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  1. Re:At Last! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 1

    I went to a connector manufacturer web page the other day for a data sheet, and they had 3D models of the connector in PDF format. You could open it op and rotate the 3D model around in a PDF. Didn't work worth a damn on a six month old PC with an i7 and gobs of RAM and a moderate graphics card, so I had to wonder what the point was. Our mecha guys are just going to import the real models into Pro-E anyway. I can get the gist of a connector from a good 2D CAD drawing.

  2. Re:Gasp! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 1

    ROR? Raph Out Roud? That seems vaguely racist. Hey, I tease.

    Seriosuly, though. Rate of Return? Ruby On Rails? Rotate Right? Help a brother out here.

  3. Gasp! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 3, Funny

    And little does anyone suspect that Reader X is actually Speed Reader's long lost brother!

  4. Re:Can be nice on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    You have no clue of the circumstances of her fall, or even who she is, and yet you call her dumb. Wow. Aren't you a little sack of shit? For the record, she's a microbiologist with three degrees, several published papers, well respected in her field and can own your sorry geek ass on any scientific topic.

    But, yeah, slipping on some ice after *another* careless person rams into you on a sidewalk evaporates all that. Fuck you, douchebag.

  5. Re:You lost me... on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Right there! That's the spot. The spot where you lost me.

    And that's the spot where *you* lose everyone else.

  6. Re:It's the hardware, stupid on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Continuously referring to non-Linux users as "Grandma" doesn't help much, either. Doesn't matter if you don't mean it as a collective label. That's how it comes across.

  7. Re:Can be nice on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    we have actual seasons

    Never saw that as an advantage. Everyone I know from "season" country has winter horror stories. My sister lived in a Chicago suburb for a few years, and has pins in her leg as a souvenir.

  8. Re:Well, I Owe My Friend an Apology on Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits · · Score: 4, Funny

    The old bacon-cheeseburger insulated wires were an even bigger problem.

    Except the problem there was cats with bad grammar.

  9. Re:I welcome our OS IX overlords on 'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could use that as a springboard into the "mythical creature" series for OS XI.

    OS 11.0 - Unicorn
    OS 11.1 - Bandersnatch
    OS 11.2 - Jabberwock
    OS 11.3 - Seraphim
    OS 11.4 - Canadian
    OS 11.5 - Basilisk

    "Today Macworld provides coverage as Apple.... RELEASES OS 11.6 - THE KRACKEN!"

    Geez, with mythical creatures they could go for decades.

  10. Re:You betcha on Dogs Can Be Pessimistic · · Score: 1

    Oh, was that your dog? My dog wants to know if your dog will ever call or if it was a one night stand.

  11. You betcha on Dogs Can Be Pessimistic · · Score: 3, Funny

    My dog has been pessimistic about the economy ever since he got laid off.

  12. Re:Never Buy A Windows Mobile Device on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So your posts haven't even been on topic, much less about "sharing experience."

    Oh, boo hoo. I said it wasn't my phone. I'll try to be more touchy-feely next time, your highness. Twitter me, babe. We'll do the lunch thing.

  13. Plutonian on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mark Waid did a better study of this in "Irredeemable"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredeemable

  14. Re:Study? on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 2, Funny

    They didn't get the extra grant money to purchase radioactive spiders.

    They thought they had a mutagenic compound, but it was just someone's lunch left in the back of the fridge for six months. Botulism's only known power is to defeat wrinkles.

  15. No study needed on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 0, Troll

    I *know* I would lay waste to most of you tools given the powers.

    Seriously, you lot think you *don't* deserve a mighty supervillian smackdown? How precious.

  16. Re:Never Buy A Windows Mobile Device on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 1

    Nightmare? Why?

    It connected via Bluetooth to my game rig, but then I couldn't get the photo transferred. All I got were garbled messages.

    People don't want to have to hack their phones! And as I stated, it wasn't my phone. This stuff should just work, especially a simple photo transfer, and that's why Apple and Google are succeeding.

    Dude, I get hacking. I've been using computers since before some Slashdotters were born, but the shit that phone was doing was inexcusable.

  17. Re:Never Buy A Windows Mobile Device on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's because there are no specifics. The whole thing is an absolute mess.

    I have two friends who have Win phones (also HTC), and they both want to see Redmond razed to the ground. I've tried to help them do simple things now and then, like getting a godamned photo off the phone, and it's a nightmare. One is planning on an iPhone and the other an Android when their contracts are up.

    It's like the other poster said: MS just crammed a windows-like interface onto a phone. They didn't rethink the GUI in tiny screen terms like Apple and Google did.

  18. Re:Is anyone surprised? on Chinese Nobel Winner's Wife Detained · · Score: 1

    OK, how do I *not* consign myself to the TSA's procedures if I need to fly somewhere? Go ahead. Tell me. I don't like it, but what do I do? And who is doing it happily? The TSA is the butt of stand up and late night jokes by the shit ton. No one likes those turkeys.

    Meanwhile, most people don't seem to have a problem playing with their phones while doing eighty down the highway.

    Yes, *MOST* people support texting and driving. I'm sure you can link to surveys and polls that measured that, right? Right?

    Seriously, dude, you either have a drug warped view of the world, or you just slid in a from another reality.

  19. Re:Isn't this great? on Chinese Nobel Winner's Wife Detained · · Score: 1

    Wut? I thought the world was looking to China to lead it to the Promised Land in this post-USA era. Is that not working out?

  20. Try again on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    Wait, I thought the cycle of life was they poo on us and we poo on them? Can I not trust Disney films for my science? Or was that South Park? I often confuse the two.

  21. Wait for it... on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I don't own/watch a TV. PRAISE ME!" comments in 3... 2... oh, wait. Already happened.

  22. Re:Horribles! on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    If the process of making dinner was, in its entirety "Press X when prompted, once" then your analogy would make sense.

    Never seen a frozen dinner, eh? ;-)

    My analogies are like a cat without bones. It's soft and purrs but it lies there not moving. Yeah. So there.

  23. Re:New? on Saturn's Rings Formed From Large Moon Destruction · · Score: 1

    I read the theory in a child's field guide to astronomy in the early 70s. I have an old Time Life book that talks about how if the Moon ever spiraled in it might break up and form a ring.

    Oh what am I doing... Wikipedia! I choose you!

    Zap!

    Theory first proposed by Édouard Roche in the 19th century, hence we have the "Roche limit" for moons not breaking apart.

  24. Easy on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 3, Funny

    They were helped when the LHC testing at CERN caused a subspace distortion rift into the Unseen University's library on Discworld, so there's more space in that wing than is actually there. It's... quantum. It's actually 153 *thousand* miles of shelf space, so lots of room, but it smells like bananas all the time for some reason.

  25. Horribles! on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It gets worse! There's places that charge you for making dinner! That's right! There's actually people who go out to these places to have meals made FOR them! WHAT FOOLS!