User: JamesP

Re:seven businesses?

On: Microsoft Announces Dividend and Stock Buyback Program

You forgot AdTI and SCO...

Oh, wait...

Some Ideas...

On: Workplace Monotony?

(No need to get away from the computer)

Q3
Worms Armageddon
H4X0RING the company network (NetSaint, nmap, etc)

(Some minutes off)

Snooker!
Card games!

Re:Last time I checked

On: Sun's "Java Powered" Campaign

Ahem...

Java to MOBILE edition?

Re:not really

On: Software Usability As A Technical Problem

Using modern install tools from the open source world like yum, aptget or urpmi.

I agree, except for yum, which is WORSE than windows update.

Re:not really

On: Software Usability As A Technical Problem

Please, please, please...

Usability in the Open Source World (with notable exeptions like Mozilla) SUCKS BIG TIME.

GTK file dialog (even the new one) IS A JOKE.

Installing programs, drivers SUCKS BIG TIME. Yeah, tell joe average all he has to do is:

tar (wtf?) foobar.tgz ./configure
make
make install

Yeah easy...

Sorry guys, open source has a LONG WAY TO GO.

Not to mention

On: Language Tempest At Orkut

that brazilians are being encouraged to change ther "Country" field to Irak...

Come On!

On: Is Math A Sport?

Come on people... math is not a sport...

Definition of sport (in my view) requires physical exercise.

No, poker is not a sport. Chess is not a sport. Bow&Arrow may be a sport, same applies to Snooker

Re:I like their sense of humor

On: Steven Hawking Loses Bet On Black Holes?

The duo are expected to present Preskill with an encyclopaedia of his choice "from which information can be recovered at will"."

So... Your encyclopedia has been thrown at the nearest blackhole... Since you proved me wrong, you'll be quite able to recover the information presented in it...

Re:They're using...

On: Intermec Claims RFID is Proprietary

Yes, the patent on money is mine... Pay up before you pay, er, stuff...

Re:Not so "absurd"

On: iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser

Something like...

cp top_secret_document.doc britney_spears_toxic.mp3
cp britney_spears_toxic.mp3 /mnt/usbdevice

English, please?

On: Dutch Parliament Reverses Software Patent Vote

The post is very confusing: he voted against the people that are against voting against being contrary to software patents, something like that...

What the heck, can someone simplify it?

Re:Donno about Pentium 4 but Athlon is a weapon

On: Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?

MOD pARENT TROLL

Athlons have solved their overheating problems ages ago... Now, Prescotts, OTOH...

Re:Today's dumbish question

On: FreeDOS Turns 10 Years Old Today

How do you determine the "birthday" of a piece of software?

For me it's when they bring the cake and blow the candles...

Now, since Ken Brown...

On: Why Does SCO Focus On A Minix-to-Linux Link?

... made Linus admit that Santa Claus wrote Linux, everything is settled...

Linux cames from North Pole and this is it...

Ha!

Never mind the questions...

On: Interviewing Your Future Boss?

Just check the hair... if it's pointy, you know what to do...

Re:nascar 2003

On: Realistic Driving Simulator Games?

The only thing I learned with the NASCAR series isthat going the wrong way at top speed and seeing the Replay is FUN

That is, if my car doen't crumble before it's game over...

You know what...

On: New Digital Audio Formats

All these fancy formats: 192kHz, 24 bits, everything is perfect, until you plug your DVD-A, SACD player to your stereo, that has a 44kHz, 16 bit DSP for equalizing sound...

Sorry...

Comparisons

On: Using a Password One Doesn't Consciously Remember

Everybody is saying that they can type their password although they don't remember it.

It reminds me of playing the piano. I can always remember the moves, but never the notes.

And worse, sometimes I need to have the score before me, even though I don't connect what's written with the actual notes on the keyboard.

Maybe we need a musical password...

Easy solution

On: The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet?

1 - replace your notebook case by a white one with pink spots.

2 - Wear a black coat and sunglasses

3 - Buy a ninja sword and carry it all the time.

Problem Solved!

Re:Both Platforms? WOW!

On: EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003

"Written in Java so it can run on both Windows and Linux"

Correction, it can CRAWL in Windows and Linux

Just a small detail

On: ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core

ARM SUCKS!

I already did some stuff using ARM7TDMI and I can say that it SUCKS BIG TIME.

Why? NO INTEGER DIVISION. You have a blazing fast code 90% of the time and the other 10% it's crunching the single division in your program

Re:So the RIAA will just go ahead and sue everyone

On: New Wave Of File-Sharing Embraces Secrecy

Lawyers will be living in mansions surrounded by the rest of us, who will toil endlessly, day and night, to earn our masters' legal protection

So, let's just begin shooting lawyers before this day arrives.

Or BETTER!, Let's take all law books and stuff and lock them under the DMCA. That would be fun.

Easy!

On: Building a Search Engine Using Open Technology?

cat database | grep query

Completely Open Source!

Re:Movie idea

On: Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT

Spped 3: Your boat will shut down in 60 seconds.

Ooops!

A note to all our french readers...

On: Non-English Programming Languages?

Bougez vos fesses et apprenez l'Anglais! Personne va traduire les langages d'ordinateur pour vous.

(I basically told them that no one is going to translate programming languages to French. No one would be THAT stupid.) Could you imagine:

10 ECRIVEZ "Bonjour"
20 ECRIVEZ "Je m'appelle Pierre"
30 SI (x==10) ALLEZ A 10