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  1. Re:Skeptical on Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data · · Score: 1

    I am also skeptical. During the period prior to 4000M years ago, the Earth was a molten mass with an average surface temperature of approx. 3500 degrees. Since then the Earth has shown a significant cooling trend, so what difference does a couple of degrees matter on that scale? Statistically insignificant!

    In addition, Saturn's moon Encedalus has been shown to exhibit a cooling trend lately, therefore we can extrapolate that to Earth.

  2. Re:Not uninstalling is a huge pet peeve of mine on AOL 9.0 Called Badware · · Score: 1

    Libraries go in /usr/local/lib or /opt/lib or /wherever/app/lib and you put the path in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is the Unix way, dumping non-vendor libs in /usr/lib is WRONG!

  3. Re:Not uninstalling is a huge pet peeve of mine on AOL 9.0 Called Badware · · Score: 1

    App configs go in c:\documents and setting\you\application data. Anything else is WRONG!

  4. Re:What?! on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 0

    No Safari support either,

    So what? Anyone can easily download Firefox. Tt makes sense to first develop for the only mainstream cross-platform browser.

  5. Re:Always remember... on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    The Cray J90 operations manual clearly states that after bringing the system down to single user mode, you must run sync thrice before shutting down the processors and halting the mainframe.

  6. Re:Homemade "Apple" Intel on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    Dry joints.

  7. Re:Clearly a contentious list on The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time · · Score: 1

    Commodore did more to put computers into the home than any other company by a long shot. Commodore made the "personal computer" a reality.

  8. Re:6502 on PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS · · Score: 1

    Maybe if ARM had 9 pipelines like AMD64 it'd be hella fast too :-)

    Maybe if ARM had 1/10th the amount of money spent on it that the x86 arch has, things would be different.

  9. Re:6502 on PC-BSD: The Most Beginner Friendly OS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The 6502's "zero page" instructions were a timesaver.

    That's a feature that designer Chuck Peddle lifted from the 6809 (which he also worked on). The 6809 allows you to relocate this page as well as the stack.

  10. Re:That's easy on Vinod Khosla Talks Ethanol · · Score: 1

    Can you say Mr. Fusion?

    Can you say Yabba Dabba Doo!?

  11. Re:I have to agree... on Oracle to Offer RedHat Support? · · Score: 1

    At least on Debian, even installing the client drivers for Oracle is a major hassle. I can't imagine what goes into support a full server setup.

    What's so hard about putting the Oracle repository in your apt sources? Just apt-get install oracle-client or server and away it goes. After install, Oracle configuration is just the same as any other system. Like any installation or patching, Debian systems just work.

    The real problem with Red-Hat is the legacy of its package management system; that turd's been polished so hard that you can see your face in it, but nevertheless remains a turd.

  12. Re:Infocom on Five That Fell · · Score: 1

    Yeah Trinity is pretty hard, the last few puzzles are pretty unfair but the overall game is awesome. I played it on a c128 with REU RAM expansion, the parser would load the data to ram and made it much faster.

  13. Re:Show some humanity on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    The operative word here is 'human'. If Lay had acted like a human in life then he may have been respected as human in death. As it is, he's as worthy of respect as dog-shit on your boot.

  14. Re:as alwasy...bikes are still faster than cars.. on New Human-Powered World Hour Record · · Score: 1

    You're not reading me, I average 20KMH through the same conditions and I am a smoker riding a shitty old twelve-speed steel frame racer. I think you are just a shit rider, and if you're going to ride at walking speed then you may as well just walk.

  15. Re:as alwasy...bikes are still faster than cars.. on New Human-Powered World Hour Record · · Score: 1

    You sweat (not good for dating/going to work)

    Bathe more often. Change your underpants occasionally.

    No place to store your groceries (or for the slashdot crowd, taking your rig to a lan party)
    No place for the girlfriend to sit


    Get one of these.

    *No air conditioning
    *Sun
    *Rain


    What sort of pansy are you?

  16. Re:as alwasy...bikes are still faster than cars.. on New Human-Powered World Hour Record · · Score: 1

    You can only manage walking speed? What sort of competitor are you? I SMOKE CIGARETTES and ride to work through SYDNEY CITY which is gridlocked and full of psychos and heavy vehicles, as well as having very steep hills, and I average 20KMH. I call bullshit!

  17. Re:How the times change on Damn Small Linux Not So Small · · Score: 1

    I ran Slack, then Debian on a 386 with 120MB hdd and you can keep those days as far as I'm concerned. I to build my own Vim packages without X just to trim 1MB from the install, with still not enough storage for X.

  18. Still hard to beat. on Quake is 10 · · Score: 1

    The ambience of Quake is still one of the creepiest, really adds to the fright when a fucking ogre drops out of the roof, or six zombies pop out of the ground, or a shambler materializes.

    I can still remember the feeling of the first time I heard a vore, and then saw it. And the horror of being chased down a dark corridor by a shambler!

    I don't have the CD any longer, but the Trent Reznor soundtrack was sublime. Games just aren't this good any longer.

  19. Don't dance with the Devil. on Amazon Asks Congress to Curb Patent Abusers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's about 5000 cliches that apply to this article.

  20. Quick call the broker! on Rumormongering - Apple Could Buy Nintendo? · · Score: 1

    What could be more quintessentially left-field McDonald's behaviour than buying out the US's number two fast food conglomeration?'. The article goes on to compare the companies, saying 'both have followings whose brand dedication verges on the religiously devout' and malnutrition levels that are so similar that 'the Whopper with cheese makes me feel like Ronald McDonald made it'. The writer says a McDonalds and Yum! Brands Inc. merger will 'penetrate the mainstream consumer market with grease laden filth'. The possible outcome of a merger would be a taco burger based around the Quarter Pounder. As for whether McDonalds have the cash to pull it off: 'Someone at Cisco was rumoured to be looking at a purchase of KFC during lunch, so the idea of Yum! Brands Inc being bought is not outlandish in itself. McDonald's market cap is $31.7bn (Yum Brand Inc's is $14.1bn)'"

  21. The Golden Method on Improving Software Usability? · · Score: 1

    Just interface your program with an electrode in the control device. Then when the user does something stupid, you zap them! Problem solved.

  22. Choke the internet? on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps, but HD video will certainly cause a few slashdotters to 'choke the chicken.'

  23. Re:Something similar with iptables on FreeBSD 6.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Ugh! :P

  24. British is best on In The Beginning, There Were Video Game Magazines · · Score: 1

    The British magazines were the best, C+VG ruled until the late 80's when it had a demographic shift. Keith Campbell is the king.

  25. Commodore 64 on Historic Microcomputer Restoration? · · Score: 1

    Why doesn't the c64 get more kudos as a historically important system? At the time of its release it had unbeatable specs and value and was the driver of much innovation in the 80s. It is also eclipsed the competition becoming the best selling computer system and introduced more people to computing than any other.