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  1. Port Linux NVidia Drivers to Vista on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe someone at Microsoft should work on porting the Linux nvidia drivers to Vista. The work well on Linux, so maybe the drivers can be "reverse engineered" to work with Vista.

  2. You're going to be fine; youth is over rated on Starting a Career in Science at Age 38? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a theoretician in a physical science and my learning capacity, memory, and math abilities have not diminished with age; to the contrary I feel like they've gotten stronger and ... wait, what were we talking about?

  3. Re:No, no... on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    At first I disagreed with you but now that I've thought about it, legislating them as being illegal does seem excessive. I mean I've switched to almost all CFL's and nobody had to pass a law requiring me to do so!

  4. Crowds always make good decisions on Jimmy Wales's Open Source Collaboration Tips · · Score: 4, Funny

    that he's an Ayn Rand objectivist who's skeptical of the wisdom of crowds
    Kill the wise one!
  5. Re:Free Dry Land! on Water From Wind · · Score: 1

    like CO2, water vapor traps IR emission from the ground, so this could potentially be used to improve radiative cooling during the night in very humid environments.

  6. Re:New use for .um top-level domain? on Outdated Domains To Meet Their End · · Score: 1

    "tum-te-tum-te-t.um"
    Nice Lawrence of Arabia reference.
  7. Re:It only just now launched?? on Windows Vista Launches To Mixed Reactions · · Score: 1

    You do still go to START to stop the computer though.
    I always shut my computer down my unplugging it at the wall. The firemarshall instructed me to do this so that it doesn't attack me while I sleep.
  8. I'll stick with Internet Explorer on Windows Vista Launches To Mixed Reactions · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer the Internet Explorer to the Vista. And If I have to buy a new Vista then I hope the fucking drinkholder doesn't break on the first day I use it.

  9. Re:Trolls too... on Scientists Hope To Settle "Hobbit" Debate · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hobbits suffer from microcephaly but Trolls suffer from microphallus, which is quite different.

  10. Why you should still consider a TI 89 on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The TI-89 is *mediocre* with drawing graphs, as you indicated. However, if you are going to study more science, it can do symbolic manipulation that you might only expect in a program like Maple or mathematica. If you are feeling dimwitted and can't work out an integral or maybe if you can't figure out if a particular algebraic equation has a solution then you can ask this device. It has more advanced features that I haven't used but if you tinker with it you'll get alot of use out of it. Also, as far as the graph drawing goes, I think they have a TI-92 that does better with those.

  11. Dimmer switch? on New Ice Age Theory · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes that's the same theory that has been proposed by the scientists at Oral Roberts University. God attached a dimmer switch to the sun so he can punish us with increasing temperatures.

  12. Dimmer switch? on New Ice Age Theory · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes that's the same theory that has been proposed from the scientists at Oral Roberts University. God attached a dimmer switch to the sun so he can punish us with increasing temperatures.

  13. Re:no...does it make me LOOK fat? on Does Sprawl Make Us Fat? · · Score: 1

    thank you

  14. Re:who are these people?! on 65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO · · Score: 1

    Obesity peaked in 2004 in the United States and has been in pretty good descent for the past 2 years. You should go to the cdc website and read up on this. Rates of obesity in European and even East Asian countries are starting to compete with American rates of obesity.

  15. Re:One of us. on 65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO · · Score: 1

    I still don't get it. I'm sure it's funny, but I'm dumb. Help me out.

  16. Re:how do I get one? on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    Sign up here: http://www.goarmy.com/

  17. WTF is wrong with a cane and sunglasses on Bionic Cat Eye Implants Aid Blindness Research · · Score: 1

    back in the day we'd just give that cat one of those whippy canes and some sunglasses. These modern cats are spoiled.

  18. Re:Good news! on Microsoft Sells Linux To Wal-Mart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's like they can't decide whether to sue you for buying it or to sell it to you.

  19. Wait for SCO to chime in on Microsoft Sells Linux To Wal-Mart · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We'll they'll have to deal with Daryl McBride and his SCO cohorts for selling their UNIX license without permission. Of course, he'll have to ask them to finance his lawsuit against themselves.

  20. Re:You ever hear of origami? on First Flying Dinosaurs Had Biplane Structure · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have put your finite memory resources to wise use. :)

  21. You ever hear of origami? on First Flying Dinosaurs Had Biplane Structure · · Score: 2, Funny

    This story reminds me of a Little Ceaser's commercial from maybe 1988.

    Guy: So what am I gonna do with this pizza box?
    Clerk: You ever hear of origami?
    Clerk frenetically folds pizza box.
    Clerk: It's a pterodactyl.
    Clerk runs with origami pterodactyl

  22. Re:Of course.... on Is it Time for Open Office? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm confused. Did they even make computers 65 years ago??

  23. Re:Islands on Global Warming Exposes New Islands in the Arctic · · Score: 1

    The 'sink' they refer to is petroleum, and it takes quite a bit of time to form petroleum. They are assuming that it becomes part of an intermediate sink like carbonic acid in the ocean, which some of it does, but most of it does not. That's why the problem is a permanent one. Well permanent from our point of view.

  24. Re:Islands on Global Warming Exposes New Islands in the Arctic · · Score: 1

    holy crap I'm sorry that whatever institution you got that information from believes that it's accurate. That's nearly criminal that the british government is putting that misinformation out.

  25. Re:Islands on Global Warming Exposes New Islands in the Arctic · · Score: 1

    uhhh CO2 stays in the atmosphere indefinitely. The processes that return it to the earth are geologically slow. But thanks for your misinformation.