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  1. Re:Advice on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 1

    but... but... but... you just have to check that little checkbox! and Mathematica will compile!

  2. Re:Moving from the PowerPC to Intel... Bad Move on Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother · · Score: 1

    -1 Hackers reference. I hate that movie, even with Angelina Jolie in it.

    And yet I remembered that quote as soon as I saw it... aw fuck it.

  3. Re:Ms-RL wtf? on Microsoft Reduces Shared Source Licenses · · Score: 1
    If you haven't heard about this already, then just think about for half a second. Microsoft lets you see code but won't let you modify or use it. This is beneficial how? Because you know you can be accused later on of stealing code from them, to use on your own project.

    This is why the Mono people tell everyone who wants to help to stay away from Rotor and other MS stuff that's released under the shared source licenses, because they can probably be accused by MS of stealing code from those projects.

  4. Re:No more eMacs on iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that's it? vi officially wins, at least on OS X?

  5. Re:Needs a new name on Linux Gains Lossless File System · · Score: 4, Funny

    NILF: Netserver I'd Like to fsck (but I don't need to anymore, apparently)

  6. Joe's Garage on Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    So Frank Zappa was right all along... his words now sound prophetic, don't they?

    This is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER...it is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary everyday activities you might be performing which could eventually lead to The Death Penalty (or affect your parents' credit rating). Our criminal institutions are full of little creeps like you who do wrong things...and many of them were driven to these crimes by a horrible force called MUSIC!

    Our studies have shown that this horrible force is so dangerous to society at large that laws are being drawn up at this very moment to stop it forever! Cruel and inhuman punishments are being carefully described in tiny paragraphs so they won't conflict with the Constitution (which, itself, is being modified in order to accommodate THE FUTURE).

  7. Re:Damn them... on Space Penguin Could Hop Around The Moon · · Score: 1
    worldwide, the globally
    I think you mean "interplanetarily". Although I could have just made that word up.
  8. Re:10 days is not enough on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    Then treat Linux as if it were windows; you don't recompile the windows kernel, so why bother doing that stuff on Linux? Seems to me you return to windows because you only switched to Linux to muck around with stuff you can't muck around with on windows. If you just use Linux instead, use the distro you choose, I don't see why it would stop booting "forcing" you to go back to windows.

  9. Re:Give the guy some credit on Virtual Muggings in Lineage II · · Score: 1
    when you landed on your younger sister's hotel
    aahhhhh... good times.
  10. Re:We should slaughter the ones we have left! on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    mountain lions are moving in next door to everybody

    I think it's the other way around, but whatever. And there isn't much point of being at the top of the food chain if we keep making the food chain smaller and smaller by eliminating other species, which even if we don't eat can hurt us by starving species that we eat which in turn would eat the extinct animals, etc etc

  11. Re:changing shape on New Digital Camera Lens Made of Liquid · · Score: 1

    So why don't they reimplement psi-balls in java or .net or something that handles the garbage collection for them? jeez.

  12. no no no on Urine Powered Battery Developed · · Score: 1

    This one's better suited for this thread: ALL YOUR PISS ARE BELONG TO US

  13. Re:Sodomy has been legal in Texas for awhile . . . on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    Maybe they invalidated the sodomy law so that the other law (not installing OSX on a PC) can be valid? because after all, the effect of that law feel like... well...

  14. Re:My Parents New Machine on 400,000 Windows Users Switch To Mac · · Score: 1

    Same here. The parallel port printer is basically useless along with the old PC (which was useless already anyway, they just didn't know it yet). And my mom uses floppies a lot to carry info between her office and home, but a USB key took care of that and it's a lot better than a floppy.

  15. Re:My Parents New Machine on 400,000 Windows Users Switch To Mac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just gave my parents my old graphite iMac G3 @400MHz. They had a very old PC with windows 98. They had bought a digital camera and couldn't connect it. buying a USB card and installing the drivers was a nightmare. The hard disk finally failed... they called me and I told them I would temporarily let them borrow the iMac. My mother just loves it! she can plug the camera now and up comes iPhoto automatically; Mail is so much better than the old Outlook they had, connecting to the internet (they still use dialup) is so much easier, and well, Safari is way better than explorer 4 which they were using... so my parents are switchers now and won't show in these stats. How many more cases like this can there be, where mac fans give away their old macs when they get new ones?

  16. Can't wait! on Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch? · · Score: 2

    Man, I can't wait to get my hands on a 17" PB with an intel processor that will go twice or thrice as fast as my current PB. I'll be selling this one right away, which shouldn't be a problem, and getting one of those because man are they going to be fast... I use my Mac mostly for java development and the usual web surfing, mail viewing, Instant messaging... also for VoIP, organizing my photos, making the occasional DVD, ripping CD's for my iPod, recording and playing music with GarageBand... none of that stuff is going to change at all. The switch to intel, to me, only means a faster powerbook.

  17. Tapestry and Spring? on Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Room for Both? · · Score: 1

    So the comparison is made using the typical J2EE setup with Struts or something similar. I like writing J2EE apps but I just hate JSP, it's such crap.
    I'd like to see a comparison of RoR and a J2EE app that uses Tapestry, and maybe even Spring. Tapestry just throws JSP out the window and brings something much much better, cleaner, more powerful. People who have used WebObjects will understand very quickly the way Tapestry works. As for Spring, well, it just saves you a lot of headaches and a lot of code that you usually write for service locators and stuff like that; you can handle hibernate or jdbc transactions with more ease, use JTA stuff without any extra code, say goodbye to all the hassle of implementing EJB's... all of the typical dull stuff that J2EE implies.

  18. Re:The effects of 3 suns on Tatooine-like Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    I don't know about 3 suns but 2010 ends when Jupiter turns into Lucifer, a second sun, and talks a little about how this affects life on Earth.
    I can't remember if the subject comes up again in 2061 though, since a big part of that story takes place in space (again)...

  19. Re:Asimov had an interesting idea here on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    No, that guy got sick when he tried to grab boobs. Didn't you see the movie man?

    Seriously, I also was reminded of Clockwork Orange and why it doesn't work. But this is not the same... in this case the "criminal" is not compelled towards using computers, it's just a basic need of the society in which he lives. Alex, however, was compelled towards violence, something that may be necessary under certain circumstances (as we find out in the story) but usually it's not something you need to recur to every day.
    either way, both these guys get fucked in the end...

  20. Re:What does this mean for WebObjects? on Apple Freezes Java Support for Cocoa · · Score: 1

    My guess is the Java/ObjC bridge will continue to be supported, it's just that new Cocoa-Java apps won't have bindings to any new appkit classes. The bridge is still needed for Cocoa/EOF apps, since all of EOF is now written only in Java. And Cocoa/EOF is so much better than Java Client apps, even with the overhead from the bridge. They don't need a WO server and the interface and logic can all be written in ObjC, you just call the EOF stuff from ObjC.

  21. Re:To clarify... on Apple Freezes Java Support for Cocoa · · Score: 1
    Exactly how hard would it be to develop a Cocoa-Java bridge?
    Ask Apple, they already built that bridge, years ago (since like WO 4.5 IIRC). You use it when you write Cocoa/EOF apps, but I suppose you can use it in other types of apps, like this situation where you have a large codebase in Java and just want to use it from a Cocoa app.

    Or, you can write a Swing or SWT app instead of using Cocoa/ObjC.
  22. Re:Just like on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    And yet there is no drum machine that will give you the warmth of a real drummer performing.

    Even Reznor used live drummers on his latest album. Drum machines are cool for recording and stuff but they're no substitute for a real drummer. Hell, even Massive Attack uses a drummer for their live performances...

  23. Re:Or, from a different POV on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    Listen to some King Crimson records, so you can know how Fripp plays, and simultaneously listen to some amazing musicians (they're all good. Tony Levin is THE bass player, alongside Geddy Lee).

  24. Re: Robert Fripp on Guitarists, your Days are Numbered · · Score: 1

    Dude, Fripp IS King Crimson. Don't listen to what he says, I mean it sounds very poetic all that stuff about music that needs to be played and then KC is formed etc but the truth of the matter is there's no crimson without Fripp.

    He hasn't played with Crimson on and off. He disintegrates Crimson for a while, does some solo stuff or whatever, then assembles the band again with whomever is available (Levin, Gunn, Bruford, Belew, Mastelotto, etc) and does something with them.

  25. Re:Oh crikey, not another one! on New Ubuntu Foundation Announced · · Score: 1

    no he didn't... he mentioned the redhat family on the server. Fedora is part of that family.