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  1. Re:evil linkage on History Flow Shows How Wiki Articles Evolve · · Score: 1

    assuming this is not an attempt at dry humor, you could have stopped it after the first 30 seconds or so. you have only yourself to blame for burning 5 minutes.

  2. Re:Three Letters: on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    English. Learn how to effin' write coherently.

  3. Re:Isolinear chips on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    you mean shigawire

  4. Re:He needs to get out more on ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers · · Score: 1

    and i suppose you've read "the output of the vast majority of so-called 'writers' who submit manuscripts"? or a representative sample thereof?

  5. Re:The following software is available: on Open 3D Scientific Visualization Toolkit · · Score: 2, Informative

    MayaVi is also quite nice. And it's Python.

  6. Re:Decaf? on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yea, 'cause then it would be Mocha.

  7. Re:Add a turbo for lower ping rates. on Researcher Only High Bandwidth Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    The latency is hell, though.

  8. Re:What's with Mr. Jobs and the cubes ? on Apple Design Award Cube Spills Its Guts · · Score: 1
    Intel inside!?

    and outside

  9. Re:Annoyances on D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups · · Score: 1

    what color scheme? all the stories that i read via clicking on the MacReporter link come up in the dark-bluish-green color.

  10. Re:On in the US on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Oooh! What's an eighth of a yard? 4.5 inches. A fifth? 7.2 inches. Which doesn't go nicely into the common eighths or sixteenths fractions. Your argument is specious, with carefully selected examples. Whichever measurement system you are used to, that one will seem the most 'natural'.

  11. Re:Differences from first edition on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean it goes up to XI?

  12. Re:Back me up on "backing up" on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1

    Right. And if you take the DMCA as 'correct', then one should also ban photocopiers because they are devices which allow one to violate copyright law.

    Lessig covers all this and more in Free Culture.

  13. Re:Older Sony Clie models + Weasel Reader on Best PDA To Read e-Texts On? · · Score: 1

    I have a Sony Clié T615C (color, 320x320 resolution) with a 128MB Memory Stick, and Plucker (with Plucker Desktop on Mac OS X). I love it, but it chews through the batteries like an SUV guzzles gas. High resolution is highly recommended because it makes the text vastly more readable, IMO. Color is nice, too: I sync BoingBoing and get all the pix, as well. You should be able to find a refurbished or used model for cheap, now.

  14. Re:kst on KDE Conquers Astrophysics With Kst · · Score: 2, Informative

    ugh. root is a 300 lb gorilla, and about as friendly: c++ is its scripting language. gnuplot is good, but you have to work hard to make pretty plots. also, it is missing a 'plot data as image' (i.e. a pixel or rectangle per point) feature. as someone else has mentioned above, mayavi is great.

  15. Re:Curious how he wrote it in C#. on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 1

    Mono is available from fink. So, I ran "mcs DeDRMS.cs" and "Compilation succeeded". Guess what:

    > file DeDRMS.exe
    DeDRMS.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 console executable

    not much fuckin' use.

  16. Re:Consistency, please on CSS for the LDP? · · Score: 1

    Besides the esthetics of a variety of stylesheets, they can also add accessibility, say for the blind, easily. And the semantic tags will aid someone unsighted in deciphering part of the content.

  17. Re:Apologies for my cynicism but... on Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material · · Score: 1

    you mean "dense", not "heavy"

  18. Re:Context!!! on BRU LE for Mac OS X · · Score: 2, Funny

    BRUs LEs. Duh.

  19. Re:Umm... on NYC Crosswalk Buttons are Inoperative · · Score: 1
    I also think my dog is trying to control my brain

    i can tell you haven't been wearing your tinfoil hat.

  20. Re:Its actually 100% irrelevant on Apache says ASL2.0 is GPL-compatible · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > telnet www.gnu.org 80
    Trying 199.232.41.10...
    Connected to www.gnu.org.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET HTTP/1.1 http://www.gnu.org
    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:29:02 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_python/2.7.8 Python/2.1.3
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
    </HEAD><BODY>
    <H1>Bad Request</H1>
    Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
    The request line contained invalid characters following the protocol string.<P>
    <P>
    <HR>
    <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.26 Server at www.gnu.org Port 80</ADDRESS>
    </BODY></HTML>
    Connection closed by foreign host.

    seems like license incompatibility doesn't really stop GNU from using software.

  21. Re:no, Manfox on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 1

    MANTIES!!!

  22. Re:Heh, a beast at 9 pounds on Dell's Gaming Monster · · Score: 1

    Hang on, here's the sed script:

    p

    That's it. One char.

  23. Re:Heh, a beast at 9 pounds on Dell's Gaming Monster · · Score: 1

    You confuse brevity with elegance. Perl only just edges out sed/grep/awk in my book:

    # -- awk
    {print;}

    Same character count.

    See this from the ActiveState haiku contest:

    Dishonorable Mention
    Name: Geoff Kuenning
    Haiku:
    Unreadable code,
    Why would anyone use it?
    Learn a better way.

  24. Re:Silence on Friday Apple Fun · · Score: 4, Funny
    what kind of a world would we be in if silence becomes patented?

    A world where SCO would win their case.

  25. Re:Heh, a beast at 9 pounds on Dell's Gaming Monster · · Score: 1

    May I suggest: "elegant Perl", "simple C++", "compassionate conservative"...