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  1. Re:Code forks... on Open Source Database Underdogs · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What's the problem here? We've got and open source database that's being developed in two somewhat different directions by NuSphere and MySQL AB ... seems like in the end it'll lead to two different, but each (for their intended applications) excellent products. I just don't see a problem.

    Maybe I'm just being dense (first reply: "Yes, you're fscking dense!")

    Yes, you're fucking dense.

  2. Re:How do I view it? on Knuth's Volume IV Preview Available Online · · Score: 1

    Simple. I opened up my cygwin client and typed

    $ gunzip fasc2a.ps.gz

    And it gave me an error message; At that point, I renamed the file and opened it up in Ghostview.

  3. Re:How do I view it? on Knuth's Volume IV Preview Available Online · · Score: 1

    Winzip just opens it and asks what kind of files I want to add to the archive!?!?

    Winzip is slightly confused here. IE, the browswer that you saved the file, uncompressed the file on the fly, but retained the extension.

    Simply renaming the file from fasc2a.ps.gz to fasc2a.ps will fascilitate viewing, presuming you do have a Postscript viewer on your system.

    (if you don't get GSview)

  4. Re:Another comic on Comic Books And The Internet, Continued · · Score: 1

    Just who do u think you are stealing my last name?

  5. Re:Immortal on The Immortal Cell · · Score: 2

    She is immortal and she has never even met Conor McCloud from the Clan McCloud ;-)
    Of course she did. How do you think she died?

  6. Old News on Are The Digits of Pi Random? · · Score: 1

    There has existed an algorithm to find the nth hexadecimal digit of PI for a couple of years now. It seems to me, going from hex to binary is trivial.

    More info can be found http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/plouffe/scimath.txt - there.

  7. Re:data != useful infomation on Casinos Hit the Data Jackpot · · Score: 1

    your sig always evaluates to (define-question 1) since b + b' = 1 (in boolean algebra anyways)

  8. Re:Likely cause on On the Definition of a Hostile Network Connection? · · Score: 1

    All I can say is... LOL!

  9. Re:Were screwed I think on Experiment Shows Neutrinos Have Mass · · Score: 1

    Why are you using my TV show's tag line? It is _mine_

  10. Review Writing on Myst III: Exile Review · · Score: 1

    I used to write reviews for a web-zine that I won't mention. I _never_ wrote a good review; of all the games, books and operating systems that were sent to me, they all sucked.

    Then my editor quit his job and I got a new one. And he didn't like my negativity. So I quit.

    Hmmph.

  11. Re:damn and i voted Gore on Solar Power Satellites by 2020? · · Score: 1

    is nonsense, but Bush wants to let his Big Oil buddies drill wherever the hell they want, and hopes the threat of $3/gal gas will do a lot to put the public on his side.

    Why do people say that?

    Did you know that Mr. Bush had a bigger house in Texas then he did now? Did you know that Mr. Bush AND his vice president _SOLD_ all of their stocks and interests in ANY OUTSIDE INTEREST when they did not have to?

    Did you know that the left rehashes the same arguments over and over and over again? Where exactly are Mr. Bush's oil buddies? What are their names? Why are the democrats insisting that Bush's plan is crap when they have NO PLAN of their own? Why are they avoiding a solution?

    Why?

  12. Damnit, my name is Rick on The Worst Of Times · · Score: 1

    And I am suing you!!!!

  13. Re:Great,your alma mater can spam you for donation on A Diploma and an Email Account for Life · · Score: 1

    your sig is in direct violation of my copyright. --bilbo baggins

  14. Re:oh no! on The New Flatland · · Score: 1

    dude you need to fix your web-page. the color scheme is nasty

  15. Re:profits? on ArsDigita CEO & VCs Sue Philip Greenspun · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are grammatically wrong. When you refer to a word or a phrase in a sentence, it should either be in quotes or italisized (sic).

    Your last paragraph should read:

    The excuse me is the preface as to why the question was asked. The way you have it, Excuse Me is a statement. The question following it could be applied to anything.

  16. Re:Usar Freindly? on Online Comics Syndication in XML · · Score: 1

    OMG!

    That was the funniest thing i've seen all day!

  17. Re:timestamp -- divine intent! on The Quickly Descending Unix Timestamp · · Score: 1

    My catch 3-syllable acronym for the 2038 bug is....

    Y38

  18. Re:This is a moral outrage! on Yahoo! To Start Selling Porn · · Score: 5

    do u have any nudes

  19. Re:I wonder on Diablo II: Lord of Destruction · · Score: 1

    Generally, it's the Democrats and Pyschopath liberals who limit our free-speech and decry violence in video games.

    Republicans (the decent ones) are the only people I lknow that don't have their head buried up their ass.

  20. Re:Not all proofs are valid on Negative Index of Refraction Created · · Score: 1

    Quite possibly they would;

    If indeed we are living in a "Matrix" as depicted by the popular movie of the same name, we all only "believe" what we see; If for some reason, the "SYSOP" of the "Matrix" happened to change his "COMPUTER RULES" everytime we revised our "PHYSICS THEORIES" birds would fall from the sky.

    For example, in the margin of this comment, I have proof that the speed of light DOES NOT remain constant in all situations;

    i.e., The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote are running away from each other at the speed of c/2 (each); However, the Road Runner, gets a little "turbo-boost" from eating his "SPINACH" and starts travelling a little bit faster, say "c/2 + 3"; Therefore I am right and the birds will fall from the sky.

  21. Re:Anyone familiar w/ Emily Rosa? on Georgia Teen Stumbles On New Theorem · · Score: 1

    I went and search google about Miss Rosa; it seems to me that these two cases are entirely different. The gentlemen in this article didn't have parents that were very much against "theraputic touch" helping him.

    Oh well.. I just hope Emily's ego doesn't get too big.



  22. Re:Ingenious... on Paper Phones · · Score: 1

    I've tried very hard to curb my cigarette butt throw-out-the-window habit.

    However, I have found that my ash tray fills out in O(n!) time! What do I do with this waste? I could pull it out my car during gas-ups, but then all of the ashes fly all over the place-- since I live in the ghetto and am I white cracker, I have reason to believe my life would be in jeopardy if I did that.

    Other alternitives? I can think of none besides throwing them out the window. One of nature's greatest light shows happens when you throw a burning cig out the window going 80 mph down the expressway. It is utterly fantasitc.

  23. Re:Integrated Circuits on Silicon LED · · Score: 1

    Fraid not d0000d; only the semi-conductor transistors have very minute amounts of germanium and what not. For the most part they are silicon.

    I imagine there will be some capacitance problems if they make say an entire chip out of silicon

  24. Re:Only Americans are stupid enough to use PHP. on Announcing PHP-GTK · · Score: 1

    LIAR

  25. Re:Why this is a good thing. on Announcing PHP-GTK · · Score: 1

    Retard.