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  1. Reminds me of repurposement. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The New Force at Lucasfilm

    That's nice. I've been researching repurposed game engines and there are some very interesting things out there. From architecture and geovisualization to interface with libraries. Even the blind are being helped

  2. Re:Prediction... by n1nj4k3n · · Score: 1 · on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan.

    So much hentai... so little time...
    Unable to comprehend... brain embolism... core dumped

  3. Re:Mysterious? by gailwynand · · Score: 1 · on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off

    You've obviously never heard of heisenbugs.

    Y'all may now go back to watching the blinkenlichten.

  4. Re:Mysterious? by gailwynand · · Score: 1 · on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off

    You've obviously never heard of heisenbugs.

    Y'all may now go back to watching the blinkenlichten.

  5. Re:Let me get this straight... by kien · · Score: 1 · on Act Now To Sidestep A W3C Patent Pitfall

    And, lest we forget, the biggest dog on the block has already thought about commoditizing the protocols that currently make the Internet work.

    The funny/frustrating thing about technology (to me at least) is how a foot in the door of one technology can cause patent-creep into other technologies. If the patent process were codified into a computer language, we'd have an enormous body of cruft.

    --K.

  6. Re:What keeps me on windows? by coryboehne · · Score: 2 · on What's Keeping You On Windows?

    Ok, where do I start...

    First off, I'm not arguing where their ideas / peices of source code come from, I'm only saying that they almost never take something without making significant changes to it (and these are generally very self serving, ie. make it work the way we want it to and the users want it to)

    This entire thread is entitled "What's keeping you on Windows?" From reading the comments below, it seems that quality is a major player here.

    Wow! I never knew that Microsoft was started around 1954! Because you do know that Linux is just another Unix (ohhhhh, gonna get flamed for that one) varient, and Unix was first created in 1969 by Ken Thompson.... Or maybe you did'nt know that and you really did think all this started in 1995......

    I wouldn't take such a shitty tone, but you're attacking my intelligence and creditability here and I don't take that so very lightly.

  7. Re:/.ers own X-Boxs? by bowronch · · Score: 1 · on No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders

    X-boxen
    jargon file:boxen

  8. Re:Wait a minute! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 3, Funny · on Slashdot Effect, Live and In Person
    Won't this necessarily involve going outside at some point?
    Holy shit! Not the big room????
  9. Re:lawsuit by Inthewire · · Score: 1 · on To The Pain
    Sony is so going to sue them for that name...

    -- -- -- -- --

    I'm sure you know what RTFA mans, right?
    (I'll give you a hint if you need it. It is similar to RTFM)
    From the article
    And even allowing for all that, there is also the small matter of Sony Corporation. The company has already warned the German duo against using its logo and made threatening noises regarding the use of the name if the pair ever wanted to commercialize their product.
  10. Soon to be overheard in the lab:... by Mike+Connell · · Score: 3, Funny · on Learning Autonomic Robots

    On a gallery overlooking the feeding pit ^H^H^H^H^H experiment lab...

    TechA: "Aren't there meant to be 15 predators down there? I can only see 14"
    TechB counts...
    TechB: "Yeah, shit!", produces mobile, "I'll give Sharkey a ring..."
    TechB, looking at mobile: "Batterys are dead. That's funny, I only charged them this morning..."

    Insert dramatic exchange of glances and pause, followed by

    AAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Chomp! Chomp!

    TechA in feeble voice "Agh! Number fifteen really is a bagbiter
    TechB: It's, erm, sucking away my power dude!

    etc etc...

  11. other sites by bcrowell · · Score: 2 · on Free & Non-Free Documentation
  12. Re:See also... by bazoungus · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Bouncing UK Children Cause Earthquake

    I suspect the bit about sympathetic vibrations causing a bridge to collapse is mostly an urban legend, at least for modern bridges

    It did happen on April the 16th 1850 in France, when a troop crossed a suspension bridge durong a storm near Angers (the Basse-Chaine bridge, over the river Maine) causing 220 soldiers to drown.

    There's a good sum up of the event here (in English)

    The cause is supposed to be the addition of gusts of wind causing the bridge to sway, and the troop marching steps, all giving a phenomenon of resonance.

    and it even was reported in the New york Herald at the time :

    http://www.goodbyemag.com/may00/herald-deaths.html (in English)

    however, the causes are very similar to what happened to the Tacoma Narrows bridge, on nov 07 th 1940, catastrophic wind swaying.

    I'm happy to share this part of my history,

    Baz.

  13. Re:Ha! Metric unit of mass is still a chunk of met by Thomas+Miconi · · Score: 4 · on Uncle Sam's Funhouse
    While your post is an obvious piece of shameless trolling, and despite Betcour's remarkably accurate answer, I'll still add a few comments:

    1. Still rely on the French to define your unit of mass, eh? (Rusting, other chemical readtions with the block. Bye bye perfect reference!) And the meter being the distance from the North pole to the equator thru Paris divided into 10,000,000 parts? Yah, that's real accurate
    The kilogram is the only unit that is still defined after a physical reference: a 2001-like monolith of platinium covered with iridium, located at the Conservatoire national des arts et metiers There are other equivalent "reference kilograms" worldwide that are similarly amagnetic and insensitive to rust or corrosion. The metre is the distance covered by a photon in 1/299 792 458 second. The second itself is based on transitions between two states of the cesium 133 atom. More information at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (Yes, there is an English version :o)

    1. And why do people state "weight" or "thrust" in kilograms? Why not Newtons?
    Because people (including me and you) are morons, so they use a MASS unit to describe WEIGHTS and FORCES, or use WEIGHTS and FORCES to determine MASSES. This is totally stupid if you're an angst-ridden physicist living in an ivory tower somewhere in the Kalahari desert. For the rest of us, since G is a constant in any given place (there may be slight differences between two different places), the confusion is acceptable, because measuring something's WEIGHT is still the easiest way to determine its MASS. Could you tell me of any practical mass measurement method (for solids) that does not rely on weight comparison ?

    1. Why do we still ask for a "pint of ale" in the UK?
    First, because Brits are drunkyards. Personally I always drink beer by the glass (half-pint) ;o)

    Second, because you (or at least your ancestors) blatantly screwed the French. In 1875, France accepted to leave the international zero-meridian to the English (Greenwich instead of Paris), because the English promised to adopt the metric system in return. Yet another shameless lie from the Perfide Albion ;o)

    1. And if base 10 is so l33t, where is metric time? Base 60? Why stick with millenia old numbering from Babylonian times yet praise base 10 everywhere else
    There is no such thing as "metric time". The second was invented by astronomists long before the metric system. The idea to "pack" the second with the metric system (metre, kilogram, litre) in order to have a coherent measurement system is (c) Gauss (1832). And this is how the International System was born.

    And, by the way, there is no base-60 stuff in the International System itself. The only time unit in it is the second, period. If you were to speak in pure IS units, you would talk about kiloseconds and hectoseconds (just in the same way as you talk about milliseconds or microseconds). Hours and minutes are pure legacy stuff, and are not part of the IS - they're just here because it's easier to divide the day in 24 hours than in 86,4 kiloseconds.

    Thomas Miconi
  14. Re: foreign history and point of view by pruneau · · Score: 1 · on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died?

    Well, I grew up in city where the tramway was never given up. And your point about the density of population is good : for example, in europe the problem is totally different.

    Go look into a history of rebirth of the tramway in france (babelfish required). To summarize up : the tramway and related transport died in the 50th because the personnal cars and other related transport where more politically correct, and because the public network was old (pre WW-II).

    But at the end of the "glorious 30th", the oil crisis triggered a new interest for electric public transports. Since 1974 the number of electric streecars has been growing. Nowadays, the number of towns equipped with electric ground transport is around 10, counting major players like Paris, Lyon, Strazbourg, etc. The number of people deserved by those transport by well account for half of the french population.

    So, the electric car is dead ? Surely not, even in the US.

    For those of you interested here is a list of links to rail transportation-related museums, in various languages (keep that slippery fish handy !)

  15. Re: foreign history and point of view by pruneau · · Score: 1 · on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died?

    Well, I grew up in city where the tramway was never given up. And your point about the density of population is good : for example, in europe the problem is totally different.

    Go look into a history of rebirth of the tramway in france (babelfish required). To summarize up : the tramway and related transport died in the 50th because the personnal cars and other related transport where more politically correct, and because the public network was old (pre WW-II).

    But at the end of the "glorious 30th", the oil crisis triggered a new interest for electric public transports. Since 1974 the number of electric streecars has been growing. Nowadays, the number of towns equipped with electric ground transport is around 10, counting major players like Paris, Lyon, Strazbourg, etc. The number of people deserved by those transport by well account for half of the french population.

    So, the electric car is dead ? Surely not, even in the US.

    For those of you interested here is a list of links to rail transportation-related museums, in various languages (keep that slippery fish handy !)

  16. Re:CDE is a solid std by Cy+Burdock · · Score: 2 · on Death of CDE & Motif?

    As an early promoter of fvwm, we came across many obstacles in the corporate world
    to it - the reason was, usually, that CDE was the standard to which the corporation
    had to adhere. However, the inception of KDE (and GNOME) has huge advantages
    of the archaic systems that were Motif/CDE. For example, something as simple as
    adding an application as a menu item into CDE used to have you looking up the
    reference manual (which was not clear on the matter).

    KDE and GNOME are a breath of fresh air - they will undoubtedly become the new
    "standards" on the desktop for Unix platforms. Developers ignoring these
    desktop systems are going to find they've missed the boat - big style.


    Having seen some of the developments going on with KDE2 such as the
    Neural network window placement policy I'd also stick my neck out and say that
    they have a good chance in the next 3 years of making inroads into the NT-on-the-desktop market.