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  1. Re:Smoke Screen on Kyoto Protocol Comes Into Force · · Score: 1, Funny

    In the current administration, our president actually has a pair, so I seriously doubt "World Pressure" will force the US (us) to join Kyoto. If the rest of the world believes in it so much, there is always force, no? Attack the states with your solar powered tanks and water powered machine guns! Force us (US) into submission!

  2. Re:Ahhh, the wonders of the internet! on Stonehenge Version 2.0 Completed · · Score: 1

    This last Christmas season, my wife and I went to a production known as "The Madrigal Diners"; anyway, long story short, on our table was a cheese and vegetable tray. I promptly ate all of it and asked the waitress for more. She brought me out at least 2 pounds of swiss cheese (as a joke). I decided I did not really want to eat that much swiss and built "Cheesehenge" out out of it instead in between acts.

    But I see now that I infringed on "Ben and Bob Production"'s IP and am headed to the authorities now to turn myself in.

  3. Re:Silly on Square-Enix Bans Over 800 FFXI Accounts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Rogues could do it with vanish.
    Hunters too with feign death (maybe).
    The transporting "exploit" you mentioned involved a rogue stealthing through an instance (monsters don't stop chasing you in an instance), aggro'ing the mob and having a warlock teleport him back to the group. This effectively "skips content" and is against Blizzard's policy.

  4. Re:Thank Goodness... on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Another North Korea: (Let's ignore the human rights issues at the moment) A country that has the ability to obliterate one of it's neighbors and uses that fact for negotiations.

    As I already said, I don't know all of the reasons Bush and Co invaded Iraq

  5. Re:Thank Goodness... on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't pretend to know all of the administrators motives for invading Iraq, but I assure you, my original post was one of them.

  6. Re:Thank Goodness... on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: -1, Troll

    You don't realize that we had to invade Iraq just so that it would not become another North Korea? Anyway, laugh it up, all the dead soldiers appreciate it.

  7. Re:Proposal doesn't go far enough on Fans Attempting to Pay for Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Wow, thanks for taking the time to define that word for us stupid slashdolters so that we may better understand your pun. I humbly appreciate your kind gesture.

  8. Re:Too bad they don't get that way about RL on The Million-Gnome March · · Score: 1

    What kind of pompous asshole are you? No, really? I mean Jesus Christ, they participate in a friggin make believe demonstration and you are able to somehow draw conclusions about their apathy? What a load of shit.

  9. Re:Why not GnuCash? on Intuit Disables Features in Quicken To Force Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I use it on Mac OS X. For nearly two years now.

    But... I don't use online banking with it (or with anything else).. What is the point in reconciling your accounts if you use information the bank gives you?

  10. Might be true for very large systems on Custom Software vs. COTS Products · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But the places I have worked, there are thousands, if not more, of tiny business processes that would be a waste of time for a commercial company to develop a "solution" for.

  11. Re:In other news on IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005 · · Score: 1

    You realize that "500% on a 35 year investment" is only about 4.7% interest per year?

  12. Re:Most likely ( and constant ) plot. on EA Considering Sims TV Show · · Score: 1

    Oops, I meant 1996. Damn education system. I blame it all on Carter.

  13. Re:Most likely ( and constant ) plot. on EA Considering Sims TV Show · · Score: 1

    November, 1995, to be precise.

  14. Re: Alvin Smith and Mormonism on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 2, Informative

    I, really, still do not see it. Maybe I would have to actually read the last book in the series. I see the overtones of a messiah, but.. come on? The only similarities I see are that Smith and Maker both wandered around the country picking up supporters.

  15. Re:Focus on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Alvin Maker series is set before Joseph Smith and I fail to see (other than the author's questionable religion) how the two are related.

  16. Re:Great, but... on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 1

    I think everyone in their right mind will know that it is fiction... considering everyone has magical powers called knacks, etc. It's an alternative history and doesn't pretend to be otherwise.

    (That being said, the series went down hill after book 3 or so, and was has gotten so bad I never finished the Crystal City)

  17. Re:Guild Wars - The Next Gen Online RPG on Guild Wars Final Beta This Friday · · Score: 1

    There is an end game in WoW? Where?

  18. Re:And, oh yeah, don't forget... on Apple Offers Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update · · Score: 1

    I have a DP 866 G4, 1GB Ram, which is below the system specs. The only time I have had noticable performance problems is when I turned everything all the way up at 1200x1024 resolution. I usually run it at 1024x768 in a window and everything is peachy.

  19. Re:Remember kids... on Robbers Scared by GTA · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny, of course. It is disturbing that the moderators thought I was making fun of the homosexuals by my casual use of the word gay. Does it have such a negative connotation?

  20. Re:Remember kids... on Robbers Scared by GTA · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, that was witty and (gay).

  21. Re:Dunno about that. on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 2, Funny

    See if I make any effort to save your ass next leap....

  22. Re:Wishful and muddled thinking on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1

    Yes, .999^50 = 0.95, meaning you have a 95% chance to live another fifty years. However, that is not what he said. .999^692 = 0.500401 .999^693 = 0.499

    Which means you have a fifty/fifty chance to live until err say 16+692.

    Also, .999^1000 = 0.367 which isn't too shabby.

    And your expected remaining life with 0.999 probabilty of surviving each year is about 999.5 (integral of 0.999^t from 0 to infinity).

  23. Re:On Decimal and floating point on Python 2.4 Final Released · · Score: 1

    This is why we still have 60 and 360 as common bases-- the ancient one's need to avoid confusing fractions.

    Incidentally, 60 = 2*2*3*5 and 360 = 2*2*2*3*3*5

  24. IANAL but IAMABP on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    I just read the patent. This is what they are claiming:

    Add the following rule:

    Expression: Expression IsNot Expression
    { If ($1 is not an lvalue or $2 is not an lvalue) then print error message,
    else
    $$ = $1 == $2 (or assembly code for the same test)
    }

    Umm. Ok.

  25. Re:I WIN! on Obfuscated Vote Counting Contest · · Score: 0

    I believe you sir are confused. Bush would only have the majority of votes in your statement, if he did, in fact, have the majority to begin with.. If he were at the top of the switch statement, then your assertions would be correct.