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  1. he cheated on Time Travel · · Score: 1

    His future self went back in time to give
    his younger self the time machine plans.

  2. dune sucked on Sci-Fiction Channel To Do Myst Miniseries · · Score: 1

    hope they can do better this time.

  3. Re:LOTR didn't deserve what it got on LoTR Takes 4 Oscars · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The cinematography for Moulin
    Rouge was breath taking. LOTR was good
    but not as good.

  4. Re:Lines of code on It's Not About Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    >Never again would they want more lines of code.

    Oh yes they would. In fact, they would ask
    why you can't keep up that level of
    productivity.

  5. Why not just use a database? on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why fuck with the file system? Why not
    just use a database in the first place?
    There doesn't seem a reason to have file
    system semantics for this sort of thing.
    Especially when there are so many database
    tools in place.

  6. sure i'll give you the source on States Demand Windows Source Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...stripped of comments, white space stripped,
    merged all into one file, variable names mapped
    to numbers, etc...

  7. Re:Success vs Integrity. on Steve Jobs And The Oh-So-Cool iMac · · Score: 1

    >No, the unspoken idea is that the ultimate goal >for any company is to have the biggest market >share,

    Why is that? The goal can be big enough.
    To do well enough. To combine both quality
    and sufficient profitability. Better that
    than crash persuing the market share you probably
    can't obtain anyway.

  8. human nature on The Age of Paine Revisited · · Score: 1

    Advances in technology only allows humans to
    be more of they are, not something different.

  9. Re:"Real Multithreading" considered harmful on Building a Better Webserver · · Score: 1

    Without profiling where time is being spent
    people are just pissing in the wind.
    Library calls are a common bottleneck, especially
    memory allocation.

    And you are not a real programmer if you
    can't handle multithreading. Jeesh.

  10. just do it on Why Switch a Big Software Project to autoconf? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just do the conversion and see what's it like.
    The talking about takes longer than doing it.
    Then you'll really know.

  11. Re:Unknown? on Can Software Schedules Be Estimated? · · Score: 1

    Patterns work in structural engineering because
    they are always trying to solve the same problem:
    how to keep a building up. Problems that can't
    use standard patterns usually won't even be tried.

    Not the case in software. Patterns in software
    are useful but every problem is usually highly
    customized so the savings is not great, though
    quality is improved. In software almost no problem
    is standard and almost all aspects are
    specific.

  12. Re:Piracy Ploy... on Microsoft Sets Tolls for .Net Developers · · Score: 1

    Maybe MS is actually trying to increase piracy
    with their toll so they can use it as more
    evidence for copyright martial law?

  13. dont use grades on Cooperation in CS Education? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about grades and just worry about
    learning, then your lame partners won't matter.

  14. Re:two wrongs on FiveFingerDiscount.com? · · Score: 1

    Why do you owe anyone a legal response when they
    clearly didn't treat you similarly? Sounds like
    a sucker to me.

  15. Re:Sign of the times. on FiveFingerDiscount.com? · · Score: 1

    Stiffing your employees is thievery of kind
    far worse than stealing equipment. Your values
    are highly suspect if you value equipment that
    will get liquidated later over the lives of
    real people.
    Unbelieveable.

  16. worked in the old days on The Death Of The Open Internet · · Score: 1

    The internet worked in the old days with slow dialup modems over uucp. There will alwyas be an open internet. You can't stop it.

  17. Re:Do we need it? on Making Last-Mile Ethernet A Reality · · Score: 1

    Without solving the last mile problem we can't evolve to the next generation systems that could be possible. Now everything you do is constrained by bandwidth to the home. I don't know if this is the solution, but we need it solved, much like the US highway system paved the way for vast increases in growth.

  18. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on GM Investing in Fuel Cells · · Score: 1
    I am responsible for my "good fortune". I made my "good forture" through hard work and perserverance. Hell will freeze over before one Democrat ever believes a person is responcible for making their "good fortune"

    Then you are also resposible for yourself beging an idiot. Saying every democrat believes X is just plain stupid. Some of us are demo/independence because we don't believe corporate america should rule us and the government shouldn't control how we birth, use drugs, worship, etc.

  19. pretty nice on Mozilla 0.9.1 Out · · Score: 2

    Like many people i was a netscape booster and then had to move to IE when netscape tanked. Not a move i really wanted to make. And i've not downloaded mozilla until now because i haven't been in the mood to be a test subject. But i have downloaded 0.9.1 and have used it a bit. So far i'm quite pleased. No crashes, speed is good. The install went well. It did an excellent job importing my netscape defaults, something i hadn't expected it to do, but appreciate. All my pages seem to work fine. My goofy home page loads very quickly and looks correct. The email and news client seem to work. I haven't used any other features yet. For some reason i expected a different look than netscape, but i'll live. I'll use it as my default for a while and then i hope i can switch from IE and netscape. thanx

  20. 4 bytes per character? on Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet · · Score: 1

    Don't think so.

  21. Re:I know people don't want to hear it on Voyager Eulogy · · Score: 1

    Sorry, DS9 was the best of the bunch. It had a depth of character, philosophy, and religion seldom seen in the others.

  22. Re:politics on Solar Power Satellites by 2020? · · Score: 1

    The cost of OPEC oil is a little over $1. The cost of the alaskan oil is over $7. How can money be made with this cost structure? The oil produced in alaska doesn't even go to the US anyway. You have no guarantee any new oil will either. And what good does it do to have more oil when there are not enough refineries? Why have not more refineries been built even in texas where i assume you can build anything you want?

  23. Re:politics on Solar Power Satellites by 2020? · · Score: 1

    >Move to California and enjoy the logical >conclusion of environmentalism. Hope you take >lots of candles. Hm, we in CA are 49th in per capita energy use in the USA. Our peak energy use has gone down over the last three years. Our energy use has grown less than 2% a year. Many many plants have been approved. There is enough energy produced in CA to cover our needs. Plant shutdowns have increased %350. And who stops new plants from produced? Why existing plant owners, not environmentalists. There is no profit in abundance. Money is made in scarcity. The year before we seemed to fine. Then the plants are sold off and shrub becomes president. The privation plan was passed with a republican gov and senate. Gee, i wonder what the real problem is? Could it be a scam to make davis look bad (which he does) to get a repub gov back into power? Could it be to create a crisis to open up drilling everywhere? Could it be to make the oily people in texas even more rich? I wouldn't have expected such naiveness.

  24. Re:This doesn't help increase name space on .Info, .Biz, .Behind The Scenes At ICANN · · Score: 1

    Very very true. As long as trademarks are an issue TLDs are totally useless and should be abolished. The only good one i hurd was .porn so it could be easily filtered. My own solution also suffers from the trademark problem, which is fundamentally unsolvable by technology. http://www.possibility.com/urlspace/ (site is very slow now)

  25. picking management on The Business · · Score: 2

    Even if you group select your managers they change when they become managers. Qualaties you appreciated are burned out by politics and you are left with someone you will not recognize.