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  1. Other kinds of addiction? on Interview With the Founder of a Video Game Rehab Clinic · · Score: 1

    Can they cure Slashdot addiction?

  2. Re:Time to move the servers? on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, there are still plenty of wild places where no one will bother you, and you can live with all the freedom you can create for yourself, by yourself.

    Tell this to the Unabomber.

  3. Re:Failure of thought on SourceForge Clarifies Denial of Site Access · · Score: 1

    SF Laos doesn't have to "deal" (legally affiliated) with SF US: they just happen to download stuff they found on SF US website (just like anyone else).

    In fact, I would be surprised, if the people in N Korea, Iran etc. haven't set up tunnels to do that.

  4. Re:Not the best use of resources right now... on SETI Founder Outlines Ambitious Future Plans · · Score: 1

    ... but the vast resources we'd need to put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon would probably better be devoted to making sure that the Earth remains habitable. Later, when we're not at risk of drowning in our own pollutants, then let's go back to looking for aliens.

    That's why we have to colonize Mars :)

  5. Re:Where is the Free Assets Foundation? on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 1

    There is the Blender repository
    Ok, it's not quite turbosquid, but still nice ...

  6. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 1

    Guess the irony doesn't quite come through.

  7. Re:Gamers grown up on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, we have visual programming languages, but they aren't really easiser for the users to use them. (Not easiser than a regular scripting language)

    I tried one which generated J2EE apps, but actually, but it just slowed me down, and making the diagrams look neat took much more effort than to make the code neat. (You know, a lot of wires crossing each other etc.) Actually, writing an autoindent module for textual code is much easier than for a graph based language.
    Actually what makes diagrams in general (e.g. in documentation) useful is that they only show only the aspect of the code that you're trying to explain. Deciding what is important what's unimportant in a given situation needs human level intelligence.

  8. Re:Computer Science != Computer Skills on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 1

    Fortunately the founders of Google didn't think like you.

  9. Re:Gamers grown up on Researchers Make a Case For Learning Through Video Game Creation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, you can use some open-source engines, like Apocalyx or Panda3d, where you can do everything with a scripting language (Lua or Python) and no C/C++ skills are required. Of course this only takes care for rendering and physics, you have to do the AI yourself. (But that's the most intresting part anyway.)

  10. Re:Test Every Time on Radiation Therapy Mistakes Cost Lives · · Score: 1

    Just build a few extra treatment center, after it's just a QUESTION OF MONEY.

  11. Re:Melodramatic? on Radiation Therapy Mistakes Cost Lives · · Score: 1

    "People do not experience a reduction in their quality of life with one kidney. " They do. Their strength and stamina will be decreased.

  12. Re: Faster Than The Other Side on A Case For the Necessity of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Why would the owners of the robots decide so? Having a robot is just another form of capital.

  13. TPB? on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    The most important thing is to persuade the Pirate Bay to support Theora but not H264.

  14. Re:Sigh on Mozilla's VP of Engineering On H.264 · · Score: 1

    (Windows, Mac, Linux -- US corporations are the primary workers on the kernel, Red Hat, Novell, Oracle, Linus lives in the US)

    Just to nitpick a bit. Suse was a German company, but they got bought up by Novell. But I guess most of Suse users are in Germany.

  15. Re:Hillary Clinton's quotable quote on China Slams Clinton's Call For Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    I think she should really talk this through with his husband. (DMCA, anyone?)

  16. Re:Way to restate the summary, Cpt. Obvious! on Red Hat Support Continues To Flourish · · Score: 1

    Umm, Solaris is free. So, of course support is above and beyond what you pay for it.

    Ahem, you mean OpenSolaris. From the license agreement:

    B. Terms of the License -- the Entitlement
    In order to use the Solaris 10 software for perpetual commercial use, you must obtain the Entitlement Document. The Entitlement Document is delivered to you either with a new Sun machine, from Sun Service as part of your service agreement, or via email when you register your machines through the Sun Download Center. For this reason, ensure that you have the correct email address in your Sun Download Center account before trying to register your Solaris 10 machines. If you do not receive the Entitlement Document, you are only allowed to use the software for 90 days of evaluation usage.

  17. Re:I'll be the first to say... on 75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers · · Score: 1

    I recently installed Ubuntu and had no problem with Flash. Although I only tried streaming videos.

    What I had Problem with:
    1, Ati driver: I installed the thing offered by Ubuntu and the one from ATI's site as well: blank screen; tried to remove it (followed instructions from community forum): didn't work out, left me with a broken system, reinstall OS, don't install binary driver; I don't have nice desktop effects, and can't run games but otherwise works ok (later found out, they moved to a newer version of Xorg; but hey, why couldn't they warn me before I downloaded it? I would have sticked for 8.04)
    2, SWI prolog: the one from SWI's site is built for Suse; tried to install it with alien, but it says it's broken. Ok, install the less fresh one from the repository: some prolog packages didn't quite work (XPCE - some parts don't work as should (Navigator e.g.)); the really funny thing is that it works on Windows like a charm

    It's not all those proprietary stuff that ruins the experience, but poor package maintenance.

  18. Re:So much for "free software", eh? on 75% of Linux Code Now Written By Paid Developers · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. There're a lot of people out there that want their cheap noname stuff to "just work"(tm). And hey, what about ATI drivers?

  19. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 1

    or German (the generic pronoun is "man,"

    At least they do differentiate the two: man and Mann. And there's a difference in emphasis as well.

  20. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 1

    Please don't stereotype, it's just so sexist.

  21. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 1

    Actually, woman are pretty oblivious to sexism agianst men as well.

  22. Re:No interest on ReactOS Being Rewritten, Gets Wine Infusion · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'm not a native speaker.

  23. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 0, Troll

    "He" is the less sexist one, and anyone who disagrees, I'll puch them in the face.

  24. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 1

    I, the knight in shiny armours, always fight the ugly creature called sexism, so that I can get laid.

  25. Re:she? on Python Essential Reference 4th Ed. · · Score: 1

    It's one of the many sexist pathologies of English that the male third person pronoun is used to indicate a generic third person.

    So you replace one pathology with another. Well done.
    In Capitalism, man exploits man. In Socialism, it’s exactly the opposite.