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  1. Re:why on Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures · · Score: 1

    All I need is Microsoft Outlook to use more than one thread, so that it doesn't lock up the entire program if I decide to download one email (with attachements). Traditional 50-100?... tell that to Microsoft.

  2. Re:lol on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 1

    fair nuf for your first comment, but, both sexes have gonads.

  3. lol on Singapore Firm Claims Patent Breach By Virtually All Websites · · Score: 1

    a patent should be non-obvious. People who commit murder should be given life, people who pass these types of patents should be hanged, people who try to cash in on these stupid patents should be hanged... by their gonads.

  4. Second book of the bible?! on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 1

    One of the first of the 10 questions goes something like "What comes after Genesis in the bible?". What is this IQ test, give a free 10% to Jews day?

  5. Re:I for one welcome our new over 1 button overloa on Apple to Rule the Digital Home by 2013? · · Score: 4, Funny

    It makes Guitar Hero much easier.

  6. Re:iIt has done so already. on The Changing Face of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    New quests outside of killing 10 more of those things or gather 20 more flowers. Exactly why I stopped playing. The first few zones you think "ok, they're giving us dumb/simple quests to learn the mechanics of this behemoth of a game." Then you realise that every single zone is exactly the same, it is always kill x of those, gather n of those. So after "rising" through the levels and zones all you really are doing is essentially changing your desktop wallpaper, but everything else stays the same.
  7. Re:How unfair... on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    What for? Just get Chell shoes.

  8. Re:Some Day on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome... eh, you know the drill.

  9. Re:So where do you draw the line ? on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    The artificial limbs the guy has apparently allow him to use significantly less energy than normal human feet. So for your analogy, would you let some who's had their eyes removed and replaced with robocop eyes shoot in a match?

  10. Re:There goes my karma on Moving Toward a Single Linux UI? · · Score: 1

    That's ok, I had no intention of returning :)

  11. Re:There goes my karma on Moving Toward a Single Linux UI? · · Score: 4, Funny

    void karmakiller(int depth) {
        for (int i = 0; i < depth; i++) printf("| ");
        printf("What's funny about this?\n");
        karmakiller(depth+1);
    }

    int main() {
        karmakiller(0);
    }


    // I win, but you have to read it bottom up :P

  12. What is the largest terrorist organisation? on Terrorist Recognition Handbook · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Conspiracy comments in... on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, god, no... no god, please help me. I used "to" where I should've used "too". If I put my ear to the ground I can already hear the spelling/grammar cavalry charging.

  14. Re:Conspiracy comments in... on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 1

    Yep, but from what I've seen of CNN, they're not to bad with propaganda. If it was from FOX I would burst-out laughing.

  15. Re:Really, $2000? on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I agree. As a hobby project for renewable energy I suppose you are looking at sources of renewable energy, but you should still maintain a professional standard of transporting that energy into your house. So you can swap in and out or combine various projects from photovoltaic, to solar thermal, to wind etc, while having a solid foundation to actually use that power.

    PS. There's a lot of consumer photovoltaic panels out there, but has anyone tried a solar thermal approach? With perhaps a sterling engine or steam turbine? It seems solar thermal has been gaining popularity, especially with large plants such as the one in California, USA (SEGS).

  16. Why not just on Proposed Telescope Focuses Light Without Mirror Or Lens · · Score: 1

    make the foil into a parabolic shape to reflect light to a camera instead of cutting holes in it to defract light to a camera much further away?

  17. CUPCHICKS on Nvidia's Chief Scientist on the Future of the GPU · · Score: 1

    Central Unit Processor - Complex Homogeneous Integrated Component Kernal System. ... so does mine.

  18. Oblig TBBT post on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Go dressed as the Doppler effect.

  19. Re:Logical positivism to the rescue... on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 1

    The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Love it, my new sig.
  20. Re:Logical positivism to the rescue... on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 1

    One can observe one apple or one galaxy, but one cannot observe the number one. 1 <— there it is!
  21. Re:Logical positivism to the rescue... on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 1

    The universe is incredibly elegant in its mathematics though No, we are.
  22. Re:Kudos to them, I guess on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    - You design a data entry interface in Flash. The project expands, and it turns out that it'd be more effective if the users used tablets rather than PCs to do their data entry. So you bring on a hardware team, and they tell you that ARM tablets cost 1/3rd what x86 tablets would cost. Sadly, there's no flash player on ARM - and with your budget it would have been a simple port, too. So you're saying that if Flash was FOSS then it would be easier to write a flash player for a different CPU than to write your user interface in a different SDK?
  23. Re:Pixels Are Your Friend on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm using 1920x1200 on a laptop (17 inch diag). Package structure and classes on the left, with method and field summary on the right, leaving a nice neat box right in the middle for code. Only problem with this is many developers (as in, almost all of them) don't make DPI aware applications, so even though I have nice supersmooth fonts many apps don't lay out correctly.

    As for your sideways widescreen monitor, niiice. I want one. It would be perfect for writing papers on. Write LaTeX on one monitor, compile and have the full page pdf displayed on the next monitor.

  24. Re:Accountability on Sacha Baron Cohen Wikipedia Entry Creates Circular References · · Score: 1
    "An anonymous user added information to Wikipedia's entry on Sacha Baron Cohen three days before the now-referenced external article was written. The Independent wrote the referenced article apparently using Wikipedia as the source establishing his 'Goldman Sachs' career. Now Wikipedia uses as a references the article that came after the initial modification to Wikipedia itself."

    That is the most confusing description I've ever read.

    So a journalist used Wikipedia as a primary source, added something incorrect to an article. Now the same Wikipedia page is using that article as its primary source Thanks for writing it in sane language.
  25. boring? on NULL Pointer Exploit Excites Researchers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "NULL Pointer Exploit Excites Researchers". Wow, an error in a program. This seems akin to ground-breaking front-page news: a cat stuck in a tree rescued by firemen.