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  1. Re:terminology, methods, what? on 'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award · · Score: 4, Informative

    It serves as a common language for designers to talk about what they're doing.
    It gives standard terminology for talking about, among other things, how you'd implement an undo function in an application.
    However, such standardization flies in the face of the need to re-invent the wheel and sell it as a shiny new technology.

  2. Re:Another Dupe, Zonk on Internet Explorer 7 To Be XP Only · · Score: 1

    Ummm...to shake loose a few stalled XP sales?

  3. Re:Socket A on AMD to Adopt DDR2 Next Year · · Score: 0, Troll
    Well, the earth rotated, and orbited the sun, and, um, here we are.
    Here is your morning dose of Solomon:
    Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
    ECCL 7:10
  4. Re:well... on FCC Proposes Abolishing Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 1
    Learning Morse Code can be a difficult barrier for many new members.
    That's not a bug, that's a feature.
    In any endeavor, it is critical to have a shibboleth or five, to keep out the riff-raff.
    Fundamental to organizational behavior.
    See the bone. BE the bone. Love the bone.
  5. Re:a commercial operating system... for free on Five PC Innovations the Industry Should Get To · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a film about lesbian jellyfish.

  6. Re:Hot grits? on IGN Interviews Natalie Portman · · Score: 1

    Say 'thespian', and sound a high-brow ingestor of hot grits.

  7. Re:You mean like... on Time for a Linux Consolidation? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A Sourceforge search on "make and replacement" turned up about half a dozen projects, omitting a few others I know of like bjam, SCons, and ant.
    What would make some rejoice is a paring down of the wheel re-invention. While you get nothing but flamewar for touting The One True <tool category>, the fragmentation in F/OSS, ultimately, supports the existing monopolists.
    So, maybe we can agree that the combinatorial explosion isn't helping?

  8. Re:Quote from TFA on Shrimp Bandages Clot Blood Faster · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, relaxing the requirement to atomize the opponent lets the rounds be smaller, translating into more shots per soldier for a combat load.

  9. DRM roll, please: on DRM Advocate Violates DRM · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Did you see this Inquirer piece?
    Now we can see why Jobs wants Apple in bed with Intel.
    20+ years of failed copy protection schemes
    See, now, that's not a bug, that's a feature, if you're in the hardware market.
    I've got to force feed you a pile of nonsense so that I can declare defeat, and sell you some more stuff, and declare victory.
    See sine wave.
  10. Re:Is there no prior art on this at all?? on Reminding Customers Patented by Amazon · · Score: 4, Funny

    In an abstract way, my wife.
    That work of art neither forgets, nor hesitates to remind. ;)

  11. Re:nice on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: 1

    Clearly, when the plane in question carries .
    Assuming, of course, you aren't in the neighborhood designated to enjoy 15 minutes of fame.

  12. Re:Obviously flawed on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, really: internet traffic really is doubling every six months!
    It is!
    No, please don't call my bluff!
    What are those cuffs about?
    Screw you all! SCREW YOU ALL!

  13. Re:Cornerstone on Advanced Programming in the UNIX Env, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    This book (along with UNP I and II on the other side) is the cornerstones in my bookshelf.
    Do we need to singularize conerstones, or add 'among' after 'is'?

  14. Re:Cornerstone on Advanced Programming in the UNIX Env, 2nd Ed. · · Score: 1

    My point exactly, besides the Princess Bride reference.
    One man's Troll is another man's Funny, as we demonstrate.

  15. Cornerstone on Advanced Programming in the UNIX Env, 2nd Ed. · · Score: -1, Troll

    I do not think it means what you think it means.

  16. Re:Ouch on HP Invents A New Way To Print · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In response to your 31May "GUI Must Die" blog, the answer is: emacs.

  17. While doing some very simple math seems fun... on BBC Open Source launched · · Score: 1

    I look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/apache/
    and I'm thinking, wow, you could really implement some stupid stuff with that.
    Some of the more asinine web templating tools available today would look like Knuth's TAoCP in comparison to the potential train wrecks.
    Which is not to say that such little gadgets don't have their time and place; my point is that somebody will always take them out of context.

  18. Re:Simply ludicrous on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1
    The lawsuit is in an effort to make *use* of that capacity.
    A well-pinstriped lawsuit is an advertising campaign that buys its own champaign.
    The Ultimate Linux Box used a Tyan motherboard and four AMD64 chips this year.
    Who gives a flying French frobnication about what Steve Jobby and Intel are up to?
  19. Re:The Limit of Lawsuits on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    Dude, if you have a patent on falsehood, enforce it.
    These days, you'll be making Gates look poor, an' junk.

  20. Re:Regulators Raid Intel Offices on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1, Funny
    was there *anything* negative that came of the Microsoft monopoly ruling?
    I happend to know a MicroSoftie (of the Sales persuasion) in an extra-curricular setting, and he is always a hoot.
    In particular, his correlation of the bursting of the .com bubble with the Jackson anti-trust molestation^Wruling really made me go "hmmmm".
    Verily, the kool-aid of Redmond: tasteth it not of milk and honey?
  21. Obligatory Animal House: on After 20 Years, Phrack's Final Issue Looms · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Start drinking heavily.

  22. Re:Stop blaming companies on The Great Firewall of China, Continued · · Score: 1

    I thought the point was that the Fed controls the US Mint and physically prints the money.

  23. IANA ICANN on EU Domain Registries & ICANN · · Score: 0

    IIRC USA sed EU AFU. YMMV. HAND.





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  24. Re:Apologists on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Buzzword Bingo is not amusing when you see that someone can gain power by saying absolutely nothing at all.
    You don't get it, do you?
    Big organizations are about elevating policy, procedure and process to religious levels, at the expense of common sense, accomplishment, and leadership.
    It's about maintaining the problem at all costs, a forget about fixing it.
    One either becomes reconciled to it, or departs.
  25. Obligatory on Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, all your Natalie Portman hot grittified, Netcraft BSD/Steven King obituaried, greased Yoda doll in mabootied, welcomed by our new GNAA-overlorded, imaginary beowulf cluster of Burma Shavin' weasel words are belong to us!