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  1. Re:No Source Code? on Winners of the 18th IOCCC · · Score: 2, Funny

    It also phones home and gets you owned... talk about obfuscated.

  2. Re:age discrimination! on Taking on an Online Extortionist · · Score: 1

    Anyone else?

  3. Money on Space Elevator Update · · Score: 2, Funny
    The big news since the last conference is that ISR finally has received the money congress had earmarked for it...

    I guess if enough money is pumped into this it will finally get off the ground sooner rather than later.
    No, wait. We don't want it to get off the ground do we?
    Would be cool to see this in our lifetimes.

  4. Doesn't bother me on U.N. Decides to Shut Down Internet Permanently · · Score: 1

    I've should have completed my own personal cache of all internet content before they pull the plug.

  5. Re:Wow, the entire history!!! on The History of Mozilla Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny

    stripped down *cough*, yeah right.
    great big bloated mess of slow-loading, cpu hogging non-internet explorer goodness. :-)

  6. Re:Presentation on Objectively Comparing Competing Search Engines? · · Score: 1

    Hey that askjeeves preview feature is cool.
    Pitty it opens results in a frame. I realise you can adjust your settings not to but that means keeping a cookie around...

  7. Re:Of course on Build High-End Audio System w/ Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1
    Yes, but I can go and buy a dvd player, 5.1 sound system with speakers for a very low price. The sound reproduction, however, will not be true. (or even pleasant)

    What is wanted is a way to preserve the quality of the sound in transit from Hard Disk to audiophile speakers.

    This means that everything that the audio travels through must introduce "minimal distortion" (connectors, cables, circuitry etc.).

  8. Re:Why does the Windows end-user still suck? on Why Does Windows Still Suck? · · Score: 1
    pawn crap that is patently unfit

    Where I live we have legislation covering the fitness of goods for the advertised and intended purpose. I idly wonder if a case could be built against the sale of Windows under this legislation.

    Not that Microsoft would care if they couldn't sell Windows in one small country <sigh>.

  9. Windows App on Distributing In-House Engineering Code? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well now that you're using Windows, you can hire some graduate to write an enormous, confusing GUI in like, VB or C# or whatever the latest incompatibility from MS is that pulls the the latest algorithms from a central server. (how's that for a run on sentence!)
    That way you can use all the latest buzzwords like "live-update" and umm, "client/server" and umm, "network" and whatever buzzword pack that comes with .NET.
    Oh, oh, wait... you could use MS Access with a custom interface and have all the codes stored in a database. Mmmmm, database.

  10. Re:Registration Not Required on Intel's Expensive Disco Ball · · Score: 1

    I'd like a basement that big.

  11. Another one on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 1
    Oh good, another one to add to the list:

    FreeBSD is dying

    Apple is going out of business

    Profit! (oh wait, that's another list)
    Feel free to add the others I forgot right now.

  12. Re:How useful could something like this be on Robotic Capsule To Crawl Through Intestines · · Score: 1

    I've got my hopes on this sort of thing eliminating the current method of prostate exams.

  13. Horde on Open Source Apps for a Law Office? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hermes may be the thing.
    "Hermes is a time-tracking application integrated with the Horde Framework."

    The Horde Framework is the glue that all Horde applications have in common.

    There are many applications that run on this frame work. Calendaring, mail, task lists, contact management, and more.

    Will it work for law practice purposes? I don't know, IANAL :-), but it looks good.

  14. Re:Simply a product of the fad? on Game On For Classic Gaming Expo 2004 · · Score: 1
    if it wasn't 300 miles away that is

    If it was only 300 miles away. It's over 6000 miles away from me. [sigh].

  15. Re:Alternatively... on Slashback: Wireless, Gasoline, Prevarication · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe it's when that 10 gallon container is full...
    If your shoes are wet and smell like gasoline then you've probably got more than 10 gallons.

  16. .doc as other on The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet · · Score: 1

    For those of you who don't have the proprietary .doc viewer, there's another one here. ;-)

  17. Re:Ooops... on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    Okay, I've got a little breathing room yet. :-)
    Still thats more cache that my Acorn Archimedes had RAM (4MB).

  18. Re:Ooops... on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    It's not like I don't appreciate the positive comment moderation, but the only joke was about the [near?] future CPUs. :-/
    Oh well, one day the savings account won't get raided for a kids emergency doctors appt and I might get some new h/w.

  19. Re:tall order... on Realistic Driving Simulator Games? · · Score: 1
    Maybe use a car with a parking brake lever between the front two seats... and keep your hand on it! ;)

    Yeah, and whip it on when they're goin round a corner. :-)

  20. Re:Ooops... on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always get a bit depressed when I read about current tech.
    First, video cards get more RAM than my main system.
    Then , HDDs get more cache RAM than my video card has.
    Technology prediction: Tomorrow (or maybe the next day), Intel or AMD release CPUs with more cache than my system RAM. AAAAARRRGH.

  21. Re:Not possible with good file systems on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but, when the drive tells lies to the OS about the FS metadata having been written you are in a bad place come power failure; journalling or no.

  22. Re:harmless pranks on Harmless Pranks During a Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    Taping telephone handsets to their base is also quite humourous. Just make sure the tape can't be seen and is strong enough to pick up the base with the handset.
    YMMV

  23. GMT on Landscape Projection with Blender? · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm sure that Generic Mapping Tools will do all that you want and more.

    It may take some time to learn to use it properly though...

  24. Re:I'm a karma whore! on Inventorying Miscellaneous Computer Junk? · · Score: 1
    even work when the power is out!

    You ever tried writing in the dark? :)

  25. Re:damn! on Build Your Own Heavy Metal Server · · Score: 1
    ...the middle button and the terminal.

    Yeah I just love pasting random shit off Slashdot sigs into a terminal.

    Not that this is particularly damaging :)