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  1. Re:Creative Slump on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1


    I'd argue that we're disturbed by what is happening, but it's not affecting our day to day lives to any great degree, unlike every other war in which America has been involved.



    ummm .. 9/11? that was a war moment, wasn't it?

  2. Get *OVER* 9/11, people. on U.K. SF Writers Dominate Hugos · · Score: 1

    Honest. It ain't no big thing.

    Not flaming. Just wishing the modern world were as tough as it thinks it is ..

  3. Re:Home ! Office on What Business Can Learn from Open Source · · Score: 1

    yes, and I also don't agree that 'the only reason you make people come to work on time' is to stop them having fun when they should be working.

    making people all show up to the same place at the same time is good for when you want everyone to talk to each other, openly, and coordinate the days activities. loan-hacker style companies may prefer the vampire approach, meetings becoming covens, or bad IRC manners, but sometimes having everyone in the room to talk about difficulties/make plans of attack, can be extremely FUN as well as PRODUCTIVE.

    so i don't buy his position as an argument. he chose that position to support his supposition, that what really matters in fact is what the company, itself, all can agree on, so that they can work together.

    its hard to argue with the fact that nothing gets done by any group of people unless they agree that they should do it, and then just do it .. production is, like, the opposite of war. you have to get along, and talk, and agree, and .. generally .. have fun.

    fun is a weird thing. there's all kinds of it. work can be fun. good work, often is just plain fun.

  4. Re:Forgive me, but... on Old C Compiler Lives Again Under GPL · · Score: 1

    i see many reasons for why you might want to have a portable well-maintained compiler across many diverse platforms. if i've got the source to all my projects, but no compiler source, how am i going to get my code ported to exotic architectures for me, 2000 years from now?

  5. Re:Interesting but pointless perhaps? on Looking at Birds in a Whole New Spectrum · · Score: 1

    However, why use this for lineage/ancestry when we have DNA that, rather than speculate about the pretty colors we can't really see, we can actually make some scientific qualifications about.


    Having a "UV-spectra"-organized taxology (is that the word?) for birds might serve to back up/support industrial DNA techniques.

    or, in short, "you got my eyes!"

  6. too many distros' .. on All-in-One Source for Linux Distro Reviews · · Score: 1

    .. its becoming evidently clear, that the only way to have fun with linux is to ship it in hardware.

  7. Re:Oh come on people... on PS3 Details Slowly Emerging · · Score: 1

    Re:Oh come on people...

    Come on yourself .. Whats the big deal with re-playing your game again?

    or, are game-saves some sort of trophy/reward/win/pose thing?

    you can still save stuff on the new slots .. so i applaud sony, actually, for taking that risk. its the 3rd revision of their game system, they know how many game-saves there are in the world, they're sorta saying .. why don't you play the games .. again .. on your new system ..

    game-saves. should it be forever, or just when you're playing?

  8. Re:Whoa, that's gotta suck on Cosmic Rays Could Kill Astronauts Visiting Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe the radiation is so bad that men grow boobies, anyway ..

    hmm.

  9. does anyone see the politics? on Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand · · Score: 0, Troll

    i mean, yeah, congratulations on the fix, yo. but, like, its a bit hard to overlook the image of this going on up there, while http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.a idgroups/index.html">this is going on down here ..

    yeah yeah, i know, space exploration is good for the whole race, not just a select, privileged few, we shouldn't stop doing it, i know ..

    its just, such a mundane action to have spent billions of dollars on, on the one hand, in light of the lightness of the other hand, is all i'm trying to say. i'm somehow saddened by the Discovery mission .. someone prove me wrong, or an idiot or something, and cheer me up again ..

  10. Re:DMCA in China on Baidu Sued for Piracy on Eve of IPO · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no kidding.. I'm continually amazed at just how ignorant people are about US prisons. Total hell-hole. Definitely a '5th column' against the psyche of the average American.

  11. Re:Celebrate the UNIX way! on Bogus Security Alerts Hit National Weather Service · · Score: 1


    inw -rfvvvvv

    you mean ...

  12. Re:Huh? on Successful Strategies for Commenting Your Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    /*
      * slashdot comment comment
      * 1.0.0 - torpor - init.
        */

    #pragma KARMA_HACK // technically, also a comment. /* comments are fun. */ //code goes here..

  13. Re:Two-player? on Handheld Gaming / Media-player Gadget Runs Linux · · Score: 1

    That's not very helpful when you have nobody to play a two-player game with.

    Thats your problem, not Lik Sangs. If you don't have a friend who is smart enough to listen to your advice, and based on your own decision to get a GPX32 for hacking get one themselves, also for hacking, then you don't have the kind of friends who like to hack as much as you do ..

    But if you do: all the better.

  14. Re:Don't let the state nany, take some responsibil on Senator Carper Calls for Tax on Online Porn · · Score: 1


    i'm yet to be a parent, but i intend to raise my children, if i have some, to appreciate adult values as rapidly as possible. if they don't have a feeling for life and death, at least, by the age of 12, they won't be ready for what the world will teach them, by 17, 18, when they become responsible for themselves.

    i see no option for parents of today, but to be the best educator the world can provide. clearly, the state is failing at its management of these issues, on all fronts, and todays parents should brook no control over the rights of family that doesn't support more than subtract.

    nevertheless, i truly believe that todays and tomorrow children are in a fundamentally profound world. times, they are changing.

  15. Re:Hype machine VS reality. on The Real Hitchhiker's Guide? · · Score: 1

    Where does it say ".. to the Galaxy", in any of that, or maybe don't you speak English natively?

  16. Re:and they shall .. on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    These are terrorist attacks.

    Not in my country. And anyway, there are far baser motions than terror and fear by which to live ones life. If you live them, it happens.

    When the bomb goes off, innocent and peaceful people die. They don't get a choice.

    I choose to not live in any country at war. There is a choice.

  17. and they shall .. on RFID Tags To Track Foreigners, Identify Dead · · Score: 1

    .. cast the number of the beast on our souls, and when we are dead, wish to yet still put us all in a place in which we are not ..

    no thanks. the way i'm going to avoid not being recognizable when i die, is to die around friends, peacefully. it may be hard, but its better to fight for peace than war.

  18. Re:what do we expect to find? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    They do not double in performance every 18 months.

    okay .. pisstakes aside (I know some Americans wouldn't know a pisstake when they tasted one, and from your attitude I'm assuming you're American, please correct me if I'm wrong...) but the root of Moores' Law states, fundamentally, that the more you use a technology, the better it gets. Silicon is used to design better silicon. It is not some special nature of silicon that makes it iteratively progressive, it is the shared nature of silicon technology.

    More than one foundry is required for all foundries to get better.

    Turn the shuttle research into the public sector, make it a competitive technology worth review by existing industry giants, and you will see the same factor: space travel gets gradually cheaper and cheaper, and more powerful, until eventually we just wrap ourselves in spittle, fall down a deep hole, and suddenly find ourselves in space ...

  19. Re:Go back to painted external tanks on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1

    it was enough that it had significant impact on fuel use calculations.

    pretty much everything you add to the shuttle has significant impact on fuel use calculations.

    whats needed is a new, lightweight system of space exploration vehicles, robots and manned capsules alike, designed around a common, standardized, internationally used (yes, this means cooperation with the russians) and adopted framework.

    the shuttle is a relic of the era when national design consciousness mattered a damn. those days are, at least, 5 years over ..

  20. what do we expect to find? on Shuttles Grounded Once Again · · Score: 1, Interesting

    what do we expect to find? The shuttles are the most complicated pieces of machinery ever built, designed to launch into space with a controlled explosion, and then return to earth.

    we expect to find what we did not see before.

    we expect to improve the design drastically, so that it is no longer the most complicated pieces of machinery ever built

    moore's law works on the shuttle too. if only NASA, and the government goons, would open the development and research funding to the public market.

    it is about time hyundai were making launch capsules, or Mercedes at least. let the shuttle only drive that issue forward. please.

  21. BRAND-space in the URL. on Free Web Hosting a Fount of Malware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this is why its so important to recognize the unique sociological challenge of the URL.

    it is a namespace. thus, portions of it will be a BRAND space.

    either people recognize when they are culting, or they don't. times that they do, are often predicated on the formulation of identity.

    the URL is a human blank page. if you don't know the URL, don't go there...

  22. Re:Sucking is the newest cool. on Miyamoto Says Wind Waker Was Boring · · Score: 1

    Blowing hard about sucking bad is the newest cool.

      * * brain assplodes * *

    ah well, i'll just grow another one.

  23. Re:#1 thing Inkscake is missing on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    i've used inkscape extensively to create a large library of content for my development work, and i can tell you that it is very stable. i run it both on OSX and linux. i've crashed it, maybe, twice in about a years worth of use..

    perhaps its your system.

  24. more more more .. on The State of Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    Nope. I'd rather wait longer and have more capacity for less money. After all, I use Windows as my primary OS. I'm used to waiting.

    more more more. you PC kids and your soapbox derby.

    i've been running a standard system config with an 8meg SSR disk for quite a while. since the late-late 80's, even. i've gotten to the point where, for my self-built systems, silicon-based OS/App storage partition is the preferred setup, with physical disks mostly assigned to storage, not boot.

    there is nothing quite so lovely as having a system where app-load is, fundamentally, a function of silicon speed, not motor speed. it can make a huge difference to the operational configuration of your machine.

    of course, if your only computing experience is Windows, 8megs ain't gonna be enough.. DOS, maybe, though.

    this is why LiveCD's are so lovely: once you get things working on WORM, packing it all into EEPROM is the logical next step..

  25. Re:MSNBC Commentator is a jackass on Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off · · Score: 2, Interesting

    really? there were really vultures?

    the german commentator i was listening to was having a great time detailing every single computer-state change down to the launch and even until SSRB detach .. so kraftwerk, it had me reaching for my vocoder...

    great that discovery is off. gonna hold my breath until the chutes' deployed and the handbrakes on, however ..