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  1. Re:Stupid Green Lantern movie! on Passcodes Prove Predictable · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong...

    First you need to re-arrange the descriptors to allow for galactic drift constants giving you:

    ZZZ9 Plural Alpha

    Expand out to the full non-abbreviated address:

    (Zed Zed Zed) Nine, Plural Alpha

    Finally, you need to use the Veltvogle Six concatetheorems thusly (a quick recap, where Sector is defined as (S1 S2 S3), the normalized sector is (S1/S2/(S1/S3)).):

    (Zed/Zed/(Zed/Zed))*Nine, Plural - Alpha

    To expand into more palatable notation for humankind, it is possible to do the simple character substitution in a similar manner to what you mentioned above by simply adding the character numbers together, thusly arriving at a handy, concise, four digit number which can also be easily represented in 2 digits for common use.

  2. Re:Stupid Green Lantern movie! on Passcodes Prove Predictable · · Score: 1

    Me too! But I couldn't get ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha into 4 digits :(

  3. Re:Dyalikedags? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    One would certainly hope so!

  4. Re:Domestication vital to evolution of humans on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    It's the same with cats, they came to us for the free ride. We like their company so we let them in. So it turned commercial, but really, what *hasn't* turned commercial.

    As for any cruelty, there are some people that will always be cruel to animals/humans, this won't change that.

  5. Dyalikedags? on San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales · · Score: 1

    Well that won't stop the pikeys offloading dags on to you will it baye!

    Pet sales will just become black market and underhanded.

  6. Re:The point is? on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    So what we need to do is leave it as is for now and when we start real space travel, we can have Space Time.

    Space Time, a fusion between the concepts of space and time, brought forward into one four dimensional continuum. Yeah man. I love that shit right there.

  7. Re:Well that's inconvenient... on 'Digital Universe' To Add 1.8 Zettabyte In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Why two? For redundancy?

  8. Re:Odd... on Acoustic Stealth Technology Finally Created · · Score: 1

    I SAID 'WHAT DID YOU SAY?'

  9. Re:Shocking... on Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    Aptitude is a nice commandline tool, and I don't mean the ncurses gui. I hate that.

    A while back, I saw a reccommendation from Ubuntu (Can't find it now) that suggested people use aptitude rather than apt-get, but then all the docs continued using apt-get and now finally they removed it from the default install. I wonder why they changed their mind, cos it was a good idea.

  10. Re:Trust me. on Synaptic Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    And i'm just evaluating it now. Think I will be making that switch! Ubuntu, finished and not ruined.

  11. Re:This is a great idea on Microsoft's Virtual Skywriting Patent App Features the Real Thing · · Score: 0

    I heard you like fake skywriting so I put fake skywriting in your fake skywriting and I ended up with subluxations!

  12. Re:Power over ethernet! on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    POW!

  13. Re:Power over ethernet! on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Even better is power over wifi!

  14. Re:It's an entirely different kind of flying. on An Entirely New Class of Aircraft Arrives · · Score: 1

    It's an entirely different kind of flying.

  15. Re:Working... on Google Chrome To Have Real-Time Communications · · Score: 1

    Alt-F4?

  16. Re:More work for plugin developers on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1

    Before I get called out on the hideous grammar in that post, let it be known that I forgot to proof-read it. Sorry.

  17. Re:More work for plugin developers on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Though I didn't say it. This is my point. This is a 4.1 release at best. Making every release a major version number increase rather than the point release it should be means that developers will have to now either re-release their plugin more often or just say to hell with it and set compatibility to *any* future version.

    The Major & Minor versioning was great for this. Why did they have to go change it.

    Maybe they need a major/minor 'behind the scenes' versioning system and then a fancy 'name' that the public sees, just like MS do with Windows 7 being version 6.1.

  18. Re:FF automatically upgraded itself today? on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1
  19. Re:More work for plugin developers on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1

    Ok, when I say it upgraded itself, I meant it asked me if I wanted to upgrade, to which I thought 'yeah go on then, why not'.

    I'm not complaining about the disabled plugins, just stating that this will be more work for the devs.

  20. Re:More work for plugin developers on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 1

    They got disabled so I assumed they didn't work. It wasn't important enough for me to actually investigate yet.

    Thanks for the link.

    But for this to work for the average Joe who just wants it to work, the plugin developers will have more work to do.

  21. More work for plugin developers on Mozilla Ships Firefox 5, Meets Rapid-Release Plan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems this new schedule will create more work for plugin developers. My FF upgraded itself today to FF5 and I have plugins that don't work. FireGestures and VMware are two to start with.

    Will this now happen every few months?

  22. Re:No seatbelt on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    Yes likely. If you know anything about the car in question, you know that they have dangerously hideous understeer. This is a known problem with them and people put bags of sand up front to try to prevent it.

    The problem is that the engine is behind the axle and there is just not enough weight on the front wheels.

    I cannot speak for *other* rear engined cars, but this is a Beetle problem. I know that they did something to avoid the inherent understeer on the 911(one of my fave cars), but not sure what though.

  23. Re:Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    Thank you for explaining it to him :)

    There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about engine layouts in this thread :(

  24. Re:Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 1

    I know someone explained below already, but I just have to say, I am *so* not confused when it comes to understeer vs oversteer lol :)

    Indeed, I did mean understeer. There is not enough weight on the front of a Beetle and they are known to just do nothing when you try to turn to avoid that tree. You end up understeering and hitting the tree head on. I know that people would put bags of sand in the storage area in the front to help turn-in.

    The 'one of my favourite cars' I mentioned above is in fact the 911 that you mention. Yes, the engine at the rear can be a great advantage for power delivery on the exit as long as you are careful, but we all know what the best place for the engine is :)

  25. Re:Died in a '69 Beetle on Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash · · Score: 2

    Probably not, they are just known for hideous understeer. That's what you get for putting the engine in the wrong place.

    And yes, I am aware that one of my favourite cars also has the engine in the same, wrong, place. I guess they have more weight up front to counteract it.