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  1. Re:Sure! on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1

    How did the parent get a mod point? Infinite series CANNOT sum to different numbers! They either are infinite, oscillating, or converge to exactly one number. Also note that he fails to provide a formula for the series.

  2. Re:Sure! on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1
    So if your series IS truly based on (-1)^(n+1)(1/n), please demonstrate a formula that will form the series. It's very nice to be able to borrow terms that are convenient to borrow and ignore the rest, but mathematics doesn't work that way.

    Also, there is exactly one solution to 2x = x and that is that x is zero. Therefore dividing the above by x IS dividing by zero.

  3. What else will he quit using? on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's see -- the military also uses computers, pencils, networks, paper, pens. Is he going to quit using those too?

  4. Re:Why on Apache Cookbook · · Score: 1

    If you use 4 possibilities for the bad, use 4 for the good. php apache2 (works|working|good|success) gives 26,200 results. Not really that bad when you consider that people are more likely to complain than praise in newsgroups.

  5. Re:Sorry.. on A Terabyte In A Cigar Box · · Score: 1

    Yup, I have to agree. We have 7 people in my group at work. We all got new LaCie drives for backup purposes. Of the 7, 3 have failed within 9 months. Maybe we just got a bad batch, though.

  6. Insanity on Can Manned Spaceflight Save the Economy? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    This reminds me of a Winston Churchill quote I recently read:
    "For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle."
    There is absolutely no way that government jobs are going to improve our economic situation; even the wackiest Keynsian economist can tell you that.
  7. Re:Get the flu on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. I did the same thing. I was drinking 5 Cokes a day and went to drinking 2 a month. After the flu, I had absolutely no cravings for caffeine. Then I stupidly let myself get hooked again when I was working too many late nights. I will quit again next time I get the flu.

  8. Keep it for yourself on Christmas Bonuses? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what is going to have more impact in your life, splitting the $7500 five ways or keeping it in one nice pile?

  9. Re:Is EJB dying? on Bitter EJB · · Score: 1

    Custom tags are evil. Use a templating system for html output and keep logic somewhere else. Unless of course it is presentation logic, but that too should be avoided.

  10. Re:It's not about the dead plants, it's about us on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Actually, not only does he not care about the plants, he doesn't care about how quickly the resource is being used. He doesn't want it used at all. When you look at this from an economic standpoint instead of the typical environmentalist standpoint, you understand that there will be a day in the future in which alternative fuels will be cheaper than the fossil fuels. At that point, we will start moving to alternatives. Until that point, we will (mostly) use fossil fuels.

  11. world of MSN search? on How Objective Is Microsoft's Search? · · Score: 1

    MSN: "All your search are belong to us."

  12. Re:The network administrators... on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains · · Score: 1

    The "typical" administration job is exactly what you'd expect -- you're understaffed, underpaid, your budget is abysmal, and you have a gaggle of retarded secretaries calling you up asking the *same questions* constantly because they're too lazy to use the help system!

    I've talked to that gaggle of secretaries and they told me stories of that retarded sysadmin that put up a help system that didn't make any sense. Quit organizing it the way you find information, find out from them how they search for information.

    Also, in your un-list, you forgot underqualified and unmotivated.

  13. Re:Firewall has nothing to do with it! on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that any work that would have to be done via VPN to the secure network would be specialized. Isn't it possible to do some port/packet filtering between the VPN entry point and the network?

  14. Re:Speaking as a homeowner... on Is Untrasonic Electronic Pest Control, Effective? · · Score: 3, Funny

    But really this is a little more effective if you get a group of pests and kill all but one. Set him free so he can go tell his buddies that they don't want to mess around with you any more.

  15. Re:DL managers on 'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm, what's the difference (to the network) between millions of people downloading 12 files simultaneously during the day instead of downloading them sequentially? Not much on the average, I'd say.

  16. Re:Not for a while on Struts Kick Start · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, Craig McClanahan is both the lead on the Struts project and is also the spec writer for JSF (Java Server Faces). I think it will be interesting to see what results from this.

  17. Re:Either convert Dynamic to Static, or outsource on Alternatives to MS SQL Server for Dynamic Content Website? · · Score: 1
    When you leave in January, there's no guarantee that anyone will understand Zope and it's likely that it won't be stable (or scalable).

    Gee, that sounds like instant job security. Change that sentence to, "When you threaten to leave in January, you'll have them bent over a barrel. Demand a raise" ;) It's all coming together now.....

  18. Re:don't mean to be a pessimist, but... on Pipeline Mass Transit? · · Score: 1

    And you forget number 6 -
    Uh, gee what happens to the people inside when the hull of a train car is breached within the vacuum?