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  1. Re:Pi the movie on The Golden Ratio · · Score: 1

    the suggestion that any number of a truly fundamental significance besides 0 and 1 would be not only rational but an integer seems improbable

    Why not? What if it's a Goedel number? What would that program be?

  2. Re:No, one does not on NASA Scientists Get Custom 24h39m-per-day Watches · · Score: 1

    Crystals that oscillate at a nonstandard frequency are very expensive, even when produced in fairly large numbers. And you don't just change one, either.

  3. Re:Wireless? on Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip · · Score: 1
    W2K and AMD chips just don't get along

    What are you, drunk?

  4. Replicator! on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1
    You buy the item - then download the mass profile(perhaps a .mpr file) and send it to the replicator like you would a document to a printer.

    God. Just imagine the copyright nightmare over this.

  5. Re:False on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 1
    He said the city was using them, not allowing them.

    Potty mouth.

  6. Federal: on Segway Banned In San Francisco · · Score: 1
    Don't be an ass clown. A federal system is one in which powers are distributed to smaller units within the federation. For example: the United States government delegating the power to legislate intrastate transportation policy.

    It might help if you learned what words meant before you bitch out the people using them.

  7. Also ask if they can route IPv6. on How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? · · Score: 1

    It's getting to be important these days.

  8. This is Harry Potter. on Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets Leaked · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's more like four geeks.

  9. Re:wait for the external drive on Sony DRU-500A Review · · Score: 1
    Unscrew case, open case,
    Case is always unscrewed and open.

    unscrew drive,
    Drive is always unscrewed.

    check jumpers,
    Ever hear of cable select?

  10. Glass is not a liquid. on 'Computer-On-Glass' Display · · Score: 2, Informative
    Glass is classified as an amorphous solid. This is to say that glass is, in fact, a solid which does not have a regular or crystalline molecular structure. It is, nevertheless, a solid by classification, and as such can be said not to flow when subjected to everyday forces at everyday temperatures.

    More information.

  11. It's really a bomb. on Sony Hard Drive Recorder for Cars · · Score: 1
    Tick, tick, tick, tick...

    K4B00000MP3!

  12. Re:As you mentioned, games already do this ... on Improv Animation as an Art Form? · · Score: 1
    ... cut-scenes generated using the game's own graphics engine are MUCH better than those pre-rendered...

    Bullshit. Any such games are produced by companies with no-talent animators, actors and/or art directors.

    and the `switch' from the game's beautiful in-game graphics to the pre-rendered graphics really takes away from the effect

    Again, if done poorly. I offer Diablo II offhand as a counterexample.

    Speaking of Blizzard, Warcraft III makes use of both in-game-engine and prerendered cinematics. While both work well for pulling the continuity of the game together, the prerendered scenes are not even from the same plane of existence as any in-engine cinematic I've ever seen.

  13. Johnny Five is Alive! on "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Noooooo disassemble!

  14. Re:minicluster linux on PC/104 Linux Minicluster - miniHowTo · · Score: 1, Informative
    Linux is actually born out of Minix. The Linux kernel was originally written to work within the Minix system, as Linus himself explained when Linux was first announced.

    Now, the following trivia comes from one of my current professors (he happens to be the Phil Nelson mentioned at the bottom of the previously linked announcement). As he tells it, Minix was created to be an instructional operating system, and the professor who wrote it is reported to have said, "If the Linux kernel had been written for my Operating Systems class, it would have received an F."

  15. Damn, I wish I had a mod point for this. on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    I laughed my ass off.

  16. Re:yeah, yeah on Cheap Software Languages for NT? · · Score: 1
    If you think the guy is at a disadvantage using Visual C++, then advise him not to buy it and instead to roll his own open sores unix developer distribution on NT.

    You know, open source and open sores are substantially different things, right?

    Meanwhile, there's a reason why projects being concurrently developped on both Linux and Windows (Mozilla for example) work and make better progress on Windows...

    Yeah. That's where the user base is.

  17. Re:Blizzard: it's been fun on Blizzard Rains on Bnetd Project · · Score: 1
    Bwahaha. Look at that. A comment that makes me spit Sprite through my nose, and me without a mod point.

    Thank you. That was wonderful.

  18. Wow. on Net Connected Dream Inducer · · Score: 1

    In general, the ceiling projection becomes livelier as the participants become more active.

    Mmmmmm.... Kinky.

  19. Umm... on Study Finds Low Use Of Steganography On Internet · · Score: 1

    "Study Finds Low Use Of Steganography On Internet"...

    Duh.

  20. Re:If she'd been blind... on Inability to Type Not a Disability · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure. A blind person can do all of those things. But what's important here is that Jacalyn Thornton could still do all these things, and she could still see.

  21. Re:Oh god this is too much fun! on Code Red II: Shells for the Taking · · Score: 1
    How about something even more in your face:

    http://[ipaddy]/scripts/root.exe?/c+net+send+*+You +are+infected+with+the+Code+Red+II+worm.++Go+and+p atch+IIS+already!

  22. Re:While we're talking about 2 year olds on FDA Approves Swallowable Camera · · Score: 1

    Yeah. The problem is, though, that Flinstones vitamins are chewable.

  23. Re:Poltergeist? on The Sound of Safety? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so they can hit it with a brick (or otherwise make it stop).

  24. Re:as long as we're fixing bad grammar on The Linux Desktop Obituary · · Score: 1

    No. A pronoun can be similarly singular. It can also similarly be singular, although in this case, there are a bunch of people who will yell at you for splitting a verb phrase, even though there is really nothing wrong with doing so, according to the vast majority of grammarians.

  25. Re:Ridiculous! on The Linux Desktop Obituary · · Score: 1

    /dev/fd0

    It's a file. It's even a file on Macs nowadays.