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  1. Re:how much better than OpenOffice? on SoftMaker Rolls Out Office Suite for BSD, Linux, and Others · · Score: 1

    Heh, I spent ages looking at your comment... did you mean 50,000 MS Word documents, each 200 A4 pages - in which case that's a _lot_ of typing. Or did you mean 200 A4 pages in total, in which case each word document is only 1 line long.

    I got your meaning in the end though, you meant 'words' heh.

  2. Re:other theories on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    How do you know that there is "additional information" (whatever that means, you haven't defined it) in a living thing?

  3. Re:Umm...what stigma? on 2007 Java Predictions · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

    I get most of your points (and reluctantly agree), but not sure whether the performance part is legitimate - it seems unlikely that the marshaling interface is going to have any significant impact.

  4. Re:other theories on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    > Nobody has ever shown how new information can be generated by the sole interaction of energy and matter through time.

    What about a snow flake? A fairly complex beautiful structure made from quite a simple process with simple ingredients.

    I suspect though that you don't know what you mean by "new information". Try to define it as best you can, and I'll give you simple counter examples.

  5. Re:Umm...what stigma? on 2007 Java Predictions · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hi,
        A serious question - when is using SQL server the right tool for any job? Or was it because that's what the client wanted/knew?

  6. Re:Don't use shell on How To Adopt 10 'Good' Unix Habits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, do you think you could be just a little bit more polite next time?

  7. Re:Safety on Equipment for A Perfect General Lab? · · Score: 1

    I work with lasers - and everyone that I've met in this field has had exactly one accident with the laser and partially blinded themselves temporarily or permanently in some way.

    Myself, I shot myself in the eye with a 432nm (blue) pulse laser. After injections in the back of the eye, I was thank goodness okay a few days later.

  8. Re:Asshole on The 10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time · · Score: 1

    And what about those that do kill you? Look at the list of toys in the article - most of them killed several people at least.

  9. Re:Spyware on Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    You mean software fake-hardware raid. If it was truly hardware raid, then the OS wouldn't even see it as raid - just one disk.

    Another good example though is if your disks are SATA drives

  10. Re:Keep It Simple Stupid on Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    It broke your websites because it was parsing them badly, or because you had shitty html code?

  11. Re:other theories on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    which was pretty what my attempt at satire was getting at to the post I replied to

  12. Re:other theories on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    You haven't tested that everything will fall down, therefore it's not a fact. All you can say is that you tested some objects, and those objects appeared to fall.

    However, we agree. I agree that presenting gravity as a theory and not fact is just as solid ground as demanding that darwinism is presented as theory and not fact.

    I was responding to the post that demanded that darwinism is presented as fact when it shouldn't be. I was responded that then everything should be presented as theory and not fact.

  13. Re:other theories on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 1

    I think that makes it an excellent example.

    You don't see people complaining that the laws of gravity are taught as fact at school.

  14. Re:other theories on First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I demand that gravity is presented as a theory and not fact.

    Why don't you campaign against that? All those teachers teaching that things fall down as fact

  15. Re:Can we please not have another McKay character? on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm, he's anti-social because nobody listens to him and yet he's usually right. I don't remember when he said something won't work then it does though. I only remember one episode where he was really wrong and that was the one where he nearly destroys the galaxy.

    Especially in the first season though he says something, nobody listens to him, then he turns out to be right.

  16. Re:Can we please not have another McKay character? on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    Haha, I love McKay. He's thinks everyone around him is stupid in comparison to him. And frankly, he's right.

    If I was as smart as him, I'd turn out the same way. Cynical about everyone else.

  17. Re:Come ON already on New Stargate Series In the Works · · Score: 1

    "pretty much everyone who can hold a gun is our friend."

    mmm, wait a few episodes :-)

  18. Re:This is common on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    Ah okay, sorry.

  19. Re:This is common on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    And poor show on your behalf for letting them get away with it.

    Get off your lazy ass and send a letter to oftell about it.

    It's people like you that just roll over that encourages them to do this.

  20. Re:Terminology on CSIRO Demonstrates Fastest Wireless Link Yet · · Score: 1

    Good grief, there's 3 answers so far and all use 2 significant figures for their data, yet quote the answer around 10 significant figures!

  21. Re:US's domination was temporary on Saving U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the UK gave lots of patents to America to help it out during ww2 as well.

  22. Re:But of course on Saving U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    While I would have to check your info, you do have a thought provoking conclusion.

    I do remember though that as a kid the science fiction section at my library was far too small. Maybe you are looking back to the past with rose tinted glasses?

  23. Re:So who IS going to be at the lead? on Saving U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    What makes Britain a conformist society?

  24. Re:Argh!!! on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely the conservative would replace the bulb quickly to put things back the way they are.

    The liberal would seek to embrace the new darkness and accuse those who complain as non-pc conservatives who resist all change.

  25. Re:Dunno what to think... on NASA Finds Evidence of Recent Flowing Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    What's a forward base? One on the dark side of the moon?