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  1. America on Charles Darwin Online · · Score: 1

    Mention Charles Darwin, or the irrefutable fact of evolution by natural selection, and religious nuts start spouting. I guess the same thing might happen in Iran. You guys need to get yourselves out of the dark ages. There's no gods! Didn't you get the memo? -=dan

  2. Re:Finally, some sense! on Christian Churches Celebrate Darwin's Birthday · · Score: 1

    There's a vast difference between a question of precision leading to a four hour discrepancy, and the 7 days to 5 billion year lie.

  3. standardise on mulitple languages on Does Company-Wide Language "Standardization" Work? · · Score: 1

    In most companies I've worked for, there wouldn't be standardization on a single language, but rather a list of approved languages, eg - J2EE or .NET for web, perl for unix scripting, C++ for application development, etc. Is this not a more sensible approach?

  4. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 2, Funny

    In fact, the Linux desktop has a lot of advantages over WinXP and OS X, although they do have a polish advantage.
    Ah yes, the Polish Advantage. Developed in Warsaw I guess...

  5. Re:Labour spin? Huh? on Beating Roulette With Computers & Lasers · · Score: 1

    In Ireland we often call them Turf Accountants, so I suppose we *do* have a different word for everything....

  6. Re:osama's email on Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It means "The Foundation" or something similar. I believe they got the name from Asimov.

  7. Re:Some hints for safe partitioning on Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot? · · Score: 1

    No, my wrong.

  8. Re:Wahooo on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    Of course most average Joes won't use anywhere near a gig. If this is genuine, the gigabyte thing is more of a gimmick. It'll only be slashdotters and other hardcode user that will ever get anywhere near this amount of storage.

  9. Re:I'm cautious. on Hitchhiker's Guide Movie Greenlighted · · Score: 1

    His name was Agrajag, and it was in "Life, The Universe and Everything", and yeah, he was a wonderfully tragic character. He was even the bowl of petunias in the first book, so now we know why it thought "Oh No, not again" as it plumeted toward the ground. Amazing stuff! I too hope they do a good job with this movie, but suspect it'll suck. Here's hoping.

  10. Re:oh good. on Linux Beer Hike Goes to Ireland · · Score: 1

    You can get Beamish and Murphys in many pubs in Belfast, although Beamish is at it's best in Cork.

  11. Re:Problems displaying images on Mozilla RC3 Released · · Score: 1

    I got this problem too. I think it's a problem with the cache. When I deleted the mozilla cache, it all worked fine again. You should find it somewhere like C:\Documents and Settings\user-name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\something.slt\Cache Close Mozilla, delete the folder, and run mozzy again. Hope this helps. -=danny=-

  12. Re:Full text of review, in case it gets slashdotte on A New Kind of Science · · Score: 1

    thats a bit dumb. this is on the same page as the review. on slashdot. I didn't think you could slashdot slashdot.

  13. BBC radio 6. on Ask the Honcho of Internet Radio's SomaFM · · Score: 1

    It's pretty awful that these guys are being shut down, but at least there's always BBC radio 6: BBC's digital radio channel, which is also tranmitted via streaming real audio. Check it out here .

  14. Re:Thanks! on OpenOffice.org Team Releases Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if anmy of the old StarDivision developers are working on OpenOffice now? Did SUn hire any of them? Just wondered.

  15. Re:Really? on Gene Therapy Cures "Bubble Boy" · · Score: 1

    Hehe! That made me laugh. I spurted coffee out! Good one!

  16. Re:A crappy article for a crappy idea. on Nuclear Mutant Flies Are Good For Africa? · · Score: 1

    Didn't you watch Jurasic Park? They were all meant to be Sterile, but "Nature will find a way" Jeeze.

  17. 2 times redundant since september 2000 on The Laid-off Techie · · Score: 1

    Yeah, here in Europe (Belfast -N.Ireland to be exact) things have been screwy too. I graduated in 2000, and went straight into work for Nortel Networks ,as a telecoms engineer. I lasted about 6 months before they could no longer afford me! Then I went to work for a smaller local telecoms company called AePONA , but times became hard for them too: made redundant just before xmas (boo!). I've decided to leave telecoms behind me, and am now working for a bespoke software company Avalanch , and life is grand! .... so far. -=danny=-

  18. Re:Hitler is a Darwinist on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    Hitler liked to drink Coffee! That's why people who drink coffee are evil dictators... Or something.

  19. Re:Studies? Which studies? on The Hack Furby Two-Fifty Challenge · · Score: 1

    Eurpeans invented Linux?