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  1. Re:YOU don't get it. on Newt Gingrich Says Free Speech May Be Forfeit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean, sounds like the typical anti-Christian stereotype of modern American Evangelical Christians. Where did you pick up this ridiculously biased and inaccurate view, in college or something?

    None of the points you've made are at all representative of American Evangelical Christians, and in fact that last one seems especially representative of left-wingers. Remind me who keeps attacking / shouting down speakers on college campuses?

  2. Re:.NET?!? on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    Score 1?!?!? Mod this parent up, way up!

    I'm a Java and Groovy developer with some C# and .NET experience. Even if you don't use .NET at all, this stands as an excellent criticism of Java on its own.

  3. Re:Erosion of intelligence in general on Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science · · Score: 1

    SMACKDOWN! Ouch, but the truth hurts...

    Mod this parent up!

  4. Re:It effected it very little. on What The Dormouse Said · · Score: 1

    Al Gore, George Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger have all been drug users, and they somehow became 3 of the most powerful people in the world.

    Al who?

  5. Re:Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone? on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    Other questions?

    Yeah, why are you such a partisan nutball? :P

    Even the New York Times has admitted that "the real possibility that the disclosure of Ms. Plame's identity, while an abuse of power, may not have violated any law,"

    About your questions:
    1) False, Valerie Plame was not an undercover agent when Novak's column was published.
    2) False, see above
    3) Questionable - I haven't seen this before, do you have a source that I can check out?

  6. Too difficult to compare them on Doom 3 vs. Source: Comparing Engines · · Score: 1

    If Doom 3 weren't so f***in' dark, I could probably compare the two engines myself.

  7. Um.... on John Carmack Retiring? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So?

  8. Re:Correct me if I am wrong, but on Apple Developer Profile Changing? · · Score: 1

    Obviously Tim screwed up, and should have used the WebKit API.

  9. What, Customer Service is Offline? on Earth Fires Destabilize Virtual Governments · · Score: 1

    WOOT!

    Let's Pillage!

  10. Re:Some facts on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    What? You have Python and you're not using Cheetah Templates for your display logic?

    Simplify, man, simplify.

  11. Re:a fond memory from my monochrome youth on Glider PRO Becomes Freeware for the Mac · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually that's a 1-bit image (black & white), unless you were making a pun on "two bit".

  12. Re:C4H5N20 - No need for sponsors on Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Step 5: Get real - hire a booth babe in Xena garb and have her sell the drinks at 300% markup.

  13. Re:Little shop of horrors on The Ultimate Computer Chair? · · Score: 1

    No kidding.

    "Okay, now compile, rinse and spit!"

  14. Re:Not quite -- Well Maybe on No More Mac Tweaking? · · Score: 1

    You're right, that's a very good point. Apple is locking 3rd party developers out of that feature.

  15. How ironic... on Lulu Tech Circus · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I just loved the effect that this experience has in showing how.... professional these geeks must be! Cmon, this is a TECH circus, how hard it is not to print database error messages to your web pages?

    Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: Sorry, too many clients already in /usr/local/adodb/drivers/adodb-postgres64.inc.php on line 296

  16. Re:Good For Apple, Good For Us on Apple Reveals Mac OS X 10.2, 17" iMac, Windows iPod · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Comparing the speed of processors with different architectures based on their clock speed (1000Mhz G4) doesn't work. But you are right that the G4 processor speed increases have stagnated.

    Fortunately Apple has been optimizing Mac OS X for speed, and Jaguar should show heavy speed improvements, which will make up for the difference.

  17. Re:Back in the day... on Unix File System Issues on Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    Heh, not a non-problem. On an 80-Gig HD formatted with HFS, you're minimum file size is 2.5mb. That's pretty lame.

    What I want to know is why it took so long to introduce file names longer than 31 chars to the MacOS. Back when Win95 came out, Apple had a ridiculous ad campaign making fun of it, congratulating MS for putting out a system that supports more than 8 char filenames. Except that Windows 95 leapfrogged the Mac's 31-char file limit. Really, is it so hard to have data structures for file io that have more than 31 places for filenames?

  18. Re:WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT on Spoofing URLs With Unicode · · Score: 1

    Worked for me - I went to the page and clicked the "pi.cr.yp.to" link, went to the site, no problemo. Using IE 5.1 for Mac OS X 10.1.4.

  19. Re:My experience with macs... on MacWorld Expo Report, Part II · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I'm self-employed with a home office and three machines, running Mac OS X, Windows 2k, and RH Linux. Okay, 33% of each platform.

    It's just great. If everyone had this setup I could read Slashdot much more quickly, cause all you platform bigots would run out of things to spew. Maybe you could start picking on Generalissimo Bush then, that might be nice.

  20. Re:How to be a successful Information Architect on Coder or Architect? · · Score: 1
    7. Don't piss too many people off.
    D'oh! Too late for me.

    8. Learn how to educate clueless management on engineering principles & the software development process without pissing them off.
  21. Re:This is funny but sadly the truth sometimes! on Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mod this up, folks, this guys speaks the truth!

  22. Re:Definitely works in linux on Apple Input Devices on x86? · · Score: 2

    Me too. I've got a Dr Bott USB switcher and am using it for a Mac, PC w/ Win2k, and a PC w/ RH7.0 Linux.

    If there's any problem it's with using a USB KVM. The Linux PC needs to be switched to 'active' when booting, and be given a chance to recognize the keyboard. Otherwise it (or any other USB device) won't be recognized.

  23. Re:My /etc/hosts on Public Outcry Over Popup Ads · · Score: 2

    The hosts file used in Classic MacOS has the name/ip pairs reversed. You can load it from the TCP/IP control panel when the "advanced" user mode is enabled. Try this:
    ;
    ; Hosts file for Open Transport TCP/IP on MacOS
    ;
    imageserv2.imgis.com 127.0.0.1
    cw.cache.imgis.com 127.0.0.1
    fp.cache.imgis.com 127.0.0.1
    adforce.imgis.com 127.0.0.1
    ....

  24. Re:Fitts' law on The Humane Interface · · Score: 1

    This is a common rule in most gui's:
    Only track a control while the cursor is in the control's area.

    This goes for menus, buttons, scrollbars, etc.

    For an example, try clicking in your window's close box, moving the mouse away, and then releasing your mouse's button. If you release the mouse button outside the control area, nothing will happen.

  25. Re:First hand... on Time Warner Says Employees Must Use AOL Mail · · Score: 1

    "Jack, that was an excellent report, could you send it to me at 'loves_dildo337@aol.com'?"

    "Sure, let me know how you liked it, my new email is 'spankboy29@aol.com'."