User: newdsfornerds

Re:All aboard the sinking ship!

On: Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware"

You reminded me of that great gif someone made years ago. http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2006/04/sun-microsystems-new-corporate.html I guess in a year or two Oracle could force you to buy their hardware if you want to run their software.

Re:One of Many

On: "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle

IBM has long been a self-proclaimed champion of Linux. Despite what the desktop Linux vendors do and say (I'm typing this on a ThinkPad running Ubuntu) Linux has been taking market share from Solaris and the other Unixes rather than from MSFT platforms. How does IBM keep AIX alive and promote Linux while it also pushes Solaris? Q: Does anyone expect Oracle to turn Solaris into an appliance for running Oracle and MySQL only?

Duh.

On: Videogame Driving Skills Don't Apply In Real Life

Contrary to the opinion of most overweight gamers, martial arts skills also do not carry over into meatspace.

s/Grounded/Sunken

On: Grounded Russian Nuclear Sub Photographed With Sonar

It did not run aground on a shoal or beach. It sank.

Re:Beware the key term there:

On: Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20%

You are inadequate if you think Thomas Kinkade is an artist. I clicked the link in your sig and now I need to flush my browser's cache and wash my hands.
Yikes!

Also

On: Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs

I always thought that cig smokers these days (smoke free offices) have an extra bit of motivation to get stuff done quickly because they will need a smoke in the near future.

Re:Left foot don't know what the right foot is doi

On: Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

More importantly, how many old people are wearing thongs (gstrings, t-backs)?

Re:So . . .

On: Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly

Yup. There's no doubt about it. They hit the wrong pedal.

"it could mean the end of the net in Canada"

On: Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court

Yeah right. nplz.

Re:floating around the UPS system?

On: How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash)

Or maybe he's talking about the people who have ordered iPads and are expecting a visit from United Parcel Service.
Awesome English composition, dude.

floating around the UPS system?

On: How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash)

I don't know what this means. Do people hang out near the uninterruptible power supply at work?
WAT

You can sue someone for -anything-

On: Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick

Sure you can. You could sue me for disagreeing with you. I DARE YOU!

Watch out for radon in that cave.

On: Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick

The cave would ideally be in a granite mountain where the radon from the granite would quickly kill them.

Re:Maintaining the Great Firewall

On: China's Great Firewall Infects Other Countries

Cyber-Mongoloids? Cyber Mongolians?
WAT

Re:Well, that's a surprise.

On: Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9

The latter. Or to put it another way, "yes."

s/someone/Ballmer

On: Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking?

heh

Re:Its the subsidies that are the problem

On: High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats

I'm not against all farm subsidies. I'm against them when they support big agribusinesses and factory farms growing livestock in unsanitary and inhumane conditions.
Let's subsidize small, family farm operations, especially if they grow "organically" and rotate their crops annually, etc.

Re:Its the subsidies that are the problem

On: High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats

Yeah that policy is another remnant of the Cold War. Isn't that war over yet?

Re:Its the subsidies that are the problem

On: High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats

Amen brother. The corn subsidy needs to die. HFCS needs to be reclassified by the FDA. How they ever classified it as "natural" I'll never know.

woops!

On: Research Lets You Type Words By Thought Alone

While logged in a root I thought, "rm -rf /" Damn.

What was the point?

On: Best Friend Fun Party

I don't get it.

Carl Rove

On: If ET Calls, Who Speaks For Humanity?

I can't think of anyone with more integrity. Just kidding.

Re:MySQL next?

On: Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO

Isn't there already a non-Snorcle fork of MySQL?

Re:It only took a decade or so...

On: UMG To Price New CDs Under $10

You forget the board members went to business school. That makes it harder for them to apprehend what's happening the real world.

Re:Just like cassettes

On: UMG To Price New CDs Under $10

You sure it isn't piracy as well?