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  1. Re:Silly Brits on UK Election Arcana, Explained By Software · · Score: 1

    The MPs don't decide the government. The party with more than (total number of MPs / 2) MPs forms the government.

    Since no party has an overall majority, the previous government stays in power. Traditionally, they are given first dibs at forming a coalition, however, since the Tories got more votes, they are giving them that opportunity.

    But what you're saying has more or less the same effect.

  2. Re:Gee, didn't someone get lynched for saying that on Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo · · Score: 1

    There's more money to be made selling recipe applications and brain training toys than in selling games to hardcore gamers it would seem.

  3. Re:Zen on Zen Coding · · Score: 1

    *Whoosh*

  4. Re:UIKit != AppKit on Cross With the Platform · · Score: 1

    Model Controller View.

    The existing code being the model (and bits of the controller, I'd imagine).

  5. Re:Normally, I'd say let them do what they want on Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds · · Score: 1

    It's an unenforceable EULA in that case, as a warranty agreement cannot void your statutory rights.

  6. Re:Normally, I'd say let them do what they want on Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds · · Score: 1

    In the EU (as, I'm sure, in the US), when you buy a product, it should be suitable for the purpose for which it was sold. The PS3 was sold as a device capable of playing online games and running alternative operating systems. Following this change, it can now do one or the other, but not both.

    Hence, it is no longer suitable for the purpose for which it was sold.

  7. Re:Yup on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 1

    You get a lot of bad haggis in Scotland, but good haggis is a delight.

  8. Re:Sorry kids on "Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3 · · Score: 1

    Cite some examples plz.

    KThnxBai.

  9. Re:Make it turn the volume up on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    It's done when it returns control to you. It did what you told it to do, and nothing unexpected happens, so it assumes you are stateful enough to need no reminder of what you told it to do. Unless you told it otherwise of course with the -v flag or an action to perform on success or failure.

  10. Re:Why should I care? on Silicon Valley VCs and the Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    And what exactly are these ephemeral skills and talents of which you speak?

  11. Re:Anyone else think is was a .NET Fortran? on An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme · · Score: 1

    Nah. They just have a lot of customers maintaining old mainframe applications written in COBOL.

  12. Re:Adobe Flash will die on Apple's Change of Heart On Flash · · Score: 1

    Not locked out of h264, but locked out of the advantages of HTML5 video, e.g., scripted manipulation of video in-browser - i.e., the sort of things YouTube does at the moment in Flash.

  13. Re:Flawed on IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files · · Score: 3, Insightful

    C:\users\%USERNAME%\Documents anyone?

  14. Re:Oh, no... on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    I was born in 1980 and educated in Scotland at state schools. As far as I am concerned, I received a fairly comprehensive set of lessons on grammar and sentence structure. This was both at primary and secondary levels.

    If people are coming out of school, having followed the same curriculum I did, without an adequate grasp of these subjects then I can only conclude that there are factors other than the quality of the lessons at play.

  15. Re:Could someone explain to me on Making Sense of ACTA · · Score: 1

    A good cava will be better than the equivalent Champagne for the same money. It's only when you get to the point of spending £60 a bottle that Champagne becomes worthwhile. The majority really don't have a clue.

  16. Re:College on CompTIA Reneges, Reconsiders on Lifetime Certifications · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what exactly is the process by which one selects a college/university in the US?

    I appreciate that you were limited in your choice of institutions, but how did you make your ultimate decision?

  17. Re:CompTIA on CompTIA Reneges, Reconsiders on Lifetime Certifications · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like you're at the wrong school.

    Probably too late to change now, but I guess that's a lesson to you to do a bit more digging around before committing x number of years of your life to something.

  18. Re:This happens weekly on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    I saw it first. :P

  19. Re:This happens weekly on Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter · · Score: 1

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

    In short, no thanks.

  20. Re:I'm ever so thankful on China Arrests Thousands In Internet Porn Crackdown · · Score: 1

    ORLY? http://itgrunt.com/ is still "temporarily unavailable."

    The author of the site is clearly a racist cunt rag, but you know what they say about unpopular speech.

  21. Re:Wishful thinking on After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo · · Score: 1

    Me, I would take a consistent way of representing a hydrogen atom, helium atom, etc. Then describe some fundamental chemical reactions to illustrate what I'm getting at. Take that a step further, add additional vocabulary for describing electron shells, then describe some ionization reactions. Likewise for isotopes and radioactive decay.

    Sooner or later, you have a language.

    The way the structure of DNA is described in the original arecibo message is a great example IMO.

    Of course, to describe any complex process you first you have to define a language for maths and logic.

    And then you have mass, time, distance etc, which can all be described in terms of various atomic properties.

    Of course, all this has been discussed at length a million times already.

  22. Re:If anyone can see it, it can be indexed on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hear, fucking hear. Google should call this wanker's bluff and do the world a favour.

  23. Re:This is a good thing on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 1

    The Times is just The Sun with longer words.

  24. Re:Let me get this right on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, Fox was in the news business?

  25. Re:no matter the mocking on Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works · · Score: 1

    None.

    Although there have been civil cases concerning deep linking, common sense has generally prevailed.

    That said, Google would lose far more in credibility from disregarding robots.txt than it could possibly stand to gain.