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  1. Why does Seth Lloyd bother? on Is the Universe its own Largest Computer? · · Score: 1

    Once, a race of supreme beings eventually decided to find out the ultimate answer to life the universe, and everything. The results of their research were far from conclusive.

    Space (or to give it a more technical name, 'The Universe') is big. Really Big. It's also full of really surprising things like Babel fish and tea.

    The history of the universe is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, even in its simpler moments which are, roughly speaking, the beginning and the end.

  2. Re:It's just a vehicle for theft on Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · · Score: 1
    the bartender can see you, the owner of a p2p software package can't...how can you compare P2P to Bartending?

  3. Re:Change or Delete the Data? on Data Quality Act · · Score: 1

    if moderated wisely....yup, that'll happen

  4. Re:I saw this last week. on Review: Insomnia · · Score: 1

    BC is pretty damn beautiful too. Not a whole lot different than the best parts of Alaska.

  5. Re:What a difference geography makes on Taiwan Joining Chinese Royalty-free Video Disk Effort · · Score: 1

    the only reason they're so lax is it gives them a chance to screw over the rich countries they hate

  6. Re:Why not stick with English? on Spoofing URLs With Unicode · · Score: 1

    Shakespeare in German is good.

  7. Re:Websphere, Open Source, WTF? on How IBM (and Open Source) Won eBay · · Score: 1

    Websphere Portal Server (a Websphere add-in) is built on top of Jetspeed, an Apache/Jakarta project.

  8. real human emotions! on Affective Computing: Teaching Machines About Emotion · · Score: 1

    Hi there. This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.

    Share and Enjoy!

  9. Embrace and Extend? on MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio · · Score: 3, Funny

    Share and Enjoy!

  10. Re:So Nerdy, so Slashdot... on Spidey Knocks Out Harry Potter at Box Office · · Score: 1

    Yes it does matter. He wouldn't have stood up if he didn't have superpowers.

    Okay, maybe he would have, even though in every other scene he let people push him around. But what if he had? He would have been knocked down on the first hit, and had his head flushed in a toilet. I should know...

  11. Re:So Nerdy, so Slashdot... on Spidey Knocks Out Harry Potter at Box Office · · Score: 1

    the only way peter could stand up to flash was through his superpowers

  12. Re:bankrupt the world on Microsoft's $40 Billion On Hand · · Score: 1

    Actually, dividend policy is irrelevant. Since dividend policy does not affect either a firm's cost of capital or its stock value, it is irrelevant from an investor's perspective.

    If you miss the quarterly influx of dividend checks, create your own divident policy by selling stock.

  13. Re:Many IT jobs moved offshore ... on Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry · · Score: 1

    and ... IBM India's biggest customer is

    IBM US

  14. Re:I live in California on California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco · · Score: 1
    WTF does this have to do with tea in China? The 30 million or so taxpaying citizens of California still got ripped off!


    So go pull your head out of your ass and stop posting off-topic responses.

  15. Re:Bloody typical on Internal MP3 Server? 1 Million Dollars Please · · Score: 1

    Why do people keep saying one day the artists will "wake up" and ignore the record companies? That will never happen!!

  16. Re:How many do you think Two Towers is going to wi on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 1

    Join The (Hopefully) Great Slashdot Blackout [slashdot.org] Apr 21-27

  17. Re:Screenplay adaptation?! on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 1

    The director's cut of FotR (due out on DVD a month before the TT releases in theatres) will contain over 30-40 minutes of new footage, including Galadriel's gifts. Got this somewhere off of AICN, but can't find the link.

  18. Re:My predictions on 13 Nominations to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 191,000,000. Search took 0.07 seconds

  19. Beowulf on Tolkien's sources: Icelandic Sagas and Beowulf · · Score: 1

    Read Tolkien's essay Beowulf, "The Monsters and the Critics"

  20. on the subject of novelties ... on Digital Cameras Go Disposable · · Score: 1
    considering that 4-megapixel cameras are available now for less than a thousand dollars.

    and considering that 35 mm hasselblads are available for less than $1000 ... digital cameras seem a bit of a novelty too

  21. Re:pagan, not christian on The Atlas of Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    hey thanks for pulling out the quote :) and I have to admit that's actually a very interesting way of looking at Christianity ...

  22. Re:Middle Earth geography maps to Europe's on The Atlas of Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    exactly

  23. Re:pagan, not christian on The Atlas of Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    Didn't Tolkien actually consider Christianity a myth, albeit a true myth?

  24. Re:Why LOTR is bad? on The Atlas of Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    or even Saruman. Or Grima. Or possibly even Frodo? The only difference between him and Smeagol, was that Frodo was saved in the nick of time. Given the same situation as Smeagol, Frodo would have developed into a similar personality.

  25. Re:Middle Earth Atlas on The Atlas of Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    You must, must, must read "The Lost Road" in Sauron Defeated. It also deals with atlantis==numenor, and it was an awesome short story. It's about 'Atlantis-haunting', and I couldn't say more to do it justice.