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  1. Re: Curvature on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 1

    To go in line with Italian chicks, they will probably add some extra curvature.

  2. Silicon.. bridge.. on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 1

    North Bridge!

  3. Migration path on First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype · · Score: 1

    Having both the old x86 and new 64-bit instructions on the same CPU is a nice thing for users. They can still run their old apps, but they should also see that native 64-bit programs are much faster. That way, they have the incentive to upgrade the software. If they do this as planned, AMD's next line of processors could well be purely 64-bit.

  4. Apocalyptic numbering on Apocalypse 5 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, when Perl 6.final is released, will the release notes be called "Apocalypse.Now"?

  5. .mpeg4 on QuickTime 6 Public Beta Available · · Score: 1
    What about .mpeg4? It's not like these files will be used on systems with 8.3 character filenames.

    Hmm, come to think of it, they did mention Windows where the file type is determined from its 3-character suffix... :-/

  6. park vs shipdisk on IBM Spins Down · · Score: 1
    Don't you mean

    C:\>shipdisk

  7. Re:Hmmm on Germany, IBM Sign Major Linux Deal · · Score: 1

    Ich bin ein Laden.

  8. Re:Titanic mistake ? on The Illusion of Spectrum Scarcity · · Score: 1
    Titanic sunk? IIRC, it was rendered on Linux, and it didn't exactly 'sink' commercially either.

    Or did you mean S/S Titanic perhaps? ;-)

  9. Re:FP on EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty · · Score: 1
    > A correct treaty would create a healthier environment **AND** sustain the economy.

    Mr. Anonymous, what good is an economy if you're unable to breathe and live? The whole 'economic' world view is hopelessly shortsighted. Money doesn't have any value at all, and you'll realize it by the time this planet is scorched dead as the by-product of capitalism.

  10. Re:FP on EU Ratifies Kyoto Treaty · · Score: 1
    > There is no greater glory than the FP.

    Let's talk about glory when the USA joins the Kyoto treaty.

  11. Chop off _a warezed copy_ of my hand on Copy That Floppy? Go To Jahannum (Hell) · · Score: 1
    OK, so if I steal a material object, then my hand should be chopped off. Conclusion: If I make an illegal copy of Word, they should take a copy of my hand and chop $hand;

    AFAIK, a kind of justification for chopping the hand off, is that it makes it more difficult for you to steal again... so the same punishment should go for almost any criminal action. (Speed driving? Chop off their right foot.)

  12. Re: World B-cup on Artificial Intelligence to Predict Sports Injuries · · Score: 1

    What about Miss Universum?

  13. This calls for a wordplay.. on Ransom Love on United Linux, SCO Unix · · Score: 1

    United Linux == Limited Unix

  14. Interesting.. on New GNU Hurd Kernel Released · · Score: 1
    From the nerd entry in the Jargon File:

    The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT, where `nurd' is reported from as far back as 1957.

    So perhaps 'gnurd' is just the perfect name for a geek OS!

  15. Re:The real question is on New GNU Hurd Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Of course, but it'll probably be bad enough if people call it HURD instead of GNU/HURD.

  16. Re:My computer's fan sounds louder. on lowercase music · · Score: 1

    My absolute favourite so far is "cat shannon1948.ps > /dev/dsp". It's quite spooky as the paper deals with information and sampling, and you hear these patterns of beeps. Some other PostScript files also have nice techno sounds.

  17. Re:Why the Mac emphasis? on lowercase music · · Score: 1

    The article mentions the use of internal feedback (usually unwanted) and noise in sound cards, to produce these minimalist sounds. Macs must be quite noisy if they are good for it... ;-)

  18. Re:fountain pen ink on HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges · · Score: 1

    It's been working just fine on Canon BJC-4400.

  19. Re:Smart folks? on HP Must Defend Half-Empty "Economy" Ink Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Why use those kits anyway? Fountain pen ink, applied with a pipette, is waaay cheaper, and just as easy. You might even say, smarter :-)

  20. Re:It's 6.4516 square-centimeters on Terrabit Per-Square-Inch Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Funny
    Common, when do you adopt proper spelling of "come on"?

    Besides, the USA is progressing towards the metric system, inch by inch, so not to worry.

  21. Re:wow on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 1
    > Pr0n jokes are obligatory for this kind of story

    With me and pr0n, it's my urethra that's the real bottleneck.

  22. Bill, bandwidth, 1994? on Unlimited Airwaves · · Score: 1

    ??? How could he talk about "bandwidth" in 1994? I thought Microsoft invented the Internet in 1995 when they integrated MSIE with Windows. ;-) And "bandwidth" is a purely Internet concept that has nothing to do with radio waves. ;-]

  23. Seeing further on A New Kind of Science · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Wolfram has seen further, because he is surrounded by midgets. (In the intellectual sense, of course.)

  24. Re:RMS... on RMS Replies to "The Stallman Factor" · · Score: 0, Troll

    RMS is an OSShole. The black hole that sucks all OSS and declares $it GNU/$it.

  25. Re:That fast? on CNFET Rivals Silicon Performance · · Score: 1
    > Since it rivals the performance of both n and p, does that make it faster on NP-complete problems?

    No, but at least it makes your comment NP-clever.