] procs.

    This 0,1% increase/decrease is unsignificant and this article is as noisy as these meaningless figures.

  5. as someone suggested... on Last Chance for Slashdot T-Shirt Contest · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://salbatar.free.fr/slashshirt.png

    the suggestion got modded up here so this can neither be offtopic, nor flamebait ! :)

  6. this may inspire terrorists on Skydiving Across the English Channel · · Score: 0, Troll

    imagine a flying Palestinian suicide bomber...

  7. Re:Next Logical Step: on Skydiving Across the English Channel · · Score: 1

    Do you expect him to get a Darwin award with this ? ? :)

  8. Re:Only on slashdot... on The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges? · · Score: 1

    Oh, OK, I get it now :)
    Sometime it's better to view the running program... at least mentally.

  9. Re:Only on slashdot... on The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges? · · Score: 1

    $data[1] =~ s/\(([0-9]+)*\)$/\t$1/;

    I thought this was enough as it finds a number between parenthesis at the end of field and convert it to a new TSV cell...

  10. Re:Go China! on China Proposes Rival Video Format · · Score: 1

    John, of course, especially if we're speaking about movies !

  11. Re:Only on slashdot... on The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges? · · Score: 1

    # You suggested :

    while ($sheet->has_data) {
    my @data = $sheet->next_row;
    print $data[0], "\t", join("\t", split (/ */, $data[1]));
    }

    # I guess you wanted to do :

    while ($sheet->has_data) {
    my @data = $sheet->next_row;
    print join("\t", @data);
    }

    # or...

    while ($sheet->has_data) {
    my @data = $sheet->next_row;
    $data[1] =~ s/\(([0-9])*\)$/\t$1/;
    print join("\t", @data);
    }

    # I got to ensure you can directly modify an array element, here...

  12. Re:Can be opened with kspread... on The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges? · · Score: 1

    Jesus Christ ! If I didn't know a few of the 80's artists (Cure, U2), I'd then totally misunderstand what this article is about ?!
    Does this mean that most 20-year old quality stuff is available for free ???

  13. Re:superman costume on Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy · · Score: 1

    In Kryptonian, or in Terrian years ?

  14. superman costume on Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy · · Score: 1

    The Superman red and blue bodysuit is perhaps the most famous costume in both television and cinematic history, and the red and yellow "S" logo has truly become an American icon.

    Is Christopher Reeves Dead yet ?
    I have not heard anything on the radio, except he recently flew to Israel ?

  15. Re:$40000!!! on Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy · · Score: 0, Interesting

    You got trolled by the submitter and marked as flamebait by a millionerd.

    Well, it's expensive, indeed, especially for something that may not be useful anymore once its owner gets engaged : I indeed think a decent household would not accept such oddities in her home.

    So, now, instead of modding people you don't agree with to oblivion (typical US way to solve the Afghan conflict), what about having some unanonymous hero telling us about why he think he *must* spend that much for a "fake".

    (the real part of a fictitious object *is* a fake)

  16. Also in my journal on Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism? · · Score: 0

    which features a few links to the online press.

  17. Re:It's not the French. on Romancing The Rosetta Stone · · Score: 1

    Yep, but let's watch it differently :
    The denser the population, the highest the probability to meet a monolingual person.

    In the Parisian metro, you get easily until 5 person/square meter ;)

  18. Re:So, what's the news? on Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes · · Score: 1

    DoubleSpace (from Stacker)

  19. Re:Question on Ask Bruce Perens About Linux and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, your Daddy let you use his computer or you just sneaked in after he went away ?

  20. Re:Question on Ask Bruce Perens About Linux and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Dear Roblimo, I indeed noticed it was "fairly later" and even added a smiley in order to unobfuscate this attempt at being funny.
    Of course, my main purpose was simply to answer the above AC.
    Now, I am quite sorry you did not get my point, I will simply suggest this is due to intercultural differences :-)

  21. Re:Question on Ask Bruce Perens About Linux and Open Source · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The real, I don't know, but this one for sure.

    BTW, I wonder if he got layed off by HP because he's been a loooong time on slashdot ? :-)

    Finally : it is a dupe (answers here), but a fairly late one :-)

  22. Similar idea on $50 Aerial Digital Photography from a Balloon · · Score: 1

    Photoplane takes aerial pictures using a small remote-controlled plane.

  23. Re:Great.. on In-Dash DIN-form-factor Car PC · · Score: 1

    OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration.

    Maybe a byte ;-)

  24. Re:Funny thing, the name... on Kinko's Spy Case Illustrates Public Terminal Risk · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How can this be a flamebait if I am French ? :)

  25. Re:Great.. on In-Dash DIN-form-factor Car PC · · Score: 1

    You could have a little more fun :
    A Sharp Zaurus SL5500 can read MP3 *and* DivX, doesn't heat at all and could stay up to 10 hours on external battery supply.
    just l337-view movies on its 320x240 screen :)