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  1. Re:Obligatory Futurama Quote on The Life of a Software Engineer · · Score: 1

    There are some differences:

    1) Ari hasn't posted his site to /. in some sort of mastubatory yearning for attention

    2) Having read both sites I found Aris to be amusing and pleasant to read whereas this article made me nauseous and reminded me of those awful New Year letters you get from your pretentious stuck-up-their-own-arse aquaintances ( -- Of course Porsche wasn't judged quite the best young artist in the country for her water colour work but then how many of the other competitors are also accomplished poets, writers and downhill skiers ! -- vomit vomit )

  2. Re:quoting Newton (again...) on 'Innovation In a Flash' Is a Myth · · Score: 1
    And likewise,

    "If I can't see as far as I'd like its the fault of the idiots who came before not doing their fair share"
  3. totally off topic on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The single for Blue Monday by New Order cost more to produce than it was sold for, it was Factory records biggest ever selling single and they lost money on ever sale. Eventually they went bust too.

  4. Re:What's in it for Google? on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 1

    It seems like a perfect match up to me, as you say Yahoo are having trouble making money from their page hits but are in the top 1 or 2 sites on the web and Google is very successful at making money from adverts and will benefit from increasing the number of page hits it gets viewing those ads. Everyones a winner.

  5. This looks like a clever concept even ... on Particle Swarm Optimization for Picture Analysis · · Score: 1

    This looks like a clever article alright, even if I haven't bothered reading it.

  6. Re:Optimization algorithm on Particle Swarm Optimization for Picture Analysis · · Score: 2, Funny

    A first pass analysis certainly reveals some elements of Metropolis-Hastings may have been folded in but they do not comprise the entirety of the final solution which seems instead to be bulked up by a n'th pass reverse locality filter feeding off a more traditionally schwelpian treatment of the core triplets. Interestingly every fifth haynes cosignatory node seems to be commulated back to it's quatenary closest fit counterpart.

  7. Re:Rugbyforpansies? on The Physics of Football · · Score: 1

    Incredibly successful ? They beat the one other country who had entered - France.

    As to the parents point about rugby players making only mediocre American Football players; like duh ! What do you expect they've spent most of their lives playing a totally different code of sport of course they're not going to be as skilled in some of the more specialist positions than players who have spent all their lives simply training for that position. Having said that they do seem to be more successful than the American Football players who convert to Rugby. And lastly how much have American Football teams offered Johnny Wilkinson to come and kick for them ?

  8. Re:Gender confusion happens here on Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic · · Score: 1

    I think the one sitting down at the end is called Merry so I assumed they must be hobbits of some sort. What a load of shit though, honestly in the absence of any humour or jokes what is even slightly interesting about some hobbit buying a table from e-bay.

    "I'd like to buy this table"
    "OK, I bought the table"

    Scintillating ! Do people really get paid for this crap ?

  9. Re:I need a "super" hero on Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic · · Score: 1

    Ugh, what a load of crap. Why has that mans wife morphed into some kind of lady boy at the end of the Episode 3.

  10. Re:bah on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love how the Linux nuts pop on here...


    Take a look around my friend, you're already deep in enemy territory and you don't even know it.
  11. Re:Response Conjecture on Millions in Middle East Lose Internet · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how easy it would be to cut the UK off, there seems to be an awful lot of cables connecting the UK to an awful lot of places. The last time I think saw a map of the worlds international undersea cabling I remember thinking that a disproportinate volume of it seemed to make a bee line for the UK. How many of those contain internet links though I'm not sure.

  12. Re:Tough project on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 1

    I quite agree that if your job or department are being moved to India or wherever then there's nothing you're going to be able to do about it but there is no point at all in you bothering to do anything to help the process. I also quite agree absolutely no one is indespensible and my point wasn't that not co-operating with this sort of knowledge transfer is going to benefit you in anyway ( because it isn't ) but that it will just make things a little bit more awkward for the people running the operation.

    I think you must be used to small scale businesses and not the large multi-national companies I was really referring to. Typically when I've seen this happen it's going to be your boss and your bosses boss on the line as well, large companies don't mess about when they undertake this sort of activity, so anyone thats left isn't going to have a clue who you are anyway and all your contacts are going to be in the same boat helping you paddle.

  13. Re:Tough project on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is a flip side but in reality the other poster is right, as soon as you see any sort of company policy to capture knowledge and processes like this it's an immediate pre-cursor to them moving their operations somewhere cheaper and making you redundant.

    I've seen this happen 4 times now and no one's gonna catch me out again ! You can still be promoted if no one knows how you do what you do because you'll still be around to handover and train your successor whereas the business is not going to have aas much success asking you to train your cheaper replacement.

  14. Re:Tool Use and the Body Schema on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 1

    ... one including training monkeys to use mice ...


    My God, is there no limit to the cruel games of vivisectionists ?
  15. Re:Define:tool on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a similar behaviour pattern, if I'm stressed out about something I unplug the computer and take it home with me where we share a nice warm bath and then snuggle down under the sheets in bed together, sometimes we will interact directly or sometimes if com'puty is tired I can just interact with myself.

  16. Re:The 3 years after photo on George Lawrence Photography Revisited · · Score: 1

    Thats what I thought, and those aren't some little shacks they've managed to build either but an awful lot of proper stone buildings by the look of it.

  17. Re:What? on Latest Earth-Crossing Asteroid Passes by Tonight · · Score: 1

    And yet imagine if you don't know how many rooms the building you're in has but in the room you are in you can see 400 people and at least 10 doors. You could assume that each door led to an identical room with 10 doors leading to 10 identical rooms and each room had 400 people in it.

  18. Re:Great, another tax on Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing · · Score: 1

    It doesn't sound like a good deal to me, a much better deal is one where I buy the cds I want to listen to and the artist who created it gets some of my money to make more music.

    The sort of artists who would get the money from this scheme are the kind of people who make me physically sick and churn out boring, uninspiring drivel. It would be used to make more shit televsion like X-Factor and similar related shit with the upshot that the people who make the music I like to listen to would have a hard time making a living and might be forced to stop making music altogether leaving a wider playing field for yet more manufactured shit pop.

  19. Re:MySQL forgot the important part of the equation on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ha ! And be forced to use Microsoft Stupid Studio, I think not.

  20. Re:Say what you want... on World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers · · Score: 1

    singlehandedly from nerdville


    Ah ha ha ha ! How come everyone who admits to playing it also seems to be a complete sadcase with no life at all but is willing to drone on in a boring monotone about how exciting it is sitting in their costume battling other wizards.
  21. Re:Let me guess... on ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated In EU · · Score: 1

    I have a day job too, and so does everyone else I know. Why should amatuer musicians be exempt from working like the rest of us ?

  22. Re:lolwut on IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Of course they can, in museums. Given the threat posed by the Jew in general it's a lot safer viewing them behind glass than it would be in real life and opening yourself up to the threat of their claw and having all your money stolen.

  23. Re:They just wanted... on Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you can go around claiming that GLaDOS is homicidal, she's helping me out with science right now and then we're going to have a big party with some nice cake. And in anycase even if she is perhaps slightly unhinged both her and Wintermute may be willing to kill people but they do seem to be doing it for a reason.

  24. Re:So is gravity on Texas Creationist Museum Facing Extinction · · Score: 1

    I think gravity is a fact, if you drop an apple from a tree it does fall and it's our theory as to why that happens thats a theory. I think Evolution is a fact too since we have seen it occuring but our explanation of it is a theory.

  25. Re:Is it possible to have a private conversation? on White House Tape Recycling Possibly Erased Emails · · Score: 1

    When they came for the president,
    I remained silent;
    I was not the president.

    When they locked up the vice president,
    I remained silent;
    I was not the vice president.

    When they came for congress,
    I did not speak out;
    I was not a congress man.

    When they came for the lawyers,
    I remained silent;
    I wasn't a lawyer.

    When they came for me,
    I was quite worn out with doing all those lawyers so I thought I'd put my feet up for a bit and reflect on the good that I had done.