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  1. Re:Windows 1.0 looks like "popdos" on Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Star Division? Or Germany as a country?


    I believe both came from Star Division.

  2. Windows 1.0 looks like "popdos" on Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    There was a neat little dos program that once came with a Logitech mouse called "popdos". It looked very similar to Windows 1.0. The interesting part is that popdos originated from the same place as OpenOffice.

  3. Pattern Recognition on GZipping Life Forms: Deflate Reveals Bare-Bones · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I envision a whole array of compression algorithms.

    Each algorithm could be fine tuned for a paticular type of pattern.

    Is that an elephant or a giraffe?
    Does it compress better with the elephant algorithm or the giraffe algorithm?

  4. Reaction is a function of the sensation on AI in Sci-Fi · · Score: 1


    IMO In some sense (no pun) a sensation is defined by the reaction it affects.

    Examples:

    I feel like crying

    I'm so mad that I could ^*)&^^)##!

    Therefore what it does (action) is a function of what is.

  5. Don't buy Dell Printers on Dell Takes the Low Road Regarding Ink Cartridges · · Score: 4, Insightful


    It's as easy as that. I usually "buy" (i.e.price) the cartridges first.

  6. The price of coasters just went up on Plasmon Exhibits Working Blue Laser DVD Drive · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming the blank disks will cost more.

  7. Is it April already? on Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next thing you know Apple will be using Intel.

  8. FWIW HP sponsors Debian.org on HP To Sell And Support Red Hat Linux · · Score: 4, Funny


    Check out the site sponsor in the lower left corner.

    http://www.debian.org/

  9. I like low tech cartoons on A Photorealistic CGI TV Series Coming Real Soon Now · · Score: 4, Insightful


    It's probably just me but I like the low tech cartoons.
    They seem to have more character.

    I like the hand drawn style of Betty Boop, the claymation style like Wallace and Gromit, paper cutouts (or Sgi computer simulations of) like South Park, and the puppet animations like the works of George Pal.

  10. That's not a 16 port hub on Web Server Packed into RJ45 Connector · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's my Beowulf Cluster. :^)

  11. Unix is not dead on Dell CIO Says "Unix is Dead" · · Score: 1

    Paying for unix may be becoming dead. Unix (linux, BDS) is alive and well.

  12. We had this when I was a kid on Nicotine-Free Cigs, Genetically Engineered · · Score: 1

    Except back then we called them grape vines.

  13. The Unix Philosophy on Test-Driven Development by Example · · Score: 1, Informative
  14. Clusters of Quantum Computers Playing Chess on Humankind Makes Last Stand Against Machine · · Score: 1

    By then the winner (or loser) will determined by the coin toss of who goes first.

  15. 640 K ought to be enough for anybody on Large File Problems in Modern Unices · · Score: 3, Funny

    --Bill Gates

  16. Real Geeks WarChalk the Satellites directly on How High is Your AP? · · Score: 3, Funny


    Real Geeks don't need no stinkin ground based access point.

    Mt Everest is almost in space anyway.
    Just bring along some Pringles and save the can.
    Aim it at the low orbit satellites.
    (You may need some binoculars to make out the warchalk symbols)

  17. Won't Work on Mission: Infiltrate the P2P Network · · Score: 4, Insightful


    People will just delete the junk and keep the good copies (think about spam).
    The good copies get moved to the "good stuff" directory (available for download) and the bad stuff goes to /dev/null.

  18. I agree with this somewhat (mod parent up) on Lindows' Heavy Hand Leads to Summit Dropouts · · Score: 1


    I haven't looked a Lindows 3.0 (It may be OK).

    IMO Lindows 2.0 seemed to be a butcher job of Debian.

    I use Debian.

  19. Under the Hot Rocks is their Webserver on SAUNAAB · · Score: 4, Funny


    This Sauna Heated by the Slashdot Effect

  20. Warchalking (Warflying) Bums in Lear jets on Wireless Internet Launched on Lufthansa FRA - IAD · · Score: 5, Funny


    Now we will see bums in their lear jets
    warflying in close formation to the airliners
    just to get the free internet access.

    :^)

  21. Would that be the J R R Token on New Software Secures Data when Owners Walk Away · · Score: 4, Funny

    That you wear on your finger? :^)

  22. Radioactive iodine isotope on Chemotherapy Patients Set Off Subway Alarms · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know that some radioactive iodine isotopes are used for thyroid treatment as a marker or for destruction of cancerous thyroid tissue. Thyroid tissue absorbs iodine and certain iodine isotopes.

  23. Re:I'm sure that's all very accurate. on Economic Predictions Using Web Usage Data · · Score: 2


    I bet that according to thier data, 100% of all internet users use Windows.

    They're sampling the dumbest 10% of internet users, they're not going to get anything useful.

    Inexperienced might be a better word than "dumb"
    (don't confuse the user with their software).

    It's still a shame that companies take advantage of inexperienced users.

  24. Re:the Postscript Dump on Palm OS Powered Tattooing Robot Debuts in Vienna · · Score: 5, Funny


    Or you get a bunch of gibberish
    that quickly covers you entire body.

    You realize that you forgot to install the Postscript module.

  25. Re:And there will be one Master Ring on More on Longhorn · · Score: 2

    I agree (see other post).