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  1. Re:Inspired by Asimov? on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    Sorry about that. That'll teach me to come here after reading a Discus based forum! The post should be thus:

    In other words, it will have absolutely no relationship between the original collection of short stories and itself. Other than sharing the name.

    Rather like many of the James Bond movies, eh? Diamonds are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Moonraker come to mind.

  2. Re:Inspired by Asimov? on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    \i{In other words, it will have absolutely no relationship between the original collection of short stories and itself. Other than sharing the name.}

    Rather like many of the James Bond movies, eh? \i{Diamonds are Forever}, \i{The Spy Who Loved Me}, and \i{Moonraker} come to mind.

  3. Re:I'm impressed on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    For the clueless, that's an "Enterprise" reference. In the pilot episode, Archer and Trip discuss "Neptune and back in 6 minutes".

  4. Re:Front leading edge.... on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    You mean "... an operating OS system based on NT Technology"

  5. ObFightClub on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The first rule of Stargate is you do not talk about Stargate!

  6. Re:I'm tired of losing rights.... on DHS Says Cellular Outage Reporting is Terrorist Blueprint · · Score: 2, Funny

    Believe it or not, it's an acronym.

    "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" = USA PATRIOT.

  7. Re:Welll on Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site · · Score: 3, Funny

    But this "Act" would seem to make it illegal to make a site that is all flash

    Seems to me that's an argument in favor of the Act.

  8. Re:Like a...? on Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that if you tell it to do something, it ignores you.

  9. Re:Waaaaahh on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    For that matter, if it took his guru that long to install, maybe he needs a replacement guru.

    I am a geek. I'll give you a geek example of what he's talking about.

    Visual Studio 6 came on 4 CDs. It took maybe an 30 minutes to install on my 300MHz K6.

    VS.NET came on 4 CDs. It took about 5 hours to install on my 2.4GHz P4.

    Why?

  10. Re:has he ever written a program? on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying that he stood firm against "requirements creep".

  11. Re:Sounds like... on Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID · · Score: 1

    Hi. I'm Marlon Perkins, and welcome to Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

    Today, I'm going to be safe in the helicopter, watching as Jim wrestles the sex-crazed rhino to the ground.

  12. Re:History is against him. on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    Many people could make a million dollars in 20-30 years by agressively saving and controlling their buying habits but would rather make that same million by buying a loterry ticket.

    Because, you save $50K per year for 20 years, and that million (20 years from now) will be worth today's $50K.

  13. Re:whew... on Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs · · Score: 1

    No, CA dropped the chamber due to 8th Amendment concerns, and uses Lethal Injection.

  14. Re:isn't it obvious? on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I tend to use no.spam@here.dude, to avoid some poor sucker getting my spam.

    Isn't there an RFC about this?

  15. Re:oh? on Software Companies - Merge or Die? · · Score: 1

    You might want to look into HW based SAN virtualization solutions, like, for example this.

  16. Re:West Wing episode 4.10 "Arctic Radar" on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    Hell, I'll look at any vid that involves Chase Masterson!

  17. Re:West Wing episode 4.10 "Arctic Radar" on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the second TOS pilot. What part of Where No *MAN* Has Gone Before *(TOS)*" did you not understand?

  18. Re:West Wing episode 4.10 "Arctic Radar" on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Where No Man Has Gone Before(TOS) doesn't involve another galaxy. It involves the edge of *our* galaxy, but they don't leave it. They try, but fail, leading to the events of the rest of the epiosde.

    On the other hand, By Any Other Name(TOS) does involve aliens from Andromeda. Catspaw(TOS) involves aliens who may or may not have been from another galaxy, and Is There In Truth No Beauty?(TOS) also involves leaving our galaxy.

    OMG! According to Josh, I've gove overboard!!!!

  19. Re:Ah, the VAX... I miss it. on VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall · · Score: 1

    I remember in 1984, UCSC had a few VAXen running 4.2BSD (Just BDS, no bloody open, net or free). There was a 11/780 for class work (school paid accounts), and a 11/750 for class work (user paid accounts).

    Towards the end of the semester, when we were all running Modula-2 compiles, we had the load average on the 780 up over 70, and the load average on the 750 over 40. Neither one crashed. It may have taken 5 minutes to respond to a keystroke, but it eventually did respond.

    Rock Solid.

  20. Re:Six Years? on VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall · · Score: 4, Funny

    My understanding is that the hamsters are just about dead after 6 years of continuous running.

  21. Re:Dear The Register, on Backup Tapes: Alive And Kicking · · Score: 1

    Dear Mr. Erik Lehnsherr,

    How do you plan to do backups on your 500GB RAID array?

  22. Re:But have they found any Illudium Phosdex yet? on Mars Rovers Alive Until 2005? · · Score: 1

    No, Illudium Phosdex, the Shaving Cream Atom is only found on Planet X. At least that's what Dr. Hi I.Q., Secretary of the Stratosphere told me.

  23. Re:Naming Convention on Mars Rovers Alive Until 2005? · · Score: 1

    If you look at some of the pix, apparently they named it "Tennessee" because it is shaped like the state.

  24. Re:Spaceship One isn't even a space ship on SpaceshipOne's Control Problem Fixed · · Score: 1

    An even better counterargument would be the Mercury capsule. Remember, Shepard and Grissom were suborbital.

  25. Re:An intriguing way to protect during descent. on SpaceshipOne's Control Problem Fixed · · Score: 1

    The F-1 and J-1 engines on the Saturn used this technique to cool the exhaust bell and keep it from melting.