User: patch-rustem

Re:Chances likely to change?

On: Armageddon... in 2014. Almost.

It'll be somewhere around 1x10-48 m depending on the density of the rock.

Re:cause and effect

On: DVD-Enabled Consoles Do Better?

And still everyone talks about the GC like it's a dead console and has lost the console war.

The Xbox has microsoft to keep it subsidised.
The PS2 can run linux, so you gotta love it.
The GC a good games console, but you lose.
Pity

Fools rush in ...

On: Optical Recognition System To Foil Card Counting?

Welcome to our vision of your future...

MP Twenty-One.

Are you dumb enough to play here?

Re:Conversion Filter?

On: Chinese Government to Use Only Local Software

Thats great!
I've got an Office 97 access database that I can't get to work at all with Office 2000.
If I e-mail you the file (~124Mb) please could you convert it so I use it on my Win2K laptop.

she lied to me

On: Agents Capitalize On Videogame Popularity

From the article:

"I never thought I'd have to pay attention to someone's girth-to-height ratio," Colburn said. "It brings a whole new level of detail to the negotiating process."

so size does matter

hee hee

On: Open Source in Oregon

"MWVLUG's coordinator, Cooper Stevenson, has asked Linux Today to post this detailed history of

Beaver"

I need to get out more.

Marketing

On: 3DO's M2 Hardware Revealed

From the article:

Even if it were all that 3DO promised, without the support of top-notch developers and savvy marketing it would still have failed - the Dreamcast is proof enough of that.

I'm guessing that the Phantom marketeers are happy about the hype they're getting here.

Re:Portability in action

On: Carriers Might Profit From Cell Number Portability

Colour me flaimbait, but I can't believe how backward the rest of the world seems, when compared to Wales.

What you call Cell phones, we call Mobile phones because they have always been portable. I often have to carry mine for miles looking for a signal.

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These

On: Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters

Okay,
I'm sorry,
next time I'll rtfa,
I promise.

Re:slightly ot

On: Miniature 5400 and 7200 RPM HDDs Reviewed

what I'm thinking might be interesting for doing servers on the cheap would be to do raid arrays with usb based drives...

Put down the crack pipe, sir, and move away from the keyboard.

Re:Element 101?

On: Chemical Element 110 To Be Named

That's very wrong of you to say.
This MUST have been done already.

Re:Video games saving lives...

On: Video Game Addiction Saves Lives

Mod me down, for following a troll off-topic, or being an insensitive git. I know I deserve it, but:

...forfeiting his education to get a job and pay the bills.
...lives through his PC monitor every night for the majority of his life,...

Just a suggestions, but why can't he quit gaming and either go to night classes or work a night shift?

Element 101?

On: Chemical Element 110 To Be Named

Okay,I know the natural elements and now we have this new one, so its:

001 Earth

010 Wind

011 Fire

100 Water

101 ?

110 Darmstadtium

Please can anyone fill in the gap. What's the element 101?

last post again. i suck

On: Wizards Releases 3.5 Edition System Reference

last post!
Baby Ruby says "bwarghhhhh!"

last post winner

On: Accelerating Change Conference

last post!
Baby Ruby says "bwarghhhhh!"

Re:I don't find Linux easy to use (yet)

On: Translated KDE/Linux Usability Report Available

Knoppix
From zero to GNU/Linux in 5 minutes.

Stinky Stupid

On: Creatine Found to Boost Brainpower

One of the side effects, however, is an unpleasant body odour.

I'm stupid and I also smell bad.
That doesn't seem fair.

--
P.S. I'm also ugly.

Debian 10

On: Debian Turning 10

Whoa, I'm way behind the times. I'm still using Debian 3 (Woody).

Don't. Use a pencil.

On: Architecture / Home Design Software?

I've got a rough design on paper that I want to tweak on the screen, and then show to my architect

He's already used pencil and paper. He now wants to tart it up to impress his Dad.
It's going to take a long time for him to animate a 3D walk through with a pencil.

sheer wretchedness

On: Videogames You Love To Hate

From the editorial:

Computer and video gaming is probably the only pastime on the planet where sheer wretchedness is one of the main drawing cards.

He obviously hasn't watched alot of US television.

useless

On: EFF Coordinates Fight Against DirecTV

... protect their right to own and use multi-purpose technology for its legal applications - and without fear of reprisal.

Well that's useless to me.
Where's the proctection for watch satalite for free?

Rampage

On: Architecture / Home Design Software?

It's not exactly current or a 3D Shooter so feel free to mod me off-topic, but ...

I found rampage the perect package to model any contruction work.

Re:Blowing Up Tanks

On: Nolan Bushnell Condemns Grand Theft Auto

Colour me Troll foddered, but

the UK is not in the Americas

Cow Rights Online

On: Cows Identified by Retinal Imaging

IANAC (I am not a cow), but I would much prefer to have a laser shone in my eye than have tag slough off my ear.
I'd also rather not be eaten.

(How about a Your Cow Online Section? )

Big Advantage

On: Virginia Begins to Worry About Voting Machines

The big advantage is that electronic voting will make election fraud, much easier to hide and so, less embarrassing for the free world's leading democracy.