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  1. I used to work for these guys... on Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? · · Score: 1

    Give a call and see if their software does what you want; if they haven't messed it up since I last touched it, it should do document archiving, scanning, OCR, search, tags, categorizations, and whatever custom database fields you want to throw at it.
    http://datagenix.com/

  2. Re:Agreed. on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    I LOVE Linux. I love plain old Unix. I love the command line, and the cryptic commands, and man pages, and lynx and apt/yum. I like X windows and MC. I love building from source. The whole environment is clean, somehow. It's got a sort of serenity for me that I don't see very often in my job.

    Boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada, boom de yada!

  3. Re:Aside from that... that isn't scientific litera on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1
  4. Re:wow on If Programming Languages Were Religions · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, so as Christians we were supposed to have policed the following:

    ...YES!

  5. Re:Ethical vs Moral on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't!

  6. Re:This disgusts me on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 1

    If you're using a median, why go to all the trouble of specifying the other caveats?

  7. Re:This disgusts me on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 1

    If you're going to break out the pedantry, at least go all the way.

    There are many commonly-used ways to calculate averages, among which are medians, geometric means, and modes.

    The fact that "arithmetic mean" is also a type of average does not mean all averages require normal distributions to have a meaningful property like "50% of a population will fall below..."

  8. Re:What do you mean did? on MUDs Turn 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    *cheers* I was hoping I'd see someone mention avatar!

  9. Re:Hmmmm, help me out here. on Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, I see you've discovered Maxwell's Daemon....

  10. Re:I bet... on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    How naive, to assume that the sequence stops there...

  11. Re:Why? on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 1

    I see three things here...

  12. Re:Why, why, why on Google Earth, Now With Browser Goodness · · Score: 1

    www.fanbox.com

  13. Re:Comment from said "hacker" on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    " And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. "

  14. Re:Yield, effectiveness on Dell Set to Introduce AMD's Triple-core Phenom CPU · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe you missed where he specified this was only feasible in Windows... Who's gonna notice something trivial like a non-functioning CPU core a fourth of the time!?

  15. THUS on Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I propose another topic of discussion, specifically a question raised by my dad after I read him several of the current comments:

    What individual piece of tech do you use that you've used for the longest period of time?

    For reference, he's got a computer he's happy has lasted 6 years, and some woodworking tools he's hoping will last 50.

  16. Re:Ummm. Neat. on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1
    It's quite unified. ...
    We have, right now, not one but ten (more?) advanced, powerful, and very usable desktop environments (including Gnome and KDE);...
    multiple complete suites of office-targetted applications (KOffice, AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, and others)

    "unified"?
    You keep on using that word...

  17. Re:Blimey! on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    I Believe You Misspelled...

    *fnzpwnt*

  18. Re:Easy solution! Or is it? on Don't Let Your Boss Catch You Reading This · · Score: 1

    Of course, all this doesn't seem to stop YOU from posting to slashdot...

  19. I think you mean... on Mathematica 6 Launched · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Does it run Linux in Rule 110?"

  20. O? on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    RLY?

  21. So this repair bot... on Orbital Express Launches Tonight · · Score: 1

    How long does it last in orbit on its own?

  22. Re:Hm... on Chimps Found Making Own Weapons to Hunt for Food · · Score: 1

    1, 4, 9? How naïve, to think the series stops there...

  23. Re:Spotlight in Finder windows on Spotlight Improvements In Leopard · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure!

    PathFinder is an amazing peice of software, that for many people could well replace the Finder wholesale (they even have unsupported directions for doing so...)

    This chunk of bits does everything the Finder used to do, tries to do, and should do, plus quite a few things I'm not so sure it should do -- pdfs, text editing, web browsing, shell command entry, search, word doc display...

    These are just off the top of my head, I don't actually USE PathFinder because I'd rather keep the memory free and do most of my file manipulation in Terminal or with Spotlight anyway. BUT, go give it a try, you may well find yourself ponying up the reg fee once the demo period ends!

  24. Re:Don't criticise on Good Agile — Development Without Deadlines · · Score: 1
    --
    Subtle recursive jokes in sigs are not funny.

    Now that's funny...

  25. Re:trade with russia on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1
    Or is this all a bunch of hooey?
    So do you know what word you just said in Russian? Or was that a total accident?

    It's the crude slang word for a male's... primary member.