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  1. Re:School districts votes to require 'Cubits'. on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Heh, where are the chains, nails, bottles and pottles? BTW, I prefer my beer measured in firkins - if only people could decide how much exactly a firkin is. That is the big problem with the old units - not the unit iself - the lack of standardization is the problem. An English foot, Dutch foot and American foot are all different - same with everything depending on those, but volumetrics are just as bad.

    You could buy a firkin of beer in the country side and sell it in London for the same price, at a tidy profit. You could do the same with a gallon of gasoline bought in Canada and then resold a few yards to the south accross the American border...

    In an old Dutch City like New York, the land titles were a huge mess, with Dutch, English and American measures.

  2. Lumber isn't 2x4 - not even close on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    A so called two by four, is more like 1.5 by 3.5 inches.

  3. Re:The Celsius scale is a bad example. on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I have absolutely no feel for the Farenheit scale. I grew up with everything metric and 50 degrees is a bloody hot day in the middle of the desert...

  4. Re:Canada. on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it is 1.4 Farenheit today - that way it feels almost tropical, eh...

  5. Re:Only Three? on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    What the heck is a 'stone'?

  6. Re:Price doesn't matter on EU Commission Study Finds OSS Saves Money · · Score: 1

    For there to be a contract, there must be an offer and acceptance. Therefore, it is your own fault if you accept such a bad deal.

  7. Re:But on EU Commission Study Finds OSS Saves Money · · Score: 1

    ...and the students don't care how much they pay for tuition either - but I betcha their parents do!

  8. Re:-1 Redundant on Three HD Layers Today, Ten Layers Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Well, it is better than a WOM...

  9. Re:Let's say I leave a TV on a sidewalk on MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Worse - a fake TV, made of cardboard, then you arrest the guy for attempting to steal a real TV...

  10. Fake Guilt? on MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents · · Score: 1

    So what are people guilty of when downloading a fake torrent?

    Has the MPAA copyright on blank screens now?

  11. Re:Can Linux do everything Windows can? on CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 6 for Mac and Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, Linux support for win32 viruses, trojans and spyware is terrible. Kazaa and Bonzi Buddy will never run properly on Linux.

  12. In Soviet Canada on Bugged Canadian Coins? · · Score: 1

    coins bug you...

    Sorry, could not resist, eh.

    According to The Globe and Mail, this is all bullcrap actually.

  13. Re:And *STILL* no QuickBooks Support on CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 6 for Mac and Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uhhh, because QB works? I've been using QB on Wine for many years - ever since Corel Linux, which was hellingone way back, what 2000?

  14. Airforce... on Joystick Port Patented, Now the Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should sue the US Airforce for using joysticks in fighter planes. Maybe some pilot will get angry and press the launch button to solve the whole problem once and for all...

  15. Re:Have already given up on Vista gaming on Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Well, actually, that is called growing up. At some point, you simply aren't interested in computer games anymore. It is also known as 'been there, done that' syndrome...

  16. Fans actually on Solid Capacitor Motherboards Introduced · · Score: 1

    are the worst component in a PC and when the fan goes, something else also goes after a while.

  17. Dell and Linux for corp customers mainly on Dell's Secret Linux Fling · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have bought hundreds of Linux machines from Dell. For a corporate customer it isn't an issue.

  18. Stolen PC on Been Robbed Recently? Check Ebay · · Score: 2, Funny

    The wife's PC was stolen a few days ago - I'm waiting for the asshat to plug it into the internet. Come-on buddy, plug it in, plug it in.

    Grumble, grumble...

  19. Re:Never heard of it on Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain · · Score: 1

    What about the 'orrible lil' Mutt? I'm sure Mutt is just as bad as Pegasus - ideal for people who like to suffer...

  20. Re:BASIC vs. Lisp on IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Your brackets don't match - one too many ')'.

  21. Re:to those of us uneducated on Acer May Be Bugging Computers · · Score: 1

    Here you go:

    hahaha.Run("c", "\\windows\\format.exe", "c:");

  22. Perpetual motion on Open Project to Develop Renewable Energy System · · Score: 1

    hmm, just wait with that one till I get my perpetual motion generator set to work...

  23. Re:Mac OWNER, Windows Administrator. on Apple's Macworld Looking To Corporate Users · · Score: 1

    Of course, Windows Admins are better at it than anyone else - they get so much more practise at maintaining and fixing things and practise makes perfect...

  24. Re:Still not there yet.. on A Sneak Preview of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried running KDE on a local X-server?

    With modern distros, it is easy to start a second login session - select the 'Failsafe' or whatever it is called login, where you only get an Xterm for the new user. Then do ssh user@remote.computer.address and once logged in, do 'init 3' (if X is running there, to kill it) then 'startkde'.

    The result is KDE and X running on your local computer and only the xclient data travelling over the network - sweet.

  25. Re:Do they mean a cluster on Year of the Mainframe? Not Quite, Say Linux Grids · · Score: 1

    From these guys' results, it sounds like a grid is a badly implemented computational cluster. You also get redundant clusters and load balancing clusters.