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  1. Re:Financials on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 3, Informative

    Very hard to find accounting programs that do not require Windows OS.

    When you're a $24B company, you don't use Quickbooks. You use Oracle Financials or SAP, neither of which require Windows.

  2. Re:Too much is better than too little on Ph.Ds in IT - Good or Bad for a Career? · · Score: 1
    Yeah and from my experience, 1 year of experience and 5 years of BS doesnt take you very far :P

    You should try working for the federal government. A diploma mill BS, MS and Ph.D will get you very far indeed.

  3. Re:IBM Model M on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1
    You can have my IBM Model M when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
    Yeah, carpal tunnel syndrome from these keyboards can do that to your hands.
  4. Re:Sharper Image ("Wonderful Reviews"???) on An Affordable Air Purifier For Dusty Computer Labs? · · Score: 1

    ... aleviation of your symptoms does not mean that scientific principals are suddenly invalid
    His small words could use some help, too.

  5. Re:Gold? on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 1

    But why the color (or element) gold in particular? I always thought it was called "gold" because that was when the first CD-RW was burnt to make the pressed CDs out of. You know, since the dye in the first CD-R discs had a metallic yellowish tint. Just a guess.

  6. Re:We need strict sentances for hackers/crackers on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1

    I don't know about stricter sentences, but I think I know someone who could use stricter spelling.

  7. Re:"The Linux" on Open Code Has Fewer Bugs · · Score: 1

    That should be "Including the Solaris, the Windows, the AIX and the HP/UX operating systems" like in the original quote, then.

  8. Re:The problem of asexually reproducing crops on Banana to be Sequenced · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't have a link to their site, would you?

    Here you go. And apparently, they always cum in pairs.

  9. Re:AWESOME on Forty-two Inch Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1

    HDTV perhaps, but definitely not standard broadcast signals.

    I've become so used to people on /. misspelling "definitely" as "definately" that for a second there, I thought you had misspelled it.

  10. News or Movie Ad? You decide. on Magnetic Poles May Be About To Flip · · Score: 0, Redundant
    From the article:
    It is unlikely that humans could do much. Burrowing thousands of miles into solid rock to set things right would stretch the technological prowess of our descendants to bursting point, though such limitations do not worry film scriptwriters. Paramount's latest sci-fi thriller, The Core - directed by Englishman Jon Amiel, and starring Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart - depicts a world beset by just such a polar reversal, with radiation sweeping the planet.

    The solution, according to the film, to be released next year, involves scientists drilling into Earth's mantle to set off a nuclear blast that will halt the reversal.
  11. Re:Point by point on 10 Reasons We Need Java 3 · · Score: 1

    No, i++ is shorthand for "i.increment()". If you make ints etc immutable you can't do this, because it's like trying to write 1++, hence making all instances of 1 in the system into 2

    The String class is immutable and yet you can still say String a = "Hello"; a = a + " world". When you perform operations such as the autoincrement operator on immutable objects, it doesn't frickin change the object, it creates a new object and reassigns the variable to that new one. So, in short, if int were an object, then i++ would work since a new object would be created that contained the value of i+1 and i would be assigned to that newly created object. This means that all instances of 1, for example, will NOT be converted into 2. Yes, immutable means that the value cannot be changed, but it doesn't mean the variable can't be reassigned to a new object with the new value!

  12. Terminology? on Planetary System Similar to Sol · · Score: 1

    I always thought it was called the Solar System because it was the system of planets that revolved around the star named Sol. Shouldn't the proper generic term be stellar systems then and not planetary systems?

  13. Take it. on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    Take the counter-offer and tell the other company that you've decided to stay with your current employer. The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know.

  14. computerized music and monotone singing ... on Dictionaraoke - Fair-Use meets Karaoke · · Score: 1

    And how is that different from regular Karaoke?

  15. browser id for mozilla on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1
    If you use Mozilla, find the file prefs.js (under WinNT, it's somwehere under the %WINDIR%\Profiles directory) and insert the following line:
    user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 4.0; U)");
    This string seems to work okay with MSN. Oh yeah, make sure the file is still sorted after inserting this line.
  16. OMG on X-Rays Of A TiBook's Interior · · Score: 2, Funny

    That thing runs off 8 AA batteries!

  17. SirCam and Eliza on Eliza for Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    SirCam: Hi! How are you? Eliza: Why are you interested in whether or not I am ? SirCam: I send you this file in order to have your advice. Eliza: You're not really talking about me, are you? SirCam: See you later. Thanks Eliza: Oh... later. Thanks?

  18. Isn't there only one Solar system? on Stellar Apocalypse Shows Water · · Score: 1

    This has bugged me for as long as I can remember, but isn't there only one Solar system since there is only one star named Sol (ie, the Sun)? Shouldn't other stellar systems be named after the star around which they orbit? You know, like the Alpha Centauri system, the Proxima Centauri system, etc.? Just wondering.