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  1. Re:Wikipedia link on Google Hires Vint Cerf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You get a +5 for linking a wikipedia article now huh?

  2. Re:Akari? on NES Controller Laser Mouse · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you meant "moot."

  3. Re:funny AND interesting, but yeah Smalltalk. on What are the Next Programming Models? · · Score: 1

    PWNED!

  4. Coral Cache on Robot Catches High Speed Objects · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! I would like to thank the poster for using the coral cache link. This way we *all* get to see the video without crashing the server! (And no thinks to the "editors," who are too backwards to do it themselves, or god forbid - automate it)

  5. Re:Slow pain on Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop? · · Score: 1
    because it does not actually require the streaming map data


    without requiring each user to install many terabytes of info


    I think that's a bit of a straw man don't you? It doesn't require streaming, but the alternative is terabytes of installed data?

  6. Re:Obscure unit on Carmack's Throatless Rocket Engine · · Score: 1
    Why can't there be 100 days in a year? It's as arbitrary as any other aspect of the Metric system.

    When you figure out how to change the rate of spin of the earth or the orbit around the sun to accommodate 100 days a year, let us know, and the progressive metric countries will surely follow suit.

  7. Re:I can't believe I was actually worried about th on Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Based on your analogies, I can only guess that you were high when you wrote that.

  8. Re:So how is this going to kill fair use? on Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market · · Score: 1

    You are an inspiration.

  9. Re:Torrent, good thinking! on How Episode IV Should Have Ended · · Score: 1

    Just for a few more sample points.

    It took my 19s to download the file. I got an average of 516kb/s.

    So..... i'm thinking it's a user error. On your end.

  10. Yoshi Touch and Go on Guide for the Nintendo Fan at E3 · · Score: 1

    I bought my DS for this game. It is innovative - unique, and has a good challenge curve. It doesn't have a traditional story-mode type level progression - but the replay value is good, and hell, my wife plays it as much as I do.

    I also got Polarium, which is fun, and challenging, although a little bland.

    I can't wait for Kirby.

    I'm going to rent PacPix this week and see if it's worth picking up, since the reviews were only lukewarm.

  11. Re:Another giant step backward... on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    When you deal with the super-natural, anything goes. Here's another explanation that I love - this time used to explain why so many other paegan religions had similar "Christ-figures" that predate christianity.

    "Diabolical Mimicry" or "Plagiarism by anticipation." That is, the Devil, knowing that Jesus would be coming, preemptively created these paegan religions to confuse us.

    So, these fossils might also have been placed by the devil to look older than they are, just to trick us.

    If you can use the same "authority text" to show that the rocks could have been placed by God, or Satan - what kind of authority is that?

    Ah well, probably just another test.

  12. It Just Barely Works. on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or maybe:

    I Just Works.
    Barely.

  13. Re:Any innovation left? on E3 2005 First Person Shooters · · Score: 1

    How about the Metroid Hunters game for the Nintendo DS... using a stylus to control an FPS? And it works AMAZING!
    Who'd of thought that? Not me. But someone did.

  14. Clearly the US needs this on Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test? · · Score: 1

    ...after their dismal showing in the ACM programming contest >:-)

  15. Re:Future versions of the GPL on GPL 3.0 to Penalize Google, Amazon? · · Score: 1
    Why would a company want to use GPL software then?



    Because they have the source code.

  16. Re:Poor poor USA on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 1

    At what? Certainly not ACM Programming competitions.

  17. Poor poor USA on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So they didn't place.

    Now all I see is people saying: "The Contest isn't representative", "The Metrics are poor", "The problems are academic", and "I wouldn't judge the state of CS curricula based on a contest"

    That's all find and good - as long as you sleep better tonight.

    But you still didn't place.

  18. Re:Triumph on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ouch. Sounds like I hit a nerve there.

    Nope. Sounds like you got fucking pwnxx03rd.

    ggnorekkthx.

  19. Where are the Apple zealots? on When Would You Accept DRM? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    C'mon now!

    Where are all the Apple zealots now? Just two articles ago were I was reading the spouting of how much they don't mind DRM. How iTMS is so great that they don't mind a little slice of freedom being taken away. How Apple is just sooooo consumer-friendly, and they're trying to convince the record labels to be more digital on our behalf.

    It's a lot harder to chime in when the question posed is tantamount to "When is it acceptable to give up your freedom to a company"

    Just because Apple says that it's DRM is the best it could do for the consumer and still appease the labels, doesn't mean it's something the consumer should accept.

  20. Re:Uh on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 1
    Tell me, what exactly is so wrong with the DRM of iTunes?


    That it is there at all.

  21. Re:Yes, more power to you! on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The sooner the labels learn that digitally distributed content shouldn't have DRM the better.

    I hope people like Jon keep trying to teach them that lesson.

  22. Na-hee-na-na-jar on Classic Math Puzzle Cracked · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Na-hee, na-na-jar. Na-hee-na-na-jar.

    It's not that difficult."

    "Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton."

  23. Coralized Link on A Crazy Cambridge Contraption · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Spare their bandwidth. Use the CoralizedLink

  24. Re:Appeal on Apple Wins Against Bloggers · · Score: 1

    do the submitter read the articles they submit?

    You should know by now, that they do not.

  25. Re:Bonus Prize on 2005 Game Developer's Choice Award Winners · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you a total fucking shill for that game or what? Do you work for the company? You keep posting about it.