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  1. Re:OS X on Apple OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why join Dadaism?

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  2. Re:Is Jordan betraying his ideals? on Apple OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard · · Score: 1

    Dada is the way.

    A man asked MuShu: "What is Dada?"

    MuShu said: "What are you?"

  3. Re:had to beg for a job? on Apple OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard · · Score: 1


    What is DaDa?
    Here's what some of the artists themselves said:

    * "DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms." - Hans Arp
    * "DADA speaks with you, it is everything, it envelopes everything, it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat, it lives in space and not in time." - Francis Picabia
    * "Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police." - Richard Huelsenbeck

  4. Re:Jamie Zawinski on Webcasting on Webcasting and the DMCA · · Score: 1


    What is DaDa?
    Here's what some of the artists themselves said:

    * "DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms." - Hans Arp
    * "DADA speaks with you, it is everything, it envelopes everything, it belongs to every religion, can be neither victory or defeat, it lives in space and not in time." - Francis Picabia
    * "Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police." - Richard Huelsenbeck

  5. Re:OS X on Apple OS X, BSD and Jordan Hubbard · · Score: 0, Troll

    MAC os X sux a lot.

  6. Re:This would be a good "bedroom machine" on Interested In A US Linux For PS2? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be really bad to stare at a TV that much though? I would think a monitor would be worthwhile to protect eyesight alone.

  7. Re:Actors "behind the scenes" on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 1

    Um, if they werent real, why would ones included in a new DVD be any more likely to be real?

  8. Re:Simpson shorts from Tracy Ullman show on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is not the case. My brother has the Simpsons book which describes all the episodes through season 7, and I am certain I have seen every episode mentioned in there several times at the least.

    They might to this because showing 2 episodes every weekday, the views will get sick quickly of seeing the same episodes too much. But it is true that some episodes run a lot more. There are some episodes I've probly seen 15 times or so.

    And for those of you who would call me a couch potato, I usually get less than 5 hours/week of TV. But it is almost all Simpsons.

  9. Re:the first season was terrible on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 1

    Um. the first season was '89 - '90 I think. Was Ren and Stimpy even around then?

  10. Re:In on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 1
    Could it be that Homer is French or something?

    Well Bart speeks fluent French, although he hasn't spoken a word in several hundred episode.

  11. Simpson shorts from Tracy Ullman show on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 2

    I would really prefer to see a DVD containing all the shorts that were made. Although they may not be as high of quality as the espisodes, I can catch episode reruns on TV on a regular basis, so I've seen most episodes at least 2 or 3 times. But most of the shorts I haven't even seen once.

  12. Re:Actors "behind the scenes" on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 3
    I'm just hoping they release the alternate endings to "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (They had several alternates animated so that no one could leak what the real ending was - or so rumor has it).

    Um, this was all officially covered in the 138th episode special (28% new footage). They showed parts of the alternative endings too. It was more than just a rumor.

  13. Re:Waiting for the later seasons on The Simpsons Season 1 on DVD · · Score: 1

    Well, the Simpsons has continued to evolve as a show. A show can't stay on the air for 12 seasons ( it think, maybe 13?) without evolving significantly. The demographic group it sells to has also changed with age of course.

    On a semi-related note, what is the Simpson episode count? I remember a while back when they broke 200. have they hit 250 yet?

  14. ACTUAL CORRECTION!!! on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1
    fun qsort (x::s) = (qsort (filter (fn y => (x > y)) s)) @ [x] @ (qsort (filter (fn y=> (y > x)) s))

  15. whoops. correction of quicksort on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1
    fun qsort (x::s) = (qsort (filter (fn y=> (y (y (y (y>x)) s))

  16. Re:Why not select language as appropriate for topi on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1

    Functional languages often provide very slick ways of doing algorithms like a prime number sieve for example. However, the code you linked to is pretty ugly functional code IMO. I myself wrote Karatsuba and also ran into the same problem as that author: you need to write lot's of helper functions to do every little step of the algorithm.

    when I can do something like:

    fun quicksort (x::s : int list) : int list = (filter (fn y=> (y (y>x)) s)

    I love functional languages, but sometimes the hacks to do things are atleast as ugly functionally.

  17. Re:Why not select language as appropriate for topi on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1
    A nice functional language like ML might be good for algorithms and data structures.

    Um. writing some algorithms and data structures in functional languages can be very difficult. functional languages offer a very useful paradigm, and one that eveyrone should learn IMO, but writing say Karatsuba multiplication in functional languages can be a pain. For some such tasks, like quicksort, however, it can be very elegant

  18. Re:Baby boomers get old, young loose rights. on Supreme Court To Review Child Online Protection Act · · Score: 1

    Um, in the state I live in (pennsylvania), they law was changed so that peopl under 18 cannot drive after 11pm, and they require you have a permit for six months before you get a driver's license.
    (I'm not even saying that I am against such rules, just providing info)

  19. Re:Blessed, blessed duct tape! on Home Improvement · · Score: 1

    Yeah but can you imagine playing 52 card pick up in space?

  20. guess on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    my guess is: 2001-03-19 01:01:17 this text is here to avoid yelling lameness error.

  21. Lord of the Rings boardgame on Can You Suggest Any Non-Zero Sum Games? · · Score: 1

    There is a relatively new board game based on Lord of the Rings. Its cooperative, and plays well (It was designed by reknowned German game designer Reiner Knizia) and feels like lord of the rings.

  22. Not free on Microsoft, Starbucks To Offer Wireless Service · · Score: 1

    from the times article:

    The arrangement will enable customers, for a fee, to connect to the Internet from a laptop computer or other device equipped to handle wireless data. In addition, Microsoft will create content and services through MSN, its online service, catering to Starbucks customers.

  23. Re:Look at it on the bright side on Floppy CDs And DVDs? · · Score: 1

    It may be cheap to make a million of them, but that doesn't mean that smaller operations will be able to crank them out so quickly. Also, for those who crave each and every update, that's still a lot of CDs. highspeed connections are a muh more viable idea really.

  24. Re:Is there a point to "thin"? on Floppy CDs And DVDs? · · Score: 1

    "I believe there's not much of a deformation problem at high speeds, since the CD is supposedly uniformly dense and as flat as possible."

    Um no. If anything of a nonzero radius were spun at infinte speeds, it would be thrown outward with infinite force. And if these discs can withstand infinite force in one idrection (or nearly so), then there are far more important things to make with it than floppy cds:)

    - Richard

  25. Re:Animal Farm on Stranger In a Strange Land · · Score: 1

    "Show me a single instance of centralization of power (even if its supposedly as benign as the "dictatorship of the proletariat") that has not corresponded with attraction of corruption of the highest order."

    Say have you ever heard of this guy called Napoleon?

    I would never call what existed in Russia communism anyhow. Marx even said it wouldnt work in Russia, and although IMO Marx was wrong on many things, he wasn't wrong there. What happened in Russia was a bunch of opportunists parading around as communism really.

    Also, Orwell himself believed in socialistic ideas, just not the nonsense that was going on in Russia.