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  1. Re:The question on Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers · · Score: 1

    42! Argh!!! Now the universe will implode because, as we all know, the answer and the question are mutually exclusive and cannot be known in the same universe at the same time!

  2. Re:You won't believe this on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, these TIs have motorola 68K processors in them, the sub-89 TIs have the z80.

  3. Re:What does this really mean? tsarkon reports. on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 1

    Heh.. you really enjoy thinking you're making me angry aren't you? And who said I actually use either term for wireless connections? I usually just call them wireless networks... No real need for anything else just to make it sound techier... I don't really see any point to respond anything else you mentioned... Not really any point to responding to this either, but here goes the preview button...

  4. Re:What does this really mean? tsarkon on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, I'm just bored and wanted something to do...

  5. Re:What does this really mean? tsarkon on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 1

    1. It doesn't matter whether there is one for the 68K calcs or not, he was reminiscing... And actually, I've known about Pedrom since way before this release...
    2. Why do you keep mentioning gentoo? The article had nothing to do with it, nor did the original post... In fact, you are most zealous anti-gentoo person I've met...
    3. WiFI is used because it's quicker to say than 802.11(b,g, whatever...)
    4. Yes, there is. If you, troll that you are, would care to check up on things first, you would know that... It's not a port of the code, It's a ray-casting engine that is using grayscaled pictures from the original game, and it actually doesn't look half bad..

  6. Re:What does this really mean? tsarkon on Free, Open Source OS For TI Calculators · · Score: 2, Informative

    Such a troll.... Anyways:
    1. the zshell he was referring to was not the linux shell, but rather a hack for the TI-85 allowing it to run ASM programs... the first big release of such a thing on TI calculators...
    2. WTH did any of that have to do with gentoo?
    3. troll... no comment...
    4. There is already a project porting Wolf3D to the calculator using TICT's FAT engine

  7. Re:Woah... on Star Wreck Trailer · · Score: 1

    Try checking the links (or just hovering the mouse for a bit waiting for the tooltips..) They look the same, but are in fact different topics...

  8. Re:An excellent point from Ray Kurweil on SETI Project Scientist Discusses Prospects · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it's actually more likely than that that there was no parallel to our technological development cycle at all. They may, for example, have developed biology to such a point that they send actual engineered viruses rather than nanobots (eg: biological rather than technical) or maybe aquatics rather than air and space flight(and therefore not sending signals) or telepathic/hive mind so they wouldn't send signals...

  9. Re:My definition! on Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd include "false information" aka disinformation...

  10. Re:How do they know? on Gentoo rsync Server Compromised [updated] · · Score: 1

    hehe... that reminds me of Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg... He hooked up printers to the modems the comps were using and monitored the hacker that way.

  11. Re:Read the article - he has some points on What's Wrong with the Open Source Community? · · Score: 1
    "it cannot be right or wrong. Whether or not it is right is a whole different issue"
    psycho? double-think!!!!
  12. Re:VR FPS & invisibility on Human Pac Man · · Score: 1

    rather than make them visible when up close, place them all in seperate, identical, rooms and hook them up via wi-fi or some such technology. (and beware the guys in the trucks outside the buildings upgrading your opponents weapons >=) )

  13. Re:Health hazard? on Effective XML · · Score: 1

    bah.. someone else spotted it while i was typing :-/

  14. Health hazard? on Effective XML · · Score: 0, Funny
    "Learning the fundamentals of XML might take a programmer a week. Learning how to use XML effectively might take a lifetime."
    --I suspect that you could shave a few months off that time by browsing through this book once in a while.

    ...Does this mean the book could shorten our liftime? or shave a few months off of a week?
  15. Re:shock and awe.... on Windows XP Game Advisor Discussed · · Score: 1

    Or get an extension that allows you to change it while it's running...

  16. Re:Apt on Linux in 2004? · · Score: 1

    But here's the thing: Why should I be forced to use the unstable source for packages that are *only* 8 months old?

  17. Re:Apt on Linux in 2004? · · Score: 1

    I defy you to install the freenet-unstable package (in the unstable apt-source), unless it has been fixed in the past two months (it was reported as broken almost a year ago...) You will find that there is an endless loop in the debconf configuration...

  18. Re:Wait, wait on iPod Users Get Official Battery Replacement · · Score: 1

    I think he was referring to the time on a cassette rather than the battery life...

  19. Re:User friendliness on Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik Responds · · Score: 3, Informative

    well... i'm going to complain about your picture location anyway :-/

    Why aren't you using something like '~/pictures'?

  20. Everything about SCOX should be modded redundant on Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas · · Score: -1, Redundant

    There've been enough stories about SCO that any possible comment regarding the legitimacy of their lawsuit and what they're doing/darl's big fat cheque coming after 4 periods of increase in the stock market etc that I hereby announce that every anti-sco post shall be modded redundant and any pro-sco posts shall be modded as flamebait, thankyou...

  21. Re:Wait for fansub on Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence · · Score: 1
    Eh... actually, I am not claiming to be a 'great master of japanese', I'm just doing what I was told by the maker of slime forest...
    Note: There is no n in roumaji! Lots of confused students write it, "romanji."
    Please kick anyone you catch doing that.
    "Romaji" is the most conventional English spelling, and the one you should probably use, but I use "roumaji" here as
    the accurate phonetic spelling in the roumaji style I use for Project LRNJ.
  22. Re:lucky stars on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 1

    I actually spent quite a bit of time while compiling gentoo using links2 from vc/2 to read slashdot...

  23. Re:OLD NEWS on Apple Makes no Profit from iTunes · · Score: 1

    Your handle fits you perfectly....

  24. Re:How is Windows easier to use than Linux? on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: 1

    That's funny... whenevere I read windows documentation files, it appears that I'm reading a children's HowTo.... (How to listen to an audio CD. First, insert the CD. Second, wait for Windows CD Player to start playing the CD.)

  25. Re:Human side? on Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think i misremembered hearing that they have people audit most of the resultss before they are actually used by the engine... but it appears they changed a bunch of stuff in '01 anyways so it doesn't matter... just ignore the grandparent :P