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  1. Re:Cloning OS/X on Rasterman Speaks On E17 And The Future · · Score: 1

    Check out gnustep.org, or more specifically their page about Display Ghostscript.

  2. Re:Shooting parts two and three as one movie? on Matrix Sequel Delayed to 2003 · · Score: 1

    > I wonder if any other movies have ever been shot in this fashion.

    The Lord of the Rings?

  3. Re:Vinge's Singularity is AI Doc Numero Uno! on Vinge and the Singularity · · Score: 1
    Maybe you would be better off writing science fiction. It's easier than creating a "superintelligence beyond any human IQ".

    And if you're really serious about this, remember that a lot of clever people have tried this before you, and utterly failed.

    Good luck anyway!

  4. Re:Weren't the audits supposed to take care of thi on OpenBSD Local Root Hole Patched · · Score: 1

    This is obiously untrue. Consider this:

    int main () { return 0; }

    You shouldn't have too much trouble proving that
    this program terminates on any input.

  5. Re:Do this on other platforms on 2.2 vs 2.4 · · Score: 1

    pkg_version -c > blah
    sh blah

  6. Re:Permutation City on Turing Machine Implemented in Life · · Score: 1
    Is anybody writing a d.net client for this?

    Don't search for extraterrestrial intelligence - create them yourselves!

  7. Re:iCal-capable client on What Would Your Dream Calendar Program Look Like? · · Score: 1

    iCalendar is described in RFC 2445. What an iCal capable client is, is left to the reader.

  8. Re:bashing on Tom's Hardware Retracts P4 Endorsement · · Score: 2

    Found this in my cache:
    http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001120/inde x.html

    Record Reader Numbers Ask For Record Responsibility

    On the very Monday of Pentium 4's release the web servers of Tom's
    Hardware Guide were under extreme load, making it difficult for many
    readers to download the pages of the Pentium 4 article. I would like to
    apologize for those inconveniences and also thank you for your faith in
    Tom's Hardware, as we scored a new record of 1.413 million pages that
    day, although slashdot intentionally refrained from giving our Pentium 4
    article the recognition it deserved, despite it being amongst many other
    remarkable things the only Pentium 4 review with Linux benchmarking
    scores. While I daresay that slashdot has most certainly some
    politically sinister things going on behind its usually reputable
    facade, I would also like to express my awareness of carrying a huge
    responsibility towards all those hundreds of thousand faithful readers
    who rely on the conclusions of my articles. Unfortunately new results
    out of the still ongoing Pentium 4 evaluation have urged me now to
    change my stance on how I see Pentium 4 and I want to get the word out
    without any hesitation.

  9. Re:Bertelsmann is a part of the Fourth Reich. on Analysis: Henhouse buys Fox · · Score: 1
    You are so stupid you ought to be euthanasized.

    What exactly does this "danger" consist of? That you might accidentally buy a BMG cd?

  10. Re:Security hole in *BSD TCP stack on BSDi Is Livin' On The Edge! · · Score: 1

    Please compare this to the original advisory.

  11. Re:How much easier does it have to get?? on Gartner Group Squints At Future OS Growth · · Score: 1

    What's your point? Debian is easy on newbies? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha thank you.

  12. Re:Where on BSDi Is Livin' On The Edge! · · Score: 1
  13. You forgot: on Mercury Researchers Explain Microsoft .NET · · Score: 1

    It's type safe.

  14. Re:Can someone explain what MS .net is all about? on Mercury Researchers Explain Microsoft .NET · · Score: 2

    There's an accessible description of .NET in the MSDN magazine.

  15. Re:Penrose's Quantum Theory of Mind on Interview: Physicist Leon M. Lederman · · Score: 1

    Here's a paper showing that the brain can be thought of as a classical mechanical system, not a quantum one. This seems to be relevant criticism of Penrose's theory.

  16. Re:Mathematics and Physics on Interview: Physicist Leon M. Lederman · · Score: 1

    Non-commutative Differential Geometry comes to mind

  17. mea culpa on Interview: Physicist Leon M. Lederman · · Score: 1
    Actually, I don't know. All I know is what Prof. Specker (who himself was only concerned with the purely mathematical part of the theorem in question) told me over dinner.

    It seems the assumptions of the no-hidden variables theorem are too strong to rule out all kinds of hidden-variables theories.

    PS: "Finite Precision measurement nullifies the Kochen-Specker theorem"

  18. Re:Many Worlds Interpretation? on Interview: Physicist Leon M. Lederman · · Score: 1

    Hidden Variable interpretation has been proven to be false in 1967 by Kochen and Specker.

  19. M-Theory and GUT on Interview: Physicist Leon M. Lederman · · Score: 1

    Do you think the Grand Unified Theory (if there ever is one) will be based on M-theory, or will it require a fundamentally different approach?