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  1. Re:Best Features of WordPerfect on Microsoft Word 5.1: The Apex of Word Processing · · Score: 1

    All the paragraph button shows is whitespace, tabs, and paragraph/column/etc. divisions.

    It does not show indentation, alignment, or other useful things. Now, there is that arrow-question-mark button than does show most of these things, but you can't edit the settings there. You have to dive into Word's patented Maze-O-Dialogs.

  2. Re:Hard to be a Mac user? on Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes · · Score: 1

    C'mon, you know you can't trust those stats, what with browsers disguising themselves as each other all the time.

  3. Re:Why it has to die on Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes · · Score: 1

    The "Inside Macintosh" books (q.v. by area) have to be some of the best API documentation ever written. It's too bad Apple couldn't keep up that level of quality.

  4. Re:MOD PARENT UP!!! on Joel On Microsoft's API Mistakes · · Score: 1

    It is an example of holding your developers to a higher standard and them then matching it.

    With the shared memory and other problems of the OS, you were basically forced to a higher standard. If you took too long to do something, the computer was basically frozen. If you didn't clean up your memory, the entire computer crashed and you had to reboot.

    I notice a decline in programmers' level of responsibility now that we have a protected memory system. "Oh, the OS'll clean it up, not to worry."

    I fear for the future.

  5. Re:Next gen. Non Lethal weapons on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    You know, you don't have to be upper middle class and white to be bored enough to rebel without a cause.

  6. Re:Its a good start on 19th Century News Coming Online · · Score: 1

    19th Century. No WWII.

  7. Re:hmmm mildly impressed. on Matsushita Designed Sleep Room · · Score: 1

    I lucid dream. It's nice.

    An example, right, I'm in a jungle on another planet and something like the Tommyknockers are after me, and base camp is too far away for me to make it. I say to myself, "hey, this is a dream, right, so...I need a BFG" and I reach out to mid-air and grab one, and feel a whole lot better about my situation.

    Like I said, it's nice.

  8. Re:Sure it's better! on Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour · · Score: 1

    Stockholm Syndrome. Definitely.

  9. Re:A solution looking for a problem on 'Cut and Paste' Is Out, 'Pick and Drop' Is In · · Score: 1

    I don't see why the system should require a pen storage server. Just send out a local network query: "Who's got the data for pen 4AC7F8?"

    Heck, Rendezvous could handle it easily enough.

  10. Re:Slashdot Effect? on Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Slashdot Effect? on Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have took. Ah well. Don't flame me, please!

  12. Re:Slashdot Effect? on Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City · · Score: 1

    Well, I asked the guy if he could spare a screenshot of Slashdot Effect. Unfortunately, the shot was from Thursday and the story was on Wednesday, so the shot doesn't show the Slashdot Effect in its full glory. Nonetheless, I've posted it on my .mac site.

    I see no /. buses, but there's hella people milling around. 46,000 according to the Mayor of VisitorVille (really his title!).

  13. Re:Questions on Apple Rolls Out AirPort Express, AirTunes · · Score: 1

    Use AppleScript Studio to write a simple remote control program that sends Apple Events to your central iTunes. Heck, it's probably been written already.

  14. Re:Al Gore's speech excerpts relevant here on How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use · · Score: 1

    I always did like Gore.

  15. Re:Now that's what I'm talkin' about on Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    ...

    Effective, I guess.

  16. Re:warping of space... on NASA Studying Energy Shields for Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Hah! I do three impossible things every day before breakfast, just like the book says!

    So come back in about two days for the prototype...

  17. More capable than the Roomba? on New Electrolux Trilobite 2.0 Vacuum Robot · · Score: 1

    Okay, so it's ten times more expensive than the Roomba. Let's just hope it isn't ten times as competent, or human-kind could be in a world of trouble.

  18. Re:Hardcore French (and English) on Hardcore Java · · Score: 1

    Wow. That is hardcore... I am impressed.

  19. Re:Parallels on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    Isn't the tree's full title the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?

    They could be smart, but innocent.

  20. Re:Parallels on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    God has also personally destroyed cities and countries, ordered the death of babies, engineered the torture of his son, and turned people into salt. Oh, and he loves mind-fucks.

    He doesn't really have a reputation of being a good guy. But if a guy's omnipotent, a smart man will ask "how high"?

  21. Re:2 x A4 = A3 on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1

    And what, exactly, would be the benefit?

    Well, we'd lose fewer space probes...

    But seriously, switching to metric paper is a no-brainer, even if we don't go wholly metric. Copiers, printers, and paper handling machines already handle metric paper. Most filing cabinets handle legal size, so they can handle A4.

  22. Re:Context & Japanese Social Habits on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    From all accounts I've read, the Japanese are far more xenophobic and small-minded, but less rude, about foreigners than most of the United States.

  23. Re:Family Guy on Comcast Fires TechTV Staff · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think Family Guy's revival can be attributed to a good time slot on Adult Swim.

    Personally, I despise Peter Griffin and his "cute antics". I don't understand why Lois hasn't made creative use of a staple-gun on his sorry ass.

    The rest of them are all right, though.

  24. Re:individual cat names?? Re:Cat Got Your Tounge? on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    have "Schrodinger" as version 10.8

    "Will it be released or not?"

  25. Re:flamebait? on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    We've always had the mindset that things shouldn't be taken away.