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  1. Re:GNU Goat? on Gallery of the Lamest Technology Mascots Ever · · Score: 1

    Oops, sorry about that. Submitted a bit fast there. Didn't see that you already pointed that out further down in the discussion.

  2. Re:GNU Goat? on Gallery of the Lamest Technology Mascots Ever · · Score: 1

    Also, in case you missed that, called a gnu. (Which, coincidentally is what it's called in my native language.)

  3. Uh huh huh huh on Anti-Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uh huh huh huh, you said "booby"!

  4. As a true Slashdottian... on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 1

    As a true Slashdottian you don't know how to go from step 2 to step 4. :-)

  5. Or on Intel Spills Beans On Santa Rosa Notebook Platform · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or, quite possibly, discovering that you replied to the wrong article the very moment you hit "Submit"...

  6. Re:I really feel for them. on Intel Spills Beans On Santa Rosa Notebook Platform · · Score: 1

    In fact, had they been spilled on a P4 platform, they'd be refried beans by now.

  7. Re:Yeah RIGHT on Scientists Map DNA of Rhesus Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Clearly, we're the work of His Noodlyness. Do you think it's coincidental that our DNA looks like this? Don't ever question our Durum Deity again, or you will surely boil in the eternal Pot o' Haggis! Ramen.

  8. So... on The Fine Art of 'Boss Science' · · Score: 1

    ...what you're saying is we should work smarter, not harder? You're not per chance a manager? ;-)

  9. Re:What game? on Georgia Tech Unveils Prototype Nanogenerator · · Score: 1

    If this isn't "jumping around like a monkey", I surely do not what is... ;-)

  10. What game? on Georgia Tech Unveils Prototype Nanogenerator · · Score: 1

    ...I'm jumping around like a monkey when I play on that thing.

    Are you per chance playing Steve Ballmer Island Adventure?

  11. What's the weight of a rack? on Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I guess it's got to be extremely heavy if they actually plan on filling the whole rack with oil. Either you'd have to build the floors very, very sturdy or stick with a single-story data center.

  12. Re:Must be tired on Vista Taking a Nibble Out of Apple in OS Wars? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sucking at Apple's sweet teat of innovation? They used to stand on a stool in order to reach up, but apparently Ballmer threw that away. I guess that'd explain Vista.

  13. Surely... on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 1

    This will be considered a Richter 10 event at Microsoft.

    Surely, they meant a 10 on the Deckchair scale?

  14. Re:Probability on New Algorithms Improve Image Search · · Score: 1

    For instance, the set of pictures for which the statement "is this a picture of a chair" is true. There is no objective criteria for this. So imagine you have a bunch of pictures and show each one to a thousand people. Sometimes you might get 0 or 1000 "yes" responses, but often you'll get some number in between (because there are chairs, but barely visible, the picture includes a kids booster seat, or a rock big enough to sit on). This could be interpreted as a probability that somebody will consider a picture to be of a chair.

    I know there's a Ballmer joke in there somewhere. Did the depicted chair have a slight directional blur?

  15. No, the kittens... on Tactics in the Porn Industry's Fight Against Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...are reserved for huffing. Don't they teach anything in school anymore?

  16. Actually... on US No Longer Technology King · · Score: 1

    ...it's all due to our extra vøwels. While your puny alphabet goes to 26, ours goes to 29! That's a difference of 11.5%, which, needless to say, is just søøøøø much better. Go Nørway!!!

  17. Re:Just wandering... on John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked" · · Score: 1

    Intentionally deceiving people isn't fraud, and isn't illegal.
    In fact, it's not just legal, it's the core of politics...
  18. Yeah on MS Says Vista Selling At Twice XP's Pace · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...some of them are even geeks.

    In the same way that Vanilla Ice was a gangsta rapper?

  19. Progress on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human

    Good to see that the scientists have finally entered this arena. I've heard that efforts have been underway for decades in Arkansas, though unsuccessful and on a more recreational level. It wasn't for a lack of trying, though.

    *Crossing fingers that noone in Arkansas with mod-points are offended.*

  20. Re:Textmate had me at customizable snippets... on TextMate · · Score: 1

    And in both of those it states clearly that they're trying to emulate TextMate. Just saying...

  21. Re:versus Visual Studio? on TextMate · · Score: 1

    I primarily use TextMate for LaTeX, MATLAB, Ruby, and shell scripting, all of which I doubt Visual Studio is very useful for. Does Visual Studio even run on OS X? For your particular use, though, Visual Studio might be a better choice.

    The thing I prefer in TextMate over Emacs is that I can write syntax highlighting and function bundles myself. The bundle code can be written in pretty much anything (Ruby, Python, Shell, Perl, etc) as opposed to Lisp in Emacs, and I haven't quite had the courage to pick up Lisp yet. I guess some would call not learning Lisp a character flaw, while others would see it as a positive trait...

    One other huge advantage over Emacs is that the GUI doesn't suck ass. It's actually very nice, in a minimalist sort of way. The downside about TextMate, IMO, is that the parser is a bit limited. For instance, it can't match syntax spanning over several lines. Also, the search/replace is rather slow, but I do most of the advanced search/replace in Vim anyway. I hope TextMate 2 will solve a lot of the problems that I have now, but time will show. Not a lot of information about TM 2 is available yet.

  22. Re:True colour on Single Gene Gives Mice Three-Color Vision · · Score: 1

    I had my first taste of this recently.

    Wait a minute... You eat gene modified mice?

  23. I wouldn't mind on Which IT Careers Are Hot and Which are Not? · · Score: 1

    being the tech support at Castle Anthrax, though.

  24. The 1990's called again... on Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime · · Score: 1

    they said something about changing their minds.

  25. The page is down on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have a Coral cache link for it?