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  1. Re:Hypocrit. on Programming Ruby · · Score: 1
    I think he was being sarcastic.

  2. Re:The most innane Slashdot comment in a long whil on Programming Ruby · · Score: 1
    Ruby is _not_ sold in fact. It is free to use and its authors make no effort to "sell" it

    Do you always taker everything so literally? "Sold," in this case, means promoted or evangelized.

  3. Re:Cookers on Is Your P4 Working At Half Speed? · · Score: 1
    The sig is stored with your user record and appended to any posts as they're served.

    I never saw your previous sig, so I still don't know why that other guy said the thing about lime-aid.

  4. Re:Bonobos are more than that; they're people too on Bonobo 1.0 released · · Score: 1
    Moderated 27 times! Is that a record?

  5. Re:Cookers on Is Your P4 Working At Half Speed? · · Score: 1
    But now that you've changed your sig the comment makes no sense.

  6. is there some reason? on Is Your P4 Working At Half Speed? · · Score: 5
    s there some reason to prefer a chip for not having this capability?

    Perhaps there's a reason to prefer a chip that doesn't get so hot in the first place. I heard Motorolla and IBM make one, and that some company has released a Unix variant that runs pretty well on it.

  7. Re:There is a way on Music Industry Raids Taiwan Campuses For MP3s · · Score: 1
    intreging, dod, sueing, authoroties, causeing, unnsacary, stressfull

    I'd like to see your exam results.

  8. Re:Legal terrorism by corporations on Music Industry Raids Taiwan Campuses For MP3s · · Score: 1
    It's the substance you put into it that they'll have to bust you for, and not the medium of consumption itself.

    Like guns, for instance. Oh wait, bad example.

  9. Re:For those who actually READ the article... on AFTRA Halts Many Radio Stations' Webcasts · · Score: 1
    the proper form of "its" is "its" not "it's". i was protecting myself from his grammar mistake.

    In this case "it's" is a contraction of "it has." What he said "the best it's ever been." There was no mistake from which to protect yourself (except, of course, from putting [sic] in there ;-)

  10. Re:For those who actually READ the article... on AFTRA Halts Many Radio Stations' Webcasts · · Score: 1
    For an excellent article on the subjct of why radio currently sucks, check out Pay for Play on Salon.

    So the record companies shell out big bucks to get songs played on the radio, and yet they turned down Napster's billion dollar offer to get their songs played for free?

  11. Re:For those who actually READ the article... on AFTRA Halts Many Radio Stations' Webcasts · · Score: 1
    Why is the only prejudice it's PC to have is anti-Christian prejudice?

    It's still ok to make jokes about fat people, too.

  12. Re:For those who actually READ the article... on AFTRA Halts Many Radio Stations' Webcasts · · Score: 1
    Why did you put that [sic] in there?

  13. Re:AutoGoogler is better than "Quick-click" on 101 Dumbest Dot-Com Moments · · Score: 1
    Nice.

  14. Re:Another question!!! on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    If you want to be picky. how could you possibly swap two numbers? You can swap variables, but if you do it through arithmetic trickery you are introducing a bug waiting to happen. The proper answer to the problem is that you can't do it. A solution that works almost all the time is no solution at all.

  15. Re:Weird Al system on Rec.humor.funny Threatened by MasterCard · · Score: 1
    You can record any song you want, you just gotta pay royalties. One exception, the author has the right to first performance.

  16. Re:Another question!!! on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    Unless a and b are the same variable, in which case you'll end up with 0, as might happen if looping through an array with an odd number of elements.

  17. Re:100% accuracy for three players on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    Very good, except that it violates most of the rules.

  18. Re:7 hats case on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    In about 2/3 of the cases the above strategy wins. Now the problem is, I don't really see how to improve on this.

    Minimum must be 75%, since that's what the three hat game yields, and all games can be played like the three player version (all other players are ignored.)

  19. Re:similair hat problems on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    How did he know?

    Because the guy behind him didn't.

  20. Re:Solutions to 5hat (and guess about N^2 hat) on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    In the math world this can't really be done. There is no way to decide which player to ignore.

    Before the game they say "Harry, we're going to ignore you." Not too tricky.

  21. Re:Get it right 7/8 of the time... on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    I know this doesn't follow the "everybody guess at the same time rule

    It hardly follows any of the rules. They play as a team. If one is wrong the team loses.

  22. Re:Alternate hat problem on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    The person at the back of the line says what the parity of the 9 hats in front of him is. Person 9 computes the parity of the people in front of him, and deduces his hat color.

    If they can talk to each other, then why not just say "Hey buddy, your hat is blue."

  23. Re:Hats problem on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    I don't know, it's an interesting problem, but not really that difficult.

    It's even more interesting if you follow the rules of the problem. There is no "first speaker."

  24. Re:Math + Usefullness on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    your wrong.

    My wrong?

  25. Re:Math + Usefullness on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1
    Hey, how'd you slip that HR into your sig?