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  1. Books on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 1

    My mom does all her bookcases alphabetically by country of author's origin, then alpha by author inside the country.

  2. Re:No more low-level code ? Hum... on Java Frameworks and Components · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except for the fact that this is about web frameworks, e.g. high-level code.

  3. Re:As if American Accents aren't hard enough... on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    Category about Canada from "Win Ben Stein's Money":

    Third Best Country in North America

  4. Re:A major point here seems to be.... on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    So port scanning is a crime now? How many of those APs were 'closed?' On average it hovers around 10%. You're still just another node on the internet, the transmission medium doesn't make a difference.

    Maybe not a crime per se, but it is kind of the digital equivalent of making a bunch of keys and going door-to-door trying them all out.

  5. Re:Do Apple Stores have drive-throughs? on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 1

    > Just wait for Apple to release a Powerbook with that display. Then we'll have something to talk about.

    Like how the hell you're supposed to carry it?

  6. Re:Big screen! on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 1

    > Where did you get the idea that it's bad ergonomically to look up at your screen?

    I learned it from Sun's ergo people.

    And Sun is scraping along much better these days than SGI, probably due in no small part to the lower incidence of kinked necks hurting productivity.

  7. Price per Teraflop on Dell $38m Supercomputer [not] More Costly than VT's G5s · · Score: 2, Informative

    As it turns out, the computer cost $3 million, vs. $5.2 million for the 17.6 terraflop Mac G5 cluster at Virginia Tech.

    3.7 tflops / $3M = 1.23 tflops/$1M

    17.6 tflops / $5.2M = 3.38 tflops/$1M

    So with the Apples you get 2.75x more computing power for the same $$.
    Sounds like a an easy argument to get by the Dean's office...

  8. Stolen Functionality on SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone knows Apple was using the key to disable system extensions years before MS was.

    After all, how else could you defeat the Oscar the Grouch in the Trash can?

  9. The Wire-less on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    For those who watch HBO, now Avon Barksdale and his crew can see which cans the dockworkers are smuggling drugs in, realtime.

  10. Re:sounds like Asimov and Hari Seldon should sue on Socionomics: the Science of History and Social Prediction · · Score: 0


    You mean "psychohistory".

    And he would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Mule.

  11. Re:Full text of the article... bah nytimes! on California Tries Spam Ban · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nice copyright violation, halo.

    You want the NYT to sue Slashdot out of existence?

  12. Re:Talk about innocent until proven guilty... on California Tries Spam Ban · · Score: 1

    I think it's consistent with the national do-not-call list...

  13. Re:Some links on Sharp Announces 3D Laptop · · Score: 1

    Batteries provide 1.3 hours of operation.

    1.3 hours. I think they missed the meeting on what the holy grail of laptop design is.

  14. Re:Biff's Sidekick??? on Sharp Announces 3D Laptop · · Score: 2

    Check the link.

    He was in both, and definitely in the 50's.

  15. Re:Apple Records WWW presence on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I got to this one thru http://www.applerecords.com/

  16. Re:Sigh... on Sharp Announces 3D Laptop · · Score: 1

    Nah, I'm the poster and that was my editorial view. And I get plenty of sex, TYVM.

  17. Re:Apple Records WWW presence on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    I think it is clear they are having a non-website there. As a moral victory.

  18. Apple Records WWW presence on Beatles Bite Apple · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, it's not like Apple Records is doing much in tech or on the web. Their web site is kind of spartan...

    I wonder what they're running that Apache 1.3.26 on...

  19. Re:A blatant karma grab on Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool. Now I understand "The Sopranos".

  20. Re:1.3.1?? on Native Java JDK 1.3.1 Support For FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    OS 9.x is a deprecated platform. Apple is no longer shipping a bootable version, and minimal work is being done on compatibility. OS X has Java 1.4.

  21. Re:a day late and a dollar short on Native Java JDK 1.3.1 Support For FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and Windows has been as robust, secure, and scalable as FreeBSD since '97 too. Riiiiight.

  22. Re:best bass strings available on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    Their B string is a bit better, but MusicMans are hella heavy. Also, it's a more specific, less versatile tone.

  23. Mod Parent OFFTOPIC on New Transmeta Chip: "Efficeon" · · Score: 1

    TIA.

  24. I use this really good Free OS for business on SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    It's called FreeBSD. Perhaps you've heard of it?

    Maybe you people who are having trouble getting managers to buy into Linux should try FreeBSD. Almost all the same apps, more stable. Only downside is you have to pick your hardware a little more carefully.

    Sure, it doesn't run Quake at 100fps, but does your manager care?

  25. Re:As a reality check about Sun.... on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    There's lots of dogfood eating at Sun. When I worked there, PCs weren't allowed, you had to have a Sun as your desktop. We engineers got Ultra 2 boxes, but some people had those little Java Station clients as their desktop.