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  1. Re:Diminishing Returns on Innovation Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    Three words: George. Foreman. Grill.

    'nuff said.

  2. Re:well... on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    Sure you can. In fact, the government has tried experimenting on taming zombies, as seen in the documentary "Return of the Living Dead 3"

  3. Re:Late Breaking News: on Russia Planning Double Mission to Mars · · Score: 2, Funny
  4. Re:Geeks in Paradise on Mauritius Aims To Be First Wireless Nation · · Score: 1

    Will someone please mod up poor Milton here?

  5. Objective on Total Conversion HL2 Mod · · Score: 3, Funny

    As Violet, you must save your father from a collapsing web server before it's too late.

    Whoops.

  6. Re:Big 'ol dome.... on Bigger Brains Make Smarter People Study Says · · Score: 1

    I couldn't fit in adjustable baseball caps by fifth or sixth grade, not even on the last hole. So i really have never worn hats since then. My head didn't keep growing much larger after that, my body just had to catch up.

  7. Re:Requirements? on Zeta Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    I was never able to get older versions of the BeOS CD (including the free version) to boot under VPC, so good luck.

  8. Re:how could they stop it? on Apple May be Intel Show Pony · · Score: 1

    Unlike older versions of MacOS, there is no actual need to a ROM in OS X. progarms like vMac et al. are emulators that require a ROM dump file so that the MacOS software can boot. Getting the rom files is technically copyright infringement (yes?). I'm pretty sure PearPC has no need for that, though it *does* have to emulate the OpenFirmware and supply the device tree. It works a lot like VirtualPC, basically, and doesn't require copyrighted software (ROMs).

    A note: Because the PPCs have many more registers than x86s, and not all PPC instructions map to x86 ones, PPC-on-x86 emulatrs tend to be glacial compared to x86-on-PPC (like VirtualPC).

  9. Re:Revolutionary? Try the Cell processor. on Apple May be Intel Show Pony · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the endless threads around the net saying that the Cell isn't a good general-purpose chip.

  10. Re:Word bombs.... on The Evil in E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Email: "I'm going to put my evil inside you!"
    Computer: =-O

  11. Re:Just a sneaky way to censor... on Microsoft Bans 'Democracy' for China's Web Users · · Score: 1

    holy crap, that is comedy gold right there.

  12. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    I second that emotion.

    But usually I have a empty enough schedule that I can just memorize everything.

  13. Re:Teflon is bad on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    Bird are amazingly wimpy when it comes to environmental pollutants (not saying Teflon is). Apparently you can't have a bird live in a house that has been bug bombed within the last 7 or so years (so says my step-mom, who has a number of birds)

  14. Re:Elfman? on The Formula for a Successful Sitcom · · Score: 1
  15. Re:C3PO on The Science of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    He's not gay, he's just very British.

  16. May I be the first to say on Holmes Wilson Interviewed About Open-Source TV · · Score: 1

    Heyyyy, wassup, Holmes?

  17. In Soviet Russia on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Macs run on Intel and Microsoft uses PowerPC! What a country!

  18. Re:So... on PSP Emulation Madness · · Score: 1

    I think Nintendo would shit a brick if there was a DS emulator for the PSP. Why ever even buying anything (portable) other than a PSP after that?

  19. Yes, I agree on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bill Gates is definitely an assburger.

  20. Re:PANTS/NO PANTS?! on Roger Ebert Answers Star Wars Questions · · Score: 1

    Then I will:

    You see, hot grits congeal and become very hard to get out of clothing, so when she had a hot grits spill, they had to go to the cleaners, and there were no replacement pants. Being on a limited time schedule, they had to shoot the scene anyway, and hoped no one would notice.

    Love,
    Me

  21. Re:Where is the Great Publishing House of Ursa Min on Wikipedia Planning a DVD Version · · Score: 1

    Well you could have a seperate mp3 on an iPod for every entry, but try getting Peter Jones (or Stephen Fry) to read every page on wikipedia. I don't think they'd be up to it, nor would there be room on any current iPod, methinks (not sure).

  22. Re:Thank god for Jurassic Park... on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    whoa, the second person I've seen (other than myself, in a mirror) who's seen The Young Ones :)

  23. Re:Too many words... on Got Game · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Mom, it helps my hand-eye coordination!"

    Yeah, I bet thats what they say about porn too...

  24. OMG!!!!1 on Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's blowing red, blue, green and black ash EVERYWHERE!!!

  25. Re:Ask the compiler... on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1, Informative

    maybe use 'gcc -S sample.c' (is that the right option? dont have GCC in front of me) where sample.c is a short program with the !ptr and have another file where u use ptr==NULL and see which produces tighter code. Unless optimizations occur *afterwards*, in which case discard this message :-)