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  1. Re:First impressions under OS X on Columba 1.0 "Holy Moly" Released · · Score: 1

    While the jgoodies dependency isn't system dependent, the reliance on JDIC is. I'm running KDE and this tries to use gnome libs which I don't have installed so it doesn't run for me either.

  2. Re:The concessions on FSF, OpenOffice.org Team Reach Agreement on Java · · Score: 1

    While the rest of your points are valid to one extent or another, the GPL != OSS. There are many ways and licenses to do OSS. Stallman, et. al are free to use and fantasize about the GPL if they. Let the rest of us use what license we want.

  3. Re:How about part tree and part plant? on U.S. Denies Patent on Part-Human Hybrid · · Score: 1
    It's hard to even have a talk about important issues such as consciousness and genetics when we can't get even get passed a basic fact.

    /me passes Eunuch a basic fact.

  4. Re:Do not equate JAva to J2EE on LAMP Grid Application Server, No More J2EE · · Score: 1

    Please remember that J2EE != EJB. There are lot of technologies underneath the J2EE umbrella that are very nice.

  5. Re:RIP USA on Telecom Outages Now a State Secret · · Score: 1

    I invoke Godwin's Law. You lose.

  6. Re:Bytecode Compatibility on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1

    And that's a surprise to whom? You can target the 1.4 VM when you compile, but obviously you're going to run into limitations using 1.5 features. That's the way it's always been.

  7. Re:useful or bloat? on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1

    Then I guess I shouldn't have been using 1.4.2 on gentoo to run IDEA all these months. What was I thinking?!?

  8. Re:Security chip and continued development. on VIA Pulls PadLockSL · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rectal extraction?

  9. What right does the court have? on U.S. Interior Dept. Unplugged... Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why is the court telling the DOI to unplug? Is there a lawsuit I'm missing? The court's job is to rule on lawsuits brought before not define public policy or run about ordering people around. So unless there's a lawsuit about the DOI's systems, the court should stfu.

  10. Re:Really? Infamous? on Review: KDE 3.2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. Gnome and GTK are both object oriented APIs.

    Balderdash! C doesn't provide encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritence, ... I know the arguments about how OOP can defined in a variety of ways are wide and varied. But C doesn't fit any of the definitions unless you just require it to be written in a programming language. The argument that gtk/gnome code is OO is just a bunch of C programmers feeling left out of the OOP craze.

    Not only that, but their approximation of OOP code is more painful than listening to Al Sharpton screaming his tripe in my ears. Horrible, horrible code.

  11. Microsoft on Court to Hear Landmark P2P Case · · Score: 1

    Should Microsoft then be held liable for all the email worms running about? They were made with MS's software. That's several billion dollars in fines right there.

  12. Re:Someone buy Trolltech and LGPL it...PLEASE! on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 1

    If gtk was developed by college students they should be kicked out. I've always suspected narcoleptic epileptics were to blame...

  13. Re:Fair trial? on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    There's a tribunal being set up by the interim government in Iraq, not the Americans, and there's a war crimes tribunal in the Hague waiting for him as well.

  14. Re:Bush on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes he did.

  15. prior art! on Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had piles long before apple patented them!

  16. Re:where I stopped reading on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    Let me guess. You're a VB guy.

  17. Re:My letter to the author on Wired Interview with Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I'll call it GNU/Linux when... nevermind. I'll never call it GNU/Linux. Many things went in to making Linux what it is today. A good chunk of that is not part of the GNU project. I appreciate what RMS, et. al have done. I think they write some great software. But demanding that people call their own software by a name that you pick is presumptuous at best. RMS can call the Hurd GNU/Hurd all he wants, but he needs to learn to let others be free (Free?) to call theirs what they want, too.

  18. Uncle Kracker stole credit card numbers?!? on Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Maybe he couldn't sell enough CDs...

  19. What? on Where's GNU/Linux Usage Headed? · · Score: 1

    Oh, you mean linux. Silly me. Didn't quite get what you were talking about there for a second.

  20. no centrifugal force on Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive · · Score: 1

    There's no such force as centrifugal force. There
    is centripetal force however. Centrifugal force
    is the idea that a force is pushing back toward
    the center of rotation when it's really
    centripetal force that is pulling back in. Take
    a physics class.

  21. Re:Wake up slashdot *readers*. on 13 Nominations to Rule Them All · · Score: 1

    My it's because it has already been mentioned. It *is* news for nerds because a great many nerds obviously have read the books and seen the movie. Otherwise why would so many people submit the story. Don't wanna read this kind of story? You can filter it out on your user page.

  22. Treason not possible on Defamation, Free Speech, Jurisdiction and the Net? · · Score: 1

    I'm just being anal here (and I'm bored at work) but I can't be prosecuted in Libya for treasonous comments I make on a web site in the U.S. Treason is an act against an allegiance and that can only be done to my own gov't. As for slander/libel/whatever else? Let 'em come and get me. Who cares if France gets offended by something I say. I'm not in France so I'm not subject to their laws. Only stupid gov'ts will try to enforce such laws and that includes the U.S.

  23. FSF and perspective on The FSF's Bradley Kuhn Responds · · Score: 0

    I like some of what the FSF has done but most of the leaders come across as ideologues and a tad bit arrogant/condescending. Their instance on calling GNU/Linux is bunch of crap. I know it's been argued before (and most likely better), but the truth is my linux desktop is made possible by many vendors: FSF, Intel, Compaq, KDE, Netscape, the many authors of different packages I use (e.g., xmms, etc), and the letter L. They need to get over it. glibc is not a GNU project according to its maintainer.

    And the thought that the FSF's creation was the genesis of this community is a load of crap. It merely formalized and focused certain portions of efforts and philosophies that had been around for years. They do good things, but they aren't the final word in community development whether it's called free/Free or Open.

  24. Re:Improvements... on KDE 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I'm having problems with the RedHat bins. When I try to install some of them (kdeutils, kdenetwork for example) I get errors like : 1:kdeutils error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/kab;3b7c16bf: cpio: write failed - No space left on device. Have you seen this and found a way around it? I've been able to rebuild some of the offending rpms from src and they worked ok. (kdetoys) But I'm still stuck on these two.

  25. CmdrTaco: a rimshot is not what you're looking for on Dell Notebooks Catch On Fire! · · Score: 2

    Call me a nerd. Call me anal. But a rimshot is when the drum stick hits the rim of a drum typically the snare. What effect you're looking for is the double tom shots followed by a crash. Perhaps it could be represent with ba-dump chshhhh. I dunno. But people show that they have no idea what they're talking about when they start referring to that particular device as a rimshot. It's not.