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  1. Re:keplerian elements on U.S. Withholding Satellite Data · · Score: 1
    ...the best way to convince a girl to have a threesome...

    Well? What is it??

  2. Re:How is this surprising? on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1
    So to get an accurate territory count you have to know the life or death status of every stone on the board. Unless you have strong judgement this is very difficult. I'm a weak amateur myself, but I can trivially solve life/death problems that the very bext computer programs cannot.

    Your point is well made, however I do want to shill my favorite Go program for just a second. TurboGo and I very rarely disagree about the alive/dead status of a group. But I'm also one of the weakest players on the planet.

  3. Re:Is this really a big deal? on New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files · · Score: 1
    Mmm. My sig is a quote from a slashdotter. It was in response to a mindtrap question along the lines of "You're driving down a street in a town the streetlights are out, and your headlights are off. Ahead of you, you can see a dog. How can you see the dog?" The obvious and expected answer is "It's daytime!" -- but finnw (credited in my sig) said the dog was on fire.

    I'll check out Utena/Black Rose Saga next time I'm at the obscure video shop.

  4. Re:Is this really a big deal? on New Virus Attacks Via RAR Files · · Score: 1

    ...mind explaining your sig?

  5. Re:more... on Norrathian Pizza Delivery · · Score: 1

    No. Worse. If you get me drunk enough I might eat some pizza slut. But no way would I drink a budweiser.

  6. Re:The cheapest solution... on Always-On Internet For Cheapskates? · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit. He might have seen 247 nodes, but never 247 networks.

  7. Re:At this stage... on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    You had flippers? We just had a tail fin. And boy, if you wanted water up the hill you had to splash it. Hard.

  8. Re:more... on Norrathian Pizza Delivery · · Score: 1
    The funny thing is that I have done /beer -- more or less. It wasn't EQ, it was dartmud -- and it was most certainly not Buttwiper.

    I miss kozmo.com ...

  9. Re:Go Make Go! on 'Make' Premier Issue · · Score: 1

    Got mine today, FYI. :) Can't wait to go home to read it.

  10. Re:Go Make Go! on 'Make' Premier Issue · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit annoyed that I haven't recieved mine yet. Given the amount of email they've thrown at me (the survey, the "Make News" letter, ... ) and the fact that on 2/4 I was told "in a few days"...

  11. Re:Nice idea, but... on Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010 · · Score: 1

    If there's g, I aint going. If there's g I could shut myself in a room at the embassy suites instead.

  12. Re:Also... on Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Mmm... Didn't you just answer your own question then? If not, clarify and I'll get back to you.

  13. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    ...Synchronicity, man.

  14. Re:BNW on Are Betas Taking On Lives of Their Own? · · Score: 1

    Lyingsackofshit. Alphas do not make insensitive clod jokes.

  15. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sounds funny, I know,
    But it really is so,
    Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

    I'm my own grandpa.
    I'm my own grandpa.
    It sounds funny, I know,
    But it really is so,
    Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

    Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
    I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
    This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
    My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

    This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
    My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
    To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
    I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

    My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
    And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
    For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
    Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

    Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
    And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
    My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
    Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

    Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
    And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
    For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
    As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

    I'm my own grandpa.
    I'm my own grandpa.
    It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
    Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

  16. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    B|N>K

  17. BNW on Are Betas Taking On Lives of Their Own? · · Score: 1

    Still, I'm glad I'm not an alpha.

  18. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    How're you getting random numbers out of perl, hey?

  19. Re:Random number machines predicting the future eh on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    How can you say they're not true random number generators? Perhaps the slice of the random number set their generating simply happens to be -- randomly -- biased towards Sses? I mean we've all seen at the crap tables 'random' number sets that're biased towards or away from 7s, yes?

  20. Help! on Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion · · Score: 1

    How do I tell what date a branch was created on with cvs??

  21. Re:Benefits of Subversion's revisioning system? on Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion · · Score: 1

    It basically dumps every file onto your hd twice

    Wild. You call that a problem, but where I work we tend to think of it as a feature. In fact it's one of the bigger reasons we're dropping CVS in favor of SVN. With four facilities scattered around the world, plus the engineers onsite with customers, this has big gains in terms of what needs to be slung across the WAN when you want to revert something.

  22. Re:Get a clue! on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are my hero. My inner child wants to be just like you when he grows up.

  23. Re:Just look at the size of a word document today on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1
    The downside is that the document can screwed up when I open it on another computer because "it has been formatted for another printer".

    I've never seen it fail to do the right thing, or the closest approximation of the right thing the target printer can handle.

    Before calling someone a troll, pay some attention to what he says.

    I did pay attention to what you had said. You might have noticed that I quoted it and everything. Here it is again: "WTF should I save printer settings into my document??? It's illogical." In point of fact even a deranged monkey suffering from severe dementia could tell you that details about how a computer document should be printed fit quite sensibly in the "data I should store in the file" bucket. As such I feel my original assertion stands, and you are simply a slimy little piece of troll shit who went straight into flame mode without thinking. If you disagree, you might want to consider trying the following in the future:

    Think before clicking the Reply link. Ask yourself "Do I actually have anything to contribute to this conversation or am I just blowing some hot air around?"

    Click the preview button. Take a look in your text for anything which might cause someone to mistake you for an AOL user. Consider the number of times the following pattern matches the text you have entered (LOL|WTF|!!!|\?\?\?|OMG|OMFG) and compare it to the number of words you actually used.

    Read RFC1855. Strive for compliance.

  24. Re:Just look at the size of a word document today on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 1
    How is "landscape" a printer setting? Yes, it applies to printing, but also to creating a postscript or pdf version of the file. I would call it "page formating" rather than "printer setting"

    You are, of course, correct. Tell that to Microsoft -- they own the menus, not me. ;)

    And, in TeX, it takes about 9 bytes to specify you want to format the whole document in landscape, and perhaps a little bit more if you need individual landscape pages in otherwise portrait oriented document.

    Extra spiffy. One day in the not too distant future I'm going to need to spend some time with TeX. Which book would you recommend, sir?

  25. Re:Just look at the size of a word document today on Where Have All The Cycles Gone? · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    WTF should I save printer settings into my document??? It's illogical

    You, sir, are a slimy little piece of troll shit who failed to apply even a moment of thought to your 'argument' before you kicked into flame mode. A document should have printer settings so that the application knows how to print it. Think. Say I'm working on a piece of technical documentation. It has code samples with some long lines. The best way to make a dead-tree copy of this document is to print it landscape, with the back side of each page inverted so it can be bound at the top. WHY THE FUCK SHOULDN'T THAT BE EMBEDDED IN THE DOCUMENT?