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  1. Re:how much better than OpenOffice? on SoftMaker Rolls Out Office Suite for BSD, Linux, and Others · · Score: 1
    I did my PhD thesis in LaTeX.

    LaTeX also has the advantage of being extremely CVS/SVN friendly.

  2. Re:Bad behavior = disease... why not?? on Is Internet Addiction a Medical Condition? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Let's just save some time and determine every form of antisocial behavior to be a disease. That way when we fuck up, we don't have to blame it on our character flaws.

    Sounds like someone didn't get his prozac this morning...

  3. Re:Really... on Norman & Spolsky - Simplicity is Out · · Score: 1
    It handles 95% of the photo editing (cropping, relocating, resizing, flipping, adding text) that I need.

    The only shortcoming is that you can't save the edited files in a reasonable lossy format without unreasonably lossy compression. But only 20% of users want to save and redistribute their photos anyway.

  4. Re:Bashing on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly you didn't read the review. The card works.

    Maybe you shouldn't accept everything you read on wikipedia as scientific fact.

  5. Re:Bashing on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 5, Funny

    It requires a fiber-optic cable because it needs to be able to send the photons in a superposition of states. By the time your program gets around to sending a packet, the photons are most of the way there and merely need to collapse into the same state as the packet. The naysayers who claim that the card can't actually improve latency are only thinking in terms of classical physics.

  6. Re:Imagine if ... on Get on the 'Gates for President' Bandwagon · · Score: 4, Funny
    if people thought Dick Cheney was cold and ruthless, wait until they have Bill Gates in charge.

    Everyone will forget Cheney once vice president Ballmer is in office. He breaks tie votes in the senate... with a chair!

  7. Re:Hang on, wait.. on Barney Surrenders To the EFF · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this will get their spirits up for battles against bigger Dino saurs.

  8. Re:The religious right is against Homeric themes on Illinois Ban On Explicit Video Games Is Unconstitutional · · Score: 1
    Hey ... bend over like a man and take it.

    You know, people might be more accepting of your homersexuality if you weren't constantly shoving it in peoples... uh... faces.

  9. Re:Sets on "Revenge of the Nerds" Remake Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Do you know of another university that has a $1,000,000 landscaping endowment?

  10. Re:I heard about this on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm tagging your post "itsatrap"!

  11. Re:Sony doesn't much care how they compare to Xbox on History To Repeat Itself With PS3? · · Score: 1
    Owning the next-gen DVD format is the prize here.

    The problem here is that Blue-Ray vs HD-DVD is essentially a battle of Betamax vs Betamax. The only advantages that these formats offer is better integration with High-Definition equipment, but the public has demonstrated that the better graphics provided by HDTVs aren't worth the extra money. Both Blue-Ray and HD-DVD will fail because there's already a well-established alternative: DVD.

  12. Re:Yesssssss........ on Sun To Choose GPL For Open-Sourcing Java · · Score: 2, Funny
    Sun still retains the trademark for Java.

    So shortly after they release it under the GPL, we can expect to see "Gnuzilla IceKona".

  13. Re:Define qualified on IT Worker Shortages Everywhere · · Score: 1
    the candidates we got were largely downright laughable, at least for a senior level position. And we weren't using some esoteric language, we were a Java shop

    I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but maybe the problem is that you're a java shop. It's a language designed for mediocre programmers, so why would you expect java programmers to not be mediocre? It offers very little to experienced programmers and deprives novices of abstractions that they might learn from.

  14. Re:Incorrect Title on Tech Jobs For a Student? · · Score: 1

    No, it should be "Tech Jobs for High School Student". I'd say he has a choice between Best Buy and his dad's software corporation (if that doesn't exist, he doesn't really have a choice).

  15. Re:Not surprising... on Google and the CIA? · · Score: 1

    According to a very reliable source, google may in fact be working with the cia.

  16. He already lost my vote on Pete Ashdown on his Run at the Hill · · Score: 1

    He lost my vote when he refused to endorse Stochasticracy.

  17. Re:Creating loopholes? on Congressman Calls for Arrest of Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe you have a few million dollars to spend running for office. My guess is, most slashdotters probably can't afford to run for office, much less afford the amount it takes to win.

  18. Re:64-bit on Java To Be Opened For Christmas? · · Score: 1, Funny
    I have never hard the GCJ web plugin actually *work* for a single site I visit. All it seems to know how to do is pop up a window with exceptions in it.

    Sounds like java to me.

  19. Re:How many days are in your Java? on Java To Be Opened For Christmas? · · Score: 5, Funny
    30-60 days

    The time difference depends on whether or not the garbage collector runs during that time.

  20. Re:Or... on New York Bar May Crack Down on Blogging Lawyers · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I don't think causing problems for lawyers is very bright.

    I imagine the New York Bar has some pretty good lawyers of their own.

  21. Or... on New York Bar May Crack Down on Blogging Lawyers · · Score: 4, Funny
    this could force them to make multiple (and potentially expensive) reports to the New York Bar every single day.

    Or they could just stop blogging and do the job i'm paying them $100/hr to do.

  22. Re:giving back on IE Sends Cake to Firefox 2 Team · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, the license forbids the firefox team from redistributing the cake.

  23. Re:I don't get it. on Wired's Very Short Stories · · Score: 1

    i only need five words.

  24. Re:Several friends moved to Belgium on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1
    he and his family tried to move back to the US and just couldn't readjust to the lifestyle here.

    I don't think I could leave a country known for making the worlds best ales.

  25. Re:Simple solution on Malware In Quantum Computing? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Just don't install Windows Vista Pro

    As long as you don't put all 32 qubits into a superposition, you'll be fine. Otherwise you may be forced to pay the licensing fee to run it on 4,294,967,296 CPUs.