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  1. Re:PostgreSQL on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 1

    It's not FREE, it's free.

    And it is crippled (max 4GB)

  2. Re:Poppycock on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Your honnor, officer Speedtrap can't know I was there and driving too fast. I would like to call Mr. Heisenberg as a witness for the defense."

  3. Re:Quantals on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 1

    None taken.

    Thanks for the reference, looks interesting. Especially the 'more mathematical' part.

  4. Re:Quantals on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 1

    I RTFB, thank you. Sorry 'bout his first name...

  5. Re:And the science is? on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank you. I would say it is still an untested hype-o-thesis.

  6. Quantals on Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or he could use quantum theory to explain fractals to me, didn't quite get it when John Gleick wrote about chaos in the late 80's

    Anyway, want credits for the word 'Quantals' and now I'm off to RTFA.

  7. Re:God save the Queen!! on UK Libel Law Is a Global Threat To Web Free Speech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but the villain has the right to bear arms. So, who's laughing n... Oh, wait

  8. 1000 years on UK Libel Law Is a Global Threat To Web Free Speech · · Score: 1

    OMG (Oh, my Godwin). You realize who last claimed a 1000-Year Reich?

  9. Re:Many possibilities. on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Nah, in Hollywood a car colliding with a tree is enough to cause a supernovae.

  10. Re:Many possibilities. on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    You, the driver, would burn?

  11. Re:It happens? on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1
    the limit of function as x approaches infiniti:
    • x^2/x
    • x/x
    • x/x^2

    are different. There are different meanings of infiniti, depending on how you look at things...

  12. Re:It happens? on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    and the hole in the economy is unaccountable infiniti

  13. Re:My thoughts exactly on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic and compunctious at causing such pericumbobulation. Around 6:30 intoInk and Incapability

  14. Re:Revealing statement on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    1. Fedora is going to bail his ass out when "cloud computing" goes out of vogue.
    2. On any given night, he is the most knowledgeable hockey fan in the Carolina Hurricanes' luxury boxes.

    3. He will not hit the puck, the air before it maybe, but not the puck.

  15. Re:Dumbest. CEO. Ever on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    (just like there has never been a complete death of COBOL).

    It just reeks of death

  16. Re:H&K on New Lossless MP3 Format Explained · · Score: 5, Funny

    Headless AND lossy

  17. H&K on New Lossless MP3 Format Explained · · Score: 5, Funny

    That MP5 format is really bad for your ears.

  18. Doh! on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia you are strip s...

    Hang on, something's not right here.

  19. Re:This can't be a coincidence on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 2, Funny

    They didn't say "42!", that would be 41! times bigger than 42

  20. State of the art on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    That's an application of Parkinson's law

  21. Re:Adapt on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    Sure, two is better than one, maybe you can make use of three, really heavy users might need 4, but multithreaded octalcore CPUs are just ridiculous

    So, essentially you're saying that 4 cores should be enough for anybody?

  22. Re:Adapt on Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips · · Score: 1

    we'll need one dedicated exclusively to manage what goes where and when.

    Single point of failure. One process to crash them all

  23. Apple cost on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 1

    And he's right about the hardware costing loads of extra cash.

    Perhaps, but he is definitely not right about the 'same piece of hardware'. The magnetic power connector, LEDs indicating battery charge level, beautiful design, low noise,... and that's the hardware.

    With the OS comes iLife with some nice apps out of the box for the non-techies.

    Still, I prefer my Ubuntu on some commodity hardware...

  24. Re:Total War? on TomTom Sues Microsoft For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    And that's probably why they are so healthy and resilient in times of crisis.

  25. Re:For $6.5b on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    ...that company, whose name I forgot for a moment.

    But! I! Did! Not! Forget! Its! Name!