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  1. Bertie Bott's Every Architecture CPUs on Transmeta Lays off 40% of its Workers · · Score: 2

    x86 is not vanilla. x86 is vomit flavoured.

    C is not vanilla. C is more like the genome of the vanilla plant, that you could grow to produce beans (insert Java joke here) except you'd probably have a rogue pointer somewhere that would give the damn thing the blight.

  2. Re:The answer is in the question on Sili-Hudson Valley? · · Score: 1

    Read the article

    You haven't been here very long, have you? :-)

  3. The answer is in the question on Sili-Hudson Valley? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are they so excited about a location that is over 100 miles from their nearest constituent company?

    slightly further up:

    New York State will supply the remaining $210 million

    It always feels good to get money back from the government.

  4. Dumbutt on ATI R300 and R250V · · Score: 1

    Dumb-utt or Dum-butt? I don't know what either of those would mean.

  5. Re:This is so broad......... on Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So it runs out next year? 1986 + 17 = 2003, last I looked.

  6. Re:digital needs more resolution on The Future of Digital Cinema · · Score: 2

    I heard that the digital version of AotC was 1028x768 (or whatever that is stretched to 16x9). No wonder it was pixellated. 4000x2250 would be more like it.

  7. OT: Your sig on ATI R300 and R250V · · Score: 1

    1) miquoted.
    "Linux is only free if your time has no value"

    2) misattributed.
    Jamie Zawinski

    Read the whole thing here:
    http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html

  8. Re:"Bucket brigade" analogy unconvincing... on Clockless Computing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's more accurate if you think of the amount of water getting to the other end. If the water supply is irregular, the synchronous bucket chain will sometimes be sending empty buckets. The asynchronous bucket chain only has to send full buckets. If one person is 1% slower than the others, the other people on the synchronous bucket chain have to wait a whole extra cycle, reducing throughput by 50%. Throughput on the asynchronous bucket chain is reduced by just 1%.

  9. Re:Confiscatory taxes on Considerations for an Oversea Move? · · Score: 2

    Wow. That's one well-paid paper route.

  10. Confiscatory taxes on Considerations for an Oversea Move? · · Score: 2

    Compared with the 47% taxes we pay on my wife's income (US, FICA etc., & MN)?

  11. Two choices on Last Mile, High Speed Help for Upper Michigan? · · Score: 2

    1) Pay through all available orifices to have fibre run to wherever you want it to go.

    2) Move the people to a damn city.

    Rural folks get many advantages over urban folks: lower cost of living; less pollution (air, water, noise and light); lower crime and so on. Why do yo uthink you can have the advantages of living in a city (running water; paved roads; high speed internet), too?

  12. Jackson is like Lucas on Extra Scenes in FotR Special Edition DVD · · Score: 4, Funny

    He knows I won't be able to resist the lure of the August release, particularly when I see the display in the window of Sam Goody. Although I want to be strong, want to wait for the November release, we all know it's not going to happen. I'm going to buy both. And I'll hate myself for it.

  13. Re:Is it possible.... on Elements 116 and 118 are Bogus? · · Score: 5, Informative

    These elements are extremely short lived. You can't keep them around and poke at them until you're sure of what they are. You can just look at the tracks in the bubble chamber and see if you can construct what that lead nucleus used to be a microsecond ago.

  14. Lutefisk on Norwegian Government Expires Microsoft Contract · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have eaten lutefisk (white fish marinated in lye) on two occaisions. The first was to see what it tasted like. The second was to make sure I hadn't just had a bad batch the first time. I hadn't.

    To be honest, the taste is not that bad. It's just that fish should not be crystalline.

  15. "My translation. The race is on." on Norwegian Government Expires Microsoft Contract · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it's accurate, Norwegian is an extremely verbose language. The article looked like it had about 250 words to me.

  16. Funny on Piers Anthony Unbound · · Score: -1, Troll

    It worked for the parent to this post ...

    Still at karma:excellent. You guys have got to try harder.

  17. Offtopic on Piers Anthony Unbound · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's Piers Anthony. He just switched to Linux and Star Office. A post about Linux and Sexuality is not Offtopic.

    Troll, maybe. Also possibly redundant. You could even make a case for the massively overused Overrated moderation. But not Offtopic. I think we need to vote for $rtbl's.

  18. Re:Linux not sexual on Piers Anthony Unbound · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I couldn't agree more. Look at all those pr0n sites that don't render properly in Mozilla/Linux (or rather, don't).

  19. Re:The other exception is gewgle on Search Engines Take Their Time Disclosing Paid Links · · Score: 2

    What is the point of this site? It doesn't do anything to the results, and it's not like the Google main page is so cluttered with advertising that it needs a cleaner front end.

  20. Air conditioning? London? on Cameras in UK for Toll Enforcement · · Score: 2

    While I'm all in favour of air conditioning, particularly on the 90/90* days we've had too many of already this Minnesota summer, my recollection of summers in London (yes, I used to live there, too) is that air conditioning is rarely helpful, and never necessary.

    [*] Over 90F and over 90% relative humidity

  21. One word on Creating the New Public Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Latency.

    You don't notice it on your XM radio, because it's all one way. The various satellite IP systems I've seen have played rather scary games with the network stack in order to get some semblance of performance (and even then, not nearly as good as cable or DSL).

  22. Re:Moderators on crack. on Collateral Damage in the Spam War · · Score: 2

    Slashdot moderation is like Brownian motion. You can't see the little buggers that are doing it, and you can't know in advance which direction they're going to push you.

    And since they're mostly American, I wouldn't expect many of them to understand irony.

  23. The difference is on Cameras in UK for Toll Enforcement · · Score: 2

    That Americans care about their cars. Only those nutcases at the ACLU and NRA give a damn about civil liberties.

  24. 15K pound car on The Mod Squad · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be a snow plow. People in the Twin Cities are quite good at driving into those, with the effect that you describe.

  25. Really? on RoadRunner Blocking Use of Kazaa · · Score: 3, Funny

    The symptoms they describe (gradually decreasing download speeds) don't sound like RR activity to me. If I were an ISP and wanted to block a port it would be blocked. I can't imagine RR going to great lengths to effect a bandwidth fade when they can just shut the whole thing off.