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  1. Re:Great! on Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released · · Score: 1

    Those are completely without comments and most importantly, variable names.

    MOV HEALTH, AX

    is more understandable than

    MOV BYTE 0xFF43, AX

  2. Re:Things to learn from the Open Source model on Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. Prepare to be downmodded.

  3. Re:Software engineering is not a new concept. on Does the 'Hacker Ethic' Harm Today's Developers? · · Score: 1

    You're repeating yourself.

  4. Re:License on Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4 · · Score: 1

    Nah, I'm using Gentoo.

  5. Re:License on Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4 · · Score: 1

    sudo apt-get install lame

    If you prefer that one

  6. Re:Oh Slashdot... on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderators, please don't mod trolls like these as 'Interesting'. Thank you.

  7. Re:God Bless Him on Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet · · Score: 1

    You sure about that? Show me how I can learn Electrodynamics on the internet. I used to search so much for physics related stuff on the internet but nothing beat my first year of university and going to the store to buy Griffiths' books.

  8. Re:Google on Aussie Scientists Build a Cluster To Map the Sky · · Score: 1

    Done.

    Google never really mapped it though, they just offer old material in a user-friendly way.

  9. Re:Gravity Waves on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 1

    p>But a serious question: Over distance, wouldn't the visible light catch up to the neutrinos?

    Sure, but over what distances are we speaking here? A neutrino created in a supernova would go about a trillionth of a meter per second slower than light, so even if they did a race across the universe( 80 billion lightyears), the neutrino would only be 60 km behind!

  10. Re:Gravity Waves on Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fact that light from the core takes a lot more time to reach the surface than from the surface to the earth has a completely different reason.

    In fact, neutrinos aren't massless which means they are slower than light. The only reason the neutrinos arrived first is because of the way supernovas work. The neutrinos get emitted as soon as the core collapses but the first visible light only appears as soon as the shockwave from the collapse gets to the surface.

    Disclaimer: I'm not yet an astrophysicist, but I did ace my cosmology exam yesterday

  11. Re:Can we stop? on Lies, Damned Lies, and the UK Copyright Industry · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  12. Re:Why is Verbosity Bad? on Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Uh, nope, that really are the only uses for an '*'.

  13. Re:Why is Verbosity Bad? on Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    If you have a problem seeing the difference between a multiplication and a pointer dereference, you really shouldn't be programming in C.

  14. Re:Doesn't make a difference. on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    I don't have to. I recompile them or use a newer version.

  15. Re:Doesn't make a difference. on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    And I'm running a whopping 100% of all my programs in 64 bit. Why are people still using Windows again?

  16. Re:Why burn them up? on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even if this fails in the end, they will learn a lot from the attempt.

    Odds are, there won't even be an attempt.

    Aren't you just mister Optimist

  17. Why burn them up? on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Instead of just plunging them in the ocean, wouldn't it be much cooler to put them in an orbit halfway between the Earth and the moon, as a sort of testament for future generations?
    It could be something like the pyramids or the the Eiffel tower or the Chinese wall.

  18. Re:Windows Only on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Hmm, no 64 bit builds. And I don't want to install a lot of 32-bit libraries just for one program. I probably have an old Ubuntu LiveCD here somewhere.

  19. Re:Windows Only on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I doubt it. Have you looked at the Chrome code? It's littered with hard-coded windows-only bullshit. It's just very unelegantly designed, that's why it's taking so long.

  20. Re:Low on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't respond to the trolls dude.
    But to back your claim, here in the physics department of the KUL in Belgium, Linux is more widespread than Windows, and more and more students are trying it out.

  21. Happy launching on Successful Launch of ESA's Herschel and Planck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's really awesome this thing launched succesfully. My professor of astronomy and his department worked ten years on Herschel. I'm really happy for him.

    I hope the sattelite gives us a lot of useful information or at least some beautiful pictures

  22. Re:I don't get it. on HEN TIFF Exploit Cracks PSP-3000 Open For Homebrew · · Score: 1

    That's the way it always works, the manufacturers catching up with the crackers. Don't worry, there will always be more exploits to discover.

    And sometimes, exploits are practically unfixable. All PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 models are crackable using a modified, so-called Pandora Battery.

  23. Re:GPay on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 1

    That's is an absolutely fantastic sytem. I have seen a lot of videos that I would gladly give a dollar for their effort.
    Maybe this could be combined with removing videos if they're ot bringing up something, you know, get the 90% crap of their servers.

  24. Old on iTunes Prohibits Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Seriously how old is this. These aren't recent changes it's been in there for a while.

    It's a joke. Haha. Isn't it cool that at least someone at Apple has a sense of humor

  25. Re:Huh. on 83% of Businesses Won't Bother With Windows 7 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's called Wine you idiot.

    Not even Microsoft can copyright an API for Christs sake.