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  1. Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1
    Ahem, that was Superman IV, the sucky one. III was decent enough for a third movie, what with Richard Pryor and all.

    And even so, they saw fit to make an episode of Star Trek: The Political Correctness about it...even though the radiation ship was in space, nobody thought to send it into the sun...sigh, that was about par for TNG episodes, sadly.

  2. Re:Exactly right on Warfare at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1
    Actually, the Japanese have the highest-quality military in the Far East. You don't hear much about it, since typically it stays quiet, doesn't deploy overseas, and has the ill-fitting name of "Self-Defense Force". But don't doubt them for a second, they're very powerful, and a force to be reckoned with.

    When the time comes for Japan to renounce its U.S.-crafted constitution, Japan will again have great influence throughout the Pacific, and it's very likely that that influence will conflict with that of its neighbors.

  3. Re:Obligatory Real Genius reference on Warfare at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1
    "If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want...well, that's where you're right.

    But - and I am only saying that because I care - there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing."

  4. Re:LEO on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1
    Hint: Concorde tickets start at $6,000. Which one of us is talking out his ass, here?

    Another hint: you did demonstrate ability to pay BEFORE the surgery was performed, right?

  5. Re:LEO on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1
    Hint: who can afford to fly in a surgeon from overseas for heart surgery?

    Let's just say a surgeon like that doesn't take charity cases.

  6. Re:Not bad... on Where's Sanford Wallace Now? · · Score: 1

    Nah...in other words, he doesn't have anything to show for all his spamming. He owns a nightclub? Come on, that's nothing. Nightclubs are highly overrated as investments...the audiences are very fickle and will turn your club into a desert overnight. Plus, the owners usually want to own a club more than they want to run a business. With any luck, in a year we'll hear about him being prosecuted for cocaine dealing, or tax evasion.

  7. Re:4 processors max for x86 Solaris on Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down · · Score: 1

    Solaris/SPARC is the real version. Solaris/Intel is the toy version.

  8. Re:bah on Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down · · Score: 1

    Non-knowing? If your shop runs Solaris, and doesn't use the bigger boxes, you're wasting money. Just buying a bunch of single-processor workstations is a complete misappropriation of funds. Lesser machines can do the job quite well at a fraction of the cost. The whole reason for the UltraSPARC line in the first place was to give developers something to work on that runs just like the real machines.

  9. Re:LEO on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1
    You actually feel sorry for the displaced Concorde flyers? It's disheartening to you to know they have to fly with everyone else now?

    Oh, and the Concorde wasn't a great feat of engineering. It was a disaster...what the hell good is a transport aircraft that can only transport a thimbleful of people, and runs at a LOSS? Where I come from, we call that a technological mistake.

  10. bah on Sun Solaris Vs Linux: The x86 Smack-down · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Who the heck runs Solaris on a crappy dual-processor machine? Solaris doesn't really even begin to show benefits until it gets at least 8 processors. It just keeps going up, and up, and up.

    Solaris/Intel is just a toy that grabs a few extra customers that Sun would have lost otherwise. Boy, you should see it when linux noobs get their hands on it. They get really angry when you tell them "your hardware must be listed on the Hardware Compatibility List". I've seen venomous diatribes directed at "sucky" Sun and its "sucky" OS for not having video drivers for whatever the most expensive game-playing graphics board is these days. And if they actually get the system to install and they see CDE...oh man.

    I don't hang on #solaris any more, but damn we would get the same reactions over, and over, and over about Solaris/Intel.

  11. Re:Technological regression on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    Had zip to do with technology. Had everything to do with the effects of sonic booms on populated areas, and the fact that the Concorde was designed by subsidized European firms as a showoff piece instead of an economically sound transport aircraft.

  12. Re:LEO on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    Who cares if the Concorde is gone? The only ones who benefited from its existence are rich asshats. Now, they have to take the same long flight everyone else does, only in first-class. Boo-hoo.

  13. full speed ahead on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 1, Informative
    Processors always run at full speed. It's just they're executing NOPs when they're "idle".

    Excludes wierdo laptop setups

  14. Re:Depends on Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job? · · Score: 1
    I can get you one of a Muslim imam, is that OK?

    Oh, wait, displaying an image like that would be offensive and would identify you as being intolerant of religion. My bad.

  15. Depends on Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Depends on Newton's politics. If he joined demonstrations, sculpted a figure of a Catholic bishop with a penis-shaped miter, and referred to the President as "The Bush Junta", he'd have a job, and tenure, almost immediately.

    Sorry to say, I'm not kidding...

  16. Re:Its called "Lost Wages"... on Tickets for Tracking Players in Casinos? · · Score: 1

    A common fallacy. I tried this in Vegas, and got funny looks from the cashiers. They're only valid at the casino you got them from.

  17. Re:Green Gathering on Three-wheeled Wireless Internet · · Score: 1
    Making money isn't evil, it's essential.

    WHAT!!??? Please turn in your Green Party membership card immediately. You will shortly be receiving a visit from the People's Commissariat, after which you will be relocated to a re-education camp for further indoctrination.

  18. Re:Green Gathering on Three-wheeled Wireless Internet · · Score: 1
    "There will be healers offering Cranio Sacral Therapy, Kinesiology, Bowen Technique, Inversion Therapy, Sound Healing, Colour Healing and Hopi Ear Candles"

    And anyway, I thought Burning Man had the patent on "no branding or commercialism on site". Anyway, what about this?

    Tree Energy Workshop - Friday Morning
    Dave Bradshaw has lived and worked in the woods for many years. He now creates beautiful and inspirational furniture and wooden jewellery.

    Hahahah....he loves the trees so much he chops up their rotting corpses and sells them for profit. Nice.

  19. uh on Three-wheeled Wireless Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you think maybe you can go to a freaking festival, and not have to check your freaking email? How about just chilling out and having fun for a few hours? And I'm not even going to mention the demeaning aspects of the rickshaw. Its shameful history should not be resurrected under any circumstances.

  20. meh on Eddie Izzard As ... Doctor Who? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who cares? He'll be replaced with no explanation anyway.

  21. Re:Dead trees are still the way to be on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1
    Oh, I agree. Silliness is entirely out of place. I was being deadly serious.

    The NYT has shown that it has other priorities. The news does not take first place. Its editorial page is wildly out of touch with America. The staff has been shown to be run like a little politburo.

  22. Re:Dead trees are still the way to be on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    The New York Times? Are you kidding!!!??? You can't trust anything that's in there...the truth isn't the first priority at that company.

  23. Best practice on User Interface Design for Programmers · · Score: 1
    The best practice is to actually PUT SOME THOUGHT into your interface design, rather than just jumbling everything together so that you can use it and it's easier to program, and heck anyone who has a problem can read the (skimpy) man page. I've used SO many programs where it's obvious the author put zero effort into the interface, or else assumed everyone else thinks like he does.

    The worst crime is to be wierd just for the sake of being wierd. Proximtron and Spybot are offenders here.

  24. Re:The back cover on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Screen readers make web developers cry. If I'm a web designer, my well-paid job is to make a great-looking page. I can't do this if my creativity is restricted such that Mama Joe Bob from Arkansas has to be able to view my page with Netscape 2.02 on her Macintosh. Sorry, at a certain point, you have to make a decision to cut off certain users, and losing rednecks from hicksville isn't really too much of a loss for the company I represent.

  25. Re:The back cover on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You fool. Microsoft's Internet Explorer sets the only "Standards" worth following. Who do you want to view your pages...95% of all users out there, or some wierdo from flyover territory with his pre-paid cell phone?