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  1. Re:Unless they're off the grid it isn't 100% on First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm an armchair moderator, you insensetive clod!

  2. Re:Unless they're off the grid it isn't 100% on First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered · · Score: 1

    That's all lies too, spread by BUSHITLAR. I read that as BULLSHITLIAR.. on and then there was HITLAR after as well, but it's spelled HITLER btw.
  3. Re:Wind can't do it. on First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered · · Score: 1

    Uh.. what does back to the future have to do with Wind Turbines? It is offtopic. EVERYONE has seen Back to the Future. I went to the opening showing 30 times! I had to find different ways of killing myself each time.

  4. Re:Xbox Fiasco, Zune, Vista, Stock Price on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 1

    Yep the auto setup is nice, but the account thing isn't just on our setup, I was reading about it online. It's possible that I and all the others screwed up the AD somehow, but I doubt it.. it's meant to be a bug when the user upgrades from Outlook 2003 to 2007

  5. Re:you suckz0rz! (just kidding) on Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? · · Score: 1

    And then if everyone to either side of you is yelling, the lights had just changed when you set off

  6. Re:Am I missing something here? on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    Personally I'd just use .= :

    while (Rand(10)>3)
    {
          $this .= 'a';
    }

    ;)

  7. Re:Community college on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 4, Funny

    apply what you learn to larger projects "Right, I see the problem here. We're going to need a really big springy wire.."
  8. Re:Ahhh.... yes.... on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 0

    return 0.0; Hehehe.. I wish zero wasn't standard for 'no errors' now... d'oh! Though you can do faces like that with any number I suppose. Fact that it's a float doesn't help either though, who wants to return floats for all their functions..
  9. Re:Bebop to the Boolean Boogie on Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use the html anchor tag - ie Your text here . You don't really need the quotation marks around the URL, but it won't hurt to use them either.

    You'd end up with Bebop Boolean Boogie Unconventional Electronics

    Tada! :p

  10. Re:What? on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's the manufacturer's job to support an OS, just the hardware. But I wouldn't know because I know how to use/fix computers anyway, I just phone up Dell when I need replacement parts..

  11. Re:Xbox Fiasco, Zune, Vista, Stock Price on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 1

    I guess saying it almost is 'Windows' was over the top, but it's definitely Windows Server at least.. if Exchange and Outlook weren't so useful to our company then I'd migrate (I almost did migrate to OpenExchange until we started using the DirectPUSH functionality of Exchange for getting email on our mobiles :/ )

  12. Re:Xbox Fiasco, Zune, Vista, Stock Price on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 1

    I've only ever used Visual C++ (okay so I've used Visual Basic as well, but I try not to remember that), and I just saw it as a nice IDE for doing C++ apps. All I've done in it was DLLs basically, and while DLLs are a Windows thing, the actual IDE and compiler probably wouldn't take much to port. I didn't see it as a Windows-application-making-tool, I just saw it as another IDE/compiler of many.. it would be a nice IDE to use on any platform.

  13. Re:Coloring every 3rd or 5th row helps too on Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? · · Score: 1

    Don't try 2-row striping -- for some reason it just looks wrong, like each pair is supposed to be related. Probably because it's just less common. Probably because the headings in tables are usually on a darker background (or for example, see the subject in every /. comment), so our brains kind of associate darker backgrounds with 'title' or 'important'?
  14. you suckz0rz! (just kidding) on Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? · · Score: 1

    What about white on green?

  15. Re:*snicker* on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    It's almost as if they had no means of chastisement other than their mouth.

  16. Re:Am I missing something here? on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 5, Funny

    $this = "madness";

    if ($this eq "madness")
    {
              $this = "sparta!!!! >(";
    }

  17. Re:Am I missing something here? on Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References · · Score: 1

    Well, one redeeming feature is that any hardware that the code runs on automatically creates a backup tape and uploads it to the net, so you never need to worry about backing up your application's data

  18. Re:Still torture on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 1

    It does if you're a politician. I'm not saying that's how it should be, but that's how they roll. It's all about word play with those pricks.. (mild apologies if you're a politician, but somehow I think not). I mean I like intelligent/humourous word play, but wordplay to try and weasel out of stuff, avoid questions or just to downright lie, is no fun to me.

  19. Re:What is the point exactly? on Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    I got the Wii not long after it came out in the UK (a couple of Christmases ago) so it's well past its warranty. It still works though, and my sister's won't care about a snowy effect, they're the sort of people who don't see the point in HD graphics and such and are more interested in dressing up their Mii's. So I left the Wii at home a couple of weeks ago and I think it will be happy there. My bro also wants to finish off Twilight Princess (as do I, but I haven't made the time for it, plus playing it will probably just remind me of a rather crappy period in my life, tis a bit pathetic really :P ). I'm happy just to let them have it rather than sell it, I don't tend to sell things even if I don't currently use them.

    GTA IV is now working in multiplayer! I think their servers were just suffering from a massive DDoS effect from all the PS3 and XBox owners in the world trying to connect at the same time last week :)

  20. Re:What is the point exactly? on Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Tis a good point. I'd never buy one myself, I just think it makes sense if you already have an X-Box. You could always put the X-Box in another room and use a mahusive cable, wireless transmitter, or stream the video somehow.

  21. Re:What is the point exactly? on Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    MS has a disadvantage here because they can't do neat tricks like deciding "we're not going to make any profit on parts X, Y, and Z until it costs less to produce them". For some reason didn't notice this before either, but MS were always making a deficit on the first X-Boxes weren't they? They can decide to do such things simply because they are rolling in teh cash.
  22. Re:Still torture on Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death · · Score: 1

    Aye. Unless you're Steven Seagal :p

  23. Re:What is the point exactly? on Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    They also probably fall way behind the baking industry, but that's comparing apples to oranges as they say. The DS is completely different to the main console market. Personally I prefer not to peer at a teeny screen all day when I have my HDTV and PS3 sitting there - I've only really used my DS when travelling or on holiday.

  24. Re:Why the Instant Dismissal? on Speed Racer's Visual FX Uncovered · · Score: 1

    The Flinstones was okay.. of course I was about 10 last time I saw it

  25. Re:Why the Instant Dismissal? on Speed Racer's Visual FX Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Yeah it was, but if the guy had been paying any attention to the posts, he would have known.