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  1. Re:Already out. on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    *muttering about a lack of edit button* -- I meant future tense.

  2. Re:Be sure to vote with your wallet on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    They don't have to support an open source driver. If they would just publish specs the community could take care of implementing them.

    ...by making an open source driver and calling it Nouveau.

    OK, so that's not exactly how it happened. They had to work without the specs being released.

  3. Already out. on Nvidia Drops Support For Its Open Source Driver · · Score: 1

    David Gerard points out that Nouveau is going into Linux 2.6.33.

    Tubal-Cain points out that the use of past tense on "going" was unnecessary.

  4. Re:but on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 1

    Depends on how formal his "research" is. If he's just looking it up out of curiosity, it's a great resource in itself. If he's writing a paper on it...

  5. Re:but on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia.ORG

  6. Re:FOSS Contributions on 10% Tax On Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And define "custom" in this context.

  7. Re:most people arent wired for math on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering what that might make room for in the pre-7th curriculum.

    • Longer recess/lunch
    • Go a little deeper in other studies
    • More PE & Music (they were twice-a-week activities at my elementary)
    • More free-reading time
    • Get out earlier

    I would suggest some kind of critical thinking course...

    I've heard people say we need more "Critical Thinking" quite a bit, and for some reason the people that say it seem convinced that we should have arrived at the same conclusion.

  8. Re:Damn..... on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 1

    It's funny because Stalin very blatantly had photos doctored when he stopped being friendly with someone.

  9. Alliances on Google's New Approach For China Is To Serve From Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    And why should China obey that declaration. Doesn't the UK need China more than China needs the UK? Is the UK going to invade China? China can do what it wants in Hong Kong and they will do it if they think it's necessary.

    If the British decide to press the issue, it could easily turn into WW3.

  10. Re:Why left? on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Just be careful if you carry this too far; keep at least in the back of your mind that you may not be able to predict the contexts in which your program will be used. It might be used on a touch screen.

    True, but not very applicable to the current discussion. Control of the window manipulation buttons is (usually) in the hands of the window manager (Metacity, KWin, Windows Explorer, etc) and its themes, not the application itself.

  11. Re:useless unless on Bill Would Require Public Information To Be Online · · Score: 1

    Can you cite some specific examples of this?

    http://thomas.gov/robots.txt:

    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /beta
    Crawl-Delay: 2

    User-agent: Slurp
    Disallow: /beta
    Crawl-Delay: 2

    User-agent: Ultraseek
    Disallow: /cgi-bin

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

  12. Re:How about congress? on Bill Would Require Public Information To Be Online · · Score: 1

    What does a "good" lobbyist have to hide?

  13. Re:Pro / cons on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Why throw the baby out with the bathwater?

  14. Nobody on If ET Calls, Who Speaks For Humanity? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do we need someone to speak for humanity as a whole? Why do we assume the aliens will have a single government? Why can't we communicate nation-to-nation?

  15. Re:Use the serial port ... on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 1

    ...contact an old hard drive recovery company like On-Track, and they should be able to hoover all of the data off for you, and email it to you in an easy to read format.

    Fixed that for you.

  16. Re:Not really. on 5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One · · Score: 1

    Reading it, most of the article doesn't make much sense.

    Everything comes comes down to point 4.
    Points 1 and 2 aren't reasons at all, they're symptoms of 4.
    I'm not sure what to make of point 3.

    He could have made a case in #5 about a lack of programs that would be useful on tablets, but no. He went right back to applying #4 to current apps.

  17. Re:Not really. on 5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One · · Score: 1

    The what? ;-)

  18. Not really. on 5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One · · Score: 1

    ...full OS tablets existed before the iPad rumors even started.

    But they weren't/aren't tablet OSs. They're desktop OSs with touchscreen "support" crowbarred in. The OS may talk to the hardware properly, but the interface for both the OS and the applications weren't adapted to it.

  19. Re:Same? on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 2, Informative

    IIRC, Chinese characters represent individual syllables. English letters are strung together to make syllables. I think he's lamenting that syllables in English that sound similar will generally look similar, but there is no such resemblance in Chinese.

  20. Language settings? on Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques? · · Score: 1

    Any anecdotes out there regarding the helpfulness (or lack thereof) in changing your computer's default language?

  21. Re:VBA on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Which raises the question: is any work being done at OOo to implement VSTO?

  22. Re:MGS on Invisibility Cloak Created In 3-D · · Score: 1

    Was it a woman saying "Nuclear launch detected."? Meh, it's probably nothing.

  23. Re:Three cheers for good writing on Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads · · Score: 1

    That would be nice, but until then we have SeenOnSlash.

  24. Re:RTFA, perhaps? Nah, then you can't just say BS. on Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads · · Score: 1

    Viacom allegedly even sent employees Kinko's to upload clips, so Youtube couldn't trace the origin back to Viacom. I don't know what evidence they have of this, but if we give them the benefit of the doubt (that's a pretty specific bunch of allegations to simply invent), that would indicate some pretty clear malfeasance on Viacom's part. They were trying to poison the well and not get caught.

    It only says that they uploaded videos from Kinko's. It doesn't say if these accounts were opened from there.

  25. Re:Wow. on Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads · · Score: 1

    IANAL but it's my understanding that you can file just about whatever you want as evidence in a civil trial.

    Jack Thomson agrees.