User: edittard

Re:Totally OT, but....

On: Did Your Code Ever Make Anyone Deaf?

i should probably post this on my own journal, but felt i'd make it public-like.

Why not just take the story and post it again, maybe tomorrow or the day after?

Putting what it is after the name

On: HP Linux Laptop Is A Winner

"When small companies announce they're putting Linux OS"

Do people write Windows OS, Excel SS, Netscape WB, perl PL, Apache WS, slashdot BS?

Re:How will this work?

On: KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities

And it worked, didn't it? If this article hadn't used the buzzwords "google-like" it would probably never have gotten on CNet and ZDNet,

You know, there used to be these people who filtered out errors, mistakes, and plain old bullshit that n00b journalists wrote - before it was published. Editors, I think they were called.

and maybe not even the Slashdot front page.

Now you really are exaggerating.

Re:How will this work?

On: KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities

what is "to google" on french????

Googler, I suppose.

Re:This is silly

On: Does Unisys Really Get It?

I didn't know he was caffeine-and-sugar-induced! And I didn't know the voice was Middle Eastern.

Just goes to show, taking the mick out of krauts isn't just fun - it's educational!

Re:Dont knock it till you try it!!

On: Classroom Bullies On The Internet

Yup. The most enjoyable fights are those where there's no risk of losing. Like when you have infinite mod points, a chip on both sloping shoulders and a very very very small cock

Re:Lavarand, at SGI

On: Getting Your Boss To Buy Lava Lamps

Several lamps being viewed by a camera, and the image data was broken down to use as random numbers.

It's not the only way, though. There was a thing called ERNIE in the UK that generated random numbers for premium bonds[1] using radioactive substances and a Geiger counter as the seed.

[1] A combined savings bank/lottery. Really.

Re:cool, but...

On: Getting Your Boss To Buy Lava Lamps

Clearly your grammar skills are superior to mine. Congratulations.

Don't waste your time congratulating him. After all, having better grammar than you isn't exactly much of an achievement, eh?

Re:cool, but...

On: Getting Your Boss To Buy Lava Lamps

peer pressure

That's what causes the splashes around urinals, right?

Re:Terrorism anyway

On: "E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin

Luckily they missed and hit the usarweb instead.

random "funny" comments based on the headline

On: "E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin

Huh? Are you Michael Sims?

On second thoughts, I take that back - he just posts random stories based on old random stories. When he's not too busy being a petulant, weiner-necked ponce, that is.

Re[tard|call]

On: How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions

Economic Times, one of India's biggest business daily's is carrying a story about how a small colouring mistake forced Microsoft to recall 200,000 copies of Windows 95

Was the mistake that they thought "daily's" was the plural of "daily", when in fact it's the genitive/posessive singular?

Nah. Indians aren't generally that fucking ignorant.

Re:too bad...

On: Yahoo! Not Protected From French Anti-Nazi Laws

It's not like France is as imperialistic as America;

They don't have the military competence to do anything, but they have the same mentality, probably worse in fact.

"they can't make their laws transcend their borders."

I thought that was what they invented the EU for

Re:Robots..

On: Humanoid Robot Combat in Japan

In Chauviet Russia, spelling corrects YOU!!!!

Re:Infinitely More Interesting Than Wedges

On: Humanoid Robot Combat in Japan

A form with limbs, rather than wheels, also gives an advantage on rough terrain.

That's what I was thinking.

1a) Stand on block, or 1b) climb tree.
2) Taunt wedge. A lot.

Re:This is silly

On: Does Unisys Really Get It?

I do own TPs

Do you pull your shirt over your head, and say "mmmm cornholio ... my bunghole will speak" and so on?