• Created 5.21.2009 20 Posts

    As a New York sports fan, I'd like to point out that while we are loud and obnoxious, we are not deadbeats. Would deadbeats pay $9 for a beer and $25,000 for a ticket? NO! The word for that is sucker, not deadbeat.

  • Created 5.4.2009 4 Posts

    What? Corny!? You can insult my mother, sure, make slurring remarks about my religion and race, or even note how I am unable to please my girlfriend in bed. But you insult my comedy! Now thems fightin words...

  • Created 5.4.2009 9 Posts

    @CplLenny- Wolverine was given his adamantium skeleton by scientists. Thus, it's science related. Also, @sir-reptitious, we're talking domestic gross here.

  • Created 3.30.2009 3 Posts

    According to Reuters, the new election will be held sometime in May. The next IAEA Board of Governors Meeting is on June 15th, and they have to have enough time to process the new head by the time that date rolls around.

  • Created 3.25.2009 3 Posts

    @ frostyfam- The prop is referring to the academic summer, not the actual weather season. The scientists said that they would get it done by the middle of the summer, but I decided to be a sport and give them until the beginning of Michigan Tech's Fall 2009 classes on August 31st. As anyone who has ever taught at a college knows, research seriously slows down once classes start up again.

  • Created 3.4.2009 9 Posts

    Two quick points. First off, the fewer props we have that terminate a year or more in the future, the better. You guys have complained about that before, so we're taking your advice. Second, people are still getting Windows 7 illegally, and people are still discarding Windows 2000, which means 7 will continue to chip away at market share (remember, the prop doesn't say "when windows 7 passes 1.32% of market share", but rather, it says "when it passes the market share of Windows 2000"). And yes, I think 1.32% is widely used when you consider that we're talking about millions of people, and that it's a decade old operating system. How many people are still using Mac OS X Cheeta? I would venture to say not a lot. I think 1.32% of all computers is a pretty sizable number for software written 2 presidents ago.

  • Created 2.27.2009 6 Posts

    @ pso7025: Thanks for catching the typo. Keep up the good work, guys.


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