Slashdot Mirror


User: DaVince21

DaVince21's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,182
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,182

  1. Re:Nietzsche was right - that which doesn't kill u on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    So, you caught it? You have a nasty cough there...

    On a related note, getting ill also strengthens the immune system. If you don't die, that is.

  2. Slashdot... on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    This isn't news.

  3. Maybe it's just getting complete enough? on Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers · · Score: 1

    Maybe Wikipedia is getting complete enough for people to run out of things to write...

  4. Re:What? Why? Huh? on Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers · · Score: 1

    You know, Japan is different enough to consider cartoons not only for children. Those are never brought to the US or Europe because the common misconception there is that cartoon are only for children.

    Kind of like what they're doing with comics. Comics were serious business in the 50's, nowadays all of a sudden they're only for kids or obsessive creeps or something.

  5. Re:Hurrah! on Inkscape 0.47 Released · · Score: 1

    1.0 just means that it's feature-complete enough to be useful, without lacking anything major, though. As well as being polished of course.

    From there, the software still wouldn't be complete. People would keep working on it and the software would still get better and better from that point on, but the 1.0 at least indicates that it does everything that the official creator aimed it to be.

  6. Re:There is one problem, though on Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers · · Score: 1

    If you go Xubuntu you get a very slick blue and black theme though.

  7. Re:Great on Inkscape 0.47 Released · · Score: 1

    Illustrator and PDF are both technologies made by Adobe. They can easily decide to save extra data in the PDFs to import them back into Illustrator with no problems if they wish so.

    Of course, InkScape could do similar things to the PDF, but it kind of seems like a lost effort as PDF would usually indicate final/production/release version.

  8. Re:Obvious... on Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE · · Score: 1

    It's mostly only developers and people willing to test that use developer/nightly builds of browsers, though. The corporate customers are mostly stuck with IE6, anyway.

  9. Re:Well he's at least done more than Obama on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    Become a president first, then we'll talk.

  10. Re:Are they? on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    Still, the users are more at fault than the site itself, since they are the ones making the torrents (and linked content) available to others. It's like how YouTube gets sued over copyrighted videos when the users are at fault.

  11. Re:Distributed Post! on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 1

    Finally I got that episode of, uh, FIRENDZ in!

  12. Re:white dwarfs not white dwarves on Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres · · Score: 1

    The real historical plural of dwarf is dwarrows. Dwarves is bad grammar, but is in common enough usage that it's pointless to argue. "Dwarfs" just makes you look illiterate, as if you spelled the plural of fish as "fishs."

    Or fishes, for that matter. The plural for fish is, after all, fish.

    Unless you're mafia I guess.

  13. Re:That's okay. on Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres · · Score: 1

    One thing that was never adequately explained to me is why can life only be very similar to us?

    Because very specific circumstances are required in order for a life form to exist, and the only type of livable circumstances we've been able to compare to are our own.

  14. Awesome! on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    This means more girls to choose from, guys! Too bad it only affects the following generations (unless you're into those wrong things).

  15. Re:Can you actually do anything useful? on Commodore 64 Runs Again On the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Haha only on /. would someone compare Apple to communist Russia and be corrected 'Its worse than that, you could even call it DRM'.

    I'm surprised nobody's compared them with Hitler yet...

  16. Re:And yet.. on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    You're right. I'm a nobody, and I care.

  17. So... on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 1

    Before Duke Nukem Forever?

  18. Re:THIS is a real domain specific language. on OpenGL Shading Language 3rd Edition · · Score: 1

    The difference is that this language is written specially to be used in the domain of video hardware.

  19. Re:silly on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    There is no software that wraps all of it around one nice, understandable UI though. Some (especially less technical) project members don't want to dawdle in the terminal when they don't have to.

  20. Re:Well ... on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    Microsoft can withdraw approval for Mono at any time, if they wish.

    They made some sort of legal declaration (or however you call it) a few months ago that would make this illegal...

  21. Re:Logic on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    Hmm, Linux has succeeded on both my and my mom's computers... And she's not exactly tech-savvy.

  22. Also develop for 5 UNIX platforms? on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    Fat chance. They'll probably somehow break compatibility with non-Windows systems with a next upgrade somehow. Hey, open-source only defines the source must stay available, not that it HAS to run on several different systems, right?

    After which interested parties can then try to fix the thing again to work under Linux too. If a fork is possible with the license, I see a fork coming.

  23. Re:Go! on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    Name's taken already.

    I think they should call it "togo". Because it's a language "to go" and because it sounds sproingy (like "pogo").

  24. Nice name... on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    What's Google implying? That I Go ogle people?

  25. Re:Build-in function library on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    If there are two very different ways to do something, and there are groups of people who prefer one over the other, having this kind of fragmentation becomes sort of unavoidable.