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  1. Re:The disc is DRM on Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming · · Score: 1

    Yes, putting discs in drives is madness!

    No! It is SPARTA!

  2. Re:New algorithms? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here is the relevant wikipedia approved citation :

    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1501696&cid=30685106

  3. All kind of maths are good on Which Math For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    seriously all kinds of maths are importants.

    If you don't do statistics, you'll never see the difference between that's noise and that's relevant information.

    Discreet structures are the basis of algorithmics. No algorithmics, no efficient code.

    Linear algebra is the basis of... everything including non linear equations So you'll need it for equations solving, optimisation (including in discreet structure), graphics 2d or 3d, sound...

    calculus, derivations (or whatever it is called in your country) leads to data analysis, trends...

    Mod me troll if you want but if you want to do more than selecting colors on a website, you can't have too much maths...

  4. Re:Real question is... on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 1

    fatality ?

  5. Re:Going backwards? on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 1

    I used to teach at university and I found that student listen more on chalk/blackboard lesson than on powerpoint ones. So I used to use chalk/blackboard on important stuff and powerpoint (well beamer) on I-want-you-to-have-heard-about-it lessons.

  6. Re:Huge problem on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem with society today is there are easily two groups of people that can easily be recognized: those that can manipulate abstract symbols and those that cannot. This is purely a mental capability - education has no role in it. If a person doesn't have the ability, you might be able to train them sufficiently to put on a pretty good show and fake it but they aren't going to be successful or happy about it.

    I am sorry, but [citation needed].

    In my experience, every person that does not understand abstract symbols will understand them once you explain the logic in detail. Sure some people are better at it than other people, but everybody I met was able to understand it.

  7. Re:crapola on SpamAssassin 2010 Bug · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love helpful responses from idiots that start with "first, edit the /etc/spamassassin.conf file"

    Yes. That's easy! First edit the /etc/spamassassin.conf file!
    Wait a sec...

  8. Re:Huh on Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow · · Score: 1

    so the cost would be roughly equivalent to 200km of streets which is quite small for a city like Moscow. And this just consider the cost of removing the snow, not the broken bones to people slipping, car accident, traffic jam...

  9. Re:Huh on Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow · · Score: 1

    I was wondering if we have accurate estimation of the cost of snow in large cities.

  10. Re:Nice on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is overkilled. I used to take the TGV between Paris and Grenoble. It is about 350 miles (570Km) and I really appreciated doing it in 3 hours. The Train is on TGV rail up between Paris and Lyon (290 miles) and does it in 2 hours and takes an other hour to reach grenoble (60 Miles) on classical rail. If the rail was TGV between Lyon and Grenoble, the travel time would drop to 2 hours and 20 minutes which I would have loved.

  11. Re:Yeah, but it's France.... on Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't worry, the french government is too occupied looking good to make war. The military would probably go on strike. And the left wing would be concerned by the carbon impact of making such a war.

    BTW, you should not worry about the eggs on junk food^W^Wpizza as it might bring you some real cheese! :)

  12. Of course it is possible on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 2, Informative

    but is it really possible to get better quality from a lower bitrate?

    If you are changing the compression algorithm of course it is possible. In H264, there are a lot of compression possibilities which are not used by the compression algorithm but which will be recognized by the decompression algorithm.

  13. a towel on Science Gifts For Kids? · · Score: 1

    Where ever you go a towel is useful. Don't forget your towel.

  14. Re:A view from Asia-Pacific on Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share · · Score: 1

    NO, I won't want to put Ubuntu on it. I'll want to put Debian or Arch Linux on it. We don't all use crappy Ubuntu.

    FTFY

  15. networking on What Do You Look For In a Conference? · · Score: 1

    It is unlikely that attending people will really learn something interesting in a conference. However, it is the perfect place to meet people; your next employer or your next employe.

  16. Re:Ignorance in the comments from the Superintende on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you tell me what 17x16 is?

    It's a multiplication, sir!

  17. Re:Is a movie theater really a public place? on Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    The shorter the more discount. I like this idea!

  18. Re:Bandwidth hogging is relatively easy to solve on Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 1

    Ensuring fairness at one point of the network won't ensure fairness over the whole network which is what you really want.

  19. Re:Why? on Hunting the Mythical "Bandwidth Hog" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because the operators pay for the bandwidth. The high bandwidth users are less profitable than the other ones.

  20. Re:Vive la France libre! on DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court · · Score: 1

    I never thought this would happen in France. Judiciary system might not be as fucked as I thought it was.

  21. Re:There are two warring camps in Linux documentat on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    If nothing else, distro maintainers ought to find someone to write docs before including these components.

    In a lot of man page you can read : This manual page was written by XXX for the Debian project (but may be used by others)

  22. Re:Documentation is very lacking on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 1

    That's the doc-linux-text package in debian which install the HOWTOs in /usr/share/doc/doc-linux-text/HOWTO/.

    By the way, debian also links to a desktop user/administrator guide on its web page http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/. And the debian documentation page has a lot of information http://www.debian.org/doc/

    I don't know on other distributions, but it seems that the documentation in mandriva (linked from http://www2.mandriva.com/support/ ) is pretty good as well. Especially the advanced guide http://doc.mandriva.com/en/2009/Mastering-Manual/Mastering-Manual.html/.

    I believe people never thought aout going to the main page of the distribution and click on the suport/documentation link.

  23. Re:The Culture needs a slight change. on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It also saves programmers the time of having to answer needless questions.

    Don't worry! I have scripts to answer RTFM to whole forums at once. I do not even have to read the post. Just to be undetected sometimes the scritps replies "Read the source Luke" instead.

  24. Re:And good luck with Google, too on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And you are exposed to none compatible solutions. The number of doc out there that still use insmod/rmmod instead of modprobe is high. The number of solutions that tell to install software manually instead of using the one from your distro repository is high. Google is good to get a basic understanding of the concept and problem. Then read the manual (not only talking about man pages)

  25. Re:Documentation is very lacking on Is Linux Documentation Lacking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the man pages are only supposed to give the formal parameters of the command. The actual use of the command in a given context are given by HOW TOs.