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  1. Lego case mods on LEGO Tech Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    These Lego case mods are cool too!

  2. Re:Amazing on LEGO Tech Still Going Strong · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sorry to be pendantic but the plural of Lego is also 'Lego' and not 'Legos'*.
    Sorry to be pedantic, but I think you mean "pedantic".
    Gold. Where are the mod points when you need them?
  3. Re:Just how much does it do? on A Bathroom That Cleans Itself · · Score: 2, Funny
    It said "shoulders", not "armpits".

    The only people I know with hairy shoulders are usually men. Unless you are talking of a female ape, in which case I would recommend a little cautiousness in your comments (did you know female apes were capable of lifting 1000 lbs when they get really angry ?)

    Well, I guess we know not to piss you off then.
  4. Re:Hardcore programmers KB. on The Optimus Mini Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Used to be you could make do with one key and the timing between the "Ones" would fill in the blanks. Hell, that's how the telegraph started.

  5. ughh on The Future of Speech Technologies · · Score: 1
    Imagine trying to code this way:

    I en tee space main open-parenthesis i en tee space a ar gee cee comma cee aitch a ar asterisk space a ar gee vee open-bracket close-bracket close-parenthesis open-curly-bracket...

  6. Re:Blah. on How to Do What You Love · · Score: 1
    A choicer quote from "Dabblers and Blowhards":
    Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do. Even not-so-great paintings - in fact, any slapdash attempt at splashing paint onto a surface - will get you laid more than writing software, especially if you have the slightest hint of being a tortured, brooding soul about you. For evidence of this I would point to my college classmate Henning, who was a Swedish double art/theatre major and on most days could barely walk.
  7. Re:This applies across the board... on Genius Requires Just the Right Mix · · Score: 1
    Cntrl-C, Cntrl-V this idea into an intellectual bucket, and you get the point of the article. Environment is critical to "geniusness".

    There's no n on my Ctrl key.

  8. Re:Anonymous developments? on Anonym.OS a Boon for Privacy Geeks? · · Score: 1

    What about Freenet?

  9. What if on Tension Between Record Labels And Digital Radio · · Score: 1

    What if I buy this crap and get sick of it a week later?

    If they enforce this then I propose a pro-rata content payment system:
    $x = $days_owned * $avg_cd_price / $avg_cd_num_tracks / $avg_days_to_live
    ~= 0.0078c / day
    Where:
    $avg_cd_price = $13
    $avg_cd_num_tracks = 13
    $avg_days_to_live = ( $avg_life_span - $avg_consumer_age ) * 365.242199
    $avg_life_span = 75
    $avg_consumer_age = 40

    So If I delete the crap a week later I pay 0.05c!

  10. Re:why bother on Apple Sends Hidden Message to Hackers? · · Score: 1

    I believe the effect you are refering to relates to Cognitive dissonance in particular and Cognitive bias in general.

  11. Re:Maybe not declining, but simply changing on Spam is Dead · · Score: 1

    rarely, whatever.

  12. Re:Maybe not declining, but simply changing on Spam is Dead · · Score: 1

    Ad Block - Almost 100% effect and is 100% lethal to banner ads.

    I actually have a problem with ad blocking. I am well aware that a lot of sites depend on income from banner views and clicks.

    Adblock has a setting that will let you download the ad but not display it so you still support the site. Someone else mentioned getting false-positives, if you use Filterset.G you'll rerely get a false-positive.
  13. Re:the old axiom applies on When Bugs Aren't Allowed · · Score: 1

    The old technology axiom applies:

    High Speed, Low Cost, High Quality.

    Pick 2 out of 3.

    I've thought about this though, and you really can't have a Low Cost, High Quality product. The reason for this is that you can't rush Quality (as you stated, 2 out of 3) and Time is Money.

    So here's hoping more people come to appreciate Quality and are willing to spend the Time/Money necessary to achieve it!

  14. Re:The Island on Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper · · Score: 1

    Gold

  15. Re:GIMP toilet paper on Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper · · Score: 1
    The GIMP has a toilet-paper template.
    I checked, and surely enough - File > New > Template: Toilet Paper (US, 300dpi)

    Seriously, WTF!?

  16. Re:rule #1a on Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization · · Score: 1
  17. Re:The "C-900" cassette... on Yet Another Holiday Gift Guide · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nice, but forget rechargeable batteries and put a generator in it to run it off the drive spindle.

  18. Re:AJAX inthe Real World on Ajax in Action · · Score: 1
    Pretty cool man - so this is how you send data to the server...

    Send and retrieve. E.g.
    <input onblur="httpRequest('get_something.php?id='+this.v alue,'updateSomething','\'something\'');" />
    <input id="something" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function updateSomething(id,result){
    something = document . getElementById ( id );
    something . value = result [ 'something' ];
    }
    </script>
    So I can use my httpRequest from the GP post to update document elements without a refresh. I.e. change the options in a select based on another input. I'm currently using it to update a list of suburbs and a state based on a postcode, not the kind of thing where you want to send all the data to the client in the first instance.

    What are you using for server code?

    PHP.

    What does your server code spit back, xml?

    text/query-string so my get_something.php?id= script will return something like something=this&something_else=that

    What libs are you using for xml parsing?

    I'm not using XML, too much mussing around and scripting overhead for such a simple use as what I'm doing. text/query-string is simple and it only takes a few lines to parse it into an associativ array. So you end up in your callback function with, like, result [ 'something' ] == 'this' && result [ 'something_else' ] == 'that'

    You usin' XSLT or just straight Javascript to map data-to-ui?

    Javascript to use my result to effect my document/form.

  19. Re:AJAX inthe Real World on Ajax in Action · · Score: 1

    I am currently using the following function. It performs a request, parses the result from text/query-string format into an associative array then passes this to your callback function following your other arguments. I tried to have a global httpRequestObject that I could re-use each time a httpRequest was performed but IE doesn't like it that way. I decided to use query-string format because it's simple, easy to read and some existing server-side scripts return values this way. I used eval as while it may be considered evil, it's very convenient. I tried to create a regex that would parse the query-string into an associative array in one go but I didn't come up with anything elegant.

    function httpRequest ( url, callback, params ) {
    var httpRequestObject;
    if ( window . XMLHttpRequest ) {
    httpRequestObject = new XMLHttpRequest ( );
    } else if ( window . ActiveXObject ) {
    try {
    httpRequestObject = new ActiveXObject ( 'Msxml2.XMLHTTP' );
    } catch ( e ) {
    try {
    httpRequestObject = new ActiveXObject ( 'Microsoft.XMLHTTP' );
    } catch ( e ) { }
    }
    }
    if ( httpRequestObject ) {
    httpRequestObject . onreadystatechange = function ( ) {
    if ( httpRequestObject . readyState == 4 ) {
    if ( httpRequestObject . status == 200 ) {
    var response = httpRequestObject . responseText . split ( '&' );
    var responseLength = response . length;
    var what = /(.*)=(.*)/;
    var that = 'response [ \'$1\' ] = \'$2\';';
    var field;
    for ( var i = 0; i < responseLength; i ++ ) {
    eval ( response . shift ( ) . replace ( what, that ));
    }
    if ( params ) {
    params += ', ';
    }
    eval ( 'callback ( ' + params + 'response );' );
    }
    }
    };
    httpRequestObject . open ( 'GET', url );
    httpRequestObject . send ( null );
    }
    }

  20. Re:Yea but... on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 Released · · Score: 1

    It would've been good to get 1.5 final before Thanksgiving so geeks could install it on Mum/Dad/Gran's computer while visiting them. I guess we can do that at Christmas though.

  21. Re:Speaking of Accessibility on Open Source Accessibility · · Score: 1
    That's what user style sheets are for, not to mention the fact that there's a whopping great "Large Print" link up the top that changes the page style to black on white with huge text - actually that link looses the permalink, how retarded. You could just switch off the styles altogether.

    I know, you were joking

    :)

  22. Re:Big Brother-esque (again) on Google Launches Web Traffic Analysis Service · · Score: 1

    Webalizer does incremental batches and keeps running totals.

  23. Re:tobacco still sucks - canabis on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 1
    I realize that no one smokes weed through a cigarette filter
    Realy, no one!?
  24. Nikolaus Kopernik? on Search for Copernicus Over · · Score: 1
    Nikolaus Kopernik?

    It's Nicolaus Copernicus or Mikolaj Kopernik! Where did that misspelling come from?

    Czesc

    Michal

  25. Re:Do you have some kind of systemic malady? on Scientists Complete Map of Human Genetic Variation · · Score: 1

    I've been gradually reducing my intake of acid-forming food starting with caffeine, added sugar and pop and increasing my intake of alkalinizing food and I'm seeing good results. I've lost some excess fat and have more energy. The main reasoning I have read about this kind of remedy is that fat binds to excess acid/toxins in the blood to help protect the body from overload when the liver/kidneys can't keep up and that an alkalinizing diet helps reverse the process (aging).