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  1. the obvious question on Top 500 Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Beowulf clusters, eh? [nudge nudge, wink wink]

  2. Re:Babelfish! Hee hee... on Transmeta to Release Processor in January? · · Score: 1

    Ah Mahir, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems... or just the real name of Transmeta's new chip... you decide!

  3. Re:Wasnt Tesla wrong about a lot of things on Lightning On Demand · · Score: 1

    Ugh... not vietnamese, The Indonesian Government paid a researcher to make it rain (don't laugh :) using Aether Wind based technology.

    And so he made it rain.

    (faceious logic of me -i know- but it's a new science that doesn't get much payroll from anyone when it's clear something is going on)

  4. Re:Wasnt Tesla wrong about a lot of things on Lightning On Demand · · Score: 1
    "aether wind and..."

    Not really my field (i'm not a complete believer) but the Michelson-Morley experiments have shown data unaccounted for by accepted science. The uses of Aether Wind for producing rain/storms have been put to practical uses also. Can't quite recall which, but I believe it was Vietnamese government that paid to fill their water reseviour using this technique.

  5. Re:They're handling this right on More Info on Matrix Sequels · · Score: 1
    yes i know, off topic, mark down accordingly, chums

    LOTR movie links,

    SCOOP 1 2 3 4 5
    Unofficial P.J. Online
    Dave Dobbyn as Dobbo, the bard Hobbit and his merry band?
    LOTR movie site by an apparent stalker (oh, excellent)
    Official LOTR



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    Little Stalker Boy (of websites and girls)

  6. Re:Prior art (Was:...patent system failure) on Popular (& Common Sense) Y2k Fix Patented · · Score: 1

    I suspect that Win98, at the system level, stores it as two digits... as during a fresh 98 install when it asks you to define the year using two digits.

  7. Re:Google games explained on Return of the Quickies · · Score: 1

    From memory Google ranks by cataloging links to a site as votes for the site being a good source of information.

    Microsoft ranks highly for as people link to them for IE, and the "Internet" part of that ranks well. Ditto for satan, is evil, monopoly, etc...

    So black text on black background of "purple monkey dishwasher" in your webpages doesn't effect ranking much at all. How internal linking is effectively ranked though (does it have to be from a different server to be counted as a vote, or could another directory be safely counted without too much misuse of spaming the Google database?)... well, only you know.

    How about telling me, eh?

  8. Re:This is part of my theory: "Chicks dig jerks" on How Not to Attract Geeks · · Score: 1

    Hey, aren't you The ChicksSuck Guy?

  9. linux borg on Opening Amiga Source Proposed · · Score: 1

    Silly question, I know, still.

    What parts of the AmigaOS are usefully salvageable for other OSs? File system, graphics, GUI?

    I just can't see Amiga becoming anything more than a reminiscing toy (although that's quite a nice place to be in, really)

    I had an Amiga. All I did all day was play Turrican2, maybe Swiv, and some games by Bullfrog. Also, I read Amiga Power but I rant about that in other places.

  10. Re:Britney! on Ask Slashdot: What Music do you Code By? · · Score: 1

    I do believe they call that a Music Snob.

  11. linkfest '99 on Ask Slashdot: What Music do you Code By? · · Score: 1
    Mostly it's techno dub ambient (early sisters of mercy,nephlim,nin,vast,dead can dance,basement jaxx,aphex twin - some wholesome NZ goodness from Southern Tribe)

    sitting in the sun with folkish thoughful Ani Difranco, dan bern (the namedropper), mobile stud unit.

    Metally some nz shihad [2, loves ugly children, or overseas Deftones are mighty tasty (though what was with that drive video?).

    Educators say how baroque music sets the mind into the right wave patterns, it's conducive to learning and recalling, but really, it just pissed me off.



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  12. Re:Imagine all the people on Ask John Carmack About Quake - or Anything Else · · Score: 1

    That's what would be so much fun. You'd have to build towns, defence. Know who to trust and who to expell. If the world had defined boundaries (with use of drawbridges,moats,e-drawbridges[tm]) you could keep kiddies out - ensure tests before letting people in.

    A Real World situation would be too anarchic but with certain environmental laws you could benefit those that work together and choose not to be violent. That would be the basis of creating an online world that didn't just irritate the masses

    So perhaps moderation points for players? meta moderation? Expressed by how tall you are?

    As for real world situations I think the lessons learnt from Ultima Online would have the jump on most.

  13. Re:Asking for the impossible ... on Building Virtual Universities · · Score: 1

    A university qualification isn't unique as it used to be. And natch, eh?

    My university lowered it's criteria for passing after 80% of the students failed.

    They didn't assess the teaching, nor the environment, or material given to study by.

    They lowered the wall you have to jump over.

    And natch, eh?

  14. regular religous holidays on Barcode Tatoo as Permanent ID - Arrgh! · · Score: 1

    So you can't object for any health or comfort reasons, no religeous or cosmetic objections

    There are religions that forbid non-traditional body markers of any kind. The numbers to form a legally recognised religion are pretty low. It's amazing how you can abuse the law from within the MattyFaith.

    But if you're looking for paranoia, come read my piece (of shite).

  15. Re:Not making anything on The Transmeta Conspiracy Part V · · Score: 1

    Funded by one of the richest men in the world. Only rich people can afford to fund high risk projects.

    He probably pisses 19 million. Then gets his gold plated arse and walks the streets spitting on strangers. I could spit on a stranger. Could you?

    I'm jealous, in the good way. He's cool. He helps Linux.

  16. Re:He had been warned on Teen Freed for Linking to MP3s · · Score: 1

    He shouldn't have had to change a thing. If someone asks him to do something that isn't legal/morally binding for him it's his right whether or not to do it.

    That's freedom.

  17. Kelly Browne on Amiga Executive Update · · Score: 1

    Excellent! My amiga of youth will soon be back and widespread in power and versitility running the god of OS's, Linux, and take over those bitches that work at microsoft.

    Of course, i'm only joshing.

    Still, it does fell like Amiga was a slut all along, eh lads?

  18. Re:Really not all that surprising on Can humans create life? · · Score: 1
    to guide the evolution of life in the right direction.
    right? I would ask how could anyone possibly know right but you're taking the piss, eh?
  19. Re:So far most of the comments have been negative on The BSDs in the WSJ: "Help Build the Web" · · Score: 1

    It's like Ford vs. GM vs. whoever, hmmm, GM.... vs Michael Moore?

  20. Re:nice, slashdot effect on GNUstep 0.6.0 · · Score: 1
    BTW anyone think of a solution to the /.effect ? Surely it's just going to get worse.


    Mirrors of susceptible sites linked to in main /. stories would be the obvious way. Perhaps a script that backed up anything (html,images,stylesheet) linked in a main ./ story 1 page deep and put the site on slashdotted.org.
  21. Re:Alternate theories ... on Smile for the US Secret Service · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between the preview and the final submission, uh, why?

  22. Re:Alternate theories ... on Smile for the US Secret Service · · Score: 1

    In New Zealand the government said phoey at a Life Time Licence and brought in a digital driver licence mostly for the reasons of disqualified drivers using friends licences.

    They're protecting us from them

    Unfortunately the old licence had no photo (just name/address/DOB/eyecolour) so they had a perfect excuse for the photo (and thus the choice to record it in any media). Maurice is Minister of Transport and IT... we have a combined Police/Traffic force.

    In my town i've seen the current police surveilance camera's, their resolution is scary. Some facial recognition and they could get all those bad guys.


    9/9/99 and i'm moderating, huh.

  23. Re:Why?! on Unisys Enforcing GIF Patents · · Score: 1
    There's no such thing as "bad" press.


    I've read that many times before and it never held true for me. Famous for being famous people (celebrities, on e!, etc..) might get a agree, but if it was revealed my town's mayor was a KKK member - few people would vote for him - and his life would be pants.

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  24. Re:Use JPEG on Unisys Enforcing GIF Patents · · Score: 1

    http://www.estinc.com/images/menu/nav_on_Est_Home. png

  25. Re:feed the world and stop being greedy on Unisys Enforcing GIF Patents · · Score: 1

    Pharmacutical companies only invest the time/money into drug research because of the legal environment that gives X years free of competition.

    The US provides a particularly healthy environment for these companies and they love it - hence the level of pharmacutical research there VS the rest of the world.