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  1. Re:Can't anyone create a GNU version of Mathematic on Mathematica 6 Launched · · Score: 1

    Points taken. However, the student version of Mathematica is "only" $150, not $250 USD, (for the 5.x versions, anyway) and it isn't crippled in any way except for the printing of "Mathematica for Students" when one prints a notebook. ALL of the functionality of the full professional version was there. Of course, I don't know (yet) about this new 6.0 version.

  2. Can't get to the article.... on U.S. Puts 12 Nations On Watch For Piracy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... anyone have a .torrent of it?

  3. Re:why return back? on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: 1

    office 2007 it's a pretty cool software and the new interface is really good too Microsoft has really improved the ease of use with the ribbon toolbar, IMHO not like vista where they have ruined it, so why return back? i know that more than half of office's user are dumb but sooner or later they will have to learn the new interface otherwise they can simply use paper & pencil Wow. Just wow.

          I was going to just quote your first sentence (or two, or three, or however many it was supposed to be), but the second one was even better. So I just quoted the whole damned thing. I don't know why. Just...

          Wow.
  4. Re:The spice must flow. on First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture Technology · · Score: 1

    All too often the human race is guilty of doing things because they can, before they learn whether or not they should. Watched Jurassic Park lately?
  5. Re:Proof! on Chimps Evolved More Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Careful. You'll get a lot of poo thrown in your direction. I'm not sayin' from whom...

  6. Re:Virginia on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's brave talk. You realize, of course, you're coming after people with guns, right? Hey, if she's got a gun, she comes whenever she wants. I'm just along for the ride.
  7. Slashdot: my source for news about... on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... balls on rubber sheets. Seriously.

  8. Re:In the case of Casino Royale... on New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The movie was OK. However, I think it took itself far too seriously for a Bond movie. The Bond movies have always poked fun at themselves. After I was done watching Casino Royale, my friends and I looked at each other, and simultaneously, and unbidded, said, "Where was the mountain/giant spaceship/Oddjob?" (we're that good). Really, there was nothing *big* in the movie other than the giant plane, and that was boring.

  9. In the case of Casino Royale... on New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...it's obviously the universe conspiring to keep people from watching the dreck. Wish I'd got it on this new media.

  10. Re:I can guess too on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1

    I think it's the general lack of people scratching out "Dog" on the "Dog License"s and writing in "Bee" in crayon.

  11. Re:If MIT students did it on Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I doubt they'd go so far as to give the Post-It facsimile an attribute that the original didn't have...

  12. Re:But why? on MS Requiring More Expensive Vista if Running Mac · · Score: 5, Funny

    What kind of Vista-exclusive software are you gonna run? The Windows license manager stuff.
  13. Re:The police ought to follow the law. on Police Objecting to Tickets From Red-Light Cameras · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was there a Krispy Kreme in that neighborhood?

  14. Re:I imagine that on Researchers Chill Mirror to Near Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    The beauty of laser-cooling is that surface roughness (on a moderate scale; the face of a dime is pretty rough, but a "smooth" piece of metal probably wouldn't affect things too much) isn't a problem. Nor are small motions in the direction of the laser axis. In fact, it's the doppler effect of the motions to and fro in the laser beam axis that *helps* laser cooling work. It's nice to have atomic transitions near the laser's frequency, but it's not especially necessary. And I kind of doubt that phonons present in the mirror at any kind of low temperature are at frequencies anything close to a typical laser frequency. This is all speculation on my part, of course.

  15. Re:a mirror for The Fonze on Researchers Chill Mirror to Near Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    You're saying that Henry Winkler is SOOO cool that his career has disappeared?

  16. Re:Remember..when the principal was the adult? on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 1

    Er 38 more people. Damn rewrites. You WERE on my short list of new hires. Now I just have to figure out whether you catching that error and being honest about it means you automatically get hired, or whether this particular incidence of your math skills points to potential underlying deficiencies. We'll call you.
          Of course, you could have made the error on purpose, and were just playing the honesty system. Hm....
  17. Re:4% of what? on Paul Graham Claims "Microsoft is Dead" · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read some article not long ago about how you can make %'s look like you want to. I think I read that one, too. The author really gave 110% on it.
  18. "Miserable Failure" on 1-800-Google Launches · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...
    *Bing!* "White House Operator. How may I direct your call?"

          Man, I *wish* that still worked.

  19. Re:Nature isn't "bitch slapping" us... on Billions Face Risks From Climate Change · · Score: 2

    There have been times when there was no ice anywhere on the planet. There have been times when the ice was kilometers thick. There have been times when there was no solid surface. Looxury.
  20. Re:3-D interface in X-Men on Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies · · Score: 0

    Does anybody else think that the X-Men 3-D interface is entirely doable? Sorry, but I immediately wondered if there should be a goatse reference here. Oh... I thought you said XXX-Men.
  21. Re:How generous of them. on Busy Lives Prompt Speedier Board Games · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought I had a good game store here. The outside certainly looked all glittery and fun. When I walked in, it was very dark, and there was a sort of stage with these poles on it, and some scantily-clad females doing an interesting dance. "Oooh! Role-playing!" I thought, looking around for a dwarf wench with the grog.

        Then I announced loudly that I wanted to find a game that would take less than 30 minutes. One of the girls looked at me and said, "Honey, you want one that will take less than 30 seconds," and then they all went "Mmm-hmmm!" in unison and did a head-bob.

          I want to know where the hell you guys get your games.

  22. Re:Hmm on Harvesting Energy in the Sky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the recent stories of space junk falling to earth, could we someday be troubled by power stations falling on us? SOMEday?!? I'm troubled now.
  23. Re:Who's at fault though? on PowerPoint Bad For Learning · · Score: 0

    Various instances of the same abstract(ed), (de)based class. Meta-comment concerning the technical pun made by previous poster; witty meta-repartee to follow.
  24. Re:first of many, i'm sure on Haptics Technology Turns Phones into Weapons · · Score: 1

    Next year it'll be a donkey-punch. We'll see who's joking about ponies THEN.

  25. Re:Oh yeah... on Top 10 April Fools Stories · · Score: 1

    And by the way, on Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb. That's a feature!