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  1. Re:I like the press release from Oracle on Oracle Acquires Sleepycat · · Score: 1

    Linux is a kernel. Why would a Unix-workalike kernel embed a database?

  2. Re:If you must ask why on Galileo Sends Its First Signals · · Score: 1

    Blowing up commercial satellites just because you don't want them there will probably result in retaliation, which means no GPS and no Galileo. Back to good old map and compass for all ships around the world. Because that's what you implied that any of these countries wanted?

  3. Re:More features - is that what C++ really needs? on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 1

    You mean, besides that the Posix threading API might not be available in the platform you're currently compiling for?

  4. Re:A question on dual licensing on Original BeOS Developer Now at Trolltech · · Score: 1

    Work ON - possibly. Work WITH - no. The differences and general feeling of quality and design between the two API:s is staggering. For personal projects, I would choose Qt because I can create a wokring application much faster with it compared to GTK+.

  5. Re:B. Spears Music "Fairly Complex" on Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome' · · Score: 1

    Did you have to get special training to become retarded or were you born that way?
     
    Three years of university, actually. Thanks for asking, mr Coward.

  6. Re:B. Spears Music "Fairly Complex" on Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, if you look closer at "Oops" or "Hit me baby", you will notice that they are actually two metal songs in disguise. Imagine the same songs, but done with a good metal band. It wouldn't sound too bad. Meshuggah would of course make the song totally twisted and absurd, but that's not my point here.

    Now, try to do the same with a song by JLo or Eminem. Ewww. Would sound worse than Creed.

  7. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The US always has paid for its own messes ... and eventually, for everyone else's.

    You mean, like you have paid Vietnam for your screwup there? Oops, my bad - you haven't done that yet, despite being ordered to. Any plans to do that?

  8. Re:The music industry is stupid enough to do this. on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 1

    What, can't they say fuck like ordinary people?

  9. Re:Let's talk about the elephant in the room. on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to ask, but what the hell does those commands do? Oh, and the only lines that worked for me on my Mac OS X install was #2 and #4, and it still looked like crap. I guess that only the very last line works for Windows users.

  10. Re:Oh, wonderful on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: 1

    The dumbing down of GNOME has absolutely nothing to do with OpenUsability. I'm not really sure who to blame for turning a pretty good desktop into a software where all the settings you would really want to change are available only via a Regedit clone.

    At least we have KDE, which is improving at an impressive rate, while we wait for the GNOME guys to realize their mistakes.

  11. Re:A quiz! on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 0

    I was under the impression that the Wright brothers developed the flying machine in the US. And don't you think it's kinda ironic that an airplane was used to drop the two atomic bombs on Japan?

  12. Wait a minute... on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    Exactly where are Å, Ä and Ö placed on a Dvorak keyboard?

  13. Re:Wishful thinking on Apple Release Mega Patch to Fix 19 Flaws · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'd all like to say "Bonjour" to Windows...

    American, I presume? :-)

  14. Re:Good to see progress... on Long-Awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have used OpenOffice and StarOffice on OS/2, Windows and Linux (in that order). Wanted to try the Mac version too, and since X11 is already installed - no problem.

    One second after it launched, I knew exactly why Mac users hate it. Amongst my Mac applications, there is one ugly as Stephen's mom application breaking almost every user interface rule there is. Even the simplest one (there's a perfectly fine menubar at the top of my screen, you bastards) was ignored.

    THAT'S the main reason it's not used on the Mac.

  15. Re:Welcome back! Glad for the update! on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 1

    192.168.0.1

  16. Re:No matter how hard C is, gtk/glib is impressive on GTK 2.6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Nope, try again, QT isn't opensource! Stick with GTK and try GTKmm as the parent said, it's the only way to stay within the GPL.

    So, what you are saying is: to stay within the GPL, you should the LGPL:ed GTK+ instead of the GPL:ed Qt. This makes no sense to me at all. Could it be that you don't have a damn clue about what you are talking about?

  17. Re:Science! Think of the science, children! on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1
    I live in America and am a citizen of one of its states.

    So you live in a state in America. Which country? Last time I checked, both North and South America consisted of a large amount of separate countries.

    (do you see the difference between "american" and "USA:ian" now?)

  18. Re:Missing KDE on A Review of Ubuntu Warty Release · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what the hell you mean here. GCC set to run with higher priority costs no more than ordinary GCC. Also - proprietary software costs money regardless of platform. A KDE version of Photoshop costs no more than a GNOME version.

  19. Re:Hmmm.. on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 1

    No. Try it yourself: copy a 500MB file. In a copy-on-write system, this would be done in an instant. The actual duplication of file data would be done when you modify a byte in one of the files.

    Think of it as hardlinks, but when you modify the contents of one file the link is separated and all file data stored in a new data stream.

  20. You just got to love the headline... on ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems?"

    The last word in file systems is "systems". And stop asking file systems these questions, you fool.

  21. Re:Too bad... on Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption · · Score: 1

    Actually, we still have the old agreement where you could travel through Sweden, Norway and Denmark if you were from one of those countries. We share a history where large parts of our countries have been owned by each other, and have languages that are quite similar. No new, fancy EU thing will take that away.

    Och nästa år MÅSTE jag besöka Trondheim på sjuttonde maj. Som en otrolig fest med grannen. :-)

  22. Re:Great News on Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption · · Score: 1

    I prefer Six Feet Under, which features the previous Cannibal Corpse "singer" Chris Barnes. He has improved his skills a lot lately, so you can actually hear every word that he growls!

    Oh, and the best song on Tomb Of The Mutilated has to be Necropedophile.

  23. Re:Bigfoot on Feature Preview of Gnome 2.8 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately not. And it sucks ass. It's even more annoying when you have configured KDE to use a shared MacOS style menu, and Gimp or some other app chooses to do the "fuck you and your preferences" routine.

    Unfortunately, this won't change. The people behind X seems to hate the thought of a general API for showing a button or a menu or a what-you-want.

  24. Re:Damn on Bar Coding The World Away · · Score: 4, Funny
    Are you a) a racing driver, b) in the military or c) into extreme sports?

    d) stalked by a psycotic ex-girlfriend?

  25. Not really that odd - Emacs did it already on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't GNU Emacs really at version number 1.21.x.y but they just skip the leading "1." when writing it? Then this would be the same, except that it's just a programming language and not an operating system in desperate need of a good editor.