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  1. Re:Where would you put your apps? on Paintable LCDs · · Score: 1

    You should have.

    I need no stinking opinion from a, ugh, Mac user!







    Just kidding. :)

  2. Re:Where would you put your apps? on Paintable LCDs · · Score: 1

    Just a general rule, I would recommend not placing any M$ product near your anus.

    BSOD - Blue Shit Of Death

    Sorry couldn't resist...

  3. It's not fair on Mars Exploration Must Consider Contamination · · Score: 1

    While we don't want to bring contamination back to earth, NASA planned to contaminate the Mars to create an artificial greenhouse effect so that it's warm enough to grow algea to produce oxygen.

    Life isn't fair isn't it? :)

  4. Re:Where will Java be in five years? on Interview With James Gosling · · Score: 1

    Java applet+JDBC I'm sure. Though JDBC can be used in server side programming, applet+JDBC is entirely client side stuff, which is very slow and non-persistence. I think that's why he's whinning all the time. Poor guy, if only he'd listen to people like you who has more clue. :)

    and he's even modded to 'insightful'....gee..

  5. Re:Magnetic Bubbles on Solar Sail to be Launched This Year · · Score: 2

    and that is the farther out in space it goes, the less force is transmitted to it by the solar wind.

    As far as I know the inital plan is to launch it toward the Sun, and have it gain enough photon-thrust for the initial acceleration, so that it could fly toward a destination in high(and constant) speed, until it crashes or is crashed.(with well-engineered steering, crash could be avoid)

    It would be a dangerous task, as you can imagine - if it gets too near the Sun, it'll melt; if it doesn't get near enough, then the solar sail would not gain enough initial thrust for the perpetual voyage.

  6. Re:Basic business, basic math on When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses · · Score: 2

    2000 man hours later...
    at $5/hr... $10,000.

    Hey, guess you've never worked for Government before. All human resource expenses are 'absorbed' by their department - aka paid by taxpayers' money. The section head can then write-off any human labour as 'zero-expense' in all computer projects. Those suckers.

  7. Nokia 9210 on The Ultimate Phone/PDA? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a phone with PDA function, Sony P800 is definitely your cup of tea. However, if you want a PDA with phone function, I think Nokia 9210i will suit you.

  8. If you are interested in this subject on Chess: Man vs. Machine Debate Continues · · Score: 2

    You might want to read this: Quantum Theory and Human Consciousness

    Quote:
    What about future evolution? Will consciousness occur in computers? The advent of quantum computers opens the possibility. However, as presently envisioned, quantum computers will have insufficient mass in superposition (e.g., electrons) to reach the threshold for objective reduction due to environmental decoherence. Still, future generations of quantum computers may be able to realize this goal.

  9. I can't imagine on Linux On a Used Cash Register · · Score: 1, Funny

    if someone installed Quake on it. This will make the queue longer than ever...

    Hey mam what you are typing all I need is to get some change...

  10. Now, can we on Linux On a Used Cash Register · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    really run Beowulf clusters on these?

    Sorry, mod me down. I just couldn't resist.

  11. Re:Adobe Lost Me at Hello on DreamWorks Switches to Linux · · Score: 1

    Afaik Adobe wanted to withdraw the charge to save themselves from PR disaster but it was DMCA insisted on proceed the case. This was a /. story but I don't have time right now to find the link to it. Just fyi.

  12. Legend is /.-ed on GarageGames Torque Engine Linux Beta Client Out · · Score: 3, Funny

    Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/legends/www/pnadodb/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 105

    Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/legends/www/pnadodb/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 105
    Error connecting to dblegends
    Program: /home/legends/www/mainfile2.php - Line N.: 82
    Database: legends
    Error (2002) :

    It's a real legend now.

  13. A good place to start with on Comparative Laptop Reviews? · · Score: 2, Informative

    First you must make sure the laptop is 'Linux-Ready'. Take a look at the Standard Certification at LinuxCare. So that you can see whether your favourite Linux distro fits with your laptop of choice. Then proceed to google for the linux support for the rest of the devices.

  14. Re:Harmless, my eye! on Lunar Power · · Score: 1

    The generators would then convert the energy into harmless microwave beams, which would be aimed at collecting stations on Earth

    Apparently this dude has never put a marshmallow in his microwave oven.


    By any chance, what happen when a bird get in between?

    FREE ROASTED BIRD FROM THE SKY!

  15. That's it on Lunar Power · · Score: 1

    "It would require the efforts of many nations and a treaty to do it," he said.

    This was exactly what I said in the start-up initial meeting with our VCs.

  16. Re:Play for time on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 2

    It's really funny indeed, but in reality it does not work.

    It's rare that the MAT would call directly. Usually an letter of free audit offering from BSA will arrive. No matter you ignore it or not, there will be a letter, with mild legal threatening tone, of informing you a mandatory audit visit is on the way, in two months. While you are deciding whether to reply or ignore this seemly threatening letter, MAT would telepathically know your situation and send you a letter to offer you an free audit with sales offer. At this point you'd better accept the offer if you don't have enough MS license, or BSA will come with legal department and warrent soon.

    When they arrive, they've enough lawyers and law enforcement dudes to debunk the excuses you planned to make. These guys are professional and working worldwide. They know the local laws more than we do.

    You wonder how they get the warrent? Have you seen all these ads asking all employees to turn up their employers when they found illegal copies of software are being use? That's how they get the warrent. :(

  17. Re:I live in Portland on MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit · · Score: 1

    That's an idea. I'll do it with my students in today's workshop. :P

  18. Re:a thought on Gates Testifies in Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much smoke his hand gave off when it touched the Bible :D

    Capitalize the IT, for the respect of the Beast. :)

  19. Re:Two days on the stand is a lot of $$ for Bill on Gates Testifies in Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1

    I'm beginning to think you're a confused, uneducated little flamer.

    A car salesman once told me "Capitalism, or Consumerism, need these people."

  20. I've the worse on First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi. · · Score: 4, Funny

    WinBoss - cannot work on anything but Microsoft Windows.

  21. Re:It's a remarkable sucess on Evangelion Reviewed In LA Times · · Score: 1

    fundamentalists? Don't get me started with this! ;)

  22. It's a remarkable sucess on Evangelion Reviewed In LA Times · · Score: 2

    I was pretty surprise when I first look at the storyboard(from a magazine, before any film was being made) of Evangelion - it's entirely anti-christ in the eyes of religion people. I'm not a Christian myself, but I was worrying that the use of religious concept would ignite anger of sensitive Christians.

    It turns out a great success. There aren't much discussion on the contraversial religion elements in it but instead the film was being appraised for the creativeness.

    People nowaday has higher tolerance to imaginative stories based on derived interpretation of popular religions, it seems.

  23. Re:My Services on Microsoft Gives Up on Hailstorm · · Score: 2

    These products have all the features that the average consumer will ever need in a lifetime, and what Microsoft can improve,

    It's not entirely true. Look back in history, people thought Visicalc has all the features that they will ever need, then there's Lotus 1-2-3, then Excel. Same things happened to Multimate and Dbase III, etc.

    The key point is innovation, which Microsoft lacks. People are not bashing Microsoft for nothing, this company is exactly like what you said - they thought they couldn't make better products, that kills all the innovation. That kind of mentality killed Ashton Tale in the past, it will kill Microsoft in the future.

    Open source development, on the other hand, has better chance to survive. The derived works are basically the extension of previous good work with innovation. I don't need to give example do I? :)

  24. My friend heard that before on Unix Isn't Dead · · Score: 2

    His PHB said "UNIX is dead".

    He knew what does it mean by dead when 50,000+ candidates querying their examination results from that NT IIS server at once.

  25. Re:Not to mention GNU/Linux for several years on Unix Isn't Dead · · Score: 1

    Indeed, AFAIK the only 'mainstream' OS that is struggling with 64-bit and so late to the game is ... Microsoft Windows.

    I didn't make this up, but in a conference a Microsoft sales babbling in public '64-bit OS is too slow, and all your works must be rewritten for 64-bit processing(?). Windows is a hybrid of 32bit and 64bit OS - that's why it has outstanding performance while perserving 64-bit compatiblity".

    I wish he's joking.