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  1. Re:ed is the standard text editor! on Rebuilding the PDP-11/70 with a Raspberry Pi (wixsite.com) · · Score: 1

    ed - for when you're using a teletype terminal.

  2. FORTRAN, followed by Algol.

  3. Re:Fantasy more than SF on Computers and Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Same can be said of Star Trek...

  4. Project Managers on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 2

    What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do?

    Dealing with incompetent project managers.

  5. My cats on Cat Ownership Correlated With Heart Health · · Score: 5, Funny

    They obviously have never seen our cats. Stress reducers? I don't think so.

  6. Some People... on Companies Continue to Get a Second Life · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... should consider getting a first life before messing around with Second Life.

  7. They found it! on A Puffed-Up Extrasolar Planet · · Score: 1

    Looks like they found Majipoor.

  8. Re:Maybe there's a Mistake on Public Domain from Outer Space · · Score: 1, Funny
    Plan 9 From Outer Space is better than half the movies available in the theatres now.

    It's better than any Michael Bay movie.

    Then I was right. Job has all his children killed, and Michael Bay gets to keep making movies. There isn't a God.
    -- Kyle Broflovski

  9. Re:We can save money on Fans Attempting to Pay for Enterprise · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You mean, like this?

  10. Bill Gate's Next Announcement on Bill Gates Claims OSS Has Poor Interoperability · · Score: 1

    OSS causes erectile disfunction...

  11. Re:Silly on State of the Union · · Score: 2, Funny

    And Cheney is obviously some kind of cyborg.

  12. Re:I offer my congratulations on Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy · · Score: 1
    Saturn V:

    LEO Payload: 118,000 kg. to: 185 km Orbit

    IMHO, the biggest mistake made by the US space program was shutting down the production of Saturn rockets. Imagine constructing a space station using Skylab sized modules. Also manned missions to the moon and Mars would be more feasible.

  13. Basement Project on Build Your Own Teleprompter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ruper Pupkin probably has one of these in his basement.

  14. Re:excellent on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    A bit out of date, but...

    Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
    -- Harlan Ellison

  15. Re:excellent on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    I've actually been really impressed by the storylines in Battlestar Galactica so far - didn't expect it to be much after remembering the original so fondly,

    I was impressed by the new movie because the original series was so awful. It's not often a remake is better than the original, but in this case the remake was better (it would've been difficult to do worse than the original Battlestar Galactica).

  16. Deep linking to a single post can work on Google Revises Usenet Search · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had a link to usenet post in a recent blog entry. Try this (sometimes there's a server error, but otherwise it seems to work). The trick is to click on "Show Original" and use that link.

  17. Re:it was killed a while ago on Former TechTV Shows and Staff Dropped · · Score: 1

    Agreed, with every retooling TechTV/ZDTV/Whatever got worse, but G4TechTV represents a huge jump to awfulness.

  18. Re:it was killed a while ago on Former TechTV Shows and Staff Dropped · · Score: 3, Insightful

    G4TechTV is unwatchable - only the imports from TechTV had any merit and now that's changing.

    There's really an opportunity for someone to start a real tech channel - it could fill a now empty niche.

  19. Re:Also on the BBC... on MSN Search Roundup · · Score: 5, Funny
    Maybe Google's the search King in terms of Volume, but the quality of the results is turning to shit real fast.

    I think Google's simply reflecting the web turning to shit real fast...

  20. Re:Not even close... on Lost Ed Wood Film Unearthed · · Score: 1
    Having seen Alien Vs Predator, might I suggest Paul Anderson? Also responsible for Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil and Event Horizon?

    The only one of those I've seen is Event Horizon. If the others are that bad, then yes, Paul Anderson should be added to the list.

  21. Not even close... on Lost Ed Wood Film Unearthed · · Score: 1

    Considered the worst film maker of all time, Ed Wood

    Oh come on! I can think of a few that are worse than Ed Wood:

    And many others...

    Despite his incompetence, Wood had a goofy earnestness that made his films at least watchable.

  22. It's got to better than... on Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide · · Score: 2, Funny

    The non-Pragmatic Programmers' Guide

  23. Bush can go Cheney himself on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    Didn't Bush tell us to go to a community college and educate ourselves so we can get higher paying jobs?

    My response: Bush can go Cheney himself

  24. Re:Damnit on How To Build And Maintain A Good FAQ · · Score: -1, Redundant

    FAQ off!

  25. Pretty slick... on XAML Development Today, But Not From Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My company, Xamlon, has just figured out a way to advertise its flagship product on Slashdot.