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  1. Re:But what about Paul Simon? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    The FBI is still looking for "Betty".

  2. Re:Where were you 10 years ago? on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1

    If that'll make you happy, go ahead. If not, store those disks deeply away from all sunlight. I just said that I don't recall seeing one. Perhaps I repressed the memory?

  3. Re:Where were you 10 years ago? on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1

    Just about every Win95 CD passed through the office, including the betas, RCs and gold discs, but I don't remember ever seeing a floppy install. I think all the developers would have gathered just to stare and point. :^)

  4. Re:Er, no thanks on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1

    The Dobbshead. From where Dr. Dobb's magazine got its name. The Atari ST had one buried in its character set (2x2 characters). Even Microsoft uses it, "Bob" help us!

  5. Re:Er, no thanks on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1

    That's not pot, that's frop from the pipe of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.

  6. Re:My first impression... on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1
    What other features does it have that Windows had in the 80s?

    I don't recall Windows 2.1 being all that automagical. But that's okay, it was rarely worth installing so it wasn't too much of a hit.

  7. Re:Where were you 10 years ago? on First Impressions of Slackware 10 · · Score: 1

    There was a floppy install for Win95? It must have been a special order. For Slackware 2.1, I bit the bullet and got a CD-ROM. I could have installed from floppy, but there was no way that I would have browsed through the 2 archive CDs that came with it.

  8. Re:Big deal... on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1
    The capability of devilering a stewardess anywhere on Earth in less than an hour sounds like a worthy goal.

    If she's not here in 60 minutes, is she free?

  9. Re:Front leading edge.... on X43-A on to Mach 10 · · Score: 1
    .. would see about 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit. At Mach 10, its probably twice that

    Fahrenheit 4,800. Is Michael Moore involved?

  10. Re:Stargate rules on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 5, Funny
    Golfballs? What happens if you take a whizz through the Stargate? "Watch me write my name on another planet!"

    "That would be bad", as Egon might say?

  11. *Spoiler* from the site on Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    "Entry the first.

    "We slept -- and while we slept, intruders from distant stars broke through our doors. We have had to rise prematurely, stirring forth from our cells to find this enemy upon us -- as well as an opportunity from beyond the horizons.

    "Here begin the Annals of the Curator of the Feeding Grounds, in the first rotation of the New Awakening of the Wraith. Further entries forthcoming."

    Okay, sounds like they've got the mysterious creepy bad guy angle covered. It's just too bad that they rarely stay mysterious and creepy -- look at the Borg in Star Trek.
  12. Re:The important word is can on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 1

    Another area where Microsoft is helping out as much as possible! :)

  13. Re:is it a better mousetrap too? on Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet · · Score: 1
    No, he said "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods."

    But I doubt he'd mind being credited with the short version invented by some unknown person.

  14. Re:Catwoman! on Like A Cat, New Robot Lands On Its Feet · · Score: 1

    Ummm... Yo! I'll try some of that.

  15. The important word is can on Advice for Developers: Make Common Usage Easy · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Free Software can perform better than Microsoft even in the ease of use area!

    Convert that can to does, and you've got something. Fortunately Microsoft has been helping by shoveling new features into their Office products for many years. (Have to justify those updates prices somehow.) The only way they could help more would be to add a stupid animated paperclip to explain all those new features and changes to how to do simple things, but that would be stupid.

  16. Re:HERR GATES IS ALWAYS RIGHT! on Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    It's easy to create .NET programs that are less than 35k. (Please pay no attention to those monsterous .NET DLLs and ignore the ram-suck sound as they load! ;)

  17. Re:HERR GATES IS ALWAYS RIGHT! on Gates Predicts DVD Obsolete In 10 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh well, if an Anonymous Coward says so, it must be true!

  18. Re:BattleRoyale on Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID · · Score: 1

    Let me guess. There's a trading card game involved.

  19. Re:Makes sense for Japanese parents on Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID · · Score: 1
    They won't. The Plot says that whatever item the RFID tag is in, it will accidently be held by a classmate when the Tentacle attacts, causing much confusion.

    Then there will be flashbacks to the strange experiment incident involving the classmate some 12 years ago. (This one just writes itself.)

  20. Re:Easy to remedy... on Yahoo! Acquires Oddpost · · Score: 1

    It was, but 80% of $0 doesn't amount to much. I don't think they even added those parasitic footers to the email back then.

  21. Re:Just how intangible .. on Hacking the RFID Network · · Score: 1

    I dunno. Those vending machines with the used schoolgirl underwear .. that's just not right!

  22. Re:Just how intangible .. on Hacking the RFID Network · · Score: 1
    They have something for those kind of parents: parole monitoring units that strap to their ankle.

    Perhaps kidnapping with RFID assist (to check the parents in an income/assets database) is farfetched, but wouldn't it make the start of a great anime plot? Young japanese schoolkid holding a friend's backpack gets kidnapped by mistake ..

  23. Just how intangible .. on Hacking the RFID Network · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. Are Japanese school children anyway? (Japan school kids to be tagged with RFID chips) Just wait until a stalker hacks that RFID network!

  24. Re:What on Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed · · Score: 1

    Sega was late to the party then. Aztarac © 1983 Centuri used a 68000, as did other systems in the next year or two. Sorry to hear about Tim Stryker. I never got to meet him, but the company I was working for was going to do a conversion game for the boards. Umm, if only 500 were made, Nova Games mashed a quarter of those after stripping the parts...

  25. Re:They had another game, too. on Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    And just think who wrote Breakout and co-founded Apple. Apple did their 1984 Superbowl commercial about overthrowing totalitarian control. And then the wall came down. QED!

    (So why's it taking so long with Microsoft?)