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Comment I know what's art! (Score 1) 733

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Monday April 19, 2010 @06:27PM (#31903314) Attached to: Roger Ebert On Why Video Games Can Never Be Art

"Those aliens are gonna pay for messing up my ride!"

That's art. Screw you, Ebert! You magnificent bastard,

Submission + - The Hard Drive Death Watch Begins Now (gadgetopolis.com)

Submitted by gjt on Monday March 22, 2010 @08:59PM

gjt writes: When Intel and OCZ recently announced new "affordable" Solid State Disk drives — offering a meager 32-40GB — we initially yawned. But, then we took a closer look at the press releases and the in-progress research and development in SSD technology and opened our eyes. While the new drives aren't affordable on a cost per gigabyte basis for everyone, it does set a precedent — and most importantly a barometer price of $100. And it really does start the death clock for hard drive technology.

Comment Re:Was it just me? (Score 1) 160

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Monday March 15, 2010 @02:22PM (#31485084) Attached to: Speed-Assembling Servers

That's what *I* thought it said!

Comment So, no Power Point presentation? (Score 4, Funny) 186

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Monday March 08, 2010 @11:17AM (#31400802) Attached to: Edward Tufte Appointed To Help Track and Explain Stimulus Funds

So, no Power Point presentation?

Comment Oh the irony (Score 2, Funny) 38

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Friday January 29, 2010 @06:10PM (#30955924) Attached to: Hitler Responds To the iPad

I wish I could watch this on my iPad :(

Comment Re:Better Then CGI (Score 2, Insightful) 271

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @02:36PM (#30146834) Attached to: 1977 Star Wars Computer Graphics

Funny about Space 1999. the scariest thing I ever saw on TV as a kid was the monster in Dragon's Den. I used to have nightmares. Seeing it years later, it was just a flashlight and foam rubber.

Comment Not that precise (Score 1) 157

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @01:49PM (#28869913) Attached to: Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server

Big whoop. All it does is block email with IP addresses from France, Belgium, Russia, Italy, and Argentina.

Comment Re:How do we KNOW that.. (Score 1) 274

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Friday July 17, 2009 @10:57AM (#28729997) Attached to: New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage

Hopefully they'll have stopped talking about Michael Jackson and Sarah Palin 1000 years from now.

Comment Re:dictionary (Score 2, Insightful) 192

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Thursday July 16, 2009 @01:57PM (#28719905) Attached to: New Binary Diffing Algorithm Announced By Google

zoo-kee-nee

Comment Re:Great news everyone! (Score 1) 146

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @10:20AM (#28452103) Attached to: OLPC Fork Sugar On a Stick Goes 1.0

I'd mod you up if I had the points.

Comment Debianium? (Score 1) 461

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Thursday June 11, 2009 @02:46PM (#28297879) Attached to: Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element

Debianium

Comment Re:Bet the Fremen didn't have to deal with patents (Score 1) 226

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @08:32PM (#28273611) Attached to: Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality

C.H.O.A.M. is only one letter away from CHOAD.

Comment Re:author is a rookie - didn't list OS/2 cult (Score 1) 397

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @06:17PM (#27838807) Attached to: The Biggest Cults In Tech

agreed Every forum used to have "OMG, OS/2 runs DOS better than DOS! It runs Windows better than Windows!" Here's a REXX script about how awesome OS/2 is...

Comment Re:Now what am I going to do? (Score 1) 266

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Thursday April 30, 2009 @10:21PM (#27782473) Attached to: ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4

There's a new NetBSD out...

Comment KT Extinction? (Score 1) 269

by Big_Monkey_Bird on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @10:24AM (#27759033) Attached to: Some Large Dinosaurs Survived the K-T Extinction

I'm under the impression the K-T Perry extinction was due to girl dinosaurs kissing. And then liked it

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