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  1. Re:OMG on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 1

    Duude, my first comment got a "Redundant" moderation right away; I didn't want this particular nugget to get "lost in the noise" so I posted again. You cost me karma man!!!

  2. OMG on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dude, this is so fucking lame, its not even funny. She's going to call up her mom...

    Kathleen: "Mom, Rob proposed!!"
    Mom: "GREAT!!! How big is the ring??"
    Kathleen: "Uhm... Well... There isn't a ring.."
    Mom: "Oh..... I see... How did he propose?"
    Kathleen: "Well.. It was on his website."
    Mom: "Run. Run Like Hell. Don't look back."

  3. Lame on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, this is so fucking lame, its not even funny. She's going to call up her mom...

    Kathleen: "Mom, Rob proposed!!"
    Mom: "GREAT!!! How big is the ring??"
    Kathleen: "Uhm... Well... There isn't a ring.."
    Mom: "Oh..... I see... How did he propose?"
    Kathleen: "Well.. It was on his website."
    Mom: "Run. Run Like Hell. Don't look back."

  4. The first thing I will do.... on Towards an Internet-Scale Operating System · · Score: 3, Funny

    cat > test.c

    int main() {

    while(1) fork();

    return(0);

    }

  5. I can't believe it!! on The Laid-off Techie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why, oh, why, don't all of you out of work open source hippies try to sell your software!!!

  6. Re:I'm living the fun on The Laid-off Techie · · Score: 1

    Why not just test out of the classes if you already know it?

  7. Re:it's not really open source on Myth 2 Server Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Dude lay off the rock candy, no one gives a shit about this.. How many posts have you made so far about it

  8. Re:License is not OSD compatible on Myth 2 Server Goes Open Source · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It's really too bad the Open Source trademark was rejected, because tactics like this lead to a lot of genuine confusion about what open source software really means.

    Moderators, this is not flamebait. If you disagree, simply post as such.

    Not really-- it simply means that them and most of us in the planet don't give two shits about a communistic GPL license or a trademark created for its henchmen.

  9. What you people don't understand... on Vermont Goes Opt-In, Corps Unhappy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is that people who run/work/clean businesses are also consumers. It's very likely that they understand mass marketing/solicitation benefits have on their companies, and as such, are unlikely to mind it too much.

  10. Re:Best Buy on NVIDIA Unveils (And Tom's Reviews) The GeForce4 · · Score: 1

    I think one could sufficently argue that $129.99 has a sufficent hamming distance from $399.99 that I can't be considered a typographical error.

    i.e,. H(129.99, 399.99) = 2
    in binary

    1000 0001.1111...
    1 1000 1111.1111...

  11. Commander Taco on The Napsterization of TV · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Has never seen a taco before in his life. I think he is gay.

  12. About your sig on A Kitchen Computer That's Actually Useful? · · Score: 1

    Why exactly is Linux free-er then FreeBSD?

  13. CmdrTaco really a worm? on Why Worm Writers Stay Free · · Score: -1, Troll

    He spreads his "so called" knoweldge to the mindless masses that is slashdot. Why does he live in Michigan? He should live on the LEFT COAST

  14. Re:Producing position from LatG, LongG, and FwdV on Physics For Game Developers · · Score: 1

    I tried posting sample code, but the lameass lameness filter caught it. Anywho, Calculus is easy. Here is a quick and dirty tutorial:

    If you have a polynomial in x, f(x) = a_0 + a_1 x + a_2 x^2 + ..., then

    The integral of f(x), F(x) is
    a_0 x + (a_1 / 2) x^2 + (a_2 / 3) x^3 + ...

    The derivative of f(x), f'(x) is
    2 a_1 x + 3 a_2 x^2 + 4 a_3 x^3 + ...

    Using this, you can translate that into psuedo code or whatever.. Just remember...

    If your acceleration is a(t), your velocity is v(t) = Integral of a(t) plus your initial veloctiy, your position s(t) = Integral of v(t) plus your initial position.

  15. Re:Producing position from LatG, LongG, and FwdV on Physics For Game Developers · · Score: 1

    You can only do a position function if you know the initial position. The rest is easy-- just use the numerical integration techniques the book talks about. It's simple calculus.

  16. Re:What a teaser! on Looking At Turing · · Score: 1

    Turing only answered the deciability question-- the other two were already answered.

  17. Re:Quotes from the LED Christmas lights page. on It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Quickies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    200,000 hours of Christmas lights... If you have them up and on for 30 days for eight hours a day (during the Christmas season)-- that's 833.33 Christmas's that these LEDs will last. Since no human being can live that long, 833.33 years, is, essentially, forever.

  18. Re:A race that still think digital watches are nea on Binary Watch · · Score: 1

    Right, I can think of thousands of uses right now! And not one of them involves telling time. This is a novelty item.

  19. Re:I wish on Email Turns Thirty · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it has more to do with the fact that you never get laid.

  20. Re:Enterprise movie? on Star Trek: Nemesis Gets the Go Signal · · Score: 1

    That would be awesome. In this week's episode it was made blatantly obvious that the Enterprise would be the sole cause for the Klingon war! (The temporal cold war with the Sakobahn? saving the ship from destruction!)

  21. Re:Tangential Google Question on The Problem of Search Engines and "Sekrit" Data · · Score: 1

    Intent

  22. Re:w00t? no dynamic class loading? on C# From a Java Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    I don't particulary like C# or Java, but I do some development on engineering web applications with Java servlets.

    Dynamically updating an application server is no big deal in my mind-- the only time it is _really_ useful is during development. Otherwise, it's a "nice" bonus, but not entirely useful.

    LISP and other interpreted enviornments have had this feature for years-- look where they are now.

  23. Your Mistakes on How Not To Ship Computers · · Score: 5, Informative

    You made a couple of mistakes...

    1. You shipped without insurance. Don't expect any money, ever, without some kind of lawsuit.
    2. You wrote fragile on the box. My roommate works for UPS and he tells me that if they see "Fragile" on the box, they will actually kick it around in the warehouse. A better bet next time would be to write "Indestructable" or some such.

    Sorry for your loss, but, yes you are up shit creek!

  24. Re:Download the demo or view gameplay movies HERE on Sir-tech Canada Releases Wizardry 8 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WHORE!! You are nothing but a Karma WHORE!

  25. Re:You'd think they could say why on SuperK Neutrino Detector Severely Damaged. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, maybe they can make all 30 million by selling GPL software!