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  1. Re:Up to them on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    I don't know if I should be insulted or perplexed by this nonsense.

    Science: Science has been refining and updating its knowledge for as long as it exists. If an anomaly was encountered, it was studied and once understood the books were updated and the theories changed.

    Religion: When are you going to update genesis to include dinosaurs and their extinction?

    The reason we can say a rock will drop the 1001th time is that we have a pretty good track record of experimentation and more important admitting that science sometimes gets things wrong and fixing our theories. I still have to meet one religious person who would admit that some parts of the bible should be changed from the things we know now.

  2. Re:aka Differential GPS on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 1

    http://www.flepos.be/ but this only covers flanders in belgium but there are similar services for the rest of belgium. The service is free but you need to register. From http://www.gps.oma.be/networks_tutorial.php you can find links to other networks across europe but I don't know if they are free.

  3. Multinationals on Apple vs. Nokia vs. Google vs. HTC · · Score: 1

    Multinationals just build their own platforms. Why bother getting locking in a petty fight?

  4. Wikipedia on Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure · · Score: 1

    This comment is entirely truthful. Since it can't be backupped by something posted on the internet. It must be a lie.

    Heh, How am I doing summarizing wikipedia?

  5. Re:Easy answer on Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power? · · Score: 1

    heh, I can even provide a website that our company blocked except the parts that explain how dumb (l)users are.

    (disclaimer: I'm a software developer and I hate the CT/IS division in our company)

  6. Easy answer on Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power? · · Score: 1

    yes

  7. Re:No, it's a stupid idea... on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Not so easy to prove a universal positive, is it?

  8. Re:No, it's a stupid idea... on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    Aha!

    I'll make it easy for you. Prove that YOU exist as a human being.

    Once you have done that. prove the existance of a christian god.

  9. Re:No, it's a stupid idea... on Ireland's Blasphemy Law Goes Into Effect · · Score: 1

    I think it's ironic how you combined:

    "While I am a Christian..." with "they are wise enough not to assert a universal negative"

    Or doesn't that rule apply when you change universal negative to universal positive?

  10. Re:You damn well should on Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have to use a kernel debugger for my job as a developer (The brown-out wasn't working). Security is gone by adjusting a register.

    How about this: I won't do this on production server or whatever machine that's critical, and you leave me to do my job.

  11. Re:old news on Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring · · Score: 1

    Maybe she drops food in it because she has difficulties seeing the water?

  12. Re:Voter registration on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    I'm from belgium too and the fine is _not_ 500 euros. it's 25 euro or a verbal reprimand from the judge. (kieswetboek art. 210). And that's only if they bother to prosecute you in the first place. The last couple of elections I didn't bother to vote and never got prosecuted.

    The 500 euro fine is when you are required to count votes.

  13. Love the concept but too bad about the Glamo gpu on Canadian Firms Get Behind OpenMoko/FreeRunner · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is mainly from the viewpoint of a graphics programmer (3d, gpu drivers, ...), so my comments will focus on that part. I know there are a lot good features on this devices.

    The Glamo chip can only use textures of 512 x 512 so it's impossible to use hw acceleration to decompress full screen video (unless you stretch the texture to the entire screen).

    The video bus bandwidth is 7m/s which gives a theoretical maximum of 12 fps without hw acceleration. That bus is also shared with the sd card reducing the bandwidth even further if you are accessing the sd card.

    SMedia refuses to give out the documentation of their gpu and only employees of OpenMoko have access to that documentation. Implementing 3D for the glamo is low priority. It's obvious it's low priority but it's a shame there's a gpu in there but you can't use it or even improve the driver.

  14. Re:It's not a university problem, it's people leav on UK Games Industry Over the Hill? · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the IDGA website

    * 34.3% of developers expect to leave the industry within 5 years, and 51.2% within 10 years.
    * Only 3.4% said that their coworkers averaged 10 or more years of experience.
    * Crunch time is omnipresent, during which respondents work 65 to 80 hours a week (35.2%). The average crunch work week exceeds 80 hours (13%). Overtime is often uncompensated (46.8%).
    * 44% of developers claim they could use more people or special skills on their projects.
    * Spouses are likely to respond that "You work too much..." (61.5%); "You are always stressed out." (43.5%); "You don't make enough money." (35.6%).
    * Contrary to expectations, more people said that games were only one of many career options for them (34%) than said games were their only choice (32%).

    And this was also my experience when I was working as a game developer.