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  1. It is dark inside on Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have been eaten by a grue.

  2. Re:game performance on Is Apple & Community Evangelizing Into Uncoolness? · · Score: 1

    He also undermines his own argument. When it's economically viable to abandon the PPC, that means most of the Mac userbase has already transitioned to Mactel.

  3. Re:BOZO, indeed. on Is Apple & Community Evangelizing Into Uncoolness? · · Score: 1
    If the trash can isn't on the desktop it's no good!

    That was my favorite. :)

    "Oh, no! The trash can moves back and forth by an entire inch! How ever will I find it! Has Apple forgotten about [insert obscure theory on muscle memory here]?"

  4. Hold on a sec on Mame Working on the PSP · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lemme send these photos over to Chloe at CTU to be decrypted, and then we'll see what we have.

  5. Huh? on 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH · · Score: 1
    - "Look... Obi-Wan is pretending he doesn't know R2-D2." (see Hole/No-hole: Why doesn't Obi-Wan remember R2? )

    Uh, because there's probably, like, 57 trillion droids in the galaxy, 2 billion of which look like the R2 model?

    - "How can the Emperor dissolve the Senate? Didn't he destroy it trying to kill Yoda?"

    Well, he busted up the joint a bit.

    "Why don't those ships need Hyperspace rings?"

    Advancements in technology spun off from Project Death Star.

    - "So, does this mean that R2-D2 is really the main character in Star Wars?"

    Actually, R2D2 is the Machiavellian master behind the whole mess, ppulling the strings on Sith and Jedi alike.

    So what's the big revelation here? There's a disconnect between the prequels and originals? Wow. That's for that scoop, there, Kolchak.

  6. He's an idiot on Is Apple & Community Evangelizing Into Uncoolness? · · Score: 1

    Generating fat binaries that run on PPC and Intel requires a checkbox to be clicked. This is not a problem. This guy is another ignorant little prick looking for attention. When anyone gets this emotional about a product, look past the words and try to find the hiddden agenda. Cripes, even the developer community has taken the announcement in stride for the most part, and that's who really matteers.

  7. Ooo! I know! on The Laptop Supply Chain · · Score: 3, Funny
    "When a U.S. consumer orders a laptop from HP or other big sellers, how does the machine get made?

    Magic elves.

    I'm more concerned about the lapdance supply chain.

  8. This is insane on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1
    Even on a wedding video in iMovie I am doing for a friend, I might access several hundred files in the course of one sitting. You want me to go to a search engine to find every file? And if I have similar filenames? Or I forget the exact name of a file that is one out of hundreds? Many times I have forgotten a file's exact name, but I find it because it's, say, an AIFF file in the "Music" folder of the main project directory.

    How can endless little searches this ever top a well organized project directory?

  9. Re:Sometimes I know what's best for me on The Death of Folders? · · Score: 1
    Because we don't want to search every time?

    Everything I do on computers is project oriented. I have specific projects that each have associated files. One might be a 3D animation. Another is a wedding video I am editing for a friend. At work I have different designs I am responsible for, each with a project directory.

    I have the project folders and sub folders set up so I know right where everything is. I may access 500 files per sitting for a particular project. If I have to do a little search every time I want a file, my life is over. I will never see sunlight again.

    We don't *need* folders. We *want* them. Of course, "we" being people who do actual work on a computer.

  10. Re:Your getting what you deserve. on Canada To Introduce Copyright Law Next Week · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Yes, It's sarchasm."

    Main Entry: sar-chasm
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Canadian, mainly the Second City cuicuit
    Definition: A state of being where someone has used so much sarcasm for such an extended period of time, they can now only talk in a sarcastic mode. Ex: "I've fallen into a sarchasm, and I can't get up!"
    Plural: sarchasii
    Related words: sar-cough-agus

  11. Yes on Microsoft Plans Hypervisor for Longhorn · · Score: 5, Funny
    You'll be able to run Longhorn, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Bob, Windows 95, DOS, and Windows Me!

    All at the same time!

    And hypervisor is just the working name. The final product will be called KlustrPhuk.

  12. Re:IT'S headed to the UK... on Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards · · Score: 1

    Our best comedy is found in the 1 hour comedy/drama format where the comedy is an accent to a normal storyline. There's funnier moments in "The Shield" and "The Sopranos" than in 99% of sitcoms. :) And then there's exceptions like South Park, and some of the Adult Swim stuff is great simply from it's sheer oddness.

  13. Re:IT'S headed to the UK... on Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards · · Score: 1

    So seeing as you completely missed the humor of the parent post, the answer is no? :-)

    Hey, I tease. I grew up so immersed in British comedy (Anglophile parents, don't you know) that I barely relate to most American style comedy.

    My parents, now that they are retired, basically just have BBC America on all day.

    What the heck is Rik Mayall up to?

  14. I built a mnemonic memory circuit ... on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 1
    ...from stone knives and bear skins.

    So there.

  15. Re:Replacement for keyboards on History of the Apple Newton · · Score: 1
    Does anyone see anything replacing keyboards anytime soon?

    Hiring someone else to type?

  16. Re:What about the guy who got murdered? on History of the Apple Newton · · Score: 1

    Jet Li. His doppelganger from a parallel universe wanted his power.

  17. I think he actually meant "weary" on History of the Apple Newton · · Score: 1

    They were tired (weary) of the careful approach, and wanted to do something radical.

  18. Re:Why does this sound like a very, very bad idea? on Photoshop for DNA · · Score: 1
    A lot of people have photoshop... doesn't mean they know how to use it properly!

    Or that they paid for it. Oh, wait, different thread.

  19. Grand Theft Auto for DNA on Photoshop for DNA · · Score: 1
    Guys, with the new GTA:DNA, you can walk up to a sexy celebrity stud and jack their DNA. You too can be a vapid, overpaid prick and have television cameras point at you when you babble senselessly about geopolitical paradigms of which you lack even a basic conceptual understanding!

    Gals, with GTA:DNA, you can walk up to a sexy celebrity starlet and, well, actually, all you can do is find out what they really look like under all that make up, plastic surgery, silicone, botox and advanced composite materials. Sorry.

    Reserve your copy now! Will be available sometime after Longhorn is released.

  20. Re:Jocks and Geeks as genetic testing choices on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1
    But do we want a society filled with a surfeit of jocks

    Two words: Soylent Green

  21. Re:Right. on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 1
    The real headline is that "The Opinion Research Corporation is staffed by a pack of retarded monkeys.

    Actually, that could be fun. I'd subscibe to their newsletter if that were the case. :)

  22. Does this qualify as "addiction" on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 1

    I think the term is being misued here. I check my snail mail box every day, too. Am I addicted to that? Christ on a Ritz crakcer, does everything under the sun have to be painted as an impending cirsis or failure of the human spirit? An addiction is a *compulsive* need. Most of these people check their email because SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE EMAILED THEM! DUH!

  23. Re:The same is true for most inventors and scienti on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1
    Parents will tend to choose the jocks with five year lifetime careers who contribute nothing to humanity instead, dooming us to a world of know-nothings and really really boring parties

    Now, now... as the great Maddox has said, jocks also make sure we get our fries piping hot and our pizza delivered in under 30 minutes. So, many jocks do serve a purpose.

  24. Re:This is wrong on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1
    I know so many people with IQ's over 110, well educated, well employed, good citizens who are miserable.

    Stop talking about me, John!

  25. Re:Voice from the past on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1
    "You can measure how advanced a culture is by how it treats its deviants."

    Which still just translates to "I judge a culture by how much it agrees with my personal ideology/philosophy." Someone who supports mecry killing could say the same thing, and reverse the conclusion.

    Pain is the anvil on which life is forged. Accept it, or find an alternative.

    More words.

    Alternative for what? The pain or the anvil?