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Re:Why is everything across the network "special?"

On: Windows Home Server Corrupts Files

While it's true that DECNet (and VMS) made it simple to "SET DEF (some directory on a machine across the country)", the real fact is that VMS was built in such a way that only the current directory was of any (real) use. Sure, you could copy from $10$DUA:[foo.baz.bar], and you could have a login.com full of aliases, but at the end of the day, 99.5% of your work was done in the current directory. And don't get me started about the evils of LAT.

Re:That's interesting.

On: Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief?

Do you remember who invented the first aeroplane? The americans think that was some brothers (?Grimm Brothers?).

That's a canard.

Re:The most interesting thing about this controver

On: Alexander Graham Bell - Patent Thief?

I don't think you have to look much farther than calculus (Newton and Leibnoz) or evolution (Darwin and Wallace) or the incandescant light bulb (Edison and a cast of hundreds) to see that this is so.

Or use a cutting torch

On: How To Tell If It's Really Titanium

It heats white hot almost instantly, and when you thumb the oxygen cutting lever, you get the most amazing shower of white sparks - like fireworks - very pretty!

Re:oxygen, man

On: Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope?

Indeed. That's what started James Lovelock down the road to the Gaia hypothesis.

Wait a minute

On: Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security

Macs & beef!!! I thought they were all vegans.

Re:Consumer offerings?

On: Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels

To get apples to apples, compare the cost of the panel (1$ someday) with the production (mining, transport) cost of 1 Watt of coal.

Innovation

On: Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Re:This is what they used

On: Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter

Did you bother to READ what you posted a link to?

* 11 times brighter than red laser pointers
* Projection range up to 10,000 feet, 5mw output power

Re:What kind of laser?

On: Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter

It was a GREEN laser, which puts out a lot more power than your standard red keychain ornament. One of the advertised uses for a green laser is as a "sky pointer".

I tell ya

On: Supernova Detonates In Empty Space

There's something wrong with the aggregation theory for supernovae. This sure sounde more like the gravitational collapse model.

Re:Not every candidate

On: Presidential Candidates' Science and Tech Policies

Thanks for a really interesting link. I had no idea the guy was this much of a kook.

Re:Is this the version

On: Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

Interesting. Thanks!

I can hear it now

On: NASA Ares Rocket Specs to Be Open Source

CAPCOM: Good morning Persues, how are you today?
PERSUES: 5 by 5 Houston, what's the plan for today? We're only halfway to the moon.
CAPCOM: Persues, we need you to run a few 'patch' commands, we're uploading the diffs now...

Re:"Coming soon"

On: Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released

Is that "soon" geologically, or "soon" cosmologically?

Re:My interview process....

On: IT Security Interviews Exposed

Shall we say firmly connected?

Re:My interview process....

On: IT Security Interviews Exposed

Yes, and Swordfish was a terrible movie.

I can think of two redeeming features.

Re:Is this the version

On: Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

It's not an ultimatum, it's the "conditional threat" operator.

Re:Holy Shit.

On: NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released

+5 hysterical

Re:Hmmmmmm

On: Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

It's not dead, it's resting.

I bloody well know a dead parrot when I see one!

Re:Is this the version

On: Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

How is that different than following a function pointer in C?

Is this the version

On: Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary

that has the ORELSE operator?

Re:Linux is a game, not an operating system

On: Burying a Mainframe In Style

It's the current cute aphorism at the bottom of the page, which makes it even funnier.

Re:intelligent design isn't

On: Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From?

"But officer, I wasn't doing anywhere near 299,792,458 miles per second!"

What, do you work for NASA that you don't know the difference between imperial and metric? That's meters per second, not miles per second.

Re:Who Will Play Gandalf?

On: Jackson Slated to Make Hobbit Movie, Sequel

Nah. I was just informing the GP. Truthfully though, having Agent Smith as Elrond is probably the worst bit of casting I can think of in the last ten years. "Well, well, well. Missssterrrr Bagginssss"... I think John Rhys-Davies would have been much better as Elrond than as Gimli. And don't even get me started about Liv Tyler (I'm sorry, she's just funny lookin') as Arwen. And what happened to Glorfindel?? And so on.