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  1. Re:Well on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: 1

    He was a great comic. His one-liners are unparalleled.

    Seems like we both voiced our opinions in a similar manner there. Just because your statement was positive and mine was negative does not change that. This is an open forum and I will fling my unbacked opinion in any manner I feel.

    And, BTW, rap does suck.
    ;)

  2. Re:Einstein on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: 1

    1895: Albert attempts to skip high school by taking an entrance exam to the Swiss Polytechnic, a top technical university, but he fails the arts portion. His family sends him to the Swiss town of Aarau to finish high school.

    1896: Albert graduates from high school at the age of 17 and enrolls at the ETH (the Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich


    And some maybe conflicting info from another source:

    Though his grades were fair in high school, he was eventually expelled for his rebellious nature. Always an individual, he traveled around before re-enrolling and completing school in his new home in Zurich, Switzerland

    Anyone have solid info on this?

  3. Re:Well on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: 0

    And Rodney Dangerfield was the worst, most annoying, and most played out comic I can think of. Having Rodney do a 5 minute guest spot completely destroyed the validity of any movie. Maybe if he had thought ahead, he would have decided to cut the world a break and teach highschool PE or something instead...

  4. Re:Only in major cities on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 1

    I work as a Systems Manager in San Francisco. The majority of the people working in the heart of this city actually live in the suburbs. The crash of the dot-com era drove everyone to find more affordable housing. Granted, I have to sit in a train for an hour and then walk a mile or two every day, but I get to trade that for the higher city salary without paying the incredibly ridculous city mortgages. $600,000 here buys you a small one bedroom condo. My suburb townhouse ran me $275,000 and I even get parking spots and my own hot tub.

  5. Re:But the good news is... on Inkjet Printer Prints out Human Skin · · Score: 1

    Ever hear the :Wumpscut: song about that movie?
    /offtopic

  6. Re:Newspapers - a dying breed on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 1

    Hey, good catch :)

  7. Re:Newspapers - a dying breed on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 1

    Ah, so it was a randomn comment with no factual proof.
    Thanks for posting.

  8. Re:Can Spam Act as defense on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 2, Informative

    I live in California, and see on a regular basis how true your comment really is...

  9. Re:Newspapers - a dying breed on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 1

    Do you really lay the stories side by side and compare errors? Not arguing with you, just think it is funny when people throw out random comments like that just because they sound nice.

  10. Re:Newspapers - a dying breed on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 1

    Well, Mr. well-paid top 0.1% super-tech-man... but you don't know what a Blackberry is, hmmm?

  11. Re:Newspapers - a dying breed on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 1

    Most newspapers have a free online edition with the exact same editorials and investigative jounalism. The online versions can't be used to soak up dog piss, but you can do things like search, cut and paste, google for more stories by the same author, etc.

  12. Newspapers - a dying breed on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't remember the last time I picked up a hardcopy of a newspaper... or just about any other publication, aside from a paerback novel.
    Why read day-old news when you can get up to the minute headlines via http and RSS? If I am not at a PC, I can read them with my blackberry or my cell phone. I even saw a laundrymat with a news ticker in the windows the other day...

  13. Re:This is great on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1

    Using word as the default is horribly annoying. I install O2k3 using a custom Transform file. When a user open Outlook for the first time, their profile is created automatically using their NT logon name as their email address. This setting (word as default) is also turned off by with the transform.
    I agree completely, I'd love to get my office off of Office, but there's just about a 0% chance that that is going to happen.

  14. Re:This is great on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1

    How would that be saving you money? A client license for Outlook runs you less than $100. I believe that you would also have to pay for the Client Access License for Exchange no matter what email client you are using to connect to the server.
    Now, if the copy of Evolution ran you only $20, and actually included all the features you need... then we'd be talking.

  15. Re:neeeeerrrrrrrds!!!!! on Comcast Raises Bandwidth in Shot at DSL · · Score: 3, Funny

    That really should have stayed in Vegas. I feel like less of a person having just glanced at the thumbs...

  16. Re:Internal conflict is what I worry about... on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    It was a joke, moron, refering to a series of fiction novels called Dragon Lance. Maybe you should search wikipedia a little better before posting links to them.

  17. Re:Nanobots on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 1

    Makes perfect sense. I assume that you're posting from a Mac Plus running Mosaic.

  18. Re:Internal conflict is what I worry about... on In the Year 2020 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Especially if the draconian measures continue to erode our personal freedoms.

    Yeah, who decided to let half-dragon, half-human beings into government office anyway?

  19. Re:What about cell phones on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 1

    We have a local theater that actually advertises a "Baby Night" when you can bring your screaming brat with you. It is always an adult movie that is playing. I can't imagine how that would be fun for anyone involved... Maybe I should go an talk really loud on my cell phone, kind of like pinching someone's arm who just broke their leg.

  20. Re:What about cell phones on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 1

    Well, we are all quite relieved that you got back down on your fat a**e and decided to write about your wonderfully exciting adventure. Maybe tomorrow you can tell us about something even more thrilling, like brushing your teeth or replacing that empty toilet paper roll.

  21. Re:What about cell phones on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of use are on call 24-7. For example, I carry a Blackberry where I get messages related to things like dropped pings on a critical production server. The Blackberry is always on vibrate, and I doubt that the slight buzz would even be heard by anyone in the theater. At that point, I can decide whether or not I need to leave, or at least begin to plan what I will do when the movie ends. If I do decide to leave, I am no more of a bother than the tons of people getting up to piss every 15 minutes.
    I would purposely avoid movie theaters that blocked my signal.

  22. Re:Dupe on House Paint Foils Wardrivers · · Score: 1

    A funny AC post... hmmmm.....

  23. Re:Firefox? bleh. on Mitch Kapor Warns Against Firefox Gloating · · Score: 1

    Just an impulse post... most people can't decipher between offtopic and funny, though.

  24. Re:Firefox? bleh. on Mitch Kapor Warns Against Firefox Gloating · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On a whim, I checked out the link in your sig. The first article reads:
    Possible Age Related Hearing Loss Abatement Breakthrough

    I think you should re-phrase it: "Slashdot for old fogies. What was I typing?"

  25. Re:VC and their shareholders on Who Invests in Spyware Companies? · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to heard their IT policies on installing this sort of software on company machines. I wonder how many times their admins have had to clean their own crap off of a secretary's workstation...