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  1. Re:*NEED* on MIT Technology Review Slams IPv6 · · Score: 1

    I think you just proved his point... (According to the CIA, India has 1,049,700,118 people.)

  2. Re:Idiot. on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    Because, of course, nobody watches things for the "story", but because they like to wank off to the camera angle.

    Anyway, perhaps you might like to apply mise en scene (try and spell it right if you love it so much) to the bits of NGE where Anno used motionless silhouettes to cut down on animation costs.

  3. Re:Idiot. on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    Three words for you: Geekier than thou.

  4. How do you know? on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    When's the last time you saw Antarctica, eh?

  5. Re:nice wanzer! on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 1

    Height 3.45m, width 2.4m (as I mentioned, 10m with arms outstretched, which indicates that each arm is a bit over 3m in length), depth 3.5m.
    The arms are hydraulically powered at up to 250Kg/cm^2 and have 8 degrees of freedom (is that the right term?), including the hands.

    As for 'ep', a Google search indicates that it might be 'Experience Points'.

  6. Re:what is this for? on Your Own Mecha · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's intended for use in areas hit by natural disaster - earthquakes, for example. The name 'Enryu' could be translated as 'Helpful Dragon' (the 'en' is part of the Japanese word for 'rescue' or 'aid').

  7. Re:2.6.0 RPMs are already out on Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.

  8. Re:Mmf. on Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not "open source" under the OSI definition, and it fails the main test for open sourcehood, i.e. it can't be redistributed.

    In other words (as one poster said) it's disclosed source, not open source.

  9. Mmf. on Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED] · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's only "open source" in the very loosest sense. From the patch:

    Internet Explorer URL Spoofing Security Patch

    Developed by Opensoft Corporation, Vanuatu

    Contact: opensoft@openwares.org

    Opensoft Corporation, Vanuatu
    Copyright 2003 All rights reserved.

    Terms of Agreement:

    By using this source code, you agree to the
    following terms:

    1) You may use the source code, resource
    files for educational purposes only.
    2) You MAY NOT redistribute this source code
    without written permission. Failure to do
    so is a violation of copyright laws.
    3) The author of this code may have retained
    certain "additional copyright rights".
    If so, this is indicated in the author's
    description.

  10. Re:2.6.0 RPMs are already out on Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got that 404 this morning, but a second try a few minutes later worked OK. Methinks a RH staff member was shifting stuff around before he realized what he was doing.

  11. Re:2.6.0 RPMs are already out on Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up · · Score: 1

    Well, I've got updates-testing in my yum.conf:

    [updates-testing]
    name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
    baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/ testing/f edora-core-$releasever
    gpgcheck=1

    And I don't get 2.6 - are you sure you're not pulling it in from somewhere else?

  12. Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760 on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    Oh for fuck's sake. IHBT.

    *PLONK*

  13. Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760 on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    Grr... make that irc.slashnet.org.

  14. Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760 on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    Jesus, you just don't know when to give up, do you?

    I do translation on the side: the Amazon Japan listing for one of the books I've translated (E->J; check the translator's name against my nick).

    If you still don't believe me (and don't come up with some lame excuse like "You just searched for somebody whose name matches your nick"), come onto #slashdot on irc.slashdot.org; my nick there is the same as my /. nick.

    Why don't you just accept that (a) you were wrong and (b) other people knowing more than you is not a personal insult.

  15. Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760 on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    By the way, since you don't seem to be the type who'll accept anybody's word but your own, let's look at Google.

    Denshijiten: 300,000 links
    Denshijisho: 544,000 links

    Now, shut up about things you don't really know about, hmmm?

  16. Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760 on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    I love these people who take a couple of courses and think they know everything.

    I have a dgree in linguistics from a Japanese university, I worked as an editor at a Japanese publishing company (among other things, editing J-E/E-J dictionaries), and I've lived in Japan for fourteen years.

    Come back when you've got some real experience with the language, OK?

  17. Re:Sounds fair on Paid to Play Video Games · · Score: 1

    Well, true... I must admit that watching someone do a level that took me half an hour to complete in less than twenty seconds is pretty amazing ;)

  18. Re:Get a Zaurus SL-C760 on Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries? · · Score: 1

    Some daijiten still call themselves jisho but that is a deliberate attempt to sound archaic and thus sound like an old authority.

    Er... no, it's not. Jiten and jisho are essentially interchangeable, although jiten is slightly more formal, so people tend to use jisho in conversation.

  19. Re:Sounds fair on Paid to Play Video Games · · Score: 1

    I hope you're aware that the Morimoto time attack video was done by using an emulator that let him save and reload at any point and drop the framerate to time difficult moves?

  20. Re:when dual-64 will hit the shelves? on 64-bit Linux On The Opteron · · Score: 3, Informative

    What are you talking about? Dual Opteron boards have been out since pretty much Day 1 of the Opteron's release.

    A few examples:
    Tyan Thunder K8W
    MSI K8D Master-F
    Rioworks HDAMC

  21. Re:FYI No benchmarks on 64-bit Linux On The Opteron · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been benchmarking the opteron for the last week, it is at least 26% faster on high mysql load vs a comparably priced opteron system.

    Really? That's a neat trick ;)

  22. Re:Why is this "China launches"...? on China Launches Linux-Based Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Sony, of course, is a Japanese company...

  23. Re:Skins on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Well, it's better than being told "it can't do that", isn't it? ;)

  24. Re:I smell FSF lawyers... on TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups · · Score: 1

    Just because they're REQUIRED to give out the source code doesn't mean that the images are freely distributable.

    Think back to when some distributions (notably Red Hat) included proprietary software on their official CDs. Just because the CDs also happened to include GPL'd software didn't mean that it was OK to freely distribute them.

  25. Re:Skins on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Eye candy should not really be a top priority for the Mozilla team.
    Backward compatibility with old skins is exactly the sort of thing I hope they *don't* spend time.