Slashdot Mirror


User: tquinlan

tquinlan's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
61
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 61

  1. Re:How about from two? on Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, I missed the word "once" in there, it was supposed to say "Yahoo ONCE used Google".

  2. How about from two? on Yahoo! Search Providing Support to Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While Yahoo! and Google may be competitors, the two of them often do collaborate, with Yahoo! even using Google to do their searches. I don't know if I'm entirely comfortable with a caveat about "not worrying about undue influence from any one vendor" when the other 'opposing' influence is in the game for the same reason and has a history of working with is 'competitor'.

  3. Re:Perhaps update Transformers to 21st century on 'Transformers' Live Action Movie from DreamWorks? · · Score: 1

    Metroplex is the name of the city... and it's UniCron, not Omnicron. ;)

  4. Why not both? on Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless you make things so cold as to prevent things from working properly, why not just do both?

  5. I've been testing it... on Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...and it seems to work very well so far. The sites I've noted that managed to get a popup through even with the normal popup blocker can no longer get them open.

  6. Contra-proof positive? on Open Source Licensing - Cuts Both Ways? · · Score: 1

    Why not just say "not proof"?

    Or did the real meaning escape me, since that doesn't seem to be valid in just about any language? ;)

  7. Re:Is this the same company... on Novell's Race Against Time · · Score: 1

    Who modded this flamebait? I was being serious... they made $60 million last quarter with their identity management products, which is a *good* thing.

  8. Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! on Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suggest we have Google take over the Hubble project, and have them turn that on us! Then we'll see what's really going on down here... ;)

  9. Why not get $50K? on Man Sells Baby to Pay for Gadgets · · Score: 4, Informative

    Frankly, if one is going to sell such "merchandise" to pay for gadgets, I would go out of my way to find another buyer (check the black market), and start a bidding war! You could likely get up to $50K that way - and then imagine how much you could get in gadgetry!

    Or, better yet, auctions on eBay, with some well placed shill bidding could get you $100K! Then you could double your fun/d! ;)

  10. Is this the same company... on Novell's Race Against Time · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...that made $60 million on their identity theft prevention products?

  11. When will people realise that remotely readable... on Passport Chip Could Attract High-Tech Muggers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...means just that?

    If they government can read it for legitimate purposes, other people can read it for illegitimate purposes.

  12. Re:typecast on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    I read "I Am Spock", and he didn't recant so much as add acknowledgment that being typecast had its good side too. So he added the missing, didn't recant.

  13. Re:typecast on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Read "I Am Not Spock" by Leonard Nimoy sometime if you want to know the answer.

    The bottom line is that too many people see *Spock* (or in this case, the Doctor) after a while, and not Nimoy (or Eccelston).

    Nimoy played Tave (sp?) in Fiddler on the Roof, and had a number of other successful roles in film and theatre, but how many people here (or anywhere) would know that?

    But show anyone a picture of them, and they don't say "Nimoy!" they say "Spock!".

    Yes, it can be a help to your career (as for Nimoy, he could play the one character forever and anywhere), but a lot of serious actors want to show that they have talent and depth, and being typecast largely prevents that.

  14. Why send "ANTS" when we can send people... on Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...as has been pointed out by Robert Zubrin numerous times?

  15. Re:I do love google on Google Buys Urchin Web Analytics · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not far too confused, you just don't know the proper place to start your searches:

    search.yahoo.com

    Nice and clean, easy to use.

  16. Politics makes strange bedfellows... on Google Buys Urchin Web Analytics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but capitalism makes excellent ones.

    This is an excellent match. It makes perfect sense that a web advertising company would buy a web analytics company, and I can't wait to see the results show up in AdSense.

  17. Something O'Reilly got high marks on Slashdot? on Ars Technica Builds Make Magazine's Steadicam · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's next? People around here will praise Linux? ;)

  18. Re:Wow! think of all them IP addresses. on The Next Net · · Score: 1

    They have this other thing called "NAT" (Network Address Translation). You could use it to assign every device in your house a 10.0.0.0/8 (I think that's the CIDR) address, and still only present one IP to the public internet. It's what's making IPv6 so slowly adopted - it's unlikely that you'll have more than 16,000,000 devices in your house.

  19. So does Google then become... on French Response to Google is Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...a "freedom engine"? ;)

  20. As long as they keep making the candy! on Pez to Dispense Music instead of Sweets · · Score: 1

    ...mmm... Pez... must have the Pez... almost like BRAINS... mmm... Pez... must have Pez! ;)

  21. "Microsoft Backed" on Open Source As Legal Time Bomb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...'nuff said. While there may be those PHBs out there that will buy this stuff, I'm pleased that those that I've been speaking to lately (a lot more since I got a new job) don't really buy this stuff, and usually do take into account where these studies, reports, and FUD come from.

  22. Transparent to the max? on Software Development Practices At Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gnarly dude!

    What is this... a 1980s BMX article? ;)

  23. Re:How many.... on Digital Future of the Library of Congress · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ya know, when you do that, you ruin the opportunity to actually make the jokes for the rest of us! ;)

  24. I'm not worried about it... on "English" Not Threatened By Webspeak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...as long as people understand regular English (or their respective native language) first, and understand that as with all slang, there is a time and a place for it.

    A lot of people in the "professional" work force don't seem to understand that professionalism is supposed to extend to their written communications, and things like "werd" and "brb" in an email to a higher level executive don't provide a professional image.

  25. Pentagram wanting to get bought...? on Re-Imagining Apple · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This looks to me like Pentagram is trying to get themselves bought, by showing off that they are good designers and might be a worthwhile acquisition for Apple.