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  1. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're only changing 2 bits, as the grandparent originally said; you're modifying a byte "01" to read "00", and another byte "02" to read "00". Thus you are changing two bytes, but really two bits. QED.

  2. Re:Problems With Undirected Charity on Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29? · · Score: 1
    I hate to break it to you, but very few companies actually develop software using Python. Infact, all I've seen running on Python is Open Source projects.
    Ever seen Google?
  3. Re:MJ? on Slashback: Passports, Microscopes, IQ Points · · Score: 1

    Judging by the coherence of your reply, it's clear that marijuana has already gotten to your brain.

  4. Re:Hey. The Apple section is just a shilling secti on iPods Valuable in the College Classroom? · · Score: 1

    "Hey, Taco, let's post yet another story about something that's been done for decades with tape recorders...only now it's with IPODS!!!!!"

    Yeah, amazing. How is using a modded iPod (they can't record out of the box) different from using a tape recorder? The hard disk? Whoop-dee-fuckin'-do.


    Yeah, I don't know what all this technology buzz is about. Sheesh, I still use my abacus and slide rule and they work just fine.

  5. Microsoft Marketing-Speak on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 1

    "Tiger is nice in that they've put search capability in a lot of places, but there's a lot more (in Longhorn)," Allchin said. "This is trying to slice and dice the data and let you visualize the data in a much richer way than what's in Tiger."

    Now if I could only figure out how the heck they are going to "slice and dice" my data. An animated disk-formatting tool, perhaps?

  6. Re:Hey asshole: on Summer Reading and Startup Program · · Score: 1

    Only an asshole would post this as an AC.

  7. REALbasic on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 0

    Depending on the need for rock-solid reliability, have you considered using a high-level RAD tool?

    I've had positive experiences with REALbasic, a high-level BASIC-based language that is similar to Visual Basic but compiles for Windows, Mac OS X, Mac Classic, and Linux (GTK). It even makes console apps.

    Just tell the decisionmakers it's a .NET clone that works cross-platform. If you don't need the power of Java or C#, REALbasic could be a good choice--and you'd never need to port code from platform to platform.

  8. Hoover's Fine Economic Policies on Slashback: Pong, Economics, Stability · · Score: 3, Funny

    Six of the economists in the letter protesting the Kerry economic plan are listed as members of the "Hoover Institution". Reminds you of the good old days of President Hoover and the economic havoc wreaked by FDR's policies.

  9. Re:whatever you do: don't be retarted! on Children's Books for Geek Parents? · · Score: 1

    ...growing faster than anyother point in her life, and right now, your scrulpting her...
    ...dosen't matter that i don't rember it, but at this point, I actualy read still...
    ...thouse years are going to be the most stressfull part of my life...
    ...You'll be proud too when shes the only two year old who can read basic sentances...
    ...tons of postive influences at her, (i know, clieche'), i wish my parents HAD sent me to lern piano...
    ...probebly biggest thing, if you want to make sure shes not going to grow up mentally handycapped : cancel your cable bill...

    It's good to see that all that reading your parents did to you when you were young improved your grammar and spelling skills. Too bad they didn't cancel their cable bill. ;)

  10. Re:Problem on Shrimp-Based Bandages Save Lives · · Score: 1

    At the point where you need to use a bandage that stops "unstoppable bleeding", I doubt if a small chance of a seafood allergy is going to matter anyway.

  11. Re:Cripes! on Microsoft Unveils A Designer Mouse · · Score: 1

    ...in India.

  12. Re:Not So Great!! on Traffic Control of the Future · · Score: 1

    I can just see the a completely non-technical CEO saying "control-H" seven times in a row in front of a group of industry analysts. Now that would lose them!

  13. Re:Why not? on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    RTFC--that's Read the Fscking Constitution.

    The Second Amendment states:

    A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

    Now, the other amendments don't mention anything about a "well regulated militia". Hence, you have the right to assemble without being in a militia.

  14. Re:Why not? on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but there are two definitions for militia:

    1 a : a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency b : a body of citizens organized for military service
    2 : the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by law as being subject to call to military service

    Now, there's no way to know which in particular the founding fathers meant. But judging by context--the fact that the 2nd Amendment specifically mentions a "well-regulated" militia--I'm betting on the first definition. A mob of rabble-rousers is hardly well-regulated. The National Guard is.

    I understand the need of early settlers to protect themselves against attackers. But in the 21st century, we hardly need to blow away anyone and everyone who might pose a threat to us.

  15. Re:Why not? on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1
    It also protect my right to own a gun. Intersting little document isn't it. So, you burn your flag to piss off the right, I'll fire my gun to piss off the left and we can both hold hands and sing kumbaya around the Constitution.

    On the contrary, the Constitution says that you can bear arms if you're part of a militia, since they're crucial to keeping the peace. Nowhere does it say you can sell assault rifles to convicted felons (not that you are one, or that all guns should be abolished).

  16. Re:Why not? on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Of course, these examples are from before the age of preemptive warfare based on secret evidence.

  17. Re:3/4 Inch Tall? on Where Can You Buy Cheap, Tiny Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    Yep. Know where I can get laptop motherboards, in quantity, for cheap?

  18. Re:Ummm... on Where Can You Buy Cheap, Tiny Motherboards? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I know that cheating is a problem. This motherboard is to be used with a proprietary testing solution that randomizes the order of the questions, the order of the choices, and locks down the computer to prevent use of messaging etc.

    Adam Ernst