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  1. Re:Dialoge? on Pope Cancels Speech After Scientists Protest · · Score: 1

    Asking "why" presupposes a reason and in a lot of cases there isn't one

    no and yes.

    Asking 'Why, or is there an answer at all' is the right statement of the question.
    ...and 42 is the answer.
  2. Re:WTF? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Airport routers can be configured via a neat software utility, and most routers nowadays can be configured wirelessly AND feature and incredible reset button in case you screw up.

  3. Re:Downsides on Body Heat Could Charge Your Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Is that your phone or are you just happy to see me?

  4. Re:Impossible on Solar Cycle 24 Has Started · · Score: 1

    And I, for one, welcome our new non-slashdotting overlords.

  5. Re:Yes... on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Whoa. You just got my vote for the 2008 post of the year, seriously.

  6. Re:Spam? on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I can assume that once you reach a certain proficiency, you can be called a MASTERbator.

  7. Re:god on Apple Lawyering Up On "Fake Steve Jobs" · · Score: 1

    www.colorwarepc.com Now you have no excuses!

  8. Re:That's great on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 0

    You should have just gotten an Apple and you are able to run most any OS that you want Wow, for a minute there you almost had me believing that the only reason I can't do that on any other machine is because of artificial restrictions that Apple enforce. Uh? Are there OSes with "natural" restrictions?
  9. Re:Assuming constant acceleration on Specs For the New KITT · · Score: 1

    But it is stated nowhere that the driver has to survive it. Heck, that car can drive by itself!

  10. Re:Old news on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    O/T I actually drive a car that needs you to ride the clutch a bit - a citroen XM manual with a foot handbrake. Unless you have 3 feet, hill starts _need_ you to start with your feet only on the clutch and brake. Once you get used to it, it's no problem - most starts don't even require any accelerator.... it's just hill starts that can be tough to get used to.

    C'mon, it's not that difficult to do a hill start without the handbrake!
  11. Re:I only have one wish... on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 1

    There'll be no format war. The first retail product exclusively using this disc format will be Duke Nukem Forever, which will settle any wars, and at the same time, time will have run out for good. ...in which case, the name of the game would suit the occasion perfectly.
  12. Re:Every one of these formats are worth jack on Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    I spent ~$30 for 15 duel-layer DVDs Did you manage to get them to stop fighting each other?
  13. Re:But... on Light-based Quantum Circuit Does Basic Maths · · Score: 0

    and more important again, does it run linux? Also, if I put a beowulf cluster of these in a room and close it, what's the status of the cat?

  14. Re:no! on Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? · · Score: 1

    Yep. But still, landing is by definition limited to land. Islands OK, water no good. Too bad I can't remember the english word fot it.

  15. Re:human defined? on Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented" · · Score: 1

    Pi? I've certainly never seen a complete definition of it, only approximations. What about "the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry" (from Wikipedia)?
  16. Re:Bush is relieved... on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was february, since it's shorter.

  17. Re:iphone is meh from a UK perspective. on iPhone Signal Strength Problems In the UK · · Score: 1

    So correction not "uncool" but "giant waste of money" and no I wasn't on a crusade to stop people buying this its actually come up in normal conversation last time I went out with my ex work mates one of the girls started talking about how she was going to get a new iPod nano but would never get a iPhone because how expensive it was. Here, take these, you need them more than I do: ,,,,,-...::;;
  18. Re:One terrabyte! on TB-Sized Solid State Drives Announced · · Score: 1

    I don't think it would work: given the definition, it would be a non-standard, ever-changing measure. But then, if we look at declared vs. real size of today's storage devices...

  19. One terrabyte! on TB-Sized Solid State Drives Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally! One terrabyte! I was hoping to get more than mere giggabytes (or, even worse, meggabytes) for SSD. I still remember the epic moment when SSD reached killobytes, after years struggling with just some bbytes.

  20. Re:Good News on Adobe to Unclutter Photoshop UI · · Score: 1

    The UI designer should design a great way to *search* for functionality. The UI designer should design a great way for the user to store functionality in places that they want. The UI designer should design a great way to *remind* the user where they put functionality. The UI designer should *never* design where the functionality should reside.
    Kinda like the new feature in Leopard that finds commands in the menus? Hell yeah, that's great.
  21. Re:Most important thing on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    My brother did the same exact thing on his pee-cee when he had one. Photoshop isn't a proper one-window app on any OS ;)

  22. Re:Most important thing on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Photoshop does this pretty well on my Mac :)

  23. Re:Helicopter or Hovercraft? on Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria · · Score: 1

    Well, a Giraffe that ends up in Nigeria may be dumb enough not to tell a chopper apart from a tree.

  24. Re:Apple needs to come out with 10.5 of all system on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    Why *needs*? Looks like they're doing quite well even without it.

  25. Re:The three Cs... on Standard Web Fonts 'Updated' In Vista · · Score: 1

    I misread cunnilinguist, but I don't think it applies.