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  1. Re:Thats just great on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 3, Funny

    or banner ad that happens to resemble a windows dialog window (just like my dad)

    Your dad resembles a dialogue box?

  2. Re:Escaping Reality. on Quake 4 Visual Preview · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the vomiting Carmack picture is great. Although, given the content on that game, I think we all need to be up in arms. Where's Hillary?

  3. Re:i am hoping, but will it happen on Getting A Handle On Vista · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Holy shit - it looks from your blog like you're English - how the fuck do people understand you? I mean, if you speak like you type - sorry, not intended as a troll, but I've never seen such chimpish use of the english language.

  4. Or Freecycle it... on How Can I Donate Old Hardware to Developers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Freecycle.org, i think.

  5. Re:My fondest memory... on What Are Your Favorite Computing Memories? · · Score: 1

    I always liked:

    10 ONERROR
    20 CLS
    30 PRINT "MR HART IS A BASTARD " INPUT
    40 GOTO 10

    BBC micros always had absolute fits at that one.

  6. Re:Best advice on Setting up a Small Office Network? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, I recommend you phone microsoft. They'll help you out. You'll want a windows server, definitely. Windows 98 is best for this. Don't bother with a firewall, they're a communist conspiracy.

  7. Re:Yes, but... on Scientists Complete Universe Millennium Simulation · · Score: 1

    Does a bear relieve himself in a tree rich environment?

  8. Re:Clarifications on City of Vienna Chooses Linux · · Score: 1

    Posting from lucerne... Mozartkugeln are evil - once you have one you need 200.

  9. Re:Let's hope that... on Cometary Fireworks Go Off Without Hitch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bruce Willis declined to comment on his upcoming engagement, however insider sources were heard to say that he was looking forward to having a 'smashing time'.

  10. Re:4.5Kt, surely? on Cometary Fireworks Go Off Without Hitch · · Score: 1

    Nope. 4.5 t. The energy released by 1 tonne of TNT is 4612 MJ - 4.6GJ - therefore, 19GJ/4.6 ~ 4.5 tonnes of TNT.

  11. Re:Somehow this makes news on Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    Much like when spaceshipone broke the record - slashdot didn't pick up on it for 24 hours.

  12. Re:Ice cream.. on Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    That's no ice cream - that's germknodel! Tasty austrian dish topped with poppy seeds and filled with damsen jam. With butter. Yum.

  13. Re:Well then on Cloning In The Animal Kingdom · · Score: 1

    Ant oil! Get your ant oil!

  14. Re:from the WTF? dept. on Deep Impact on Comet Theory · · Score: 1

    Not rabbits? I hear they're rampant out there in space. My girlfriend was over the moon when she found out about them.

  15. Re:Hmmm on BBC Offers Beethoven Symphonies for Download · · Score: 1

    Try Shostakovich , and perhaps Rimsky-Korsakov - I love Rach - nothing better than hammering out a few of his preludes... c# minor is an amazing piece of music - as is elegie... His orchestral works are also pretty stunning, and the piano interludes are great to play if you don't have an orchestra to hand.

  16. Re:Ghoti -- competition! Free hosting~! on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Well, I would have given you hosting, but fish food can be arranged, I'm sure. :D

  17. Re:MOD STORY INSIGHTFUL! on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    they're lazy to learn the language.

    they're too lazy to...

  18. Ghoti -- competition! Free hosting~! on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Is juant ey nighce bogh beaule orv ghoti pheuth.

    Month's free hosting to the first person to tell me what that says.

  19. This just in: on The BlackBerry Infringing on Other Technologies? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The national league of fruit growers have taken an interest, and intend to persue legal action due to infringment upon their patents on berries which are black.

  20. Hmmm on New Production of Plutonium 238 · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our secret espionage device overlord. 330lbs of Pu must make one hell of a secret espionage device. Maybe they're got an SEP field set up?

  21. Re:_Continental_ Europe on Japan Tests New Bullet Train · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be so daft. Trains in the UK are exemplary. I pay as little as £3000 a year to commute within london, and getting the train from bristol to london last night cost me as little as £115. And it only took 6 hours, I mean, it was 3 hours late, but that's pretty good, to be honest!

    Anyway, I think we should give tube drivers another raise. £60,000 just isn't enough to drive public transport 150 days a year. In fact, they need more holiday too. Won't somebody please think of their children? They only get two weeks off per month!

  22. We tried working with Monopoly... on London Turned into Giant Board Game · · Score: 1

    We tried working with Monopoly

    An employee suggested to me that we use Monopoly on a few machines here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day gambling. So I decided to let him install the Monopoly onto 5 machines to see how the users got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using it on his system and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client machines?

    Once he'd got the machines up and running with Monopoly we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: Monopoly was a pretty good replacement for Cluedo and the users could still do their work as normal.

    Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could find things they were used to or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with Cluedo gambling. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when Monopoly suddenly had an error reading from our intranet file server and corrupted his project.

    Needless to say, Hasbro offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee uninstall Monopoly from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore.

  23. Re:You lazy.... on London Turned into Giant Board Game · · Score: 1

    I do cycle to work - the majority would not, however, and pay through the nose - also, the victoria embankment is hardly pleasant to cycle down every day (Fulham --> City).

    The minimum wage is £4.85 per hour.

    Assuming a 40 hour week, that's 40*4.85*52 per annum - £10,088, or £194 a week. A 40 hour week is a generous assumption - for most shift based work at minimum wage, you'll be lucky to get 25 hours a week - £121.25.

    The department of leisure and entertainment (DOLE) will give you £112.40 a week, minimum. Taken into account the fact that if you're working you're probably paying at least £2 per shift to get there, you'll be better off on the dole.

    Oh yeah, and you don't pay income tax on the dole. On £121.25 a week, you'll only be taking home £94.13 a week post tax. So.. all in all. Yes, it's cheaper to sit on the sofa.

  24. Hear hear!!! on London Turned into Giant Board Game · · Score: 2, Informative

    This country is nuts. You get paid more to sit on your fat ass on the sofa all day than you would with a minimum wage job, commuting to work (from 6 miles away!!!!) costs me £4000 a year ($7000) (admittedly 'only' £2000 a year at the moment, but they're doubling the price of a travelcard in november), and the state wants us to pay up to £2 a mile to drive. On top of our 90p/litre ($8/gallon) fuel.

    So... even though the parent is a troll: Here's a hint, good people of Britain: get out of the fucking cab, get off the fucking Dole, and get a fucking job!!

  25. I call BS on How Amazon and Google are taking eBay's Business · · Score: 1

    Sorry, totally fail to believe this - I also got diddled by a seller, and was out £600 - paypal took it out of their account, putting them into substantial negative balance. Also, my little brother now has a large negative balance, because he ripped someone off. Stupid little shit.

    On the other hand, I've now been wrestling with parcelforce for 6 months over a laptop they *decimated*. They're the real crooks. Did you know that the minimum insurable packaging for 'electronic equipment' is a fucking *shipping pallet*?!