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  1. Re:More useful than you think on Five Free Calculus Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Raman noodles... would they come in a long cylindrical spacecraft populated by spider-like things and alien avians?

    or perhaps you meant ramen?

  2. Re:WineX on Steam Update Shows FPS Gamer Stats · · Score: 1

    it shows up as whatever you have it set to emulate, in my case Win98

  3. Re:All they are doing on Losing Control of Your TV · · Score: 1

    Uh huh, and the default language just happens to be Chinese, which it will revert to after every power outage, unplugging, etc..

  4. DotT was a sequel... on Sam & Max Sequel Canceled · · Score: 1

    "LucasArts has no adventure game, short of making up Star Wars adventure games, that will ever be as marketable as Sam & Max. Not Monkey Island 5, not Day of the Tentacle 2."

    DotT was a sequel to Maniac Mansion, so wouldn't it be Maniac Mansion 3 instead?

  5. Re:Oh no, on Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    on a side note, 'emerge -lskfa file' only returns:
    $ sudo emerge -lskfa file
    >>> --changelog implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options.
    >>> --pretend disables --ask... removing --ask from options.
    Searching...
    [ Results for search key : file ]
    [ Applications found : 46 ]

    * app-admin/pam_dotfile
    Latest version available: 0.7
    Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
    Size of downloaded files: 223 kB
    Homepage: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/proje cts/pam_dotfile/
    Description: pam module to allow password-storing in $HOME/dotfiles
    License: GPL-2

    ...plus lots more results, 45 to be exact...

  6. Re:7 games on Three Years of TransGaming Discussed · · Score: 1

    Because while being a fact, it isn't relevant to the status of winex because of how horribly out of date that games database is...

  7. Re:Interactive Books on Magic Words - Interactive Fiction in the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Lay(lie?) down in front of it... haven't you ever read the books? (I assume you were referring to HitchHiker's Guide?)

  8. Re:How to upgrade 2.4 to 2.6 in Gentoo: on Upgrading Your Current System To Kernel 2.6 · · Score: 1

    I'm using a 2.6.1 kernel atm on Gentoo... I didn't need an init= or a real_root= ... never even heard of a real_root=...

  9. Re:Choose your weapon... on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    read a bit of Starship Troopers, eh?

  10. Re:Prior art? on Morphing Code to Prevent Reverse Engineering? · · Score: 1

    The IOCCC

  11. Re:Even Interviews on Indian Techies Answer About 'Onshore Insourcing' · · Score: 2, Funny

    not to decent future
    er.. distant?

    Or will you be writing your article in the nude?

  12. Re:Paper book ruling: random access and low cost on Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books · · Score: 1

    In ASCII format you can use vi and just jump to an arbitrary percentage...

  13. Re:Legitimate uses...?! on BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed · · Score: 1

    "It means that if you are a small software developer you can put up a package, and if it turns out that millions of people want it, they can get it from each other in an automated way."

    Are you sure?

  14. Re:NYTimes Reg on Intel Devises Chip Speed Breakthrough · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's actually easier to google for the URL then click the link to it so you have google.com as a referrer...

  15. Re:Because Windows... what? on Running a Business on Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    He already said he would use the best system for the job.
    What he wants to know now is (to paraphrase) : "Is there OSS software that makes an OSS OS the best system for the job"

    Therefore, saying he must pay $760 when he already would if there is no good responce here should be modded flamebait... or at the least offtopic...

  16. Re:Old POS system on Decode Your Barcode, Get Your Personal Info · · Score: 1

    This would be a neat way to store combos for fighting games... almost like the attacks in Battle Network Rockman.EXE for GBA... It would certainly lengthen the life of many controllers...

  17. Re:I don't understand on Court to Hear Landmark P2P Case · · Score: 1

    For the most part, I agree with you, however if the name of the software is "Warez getter" or "Online Copyright Infringer v1.4" and said products help infringe upon other's copyrights, I'd expect something to happen...(not saying that that's the case, just that some things are specifically intended for illegal activities...)

  18. Re:Maybe... on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    how about a decent search function? Indexes aren't always well populated...

  19. Re:Dune ? on Nit-Pickers Guide to Deviations in Jackson's LotR · · Score: 1

    Aye... the old AND new movies...

  20. Re:McBride interview on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    "meet your destiny" ?

    destiny is supposed to be something inevitable, and it doesn't necessarily mean death, it just means something that's going to happen ...

  21. Re:Something Between Aston and WindowMaker on Alternatives to Icons and Start Menus? · · Score: 1

    When I used windows, I used SharpE, from lowdimension.net ...unfortunately their site isn't fully functional right now...

  22. Re:Deja Vu on Yamaha Releases Singing Synthesis Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    But... but he helped me through so many of my problems with day to day life!

    Me: The kids at school are picking on me again.
    DS: Why are the kids at school picking on you again?
    Me: I dunno...
    DS: Why do you dunno?

    ...never mind...

  23. Re:hate to get all meta, but... on Open Source Operating System For Smart Cards · · Score: 1

    It is currently ported to freely available microprocessor like
    Missed one ;)

  24. Re:*Why* do I have that feeling... on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 2

    please, read the rest of the article, he just uses that as an example to show that the arguements he was passing to the compiler really were having an effect on the output, although I don't see why he ahd to do that considering what he does afterwards, that part was not the benchmark...

  25. Re:Quality and speed on State of the JPEG2000 Standard? · · Score: 1

    He's talking about an image of text... not a text file...