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  1. Re:Pan's Labyrinth on 2007 Hugo Award Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    You're not thinking at all, it was about the Spanish civil war, not WW2.

    Whoops. Then again, I'm not Spanish and you don't hear much about their civil war(s?) around here. And gee thanks for equating mixing up wars with "not thinking"... >:(

    np: Kraftwerk - Numbers (Minimum-Maximum (Disc 2))
  2. Re:Pan's Labyrinth on 2007 Hugo Award Winners Announced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only one to think that every movie that was nominated besides Pan's Labyrinth was a lot better and should've won instead?

    In my book, Pan's Labyrinth was a jumbled, incoherent mess of a story that ultimately went nowhere. Sorry, but WW2 war stories and that kind of fairy tale fantasy just don't mix well, and Pan's Labyrinth was hopping from being one to the other all the time and in the end fell flat on both accounts.

    All the other movies at least told their story well, but when I watched Pan's Labyrinth in the cinema it was just one big "Huh?" distributed over 2 hours. Granted, it wasn't "Night Watch" *shudder* bad, but bad nonetheless... :(

    (And scary? What the freak was scary about it?)

    np: Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto - Showroom Dummies (Cha-Cha-Cha) (El Baile Alemán)

  3. Re:Kenya... on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    Wait - you're linking to a video of a Flash animation, to be viewed in a Flash-based player?

    What's next? A WMV containing a video of Firefox playing said video of said Flash animation? To be viewed in Quicktime? o_O;

    np: Fluke - Eko (Six Wheels On My Wagon)

  4. Re:Those aren't monkeys... on Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell · · Score: 1

    They're just lucky it's not 300 Slashdotters...

    This is madness!

    No! This is Slashdot!!1!eleven
  5. Re:needless prefixing on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    "e-i-e-i-o" - the letter "o" after 4 marketroids have had their business with it... :D

    np: Richard Devine - RSL-Com (Cautella)

  6. Re:Papers on Skin Cells Turned Embryonic · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess there could have been cooperation between the 3 groups, but I doubt it.

    I assume Konrad Hochedlinger and Rudolf Jänisch in the first and last group are from their own parallel universes then?

    np: Håkan Lidbo - Half Man Half Lobster (Dunka Dunka)
  7. Re:YRO? on Backyard Chefs Fired Up Over Infrared Grills · · Score: 1

    How, how, HOW(!?!?) is this related to my rights online?

    It isn't - it's just that Zonk mixed up "Your Rights Online" and "Your Roast Online" once again...

    np: Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower (Whistleblower)
  8. Re:This has nothing to do with Google toolbar... on OpenDNS Says Google-Dell Browser Tool is Spyware · · Score: 1

    That's funny - mine says "Intranet Exploder". And that's all I use it for... :P

  9. Re:hmm on AMD Reveals New Mobile Technologies · · Score: 5, Funny

    larger L2 caches that current designs? Syntax error, line 4.

    "Design by current":

    1. Put a block of silicon somewhere
    2. Apply enough current to make it melt *in an interesting way* (sparks flying etc)
    3. Test it's input/output behaviour.
    4. ???
    5. New x86-compatible CPU

    Lather, rinse, repeat steps 1-4 until you get to step 5.
  10. Re:Question on EBay Hacker's Conviction Upheld · · Score: 1

    I thought Bruce Schneier was the latest fact rage, and isn't he much more suited to the task?

  11. Re:RTFA, baby. on Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting · · Score: 1

    Mozart was more rock star than metal.


    Seems about right... :D
  12. Re:But how much does it really improve things? on First Retail Water-Cooled DDR2 Memory Tested · · Score: 1

    Water cooling won't help. For one, you still need a very hefty fan cooling your radiator, as well as a noisy water pump.

    I take it you haven't seen this?

    I have a Reserator 1 at home, and other than 3 slow-running 12cm fans for the air-flow in my case and the hard drive heads (which I'd be more worried about if I didn't hear them) you don't hear anything. To hear the "noisy water pump" you have to hold your ear against the radiator's base...
  13. So... on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 1

    ...having your laptop stolen gets you bad rap?

    I KNEW IT! ^_^

  14. Re:Updated? Battle of the Rootkits! on AACS Hack Blamed on Bad Player Implementation · · Score: 1

    Consider the sales/support implications of customers selecting products for Christmas 2008: "Well, sir, this Foobar-1000 plays discs up produced in 2006-2007, a Foobar-1130 plays discs produced from 2006-2008, and a Fonybaz-1900 plays discs produced from 2006 to August 2008."
    And, of course, the Foobar 2000 will only play audio.

    We don't need another bloated media player - WinAmp was horrible enough... :P

    np: Radiohead - Morning Bell (I Might Be Wrong - Live Recordings)
  15. Re:HERE IS A LINK FROM GOOGLE : FULL LIST on MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site · · Score: 1

    At least one user got it and told MySpace to shove it:

    youmustbecompleteretards@idiot.com:doyouhonestlyth inkiwillputmyrealpasswordhere :)

    np: Radiohead - Electioneering (OK Computer)

  16. Re:George Clooney?! on Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age" To Be Miniseries · · Score: 1
    Well, at least he can't possibly fsck it up as much as he fscked up Solaris... I hope.

    Well, if he fucks it up just half as good as he did with A Scanner Darkly I'm very much looking forward to it...

    np: Sole - Manifesto 232 (Live From Rome)
  17. Re:Completely and 100% untrue on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Jesus, do Slashdot editors actually *do* anything? Seriously. Do any of them actually *read* the articles they're posting, or is it all about pageviews and keywords?

    You must be new here... :P

    np: Kaito - We Were Born Here (Hundred Million Light Years)
  18. Re:Size on Dark Corners of the OpenXML Standard · · Score: 1
    6,000 pages is nothing! Try reading The Wheel of Time series.

    Bah. 9685 pages is nothing! Try reading Perry Rhodan - that's somewhere around 120 to 130 thousand pages and counting...

    (And yes, I've read most of it - took me only 12 years or so...)

    np: Markus Guentner - Hotel Shanghai (1981)
  19. Re:Hello, there are open-source players for WMV3 on Council of the EU Says "We Cannot Support Linux" · · Score: 1

    ITYM "The People's Front of Europe"...

    np: Klimek - Milk (Klimek Remix) (Pop Ambient 2006)

  20. Re:TrackMania on Slashdot's Games of the Year · · Score: 1
    i don't need more / new games, i just need addons to the best racing game ever. EA - take note - NFS sucks compared to this. i didn't check out your latest attempt, but everything points to that being POINTLESS anyways.

    Yeah, TrackMania United definitely was my biggest time sink this year... :)

    (Well, that and Deadly Rooms Of Death: Journey to Rooted Hold... gotta lay off the crack... someday... ^_^)

    np: The Modernist - Abi '81 (Kompakt Total 3)
  21. Re:On an old laptop? on The Well-Tempered Debian desktop · · Score: 1

    Well, duh... 266MHz and 32MB RAM - what did you expect?

    If you were using Apache - try using something a bit more lightweight, like lighttpd...

    np: Kaito - Holding A Baby (Hundred Million Love Years)

  22. Is it just me... on Self-Recycling Paper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...or is this just yet another solution in search of a problem?

  23. Re:Fusion is no big deal! on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 1

    Yeah, right...

  24. Re:Does any major site use pure CSS? on CSS Cookbook · · Score: 1
    many of the layouts won't print correctly if the user's browser has bg printing disabled

    That's what defining different styles for printing using "@media print { ... }" so you get perfectly readable text without any background images is for...
  25. Re:Creation issue on Procedural Textures the Future of Games? · · Score: 1
    Basically you would just save out the entire Photoshop undo history to a file and use it later to reconstruct the image. Of course, unless you're Adobe, reconstructing the image would require reimplementing Photoshop. But perhaps the GIMP or Krita could be modified in this manner.

    Fractal Design^w^wMetaCreations^wCorel Painter allows you to record all or part of your drawing session as a macro (or do this automatically when you open a new image) which allows you to play back the file and watch the image being recreated, or stop at any point and tweak the parameters used in the macro, reorder the steps or add new ones.

    A macro recorder that produces a script-fu script while working could probably do something similar for the GIMP.

    Quite nice, but probably not useful for generating real-time procedural textures for games, which would need to be shader programs that the hardware can grok directly... :)

    np: Underworld - Cups (Beaucoup Fish)