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  1. Re:If possible? on Linux 2.4.19 Released · · Score: 4, Funny
    Oh yeah, great. Why don't I just go and have a clove of garlic for breakfast while i'm at it? You want a silver stake? 'Cause I've got one right here that you can have. Honestly, you are a load of insensitive bastards.

    Dracula

  2. Re:POSIX xtime to the rescue!!!! on 1985 Usenet About Y2k · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh great, and what about the year 292279027178 problem?

    Short sighted idiots...

  3. Re:It's a useless effort on If You Had Something to Say to Future Generations...? · · Score: 3, Funny
    Even if we gave them the most insightful advice possible

    You're missing the point. You have to prefix it with 'I'm probably gonna get modded down for this, but...'

  4. Re:Sticky Umbrella on More on Orbital Space Debris · · Score: 2
    Yeah but get a better name for it. I can see the stories now.

    In a bold move yesterday, president Bush declared that a sticky umbrella would save us from meteorites

  5. Disclaimer on Live Via Satellite · · Score: 4, Funny
    The IEEE and Lucent plan to commemorate the event at three events today in Pleumeur-Bodou, France, Goonhilly Downs, England, and Andover, Maine

    Disclaimer: Slashdot is a subsidiary of Andover/OSDN

    Oh, wait...

  6. Re:Only took 1.5hrs for Windows XP on Software Engineering at Microsoft · · Score: 2
    No! They used win98 to compile 2k (crashed eight times)

    Then they used 2k to compile xp (crashed once)

    OR:

    Time to compile 2k: 8hrs

    Time to drag 'Luna' into 'Skins' folder: 2 min

    Time to play minesweeper: 1hr 28 min.

  7. Re:What argument? on UDP - Packet Loss in Real Life? · · Score: 3, Funny
    This is rather like comparing Pepsi to milk. They both have their place.

    Except for pepsi.

  8. Re:Confusion at the Vatican. on Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites · · Score: 3, Funny
    Kids these days, too lazy to link.

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  9. Re:2 for 1 on Soda Machines for Geeks? · · Score: 2

    And I have no idea why someone could get so uptight about recieving the wrong soda...

    The wrong soda can kill some people

    Seriously. The sweetener aspartame used in diet coke and pepsi is very bad for people with PKU.

  10. Re:I always wondered about units of measurement... on Slashback: Zoning, Linking, Fooling · · Score: 2

    some calculations are always going to have funny conversion constants, especially in the non-Physics world (Avogadro's number in chemisty perhaps for instance?).

    Er... Avogadro's number is just defined in terms of grams (12g of carbon=1 mole, 1 mole=[Avogadro's number] atoms). If we switched units we would automatically get a new value, possibly a nice clean one. Or we could just change 1 mol=10^21 atoms.

  11. Re:What about VisualStudio.NET? on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2

    Of course at the same time, microsoft blocks sites based on user agent settings, encouraging people to change them and so this will server the wrong code.

  12. Re:Great. Now find a good web page builder on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2

    I use dreamweaver mx and love it. (yay for syntax highlighting my php) however I can't seem to find a way to get it to close empty tags, as in />. Without this it doesn't produce xhtml. Have you had any luck with this?

  13. Re:Lynx. on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2

    I have no problem with Lynx. lynx into autopr0n and see for yourself.

    What the hell would be the point in that?

  14. Re:The sad truth. on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 2

    Long live Darwin.

    No. Early death, many offspring and high rate of mutation Darwin.

  15. Re:how 'bout apple on MS Palladium Patent · · Score: 2

    There's been a judgement (they broke the law), the hold-up at the moment is a decision on the measures to be taken to restore competition.

  16. Re:Cameras on A Quick Peek From the Matrix Set In Sydney · · Score: 1

    It would still destroy the effect.

  17. Re:Works well... on Cygwin's XFree86 4.2.0 on Windows XP · · Score: 2
    it needs its own window - you can't have the X windows alongside the Windows windows (if you see what I mean).

    i.e. it cannot be rootless.

  18. Re:how 'bout apple on MS Palladium Patent · · Score: 5, Informative
    Microsoft bought a bunch of non-voting stock in apple as part of a deal that included cross licensing of patents. This settled a long running dispute of MS supposedly stealing apple's look and feel.

    Microsoft quietly sold their stock (for a profit) some time afterward.

  19. Re:so... on Commerce Dep't to Hold Public Workshop on DRM · · Score: 2

    Dunno, a lot of us aren't from the US.

  20. Re:Correct links found here on Beyond Dvorak via Genetic Algorithm · · Score: 2
    and for the lazy:

    The code

    PDF

    Experiment

  21. Re:The Amiga is coming back. on New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS · · Score: 2
    "and MacOS (up until MacOS X) has been a complete toy operating system."
    Agreed.

    Uh... by that definition, ditto win9x.

  22. Re:uh, /hello/. on What is the Oldest Unsolved Math Problem? · · Score: 2
    Did fibonacci actually have the function? He observed some nice things about the pattern and that it result ed from one model of rabbit breeding.

    For those interested, the function is:
    [ (1 + sqrt(5))^n - (1 - sqrt(5))^n ]/[sqrt(5)*2^n]

  23. Re:So... on Disgusting, Scary 'Walking' Fish Invades Maryland · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and says 'Barkeep, do you sell fish food?'
    The bartender looks at him sideways and says 'no, this is a bar. Bars don't sell fish food.'
    'Oh' says the fish. 'Bye!'.

    *****

    The fish comes back the next day. 'Barkeep!', he says, 'do you sell fish food yet?'
    'No, and we don't plan to' said the bartender. 'This is a bar. Bars don't sell fish food.'
    'Right' says the fish. 'See ya!'

    *****

    The next day the fish is back again. He goes up to the bar and says 'I'll have a fish food on the rocks'.
    By this time the bartender is quite annoyed. 'This is a bar. It doesn't sell fish food. It never will. If you come back here, I'm going to nail you to the door by the tail.'
    'No need to be angry' says the fish. 'Bye!'

    *****

    The next day the fish goes up to the bar, and the bartender is ready for him. 'What do you want?'
    'I know this is a bar,' says the fish, 'but do you sell nails?'
    The bartender is taken aback. 'No... why?'
    'Excellent' says the fish. 'Do you sell fish food?'

  24. Re:proof on Disgusting, Scary 'Walking' Fish Invades Maryland · · Score: 2
    Could this be living proof that the moon is made of cheese?

    Yes, but you're a bit late: <wallace>Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese.</wallace>

  25. Re:But will it be happier that 7.2? on New Red Hat Beta: LIMBO · · Score: 2

    Well if you're interested in the newer software in LIMBO (sorry) you should run AT LEAST 7.3.