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  1. Re:In Korea... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I am also a member of several other closer to sea level clubs, including the below sea level club, well, mostly below, some was still out, had to breath (although for one part I couldn't breath)

    anyway, In Korea, the mile high club is only for old people.

  2. Re:Become a diamond on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/gallery/Lifegem_g allery_main.htm

    Gallery, funny - they don't have before and after pictures....

  3. In Korea... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: -1

    In Korea only old people join the 300 club before they die...

    In the UK "joining the 300 Club" is more to do with a quantitative analysis of your sexual prowess...

    I am in the mile high club though! well I didn't check the tv screen or ask the attendant, but I am sure it was a valid endeavour on my part!

  4. How it will work on Coming soon: Google TV? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To build the service, the company is recording live TV shows and indexing the related closed-caption text of the programming. It uses the text to identify themes, concepts and relevant keywords for video so they can be triggers for searching.

    Oh great, so apologies for all deaf/hard of hearing or people looking at captions for translations, as execs play SPAM like phrases into programming, as this gets too obvious, whole scripts will be edited:

    Have you seen Friends series 15? The one with the cheap pharmacy:

    [In joeys apartment]

    Ross: Hello Rachael, I have found the cheapest ph4rmacy
    Rachael: Oh ross, viagra at the cheapest prices

    Chandler bursts through door

    Chandler: did someone say viagra cheap online delivery bucket?
    Ross: Hey Chandler how is you live teeen sex insurance doing?
    Chandler: [puzzled look] fine I guess Ross... How is your realtionship with britney spears breasts

    Rachael feigns horror

    Ross: Don't you look like that, I know about your lesbian teen sex orgy with britney spears.

    Chandler: OMG I don't need viagra anymore, thank old korean people for that!

    Monica comes through door

    Monica: Did I hear correctly, oh yes, lets have sex here right ont he table, so ross and rachael can see our voyeur incest penis enlargment without viagra herbal remedy.

    ext joeys apartment - joey walking down hall, two brown paper bags - fiddles for keys and opens door

    int - ross, rachael, monica and chandler are having sex on table, feebie is playing smelly cat on guitar, also naked

    joey: guys, hey, why didn't you wait for me, i have just been shopping at the gap, they have great prices. oh, and ross, make sure you update your longhorn license, microsoft sent me a letter yesterday

    ross: ungh, huh, ok, but I thought in korea only old people pay microsoft licenses...

    cue end credits.

    ---

    OK, so maybe a bit far fetched... I have too much time on my hands....

  5. Like VHS and Betamax on Coming soon: Google TV? · · Score: 1

    Whoever brings good porn results to the search for video will rule.

    In all seriousness - Microsoft and Yahoo and Google are out in some ner territory, Verity have video searching, currently google pulls media out of matching pages, and lists them that way (also alt/title text).

    Video is a whole other kettle of old korean people.

  6. In Korea on Coming soon: Google TV? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Korea only old people watch google tv...

    "Google's trying to bring TV to the Web the same way they're bringing books to the Web," according to a media executive who asked to remain anonymous.

    I thought a9 brought books to the web!

  7. Re:what I want to know on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    > tapping the opportunity to make gobs of cash?

    Scott Adams reffered to his earnings for books to be 'gobs of cash' and if you feel lucky [google] for his email (scottadams@aol.com) the email discourse listed reffers to this fact.

    Are you Scott Adams disguised?

    > will eat gobs of popcorn

    Gob in the UK means phlegmy saliva.

    Yum.

  8. Re:Watch out for patents because on New LCD Flatscreen Concept: A Wedge of Plastic · · Score: 1

    I wonder when we will see a case where computer software contains so much logic and knowledge that a person asks for a solutions to something, and the computer finds the solution, and the person tries to patent it, but the software wrters say that it must have been prior art inside the computer software.

    "Computer, using computational chemistry find transparent aluminium alloy"

    "bleebly bleep"

    "Coleco? Hang on, we went to far back in time!"

  9. Re:replacement for soviet joke? on In Korea, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 4, Funny

    in Korea, only old people strive to develop new memes

    damn this one is catchy.

  10. Re:Bah on JDK 5.0: More Flexible, Scalable Locking · · Score: 1

    if it doesnt exist then it is a mistake on my part, I know there are two viable toolkits for swt on linux, which two?

    Aaaah motif and gtk. Why not a qt impl? Code so drastically different?

  11. Watch out for patents because on New LCD Flatscreen Concept: A Wedge of Plastic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They have developed an ill fitting sawtoothed double paned glass window that pushes more light further into the room, and less hits the area directly below the window, making offices lighter.

    This is basically doing the same but replacing light with a projector source.

    Imagine a specially moulded radially displaced set of panes, that had a central gun firing at them in a 180 arc, and the timing /angles were such that you got a perfect image.

    Make sense?

    the viewing angle would have to be compensated a bit...

    Check new scientist for the story on lighter windows.

  12. Re:Available in America... on Amazon Japan Offers Barcode Purchases via Camera Phone · · Score: 3, Funny

    You are not familiar with the constant 'th'

    th = 2726912.25

    4th = 10907649

    10907649th = a really big number.

    So in fact he was right. I wonder why so many people claim to have the 2726912.25 post, nothing special about it.

  13. Red Dwarf on Massive Multiplayer Gaming Warehouses On The Way · · Score: 1

    Oh boy, this sound like all those deaths-by-gaming will go, as we get strapped in, dripped up, and play away!

    better than life?

    Of course not, you loser. its only Half-life. :-)

    The half life 'sickness' is caused by a 60hz refresh lock, I always say, I run my monitor at 100hz, then I check, 75, no wonder eye strains, I upped it back to 100. damn.

    Realism might one day cause sickness, but for now frequency does it... too realistic models look less real because we view them under more scrutiny (to simplify).

  14. Re:News? Bah! on Half-Life 2 Causes Nausea, Looks Good in Doom Engine · · Score: 1

    a lemon friend of mine couldn't play jaguar xj220 - because he got driving sickness.

    Just because he always lost. That was a great game, needs a new update.

  15. It sure would be easier on Using Computers To Weed Out Art Fakes · · Score: 1

    Just do an MD5 sum on a Monet, or check if it has been signed by him, has anyone checked what his public key is?

    How inconsiderate of them. I can usually tell a fake, it is slightly forced, has a few false starts, and is often more vocal than a real one, less perspiration and moisture overall, and certain muscle contraction signatures differ. :-)

    For those of you who are thinking about oil paint composition and machine analysis of muscle movements of a painter, then congrats, you belong to /.!

  16. Re:The funny thing is... on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 1

    I haven't heard her sing, but from the comments below, I don't wanna.

    Who says Michael Stipes is good looking, or Thom Yorke...

    Well they have 'image'.

    I was making an ironic statement about how traffic was diverted from a gay sex site to her face, imagine the counter complaints from guys dressed in spiked leather hitting enter and thinking they have hit the apple trailer site.

    haha.

  17. Re:Backhanders? on Vivendi Jilts WoW CE Pre-order Customers · · Score: 1

    Yes, I saw the SE on steam, and I wanted to buy it bad, replay HL1 with source engine - awesome, and HL2, and loads of stuff, plus the modding community i sreally firing up and the source tools look awesome.

    Hurrah for steam.

  18. Consulting on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 1

    They are not lying, it is easier to get approval, because it is easier to get removal. I do not know why I am commenting on a 300+ story, but here goes:

    They will move you up to fulltime if you become invaluable to them, not expendable.

    However, if they pull you in to 'setup this' or 'setup that' then the likelyhood is that 'maintain this' or 'maintain that' is only a possibility. However, if you are good at embedded linux, and thier business is embedded linux then you are onto a winner! :-)

    Also, if you start as a consulty-type and then move full-time, they can't just go cutting you too much money.. :-) its embarrassing. I know people who go the other way, they are on a team, but jump into consultancy when a company is going downhill, the boss gets his man count down effectively, and gets his bonus, the emplyeee gets more mulla, and the company has the same net workforce, but is paying more. WHen the guy gets fired, and hiring freeze over, he comes back from a vacation back into his old desk, old money!

    doh
    !

  19. topshelfcomix on Amazon's Best Computer Books of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Why was I mildly dissapointed I didn't get any hardcore anime popups?

    Still it is a funky site, and I realise I haven't read dilbert of get fuzzy for 4 days now... see you on comics.com...

  20. The funny thing is... on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 0, Troll

    When her singing career goes down hill they usually turn to more sordid forms of making the headlines, so the complaint might be reversed in 12 months!

    Although it would be a very nasty fetish site by the looks of it... *shudder*

    Seriously... she could land a part in shrek 3 just for saving on CGI. A bit of green face paint and that guy out of bro-sis, and you have a winner! :-)

    Seriously, you cannot just funnel arbitary web traffic how you want because the DNS system isn't "just how you want".

    Pay someone to proof read your url's, or suffer the consequences. I mean, /. doesn't read anything it publishes and does ok! :-)

  21. For the love of 16 bit computing... on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is this the preview site for Shrek 3? I was genuinely scared, give me dead gay people any day over this. This could be the next memetic nasty URL.

    Shocking. I hope her singing voice makes up for it.

    *shakes head*

    I am a bastard.

  22. Re:Excel Hacks? on Amazon's Best Computer Books of 2004 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is it any good?

    I am not a subscriber to "Out" but my friends tell me it is a good look into the lifestyle of males who have cast aside any qualms about how society will view them, and are proud to say the least.

    Are you an annual subscriber?

    We are talking about books still right? From your nick I can see it must be a top-shelf publication.

    OK, you are right, I do need fresh air :-) :-) :-)

  23. Backhanders? on Vivendi Jilts WoW CE Pre-order Customers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In this world of buy-anything from anywhere, any advantage such as semi-exclusivity on the sale is a bonus.

    I am wondering how much Amazon paid for this... or if the publisher just screwed up?

  24. To quote google on How To Manage Your Home Directory? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't sort - search.

    I disagree with them on this, although when my desktop or documents folder (yeah yeah, I have 'net at work only right now) get full I sweep them into a 'sort_this_junk_out' folder, then that gets swept into the next, then I burn a CD backup of my documents, and a year later find endless levels of forgotten detritus.

    I say, do what the photographers do. Sort by as much as you need.

    Work, Home, Play

    Play -
    Video
    Music
    Funny
    Pr0n

    Etc etc. Then have a download folder, and a sep install folder. Anything you want to keep move it to install or to work/home/play.

    Then setup a chron job to rm -rf ~/download/* every 48 hours.

    This forces you to buck up your ideas, and auto wipes shizzle you don't want. the chron could:

    rm -rf ~/furnace/*
    mv ~/download/* ~/furnace/*

    Which would give you a 92 hours period to save files.

    Just my arbitarily small denomination of the currency of your choice.

  25. Re:If Linus was American.... on Linus, Monty, Rasmus: No Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Patents are designed to protect mr clever inventor (like the Japanese dude who made a clever magnetic power harnessing fan - he had the idea, he made the proototype, he is a good example) from nasty money stealing corps.

    However only nasty money stealing corps are winning at the patent game.

    We pay the price. Imagine how much cheaper services would be if the companies weren't shovelling heaps of cash at each other, with little lawyers stuffing it down thier designer trousers.

    I agree, patents are good anti-monopolistic controls....

    Oh, you mean Microsoft threatened legal action to asian gov's who ran linux? Not in so many words? Thay *are* a monopoly arent they? Something must be wrong about this!

    Please. It is like a land rush for every day securinf patents on any conceivable idea, as soon as technology in one field makes it a possibility, and they do it just to lie in wait...

    damn them... damn them all! :-)