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  1. New Country on At Long Last, Election Day · · Score: 1

    I'm a-lookin' to start a new country... any takers? (heavy libertarian stance - very little government etc).

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  2. Re:X86ers talking out of their ass (FORTH IS DEAD) on Analysis of Amiga Virtual Processor ASM · · Score: 1

    while I think the syntax is ugly and obtuse, Forth actually IS used in stuff... a forth system is used for the firmware in Macs and Sun boxen

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  3. rumors? on Sega to develop Dreamcast PCI Card · · Score: 1

    This goes well with the rumors that sega is getting out of the HW business and will license its hardware tech to other people.

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  4. Re:level9 linux screenshots on Linux Screenshots on Level 9 · · Score: 1

    The icons mean nothing. That's Enlightenment. If you look at the window borders, thats classic E, and the icons along the left are spaced too widely to be either WindowMaker or afterstep, and are more consistent with the location and spacing of the dock used in E :)

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  5. BSA? on The Software Police vs. The CD Lawyers · · Score: 1

    What does the Boy Scouts of America have to do with the RIAA??

    </sarcasm>

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  6. Why though? on Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of. · · Score: 1

    I have Firewire and USB. I have DVD support. I have a bichin IDE. I have pretty eye-candy. I have a tightly integrated software and hardware platform. I have it all now.
    Its a G4 Cube running MacOS X. Can someone tell me why an Aimga a year from now would be better than what I have now?
    no this isnt a troll, I'm serious.

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  7. Re:My Fridge on On The Nature Of Slime: Molecular Engineering · · Score: 1

    I suggest not leaving them in the fridge if you wanna have fun... on a related note, check out the stinkymeat project

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  8. Mmmm on On The Nature Of Slime: Molecular Engineering · · Score: 2

    unprocessed fish sticks

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  9. Re:ones and zeros on Why Does The Universe Exist? · · Score: 1

    it may be along the lines of "1 + 2 = 4 for sufficiently large values of 1"

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  10. 42?? on Why Does The Universe Exist? · · Score: 1

    Part 42 of the Tao Te Ching:

    "The Tao produces one, one produces two.
    The two produce the three and the three produce all things.
    All things submit to yin and embrace yang.
    They soften their energy to achieve harmony.
    [...]"

    Thats the origin of the universe :)

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  11. Re:Why a new VM? on Internet C++: Competition For Java And C Sharp? · · Score: 1

    i think fundamental C++ language constructs throw a few wrenches into the works... by the time youve reinterpreted the code into java bytecode you stripped just about all the C++ stuff from it and then it's just java with slightly different syntax

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  12. why? on Encrypted Filesystems With Linux? · · Score: 2

    I have yet to do ANYTHING in my everyday life that would warrant an entire partition being encrypted... and how many people here actually DO something of such sensitive nature that it would warrant needing to encrypt more than a couple files?

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  13. Kismet on Second Generation Aibo Specs Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Looking over the emotion system, it looks like the AIBO uses a similar yet simplifed emotional system to MIT's Kismet... a few basic emotions, each with varying degrees that interact with each other to produce more complex emotions and behaviors.

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  14. Re:There can be only one! on KDE 2.0 Final Release Candidate Is Out · · Score: 1

    While the tone of this is flameish, I would like to say that i agree with the poster. I have been using OSX for everything (except Unreal Tournament), and its met just about all my expectations (especially for a Beta!) I have NEVEr had an easier time with a UNIX OS than I have now. There's no X cruft, audio, video, everything JUST WORKS... its just like a truely stable OS9 (with more eye candy :) )

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  15. Re:PETI? on When Locusts Attack · · Score: 1

    is that like PETI@Home?

    sorry :P

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  16. Re:I'd hate to see the Earth become unihabitable.. on Hawking On Earth's Lifespan · · Score: 1

    Fear not, citizen. There are ALWAYS other options. My favorite is our gradual (over the next century) move rom carbon, organic bodies to nano-sized artificial life forms :) (read The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil)

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  17. Fire on AOL Trying To Unify AIM And ICQ Services · · Score: 1

    Fire.app for MacOS X (and its like) is very cool...does ICQ, AIM and Yahoo! chat :)

    Its only v 0.14b but seems to have lots of features (no block or warn yet tho!)

    I THINK is partially based on the GAIM codebase :)

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  18. Re:If you cant stack'em & rack'em....PACK THEM (aw on Developer Tools For MacOS X · · Score: 1

    seriously... check out th back of like Macworld magazine they have a thing you can replace the g4 tower handles with, that will attach to a rack :)

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  19. Re:If you cant stack'em & rack'em....PACK THEM (aw on Developer Tools For MacOS X · · Score: 1

    i know youre a troll, but the G4 towers stack great when turned 90 degrees and mounted on a rack :)

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  20. Re:Ads, shmads.... on Justin Frankel of Nullsoft Hacks AIM · · Score: 1

    well yeah, they werent concerned with efficiency, and i guess they just wrote their own compression code. they did it, im guessing, so ppl couldnt hack it up in ResEdit :(... bastards!

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  21. Re:Ads, shmads.... on Justin Frankel of Nullsoft Hacks AIM · · Score: 1

    yes but thats the ONLY things its doing at the time... its not running networking + havng a few dozen processes running :P

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  22. Re:Ads, shmads.... on Justin Frankel of Nullsoft Hacks AIM · · Score: 2

    they have, its called Fire.app (search Softrak on stepwise.com for it). Its been around since at least the 1st few releases of Rhapsody. Also, I would just like to say that my friend Greg hacked the AIM for Mac client ages ago, removed the ads. One would think that it would be easy with Mac resource forks and all. unfortunately no, since AIM decompresses its code eac time it starts up (thats why its so damn slow on even the fastest Macs...its basically unstuffing/unzipping its own code). But yes, he removed it and it was nice to have an AIM client that didnt take up so much window realestate :) that was way back in the 1.x or 2.x versions tho

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  23. cubed on ATI's HyperZ Demystified · · Score: 1

    you know, the fact that this badass card will fit in my cube is what sells me :)

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  24. Re:What kind of file system does it use? on How Good Of A Unix Is Mac OS X ? · · Score: 1

    ah yes i seem to remember hearing about that once... ah well, macos x would i assume, in which case i will have no more filename probs in about 2 days :)

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  25. Re:Okay, the metaphor sucks, but... on How Good Of A Unix Is Mac OS X ? · · Score: 1

    lets see: a crappy backslashing OS and a vaporous programmiing language that can run untrusted yet still talk directly to the OS

    OR

    a unix-based OS with a clean GUI, great development env. and two really nice, very REAL programming languages

    The choice is yours... I've already chosen... I bought a G4 Cube :)

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