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  1. Re:Question on Commodore 64 Confuses Austrian Police · · Score: 1

    Yeah, really, it's so difficult to:

      LOAD "$",8

      LIST

    sheesh.

    I haven't touched a Commodore since like 1990, and I still can operate it. Plus, it's got all the software with it, I imagine, unless the guy went through and blew up all his software before he killed himself. In which case, once it's gone, it's probably gone. Anything aside from the "fast erase" pretty throroughly deleted whatever was on the disks.

  2. Re:CDDL on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    By your exceptionally flawed reasoning, any software that ever ran on the Linux system, would automatically become GPL, as anything that involves the kernel automatically would have to be GPL.

    A license on conditions for distributing code doesn't really affect linking to object data.

  3. WhatWG on COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved · · Score: 1

    Or, you could use Opera, and get WhatWG "standards", that allow the web server to push to the clients, instead of having the clients regularly request stuff from the server, and just clean up that way. Much better.

  4. Re:In other news ... on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 1

    Back in the early 90's, I was running a RadioShack store, and I come in way early one morning, and it was still pretty dark out, so I could see my neon sign outside real well.. and the top part of the left hand line on the "h" was burned out, so it looked like:

      RadioSnack

  5. Re:Have you on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it has something to do with the general intelligence level of the population, or the general caring level of the population. All employees are required to have learned all the basics, but that doesn't mean that it stuck.

    I know there are at least a dozen employees in the company that can handle just about anything you can throw at them, because I trained them to be able to do that.

    Unfortunatly, I didn't even get an email that my job was gone, I picked up my company cell phone to make a call on my day off, and was told I was no longer employed.

  6. fix the fix? on HP Baited With Cutouts of Founders · · Score: 1

    Could someone please fix the fix? I can't understand the first like 3 sentences, they make no sense to standard English speaking peoples.

    I wonder if HP/UX has actually been used anwyhere since the early 90's. . . . i actually turned down hosting on boxes that ran HP/UX for things because it was so difficult to work with.

  7. Re:Fruit Fucker 3000 on Penny-Arcade Videogame Announced · · Score: 1

    TWO wands?! *TWO*!? Holy shit!

  8. Fruit Fucker 3000 on Penny-Arcade Videogame Announced · · Score: 1

    I'll only play them if I can play as the Fruit Fucker!

  9. Re:"Serenity," anyone? on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, that's because everything that Joss Whedon has ever touched is made with the sole intent of getting young goth girls to hop in his pants. If you're not a young goth girl, nothing Joss makes should interest you.

  10. Lack of regular marketing on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1

    The problem is is that people who don't pay attention to Fark and Slashdot, have never heard of it.

    I sent a message on my IM to a couple hundred people, asking if they were going to see it, the day before it came out, and the vast majority of them had never heard of it.

  11. Re:Media on Stolen Laptop Calls In! - Will Police Act? · · Score: 1

    i'm just saying that if you could get someone at Verizon to care, then it could happen.

  12. Re:Media on Stolen Laptop Calls In! - Will Police Act? · · Score: 1

    Someone from Verizon could call the police and let them know that they have reason to believe that stolen hardware is operating from such and such a place.

  13. ok, cool on Jack Thompson Files Take-Two, Rockstar Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they have until 5:00 on TUESDAY to supply ME with a copy, just so I can play it.

    Who the hell demands free software? besides the FSF ...

  14. uh... FOOD? on Solar Wi-Fi To Bring Net to Developing Countries · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it make more sense to get these people some FOOD?!

  15. Re:Horror, Genre pleasure, the Unknown on Being Scared in Games is Needed · · Score: 1

    There are still LPC based muds? really?

  16. Re:I like the man's thinking on Håkon Responds to Questions About CSS and... · · Score: 1

    I'd be surprised if you see ACID2 even come close to rendering in Firefox before 2.0.

  17. definitely not first on LiveCoda, Real-Time Coding Competition · · Score: 1

    "Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition"..

    My best friend back in high school's school was involved in a multi-school real-time programming competition.

    12-16 years ago.

  18. wow, more crying on DirectX 10 Only On Vista · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is the second time this week, that i've seen the main article in a slashdot story being about some guy (or group of people) crying because features in a new version of software aren't being backported to old versions.

  19. Re:I have to say on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    Unfortunatly, it's not using any particularly advanced form of CSS, so it's still lightyears behind the times.

    Get with the program!

    Collapsible sections in CSS would be awesome.

  20. 1986? on First Mobile Phone Virus Nears 2nd Birthday · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know Mac and Amiga had tons of viruses before 1986, and I'd be willing to bet PC's did, too.. just that PC's weren't quite so much for game use, so there wasn't nearly as much pirating going around then...

  21. i note that the major claim of the article is fals on Waiting For Hasselhoff · · Score: 1

    They didn't actually get the Hasselhoff to do the voiceover. :(

  22. i think that eliminates him.... on A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers? · · Score: 1

    from ever getting votes from anyone here on slashdot, eh?

  23. Re:in other words on Microsoft Launches First Shared Source Contest · · Score: 1

    Back in the old days, virtually every operating system came with a compiler, but we used GCC because it was better.

    Now, we use GCC because it's the only free one left.

    Although I'd say the vast majority of us are probably not programming much in C or C++ anymore, with the ubiquitousness(sp) of all the other newer scripting interpreted type languagea available these days that weren't 10 years ago.

  24. Re:in other words on Microsoft Launches First Shared Source Contest · · Score: 1

    erm, the contest runs about 120 days.. so.. you're bitching that they are giving away their stuff free for the contest period, but not any longer?

    Welcome to the real world.

  25. Re:what? on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge · · Score: 1

    "Not only does this new, Windows XP-only software promote Urge to the exclusion of other retailers, you can't shop at this store-- or even just play your Urge downloads -- in any earlier version of Windows Media Player."

    Let's boil this down.

    "You can't shop at this store ... in any earlier version of Windows Media Player."

      All the rest of it is spin. The small statement immediatly above is the only part of that statement that actually means anything.

    Author crying about features not being backported.