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  1. Re:Sirius vs. XM on Satellite Radio - XM vs. Sirius? · · Score: 0
    I'm pretty sure both companies have spares on the ground.

    Just an idle thought:
    How long would it take them to get a replacement up?

  2. Re: on Open Source 3D Hardware · · Score: 0
    >>Leviticus 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

    >What would you say is the abomination in that text?

    I'll not tax your hermeneutical skills further, they appear to be lacking, as are your general debating skills.

    The abomination is to "...lie with a male as with a woman..."
    This would suggest to me (and many others) that the behavior is the abomination rather than the person committing the act.

    Please save yourself the further effort of proving your inadequate debating skills by personally attacking.

  3. Re:haha... on Open Source 3D Hardware · · Score: 0

    What would say is the abomination in that text?

  4. Re:haha... on Open Source 3D Hardware · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    sorry, god hates gays

    Whatever gave you that idea?

  5. Re: on Open Source 3D Hardware · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    (who for the sake of anonymity we will call doug)
    yours or His?

    who shall remain nameless from thus forth
    I very much doubt that.

  6. Re:Open Source? More like Openly Racist on Open Source 3D Hardware · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How do you interperet the following?
    ----
    Genesis 1:4
    God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
    ----

    >:-|

  7. Important!! on What is Well-Commented Code? · · Score: 1
    ALWAYS rot13 your comments as this hides spoilers.
    Occasionally I have been reading some code and the idiot put in a comment that just gave the whole thing away.

    Never comment each function, just put one big comment at the end of the file.
    Or better yet: have a seperate file that contains all your projects code comments so that they are easily found in one convenient place.

    Use acronyms and abbreviations to reduce source code size.
    I can't stress this enough, make up your own acronyms and abbreviations if you have to, brevity is the key.

    Hope this helps.

  8. Re:Ad campaign on Verizon's Wireless Road Warriors · · Score: 1

    Then there's the guy where I worked who "borrowed" a supermarket trolley, stuffed it full of car batteries and cellular measuring equipment and laptops and went for a wander inside some buildings.

    I think the duct tape used weighed more than the actual gear. :-)

  9. Re:The whole idea that violent video... on Slashback: Counterstrike, Identification, Patenxtortion · · Score: 1

    I've played video games since I could reach the coin-slot on a Pacman machine.

    So could you actually reach the joystick too?

    Oh, Oh, I can see the reflection of the screen off the inside of the cabinet...

    :-)

  10. Re:Ahem on Slashback: Towel, Linkage, Drafthouse · · Score: 1

    Actually, this may be the only time [goatse.cx] shouldn't be considered a troll. :-)

  11. Re:Wow... on Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview · · Score: 1

    This Graphic card as almost more processing power then my two PC's combined!

    sad sad sad.

    oh wait, the same statement probably applies to my three computers. OUCH.

  12. Re:Fishy on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 1

    ... take precautions (see post above^H^H^H^H^Hbelow).

  13. Re:Fishy on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 1

    Not with a professional camera... My wife has a very nice professional grade 35mm camera. She took some pictures of me sitting in my ultralight with the engine running & prop spinning. In every shot, the prop looks perfectly still.

    Now I know damn well that prop was spinning a lot faster as far as the film was concerned than looking out the side of a car at 70+mph...


    If you were in the dark (possibly at night) And aimed a strobe light at your ultralight prop spinning, you would see the prop stopped every time the strobe flashed.

    If you pointed the strobe out your car window, in that same dark situation, and drove you would see a succession of different images, presumably until you hit something from not watchin' where you were goin'.

    will your pictures be blurred beyond recognition if your camera pointed out the side window?

    I think so unless you take precautions (see post above).

    z.

  14. Re:Gates needs it... on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    sweeet.

  15. But... on Intel's 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    with this happening Intel may be in for a shock.

  16. Re:C++? on Developing for the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    For those of you struggling with OO concepts (I starting to get it but brain hurts) try Sun's Java Tutorial: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts .

    seeya.

  17. Re:I program just to program on What are Your Programming Goals? · · Score: 1

    Yea, I know what you mean.

    I'm not a programmer by trade but I got the opportunity to play with a scripting language at work for the past few days. I've noticed that I've been going 3-4 hours without a break.

    Not bad for a smoker who lights up at least hourly.

    Hmm, maybe a change in career is in the works.