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  1. Re:Drivel on Is Programming Art? · · Score: 1
    It's like a janitor contemplating whether a clean hall is art. Why not spend your time examining better methods of developing portable/maintainable code or something. I mean really, let's say you get your answer. "It is art" or "It isn't art", what has been accomplished other than the ability to puff up about what you do?
    There are different people, with different personalities, who find different outlooks on life more or less satisfying. Do you want to live your live as a cog in a machine, or do you want to feel like your life has some other kind of meaning. For some people, working hard, keeping their nose to the grindstone, is satisfying and rewarding. For others, it would be like anally raping them with a pipecleaner.
  2. Re:Whats wrong? I on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 1
    Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
    It's only going to change if YOU change it.
  3. I don't know on What Games Do Women Play? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what games women play, but if I find any playing the ones I play I'm going to SEEK AND DESTROY them so that maybe I won't see a million freaking posts to slashdot on the subject of games and women, obviously some kind of advertising hype. No, then we'll see "women players unfairly targetted" posts, right?

  4. Re:Cynical on Firefox Ported to Mac OS X for Intel · · Score: 1

    I wish I could see what is so great about Firefox. Maybe my build (v. 1.0.4 in debian unstable) is bad? When I use it, it seems like an immature version of Mozilla that might be ready in say a year. Is that its appeal?

  5. Re:Anyone else tired of hearing about this? on Gear Up For Female Gaming Invasion · · Score: 1

    I'm also tired of hearing about it. It's clearly marketing hype from the game industry.

  6. Re:Cultural exports are the key. on 100 Million Online in China · · Score: 1

    Friends was good for the first few years then became terrible, it's true. Seinfeld wasn't terrible, though; there were lots of hilarious episodes. Maybe you're just missing something. You're what, German?

  7. Re:Wow! What a question to ask on Slashdot... on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    I think it's only a relatively recent idea that Americans speak English badly. I read a book on linguistics, written by a Brit, in which he explained how the British used to admire Americans for the quality of their English speaking. I mean, one normally assumes that British speakers are speaking proper English, but it could as well be that Americans are and the British deviated a lot from a couple hundred years ago, or more likely that all of our peoples (with Aussies, etc.) have significantly changed the way they speak.

  8. Re:Check out the guy on the right on MIT Physicists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    There are many physicists who are in excellent shape, as you might expect from someone who is intellectually excellent.

  9. Re:there's already a geeky joke archive on What's the Best Geek Joke You Know? · · Score: 1

    The fact that that was moderated +5 Funny makes me feel better that my karma sucks.

  10. no it won't end free internet content on DoubleClick Warns Against Ad-Blocking Browsers · · Score: 1

    You'd still have university students and scientists, business sites, people whose ISPs provide web space....

  11. Re:20 separate flash applets... on The Onion in 2056 · · Score: 1

    Nah, mine does that too. Sony laptop, P4 512MB RAM. I've noticed that at times when I'm running Mozilla, when I highlight text it causes the fan to rev up a little. No, I'm not hallucinating.

  12. Re:Well, to their credit on LA Times Pulls Wikitorial, Blames Slashdot · · Score: 1
    There really are a lot of assholes online. People say and do things they never would in person.

    Hah, fuck you dickwad!
    /me gives the finger to Sycraft-fu

  13. Re:is the toothpaste out of the tube yet? on Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    IMHO, Metallica started sucking after 'And Justice For All...'. I remember being really disappointed by the next album. A.J.F.A and 'Master of Puppets' are two of the best heavy metal albums evah, though.

  14. Re:same reason I dislike Subversion on Linux Kernel Archives Struggles With Git · · Score: 1

    How does that work? I said `grep -r`. If I set the ACTION to not read directories, then it won't recursively grep. I do `| grep -v .svn` to remove output of grep for .svn directories, but it still greps the directories which takes a long time.

  15. same reason I dislike Subversion on Linux Kernel Archives Struggles With Git · · Score: 2, Interesting

    `grep -r`ing source code under Subversion takes much longer than with CVS, due to all the .svn files.

  16. Re:Hardly surprising... on Most Americans Want Gov't To Make Internet Safer · · Score: 1

    That's an insightful and amusing comment, but I think reality is a lot more complicated. It's not one group of people in "the people" or "government"; there are many different people with different ideas, experiences, and motivations.

  17. Re:JS is very functional on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    Yes, firefox 1.04.

  18. download on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 0

    Where do you download it?

  19. Re:They have. on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1
    It's ECMAscript. Name hasn't caught on yet.
    Always makes me think of eczema.
  20. Re:It Would Be Nice... on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    The only problem with the spidermonkey interpreter is that it doesn't include the browser object model. So you can't load an HTML page and manipulate its DOM like you normally would do in javascript.

  21. Re:JS is very functional on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    This did nothing in my browser but show a page with swirly colors, a clock, and a Launch button which didn't do anything.

  22. another slashvertisement on Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Do they pay to get these stories put on slashdot? I know this will be once again modded as a troll, but I increasingly don't care about slashdot anyway so it doesn't matter. How about this headline: Reports of Slashdot's Relevance Greatly Exaggerated.

  23. Re:graffiti is not art on Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, people with opinions like yours should post not as Anonymous Coward, so that we can scrawl on your publicly available karma.

  24. Re:Not a follow-up on Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User · · Score: 1

    This is not a followup and it hasn't caught on.

    This is a textbook example of the kind of marketing ...

    I agree 100%. This is what I mean with this previous comment, though it's in the context of activist movements.
  25. Re:Good fucking lord... Fuck off. on REALbasic Linux IDE Public Beta Available · · Score: 1

    I don't have patience to compile every new application that claims to be the next greatest thing, and instead I prefer to wait until someone thinks it's worthy enough to bother creating a debian package for. So for that, you tell me to fuck off. Maybe when your mentality has advanced beyond highschool you'll have a different perspective on things.