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  1. Re:Planet of the Apes... on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected. It has been a while since I have seen any of the movies, and as I stated, I was going on memory alone. Thank you for not being too harsh on me for my mistake. May Heston forgive me.

  2. Re:Babel-17 on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One of the first words my two year old son picked up was no, but before that, he had ways of expressing his reluctance to do something: Cry, yell, flop on the floor, and other general temper tantrum stuff. Much has been written about the frustration children feel when they have no adequate words to express what they are feeling.

    It seems to me, as a layman and parent of two children, that the thoughts and ideas occur anyway regardless of the ability to express them in a language that can convey meaning to others.

    Now, to throw another sci-fi reference into the mix, I seem to recall that Caesar, the ape that lead the revolution in the Planet of the Apes mythology, got his start with a single word: No.

  3. Re:Sure shows... on WineX Install Goes Sour for LinuxWorld Editor · · Score: 1

    On one of my Windows XP machines, I was playing with the different built in themes. When I switched the system back to the XP theme from Windows Classic, I ended up with black forms with black text with black backgrounds. It didn't affect any other account but that one, but it made that account useless.

    Nice.

    The only fix I could find was to create a new user account and copy my files to that account's document folders and such. Show stopper? Hardly, but it was annoying in the extreme, and it would have been much easier to fix if the GUI were not so tied to the system.

    I've killed the X servers on my linux boxes more times than I care to mention trying to get the NVidia drivers set up properly. The difference is that I could just boot up, edit a file, and I was back in a workable state.

  4. Re:Oh, here we go on Decaffeinated, Real Coffee · · Score: 1

    Opening another source of revenue: Sell it to people stuck in offices where the management thinks decaf is the way to go. :)

  5. Re:Would your job allow telework? on Alternatives to Cars? · · Score: 1

    Umm, try about 5 gallons a week.

  6. Re:uh.... on Mitnick Helps Bust Bomb Hoaxer · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that. I can imagine the news reports about the threats being phoned in within a month of the aniversary of the Columbine shootings, or even within six months.

    Some people just like to paint conspiracies anywhere they can find them.

  7. Re:Myst on HyperCard Gone for Good · · Score: 4, Informative
    Straight from the horse's mouth
    Graphics and Construction tools:
    HyperCard (Apple)
    Think Pascal (Symantec)
    Photoshop (Adobe)
    Premier (Adobe)
    Illustrator (Adobe)
    Painter (Fractal Design)
    Morph (Gryphon Software)

    Images and animations were modeled and rendered on six Macintosh Quadras using StrataVision 3d by Strata, Inc.

    HyperCard was colorized using a proprietary version of Symplex System's HyperTint, written by John Miller.

  8. Sim City? on G-rated Simulation Games? · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. Re:Yes, But... on WineX 3.3 Out - Now Supports Steam · · Score: 1

    I've been playing the linux demo for the past couple of days, and it runs better than UT-2003 on my system. From what I've seen, they are going to make sure that linux support is listed on the box this time.

  10. Re:Let them sue me... on RIAA Files 531 More Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Are you sharing the songs that you downloaded? I was under the impression the RIAA is mostly going after people that are sharing music rather than the leaches.

  11. Re:Grey Eagles on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 1
  12. Comcast's phone system on Curse Your Way to Live Support · · Score: 2, Funny

    This will only work well for Comcast if it detects swearing after the call is terminated:

    Auto System: Attempting to connect your call.
    Auto System: Please wait.
    Auto System: Please wait.
    Auto System: Please wait.
    Auto System: All operators are currently busy. Please call back. Good bye.

    FUCK!

  13. Re:It's True on 'Just Sleep On It' Solves Tricky Problems? · · Score: 1

    I have a 30 minute commute, and many solutions come to me while I am driving home from work or refueling my car. Then the only trick is remembering the solution for when I go back to work the next day.

    When I was still in school there was a tricky proof on a math final that I just could not work out during the final. Of course, my wife was rather less than enthusiastic when I woke her up at 2 AM to explain the proof that had come to me in my dream. It's amazing how much clearer some things seem from a distance.

  14. Re:Should we blame Berman, as always? on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Oops, left out Frakes above in Jonathon Frakes name. Sorry.

  15. Re:Should we blame Berman, as always? on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    It's the beards. Next Generation got better after Jonathon got his beard, and the same held for Deep Space Nine and Avery Brooks. It's a pitty noone grew a beard on Voyager, but there is still time with Enterprise.

  16. Re:What I don't like about the Gimp on Gimp 2.0 Pre 2 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't use multiple monitors, do you?

  17. Re:Slashdot trolling? on XFree86 Core Team Disbands · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You're new around here, aren't you?

    Go ahead and mark this post as redundant, or even offtopic, but it had to be said.

  18. Re:DMCA Must gooo! its gayer than the YMCA on SCO Invokes DMCA, Names Headers, Novell Steps In · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to mention the fact that they would both be guilty of sharing the information on how to use said hairpin to circumvent said home security device.

  19. Re:Hubble on Milky Way Gets Bigger · · Score: 4, Informative

    The dark side of the moon gets plenty of sunlight when the moon is between Earth and Sol.

    Look here for more information about why we always see the same part of the moon

  20. Re:There's a class-action suit brewing, I'll bet on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad · · Score: 1

    After reading through some of the newsgroup postings, I didn't glean any part numbers, but I did notice that what started the whole thing was the "feature" being pushed as part of a firmware upgrade. So, it would seem that even if your Belkin router (consumer models, I'd hope) isn't affected now, it could easily be affected.

  21. Re:Here's the angle I would take... on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know how you feel about Netgear, but they are another option.

  22. Re:I hope it lives up to the comic. on Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available · · Score: 1

    I thought the story for the first mini-series was pretty decent, but then the stories got rather contrived in their efforts to bring the aliens and predators together in some of the latter mini-series.

  23. Re:I hope it lives up to the comic. on Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available · · Score: 5, Funny
    Did anyone else read the Dark Horse AVsP comic?
    No, I'm pretty sure you're the only one who has. ;)
  24. Re:I share your plight on Console Games And Color Blindness · · Score: 1

    Alpha Centauri has a color blind mode as well, but given the normal color scheme, it's not surprising that the option is there.

  25. Re:There is only one minor problem... on New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects · · Score: 1
    Being a native of the U.S., I can only guess, but the following seems to imply it's a euphemism for sex:

    This client could have hundreds of millions of people boinking all over the world.

    Imagine... the population explosion.

    This could be the world's biggest cluster....