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  1. Re:O/S? on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 1

    It means it's either operating or a system.

  2. Re:Poor bastard on Studio Head Answers Your Questions About the Movie Business · · Score: 1

    I've been out to get Bruce Willis for years. The bastard is hard to kill.

  3. Re:And so it goes... on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Perhaps people should just stay inside all day.

    Finally, someone who understands our place in the universe!

  4. Re:The reaction scares me (and not the local's) on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Guns aren't scary: they're a predictable mechanical device. People, on the other hand, are highly unpredictable and should be treated with a certain amount of caution when they make it perfectly clear they're armed, especially if you happen to be doing something illegal at the time like tresspassing.

    Seems to me the geohashers decided to avoid turning a fun day out into a lot of hassle with either ranchers or police, and issued an appropriately detailed warning. So rather than being afraid of guns, perhaps they're just not reckless idiots.

  5. Re:Yet another waste of taxpayer dollars on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "today"?

  6. Soundtrack on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, the incidental music has already been written.

  7. Re:Living and breathing? on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    what's it inhaling?

    Anything that gets too close. Gravity is a harsh mistress.

  8. Re:It's official, BMW caters to little children fi on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    Their target audience does not know that an acronym is a set of letters, that geometry deals with shapes, that function is related to how things work, that N is a variable, and that adaptating means changing.

    BMW's target market is (pick one):

    (a) rich mathematicians;

    (b) rich linguists;

    (c) rich idiots.

    It is, of course, a trick question: categories (a) and (b) don't exist, so it's necessary for to explain everything in words Paris Hilton would understand.

    Seldomly have I heard a saying so devoid of meaning.

    "Context over Dogma" makes perfect sense, unless you believe that one solution fits all problems (or you're part of BMW's target market and don't actually know what the words mean). He could have just said "change with the times", but you have to expect a little pretentiousness coming from a designer. And "Think Different" was taken.

  9. Re:Why Mac, though ? on Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Circuit board? on Huge Data Center Looks Like a Circuit Board · · Score: 3, Funny

    It looks like there aren't any windows. Open source architecture...?

  11. Re:Microsoft-free on Microsoft Free, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I thought MS had been released early for good behaviour or something.

  12. Re:installing on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    Just tried on a MacPro and it asks for the larger update, so it appears hardware related in some way. No mention on Macintouch or Macfixit, though, and I'd expect the regulars there to notice if it was widespread. Time to examine the installer packages.

    Thanks for the feedback.

  13. Re:installing on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    Odd, two iBooks and a white Intel iMac all showed 198MB through Software Update at my end.

    You are correct, according to Apple, but that only adds to the mystery. Out of curiosity, were there any updates you'd skipped?

  14. Re:how long be for psystar comes out with own upda on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    Shortly after Kalyway finishes it, I expect.

  15. Re:installing on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    The large download is the Combo update. If you used Software Update, you've got the smaller Delta (10.5.2->10.5.3) version.

  16. Re:Large numbers of layoffs? on How Does a Poor Economy Affect Tech Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the answer to this question is better served by looking at how past recessions hit the tech industry and their innovation output.

    Well, if this is any indicator, it should take about 250 years for the tech sector to pick up.

  17. Re:Search? on Welcome to the New Slashdot Chicago Cluster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, the search feature isn't working.

    So everything's back to normal.

  18. Re:I'd be down on Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading · · Score: 1

    I've seen enough Seaquest DSV episodes to know this could be really kickass.

    But that means it'll only be good for the first two seasons, then it'll swing from boring to silly.

  19. Re:Beowulf? on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Each generation probably had a hand in changing an aspect of the story, til it became the Beowulf we know today.

    Which is a good thing, because it started out as a dirty joke about a guy called Barry.

  20. Re:Speed on Blender 2.46 Released · · Score: 1

    No, I use Cinema4D, which thoughtfully provides the user enough time to read the entire manual twice before it finishes launching. Which would be great if reading the manual was necessary...

  21. Re:Implementation on FBI Wiretapping Audit Secrets Uncovered Via Ctrl+C · · Score: 1

    Someone "Failed at Behaving Intelligently"

    Of course, why do you think they work for the government?

  22. Re:Speed on Blender 2.46 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not exactly easy to use but you sure don't have to wait on it.

    True, there's nothing worse than having to wait ten seconds before being flummoxed.

  23. Re:Worthless! on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 1

    I'd rather not.

  24. Re:Worthless! on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the punishment fits the crime, my guess is the picture is something like 2girls1cup...

  25. Re:10 years already? on iMac Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Ah, but he's still alive. You don't get any older than dead.

    Besides, if it takes the anniversary of a computer to make him feel old he's probably still young at heart, even if a little frayed around the edges.