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  1. Re:No on Is Innovation the Most Abused Word In Business? · · Score: 1

    I always thought the abused word was "REVOLUTIONARY".

    "It's a revolution in _________"

    Small minds can only think of big imaginary things, especially in the marketing department.

  2. Re:Silly on Confessions of a Left-Handed Technology User · · Score: 1

    Try any Adobe product. With your left hand on the mouse, try using copy/paste. The left-handed shortcut is CTRL+INS/SHIFT+INS. This works on virtually every windows application, EXCEPT those made by Adobe where you are forced to use the right-handed CTRL+C/CTRL+V, which is virtually impossible to do with your left hand on the mouse. As a web UI dev, this is a complete pain is the ass.

  3. Re:OK, show of hands ... on Resurrect Your Old Code With a DIY Punch Card Reader · · Score: 1

    In Grade 11 (1982) we were forced to use he punch-card machines in com-sci class for the first week. The deck would be sent over to the Board of Ed office and run on their machine overnight, then your printout would be sent back to your school the next day. It was a lesson in being accurate and checking your work, which was sadly lost on the bunch of us.

    Then came the day where I found this drawer where all the "holes" went. This resulted in a big confetti fight in the teacher's parking lot.

    Next week we moved onto using the TRS-80 Model One, with casettes. Oh joy!

  4. Re:Hand code or no code. on Ask Slashdot: Value of Website Design Tools vs. Hand Coding? · · Score: 1

    I agree. WYSIWIG is handy for marking-up blocks of *copy* with pre-defined styles. It ends there. Professional drivers don't use automatic transmissions, they do it manually, so should any self-respecting web developer.

  5. Re:This is insulting... on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    This is insulting to journalists.

    Whenever they use the term "software program", I think -- what else would it be, a "hardware program"? It's right up there with "ATM Machine", which would be an automatic teller machine machine. A machine that makes ATMs! I want one.

  6. Re:Insurance? on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 3, Funny

    PI = 3

  7. Legitimate businessmen? on James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation · · Score: 0

    "a carefully orchestrated exposure of a fraudulent religious organization".

    Aren't all religions fraudulent? Show me the evidence.

  8. This coffee sucks on Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone in an apartment above my local Starbucks named their network "This coffee sucks". It certainly gave me a smile.

  9. Re:notepad++ dude. on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 1

    WYSIWYG editors are never true representations of what you're going to see in a browser (choose which one) anyway. You're far better off simply previewing in the browser and using Firebug Etc. to be your "split view".

    There are some things that are useful in DW - such as table manipulation, which I found indispensable when doing online annual reports and similar work. Paste-from-Word is also useful. Aside from that, the WYSIWYG is a bit of a crutch. DW the right tool.....sometimes.

  10. Re:Amusing on Are Programmers Ruining the Design of eBooks? · · Score: 1

    So the author of the article is somehow responsible for the site's design?

  11. Re:They may be mocking the price but on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear if you coat the wire in blue sharpie it makes it work even better!

  12. Re:Queue the screams of hysteria on The Fjord-Cooled Data Center · · Score: 2

    Toronto has been using this technology for years (http://www.enwave.com/district_cooling_system.html), taking water from deep in Lake Ontario and cooling office towers downtown. No worry about the lake warming up - it gets refereshed every year with this thing called "Winter".

  13. Resurrection failures on Atari C&Ds Emulators, Site About Asteroids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    8-bit Atari is to Atari is like Duke Nukem is to Duke Nukem Forever.

  14. Borrowing? on Canadian Library to Loan Out People · · Score: 1

    Isn't this already called "tutoring"?

  15. Re:The longer answer. on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Years ago we found our FTP server was full. It was hacked and contained all kinds of movies and xbox games. We just happened to like movies and xbox games, so we gave it a bit more space.

  16. Re:no substitute for the real thing on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    I used to play Duke Nukem 3D multi-player over Kali (on the net) with Friends. It was a lot of fun. I've never been able to get it working properly on the 'net with anything newer than Win98. I used to keep a separate box round, just for that. I've probably tried a dozen emulators, not no luck. I miss my laser trip-bombs. Not even DOSBox could make it work.

  17. Re:Metapatent? on IBM Files the Patent Troll Patent · · Score: 1

    I'm going to patent the process of patents. Nyah!

    This will be the death of us all.

  18. Canaduh on CBC Bans Use of Creative Commons Music On Podcasts · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Harper government has recently muscled in on political control over what government scientists can say publicly. The tar sands (re-branded as oil sands) is an ecological disaster. The list goes on. Don't expect sanity from this band of leaders.

  19. Improving 10101010$$$ on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the blue marker on the rim of a CD trick from the 90s. Of course that was bogus too.

  20. Re:$100 discount? on iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic" · · Score: 1

    I guess magic has more power when you're dumb and rich.

  21. Legislating your own reality on Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate Change · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    New legislation: pi = 3

  22. Re:So we can't afford Patrolling Police Officers.. on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nothing will be able to stop my Fake Crime Street Theater gang. I'll keep those snoopers glued to their monitors for years. Crimes that never happen. Victims who don't exist. Jam the system.

  23. Re:jQuery, dojo, prototype, ExtJS, ... oh my on Learning Ext JS · · Score: 1

    The same argument could be made for server-side languages.

    Who cares, just use the one you like.

  24. Cold water cooling on Using the Sea To Cool Your Data Center · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Toronto already uses cold water cooling for air-conditioning many of its office towers in the downtown core and has for many years. (see: http://www.enwave.com/dlwc.php). Unless winter never visits Canada again, this is cold body is self-replenishing.

  25. Blowing a circuit - with air on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In college I built a divide-by-eight counter in pneumatics. One reciprocating cylinder was the "clock" signal, the rest was a bunch of pneumatic shuttle valves. Problems arose because I kept needing to increase the air pressure to move some of the switches because they were spring-loaded. The air hoses started to pop off their fasteners so it took a lot longer to get the assembly working that I had anticipated (talk about blowing a circuit). It did manage to get me an exemption from the rest of the labs though.