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  1. Re:Holding off using it for other reasons on Hard Truths About HTML5 · · Score: 1

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Not XML</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    </head>
    <body>
    <img src="not-xml.png">
    </body>
    </html>

  2. Re:Why not let the market decide? on Samsung Withdraws Counter-Suit Against Apple · · Score: 1

    In US, 49% handsets sold were Android, 31% iPhone

    Cockroaches outnumber humans by a rather incredible margin. Which do you think is superior?

    Depends on the human.

  3. Re:Yep.. on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    Suddenly even Myspace sounds like a real option for the first time since puberty,

    Two weeks ago.

    Oh, you also just turned 33?

  4. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 1

    Umm... most distributions of Linux and FreeBSD do in fact make it easy to download other browsers. You won't hear me condoning Apple business practices wrt bundling Safari, but since they are not a convicted monopolist they probably will not need to worry about this.

  5. Re:And What of the Others? on EU Could Force Bundling Firefox With Windows · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Legal definition != dictionary definition. See Sherman anti-trust laws.

  6. Re:Mmmm, Kay. on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 1

    Well, in a case when you need to know the length, you have to use strict evaluation (sort of- I'm simplifying), in which case Haskell is reducing to what "normal languages" do. In the case where you do not need the length, you get the benefits of laziness.

  7. Re:Mmmm, Kay. on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, in this case the "infinite stream" is really a stream of indefinite size. However, you can treat it as being infinite.

  8. Re:How? on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the point of the big boobs to work sort of like air bags in case she trips again?

  9. Re:How? on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm 23 and play Pokemon you insensitive clod.

  10. Not Vista? on Unholy Matrimony? Microsoft and Cray · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess not even a supercomputer could run Vista properly...

  11. Re:one day all screens will have touch/stylus inpu on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 1

    I believe we call that a chicken-and-egg scenario

  12. Re:Please consider my claim more seriously on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like you're trying to redefine "user interface" to mean "things important to the user." I think- using your car analogy- "specs" would generally include breaking distance, MPG, air conditioning, top speed, etc, whereas user interface would include color, steering wheel design, buttons available on the radio, and perhaps something like automatic climate control.

    I think if you consider it that way, most people care a hell of a lot about the specs of the car. Same thing with a phone: people care about reception, memory, megapixels on the camera, web surfing, etc. User interface is important, but to imply that it's more important than the specs is pushing it.

  13. Re:I'm surprised you bought an iPhone based on req on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think this post sums up the term "fanboi" nicely.

  14. Re:one day all screens will have touch/stylus inpu on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think his question is "Why hasn't it caught on on the manufacturing side to make a tablet that Just Worked(tm)?"

  15. Re:Guessing the new name is fun... on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 1

    Actually, you just made me think of "ZOMG ZOMBIES"

  16. Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Idiot mods on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Scientology, meme +1 Funny you!

    (Do I get mod points now?)

  17. Re:Racial Bigotry on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 1

    Yes. Did you miss the big scrolling letters running across the screen?
    The odd thing about Scientology is although that is what they believe, Scientologists are only told it after they have spent an awful lot of time and money on Scientology.

    s/odd/lucrative

  18. Re:no first post yet? on HTTPS Cookie Hijacking Not Just For Gmail · · Score: -1, Troll

    Eh, what the hell...I'll do it.

    Apparently not...

  19. Re:Guessing the new name is fun... on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why does everyone assume the Z will be Zebra? What about the Zorillas?

  20. Re:How many were you expecting? on Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Apple said that they were deprecating Carbon, so Apple Fanbois are safe.

  21. Re:Not patent-worthy on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK · · Score: 4, Funny

    the iPod wasn't exactly the first mp3 player to be released anyway, just the first successful one in marketing and generating hype

    There, fixed that for you.

    There, fixed that for you.

  22. Re:Open source mojo on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 1

    I think the no-derivatives was only on the comic strip, not the browser itself.

  23. Re:Already exists on Google Reverses "Absurd" Mozilla Code Ban · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

  24. Re:We call this the linux philosophy on Bloatware Removal Threatens PC Industry Profits · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not going to take advice from someone who doesn't know that "douche nugget" is two words, you illiterate douche nugget.

  25. Re:Network efficiency algorithm on New Algorithm Boosts Network Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Actually, if it's Perl, then it should be:


    connection.drop() if $hostname eq "slashdot.org";