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  1. Re:As always... on New Evidence for Open Universe · · Score: 1
    Feynman, not Russell.

  2. Re:Open Standards, hmm? on Windows Exec Doug Miller Responds · · Score: 1
    Then why didn't the italics work? He posted in plain text mode.

  3. Re:OS X software on OS X · · Score: 1
    If you wanted extra, you had to buy it.

    Well if it were included it wouldn't be extra then, would it?

  4. Re:OS X software on OS X · · Score: 1
    Notice how, in every way, this "budget PC" beets the cheapest iMAC in terms of performance.

    Beets? If you're going to use vegetables you could have said squashes.

  5. Re:Extreme Programming == Insult on "Extreme" Programming · · Score: 1
    I've yet to find any OO programer (C, C++, Java, whatever) who doesn't dig patterns.

    I know a couple. But I suspect that this is one of those statements where if someone doesn't like patterns then "they must not really be an OO programmer."

  6. Re:Open Source It on Trying To Save HyperCard For Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    Cars and buses run on exploding dinosaurs, right?

    That's pretty funny and I'd probably steal it, except that it's pretty much debunked that oil came from dinosaurs. There's just way too much of the stuff.

  7. Re:What the hell does "L337" mean?? on Trying To Save HyperCard For Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    Ok , and what the f**k does "leet" mean??

    Did you even try to figure it out? Let's see, what does "leet" sound like? Hmmm... it's probably something complimentary, since that's the way it gets used, even in sarcasm...Nope. Can't think of any word that sounds like leet. Dang, if only I could figure it out then maybe I could become a member of this elite group. But no - I give up.

  8. Re:2 years uptime on a laptop??? on Trying To Save HyperCard For Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    Did you miss this part?:
    It has been plugged in on my desk since about a month after I moved into the apartment

  9. Re:I WUZ ROBBED on Stop Worrying About Asteroids · · Score: 1
    Who's Rupert?

  10. Re:This isn't a brain teaser.. on Geek Brain Teasers · · Score: 1
    When attempting to explain this problem I've had the most success with:

    If you trade, the only time you don't get the car is when you picked it in the first place, which was obviously a 1/3 chance. So trading gets the car 2/3 of the time.

  11. Re:Another puzzle. on Geek Brain Teasers · · Score: 1
    No, there has to a stipulation as to the minimum number of muddied foreheads. Otherwise there's information to be had from seeing the other kids, and so no way to reason it out.

    If at least one kid is known to have mud, then if a kid sees exactly one muddied forehead then he knows his is also muddy, because if it weren't then the muddied kid he sees would see two kids without mud and know that he is the one. Since he's not saying anthing, he doesn't see two clean foreheads.

  12. Tivo gets a slashdot effect on TiVo Usage Info Collected For Sale · · Score: 1
    I imagine at this point in time slashdot readers are more likely than the average person to own a tivo. This means that the data will be skewed, and that the future of network television could have a heavy slashdot influence.

    This is really good. Or maybe it's worst thing that could possibly happen.

  13. Re:Excellent Point on Programmers for Scientific Research? · · Score: 1
    It's also been my experience that talented programmers are few and far between.

    Talented anything is rare, simply because that's what shapes the definition of talented.

  14. Re:Speaking of Costa Rica on Red Hat Breaks Even, Beats Street Estimate · · Score: 1
    offline reply sent.

  15. Re:Only on Wall Street on Red Hat Breaks Even, Beats Street Estimate · · Score: 1
    I could buy six or seven nice houses here for $600K.

    Really? Where's that? I'm in Costa Rica and even here I can't buy a nice house for $100K.

  16. AMD strategy on AMD Challenges P4 With 1.33Ghz · · Score: 2
    This is very clever on AMD's part. By moving the Athlon line to the 266 DDR EV6 bus, AMD now can increase overall system performance and finally take full advantage of PC133 SDRAM and PC2100 DDR, something which Intel has not as yet been able to do. AMD is also mimicking (almost mocking, in fact) Intel's now standard move of continuing to produce 200 MHz DDR processors in higher and higher speeds.

  17. Re:Um... I don't think he wrote that farewell... on Bush Won't Be "The Online President" · · Score: 1
    I lost interest in tracking all the ins and outs of our nations capital

    I don't know the exact number, but it's pretty damn big. Trillions and trillions of dollars.

  18. Re:Bush already encrypts his e-mail! on Bush Won't Be "The Online President" · · Score: 1
    Dubya scored higher on all standard test both him and gore took.

    That would be "both he and Gore."
    So I'm guessing he also scored higher than you.

  19. Re:Please Mod Humorless Nerd Down on Illegal Prime Number Unzips to DeCSS · · Score: 1
    at his age he has a right to be a dirty old man!

    You do realize how silly that sounds, don't you?

  20. Re:We create math everyday. on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1
    Take any web page with a link, select View Source (or the equivalent), then look for the href. Copy that.

  21. Re:Like Any Another on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1
    You take this moderation thing way too seriously.

  22. Re:2 + 2 = ? on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1
    I am so glad that I live in a world where a persons intelligence can so adequatly be judged by an AC reading one comment that I wrote in an off hand moment of boredom.

    So then do you agree that the post was moronic, and attribute that fact to your earlier boredom?
    If instead you defend your post, then why offer the excuse?

  23. Re:2 + 2 = ? on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1
    You can't start a definition 'freedom is the freedom...' It's circular.

    Right is the right to say 2 + 2 = 4.

  24. Re:2 + 2 = ? on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1
    Add two clouds together, how many clouds do you have?

    Now you're just playing word games. You're actually saying "blend" or "Merge" but you're saying it with a phrase that contains the word "add," which allows you the word play of making it seem equal to arithmetical addition.

  25. Re:Situation of modern mathematics ;-) on The "Omega Number" & Foundations of Math · · Score: 1
    pi is 3. The Bible says so.

    in First Kings 7:23 it says that an altar in Solomon's temple was ten cubits across and thirty cubits in diameter, and that it was round.

    Therefore, pi = 3, or at least it was at the time of the writing. After that God found the bug in his code and saw that he had written if(pi = 3), when he should have written if(pi == 3). Shortly thereafter, mathematics was born.