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  1. Re:Do we really need the extra cores? on AMD Quad Cores, Oh My · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure we need at least 20 cores. Let's see... 9 cores for the mortal men, 7 for the dwarves, 3 for elven lords, and one core to rule them all and in the DRM bind them.

  2. Time Bandits on Wisconsin Corpse Plant To Bloom Again · · Score: 1
    Randall: We made trees and shrubs. We helped make all this.
    Kevin: Whew! That's not bad.
    Randall: Yeah. But did we get a thimble full of credit for it? No! All we got was the sack. Just for creating the Pink Bunkadoo.
    Kevin: Pink Bunkadoo?
    Randall: Yeah. Beautiful trees that was. Og designed it. 600 feet high, bright red, and smelled terrible.
  3. Re:Here is your problem: on Who Isn't Paying Attention to ROBOTS.TXT? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What a lot of sites need is a slashdot.txt file.

  4. Re:i wanna go home! on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Just remember: Zefram Cochran shot first!

  5. Re:Uhh, they were not an integrated suite of produ on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1
    In 1990, Word and Excel were integrated such that you could copy/paste between apps, and I believe they supported hot links where live data could be inserted. (Dynamic Data Exchange) That was a fairly new thing for different apps. (There were certainly combo apps that did documents, spreadsheets, databases, etc, that did it much before then, even in DOS.)

    There was no integration with Access because it wasn't released until 1993.

  6. Re:Carlos the time-traveller! on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    In 1988, running on Windows 2.1 or even earlier? I doubt it.

  7. Re:WAIT WAIT READ WHAT HE DID, THEN SPEAK on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He couldn't have done what the text says. Access 1.0 was released in 1993. Basically the Register stories boil down to goo. Does anyone have a link to a story with come actual content and information?

  8. Carlos the time-traveller! on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In 1990 Carlos Armando Amado filed a patent for software which helped transfer data between Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft's Access database

    Wasn't Microsoft Access 1.0 released in 1993 or so?

  9. Missing Option on Holy Men in Tights! Academic Superhero Conference · · Score: 1
  10. Re:too obscure? - I miss The Tick & TEMBWBAM ; on Holy Men in Tights! Academic Superhero Conference · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had a "Boom baby boom! I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight" quote in my sig for a couple weeks. I think it cost me a few karma in the hours after 9/11 before I realized and changed it.

  11. Re:Only $50,000? on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Typo? Oh...! Yes, I can't see why I'd confuse Commodore Elron Hubbard with Captain Obed Marsh. And famous Scientologists never have to be hidden away when they gradually show the Innsmouth look and start acting strange.

  12. Re:For anyone else wondering... on Rob Pike's Excellent Adventure · · Score: 5, Funny
    [..] in order to create a coherent video.

    Darn! Bell Labs invented a method of producing coherent light, but the secret of producing coherent videos hasn't escaped to the outside world yet.

  13. New Google product coming? on Rob Pike's Excellent Adventure · · Score: 5, Funny

    VOIP GooglePhone? They could combine it with their search engine and social networking. I can't wait to try that I'm Feeling Lucky button on my dialing screen, woohoo!

  14. Re:Only $50,000? on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1
    I wonder where the heck they sell them? It doesn't sound like something a guy in a bar on a Friday night would try to sell you, claiming it fell off the back of a truck. ("It should cost much more, but for you, only $50,000! It's a steal!")

    How many end up on eBay? (The Cthurch of Scientology usually blocks private sales of e-meters on eBay with a DMCA copyright notice. I don't see how copyright trumps the first sale doctrine on a physical object like an e-meter, but I haven't had Elronic training.)

  15. Re:This is how it starts... on Secret Codes Protect Ancient Torahs · · Score: 1

    Far less time for it to be a best seller.

  16. Re:Umm... on Effort to Create Virtual Brain Begins · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some early work was done with both. They set them up to monitor each other's output for correctness. There was a snag in that the output of the male brain was always flagged as incorrect. Removing the interface or even powering down the female brain made no difference, the male brain was always wrong.

  17. Re:In other news on Effort to Create Virtual Brain Begins · · Score: 3, Interesting
    What is the difficulty with writing a PDP-8 program to emulate Jerry Ford?

    Figuring out what to do with the other 3K.

    Yep, presidential brain simulation jokes just never get old!
  18. Re:Units of measure on Atomic Clock Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    So what happens when you drop it in your instant coffee and zap it in the microwave?

  19. Re:Time on Atomic Clock Turns 50 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used to tune in a shortwave time-signal station like WWV or CHU to carefully set my computers. Now, with Internet, they just automatically join the DDoS against TL time servers once a week.

  20. Re:Working Nights and Weekends on Mars Rover Breaks Free · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have just dropped another rover at the edge of the sandtrap and carried on. It would have cost them a stroke, but that's not so bad.

  21. Re:Nice work guys. on Mars Rover Breaks Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    No way. They'll just get started and then they'll get all excited because they've dicovered water on the surface. You'll never any work out of them after that.

  22. Re:Very cool, given its from the 60s on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 1

    Or maybe David Niven, yeah baby!

  23. Re:Wow... the 1960's.. on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 1

    And what if someone had the bean burrito for lunch? (Always a problem in a space suit, but at least in closed suit it doesn't contaminate the surrounding area.) And what happens to sensitive instruments in a vacuum when someone gets too close in a "sweat-suit"?

  24. Re:Sadly on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 1

    No, they accidently ate one of those packets. There's a warning on them for a reason!

  25. Re:Lawyer? on NASA Discovers Space Spies From the 60's · · Score: 1

    Who says that they need space suits?