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  1. Re:Apple should be honest on New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws · · Score: 5, Informative

    Want a "start" menu? Drag your applications folder to the dock (next to the trash). Right-click to operate.

  2. Re:Safari search on Microsoft's IE7 Search Box Bugs Google · · Score: 1

    Best browser evar: http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en

  3. Re:Care to support that accusation? on Microsoft's IE7 Search Box Bugs Google · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:This is meaningless on Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Just to counter your anecdotal evidence with my own, I've never seen any FreeBSD systems in the wild, but have seen Solaris at every Unix shop I've been to.

  5. Re:HFS+ vs. UFS vs. ZFS on Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    ._filename is how apple encodes the resource-fork on non-HFS+ filesystems.

  6. Re:Differentiation on Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2 · · Score: 1

    Really? Mouse gestures let you close non-active tabs? Cause that's what putting the close button on the tab will let you do you know.

  7. Re:OT:Sig on Retro Gaming Hacks · · Score: 1

    Wow. You need to go back to math class. If you are determining offsets, then yes you should start at zero. You don't count offsets, you add them to a starting position. But types of people in the world is not an offset it's a quantity. Ask any programming language that has first class arrays the length or size of the array. (No don't use C, I'm sure you'd get it wrong).

    You see an object has a size. An offset points to the start of an object, not the object itself. You have throughly confused offsets with counting something. The joke has nothing to do with arrays. Go find yourself a kindly math professor and say what's base-2 10 in decimal please? He will happily inform you it's two. And it is. You would be correct if the joke was "The highest valid index of the array of kinds of people in the world is 10. It contains those who understand binary and those who do not." Which of course would make people wonder "What's the third element of the array then?"

    And now for a lameness filter deversion. Apparently I have used far too many junk characters to create my wonderfully informative diagram as regards counting and array indexes. So now I have to include a whole bunch of other stuff so it doesn't consider what I typed as junk. I wonder if the "lameness filter" is sufficiently satisified by this injection of non-junk characterage. No it is not happy yet. I really want to keep my diagram.

    But I can't so I deleted it.

  8. Re:Hold on.. on Nintendo's 'Wii' Just A Marketing Gimmick? · · Score: 2, Funny

    For that matter, can you pronounce "w" in isolation? Hint: you can't because it's a glide.

    double you

  9. Re:Bad Names? on Nintendo's 'Wii' Just A Marketing Gimmick? · · Score: 1

    Even the USPTO doesn't find it.

    Oh it's there: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=q h7s7t.3.1

    Sadly, not for Nintendo. Unless of course they're switching to making razor blades.

  10. Re:The New Coke on Nintendo's 'Wii' Just A Marketing Gimmick? · · Score: 1

    DS was just a code name and they said they would change the name, until they said DS was the final name.

    I'm pretty sure "Nitro" was the code name for the DS. (You can still see evidence of this on the back of the DS, its model no. is NTR-001.)

  11. Re:the successor is obvious on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1

    Other Japanese masters are in a similar situation, such as Taika Seiyu Oyata, who will almost certainly have an American successor.

    Soooo, what you're telling me is we're getting replacement cartoons and they're getting replacement ninja masters?

  12. Re:Like, wow on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1

    Or maybe he did get it, and found it so obvious to be redundant.

  13. Re:Text on Microsoft PowerShell RC1 · · Score: 1

    You say that but the only reason people like me like the "oss way" is that it's just that, open. If Larry decides to take a dive off the sanity train I can stick with the current copy of Perl. I have the right to use the code and furthermore distribute it.

    Have you seen Perl 6? I'm pretty sure the dive has already been taken. ;)

  14. Re:mininova pwns netflix on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 1

    Mmm, I love it when slashdot slashdots a torrent.

  15. Re:It's an odd number... on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film · · Score: 1

    If you compare it to Insurrection, than yes.

  16. Re:Still shipping unstable CVS dumps as packages ? on Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Beta Available · · Score: 1

    1.8.3 has some bugs anyway, use 1.8.2 or 1.8.4

  17. Re:Does physics really add that much to an RPG? on Oblivion's Missing Physics Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need to find some real life people and a GM.

  18. Re:Fix problems printing from Citrix & Remote on Alternatives to Citrix Remote Computing? · · Score: 1
    http://www.cups.org/

    CUPS is Common Unix Printing System. Essentially its a modern replacment for lpd (but it can do a lot more than lpd, including being lpd :-p ).

  19. File first, ask questions later on Seeking Prior Art Before Filing Patent? · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the worst that could happen?

  20. Re:OS X... why Linux on Triple Boot on MacBooks Working · · Score: 1

    Dreamweaver/Flash (I think)

    Just to clarify, both Dreamweaver and Flash are available on OS X.

  21. Re:Go for it! on Computer Science as a Major and as a Career · · Score: 1

    Money should be spent, to give a concrete example, to make Knuth's books a $16 boxed set, so EVERY curious 15 year old could own a copy.

    Now that's an idea. Anyone want to start a foundation?

  22. Re:One Tiny Loophole: on Mac Security Alarm System · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you just, you know, turn it off instead?

  23. Re:No pine for me, so sad. :( on Gmail vs Pine · · Score: 1

    I was trying to get across the concept more than the actual method.

  24. Re:PGP? on Gmail vs Pine · · Score: 1

    If you REALLY want to use gmail, and PGP just encrypt the stuff and copy and paste it. Or you can use the fact that Gmail lets you use SMTP to send mail.

  25. Re:No pine for me, so sad. :( on Gmail vs Pine · · Score: 1

    ./configure --prefix=$HOME