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  1. Re:Bounty? on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been in gunfights with Mexican police over a $4 bottle of tequila.

  2. Cursive, you know, script on Why Johnny Can't Handwrite · · Score: 3, Informative
    I write in all block caps, military-style. It comes from growing up as an Army brat and then enduring a brief engineering education.

    I've found that in this "globalized" economy, clearly written English is extremely important to communicate with English-as-n > 1-language speakers. The block style eliminates confusion between letters; the letters are the same as those on a typewriter.

    Suffice it to say that I think cursive is pretty useless.

  3. Re:Owned on Ximian Desktop 2, Evolution Released · · Score: 1

    You taught me something valuable today. Thanks.

  4. Re:Karma Whore on Build Your Own Computer · · Score: 1
    Wow, good thing you knew about 24-bit microprocessors and multiprogramming when you were 7 or 8 years old, or you wouldn't know what they are now, what with your Memento-like problems with vocabulary.

    Or did you just tattoo all the words you wanted to remember?

  5. Re:26 years? on Celebrating 26 Years of the Apple ][ · · Score: 1

    Do you only celebrate your birthday when it is a multiple of ten? I guess you'll be having parties at McDonald's until you're 120 years old.

  6. This is nothing like TiVo on Review: PogoProducts' Radio Your Way · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that you can schedule recordings. Admittedly, that's a nice feature, but what I need the most is to be able to pause live radio and rewind. This is especially useful when listening to talk radio.

  7. Re:the truth about this on Apple Tops Consumer Reports List · · Score: 2, Funny

    He meant black and white. Way before 1997, people wrote B&W to mean black and white. That's how TVs were before the Matrix was created.

  8. Re:My problem with .NET on San Mehat On Web Services & .Net · · Score: 1
    5-10 minutes on a slow machine, maybe. Did you actually measure it or is that how long it feels? On my Xeon with 1G RAM and 10000 RPM SCSI drive, it takes about 3 minutes when VS.NET rebuilds the help index.

    It also depends on how much of MSDN you have installed, as well as dynamic help. You could always just use a text editor and compile by hand, or check out SharpDevelop.

  9. Re:My problem with .NET on San Mehat On Web Services & .Net · · Score: 1

    That happens because your help filter is changing from "Visual C# and Related" to "Visual Basic.NET and Related", and vice versa.

  10. Wil in Last Starfighter on Dancing Barefoot · · Score: 1

    You can see a blurry shot of him in the background toward the beginning of the film. If memory serves me, it's when Louis is wearing a helmet and playing in the trailer park.

  11. Re:What is it that keeps such an old platform goin on Still Life in the Apple II Community · · Score: 1
    I think you nailed it. Nostalgia is a big reason that I still search out laundromats with old coin-ops, including pinball games. MAME is cool and I love it, but there's something satisfying about dropping quarters into the old machines.

    My favorite episode of Futurama is the one where Fry has to play Space Invaders against the aliens from the planet Nintendoo 64. He has a 2-liter of orange soda and an all-Rush mixtape. Ah, the memories.

  12. Re:Gothic Imagination course? on Students Get iPods as Study Aids · · Score: 1

    I once saw an awesome t-shirt. It read: "New Order. A Division of Joy."

  13. Re:The better question is.. on Why Do People Write Open Source Software? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Conversely, if you charged for it, people would bitch about it all the time.

  14. Re:Kinda like Admiral Rickover on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1
    Thanks for the reference; it's been added to my 'hooge unwieldy list of books to get.'

    Perhaps you should consider adding a dictionary to that list.

  15. "Firebird" is fair game on Firebird Database Project Admin on Name Clash · · Score: 1

    GM killed the car line.

  16. Re:Can you say CORBA? on Charlie Northrup's One-Man Patent Grab Continues · · Score: 1

    Are you dyslexic? Your post's parent said "1989."

  17. Re:Why bother to take another projects name? on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    I think Igor Stravinsky would take issue with your use of the name 'Firebird.' He used it back in 1919.

  18. Re:Doom III demo on Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics · · Score: 2, Funny
    It runs great on my G4/800 iMac.

    Oh, Doom III. I thought you said Commander Keen. My bad.

  19. Re:herd mentality on Wired on Hollywood's Elite Message Boards · · Score: 1

    I only watch the movies I make. So there!

  20. Re:"Stuff That Matters" on WSJ Reviews High End Universal Remotes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, we are talking about controlling things remotely, so it's related.

  21. Re:Goes Google obsolete these books? on Mac OS X in a Nutshell · · Score: 1
    It is NOT a Wrox book

    It's kind of weird, but in the last few months, my Wrox books have slowly faded away and ultimately disintegrated. It's as if someone came from the future and caused Wrox to have never existed at all.

  22. Perfect software on Too Much Free Software · · Score: 1

    10 REM Perfect program
    20 GOTO 10

    There you go!

  23. Re:More Icons (which ones I like) on Susan Kare: Mother of Icons You Love (or Hate) · · Score: 1

    I like the Klingon-esque red triangle. I actually released a shareware application with that icon in my VB 3.0 days. :)

  24. Re:More Icons on Susan Kare: Mother of Icons You Love (or Hate) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Create a shortcut on your Windows desktop. Right click it, then pick properties. You should see a button toward the bottom labeled "Change Icon." Click that, and put the path to moricons.dll in the text box. Voila, you can see the icons.

  25. Re:Bxploit?? on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    Bxploit is a movement in 1970s filmmaking featuring the acting talents of Afro-Americans, giving us such characters as Foxy Brown, Dolemite, and Shaft.