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  1. Re:Why? on Losing My Software Rights? · · Score: 1

    s/easier/cheaper

  2. Re:All done. on Solving the Knight's Tour Puzzle In 60 Lines of Python · · Score: 4, Funny

    Woosh.

  3. Re:No Mac support first? There's 5x as many people on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    I didn't say anything about Mac people wanting a steam client being nonexistent. I simply said that if the amount of people willing to play on macs
    At any rate, I shot an email to a dev and am awaiting his response.

  4. Re:No Mac support first? There's 5x as many people on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    That says nothing about the ratio of people running macs and wanting to play source games over the amount of people running linux and wanting to do the same thing.

    VALVe has tons of data about that.

  5. Re:Hold your horses on Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries · · Score: 1

    Turn the updates off. Silly people telling their OS to do things and then whining when they do them...

  6. Just make a float of him... on The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla · · Score: 1

    float f = (float) godzilla;

    Am I safe now?

  7. Re:Addicts indeed on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 1

    The same phenomenon happens with sports. Again, it has nothing to do with WoW. It's an annoyance of human beings in general.

  8. I see they copied my idea on Quantum Cloaking Makes Molecules Invisible · · Score: 1

    In the quantum world, seeing is equivalent to detecting a quantum object. In the case of molecules, that means looking for the terahertz radiation they produce when they vibrate (abstract). By designing a 'quantum corral,' an elliptical nanostructures that absorbs terahertz waves at a precise frequency, the team says it is possible to hide molecules that emit at exactly that frequency. They say their quantum corral would be ideally suited to detecting molecules of specific species while ignoring others. And that may mean a new generation of molecular detectors on the horizon."

    That's what I've been saying all along!

  9. Re:Why not publish the source online? on NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking · · Score: 1

    It isn't free if they have to audit every bug report to make sure they're actually real bugs, and then discard 80% of it. That's what I meant by "I doubt the cons of opening up their bug tracker would be worth the benefits"

  10. Re:Why not publish the source online? on NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking · · Score: 1

    Yes, but are the peeps from NASA really gonna buy into bug reports from 20 year old kids in their mom's basement? I doubt the cons of opening up their bug tracker would be worth the benefits.

  11. Re:Addicts indeed on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 1

    If you let WoW interfere with your social life, you would've let anything else do it anyway. I know a lot of friends who play WoW, and I played WoW myself (and stopped for a few months at times, currently my account isn't active) and it is really easy to just ask your raid leader "Hey, I have friends calling me, do you have somebody to replace me?".

    Of course, sometimes, the answer was no. And you'll go raid because you need to. But is that really me catering to the game and purposely crippling social life? No, it's a calculated risk. I'll just see my friends friday instead of thursday. They know this and so do I. Does that mean one has less of a life? Not really. It is essentially the same thing as picking a group of friend over another group of friend when two parties are thrown at the same time.

    The OP also has seems to have no clue about how the game works. The very content that is talked about in TFA has been cleared times and times again by tons of guild over the course of the beta. It is not a feat to have cleared it again after months of experience has been acquired, and it's made even less of a feat by the fact that one of the raid instance they cleared is based on one released years ago.

    If the OP is basing his words solely on the people who cleared everything in 3 days, and not WoW players in general, then yes, he somewhat has a resemblance of a point (See last paragraph). But otherwise it's just good old trolling.

  12. Re:Why not publish the source online? on NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the NASA wants people filing bugs for stuff they probably have no knowledge of.

    And honestly, how are you even going to reproduce it? Buy your own shuttle?

  13. Re:Addicts indeed on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's always comforting to be reminded that some people are stupid enough to still think playing WoW somehow prevents you from going outside and having fun with friends.

  14. Re:I booted windows a while ago... on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 1

    Driving -> Driver

  15. Re:I booted windows a while ago... on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 1

    I'll definitely agree with that, though. My gaming computer (on XP/Ubuntu dual-boot) stays on constantly unless a reboot is necessary (With EXT3 driving on Windows and NTFS mounting on Linux, it hardly ever is)

  16. Re:I booted windows a while ago... on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 1

    Not really, it's just the person I replied too exaggerating on his vista boot times because it's cool and popular to do so.

  17. Re:I booted windows a while ago... on Boot Windows Vista In Four Seconds · · Score: 1

    And yet my shitty laptop boots Vista in under a minute. Sounds like a Code 18.

  18. Re: SV35.3 on Seagate Acknowledges Problems With 1.5-TB HDD · · Score: 1

    No matter whether a hard drive is made for "streaming" or not, it's ridiculous that it freezes doing it. No other hard drive does so, and I own some SeaGate ones.

  19. Re:Tragedy on Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows · · Score: 1

    To play sounds, obviously. An internet connection isn't required either but quite frankly a computer is quite boring without them.

  20. Re:Why... on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    So what company are you gonna buy your routers from? I'm pretty sure you just named every single mainstream brand, I'm genuinely curious what's left that isn't crap.

  21. Re:No surprise here... on Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry about that.

  22. Re:lawsuits... on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 1

    Good scissors can cut you if you touch the blade.

    Well you know what to do then! Honestly, I haven't been injured by a blister pack, ever. Just take care when you open them, really.

  23. Re:Wow on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 1

    The legal system disagrees with you, enjoy thinking that though. Useless to argue this fallacy furtherÂ.

  24. Re:Wow on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 1

    You're wrong, sorry.

    The reason you can't copy is because the EULA says so, and because it'd be copyright infringement, cause, as I said, you don't own the game.

    This doesn't apply to all games but most of them use this approach.

  25. Re:Wow on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 1

    He's right, though. You do not own the game. You own a license to use the material on the CD to play it.