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  1. Re:Now they can make it illegal on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 1

    The government is prone to logical fallacy? No news here.

  2. Re:Why Pirate? on Digital Act Could Spur Creation of Pirate ISPs In UK · · Score: 1

    It seems that you didn't understand the idea behind the names "Pirate Party" and "Pirate ISP" in the first place. The word "pirate" symbolizes the public fear of everything people don't understand in IT. These guys are making fun of it, and in some way denouncing it, but they have never encouraged anyone to do anything illegal.

  3. Re:Glossy is a bad name on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So really it should be "Good-looking-screen-but-with-reflections vs. Not-as-good-looking-without-as-many-reflections"

    Which can be efficiently summarized as "Glossy vs Matte".

  4. Re:Firefox on Hardware-Accelerated Ogg Theora For Firefox Mobile · · Score: 1

    Great, they got hw-accelerated Theora to one single mobile phone.

    From TFA: "This SoC (System on Chip) is best known as being the base behind Nokia’s N series of mobiles (including the N900), the Motorola Droid, Palm Pre, and the Beagle Board." That's slightly more than a single mobile phone.

  5. Re:Or, if they want people to buy them.. on Game Devs On the Future of PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    I liked the Mako controls on the 360. But they did change them for the PC—unfortunately, for the worse. (The 360 version would, if the camera was angled too far to one side or another, start turning the vehicle. The PC dropped that, so you could have the camera up to 180 degrees from where the vehicle was going. Very disorienting, at least for me.)

    The trick to dealing with that is to keep the camera pointed in the direction you are going ;P

    That's not a very good idea when said vehicle has weapons that can shoot in any direction.

  6. They're late... on Acer Announces First NVIDIA Ion2-Based Netbook · · Score: 1

    My netbook already runs Ion3. And it sure as hell saves some graphics resources and battery.

  7. Sport events? on Japan Will Start 3D TV Programming This Summer · · Score: 1

    Sport events are among the least 3D-compatible TV shows... They focus on characters which are far away from the camera, so the parallax is very low and so is the 3D effect. But well, I guess they don't really have much choice. They can only show thing they film themselves in 3D, because of the special camera it needs.

  8. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    It's not the substances themselves that are valuable, it's the not-being-in-a-gravity-well that's valuable.

    So the point is:

    - Why is it valuable to go into space ?

    - Because it allows us to go more easily into space.

    Interesting.

  9. Oh damn... on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 2, Funny

    My xkcd "Map of the Internet" poster just got outdated.

  10. Re:Enter the Matrix was OK... on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 1

    This description fits *most* Uwe Boll movies. But not all --- unless you think Postal looks serious. That one was just the same kind of WTF as the game.

  11. Re:Two issues here on Genre Wars — the Downside of the RPG Takeover · · Score: 1

    Little Big Planet...

    ... is a freedom oddity in a mostly-locked world.

  12. Re:Functional programming on Learning JQuery 1.3 · · Score: 1

    In languages as verbose as JavaScript, indeed, too many anonymous functions are evil. But when it's more elegantly made as in Haskell or ML-based languages, use them again and again.

  13. Re:Some kind of... on 2016 Bug Hits Text Messages, Payment Processing · · Score: 1

    We're not talking about IEEE-754 (not 758 btw), we're talking about math. And in math, 1/10 = 0.1. Some systems require this result.