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  1. Re:Overclocking cost? on Extreme Cooling · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Bell Curve is a well known societal phenomenon in which those with power justify there need to keep those lower down on the power scale without power. Drastic measures to fix this include sending in suicide bombers to blow up those at the top of the bell curve.

  2. Re:$500 on Extreme Cooling · · Score: 1

    Hey, I think this will get my Celery 300a to 2.001GHz, don't knock it.

  3. Re:Cowardly on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 1

    Now this is exactly what Jack Ripper needed in Dr Strangelove. No problems with having to set up secret codes, closing down bases etc.

  4. Re:Much better! on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 1

    Should that be called, Operation Enduring Lets Keep the Arms Industry Happy?

  5. Re:Much better! on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 1

    Um... if you look at the current state of world affaird, I believe the Russians are now you allies.

  6. Re:Now they will bomb even more on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 1

    That list of 'evil' countries gets longer every month. Watch out when it gets to you.

  7. Re:Cheaters. on X-45 Makes Debut Flight · · Score: 1

    The only difference between this and a suicide bomber is the bomber.

  8. Re:DOOMED to fail on Augmented Reality Quake · · Score: 1

    I think that all that stuff will actually be embedded inside your skull, then you won't need to run around at all. You could just lie back in a tank like thing, on a drip to feed you, and have all the tanks arranged in big tower like thingy.

  9. Re:Campus Security on Augmented Reality Quake · · Score: 1

    Unless it leaves us a quadriplegic, or something like that.

  10. Re:coming soon - the Blind Date mod on Augmented Reality Quake · · Score: 1

    No one around here is attractive, in fact, it is mostly generated by bots.

  11. Re:Great... on Coasters to Face G-Force Limits? · · Score: 1

    We were having a lot of jokes in Australia before the Olympics about the laws in Atlanta on sex. People make jokes aobut Muslims and sex, how about the laws in the Georgia about sex. I think they include no oral sex, no sex toys. In Little Rock, flirtation between men and women on the streets may result in a 30-day jail term. You might get to share a cozy cell together! Be careful! Don't get extremely cozy in that cell. Oral sex is considered sodomy in Arkansas and is punishable.

  12. Re:Why $$$? on Episode II Surpasses $116 Million at Box Office · · Score: 1

    Ahh, production data, that must be a first post for that phrase on /.

  13. Re:good thing I'm not... on Linux Beta Kernel 2.5.16 Out · · Score: 1

    I noticed that with all the page widening trolls happening, every one was whinging about /. not fixing their code, but no one expected Microsoft to fix theirs.

  14. Re:Jar Jar and Yoda on Review: Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones · · Score: 1
    My neighbour told me it is much worse than Ep 1. I think I'll believe him. I told him I'd wait till it turned up on video, and he said don't even bother with that. Think I'll just wait till it's a really boring day in the retirement home. In the meantime, I finally got to see Charlies Angels, George could learn a thing or two off them. Lets face it, Charlies Angels was a much better film than Phantom Menace.

    The reviewer says if you take out the bad bits, it's quite a good film. That is what I call damming with faint praise.

  15. Re:Here's your review on Review: Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones · · Score: 1

    And of course, this white supremicist and this and Timothy McVeigh and all his friends, they aren't deranged, just misguided whites who aren't really going to harm or hate anyone.

  16. Re:Insult to British on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1
    The big problem is that so many people take Hollywood as truth, not entertainment. Half the problem with modern day politics is the fact that ALL arabs are now bad, just look at the drivel that comes up here about them.

    Extremists everywhere are a blight on humanity, and the US doesn't have to look much past the likes of Timothy McVeigh and the perpetrators of the Anthrax scare to realise that no one nation has got it all right.

  17. Re:Insult to British on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1
    England could well have gone to the Germans, but if Germany had control over all of Europe, and it's nuclear, rocket and jet programs had been allowed to develop unimpeded, what's the chance that the US could have been in trouble too.

    The US wasn't just there to be a nice guy to Europe, it was fighting for it's own survival, too.

  18. Re:You think that's bad? on Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A blatant case of breach of contract, but if the might of the US Govt can't sue them, what hope has anyone else got. Go on MS, do what you want. Short of a civil war, there is nothing else that can stop them.

  19. Re:This is EXACTLY why I'm anti GLOBALISM on Managing a Global Programming Team? · · Score: 1

    Try this for US anti globalism, subsidising the rich farmers , plus a pittance for the poor.

  20. Re:Wow you are a moron. on Managing a Global Programming Team? · · Score: 1

    You mean the upturn you have when you measure things the way Enron does.

  21. Re:what am I missing? on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 1
    C++ has disappeared into the void of the something so powerful, very few people understand it. Sort of a modern day Tower of Babel.

    Time to move on to a new programming paradigm. As someone has pointed out, Java has shifted the complexity onto the library. It will also soon support generic classes, which should be an easier thing to use than templates.

    What neither language really knows how to handle is multiple inheritance, something that C++ has, but is difficult to use, or Java, which just ignores the concept.

    As for me, I have given up and am learning Ocaml, which seems to be travelling on the True Path to Enlightenment.

  22. Re:More Importantly on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 1

    Apparently that is exactly where many of the useless spelling changes came from, such as using 's' for 'z'. Upper Class English thought it was cool to bastaradise the spelling to appear to be even more upper class.

  23. Infringement of the DMCA on Government Funds Secret Sustainable Computing · · Score: 1

    Part of the Microsoft Method for Making Money (R) (patented), is to ensure software always expires, goes rusty or is made obsolecent. Any attempts to circumvent this process clearly are a breach of the law.

  24. Re:Problems with XServe hardware. on Apple Introduces Xserve Rackmount Servers · · Score: 2

    I noticed that the license is for unlimited users, wouldn't this be a major cost saving compared to a WinXP license which always counts the number of users?

  25. Re:But hey.. on Post-it Notes vs. Copy-Inhibited CDs · · Score: 1

    I was there before the PC, when they were called micro computers. The good old days of the Osborne sewing machine, kaypro and Big Board. The PC was a late comer, with the term being invented by IBM. Before then they were only known as micro computers. (A child of the 50's).