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  1. Re:BFD Competition? on UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building · · Score: 0

    Big Freakin Deal. I think these guys watch too much reality television. Its sounds like an exercise in self-absorption.

  2. Sounds like Tron... on UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building · · Score: 0

    Do they have any lighcycles in there?

  3. Re:Whoa! Didn't you dis the "all your base" guy? on Sam Lake on Video Game Storytelling · · Score: 0

    Its funny sure, but its an old joke, too. Are you being sarcastic with or do you really think this is less stale than "all your base belong to us?" Damn, your making me feel really old!

  4. Re:Lost in Translation on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 0

    Have you seen the Movie? Bill Murry does a commercial in Japan. The Japanese director give a long impassioned speech in Japanese with a lot of gesturing. A Japanese woman translates for Bill, "Please turn to the left." Its classic.

  5. Re:Gotcha Martha! on Building Your Own Drivers? · · Score: 0

    I always thought Martha Stewart read Slashdot. Its good to know you have internet access at the pokey!

  6. Re:No Luck finding ted on JOE Hits 3.0 · · Score: 0

    there are many, many editors called ted. Are you sure its for DOS? Are you sure it was written by someone called Michael Sweet? Are you sure its primarily a text editor? Is it proprietary, is it freely available? I'd love to go hunting for it on the web if I could have more information.

  7. Karma: Insensitive Clod on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 0

    If you have the audio loud enough, you won't have to hear the crash, (or your passengers screams!) And crash victims know how important that can be when you have to wait for the emergency crew to pry you out!

  8. Slashdot offer up tangible benefits? on Is Experience in Programming Worth Anything? · · Score: 0

    "Can Slashdot offer up some benefits that can result from 10+ years experience?" In short, no. I'm sure you will find better answers on another website. Ask Dr Dobb's Journal maybe... Slashdot is for SCO rants or maybe to find out why N-Gage still sucks

  9. Re: music copying for a long time on Free Software at the Local Library? · · Score: 0

    Back in the 80's a friend of mine copied dozens of non-classical albums and probably dozens of tapes borrowed from the library. It seemed funny that it was so easy to do, although it required quite an investment of time. More innocent times, I guess

  10. Re:sexuality or simply Confusion? on Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released · · Score: 0

    With that title I wouldn't be surprised if the book was only about Newton's sexuality. BTW Have you tried reading Newton's more esoteric writings. He was really weird!

  11. Re:Cloning: It's all about cloning ourselves. on The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth · · Score: 0

    Dude, reproduction will no longer involve getting laid. While this may not be good for many reasons: it's occurred all too often to my undersexed brain. "Now I can build my robot...hehe... my Girl Robot. This will be the best prom ever." -Credit card commercial

  12. Let's /. espn.com on Rocket Science vs. Barry Bonds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://sports.espn.go.com/

  13. Re:Flamebait? Only honesty on Rocket Science vs. Barry Bonds · · Score: 1

    "'One day,' Glanville told Week in Review, "Schill was playing his character, Cylc" -- whom Glanville described as "a dwarven Cleric," whatever that is -- "and he asked me to team up with him in Faydwer, in the zone of the Butcherblock Mountains, to kill Aviaks, which are basically walking birds." Hang with us here, friends. There will be a baseball point coming. " We should return their contempt and more- bastards! I'd rather read an article about how wonderful M$ Windoze is.

  14. Jocks suck on Rocket Science vs. Barry Bonds · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You just can't be a true geek and an athlete as well. Maybe a geeky athlete, but they can find their own goddamn website.

  15. 'Ghost in the Machine' plot? on Google's Next Steps · · Score: 2, Funny

    This sounds like a number of cheesy science fiction plots. Will Google interface with nuclear missile technology as well? Stay tuned!

  16. Re:Does Shwarzeneggar know about this? on Google's Next Steps · · Score: 1

    What Would the Terminator Do? I, for one, welcome our Google overlords!

  17. How about Elderly Exterminating Robots? on Pearl, a Robot for the Elderly · · Score: 1

    SNL had a surrealistic skit with an ad for insurance against Homicidal Robot Attacks that was a sendup of the life and health insurance ads on TV that are aimed at preying upon the fears of the elderly. Frankly, I think the robots that we've been waiting for since the Jetson's have no chance of being made and used cost-effectively for anyone anytime in the foreseeable future. "Terminator"-like robots- now that's a different story.

  18. Big Dig + Desalination plant = Giant Toilet on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 1

    Apparently we haven't wasted enough money, and we need another big public works project. More corporate welfare- just what the country needs

  19. Re:Richard Gabriel: Worse is better on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    "The good news is that in 1995 we will have a good operating system and programming language; the bad news is that they will be Unix and C++." This sort of ground has been covered before, and the result will probably be similar.

  20. Usability? How about marketing? "Worse is better" on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    A critical mass of users has to adopt the user interface. Mac OS X has certain factors in its favor. "Worse is Better" put it best "The good news is that in 1995 we will have a good operating system and programming language; the bad news is that they will be Unix and C++." and in 2005 we will have a good user interface and it will be OS X.

  21. Re:seriously! on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 1

    "if I walk few hundred meters towards reactor, then I will find 3 roengen. If I keep walking all the way to reactor, then at the end of a journey I will glow in a dark. May be this is why they call it a magic wood. this sort of a magic when one walk in in a biker leather and coming out like a knight in a shinning armour. "

  22. Re:Bon Jovi subtle or ironic? Could it be? on Andreesssen: Why Open Source Will Boom - in 103 Words · · Score: 1

    Its hard to beleive, but perhaps the writer (Jon or someone else?) knew that it was technically a lie. It colors the song in an entirely different, and facinating way- Perhaps the "narrator" of the song is actually deceiving himself, he wants to beleive that he will be true, but he's realy fooling himself. His subconscoius lets slip, betraying the fact that he will eventually leave his love. There will be a time when he will leave, and not be there. Nah... can't be. Time to delete that song!

  23. Domino Effect on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Intel is the other giant corporation that has benefitted greatly from the M$ monopoly. Intel X86 would have more competition with Sparc and PowerPC and Alpha chips. There's a lot of dominoes that fall when you knock out M$. We might be running Open Genera on Lisp Machines!

  24. Re:Novell, Intel, and DIGITAL Oh MY! on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how Novell would have done in competition with IBM and Sun- Perhaps most of us Slashdot readers would be running Novell servers, but I think Novell would never be the monopoly M$ has become. Maybe Java would have replaced all that VB code, and Intel would have more competition with Sparc and PowerPC and Alpha chips. There's a lot of dominoes that fall when you knock out M$.

  25. Re: Exactly Right! on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    RMS railed against Symbolics, which died pretty spectacularly. Linus came along at just the right time, partly because M$ gave up on Xenix, their version of unix, which was given (or sold)to SCO, I beleive.