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  1. Re:In other news on Microsoft Office Formats Not Really Being Opened · · Score: 0

    And SCO's stolen code!

  2. Re:Ask and you shall receive on Google Eyes Domain Registration Market · · Score: 0

    The genius thing about the calculator is that if you enter the following:

    e^(pi*sqrt(-1))

    You end up with the correct answer of -1, something a lot of calculators cannot do!

    It's quite amazing how two irrational numbers and an imaginary number can come together to equal a small whole number.

  3. Re:What's that ? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 0

    three of them

    You mean, both of them?

  4. Re:How to do it: on Escape from the Universe · · Score: 0

    1: Build a Great Attractor
    2: Suck up thousands of galaxies into a toroidal naked singularity
    3: Avoid any pesky humans throwing relativistic neutron stars around the universe
    4: Hold off neutrino birds at all costs
    5: Escape universe
    6: PROFIT!

  5. Least likely headlines on Tech Headlines You Won't Read in 2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "SCO provides evidence of IP infringement to the courts" "Bill Gates ranked sexiest man in the Americas" "Microsoft Longhorn to be released in December this year" "Software Engineers band together and form the Programmers Union" "Firefox loses market share." "Netcraft denies it" "Geeks admit C is a rediculously flawed and insecure language with little benefit and recommend Borland Delphi as an expert platform"

  6. Re:Funny on Google Suggest Dissected, Part II · · Score: 0

    And typing in micr will crash the server

  7. Re:great on Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or crash Windows five times at once.

  8. Re:PHP used to be an ASF project on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 1

    You make a sarcastic point but your comment has an element of truth to it - specifically, obsoletion. Ever heard of the word "deprecation"? As new versions of software, such as Apache 2, come out, they leave "old versions" of code in. Looking at PHP itself shows a whole host of arcane / ancient features. $HTTP_POST_VARS, anyone? These days, it is $_POST, but worse than that is the fact you can use BOTH. Most software suffers from an abundance of deprecated features that clutters what used to be good, free space. Its as if, in an attempt to stop this spiralling out of control, the coders at PHP want to restrict to a solid Apache 1.x. My personal opinion is that PHP should start again, like Microsoft often does. They released .NET with gaping holes in its support for old Visual Basic projects, but it bought about a faster and more solid way of coding Visual Basic ("TYPE-2") Projects.