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  1. Re:Yap yap yap on Why Browser Innovation Matters · · Score: 1

    Which part of matter-of-preference did not get thru clearly? I happen to love XP's grouping, which is ironic considering I "hate" (to quote you) the company behind it and most things Windows. I used XP as an example, tabbed browsing is just one way to organize multiple windows while mouse gestures add new functionality, in a novel way.

  2. Re:Yap yap yap on Why Browser Innovation Matters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We just had an article on tabbed browsing, and why its super-important.

    And why exactly is it self^M^M^M^Msuper-important? Why is it important to have a 20MB compressed piece of software that can barely render a page w/o crashing? Browser technology was dead in like '96 - like yeah, we could write yet another browser, but why not do something else with free time?

    Rant said, stuff like gestures will become useful once the technology matures. It's just that there's so little stuff like that and more matter-of-preference stuff like tabbed browsing. The way XP groups multiple app windows on the task bar is another way of accomplishing pretty much the same thing, done at the OS/wm level.

  3. Re:cool on Is The Earth's Rotation Changing? · · Score: 1

    By that time we'll be long gone (taking El Nino & Nina with us), which will allow the planet to return to its wonderfully green, healthy, life-spawning self. It's really not the planet we're harming, it's to ourselves and our offspring plus all other life which is innocent. Ignorant beings, we are.

  4. Hip hop hooray on Net Speed Record Smashed · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna smoke an ounce to this! ;)

  5. Say what? on China's 64bit Homegrown CPU · · Score: 1, Interesting

    To avoid MIPS patent issues, several instructions ...

    Since when do the commies give a flying about patents and other such things? And I don't suspect any of their clients would either. So why waste your time on making it patent-free?

  6. I'm gonna stop by ... and I'll take your eyes on ATM Iris Recognition Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I believe the movie Demolition Man accurately portrayed just how difficult it is to fake it :-)

  7. All bad things must come to an end on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    Yes! Wooohoooo! Fina-fscking-lee! Yeeha!

  8. To pork or not to pork on EU Agrees to Give Passenger Data to U.S. · · Score: 1

    To kill this once and for all: a beef meal is, well, w/o pork. And beef is more popular than pork in the US and most/all European countries.

  9. da name has got to go! on Samba-TNG Team Releases 0.3 · · Score: 1

    I just told a co-worker "yo, Samba-TNG just came out" and he was like "they didn't actually name it that, did they?" Another asked "but, is it out now ?"

    ;)

  10. THG on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only site that had the guts to say what's sad but true: "More Cash for Cache - Model Rating Unjustified"

    Hmm, let's see - leave the core untouched, double the cache and play the marketing trick of upping the multiplier of the lame performance rating - since the layman doesn't know any better anyway, why not milk it for all you can?

    Anyone in their right mind willing to pay $600+ for a slow POS 2.167GHz part as opposed to a P4 3.06 w/HT?

    On the other hand, prices for the chip I want have dropped under $150, right in the sweet-spot. Yay!

  11. All I can say is.. on Chip Makers Selling Fewer High-End CPUs · · Score: 1

    fina-fscking-lee

    ;)

  12. The *browsers* are obsolete, not the sites on Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    definition from m-w.com:

    obsolete
    Function: adjective

    1 a : no longer in use or no longer useful b : of a kind or style no longer current : OLD-FASHIONED

    These old browsers and the people that stick by them are obsolete. Get out of the old and stop reading crap like this.

  13. Re:If it were a Windows machine... on Crushing Experience · · Score: 2, Funny

    Buy a CD?

    HAHAHAHAHA

    Good one dude!

    Let's use their own words.. Umm, "Get out of the old!"

    ;)

  14. I don't _need_ money now on If You Didn't Need Money, What Would You Do? · · Score: 1

    Title is the caveat emptor. I can probably survive w/o working for money. A few of us are heroic enough to do it. We do not need all this crap we buy every day. The only thing that I respect and would work in order to be able to purchase (assuming I was not working, which unfortunately I am) is a computer with an Internet connection. Of course, I would have to do something for food and sex, but that's not all that difficult - I could harvest my own and humans are humans (sometimes). I would probably still do what I do now, namely be involved with technology, but most likely in a more exciting area. Think of it as a redistribution of my time. Fuck money.

  15. Re:bc on Seeking a Simple Programmer's Calculator? · · Score: 1

    None of your examples work: $ dc 16o2i10101010p Could not open file 16o2i10101010p: No such file or directory This one needs -e, the others ??? $ dc -e 16o2i10101010p AA

  16. Re:Software on Seeking a Simple Programmer's Calculator? · · Score: 1

    And I thought it was my "complex" query 2+3*5 ;)