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  1. I hope the Helm's Deep battle scenario... on Command & Conquer Team Take On LoTR RTS · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...goes better than it did during Development of The Two Towers.

    (Referencing the bug in which the AI controlling the CGIed Uruk-hai, in attempting to cause the most damage with the fewest casualties, turn around and ran away from the scene on the first take. That would make for a lousy campaign.)

  2. Re:Finally on Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV · · Score: 1

    See also:
    - perl.org
    - cpan.org

  3. Re:Space Station on Top 10 Reasons for a Space Program · · Score: 1

    Generally, if they were unable to be resupplied, they would be forced to use the ERV (Earth Return Vehicle). Right now, they've got a Soviet Soyuz-class capsule up there for that very use. In case of emergency, you all get in, yank on the handle, and look out little blue marble!

    I'm sure if the event was severe or catastrophic enough, there would be measures in place for either a revised pickup/splashdown/dropdown location, and ensure SOMEONE there to pick them up.

  4. Re:wait until this happens to you on Cringely on Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't matter in my state (NY). They put the complete VIN number right on the state registration sticker, which is required if you intend to drive the vehicle in New York State.

  5. Law of Conservation of Matter/Energy on Need Milk? Get Yourself A Supercow. · · Score: 1

    Ok, so they can produce 14000 litres in a single... uhh... squeezing, but how much more initial fuel do you have to put into them? I mean, one cow, at this point, when grazing, can clear an entire square mile of pasture and be set for the day. I think. This grazing land is growing terribly scarce as the demand for moomeat and moojuice rises (more people in world) - and even then some are not getting any! But I digress.

    Ok, so they make more. But how much more do they need to do so?

  6. Re:Picoseconds? on MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Is that with the doors open, or closed?

  7. Re:12.5MPH, 7.6 Miles, 2.5 hours? on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1

    Oh, I've been up Mount Washington. Did it in a AWD Subaru. Just wasn't clear which method the Segwayers used to climb the mountain.

  8. Re:12.5MPH, 7.6 Miles, 2.5 hours? on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1

    Stopping to swap out batteries, lunch breaks? Rest. Pissing. Falling over. Flat tires?

    That brings up another two interesting questions. Can Segways get flats? And did they need special 'mud-like' tires for these things?

  9. Re:This is absurd... on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 1

    That's the tractor half. That's why it's called a 'Semi'.

  10. This is absurd... on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Point 1) There are No Tractor-Trailers on the roads, for shooting in either Grand Theft Auto III or Grand Theft Auto Vice City. Looking into previous revisions of the game, which don't have the aforementioned 'Sniper Mode', the closest you can get to a Tractor Trailer is a snub-nosed fuel tanker truck.

    Point 2) Where did they get the gun? Notice how everyone is 100% ready to jump on the video game... my question... WHERE THE FUCK DID THEY GET THE GUN? I mean, of course the gun isn't dangerous. No way. Guns never kill people. That's why cops and 'sportsmen' carry around RAZOR SHARP DVDs.

    It's fucking obscene. I can't wait to see what happens to such good titles (and yes, you have to admit, even if you hate the content with a passion, the games are done really well..)

  11. Re:Has anyone on Teach Yourself AppleScript in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Yeah.

    'What not to do...'

  12. Re:Half the time, it would be easy to fix! on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    There was another thing about that.

    As soon as the pressure equalized and they were able to breathe again, the sky became blue. Bright blue. Like on Earth.

    Earth... waitaminit... isn't that because we have huge oceans for light to reflect off of, and cast a blue hue through the atmosphere? And Mars had, at that point, what? No oceans? Hm...

  13. Obligatory Geek Remark on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't like light, you insensitive clod!

  14. Re:My collection... on The Ultimate Game Room · · Score: 1

    No way I could get you to reconsider?

  15. Re:My collection... on The Ultimate Game Room · · Score: 1

    In http://nfg.2y.net/temp/roompics/f.jpg, you've got what appears to be a mostly-empty shell of an HP desktop. What's in it, and how much do you want for it?

  16. Re:How about Win32? on Install Slash on Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bit of a rant, I'm sorry, please bare with me.

    Development and Production (public) environments, in my experience, are best when kept on the same platform.

    Same as you, I found all these wonderful little widgets to play with on Win2K, and decided to set up a Linux (RedHat 6.3 at the time) server to go live with a site. Found out that I lacked the practical experience installing some critical modules and libraries, and the entire project ended up flopping over like a dead cow. It sucked. Really really bad. If you want to know if this project is a really good idea, if it turns out ok, develop it on Linux first, or stick with Win2K if/when you decide to go live with it.

    Short of buying or building a dedicated Linux box, I'd strongly suggest just setting up a partition on your drive, or another drive, to futz around with Linux and this new project on. That's all. Nothing too too fancy. Just a dual-boot setup, as standard. It would give you a real sense of the problems you face with this project.

    /RANT (Again, my apologies.)

  17. Re:Welcome on Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 121C Heat · · Score: 1

    The Soviet Russia thing is a Family Guy reference with varying roots. In one episode, Peter gets a new car with onboard voice-activated GPS. He talks to it, asks for instructions, and it retorts 'In Soviet Russia, CAR drives YOU.' This goes on and on until the credits roll.

  18. Re:Some info about the vulnerability on Security Update 2003-08-14 Released · · Score: 1

    For my own edification, and not in a trolling manner whatsoever (honest question), what would you suggest I use to replace wu-ftpd?

  19. Re:Military Robots on Robots for Air Force Protection · · Score: 1

    'She may look cute and cuddly, but deep down in there she's hardcore Green Beret.' - Gallagher (Val Kilmer), Red Planet, referring to AMEE.

  20. Obligatory Futurama Quote on Robots for Air Force Protection · · Score: 1

    K1LL ALL HUMANS
    K1LL ALL HUMANS
    K1LL ALL HUMANS


    Beep.

  21. That's hot. on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we splice some donut DNA into something, like a duck or a moose and have donut-shaped, rolly-polly ducks and... mooses? Imagine, a duck with a big round hoop on it back.

    Hm.

  22. Re:The question reworded on Filesystems For Removable Disks? · · Score: 1

    Or you could just make a .tar of each individual user's directory, so long as they're less than 2Gb each.

    Use a perl script (or a BASH script - whatever) to read the contents of the /home directory, and create the aforementioned .tar files out of the contents, for directories which can accomodate the 2Gb limit. Leave out any directories that don't, and iterate over them after the first-level backup is complete.

    Assuming that the first-level backup (over the /home directory with other directories that meet the 2Gb limit) created files called home-lusername.tar, second-level backup would be home-lusername-directoryname.tar, given that those directories meet the 2Gb limit test. And so on and so on until everything is backed up. Then, in the same script, have it generate a restore-YYYYMMDD.backup configuration file, so you can just process that restore file to unpack the tars and create the appropriate directories under /home, in the event of a critical failure.

    I... sense I've gone too far. Sorry. :-x

  23. Re:I don't pity them on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1

    ...psst.... there is a BOMB....in my PANTS....

    [lots of immature giggling can be heard across IRC]

  24. Re:Someone is buying liscences!?! on SCO Execs Dumping Stock · · Score: 1

    Themselves, and their legal/financial advisors, at this point.

  25. Curious... on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that the size of my dick had anything to do with making communicative social connections at a gathering (not in a walking-dictionary way, more of a hi-how-are-you-my-name-is-Greg sort of way).

    Why is it always about that, anyway?