Slashdot Mirror


User: CableModemSniper

CableModemSniper's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,528
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,528

  1. Re:10 hours and 26 minutes? on Time Saving Linux Desktop Tips? · · Score: 1

    I believe you are looking for http://www.digg.com/ and/or http://www.kuro5hin.org/.

  2. Re:Handy with a screen-saver on Smart Mouse with E-Mail and IM Alerts · · Score: 1

    1) Screen Savers make pretty pictures
    2) I can have have a password for when I walk away from my computer.

  3. Re:Different than IE ? on Firefox 3D Canvas FPS Engine · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not quite a standard yet, but on its way to being one: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ #scs-dynamic

  4. Re:Hmmm on When The Other Woman Is An Xbox · · Score: 1

    You mean Nintendo Widows right? Nintendo wives would imply that there are chicks out there married to Nintendo. And that would not be a problem. That would be AWESOME!.

  5. Re:All too easy on When The Other Woman Is An Xbox · · Score: 1

    I think I know what your problem is. You don't have the little domain name boxes turned on. If you had you'd notice this article came from [mtv.com] and it would all be clear to you.

  6. Re:Bug fixes should go into 5.0.x on PHP 5.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that versioning schemes are pretty much arbitrary.

  7. Re:*shrug* on Xbox 360 Very Unstable · · Score: 1

    Hold down reset.

  8. Re:Repeatable Experiments on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    Speaking of pixie sticks, here's a recipe for something me and my friends like to call "The Incredible Hulk"

    1 Forty of Colt 45
    1 Pixie Stick

    Dump contents of pixie stick into forty. Watch as beer (I use beer in the loosest sense of the word here) shoots out of the top, and the remaining beer turns a nice shade of green.

  9. Re:Markets always trump cartels eventually on President of RIAA Says Sony-BMG Did Nothing Wrong · · Score: 1

    I have more than a few friends who've rebought albums from iTunes that they own on CD.

    Come on. Ripping a CD is easier and less time consuming than buying the songs in iTMS. Stick the CD in, click a button vs. search for the artist or album in iTMS, and buy it. Plus theres no overhead with ripping the cd, atr some point you have to setup an iTMS account, your CC etc.

  10. Re:No debs on the site yet.. on Intel Begins Support for Debian · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, that was actually really interesting. I did not know that.

  11. Re:OMG!!! on Would You Use Ad-Supported Windows? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Impostor! A true Slashdotter would know that Bittorrent is a P2P protocol.

  12. Re:Good old PCP on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1

    First Kender Post?

  13. Re:No debs on the site yet.. on Intel Begins Support for Debian · · Score: 2, Informative

    .tar only archives doesn't compress. Grandparent's point was that they could have just gzed the one file.

  14. What about MPEG-2 on Searching for a Realistic MPEG-4 Solution? · · Score: 1

    Why not just use MPEG2? Doesn't practically everything play MPEG2? How long are this GIS videos you are creating anyway?

  15. CAPTCHAs on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this mean I can get paid for breaking CAPTCHAs?

  16. Re:Office haunted? on Is Your Office Haunted? · · Score: 1

    Tell your g/f to stop screeching at her laptop.

  17. Re:Easy one on NASA Puts A Stop To Space Romance · · Score: 1

    In a small town there is a barber. He cuts the hair of anyone who does not cut their own hair.

  18. Re:A great place to put the logo... on Microsoft Becomes Wembley Stadium's Backer · · Score: 1

    ...have been been played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff (the Welsh national stadium).

    I hope the football players watch out for the rift.

  19. Re:Have you ever heard of the story about on Microsoft, OSI Discuss Shared Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    Hello, I'm here as a representative of ASADL (The American Scorpion Anti-Defamation League) and I'm here to inform you that that story is slanderous. I have here a court order preventing you from repeating that story at any future date. Have a nice day.

  20. Re:How about storage space? on Why Have PDAs Failed In The iPod Era? · · Score: 1

    The LifeDrive has 4GB. Thats almost 5

  21. Re:The next wave of innovation. on The Perl Foundation Gets New Leadership · · Score: 1

    Um, have you seen where regexps are going with Perl6? I submit that C# is not the innovator here. I'm not quite sure about Python, but I know the only thing that Ruby has over perl that might be considered an innovation is much better locality of scope for the $n, $`, $', and $& special variables. True ruby matches return an object, but that not really an innovation just a consequence of the philosophy of ruby. IIRC in Python regexps are not first-class (in the sense of having literals as in perl and ruby) and I'm positive C# regexps don't have literals. There really is no innovation there, Perl6 brings almost a new philosophy to the regexp table, and its part of the reason that Perl6 can be self-hosting. OTOH Perl6 is really weird, and not a whole lot like perl in my opinion, but what do I know?

  22. Re:Live by Ruby, die by Ruby on What is Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1

    Not really, since ruby threads block on syscalls. In fact my version is probably in reality, slower, since it also creates a new object every iteration.

  23. Re:Seaside ? on What is Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1

    Not being a Smalltalk expert, but GNU Smalltalk isn't good enough? I realize it has that weird (for smalltalk) file orientation (as opposed to image) and there seems to be a superflouity of exclamation points in it, but is Squeak really the only (pratical) open-source game in town?

  24. Re:Live by Ruby, die by Ruby on What is Ruby on Rails? · · Score: 1

    A minor addition...

    #! /usr/bin/ruby
    require 'net/http'

    while true
      Thread.start { Net::HTTP.new('fak3r.com', 80).get('/index.html', nil) }
    end

  25. Re:Professor Cormen said... on Arrays vs Pointers in C? · · Score: 1

    you mean:

    while(a[i++]);
    vs.
    while( *(a++) );

    *wink*