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  1. Re:Limited MIDI Drivers on GarageBand Update 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, that's something we have in common -- or rather, that our wives have in common. I'll email her the link, she might well be interested. Thanks for the information.

  2. Re:Limited MIDI Drivers on GarageBand Update 1.0.1 Released · · Score: 1
    buy my wife's ebook
    Well, I might, but the blurb on the linked page was enough to turn me off. It sounds dreadful. Why would your wife's autobiography interest me? I ask not to be insulting, it's an honest question.
  3. Re:What, no Stella Artois? on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    Oh and by the way; welcome to the European Union in May. Membership has done wonders for Ireland, where I'm from, and I'm glad to see our cousins from the east return to where they have always belonged. With luck more Czech beers will be available in Ireland soon! And cheaper too! :-)

  4. Re:What, no Stella Artois? on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    But you said you are "a french"!!! I thought you meant you are "a frenchman". You have thoroughly confused me Jakub!
    In any case, I agree, Czech beers are up there in the pantheon... the original, one true Budweiser and (of course) Pilsener.

  5. Re:What, no Stella Artois? on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    Well, in my (subjective) opinion, French beer generally doesn't rate -- and you said "my country" as opposed to "where I live", so I assume you meant French beer of some kind being the best? Unlikely. And I feel European too, but that has nothing to do with the post!

  6. Re:What, no Stella Artois? on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    Es tut mir leid! I have maligned the German sense of humour. I see that you are probably Czech. My apologies to all German readers.

  7. Re:What, no Stella Artois? on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    Jakub, I was being facetious. I am guessing that you are German, given your last name. And now I'm guessing that you're German, given the fact that you didn't get the joke. ;-)

  8. Re:Indian Slashdot on Ask Indian Techies About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 1
    since they can't even speak english (ie. call centers)
    Nor can you, apparently. "ie." [sic] is an abbreviation for the Latin "id est" and is correctly abbreviated as "i.e." It is always followed by a comma. It means "that is". So, would you please explain to me what you mean by "since they can't even speak english (that is call centers)"?
  9. Re:Phrases on Ask Indian Techies About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 1

    Worse yet, "there is a doubt" -- where is it? Can I see it?

  10. Re:What, no Stella Artois? on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    You're Belgian? Pleased to meet you!

  11. Re:After a night of Guinness on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even more spectacular is the absence of color in your stools the morning after a night spent drinking Guinness. As they say in Ireland, "Drinking gin makes you feel that the bottom has fallen out of your world. Drink Guinness and the World will fall out of your bottom!"

  12. Re:Guiness on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    You might want drink less of it. I think you're experiencing delirium tremens... ;-)

  13. Re:Wonder what will happen when the USA gets him.. on Fermi Lab Compromised by Pirate · · Score: 1
    The anwser is tougher laws and more extradition treaties. And by comparison, what ever happened to that phillapino kid who was caught writing viruses? I thought they threw the book at him. Why will the british kid get an easier sentance?
    I agree! Thank God the current regime has acknowledged the International Criminal Cour-- oh, wait a minute. Never mind.
  14. Re:Europeans trying to get a payoff on Mario Monti Fines Microsoft 100 Million? · · Score: 1

    The EU pays more foreign aid than the US, and certainly doesn't receive US aid.

  15. Re:FUD on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1
    Heck, my president is a scientist, and your president is a maniac! :-)
    Whoever said that a sense of humour can't cross borders never met you -- I am laughing my ass off here!
  16. Re:Outsourcing to India? on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    Everybody needs to knock off the racist shit. It's very ugly.

  17. Re:Outsourcing to India? on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    I've met about fifty in my few years in St. Louis. Were you thinking of Maine perhaps?

  18. Re:India is not for Me on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    I did. Kentucky Financial Group? Interesting that the graphics on the homepage are pyramid shaped... doesn't inspire confidence in a financial context. ;-)

  19. Re:doubt it on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    Testify, brother! I'm from Ireland where the cost of living is way higher than the US and salaries are about 30% lower. No fucking way I'm leaving the US. I miss certain things about the old sod, friends and family, but I do not miss my lower standard of living.

  20. Re:EE Majors still worth anything? on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    File this one under the rub(r)ic "pedantry".

  21. Re:Slashdot commune in India? on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    Already been done. It's called Goa.

  22. Re:You still pay US taxes. on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: 1

    You have to file a return, but your first $80,000 earned abroad is not taxed by the US. You pay local (i.e., Indian or whatever) taxes on everything you earn.

  23. Re:Try Sims Online, so she can dump your ass twice on Online Gaming for Couples? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he's lost her. Better for both of them long-term.

  24. Re:let's see sun invents java, ibm, makes a tool . on Sun and Eclipse Squabble · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. The last web application I developed was targetted for Tomcat 4.0.18 on Solaris. Due to unrelated issues, it was switched to JRun 4.0 on Windows at the last moment, with, if I recall correctly, some very minor config file changes to support connection pooling. It might have been changed back to Solaris by now, left that job back in November.

  25. Re:A lesson from Microsoft on Sun and Eclipse Squabble · · Score: 1

    How I wish I had modpoints right now! Nice one!