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  1. Martin Prince on Dead At 92, Business Computing Pioneer David Caminer · · Score: 0

    Martin (fingers crossed): Systems analyst, systems analyst.
    Dr. Pryor: Systems analyst.
    Martin: All right!

  2. Hey, there's a market for this on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the point of using an $800 HDMI cable to connect my media center PC to my HDTV if the content I'm streaming over my network isn't in the high fidelity I can only get with this $499 Ethernet cable?

  3. Patent Trolling, eh? on 5th Circuit May Stop Patent Troll "Forum Shopping" · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey, guys, check out this cool, er, article.

  4. Re:I understand that COBOL is pretty hot... on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lords of COBOL, hear our prayer.

  5. Re:could eventually on New Solar Cell Harvests Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    Isn't "could eventually" one of those warning phrases that tells you something is dubious, like "up to twice as long" or "she has a great personality" or "you're violating our patents but we don't want to tell you which ones"? Excuse me, but 'could eventually'? Isn't that just a buzzphrase that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that... I'm fired, aren't I?
  6. Solution: The Lappy 486 on Best Laptop for Going Around the World? · · Score: 2, Funny

    * Exceedingly portable 42 pounds * 2MB Hard Drive * Several-color Monitor * Five Minute Battery Life * 512K RAM * Every time the "enter" key is pressed, everyone else in town will temporarily lose electricity * The battery burns 45 acres of rainforest as it is used as the Lappy's main energy source http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Lappy_486#Features

  7. And now... on Breakthrough in Holographic Displays · · Score: 1

    you can take it on the go with the help of the mobile emitter.

    Did I just make a Voyager reference? Sigh...

  8. Put it in H! on The World's Cheapest Car Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.

  9. Amdahl's Law on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    We're optimizing the wrong part, dammit!

  10. Overlap between "pirates" and "purchasers" on Name-Your-Cost Radiohead Album Pirated More Than Purchased · · Score: 1

    I paid 5 GBP for the album, but my download code was a bit late. I downloaded the album off of a sendspace link on a message board when I saw that people had already gotten their download code and I had yet to receive mine. Does this make me a pirate? Why should source even matter? Whether I paid 5GBP, 0, or 100 to inrainbows.com, why should it matter where I downloaded the album from? It's the same digital information.

  11. International Robotics Symposium on RoboCup 2007 Opens At Georgia Tech · · Score: 1

    Wow! I love symposia.

  12. Laid back work environment, eh? on Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goodbye, pants!

  13. Re:I don't need science to tell me about the unive on What Happened Before the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    That information is not available.

  14. It won't be long before... on Xerox Reveals Transient Documents · · Score: 2

    DRM'd paperback books!

  15. Re:I liked DS9. on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight. You complain about the lack of developed characters, and the fact that the show is "episodic" as opposed to serialized. Then, you also say that the last two seasons of DS9 sucked. Actually, the last two seasons of DS9 arguably had more frequent and in-depth character development than any other Trek series. Also, the Dominion War story arc was woven into the a majority of the episodes in the last two seasons, giving it a sense of continuity so that they weren't episodic or formulaic.

  16. Didn't We Learn Our Lesson? on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    Simplified English is doubleplusungood.