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  1. Re:Like I'm going to trust what the Chinese did! on Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting · · Score: 1

    Usually, they hire two groups to do a transcription each of the same text, then compare the transcriptions. That's what was done when the Dictionary of the Danish Language (ODS) was put online.

  2. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    your ex husband sounds like a horrible dick.

  3. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    had to pass the time somehow. im off to a party. later!

  4. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You misunderstood (and I was a bit sharp in my rhetoric anyway).

    I'd never marry a woman for whom even a 5 thousand dollar wedding was a requirement. That's ridiculous, and might be a dealbreaker for me.

    The wedding is not about me, and it's not about her. It's about us, our love, our family, and our friends. There's no need for a whole bunch of bullshit surrounding it. See also my other post, that's how you do it.

  5. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 1

    tax benefits

  6. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My parents got married at town hall during lunch break and didn't get rings until 20 years later. True love doesn't give a shit about retarded money showers.

  7. Re:It's her day so... on Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're marrying a horrible bitch I guess.

    If the wedding is somehow all about her, imagine what a discussion about laundry will be 10 years from now.

    Don't be an idiot. Who the fuck rated this shit insightful?

  8. Re:Why I oughta!!! on Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Warner Bros.' production and anticipated release of 'The Watchmen' motion picture violates 20th Century Fox's long-standing motion picture rights in 'The Watchmen' property," Fox said in a statement, though the graphic novel's title is simply "Watchmen."

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990722.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2563

    Nice goin', Fox. You don't even know you're talking about.

  9. Re:Any German readers here? on What Tech Workers Need To Know About Overtime · · Score: 1

    I'm on flex time (in Denmark), which means that as long as my hours average out to 7:24 per day (one fifth of a standard 37 hour work week), I can distribute my time as I please. I work in government though.

    In fact most jobs I've had, whether computer-related or not, have had some sort of system in place to cope with overtime, etc.

  10. Re:This would be neat on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    As nine-times says, part of it is not knowing when I need to know something from whenever. It can be hard to find a specific conversation from a specific time to find out what the specifics were at that point in time.

    Another part is nostalgia.

  11. Re:This would be neat on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    I'm not interested in keeping an extra copy of everything, converted to text, just so i can grep it. That's not simpler in any way.

    I love grepping, don't get me wrong, but it's the wrong tool for what I'm talking about.

  12. Re:This would be neat on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned the messages are in multiple formats. It would be hell to write a regular expression that fit every format at once. Rather, I'm talking about an interface that abstracts this, so you don't have to worry about what format the message is in.

    Obviously if I could just grep, I'd have done it (and that works fine when I know in which medium I need to find something in).

  13. Re:This would be neat on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    Or whatever else. As long as it's a solid regex engine, I'd be happy.

  14. Re:Danish??? on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    Psh, Santa lives in Greenland

  15. This would be neat on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have chatlogs & emails dating back 12+ years, so having a good (context-aware) interface for searching all at once would be great. I don't always remember in which medium I spoke with someone. Was it on IRC? Was it on AIM? Email?

    It'd need to be able to parse many different formats to be useful, though. I have text-based chatlogs from the old Hotline servers, AIM chats from the official client, from iChat, from Adium. Etc, etc. Would be neat if you could write a regex-based plugin to parse the text-formats.

  16. Re:IP To MAC Addresses? on Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the RIAA is already spoofing *our* MAC addresses so they have random people to sue!

  17. Re:What, me change MAC address? I wouldn't do that on Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At the dorm I used to live we had to authenticate our computers in order to gain access to the network, this was done via username/password combos. There were several that multiple people knew (mostly to get around bandwidth limits - you'd just jump on another account if you exceeded your quota).

    It registered the MAC address at this point, but I doubt they were actually saved, as the quota was obviously tied to the user account and not the MAC.

  18. Re:ok, I want one on Obscura Digital Demos "Minority Report"-Like Display · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And then you'll get sick of having arms that feel like wood. Mouse-elbow would be nothing compared to this thing.

  19. Re:Cannon fodder? on RIAA Gets Nervous, Brings In Big Gun · · Score: 1

    stop being a goodamn grammarian it serves neither you or us.

  20. Re:spotted owl? on The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used · · Score: 2, Funny

    So kinda like in the best-selling thrille "The Spotted Owl Brief"?

  21. spotted owl? on The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used · · Score: 4, Funny

    what the hell

  22. Re:"Magic 10%" on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1

    60 has many divisors, also, 18 and 16 are both easy multiples of other classy numbers. ie When you're 6, you're a boy, 12 you're a man, 18 you're on your own. All this took place before I was born so I don't know what the fuck, but to be quite honest, it works out alright and I am way too drunk to discuss it.

  23. Re:"Magic 10%" on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Why is 10% "magic"? This number is significant because that's how many fingers we have?

    Because it has reached double digit

    double digit is only significant because we have 10 fingers

  24. Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know on White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Well, it was a joke.

    Currently the dollar has been losing value, so gas prices in dollars are going up. If it continues to lose value, it could become worth so little that a currency exchange is necessary, in which case the new dollar would then be worth more than the old, resulting in lower gas prices in dollars. All else being equal.

  25. Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know on White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those are adjusted dollars from after your current dollar tanks in 2011.