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  1. Re:Valve oh how I love you on Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it's only if they include any Valve assets, then the restriction has nothing to do with the tool, it's just that the assets are copyrighted.

  2. Re:Free rider problem solved? on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    We're talking about technology, why are you talking about art?

  3. Re:Buy a 17" laptop on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Laptop With a Keypad That Doesn't Suck · · Score: 2

    Many 17" laptops have a numeric keypad. Hell, even some 15.4" ones.

  4. Re:how many bit coins do the slashdot mods own? on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    Oh please, stop the whining. It's been months since I last saw a bitcoin story.

  5. Re:next predicatable step on The Encyclopedia of Life Passes the 1 Million Page Mark · · Score: 1

    It already contains google maps mashups.

  6. Re:Damn you kids, get off my lawn. on Demoscene: 64k Intros At Revision Demoparty · · Score: 1

    The closest I know of is the 4k demo Elevated by RGBA and TBC. Everything except audio is done by shaders on the graphics card. Even the camera movements are done there (as the cpu don't even know how the terrain looks).

    Actually, most current 4ks work that way. Rendering is done by just drawing a quad the size of the screen and doing all the work in the shader. The most common use is to draw fractal shapes that would take way too many vertices if rendered classically (an example from Revision: Hartverdrahtet).

  7. Re:I see no future in Wireless internet on Mobile Operators: Creating Artificial Demand For Capacity? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This might have come as a sincere argument if not for the ad in your signature...

  8. Re:There is no magic formula. on Why New Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail · · Score: 1

    Scala has so many ideas and paradigms that you can't say it's based on any specific language. It borrows from a lot of languages.

  9. Re:Even more efficient on The Laser Unprinter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why both parties receive a copy of the contract...

  10. Re:Breaking derivatives on Pi Day Is Coming — But Tau Day Is Better · · Score: 1

    What the fail? Using tau wouldn't change anything to the properties of cos and sin.

    cos x and sin x are defined as the abscissa and ordinate of the point on the unit circle associated with an arc of length x. How does the name of a constant change anything to this definition?

  11. Re:Using what works on Growth of Pseudoscience Harming Australian Universities · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well there's this bit from Tim Minchin's storm - "Do you know how they call alternative medicine that has been proven to work? Medicine."

  12. Re:"Not a major overhaul"? on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: 2

    If your point is that C++11 arrives late, well, I think everyone knows that. But it's still much better than the previous standard.

  13. Re:bad mistake, ask the argentinians. on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the US totally never sold weapons to someone and then fight against them. Ask Saddam.

  14. Re:News for american weapon dealers? on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    Its on the front page because any news that makes America looks bad or even offers an opportunity for good USA bashing gets posted.

    And yet the comments are all about France bashing and how India should have bought F-35s.

  15. Re:And next we'll hear... on Don't Worry About Global Warming, Say 16 Scientists in the WSJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fact that water is not a pollutant.

    Beware of dihydrogen monoxyde though.

  16. Re:Don't count this out yet on Startup Combines CPU and DRAM · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, I should say, floating point, as I have seen it implemented up to this point.

    If you define numbers differently, you can't call them "floating" anymore. Integer base + exponent is the very definition of "floating point".

  17. Re:Retries destroy the pacing on Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood · · Score: 1

    D'uh. Of course video games don't work like cinema. If they did, we would call them cinema.

  18. Re:stop messing with nature! on Pouring Water Into a Volcano To Generate Power · · Score: 2

    I think the only nice power-related invention humans made (that seems to be harmless) is solar power.

    Yes! Let's cover miles and miles of land with solar panels, that's totally not messing with nature!

  19. It's the conjuncture on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 1

    With all these countries losing their subjective AAAs, it's quite logical that the objective C gains interest.

  20. Re:No please. on Virginia May Help People Pay For Space Burials · · Score: 2

    And how exactly does this make them not space junk?

  21. Re:As the French would say... on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: 1

    No earthquakes indeed. Flooding, though, happens; it is actually considered the biggest natural risk in France.

  22. Re:More Specifically Aimed at Chinese Fur Farms on Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA · · Score: 1

    It's even actually less harmful than in the game!

  23. Re:More Specifically Aimed at Chinese Fur Farms on Mario's Raccoon Suit Enrages PETA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Skinning them alive does seem like a cruel process. I would much prefer that they skinned them once they were already dead. I can't really side against PETA, as much as I dislike them, on this.

    Wait, I missed the part where they have footage of Mario skinning the tanooki alive.

  24. Re:They have to on Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name · · Score: 1

    That changes nothing. It's still just a f$#king apple that looks nothing like the computer company's logo. It isn't even bitten!

  25. Re:Very useable on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    Looks like you've been modded "-1 Disagree"...