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  1. Re:memory overflow caused Spirit shutdown? on What's Inside the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    Ok. I was wrong. That's what I get for RTFA.

    Would everybody please quit refuting me?

  2. Re:memory overflow caused Spirit shutdown? on What's Inside the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that it's a Macintosh.

  3. Re:Microsoft BUYS EM out on Microsoft Agrees Settlement Over MikeRoweSoft.com · · Score: 1

    "BUZZ"

    Wrong answer. For a business, you are allowed to use your own name and attach anything you want to it, as long as you include your whole name.

    I'm guessing his name is Michael, so he isn't included in that naming convention.

  4. Re:wasting your time? be professional! on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm just glad to see someone bringing the threats to a public forum, and responding in a reasonable manner.

    Too many of the public responses seem to be nothing more than namecalling and puffed up catfights.

    I, personally(not that anyone cares), can forgive one bad line in an otherwise excellent letter.

  5. Re:WTF! on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the FOA keep that from being illegal? You can get any nonclassified document if you fill out the FOA request forms. Including non- or declassified FBI files.

  6. Re:Factory on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Alexandria. I called that area home for 19 years.

  7. Re:right, no complaining allowed on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Except for the first option, they are all considered good jobs by someone.

  8. Factory on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    I used to work in a factory built(poorly) in the 40s. The warehouse roof was caving in. It was down to within 1 foot of the top of the stacked pallets.

    The whole factory was poorly insulated. In the winter, it got down to 35 degrees. In the summer, it got up over 110 in west central Minnesota.

    That is just the physical environment. The work included cleaning tanker trucks with chemicals that OSHA required safety equipment to use, but we weren't given the equipment.

    The job also included lying to health inspectors and rabbis.

    The law was broken a lot, but they were the best paying job in the county, so no one complained.

  9. Re:Just a few... on 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    You make a good point, but this thread is discussing the software that should have been vaporware.

    Which probably makes all of these posts off topic.

  10. Re:Business a little slow? on Space Tug to Save the Hubble? · · Score: 1

    OTOH, orbital recovery may be what we need to build a moon base. Use the orbital tug to haul the junk to the moon, and recycle it into parts of the base. All of the satellites and garbage may be useable.

  11. Too lenient. on Spammer Sentencing Guidelines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about "drawn and quartered" as a fitting punishment?

  12. Re:one way ticket to mars on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1

    I would just aim the rocket at the dark side of the sun.

  13. Re:How will we fund it? Spend it elsewhere! on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    That's a big school. My little brother's class was the largest graduating class in the history of my hometown with 26 in 2000.

    OTOH, the school handled the budget poorly, but to a different extreme. They were so under budget for so many years, that the state finally told them to spend the savings or lose it. That was when we finally got computers better than apple IIe.

  14. Re:Sequel on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    I think it was both, but after buying the first 4, I decided to get the Ultimate Hitchhiker.

  15. Re:Sequel on Hitchhiker's Guide Film Reports · · Score: 1

    It's officially called "The increasingly misnamed Hitchhiker Trilogy."

  16. Re:What bothers me most.. on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 1

    I did not say that I read the article. I just reserve a strong dislike(read:hate) for anybody that wants to shelter psychic scamlines.

    I also reserve the right not to grieve for strangers. I feel sorry for the kid, but shit happens. I won't invest my emotions in someone I have never, and probably will never, meet.

    I realize that probably makes me a dick, but I can accept that.

  17. Re:What bothers me most.. on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow · · Score: 1

    Me too. Niue sucks. There are a bunch of psychic hotlines based there.

  18. Re:Just a joke. on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    No, you didn't. I was needlessly picking nits.

  19. Re:Just a joke. on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    24-8=16
    24-8!=18
    So, 1 cup every 2 2/3 hours. Still not a lot.

  20. Re:Most cars have a countermeasure to that... on UK Police Want An Automotive Tractor Beam · · Score: 1

    The interceptor that I had handled amazingly well. It cornered like a dream and could hit 150 mph.

  21. Re:Apple ads? on Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment · · Score: 1

    How many white guys named Elijah do you know?

    3

  22. Re:The Machine Crusade (Dune Series) on Best and Worst Books of 2003? · · Score: 1

    You're right. It's not nearly as intellectual as the originals. I've read all of the originals more than a dozen times.

    I do like all of the backstory in the prequels, particularly the Butlerian Jihad books. BH and KA took the majority of the storyline from FH's notes, so I don't see the continuity being an issue. Paul was raised on Caladan, and I don't think FH ever explicitly said he was born there.

    I do like the Butlerian Jihad books better than the "House" prequels.

  23. Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, Book 8) on Best and Worst Books of 2003? · · Score: 1

    by Terry Goodkind

    While this wasn't the best book of the series, it did explaing a lot from previous books and it was a good story.

    This is another series that has yet to disappoint me.

  24. The Machine Crusade (Dune Series) on Best and Worst Books of 2003? · · Score: 1

    By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

    I haven't read a single book from this series that I didn't like.

    I have read every one except the dune encyclopedia.

  25. Why? on The Matrix Trailers, Reloaded and Re-Encoded · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What, exactly, is the point of releasing a never-been-seen trailer after the final move is out? Especially when the first two are on dvd and the third is not in the theatre anymore?