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  1. You weren't the first to think of AD&D. on Video Games and ADD · · Score: 2

    SpuriousGeorge was the first.
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  2. But what about Square's FF series? on Video Games and ADD · · Score: 2

    video games ... promote short attention spans.... Roleplaying, on the other hand... demanding a more robust attention span.

    What about activities such as Final Fantasy VII that are both roleplaying and video games?


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  3. TETRIS® not a reacting game? on Video Games and ADD · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't played a good Tetris clone such as freepuzzlearena Tetanus. To survive at the higher speed levels in some of those games, you must make sure that moving the pieces around is a reflex action. When you're learning Tetris, it's a thinking game, but once you get up there, boy...
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  4. Nonalpha AA algorithm on X Consortium Announces X11R6.5.1 · · Score: 2

    Maybe you'd like to show us a non-kludge-riddled antialiasing algorithm that doesn't need an alpha channel?

    This is how I used to do pseudo-AA text on an old paint program on a Macintosh computer:

    1. Scale graphic to three times its normal size.
    2. Draw text and lines.
    3. Scale graphic back down.

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  5. (OT)You misspelled "heil" on KDE Strikes Back · · Score: 1
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    It's not "hile" it's "heil". But if you really want to be a KDE nazi, then be one on your NES.
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  6. Heck I've already written the video game. on KDE Strikes Back · · Score: 2

    GNOME vs. KDE: Battle of the Desktops runs on a computer called NES. NES emulators are available for GNU/Linux, BSD, DOS, and Windows.

    Have fun!
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  7. (IANAL)Under U.S. copyright law... on Sony VP On Stopping Napster · · Score: 2

    Under U.S. copyright law, British works are "Berne Union works" or something like that and are subject to the same protections within U.S. borders as American works.
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  8. Think Star Wars. on Personal Helicopter · · Score: 3

    In a few scenes in the STAR WARS® movies, traffic can be seen overhead moving in straight lines. Anyone care to comment on a system like this?
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  9. (OT)Names don't mean jack. Take Sam Butcher. on Sony VP On Stopping Napster · · Score: 1

    Samuel J. Butcher is famous for his insanely cute drawings of Eloi kids. These drawings became the PRECIOUS MOMENTS® figurines.

    Now what do Precious Moments haters wish they could do to those kids? Butcher them.


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  10. Making piracy damn close to impossible is possible on Sony VP On Stopping Napster · · Score: 2

    Impossible is not possible. The music will eventually be converted to an analog signal where it could be converted to something digital

    Not necessarily, unless you're planning to put an open mike in front of your tamper-proof speakers receiving an encrypted signal and outputting an inaudible tracking signal.


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  11. Orwell's _1984_ will never be on Gutenberg. on Sony VP On Stopping Napster · · Score: 2

    Neither George Orwell's 1984 nor anything else created on or after 1923 will ever be added to Project Gutenberg because anything created on or after 1923 is under perpetual copyright. This is at first glance unconstitutional (the Constitution mentions "for limited times"), but Congress gets around it by simply retroactively extending copyrights when they are about to expire.

    Fuck you Walt Disney Company.


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  12. (OT)Other DJGPP games on Sybase to Open Souce Watcom C/C++ & Fortran Compiler · · Score: 1

    It's common knowledge that Doom and Descent were built with Watcom, and Quake was built with DJGPP, but have you seen the Depot? Or PinEight.com? Lots of cool DJGPP stuff.
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  13. Makes sense to me: other plaintiffs on MP3.com Pays Damages to Sony · · Score: 2

    The RIAA is not just Sony. Other labels are plaintiffs in this suit, and they still want their share.
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  14. They covered a lot of that. on GNU/Linux For Dummies: A Brief Survey · · Score: 2
    • Connecting up to an ISP (phone, cable or xDSL)

    There is a chapter on this.

    • Reading/Writing Windows disks and files

    Accessing your FAT hard disk and mounting floppies are also covered.

    • Handling E-Mail (eg: Outlook-type apps)

    No need, as Netscape 4.7x on Linux looks just like Netscape 4.7x on Windows, which is covered in The Internet for Dummies.

    • Installing new applications

    Is the package manager in the index? If so, there's more than likely a section on installing apps.


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  15. 128 bits; N32; Gekko on Nintendo's Dolphin Becomes The N-Cube · · Score: 2

    The original "N32" was the PlayStation, which was originally a Sony addon for the SNES. When Nintendo killed the PS project, Sony developed a version called "PlayStation-X" that was designed to be independent from the SNES. That's the PSX that killed N64.

    And yes, the AltiVec unit in some PowerPC processors (is it in Gekko?) can crunch 128 bit vectors, making the G4 Cube a 128-bit system.

    But doesn't the name of the core of the N-Cube remind you of the name of the core of Mozilla?
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  16. (OT)VMS, Microsoft, and NT on VMSK/2 Promises 5 Times More Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    Actually, VMS 2K is a reality (unfortunately). The NT kernel at the core of Windows 2000 was originally designed by one of the VMS designers.
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  17. (OT)Apostrophes and question marks on Making Technology Democratic · · Score: 1

    Some web browsers and graphics systems (e.g. X11) substitute ?????'s for glyphs not defined in the current combination of encoding and font. Katz's articles are probably written in Codepage 1252, which is Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) with different characters in the 0x0080 to 0x009f range (which is normally used for control characters on text terminals). AFAIK, the "smart quote" marks are in that range, and it confuses X11's font manager.
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  18. _Representative_ democracy? Poppycock. on Making Technology Democratic · · Score: 2

    Individual citizens do not govern, they elect representatives who reflect their views, values, etc. to govern.

    Representatives' voting records do not necessarily reflect the views of their constituents. They can say one thing (e.g. pro-life) to get elected and another (pro-baby-murder) once in office.

    There is always this danger.
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  19. Foiling speaker coil hacks on USB 2.0 Spec Is Final - Up To 480 MB/s · · Score: 2

    Speakers will eventually be made tamper-proof like cable boxes. A speaker that has been opened will refuse to accept encrypted streams.
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  20. FTP install in 30 min? Under 8 MB? Poppycock. on Slashback: Mainstreaming, Lux, Ports · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that a complete OpenBSD system with X11 fits in an 8 MB download? (30 min == 1800 s; 1800 s * 4.5 KB/s bandwidth = 8 MB).

    Oh, you meant broadband. DSL is only available if you live practically next door (within two miles) to the phone company. Cable is only available in some areas and also requires the purchase of crappy television programming. Does OpenBSD even support most brands of cable and DSL modems?

    Oh, you meant company LAN.


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  21. Yellow journalism _did_ refer to yellow ink. on Slashback: Mainstreaming, Lux, Ports · · Score: 2

    Two popular newspapers had competing comic strips. One was "The Yellow Kid" by Outcault and the other was an imitation. They both used yellow ink to fill in the shape of the boy's gown.
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  22. (OT)Shirt design copyright on Real-time Video Disinformation · · Score: 1

    iANAL:
    Articles of clothing cannot be copyrighted as they are considered "useful articles" under US copyright law.
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  23. No, Mainsoft has its own Wine clone. on Microsoft/Mainsoft Porting to Linux - Follow-up · · Score: 1

    RTFA. Mainsoft uses "MainWin" which essentially is Winelib but "official" and always statically linked (so the Wine folks don't tap into it).
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  24. Carbon : Win32 :: BSD : NT Secret API on Microsoft/Mainsoft Porting to Linux - Follow-up · · Score: 3

    Most Mac OS X apps call functions in the Carbon API, which is based on the old "Toolbox" API from Mac OS 1 through 9. Most Windows apps call functions in the Win32 API, a cheap knockoff of Toolbox. The difference is that Apple is opening its kernel's BSD APIs, whereas Microsoft has no public document demonstrating its VMS-like calls.

    Yes, the internals of NT look like VMS. And if you move each letter in VMS one letter forward, you get WNT.

    adopt a bird
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  25. Is Gnutella really that hard? on The Heavenly Jukebox, From Hell · · Score: 2
    1. Connect to another host on the gnutellaNet
    2. Enter the words you are looking for
    3. Look through the search results
    4. Download the files
    How is this so much harder than Napster with Napigator?
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