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  1. Re:Java-heavy interface? on Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Its Java-heavy interface
    >
    >You mean Javascript-heavy interface?

    Thats slashdot logic: if its slow and ugly, it must be java...

  2. Re:Keyword being: Enterprise on The "Return" of Java Discussed · · Score: 1


    And by the time it caught up... meh. Flash is _still_ the better choice.


    ah, that must be the reason why all of my homebanking is written in flash ;-)

  3. Interessting name on Homebrew Game & Watch Games Make Debut · · Score: 1

    I guess you didn't realize what "Metalfotze" means in german... ;-)

  4. Re:MSN Search is infected on Corporate Servers Spreading IE Virus [Updated] · · Score: 2


    The MSN search engine is infected.

    You can download the trojan from here:
    http://search.msn.com/msits.exe


    all I get is a zero sized file..

  5. psst ... on Linksys WiFi Gateway Remote Attack Risk Discovered · · Score: 5, Funny

    don't tell to my neighbour...

  6. Re:KDE Compromise on KDE And Gnome Together At Last? · · Score: 2, Funny


    Maybe if KDE gets compromised too it could bring them closer together? *ducks*


    Guess who compromised Gnomes servers ;-)

  7. Gnome and KDE? on KDE And Gnome Together At Last? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whats next? Cats sleeping with dogs?

  8. Re:My question is.... on Indian Techies Answer About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    hy dont we see more Eastern (China, Japan, India....) Open Source software projects when they're soo good at computers?

    because they aren't better, just cheaper. Well most of the time, in fact I've seen several outsourced projects coming back from india, because of technical incompetence down there, but I don't want to generalize this.

  9. Re:# of channels on Samsung Puts Satellite TV in Cell Phones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    70 channels seems kindof low. shouldnt they be able to get more than cable tv?

    thats no technical problem, I've got around 1000 channels using digital satellite tv, but about 70 percent are encrypted, 20 percent are in a foreign language and the rest is crap.

  10. Re:There comes a time... on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    And hey, writing new code is always more fun that mucking around old code!

    even fixing bugs in new code is more fun than fixing them in old code...

    this guys problem is: he thought we are doing rewrites for the users *g*

  11. Re:In their office???! on 61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor · · Score: 1

    How about gaming! Imagine your favorite game on that pup! :0.. (me drooling).

    On the other hand, imagine goatse.cx on that...

  12. Re:Don't worry on Download Anaconda for Debian · · Score: 1

    So don't worry. Your precious text-based installation is still right there where it always was. In the stone age.

    Good to hear - so I can keep my hercules card until it amortized...

    btw: does anyone know about an isa to pci-x interface card?

  13. Re:Now all we need is a space elevator on Heavy Metal Frost on Highlands of Venus? · · Score: 1


    >>Only minor detail ....creating an elevator cable >>that can handle the high temperatures.

    >Diamonds Are Forever, baby.


    yeah, but they also burn....

  14. Re:Not exactly the Enterprise credits is it. on NASA's New Space Wheels · · Score: 2, Funny

    [...] and was created in Montana by a backwoods hillbilly of a rocket scientist who had more fun drinking than he did thinking.

    In contrast for what?

  15. Re:'good' vs 'bad' spam on Interview With a Spammer · · Score: 1

    The spammers' definition:
    Good: The spam I send and make me money
    Bad: All that junk that fills up my inbox


    after visting his website I'm quite sure that this guys spams his own inbox as well....

  16. Quote from the article on First Round of AMD Athlon 64 Reviews In · · Score: 1

    A 64-bit computing experience means that our PCs will no longer be limited to addressing only 4GB of RAM. In a 64-bit environment, it's now possible to address 8 terabytes of memory

    sound's like SCO math to me...

  17. Re:Fatal on Porting Games From Binary · · Score: 1

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in db/db.php on line 88

    looks like the server never died before ... until today...

  18. Re:before you switched to google ? on Google Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    remember when altavista was altavista.digital.com?

    I still use it with this url...

  19. Re:10 Trillion divided by 1.5 billion. on China Building Linux-Based 10 Teraflop Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy crap! That's about 6,666 flops per Chinese citizen!

    fine, so they could save many pocket calculators... ;-)

  20. Ah..cats dacing with dogs... on QuarkXPress 6 For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    and hell just froze over.. ;-) ...and finally Apple can ditch OS9 und announce 64Bit Macs.

  21. Old news on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 0, Troll

    He says that since the mid-70s "software hasnâ(TM)t gone anywhere.

    as we didn't allready knew this...

  22. Re:Germany? on First Look at YellowTAB's Zeta · · Score: 1

    Why do the old systems go to Europe to die? Arn't the Germans responcible for keeping the Amiga alive?

    The Amiga went back to the US awhile ago...
    Anyway, I guess thats why they called it "old europe" ;-)

  23. Re:Help me understand... on Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? · · Score: 2, Redundant

    What happens when a tornado takes out the building holding the critical data AND the building holding that nice array of IDE drives 2 minutes apart?

    torados are quite rare in Tübingen ;-)

    however, a backup system like this protects you from (accidental) deletion of files and hardware failures. thats enough for many people..

  24. So Microsoft is on Microsoft Opens Source to China · · Score: 5, Funny

    just using its own form of open source - you just need to yell "Hey were going to use Linux!" and you get the source ;-)

  25. Re:Budgets... on Funding Approved for Pluto/Kuiper Probe · · Score: 1


    That really isn't bad, there are F1 teams that spend that type of money in one season, and most F1 teams will spend that type of money in two seasons.


    We are proud to announce that the "West Light" Kuiper Express made the first place in the Kuiper-Pluto race....