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  1. Re:Learn some Hewbrew you fool. on Questioning C-14 Dating · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind when you translate from any language into any other language you lose things. No matter how good this original "holy book" was written you will lose things in translation and even worse when you translate translations. Remember this God being is not doing the translation.

    I also feel any religious person should read their holy book or other works in their original language
    it's the word of God after all so you don't want to mess around with silly translations.

    Keep in mind I am not Christian or into any other such fairy story but I simply cannot abide people who try to take the Bible literally and thump it all the time when they've never actually even read a single word from it.

  2. Re:On the bright side... on What Are Microsoft And Napster Talking About? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying it would run BSD?

  3. Re:Where there's a will.... on What Are Microsoft And Napster Talking About? · · Score: 1

    I disagree on the really obscure genre's part.
    I've had great trouble finding such songs on Napster.

  4. Re:Bandwidth is not the problem, but latency is... on First RFC1149 Implementation · · Score: 1

    Ultrium tapes are higher still. On top of that you can fit more in an Aircraft carrier I should think ;)

  5. Re:What's with this? on Evangelion Movies Coming This Fall · · Score: 1

    Don't forget otaku means other person's house.
    Some expat Japanese people I know who have been in America for several decades didn't know this other usage. Here's a very simple example you can use when calling someone:

    Moshi moshi, Tetsujin28san no otaku desu ka?

    Basically hello is this Tesujin28's house?

    My understanding is the newer additional meaning of otaku came about because us fanboys (and yes you are correct it can be a fanatic of anything)
    are in somebody else's house, we are dependent on them for entertainment. I say us as I know you
    Tetsujin28 and I are anime otaku (in Colorado even) ^_^

  6. Re:Annotated version on Webcasts From The Linux Kernel Summit · · Score: 1

    I was wondering that as well, too bad you didn't get a responce. It might have helped if you got a loging.

  7. Re:The ultimate hacker movie on Hollywood and Hackers · · Score: 1

    Wow I didn't notice that, I'll have to look for that next time I watch this movie. Thanks!

  8. Re:Okay, I'll bite. on Series on Wizard Of the Coast · · Score: 1

    You know what also gets me? The Bible is an old work that has been translated many times. I work on little bits of translation myself and I can tell you that things do get lost in translation. What's worse is most currently used versions are translations of translations so who knows how mucked up it is. I would think that if anyone is serious about this that they would learn the original languages as this is the word of God here and you don't want to fuck around. There are some faiths (I think some Jewish does this as an example [Hebrew]) that learn the original language and for that reason alone I have a tiny bit more respect for them.

  9. Re:Please! No more Trek! on New Star Trek Series Rumblings · · Score: 1

    While I agree B5 is among the best television science fiction ever done I was glad Crusade died.
    I'm sorry I didn't find it any good. Just because B5 is good doesn't mean Crusade is ;)

  10. Re:Best reason not to: time travel SUCKS! on New Star Trek Series Rumblings · · Score: 1

    Or Voyagers ;)

  11. Re:Your Right... on New Star Trek Series Rumblings · · Score: 1

    In it's height it was very popular, in fact it aired in more contries than Star Trek for a while and had a comparable fan base. It has since declined but I would certainly not disregard the history of the
    show like you have done.

  12. Re:Dr. Who was a farce, wasn't it? on New Star Trek Series Rumblings · · Score: 1

    Doctor Who wasn't a comedy.

  13. Re:ST Historians: Please Help Me... on New Star Trek Series Rumblings · · Score: 1

    It could also be a different number. NCC is a prefix used today in the navy even and yes there's an Enterprise (though not 1701)
    NCC stands for Naval Contract Construct if my memory
    serves.

  14. Re:What's with IE, Netscape and others? on Update to the Mozilla Roadmap · · Score: 1

    Well Mozilla is basically the next Netscape so what you're hearing about Mozilla is Netscape news.

    IE runs only on one platform and a platform that's not particularly popular around these parts so that may explain some of the lack of news on it. It's also from a company that's not too popular here either. I don't forsee a BSD, Linux etc. version of IE coming anytime soon ;)

  15. Re:What's with IE, Netscape and others? on Update to the Mozilla Roadmap · · Score: 1

    What about Mosaic? That was pretty "mainstream"
    in it's day, lynx? My first was Lynx then Mosaic, then Netscape and now Mozilla and Konquorer and occasinally Galeon and sometimes still Lynx.

  16. Re:What, no Sluggy? on Web-Based Comics · · Score: 1

    Dr. Fun claims to be the oldest (Don't know if it's true though).

  17. Re:Funny you should mention it... on Turn-Based Games: What Happened? · · Score: 1

    Hmm they are in the same genre certainly. I played VGA Planets back in the BBS days and haven't checked it out in about 4 years I guess I should look at it again but last I checked Stars was more advanced
    except for graphics. Has VGA Planets become as advanced as Stars?

  18. Re:Nethack on Turn-Based Games: What Happened? · · Score: 1

    Sure we have access to PC's and Macs
    running Linux and or BSD and the like of course.
    If you mean a machine running Windows or Mac OS
    I assure you that you are mistaken. Some of us I suppose to install Windows over or in addition to Linux but I certainly would never choose to do that.
    Others like myself have access to a Windows box a work but I doubt that the company would care for me sitting here playing games all day. One could also try the local school or library computers also with less than enthusiastic results from the people running the systems. Others live in more remote areas where they couldn't get access to a library or school computers running Windows or MacOS and they may not have work machines and if they do they may all be runnings a real OS. So
    basically get a clue.

  19. Re:This reminds me... on Web Standards Project: Upgrade, Or Miss Out · · Score: 1

    try an old Linux distro say something pre Slackware 4 would be fine. You're bad experience is because you ran too new software it would be akin to putting Windows 2k on these 486's and wondering why it's so slow.

  20. Re:Protect your privacy: Only answer question #1 on Did You Do the Long Form? · · Score: 1

    What's the punishment for lying on the census form?

  21. Re:Can you not give trolls accounts? on Ask the Man Behind the Legend - Cowboy Neal · · Score: 1

    Well plugging it into Google like this
    http://www.google.com/search?q=heghoughi
    I do get a hit for a Julie Heghoughi
    so yes plugging it into a search engine does work ;)

  22. Vibrator good for something on Stimulating Bone Growth In Astronauts · · Score: 1

    Now vibrators have another use! ;)

  23. Re:Gnome Pango on Living In A Microsoft Country (And Speaking The Language)? · · Score: 1

    Union Way does this http://www.unionway.com
    I use this at work on an NT box I'm forced to use
    for my Chinese, Japanese and Korean needs.

  24. Re:Macross Plus on NASA Controls Jet With Nerve Signals · · Score: 1

    except that the person he was visualizing killing was a "friendly".

  25. Re:Use mastercard. on Human clones priced at $50,000 · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the Taco supply what about the
    Natalie Portman supply? Now that would be priceless ;)