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  1. Observe, our penninsula of masculinity on Catching Photons Coming from the Moon · · Score: 1

    Please Err, your buttocks are so small and square, it barely reads as a moon.

  2. Re:I agree on End of Win 98 Support May Boost Desktop Linux · · Score: 1
    Maybe it's not relevant to what you are doing, but I ran a PIC programming package under linux - http://pikdev.free.fr/ - which I found more reliable than WinPic.

    I'd be suprised if there is no GPL tool that suits your needs.

  3. Mama says on Portrait of an Identity Thief · · Score: 1

    "Mama says computers are the devil."

  4. I would like to donate on Is Distributed Computing Being Distributed Badly? · · Score: 1

    I would like to donate my spare cycles to the cause of global warming. Mostly because I'm freezing my ass off.

  5. word to the wise on How to Win on Ebay: Snipe · · Score: 1
    Google:: define:physics - Physics (from the Greek, (phusikos), "natural", and (phusis), "nature") is the science of Nature in the broadest sense. Physicists study the behavior and properties of matter in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).

    Ebay is a system composed of matter and energy. It's behavior is therefore open to study by physicists. Let's just hope they don't have a bunch of "Dark Money" in a PayPal account somewhere.

  6. Re:Physicists? on How to Win on Ebay: Snipe · · Score: 2, Funny
    there's a lot of work that can be done by people who aren't experts in the field but who do bring expertise from their own. Like physicists and their mathematical models.

    You know that and I know that, but try telling that to someone in HR.

  7. Re:swen yldraH:eR on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1

    I welcome the big crunch, I already believe in doG. Yep, brings the tennis ball back every time. It's a 10 sec leap of faith with unquestionable results.

  8. Re:On the other hand on Trojan Compromises Oregon Taxpayers · · Score: 1
    Freakin Idiot

    ...You're just jealous because I've been online all day talking to babes in chatrooms.

  9. Re:And God said to Noah... on Christian Science Monitor Putting OSS at the Helm · · Score: 1
    Thou shal build an ARK-ive

    Well that's not what I heard.
    You mean to say all this time I've worshipped the false idol known as "awk"?

  10. Re:Cautiously optimistic on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Released · · Score: 1
    Most of these scientist guys use Fortran 77

    In my experience, the above statement is apt.
    With Fortran 90 vectorization, staging of mathematics in Matlab, however handy, is almost moot.
    Most labs can bring in a first year grad student or senior undergrad and have them code up the experiment they dreamed last night in one day with f90. The next couple days they debug it. It is then assimilated into the main package within a summer. Now, those great open source guys have brought g95 to the table. Linux and UNIX rules in the parallel computing environments. It could be dethroned quite easily, but the usurper better be badass. The main hurdle to overcome is setting up a seamless environment that many users can crunch and offload tons of data. Make a couple small mistakes and the system blows up in your face. Administrators want to know why the quarter, half or full million dollar box won't work. (In some cases, such as petroleum exploration or the accelerators, you are losing that amount of money on a weekly basis if the system is down.) Angry scientists want to know where their hard fought data is. Compound that with the guys who work on this box have their main gig of handling a bunch of windows patches and mailservers. It's not an easy job.

  11. Software Engineers NEED a Professional Society on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    The professionalism is gone from software engineering.

    It grew from computer science with an influx of new systems and new employees in the '90's. Professionalism went out the window, long hair was grown. For 100 crappy, expensive projects, one survived. A negative image was burnt on people's minds.

    Next, the programmer started to become a blue collar worker. They do more for less pay, punch a clock and no one lets them make any business decisions.

    Now comes the next backlash, outsourcing. Very few company officers come from IT. Administration is in the dark about IT decisions. They rely on marketing information both coming and going to make decisions. IT gets pissed at installing yet another crap package and stupid patch. It's an US v. THEM situation.

    Every software developer that runs around saying "I don't care about the EVIL business side, I just want to program" this is your reward. Complete impotence.

    The solution: Software Engineer Professional society. One very effective Professional Society is the Society of Actuaries. They make GREAT money, business decisions and all they have to do is apply mathematics.

    dyslexics of America, Untie!

  12. cat 2.0 on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 1

    For four grand I have a few more demands:

    - The cat doesn't piss on everything.

    - The cat doesn't act like he owns the place.

    - There are two types of cats: the ones that run from me and the ones that spar with me. Lets eliminate the first type from the genetic pool. They suck.

    - The dander eliminated better not be the one that makes mice split. That's a deal breaker.

    In any case, I won't be a first adopter of this technology. Just like acquiring any other cat, you can wait until one shows up in your garage.

    "I don't know where they come from but they shore do come, I hope they're comin for me!" - the Nuge

  13. think of the energy benefits on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 1

    Think of all the energy we could muster by capturing all the hot air coming out of MIT.

    Yes I know they produce some very nice tech, but they also seem to speculate and use their good name in a loose manner lately.

  14. what now? on Verified: Record-breaking Pitfall! Run · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where do you go after this? My guess is to "Hunt the Wumpus"

  15. it's a nice idea on Making Science Machine Readable · · Score: 1

    To know if your proposal is overlapping or contradictory at a glance of a computer generated chart? This is something that takes years of experience and you can never really be sure.

    I wonder what other attempts at standardizing science have been made in the past?

  16. Put me down for one chicage six pack on Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    That's five Michael Jordans and a coach.

  17. Re:The "hilarious" is what he missed. on Dvorak on Our Modern World · · Score: 1
    and by seeing people of color eating side by side with white folk.

    With citizens and national guard taking pot shots at other people of color beside barbed wire and cactii.
    And the same citizens slapping each other on the back, exclaiming at their racial sensitivity.

    While the kids play video games where they get points for killing women and children beside barbed wire and cactii.

  18. I gave up on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1

    I gave up on spreadsheets when the formulas were not persisting through save and close cycles.

    I guess I'll never be a point and click user.

    If I can't do it in dc, bc or an awk one liner then I go ahead and write an awk script. If you can't "awk it" then R or Octave may be the solution. Want a nice binary? Use C or Fortran. Big thanks to those linux guys for putting all those tools into circulation. I just love to uncover a gem with man -k for command line use.

  19. Re:Abuses of Science on Abuses of Science Political Cartoon Contest · · Score: 1

    Yep that was shameful. Sadly, no one really batted an eyelid, almost like that's expected.

    I'm guessing the whole dark matter, dark energy, "you want dark with that" industry will be incrementally debunked and the public is going to want their money back. Cooperstock and Tieu

    I'd like to see a cartoon of scientists slapping high fives with the gods when one of their doomsday predictions finally comes through while mere mortals suffer, burn and drown. That's what we deserve for persecuting the scientists, you know, by giving them grant money, tenure, government jobs and the best tools money can buy.

  20. stem cell research on Michael Bloomberg Defends Science · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you don't think stem cell research should be tightly controlled,
    then I should be allowed to set up a human corpse rendering plant.
    Prostitution should be totally legal and I look forward to owning (hopefully not being owned) slaves.
    These are all markets in human flesh.

    Bloomberg, do you think an eighty year old rich guy or somone with a degenerative disease has a right to have their life extended at the cost of a new and potentially more fit life? That's what free trade in fetuses can garner, and it's counter-evolutionary.

    if ( democrat == republican ) money++

  21. using a cell phone for a web server on When Cellphones Become Webservers · · Score: 1

    beats the hell out of trying to talk on one.

  22. Brains on a chip on Scientists Couple Nerve Tissues With Computer Chip · · Score: 4, Funny

    makes for good eatin too!

  23. I never got it on Antarctic Blast Made Australia, Room For Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    What did it kill to pave the way for the dinosaurs? Orcs? Oompah Loompahs?

    Do the chickens have large talons?
    Boy, I didn't understand a word you just said.

  24. work is for jerks on On Point On Slacking · · Score: 1

    They want more and pay less every day. Almost everyone I know is over qualified and over educated. I've read indigenous people actually foraged, farmed or hunted for about 4 hours a day and the rest was gravy. I bet if one of those guys got stuck in traffic he'd think he was in hell.

  25. Re:what exactly is the news here? on Stem Cells in the Heart? · · Score: 1

    What are these "hearts" and where can we get more of them?