User: chris_eineke

Re:Expirey?

On: Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiry Date

Quidquid Cromulane dictum sit, altutatitum videratitursus.

Re:Expirey?

On: Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiry Date

That gives me an idea...

Blackadder: Do you know what expirey is, Baldrick?

Baldrick: Oh, sure, it's like breezy or slackery or yggdrasily...

Re:they won't have to

On: Who Isn't Afraid of Google?

If Microsoft followed open standards

HAHAHA, oh wow! You had me up until that part.

Re:Subversion

On: Version Control for Important System Files?

can lead to errors if you forget to add it.

But that's an universal truth. If I forget to pull down my pants to take a dump, I will crap my pants. :-)

Re:Hopefully things will continue to turn around

On: Battlestar Galactica To Continue After All

the Cylons could have spread out over hundreds of systems. Their growth rate is exponential, [...]

Kekekekekekekekekeke ^_^

Re:Subversion

On: Version Control for Important System Files?

because it needs a lot of junk in .svn directories :(

And CVS doesn't?

And it can mess with some scripts that do recursive grep or something similar.

And CVS doesn't? tar has --exclude=CVS or --exclude=.svn and -- are you surprised yet by the UNIX way? -- so does grep.

Re:I don't want to be pessimistic...

On: OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay

Universal access to good quality, appropriate language, frequently updated textbooks

I like my textbooks to be least frequently updated, thank you.

</bitter student rant>

Re:I quit BSG when they cured the president's

On: Battlestar Galactica To Continue After All

WARNING! SPOILER ahead!
WARNING! SPOILER ahead!
WARNING! SPOILER ahead!

In the end, it didn't help.

This is too beautiful a setup...

On: Remains of James Doohan Lost in New Mexico

In Soviet Russia, Red Shirts wear (were) you!

But...

On: Cryptic Studios Open Sources Animation Tools

does it run on Blender? :-)

Re:Champoined Needed - Sounds Good To Me

On: Bill Gates' Management Style

And the author had just told him that his code was crap to his face. Doh! :-P

"And the soldier had just told him that torture was against Western values to his face. Doh! :-P"

Re:Merit

On: Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?"

Linux easily keeps up with, and sometimes even exceeds, performance, even under API replication solutions such as Cedega or Wine.

If by 'easily keeps up with' you mean 'implement a stub and no code', then I can understand why: If there's no code to run, of course it will be faster. :-)

Re:Presumably one would need those heads somewhere

On: IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division

There just are not any qualified people.

That's a bold statement. What would the pay be?

Re:Thanks Cringely

On: IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division

Hooray for corporate America. The only people getting paid well are the old white guys in the executive suite.

It starts to sound a lot like Old Europe, doesn't it?

Re:I was told...

On: Censoring a Number

My favourite is 0xB0BAFE77 :-)

Re:eh?

On: Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?

Last time I checked the state of Red Hat et al made not a mote of difference to my project.

Is your program written in C? Or is written in a language that uses C as its intermediary? Or is it written in a language whose interpreter was written in C? Then RedHat does made a mote of difference since, afaik, they're one of the bigger contributors to gcc.

Re:FPGAs, anyone?

On: Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus

specialize[d] hardware

I'm wondering if FPGA aren't the real general-purpose CPUs. :)

Re:but we won't

On: U.S. Copyright Report More Rhetoric Than Reality

If ideas aren't property, how can knowledge be valuable?

Love isn't either, so how can sex be owned?

Try to imagine...

On: Six-Dimensional Space-Time Theory

six-dimensional porn!

*stabs out eyes*

Heavy paper.

On: Six-Dimensional Space-Time Theory

My god, it's full of time!

Re:I'm sure a lot more things rely on quantum effe

On: Photosynthesis May Rely On Quantum Effect

Hooray for Apathy! ...

Ah, fuck it. :/

Re:We need a new architecture

On: Intel Reveals the Future of the CPU-GPU War

Once you find something that works one magnitude (10x) better than the old technology, people will adapt it.

'battle for control of the computing platform'

On: Intel Reveals the Future of the CPU-GPU War

And around the world a million tinfoil hats rejoiced.

Re:I Liked That Fruit Stand

On: Birthplace of Silicon Valley in Shambles

Also: they sold odd foreign fruits that people from Wisconsin hadn't often seen before.

Like... bananas?

I'm an undergrad at Carleton...

On: Canadian University Students Taught To Protect IP

and I think they're doing a great job at muddying the waters even more by calling it intellectual property (rights).