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  1. Re:Think of it as version 26 on Linux Kernel 2.6.4 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you saying 'This one goes to 11'?

    Hmm, it _is_ March 11. Is Linus a closet Spinal Tap fan?

  2. Re:MS on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you actually have to kill the task and restart it. Big deal. NOT.

  3. Re:70s called on WordPerfect Back From the Wilderness · · Score: 1

    No, you wouldn't.

    Unless of course you like those goatse pictures.

  4. Re:Night Pictures!!! on Debugging The Spirit Rover · · Score: 1

    Dark! Really, very dark. Unlit. Dark Rust-Red actually.

    Next question.

  5. Re:From the article: on Hyper-Threading Explained And Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    No, it is more like two teams of two people. Each team has one cutting trees into logs, the other feeding the chipper. The chipper can run as fast as either person can feed the chipper, but the log cutter may be slow (needs to find, cut and deliver logs). While one team is stalled looking for trees, the other team can continue feeding the chipper. However, in some cases both teams may be out looking for trees and the chipper is still idle.

    Geez I can't believe we're taking this analogy this far. :)

  6. Re:I don't think it would be a big deal on Beagle II Successfully Separates · · Score: 1

    "I dunno"

    "Maybe"

    "I don't think so"

    "Prove it"

  7. Wrong! on Beagle II Successfully Separates · · Score: 0

    It should be: "I for one hope the Martians welcome their new canine overlords."

    They send us little green men, we send dogs.

  8. Re:compact? on Server CE Database Development with .NET · · Score: 1

    You mean COM was a pact with the devil?
    So the devil got Billy's soul, Billy got $$$, we got COM.

    Figures.

    The devil got the short end of that deal.
    Now with .NET is Billy trying to go it on his own.

  9. Re:Moderators? on Server CE Database Development with .NET · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a quote from the 2nd Conan movie.

  10. Re:Cool.. on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know about calculate, but apparently the site is being run on a Beowulf cluster of 2000 of the little suckers.

  11. Other things to add... on Small Form Factor Comparison Matrix · · Score: 1

    How about Soldam? They've got quite a good range of cases and MBs to choose from. A bit pricey, but very nice stuff.

  12. Re:What makes a bad patent? on When Good Patents Go Bad · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed that it seems incomprehensible to some people that not everybody's sole motivation in life is money.

    Or Power.

    Now, Sex, Beer and Toys...that's another matter entirely.

  13. Re:Now imagine... on Scientists Freeze Pulse Of Light · · Score: 1

    ...just use a beam splitter (on a stick). Original beam goes on to 2nd ship and you get to hear the whole thing.

  14. Re:Old wives tails on Perfect Weather on the Net · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and it is Tales, not Tails. Unless of course it is tails and you're getting some....but Old Wives? Blecch!

  15. Re:SATA anyone? NO one? Firewire should be ... on New Low Cost DVD Burners Hit The Streets · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why do we need it right now?

    For exactly the reasons you stated - not speed. One standard, smaller cables and connectors, removal of the Master/Slave crap (and not for Political Correctness reasons).

    I'd go with IEEE1394 too, but now the reason against that appears to be cost...

  16. SATA anyone? on New Low Cost DVD Burners Hit The Streets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why aren't we seeing any SATA CD/DVD drives yet? Is there some technical reason? How long do we have to wait to see the end of PATA support?

  17. If you liked that... on Get to Know GnomeMeeting · · Score: 1

    You'll love this

  18. Re:More interestingly... on Umberto Eco on Paper vs. Electronic Memory · · Score: 1

    Superior? Maybe. Probably. But what was all that crap about *?

  19. While we're at it we might as well hit them all... on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: 1

    1. Calculate and graph airspeed velocity of an uladen swallow
    2. ???
    3. Profit!!!

  20. Re:duh on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: 1

    Easy. Zero!

    Coconuts are big, heavy, fluid-filled things. Swallows - even African ones - are small, light, delicate things, as are most flying animals.

    Even if you nailed the poor damned thing's feet to the coconut, all you'd get is a scared (or angry - do birds get angry?) swallow flapping its wings in a mad fury of an attempt to escape the cruel bondage that has been inflicted upon it. The coconut might roll around a bit.

    Eventually you'd just have a dead swallow nailed to a coconut to go with your dead parrot nailed to its perch.

    What I want to know is what the Pythons have against birds.

  21. The police should use this. on Single Speaker Unit Delivers Surround Sound · · Score: 1

    Gives new meaning to "Come out with your hands up. You're surrounded!"

  22. Re:IBM PPC970 on OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    Follow that link, click on Buy (using Mac OS X Panther, Safari - YMMV) and get this:

    "Your operating system version or the browser you are using does not support this feature. Supported configurations include Microsoft Windows running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater."

    Nice!

  23. Re:WTF! on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    And your point would be?

  24. Re:I'm at the north pole on Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight · · Score: 1

    That's "Illunium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" you insensitive clod!

  25. Re:I agree, but that wasn't the point of the artic on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1

    the point of the article wasn't to find substitutes for the iPod

    Oh really? Then why were there all those links to alternative products? It just seemed like some kind of advertising scheme to me.