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  1. Re:why dont we just use chinese characters? on Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source · · Score: 1

    look if we are going to have these bizarre punctuation marks everywhere, then why not just start using chinese characters, that actually mean what we are talking about?

    There are a lot better languages already out there if you want bizarreness.

  2. One more? on Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yet another language from Wouter van Oortmerssen? When will he ever get enough?

    He's also the guy behind the Cube game and game-engine.

  3. Re:What's worse on Eric Schmidt: Teens' Mistakes Will Never Go Away · · Score: 1

    Well I would look at it the other way around... What does applicant B have to hide? What doesn't that person want us to see? Just childish mistakes of youth, or something else more serious?

  4. Re:Lead Time on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    While that may be, I'm not sure I want to be there if they're going to be anything like Tim imagines.

  5. Racks and cables? on The Eternal Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Well that's only the outside. Once you log in to them the look like this.

  6. No blink in Blink? on Gecko May Drop the Blink Tag · · Score: 1

    So the Blink engine has no blink support?

  7. So no movie and effigy burning? on LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams · · Score: 1

    So they don't do like when Commodore shut down, where the last employees burnded an effigy of the CEO Mehdi Ali on their farewell party.

    Documented by Dave Haynie in The Deathbead Vigil.

  8. Re:Double the registry, double the fun on ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse Launching Today · · Score: 1

    owners or registered

    "Owners of registered" I mean.

  9. Double the registry, double the fun on ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse Launching Today · · Score: 1

    So owners or registered trademarks have to register them again? To a company that says "It won't protect the marks from being used, just help when you sue". Isn't that why you registered the trademark with the government to begin with?

  10. Almost like the Samsung Galaxy S4? on Video Inpainting Software Deletes People From HD Video Footage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't the new Galaxy S4 have a similar feature, if I read correctly? Although only for photos.

  11. Time Cube on Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Time Cube!

  12. Good OS for a raft on Contiki Turns Ten · · Score: 1

    I'll think I'll use it on a raft, then sail over the Pacific Ocean.

  13. Re:Not as strange as it sounds on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 1

    What is the carbon footprint of a dead person decomposing?

  14. So.. on Supreme Court Disallows FISA Challenges · · Score: 1

    So this makes it lawful for the US to spy on its citizens as long as the citizens don't know they are being spied upon? It's not unlawful unless someone actually can prove he or she has been spied on?

    I can hear it now:

    Citizen: I've been speid upon
    Court: Can you prove it?
    Citizen: There must be logs!
    NSA: Nope, no logs here, he he he
    Court: Case dismissed!

  15. Re:Oh boy. on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 2

    But then the same story would be posted three days in a row.

  16. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 2

    BBC Top Gear isn't as much about cars (any more) than it is about comedy.

  17. Re:The above is an obvious joke on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: 1

    I don't think there has ever been a single bit of software documentation ever produced that has been translated into "Australian".

    Maybe not, but the other way around can happen... I have a DVD of the first Mad Max movie, where the default audio track is dubbed to American English.

  18. Reminds me of the normal "PC"... on Fragmentation Leads To Android Insecurities · · Score: 1

    A multitude of manufacturers, a myriad of differing hardware configurations, a only a single operating system, and lots of vulnerabilities.

    Could be used to describe both the Android smartphone market, or the Windows home-computer market.

  19. Re:They're hiding... on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1
  20. Re:This cannot be underestimated on Summer Programming Courses Before Heading Off To College? · · Score: 1

    I would love to do that, but I don't think my wife agrees with that. :)

  21. Re:This will get them sued in the EU on Xbox 720 Could Require Always-On Connection, Lock Out Used Games · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure the companies selling the games will probably abstain from selling in a region with half a billion potential customers.

  22. Re:Addendum: VB = 1st timeframe wise vs. Delphi on The History of Visual Development Environments · · Score: 1

    Object Pascal was just a different dialect of C++.

    Except that it's not a dialect of C++. Object Pascal is a dialect of Pascal, which was a descendant of ALGOL W which was a variant of ALGOL 60.

    C++ traces it's roots to C, which comes from B which was based on BCPL which came from CPL which was inspired from ALGOL 60.

    So while you're right in a way, in that both are descendants from ALGOL 60, the languages are otherwise not related.

  23. Re:Well, it was nice while it lasted on Next-Gen Console Wars Will Soon Begin In Earnest · · Score: 1

    If you want to count similar games, how about Battlefield. 23 games so far, and two more coming this year.

  24. Re:Depends if that coding pays the family bills on Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development · · Score: 1

    Why would he start with a kernel again? He might go back to develop AberMUD.

  25. Re:Will Microsoft call on Burson-Marsteller to fix on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    They are also, or at least used to be, very common in Sweden. Shared was usually divided into A and B shares, with A shares being 10 votes and B shares having one vote.