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  1. Re:Robots and Unpredictability on Unpredictability in Future Microprocessors · · Score: 1

    ...and Guns.

    (or friggin lasers on their heads.)

  2. Re:Quartz is not vectorized on GTK+ to Use Cairo Vector Engine · · Score: 2, Informative

    this adds server-side support

    No, it doesn't. This is still client-side. The X server knows nothing about GTK+ or Cairo.

    There are discussions about putting Cairo in X (via RENDER?), but this is not it.

  3. Re:Perhaps Intel has friends in high places... on New Intel Trademark Filed · · Score: 1

    That's a phony Southern U.S. accent you insensitive clod!

    Get your phony U.S. accents straight for once, will you?

  4. We have a Winner! on W3C launches Binary XML Packaging · · Score: 1

    Only 120 posts before someone said something more intelligent than, 'Binary XML, blecchho!'

    Only wish I had a prize for you. :)

  5. Re:More bloat! on W3C launches Binary XML Packaging · · Score: 1

    Just think of it as a input-language agnostic encoding mechanism which has the added bonus of eliminating redundancy.

    Yeah, leave the redundancy to Slashdot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe professionals!

  6. RTFA - Re:Binary... XML... Nah! on W3C launches Binary XML Packaging · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is not binary XML. It is a method to extract binary data that is embeded in XML (e.g. CDATA) and store it outside the XML, but in the same document. It is NOT a method to reduce the text encoding (overhead) of XML to a binary format.

  7. Acoustic Echos? on Echoes Hint At Accelerating Universe Expansion · · Score: 4, Funny

    God: Hello!

    [400,000 years later]

    Universe: Hello, hello, lo, lo, lo, o...

    (or was that Eddies in the time-space continuum?)

  8. Re:I spy a new meme on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1

    Where is your sense of history? That wall fell last year.

  9. Re:Anarchist, dammit on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and Insightful Moderation.

  10. Re: have information to any non-exempt information on UK Freedom of Information Act Comes Into Force · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think they were trying to get an early jump on the "Worst article summary of 2005" award.

  11. Re:Geez.... on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jakarta runs on Windows or Linux.

  12. Re:Sounds great for Basic Tasks on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    First thing I tried to do was Zoom. Can't zoom other than multiples of 100% (e.g. 400%) or one these fixed values: 50%, 25%, 10%, 5%

    I find that quite broken and not worth investigating much further. I give those students a C- at best. Not even a C# is good enough for them. :)

    Back to PSP 6 I guess.

  13. Re:soldam is an excellent option. on Really Stylish PCs and Peripherals · · Score: 1

    Yes. Using one now that is about 3 years old.

    They were very nice in that I got a phone call a few days after it arrived. They wanted to be sure it arrived safely and I was happy with it.

    At least I _think_ that is why they called. I don't speak Japanese and the caller had a very thick accent :)

  14. Re:Ick! on Really Stylish PCs and Peripherals · · Score: 1

    Try the Japanese site http://www.soldam.co.jp/ instead. They just added some Pentium M systems.

    The fish does a decent job of deciphering the contents.

  15. Re:It's Sony on How Sony's HD Audio Player Falls Short · · Score: 1

    No, that's Smuckers.

    Sony's motto is: "Sony. Because caucasians are too damn tall."

  16. Eric, is that you? on Driver's Licenses with Digital Watermarks · · Score: 1

    Why should I be tarred with the epithet loon merely because I am from Minnesota?
    (halibut owners need not apply)

  17. Re:Motorcycles on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Try a small thermonuclear device instead. The EMP should clear the lights around you for quite a large radius.

  18. Re:OK on E17 Available From CVS · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's priceless is imagining what 'retarted' _should_ mean. I pictured an elderly British whore who got a makeover. ;)

    A sniglet if I ever saw one.

  19. Re:Difference? on Windows 2000 SP5 Replaced With Update Rollup · · Score: 1

    The difference is the rollup has a fresh fruity flavor with vitamin C added! :)

    "All right, it's bloody Albatross flavor then."

  20. Re:Heart of Gold on Hitchhikers Movie Update · · Score: 1

    "Yes, we are all different!"

    Uhhh, sorry, wrong sandal reference.

  21. Re:One simple fix. on How Would You Change U.S. Election Procedures? · · Score: 1

    OK, let's say we abolish the current Democrat and Republican parties. Can you really imagine that people will not just form new parties and give them new names? Sure, we might end up with more than two major ones, but people form groups and name them. Get over it. Its not the problem.

  22. Re:Nebraska! on How Would You Change U.S. Election Procedures? · · Score: 1

    If you don't know the people when you go to vote, you should not be allowed to vote!

  23. Re:Power consumption.... on Sony Begins OLED Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and those bright Energy Star logos that appear from some video cards would consume more power than anything else you might display!

    How about an Energy Star logo screen saver?

  24. Re:OLED is described in article on Sony Begins OLED Mass Production · · Score: 1

    What makes an organic material inherently more responsive?
    Hmm, must be married.

  25. Re:For those of you who don't yet know... on Sony Begins OLED Mass Production · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its actually a horrible, wasteful way of doing it. But at the time vacuum tubes were are we knew how to make. Since then billions of dollars and tons of man-hours have gone into perfecting them. Current CRT technology is just about as far as one could possibly push it. It WILL be surpassed very soon by OLED or one of the other up-and-coming technologies. LCD also is probably near its limit.