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... and I thought it would be more like this.

I guess you didn't know that Doom was originally written on NeXTstep? Or that the original level editor was a NeXTstep .app?

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Development_of_Doom

And it's trivial to call pretty much any sort of code from Obj-C anyway.

William

If I walk past a security camera in a full sized squirrel outfit, humans couldn't even figure that one out let alone a computer.

And in other news hookers are wearing hot, new outfits. Also the meaning of "cat burglar" is changing ...

Sometimes I think people on SlashDot are not necessarily the smartest in the world.

This problem has already been solved.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Fail_Safe

I put together an annotated bibliography on Dealing with hate speech, flaming, and trolls for this year's Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. It's got tips for dealing with this, experiences, and a bunch of other references. At the bottom, it's got links to a handful of example moderation policies -- including Slashdot's and Boing Boing's, natch, as well as others that aren't as well known. The general principle: decide on the guidelines you want to have, discuss them, and enforce them.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Subspace_communication

Ha!

(Kind of pathetic that I had to go through that article and correct about a dozen typos before posting it here..)

The wiki says there is no FULLTEXT support. TFA says no Prepared statements and no query cache. How is this supposed to be good for a web application?

I could buy that if it weren't for the fact that Rodney completely depleted a ZPM in only a few minutes of operation. (See: McKay and Mrs. Miller) If the ZPM used capacitors to store a "boost" charge, then he would have been unable to completely deplete the ZPM. Either that, or the ZPM was nearly depleted anyway which means that it was about to become a paperweight anyway.

Wait, they have Falcon 1 and Falcon 9, but no Falcon 7?

Well, when Blair exptresses what he thinks about British voters, he's more polite than what Bush thinks about American voters.

Riverbed didn't perform even as well as the Mentats in our network.

You could get much better performance by just adding some sapho...

Oh boy...

Short answer: in this context, "furry" refers to matters involving anthropomorphic animals and related concepts. A "furry" avatar in Second Life would resemble a humanoid animal.

Longer answer: For a more comprehensive answer covering many more contexts, we ourselves can argue about the specific semantics for long periods of time but this is a good start summarizing the entirety of what "furry" can represent. (Finding additional concurring views and dissenting views from the linked article is not difficult and is left as an exercise to the reader.)

Haha. Anyone interested in following the trail should look here: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield's_State

FOSS firmware that adds RAW support to higher-end Canon P&S cameras

The CHDK project - open source firmware to add pro features (such as capturing to raw format) and geeky features (movement capture) to Canon A###, S# and IXUS### point+shoot model cameras. The firmware boots from the SD card (the internal firmware is not changed).

Useful links are features and supported models (from the FAQ) and examples of results (see samples on right) using CHDK.

It is like getting a pro upgrade to your camera (Aside: I have a PowerShot TX-1 which I love and recommend to anyone who wants a P&S camera).

FOSS firmware that adds RAW support to higher-end Canon P&S cameras

The CHDK project - open source firmware to add pro features (such as capturing to raw format) and geeky features (movement capture) to Canon A###, S# and IXUS### point+shoot model cameras. The firmware boots from the SD card (the internal firmware is not changed).

Useful links are features and supported models (from the FAQ) and examples of results (see samples on right) using CHDK.

It is like getting a pro upgrade to your camera (Aside: I have a PowerShot TX-1 which I love and recommend to anyone who wants a P&S camera).

FOSS firmware that adds RAW support to higher-end Canon P&S cameras

The CHDK project - open source firmware to add pro features (such as capturing to raw format) and geeky features (movement capture) to Canon A###, S# and IXUS### point+shoot model cameras. The firmware boots from the SD card (the internal firmware is not changed).

Useful links are features and supported models (from the FAQ) and examples of results (see samples on right) using CHDK.

It is like getting a pro upgrade to your camera (Aside: I have a PowerShot TX-1 which I love and recommend to anyone who wants a P&S camera).

FOSS firmware that adds RAW support to higher-end Canon P&S cameras

The CHDK project - open source firmware to add pro features (such as capturing to raw format) and geeky features (movement capture) to Canon A###, S# and IXUS### point+shoot model cameras. The firmware boots from the SD card (the internal firmware is not changed).

Useful links are features and supported models (from the FAQ) and examples of results (see samples on right) using CHDK.

It is like getting a pro upgrade to your camera (Aside: I have a PowerShot TX-1 which I love and recommend to anyone who wants a P&S camera).

http://chdk.wikia.com/

the name "wulu" is now a widespread word used in place of calling somone a newb, (wulu is a character so moronic that his name is now shuned)
anyways the new world of SG is all tatical and nobody ever just sees it as a game they are always screaming at eachother and calling eachoter wulus for there mistakes.

Simply love that screaming: WULUUU!, WULUUUU!! during SG battles...

/Jossarian from Agartha/TOFU on MP

"Shriek" From DC Animated Universe Wiki, the DCAU Database

...Furvert!

Those ones would look a bit like this little piggy.

Maybe Asparagus is Pod People gone wrong. Melkurised in fact.

Romanian doughnuts! Oooohh!

http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Romanian_Desserts

Apparently no Romanian meal is complete without a dessert! (I was really hoping they had sand tarts in Romania, but no such luck..)

That's not what they usually do. That's not what happened with GalCiv2. So maybe the activation has not been enabled yet (they keep it for a further update of the game) or they no more plan to use it.
In a the GalCiv2 era, people who played the game on an offline laptop and who patched the game (by transferring the update with a USB thumb drive) were nagged with a "please activate to play" screen. Stardock as an automated system through email for these situations (you copy paste a bunch of code -obviously through another PC- and they reply with a licence file for your offline machine).
Here are some sources about Stardock and activation: here and here.

Screw all your Trekkies!

Transparisteel
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Transparisteel

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Transparisteel

I wouldn't say Ron Paul's demographic is as tech-savvy as that. Most of them know how to log in to Digg or YouTube and install basic forum/wiki software and that's about it. Moneybomb Guy Trevor Lyman pretty much just registers domains like a fiend where he sees an opportunity to profit from the cult, then just deploys the same default CMS install again and again and again, with Feedburner pledge charts.

Does a bunch of unsecured, un-updated, open-to-anonymous-editing, Mediawiki installs for Ron Paul sound very tech-savvy?

http://ronpaul.wikia.com/wiki/
http://www.rabidquill.com/ronpaulmyths/
http://wiki.ronpaulpresshub.com/ (inside pages)
http://ok4ronpaul.ashlux.com/wiki/
http://abeautifulfuturenow.com/RonPaulWiki/

I dunno; that building looks like something out of Tron to me. Every time I look at the renderings I wonder where they're hiding the recognizers and why they're not showing the solar sailer dock.

I dunno; that building looks like something out of Tron to me. Every time I look at the renderings I wonder where they're hiding the recognizers and why they're not showing the solar sailer dock.

Autodialers come to the rescue.

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Tsukuyomi

Upon a quick glance at the recent updates page, it's apparent that Wikia's going to have their fair share of spammers.

I tried a simple search for Google, and aside from looking like shit, the page causes Firefox to really stutter with all the junk that's on it. This is an embarrassment.

Remember: A kitten dies every time a story is tagged "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense."

Did someone say kittens? Mmmmmm kittens!

I like the tiny orange ones, they'll fuck you up real good

are on the CFP wiki page

Why not just make your own desktop environment?

I used to use Gnome, but then it got too bloated so I moved to XFCE. Now XFCE is bloated (memory leaks in the panel app don't help either), so I made my own "desktop environment".

I use fbpanel as a panel, Sawfish as a window manager, ImageMagick's "display" program to set the wallpaper, the Gnome settings daemon/screensaver applications, and a quick little Bash script I wrote to launch a Nautilus window without taking over the desktop.

Sawfish has more features than Metacity, and pretty close to the same number of themes.

The whole thing takes less than 40mb. I realize something like this isn't for everyone, but for me it does just what I want without using that much memory.

Enhancing cellular metabolism is called Accelerated Metabolism and is actually one of the best powers in the game.

Rowdy, is that you?

If this comic worked, you could see they poke fun at Windows, using Linux as a better example: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/3/5/

Their archive is messed up. I've tried to let them know.

The transcript is here: http://pennyarcade.wikia.com/wiki/March_5,_1999

"Rebooting again? What is that the third time today?"

Looks like the USS Drox just went supercritical.

An updated version of the book, "The Millennial Project" can be found online at The Millennial Project 2.0

To read about Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion go to: OTEC News

Novelas Wiki is also under GFDL.

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