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  1. Re:Retarded anyway on SMS vs. E-mail? · · Score: 1

    your 8290 is huge! Go to japan. Three years ago they were smaller (and with 8 bit color screens)

  2. Re:dumbest environmental actions on Eco-Terrorism · · Score: 1
    you've never heard of greenpeace?

    They ram fishing boats and leave the innocent crews to drown and the fuel to leak into the ocean (find your own link)

  3. Check your sig on Eco-Terrorism · · Score: 1

    more proof that the Canadian is not our friend

  4. Re: Robots and Aliens on Review: A.I. · · Score: 1

    Was there any other point in the movie where everyone in the theater was not absolutely clear what was being presented?

  5. Re:Come on!!!! on Review: A.I. · · Score: 1

    yeah, drama's usually have shit effects, if any at all

  6. Re:A.I review. on Review: A.I. · · Score: 1

    did the teddy bear have a red dress?

  7. Formulae on Review: A.I. · · Score: 1

    Buck Teeth + Big Eyes = Talent
    Dead Guy's Name + FX = Vision

  8. I read the first paragraph of JohnKatz's review on Review: A.I. · · Score: 1

    I don't know if he always was, but he is parodying himself.

  9. Everyone's talking about heat on 1/4 Width Rack-mount Linux Servers · · Score: 1
    but they're missing the point. If you use exactly the same number of servers in a rack you get hella airflow.

    Say you've want a rack like this:

    • 4U UPS
    • 7U Raid
    • 4U Backup
    • 1U Switch
      +
    • 20 unit Beowulf cluster!!

    That gets pretty crowded with 1U machines. And hot! But if those 20 machines only take up 5U, then things aren't going to get so hot. I assume there's at least a bit of insulation on the sides of the unit, so the heat will go out the top or bottom. Given the size, though, probably not.

  10. x86-64 (tm) ??? on NetBSD Ported to AMD x86-64 (Sledgehammer) · · Score: 1

    If intel couldn't trademark x86, (that's why they called the 586 "pentium") then why can AMD trademark x86-64?

  11. We are not turing machines on Cyc System Prepares to Take Over World · · Score: 1

    Simple test: what is ten divided by three?

  12. Re:Penrose should stick to physics on Cyc System Prepares to Take Over World · · Score: 1

    I can't begin to tell you why my C program always crashes, or why the quadratic formula works.

  13. Re:Only if you don't understand them on Cyc System Prepares to Take Over World · · Score: 1
    Who are you placing the blame on. Before you get started, you are the one assuming there is blame and that it must be directed at someone.

    Treating depression with a chemically induced "high" is not a natural restoration of balance any more than a steroid inhalent cures athsma. Or maybe you've found the "cure" for schizophrenia?

    Recognizing something doesn't make it real. Don't tell me you (or your selected group of experts) has never made a faulty assumption.

  14. Re:No problemo... on Cyc System Prepares to Take Over World · · Score: 1

    have you tried to turn off a PC nowadays. It aint easy. Most of them calmly ignore you for 7 seconds before thinking about it. You think you'll just pull the cord, but wait till the UPCs are internalized. Think you'll swipe the memory? Computers have had internal persistent storage (hard drives) for a while now? Ever done a network backup? Think your BIOS will protect you? Linux will get you around that?

  15. Re:Would by zealots, for zealots be better? on IDC Analyst Dan Kusnetzky Explains the Numbers · · Score: 1
    you can't prove a negative.

    Lots of people are able to crash exchange, but because you haven't yet, you'd refute all their claims?

  16. Two questions answered here on IDC Analyst Dan Kusnetzky Explains the Numbers · · Score: 1

    I really can't speak to this issue directly...
    "Do you think that there exists a possibility...of self-fulfilling analysis...?"

    and

    "Do those who fund a study influence how the study turns out?"

    but not this one

    "But how is policing done when the analysts don't analyze very well?" "

  17. Re:what is wrong with that? on Bill Gates Says GPL Is Like Pac-Man · · Score: 2
    I work construction. While it takes a certain amount of practice to cut a board straight and some knowledge to meet safety codes, anyone can learn it. It is doing the job that I'm paid for.

    I have a friend who is a tax accountant. Definitely an arcane field based entirely on his knowledge. But every bit of it is public knowledge. You or I could figure out the tax code, and even charge to prepare other people's taxes if we wanted to. But he is willing to do it. A lot of people arent.

    ps. I helped him get his modem working when he upgraded to windows 2000 from win98. He was about to take it to a shop where they charge $40 an hour, even though he could have done it himself if he wanted to invest the time. After all, his hardware *is* supported and microsoft clearly documented their bug and patch.

  18. Re:Microsoft is like a bad analogy factory... on Bill Gates Says GPL Is Like Pac-Man · · Score: 1
    I paid $200 dollars for my browser, then I had to uninstall it, download an older version (4.01) to get a "windows update" so I could use the taskbar on NT, then download the current version of the browser again and re-install.

    free!

  19. Re:ever been to a rave? on Bill Gates Says GPL Is Like Pac-Man · · Score: 1

    by the way, its a fake quote.

  20. Re:ever been to a rave? on Bill Gates Says GPL Is Like Pac-Man · · Score: 1

    ever been to a rave? No one there has even heard of pac-man. Most wouldn't recognize mario bros. if they saw it.

  21. I usually think of Atari as a Pac-Man entity on Bill Gates Says GPL Is Like Pac-Man · · Score: 1

    not linux (xchomp) and not windows (scandisk?)

  22. It's official on Mad Scientists' Club Returns To Print · · Score: 1
    Slashdot is now a targetted spam filter.

    I didn't read any of those books, so I don't fit the demographic, but I guess its a higher grade of spam that usenet still.

  23. Re:Where MBA programs fail on What is the Value of an MBA to a Techie? · · Score: 1
    you were born to success and wish to remain in it, so you hire the people to accomplish the mundane tasks of making more money, expanding market share, receiving a higher A.C.R.O.N.Y.M., right?

    But it's a good think we have people like you because it would never occur to anyone else to actually want to increase market share or make more money. We need goal setters.

    Understand the the process but not the problem. Gotcha.

  24. Re:MBA on What is the Value of an MBA to a Techie? · · Score: 1

    with an MBA you would have never learned what you know now. You would have watched your business crumble around you (if you'd ever started it) and impotently scream "But my (professor/textbook/tv show) said it worked that way."

  25. Re:Some thoughts from an MBA student on What is the Value of an MBA to a Techie? · · Score: 1

    good luck in dotcom 2.0