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  1. That's a lot of video... on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So in his first year of life, you've recorded around 34-35 hours of footage? (going on single layer dvd capacities and mpeg2) Ask yourself, when are you going to watch all of that?

  2. No advocation of child cruelty on Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother · · Score: 1

    The rod referred to is a measuring rod, as was used to define measuring units for buildings and such. It is saying that if you do not measure what your children are doing and set boundaries for them, but let them do whatever they want to, they'll go off the rails.

  3. Netcraft confirms it... on EU Release of Price Cut 40 GB PS3 Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms it... the PS3 is dying.

  4. Re:Article pulled on Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Inifinite Creates? on Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Time is infinitely divisible

    This may not be as true as you think. Planck time is the shortest amount of time that has any meaning.

  6. Re:Quality of Life on Game Developers Sound Off On 'Quality Of Life' · · Score: 1

    I felt good about making a six figure salary... until i realised that the digits after the decimal point dont count.

  7. Re:IFPI?! on More Music File-Sharing Lawsuits in Europe · · Score: 1

    lol, you said "come"

    (sorry)

  8. Re:Ah, postgres 8! on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Ah. How foolish of me. Yes, changing column TYPES, not names.

    Ahead, dizzyness factor 5!

  9. Re:Ah, postgres 8! on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Yup, we're on 7.2 here. Thanks for the heads up on that though!

  10. Ah, postgres 8! on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are many reasons not to use postgres 7.

    Want to add a not null column with a default value? Thats 3 statements. Plus one to update the existing rows to the default value.

    Want to rename a column? Create the new column. Copy the data over. Copy any contraints. Update any forgein key contrainsts. Drop the old column. That's right, postgres 7 does not do RENAME on columns!

    Here's one that will catch you out :

    SELECT a.*, b.* from a;

    The default behaviour for postgres 7 is to join a and b automatically, giving you a potentially huge result set instead of warning that b does not have a from clause. Yes, you can turn this off, but having it as default behaviour? Insanity. Fine if your statements are always 100% correct, but if there's a novice developer on your team who misses things like this, expect trouble instead of a helpful error.

    I could go on. Glad to see that version 8 is a big improvement.

  11. Include a url on On the Subject of Slashdot Article Formatting · · Score: 1

    Don't say "The article about Novell" because there might be 3 in the last 2 days.

    Is that a distinct count?

  12. We need an open source implementation on Microsoft Testing Its Own 'Google Base' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's call it "Freebase"

  13. Re:The Pictures on Giant Squid Caught on Film · · Score: 1

    Dont click the link in the parent post! It's a trap!

  14. Re:Well, gee whiz on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 1

    Then you, sir, can ignore me and my deranged ramblings.

    Personally I don't read every line of code, but I do have a 'test' user to install untrusted stuff just in case there's a nasty 'rm -rf ~' in there somewhere...

  15. Re:Well, gee whiz on Moody Non-Photo-Realistic Driving · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly the same risks as downloading a tarball of sourcecode and compiling it. Oh, you read every line of source you download? Including the configure script, which may well contain a trojan? Ignore me then!

  16. Re:Losing your job is hard on IBM to Lose 13,000 Jobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh how appropriate/ironic (delete as misunderstood) that the parent post is marked as redundant!

  17. His homepage on Kim Peek, aka Rain Man Focus of NASA Study · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Visit his homepage at 97x.baaaam.thefutureofrockandroll.com ;)

  18. where the hell? on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Where the hell is Don't Sue People Panda when you need him?

  19. Re:Unable to distinguish items on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> If we counted in base 100 would women finally remember their own mobile phone numbers?

    Just because the ones they give you dont work, doesn't mean they can't remember them... ;)

  20. My eyes hurt on Accelerated PowerPoint? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, i know this if off-topic and all that, but light brown links on white and a touch lighter-brown background?

    Horrible, guys. Horrible.

  21. Re:DUPE on Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards · · Score: 0

    slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot

    Story, STORY!

    slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot, slashdot

    Story, STORY!

    Duuuupe! Its a dupe! Oh look, its a dupe!

    (repeat until punched in the face)

  22. Re:Oh, loads of war stories... on Abused, But Working Hardware Stories? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Definition of Irony : that post in combination with your sig.

  23. Next News on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Darl claims that Novell released the letters to them, and sues Novell for copyright violation.

  24. Re:MEPIS dead on MandrakeMove Final Available for Download · · Score: 1

    still doesn't resolve for me...
    Had to use the IP: 69.56.218.11


    So how did you find that out? ;)

  25. A black hole? on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1

    So, as I understand it, a black hole is a singularity, where the laws of physics and time itself do not add up and have no real meaning.

    So my timesheet...