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  1. Re:Slashdot bias towards bicycles on Tour De France Showcases Multitude Of Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, the poster makes no assumptions about cycles in general; only bicycles, which, by definition, have two wheels. Nice try, but you have to pay attention to the details to get the +5 Funny.

  2. Re:just say no. and leave us alone. on Fetuses Provide Stem-Like Cells to Mothers · · Score: 1

    Mmmmmmmm... Cake of convenience...

  3. Re:Boycott on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Just like many companies don't want people who are too dense not to use Windows using their software?

    Seriously though, are you kidding?

  4. Re:Boycott on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would you do something like this? There are going to be people that use Microsoft's search engine. Your site will not be indexed by Microsoft's search engine. Consequently, these people will not find your site.

    I wonder if all of the people complaining about there not being enough relevant results are the same ones blocking this spider from indexing their relevant content...

  5. Re:futurama on The Trillion-Barrel Tar Pit · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting that those tar pits were on a burnt out sun just past Teddy Bear Junction. Duh.

  6. Re:Hope it's good... on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1, Troll
    Will check out Spidey 2, after another viewing of F911.
    Hmm... Tuesday... June 29, 2004. Let me write this down... Just a sec... almost got it. There we go. I just wanted to make note of the day I saw the most obvious troll ever.

    I do have to hand it to Moore though. His "documentary" topped the weekend box office, and against such cinematic achievements as "White Chicks" and "Two Brothers"...
  7. Re:Gmail tech ? on Google Plans to Reveal Some of its Code · · Score: 1

    Gmail refreshes every two minutes or so to check for new mail. If you have it open in a tab in Mozilla, you can see it change from "Gmail - Inbox" to "Loading..." and back to "Gmail - Inbox".

  8. Re:use of JavaScript on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I can say one thing cool about google mail, the heavy, working use of JavaScript is pretty cool.
    It's also pretty crippling. Google has gone the way of Hotmail (via their recent site redesign) and killed the ability to open any of the navigational links in a new window or tab. In Mozilla, I can normally middle-click to get the link in a new tab. However, in GMail, if I want to open up my "Sent Mail" separate from my main GMail window, I'm out of luck. (The only links in GMail that are actual links are the boilerplate ones, "Sign Out", and "Help.")

    If you'd like to see for yourself, e-mail cfinke@gmail.com for a GMail invite.
  9. Re:What is the fuss here on Rediff Joins The 1GB Webmail Club · · Score: 1
    The archiving feature of gmail is really cool and nice. Watch for clones of that feature in the comming months.
    More like, "It's been done before." I have a webmail app I've been working on for about 8 months, and I had the archive feature, as well as the labeling feature, programmed months before the GMail announcement. They're not doing anything revolutionary; they're just taking a bunch of nice features that already exist and consolidating them into the same application.

    On a separate note, if you want a GMail invite, e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com.
  10. Re:Threaded messaging on Thunderbird 0.7 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've written a webmail client that does threading, as well as thread arcing. Check it out.

  11. Solution Developed on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 1

    It's now a week later, and I've developed a solution to the submitter's request. It's called anyInventory, and it's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/anyinventory/, and there is a test version for trying it out at http://anyinventory.sf.net/aI/.

  12. Re:Virii is not a word on First IA64 Windows Virus Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, in the time it took me to type that, four other people posted basically the same thing. I've never been this redundant before.

  13. Virii is not a word on First IA64 Windows Virus Released · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Virii is not a word people. The plural of "virus" is "viruses."

    The plural of "radius" is "radii" only because an "i" follows the "d". If you were to follow the same pattern, "virus" would be come "virui." Hey, that kind of has a nice ring to it...

  14. Re:See Dick aspire... on Rendering Shrek@Home? · · Score: 1
    Way back, THE LITTLE MERMAID video had to be recalled because the box-art sported a phallus among the castle spires (courtesy of an enterprising/bored Disney artist).
    False: See what Snopes says.
  15. Re:I have a simple solution. on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 4, Funny
    The question is will you pay for shipping?
    But wouldn't the measly cost of shipping be worth it to know that you're getting rid of your junk, but that it will still be going to good use? And by good use, I mean towards the building of my robot. This is going to be the best prom ever...
  16. Re:I have a simple solution. on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 1

    Nope, just an apartment. Close enough to the U of M campus to be a dorm, but not quite.

  17. Check SourceForge on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Upon searching SourceForge for "inventory", 4 out of the top 5 matches appear to do what you want. I didn't check them all real close, but none of them appear to have the ease of use that they should, but here's what I'm thinking:

    This wouldn't be all that hard to put together with PHP and MySQL, and I've got a lot of code laying around that could be reused to put this together pretty quickly. Anyone want to help with development? Contact "chris at efinke dot com" to pitch in.

  18. Re:I have a simple solution. on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Anyone need a hundred ISA cards? v.32bis modems, AUI NICs, coax repeaters? How about power cords? I have about 50. Phone cords? 10 year old LaserJets with some toner? No?
    Yes. Feel free to send it all to me:

    920 Delaware St. #3003
    Minneapolis, MN 55414

    That goes for anyone else too. Also, this would solve the problem posed by the submitter. Where's your stuff? I have it!
  19. Thanks for the link on How Hard Is It To Write Your Own Search Engine? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the link to Google, submitter. I never would have found it otherwise!

  20. Re:oh, and one more thing... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1
    I have a problem believing that an onmnpotent being would be quite so intolerant of minors who - by definition - have not yet gained the full faculty to make their own judgement
    This passage is similarly troubling to me, but I believe that everything God does is done for a purpose. I obviously have no way of knowing the true purpose of his event, but one that I could envision is that perhaps His goal in this event was to teach a lesson to the parents of these youth.

    What kind of values had the parents in this town instilled in their children such that 42 of them would gather and heckle Elijah, a well-known man of God who had a reputation for calling down the wrath of the Lord? (See 2 Kings 1:10, 1:12) It seems that punishing children for the sins of the parents would not be too far-fetched, for it is a common theme in the Old Testament, the most obvious being all of mankind being punished for the sins of Adam and Eve.

    If you, Bruce, or anyone else, ever wants to continue this, or any other theological discussion, outside of Slashdot, feel free to e-mail me at the address listed for my username.
  21. Re:oh, and one more thing... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1
    what do you think of the piece from 2 Kings about the bears tearing up kids for sassing Elijah?
    I'm not sure why you bring up this incident. Nothing in the language of the verses suggests to me that it is an allegory; rather, it shows the wrath of God towards those who mock His people. Some may take offense at the mauling of 42 children in the name of God, but God has always been, shall we say, a tad judgmental towards people who have heard His word and still chosen not to believe. (See Noah's Ark.)

    Secondly, if you say you were raised a Jew, why do you say that the Old Testament is not yours? I was under the assumption that the Old Testament was the Jewish Tanach (Tanakh)...?
  22. Re:oh, and one more thing... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1
    It's an old testament story.
    Alright, my bad.

    Correction: If you're not Christian *or Jewish*, you have no business classifying Noah's Ark as a myth.

    However, if you are implying that all Old Testament stories are fables, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
  23. Re:oh, and one more thing... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Where do you find it written that the story of Noah's Ark is symbolic? If you're a Christian, you're hard-pressed to find that said in the Bible, and if you're not a Christian, you have no business classifying another religions beliefs as myth.

  24. Re:1,000 songs != 100 movies on Apple's Rumored PowerPod · · Score: 1
    And I really want to get access to the compression software that puts 100 movies into 60GB.
    You have access to it; it's called Divx. You can easily fit a movie into 600MB with it.
  25. It was $750,000 on How Much was a CDC 1604 in the 60's? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This list (Google cache) has it at $750,000 in 1961.