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  1. Re:Get Off My Lawn, Punk on Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon · · Score: 1

    Because written languages that use pictographs or ideograms are second rate monkey languages, right?

    Think twice before you reply.

    OK, now consider Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Discuss amoungst yourselves.

  2. Re:Please tell me... on MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    Get it? _Monty_, working on.... wait for it... _Python_? Monty Python FTW?

  3. I, For One, Welcome Our Modular Overlairds.... on X.Org Releases First Modular Source Roll-Up · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I could not be happier. Modular design clarifies architecture and simplifies targeted enhancements. Better X, faster. What's not to like?

  4. Re:Quality? on China To Develop Its Own DVD Format · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the tips. I am an absolute novice, musically, but have wanted to get into it for the past couple of decades. Now that my wife and I are finished birthing sons, I am hoping to stabilize my schedule and fit in some cello lessons ;-)

  5. Re:Quality? on China To Develop Its Own DVD Format · · Score: 1

    What is the brand? I've been waiting a long time to get a cello, and would like to get a good one (for the money) first time out.

  6. Re:Tower of Babel on Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance · · Score: 1

    An interesting take:

    The tower of Babel was the response to the flood.

    After getting wiped out by floodwaters, the Storied Babel-onians built a tower, intending to escape future floods. Take that, Old-Testament God-man

    P.S. : Nietzsche is dead.

  7. Re:98% of felons never owned a dog as a child on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    you, sir, are an _a$$_. pit bull is an inflamtory term for a breed that has had human agression culled with ruthless efficiency. who would enter a fighting pit to handle a human-agressive bull terrier?

    i fear to confuse you further (a feat apparently easily accomplished), but you need to know that responsible handling of the breed resulted in three variations that a well know for solid temperment and a decided _lack_ of human agression. see google for descriptions of the staffordshire bull terrier, the american staffordshire terrier, and the american pit bull terrier.

    white trash is as white trash does - sinking in igorance and avoiding opprtunities to learn. where stand you, the distinguished gentleman of faceless internet flaming?

  8. Re:It's simple. on What Differentiates Linux from Windows? · · Score: 1

    Do you not think that market dominance is not an appropriate goal for Linux?

    I don't not know how not to respond to logical that not clear.

  9. Most pressing question in the article on David Brin on "Attack of the Clones" · · Score: 2

    "Doesn't he have peers to workshop this stuff against?" Ouch! That hurt all the way over here, and it wasn't even _pointed at me_! George - all work and no peer review makes a director - weird.

  10. Re:DRM =! Digital Rights Management on New Yorkers Get a Taste of Digital Restrictions · · Score: 1

    More in the spirit of protest: Digital Restrictions Machinations.

  11. Re:I was there on The Warriors Stood in the Shape of a Heart · · Score: 1

    Add "dumbass" to this one, and you've got a flame: the way this is written, it's just... true. Generalizations are generally inadequate, but that doesn't mean they haven't even a glimmer of truth.

  12. Re:Digital Projection on Star Wars Digital Projection Theaters · · Score: 1

    Some people sya that there is another 30-40% living there that are illegals.
    -- who are just begging to spend three hours' wages on admission and another two hours' wages on a soda and some popcorn.... statistics and semantics are dangerous weapons for incompetent hands(I'm sure this time you just responded quickly, before the proxyfilter in your brain could shield the rest of us from you ;-) ). Pause, breathe, Smile. You've been flamed.

  13. Re:Interdev under Linux on Michael Robertson Interview about Lindows · · Score: 1

    Have a look at Visual SlickEdit (http:// slickedit.com). Best editor I've ever enjoyed. C/++, VB, perl, VBScript, JScript/ECMAScript (a better choice in .asp files is ECMAScript), java, &c.

    Versions for Windo ws (damned if I'll let a term like win dows appear in a search of _my posts_ !)Linux, many others. I don't work for them, but I'd like to see them profitable at least through version 7 :)

  14. Re:Not enough details... on Linux-Based OS For Palm Hardware · · Score: 1

    according to http://www.linuxda.com/store/index.html:

    Products are available for preorder and range from 39.95 USD to 59.95 USD (before tax, title and license :)

    They seem to be selling bundles including the base "OS" and the apps. I must say: the base kernel is fairly useless without some serious additional interface work (i.e. software/driver to interpret stylus input).

    Interesting niche. How long before it's filled with GNU/Linux DA w/ source at sourceforge?

  15. Re:This word on Ballmer Calls Linux "A Cancer" · · Score: 1

    Cancer hits indiscriminately. Live (use Linux) long enough, you may get it (be impacted negatively by GPL). Go whoring (use M$), and you never know what you'll catch, or whether it's something you can ever shake off.