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  1. Re:OSX on generic Intel HW on Slashback: OS Xi, Sarge, Statistics · · Score: 1

    It can't be that different, or those developers are going to have to port their applications from the devkit to the actual machine.

  2. Re:So when can I get a copy? on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now, if only they could support C++ with Cocoa

    You can use C++ with Cocoa, as well as mix C++ with ObjectiveC. ObjectiveC is evidently an acquired taste, though I don't know of many programmers who have wanted to use C++ once they got used to ObjectiveC.

  3. Re:This is bullshit. on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 2, Funny

    for(int *p=0;;*(p++)=0)

    As soon as this completes I'll know exactly what it does!

  4. Re:Holy crap. on Apple Switching to Intel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's Apple's press release.

    Dispel any remaining doubts; we are now living in the evil mirror universe.

  5. Re:Could be a disaster.... on Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant · · Score: 1

    If the file included x86, PPC and 68K code it would have to be an OBESE binary.

  6. Re:Band of Brothers on Star Trek XI In Two To Three Years. · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, it's coming to me:

    The USS Benneton is sent to the Asdfg-qwerty region of space to assist an archaeological study of some ancient studio props.

    As the survey progresses it becomes apparent that the scientists have found fossilized prehistoric borg - the scariest possible thing other than ghosts of prehistoric borg.

    Naturally, 35 minutes into the movie a trans-chrono-glowy-thing is discovered, which allows the castmember displaying the greatest degree of autism to travel back in time to meet the proto-borg.

    It turns out that the Borg evolved from William Shatner, which explains why they walk the way they do. Shatner is the Borg king and sits on a huge glowing toilet, spilling wine and demanding more green-skinned women. He seems entirely unaware that he has crossed the actor-character divide.

    In the end, the logical crewman somehow averts disaster in the future, preferably in a way that involves the sexy large-breasted crewmember becoming sweaty, naked and dead (dead?).

  7. stock price on Iomega Patents 850GB DVD Nano-Technology · · Score: 1

    Iomega's stock is still suffering from analysts obsessed with declining zip drive sales. Should be interesting if this has any impact, not that analysts ever read /.

  8. Re:Better link on BBC on Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury · · Score: 2, Informative

    In England I would expect that, should they not survive, a coroner would deliver a verdict of 'misadventure'. If they survive then unless they had maliciously endangered someone else they probably won't be prosecuted.

    For all its faults, the UK does allow - and even encourage - a far greater degree of eccentricity than most other countries.

  9. Re:Does this mean - on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 1

    Even better than that, the 68K emulator itself used 68K toolbox calls, so it was doing the emulation for it's own execution.

  10. Re:Agile on Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're quite right; I apologize for besmirching you.

    It is interesting that Apple's policy of giving away software - principally OS X - to sell hardware means that from an investment analyst's viewpoint the company's stock is expected to have a much lower P/E than if it sold the software separately. Companies that sell software can have huge P/E ratios.

  11. Re:Agile on Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project · · Score: 1

    oftware represents about (in thousands) $134 of $3,243 in net sales.

    You are 0.1% right. The figures are in millions. Apple's net sales was over $3 billion.

  12. Re:Tablet on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Labtop

    It's the top of a labrador. Apple is going to release the top of a labrador retriever.

    Don't get the first version; it's full of bugs.

  13. Re:Before everyone goes crazy on Lockheed Martin unveils Space Shuttle replacement · · Score: 1

    Updates to Space Shuttle since inception:

    1978: Name changed from 'Death Sled' to 'Space Shuttle'.

    1981: Rear gun turret deleted.

    1984: Smoking banned during take-off and landing.

    1986: Voice-activated autodestruct disconnected.

    1990: Power windows replace crank handles.

    1994: Shield button discovered. All-time high score achieved.

    1997: Headrest video players installed to reduce boredom.

    2002: Computer no longer allowed to kill crewmembers.

    2005: Burning skull emblem reconsidered.

  14. Re:One or two questions related to these articles: on Lockheed Martin unveils Space Shuttle replacement · · Score: 1

    Houston doesn't have a very good rocket garden - a Little Joe and a few others. KSC in Florida has a Saturn V beautifully displayed suspended from the ceiling. Huntsville has probably the best rocket garden I've seen (I like rocket gardens) including a real Saturn V on it's side and a dummy standing up.

  15. Re:RTFA on No Need For Trek Anymore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Caaaaaaaaaaaarrrrddd!

  16. Re:Filesharing? on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what the unwashed masses should do. That's why we have elections.

    This line of thinking is both fascist and circular; you can't pass an insidious law and argue that it must be acceptable because it hasn't been rejected.

  17. Re:If there's one person Apple should hire on Amit Singh's Challenge: Find a Decade-Old Bug · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thanks, Mrs Singh.

  18. Re:Parent is Troll? on Modern Mac Development? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comparing a php app written in BBedit and an asp+ app written in VS.Net is less than fair and pure trollbait, since I cam write a php app in notepad on Windows as well, but I would need to be seriously dumb to do that wouldn't I?

    Yeah, as dumb as <SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPA N><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><DIV> </DIV><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN></SPAN>

  19. Re:RC Landing? on The Shuttle Mission No One Wants · · Score: 1

    The interesting thing about Buran is how it was created: the Soviet political leadership decided they needed military parity with the space shuttle, even though the design was questionable.

    The main sticking point for the Russians was the SSMEs; despite the Russian's excellent record of making rocket engines, they felt they couldn't make them reusable. They opted instead to launch on an Energiya booster and used the space where the engines would have been to put a pair of jets. It's the jets that made Buran good at landing.

  20. Re:If Mohammed cannot come to the mountain... on The Shuttle Mission No One Wants · · Score: 1

    You're right; the problem with automated landings is that putting the gear down has to be done by the pilot.

    The rationale is that if a computer error lowered the gear in orbit, the shuttle has no way of raising the gear again, which would mean a "loss of vehicle scenario" in NASAspeak.

  21. Re:Answer on The Shuttle Mission No One Wants · · Score: 1

    since they can't push off anything the only way to move is to throw something hard in the opposite direction you want to move.

    Apparently the astronaut in question escaped by emitting some gas somehow.

  22. Re:Why Repeat Our Mistakes? on Japan's 20-Year Plan for Space · · Score: 1

    It still beats Dan 'Space is really big' Quayle.

  23. Re:Well... on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 1

    why I Apple sitll asking me about bug reports I submitted...

    Because they can't decipher your typing?

  24. Re:Different dataset from Keyhole on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    The WTC site in NYC is still the muddy mess it was two and a half years ago, so I guess the images are a little old.

    This would be a nice application for automated image processing, to match the different exposures at the image edges.

  25. Re:the word being "could" on How To Head Off ATA HDD Password Abuse · · Score: 1

    thereby living as long as the host organism does

    Except that viruses - computer or real-world - aren't alive.