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  1. Penny Arcade on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this comic applies here too...

  2. Re:I know! on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    That's all they do in the movies (my only reference)

    Movies are not always accurate depictions of real life...
  3. good information there! on USA 193 Shootdown Set For Feb 21, 03:30 UTC · · Score: 5, Funny

    which may or may not make debris easier to observe
    Way to limit the two choices down to two choices....
  4. Re:Die Hard 4.0 on CIA Claims Cyber Attackers Blacked Out Cities · · Score: 1

    You mean it wasn't factual that they had to go to the site to shut down the power. My belief in documentaries has just plummeted.

  5. Re:UI Experts??? on UI Designers Hired by Mozilla · · Score: 1

    What is worse is that I can't even use their site. The pages are just taking so long to load... Hang on. It is worth the load times just to see their haircuts. And Mozilla is getting these guys to do UI!

  6. Human body on Super Soaker Inventor Hopes to Double Solar Efficiency · · Score: 1

    ... perhaps even the human body.

    Does that sound a little to like the Matrix for anyone else? I'm not going to be a coppertop.
  7. Re:Whoopsie! on Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly. Correlation != Causation. But still...

  8. TV-turn-off devices on Open Source Hardware Gift Guide · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean a finglonger?

  9. Re:Friends do not let Friends use Windows and Driv on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 4, Funny

    blue screams of death
    Is that a snuff film?
  10. Re:Trust? on Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout · · Score: 3, Funny

    OK - but I need more explanation. How about an analogy involving cars.

  11. Re:What are the possibilities? on GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML? · · Score: 1

    See #3 in the grandparent. From once, profit comes before ???.

  12. Re:Magnitude scale incorrect on Wikipedia? on Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold · · Score: 1

    My guess is wikipedia has a mistake. Unlikely I know, but there have been rumors of one or two cases of misinformation previously. Well at least that link clear up why going from 18 to 2.8 is getting brighter.

  13. Re:Adjustment layers on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> It's been said that GIMP is one of the best Photoshop 3/4 clones around.

    > Except Photoshop 3 supported CMYK.

    He wasn't talking about Photoshop 3. He was talking about Photoshop 0.75. That has a lot less features...

  14. Re:Zero risk committee thinking on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 1

    The wikipedia link you gave is hilarious... See the Development Hell section giving movies who status has gone uncertian: # Duke Nukem: The Movie (2007) :)

  15. Re:A pre-packaged ISO, please... on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    I have been using Arch for a couple of years now and would recommend trying it if you have a bit of experience maintaining a Linux system. Take a look at the web page - http://www.archlinux.org/ . Uses the pacman management system, reasonably easy to use ascii-graphical (ncurses) installer, actively maintained, free. Its nice features are i686/x86_64 optimization and rolling release.

  16. Re:It's about time on KDE Readies KOffice 2.0 As OpenOffice Competitor · · Score: 1

    Bit of an exaggeration... my laptop boots in 15-20sec and OOo takes 5sec to open (Arch Linux).

  17. Re:Wow! on MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    TFA makes it fairly clear that this operatiion is based in Canada.
    You read TFA? Wow... just wow
  18. Re:marketing for the future! on Intel Purchases Havok · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course Intel could just leave them the hell alone and profit(?). No, no, no, no... its question mark then profit
  19. Re:huh? on NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've never done this myself but... Well Doctor, I've got this friend who has a problem...
  20. Re:Ah, Eudora on Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora · · Score: 1

    Yes, and coincidently so is ALF... in pog form

  21. Re:scifi tag? on One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's · · Score: 1

    In fact most of what appears to be the genome form the organism that mitochondria are derived from is now in the nuclear genome.

  22. Re:Bring down my system in 13 chars. on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words · · Score: 1

    Can anyone explain to me what this actually does. It has been my sig for ages to remind me to actually find out but I have never managed to find the time...

  23. Re:OpenOffice still has lots of problems ... on Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work · · Score: 1

    I still require a VM running XP and office just to load up word documents with equations in them. They render very, very, very wrong in OOo. I get documents like this on almost a daily basis so it is still rather annoying. There is still a long way to go for full MS Office compatibility but it is a lot better than it used to be. In all honesty, if I could get Office XP or 2003 running under wine, then I would use that over OOo.

  24. Re:My own DNA... on Music From DNA Patented · · Score: 1

    Then it will be about 99.9% similar to anybody elses "personalized song". Once people realize that then it will go the way of the Flaming Homer/Moe...

  25. Re:.... really funny old BBSpot article :-) on Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess · · Score: 3, Funny
    From BBSpot article:

    Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer said, "Microsoft will have to play catch up with the number of versions that Linux has, but we think we can do it. With the break up of Microsoft imminent that will instantly double the number of Windows versions available."
    It seems Microsoft did listen to this. The number of versions of Vista is almost at the 359 mark...