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  1. Re:Keep using LaTeX on Converting TeX to Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1
    With the advent of the web and email we can diseminate our work to our colleagues and perform peer review all without the intervention of a journal.
    Speaking of which, I notice you use ZWiki; check out WikiTeX, which, in addition to plenary AMS, supports Feynman diagrams, graphs (Graphviz) and plots (Gnuplot).
  2. Re:Fractile on Post-Katrina Images on Google Maps · · Score: 1
    Check[ ]out the end of the [M]ississippi [...], a lovely fract[al].
    Does it really exhibit self-similarity, or is it pseudo-fractal?
  3. Slashdot Light on Help Beta Test Slashdot CSS · · Score: 1
    Whatever you do, please preserve the Slashdot light option:
    Light (reduce the complexity of Slashdot's HTML for AvantGo, Lynx, or slow connections)
    and no icons option.
  4. Re:Fixing waste on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1
    Pictures should change names every 2 days or so to avoid this problem.
    Actually, there's a much more elegant, less ad hoc solution involving mod rewrite: requires Apache, however.
  5. Re:Gentlemen (and uhh, ladies) PLEASE! some decoru on Balmer Vows to Kill Google · · Score: 1
    I am sure most of his comments are due to stress[.]
    Pressure, indeed, has chiseled away his eye-sockets; and yet, a certain vacuous stare betokens psychotropic drugs.

    I'd say downers and uppers.

  6. Re:This is only a test on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1
    That's when America will cease to be a "free" country.
    There's a palpable sense in which the revolutionary American has already ceased to exist; in his place: greedy, anaesthetized masses.

    Revolution is partially a privilege of space and resource.

  7. Re:Katrina Hits the Game World on Katrina Hits the Gaming World · · Score: 1
    Here's a screen capture of Katrina hitting the game world.
    Classic 4chan; I actually got banned for posting something in that vein.
  8. Re:I for one welcome... on Parasites That Can Control Insect Minds · · Score: 1
    [I] would happily volunteer to round up suitable brains for future digestion.
    Which reminds me of 1HenryVI, actually, where an enflamèd Talbot exclaims o'erlooking Orleans:
    Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:
    Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,
    Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,
    And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.
  9. Re:Closed My Account on PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account · · Score: 1
    Just leave them a link to let them know why.
    They say PaySwiss is the new PayPal.
  10. Re:Is Linux Trailing? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1
    This is especially true for when some idiot uses a Promise RAID controller for *anything* important, and the disks start getting corrupted.
    I'm afraid I have to agree: my Promise seems to have corrupted four Raptors this year alone.
  11. Plagiarist? on One Hundred Years of E=MC2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Plagiarist of the Century" quoth the sensationalist headline; more credit is due, in any case, to certain now-anonymous Italian physicists: Olinto De Pretto comes to mind, et alii.

  12. Re:What the fuck is this? on Tim Berners-Lee on Blogging And The Web · · Score: 1
    That is logical nonsense.
    Meaning: it's logically nonsense; or nonsense, but logical?

    "Illogical" might have sufficed, and been clearer to boot.

  13. Re:Cygwin dude... on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 1
    Of course, it could be pain when you have spaces in your file names.
    Not at all; if working in bash, be sure to quote your variables religiously:
    convert "${BASE}${OLDEXT}" "${BASE}${NEWEXT}"
    et cetera.
  14. Re:Beem him on up... on Star Trek's Scotty Dies at 85 · · Score: 1
    [M]ethinks is actually a valid English word [...].
    'Methinks' is not only valid English, but comes from an ancient Germanic phrase: mir {dünkt, deuchte} es.

    Thus the 's' in 'thinks': the third person is "thinking", and I am in the dative.

  15. Phi on 83,431 Recited Digits of Pi · · Score: 2, Funny
    Links to world rankings for memorized digits of E and Sqrt(2) are also given.
    I feel slighted. ;(
  16. Re:GPL Teeth? on We Don't Need the GPL Anymore · · Score: 1
    My right hand just gets to that l faster than my left gets to the c everytime.
    Try Dvorak, which I've been using for about six months; c and l are both dextrous.
  17. Re:Silly OSI vs FSF marketing fud on We Don't Need the GPL Anymore · · Score: 1
    I am comfortable using both though I prefer GPL.
    There's a third, but seldom mentioned, alternative: Artistic License 2.0, which should ship with Perl6 alongside GPL.

    I've already taken to using it; AL2.0 is beta, but charming and unobtrusive nevertheless.

  18. Re:maybe im alone on this one on Knoppix 4.0 DVD - Like a Kid in a Candy Store · · Score: 4, Interesting
    [I]t has tons of packages. Pretty much everything you'd expect.
    That said, I really hope they put LaTeX back in the DVD version; LaTeX was my main motivation for booting up Knoppix at school.
  19. Re:Taco speaks English as a first language? on History of Netscape and Mozilla · · Score: 1
    I've read this sentence three times and I don't know what it means yet.
    I'm sorry if your left frontal cortex is depressed; maybe your mechanical or mathematical aptitudes outvie the glottic cousin?
  20. Re:The DOT needs to do the same on No Billboards in Space · · Score: 1
    No, I don't really believe it ... but I really just read this somewhere.
    As I can attest from driving on the Autobahn, nothing beats regular and sanitary rest stops; but that's typically the result of responsible government, and the Germans gleaned their road-making most nearly from the Romans.
  21. Re:Bad acting too on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 1

    [A]nybody know the html entity code for the set
    inclus[i]on operator?

    Try the following:

    Entity Numeric Semantic
    ------ ------- ---------------------
    sub ⊂ Subset of
    nsub ⊄ Not a subset of
    sube ⊆ Subset of or equal to

    none of which, alas, are recognized by Slash.

  22. Re:I have nothing to do with that product... on FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance · · Score: 1
    I have [...] no vested interest of any kind[.]
    Being an Apple Distinguished Educator, I'd wager you have some evangelical, that is, proselytical interest; that's fine, but let's have the cards on the table.
  23. Re:And if you want something really cool on FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance · · Score: 1
    Rather the phrase means that the state of concern is null, as it can not be further decreased with "could not care less"[.]

    Until you establish the notion of negative care, or disregard; which is to say, "could care less" means: "the limit of care as care approacheth negative infinity" or, equivalently, "the limit of disregard as disregard approacheth infinity."

    What you have, however, is freely no neutral stance, but a passionate negative one; and passionate negativity may indeed approach care.

  24. Re:ridiculous on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 1
    "The question begs"?
    Yes, I think he was engaging in a little anthromorphologia quaestionis; next thing you know, he'll "beggar belief."
  25. Re:G I T M O on HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can · · Score: 1
    [...] weapons[-]of[-]mass[-]destruction[-]related[-]acti vity[-]programs.
    Yeah, I've noticed that espousers of OO also phrasify substantive-ladenly.