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  1. I'm fucked on British Columbia Bows To Breast Cancer Patent · · Score: 2

    I'm one of the unlunky people born with the XYZ mutation, as a result my body checks for the mentioned gene several million times a day.

    This is becoming a costly process, with the royalties I have to pay to conduct my own tests.

    I have had the gene for 25 years, can I claim prior art?

  2. Re:Witch one is is: on Felten Follower Examines Crippled Music Disks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The correct business model is something like....

    1: Write free software.
    2: Examine Crippled Music Disks.
    3: ?
    4: Freedome.

  3. wash repeat... on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1

    Personally I don't want any advertising in schools. Free stuff from Apple and M$, fine so long as any branding or notions that it's apple of m$ are removed.

    Hell I pleased that Coke give me free advertising, I'm pleased that whenever I buy a mars bar some money goes to SKY T.V and the Sun news paper. All this free stuff makes me feel great!

    Remove brain.
    Wash
    ?
    repeat....

    No all I need is the odd rinse cycle.

  4. Re:drugs? on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 1

    What like tea, coffee, peanuts, bananas, meat.......

    Think geek, think coffee?

  5. Re:The title says it all... on Liquid Nitrogen Beats Air Cooling (Again) · · Score: 1

    Everything is just a mislabelled branch of physics.

    Why is this music pleasing?..... insert very long answer here which has been derived using physics.

  6. Re:The title says it all... on Liquid Nitrogen Beats Air Cooling (Again) · · Score: 2

    Why is this 'high school physics.'?

    I can say that....
    Air is mainly nitrogen.
    Gas at 20 deg c has 26 moles per decimiter cubed, I don't know what it is for Nitrogen vapor at -100 - degs.

    I don't know the spacific heating capacity of air or nitrogen vapor (the amount of energy required to raise x moles of y by 1 deg) 'not quite high school physics, though I could work it out'

    Ok so is fairly obvious, but there's a lot more than plain old 'high school physics' to think about.

  7. Avoiding condensation ... wtih a tornado on Liquid Nitrogen Beats Air Cooling (Again) · · Score: 1

    Centrifuge the liquid nitrogen/air stream and spin the ice crystals out, leaving very cold dry air.

  8. what happens next on Microsoft: No Xbox for You! · · Score: 1

    Bill G takes a trip to AUS that he has been planning for years.

    Magicaly some money happens to find it's self heading in the direction of AUS.

    Favorable deals from Microsoft (lets say schools programs, maybe XBox's in schools to keep the kids brainwashed, sory ammused)

    AUS desides that the current law on things like mod chips is a bit out of date and needs a review....

    money..............

  9. Re:Potential ally in patent reform on Intel Must Pay $150M for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Well i better keep my post for prior art just incase someone does go for a patent!

  10. Re:Your Are Asking For A Lot From One Tool. on Open Source Requirements Management Systems? · · Score: 1

    Heigher CMM levels include code reuse and modulatiry.

    I have a new project, what can be re-used from the previous projects.
    Not only must the process be repeatable but one of you targets must be reusablity through the project not just the management.

  11. symbolic maths on ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, why not search on freshmeat for one of the many libraries that alow symbolic maths.

    As a simple example

    sym n;
    function = 2*n + n;
    cout function; // 3*n
    n =6;
    cout function.eval; // 18

  12. CBuilder on ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    You also have to write no lines of code in Borland CBuilder/Kylix. Why are you using Visual C++?

  13. Re:general purpose kernel on Ensuring That 2.6 Will Perform Better Than 2.4 · · Score: 1

    Well the argument I was replying to is that there should be one kernel for servers and desktops.

    My preferance would be to ship a does everything desktop tuned kernel, if you want to run a server then build a kernel to meet you server requirements (if you can't do that then you shouldn't be running a server)

    Self-tuning is the best way, but generating the stats will slow things down a bit, at least on an x86 arch.

  14. Re:Buggy on Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0 · · Score: 1

    8.2 has lots of bwoken libs and deps, my system is now a lot more stable, after I've compiled half of it from fresh source.

    Well thanks to loads of broken Mandrake distros I'm a hell of a lot better at linux than I would have been, I havn't used the GUI configuration tools for a while, as they tend to over-write my adsl config.

  15. Debug Builds.. on KDevelop 3.0 beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Why don't distributions provide debug builds of betas and alhpa.

    e.g. Manrdakes packages KDE betas/alhpas never produce stack traces, even the ones from kde unstable.

    If the distributions built unstable projectes with debug turned on then you'd get more, better bug reports.

  16. Re:How about some more bug fixes? on KDevelop 3.0 beta 1 · · Score: 1

    This is when good design tools come into play (not that there are any).

    Browsing through a top down/bottom up design hierarchy should make fixing the bug easy, and you'll know exactly how wrote the code in the first place if you need a hand!

    almost and example:

    project node Kdevelop
    / \
    sub levels GUI Makefile ...
    / \
    more sublevels.....
    finally the class's at the bottom with there pendants and dependants

    Class CheckSpelling{
    private: .........

    }

    And the function you want

    checkWord(...)
    Designed by Bill, Haray and Bob
    Written by Sally , Haray and Bob
    Reviewed by Johna and Bill
    Bugs todate 10
    Parent Class CheckSpelling
    Pendants...
    Status...
    Notes..
    etc..

  17. Re:The revenge of the clippy on Complex GUI Architecture Discussion? · · Score: 2

    Easy (ish).

    first you have to re-organise the statement, don't tell x to take z and .....
    change it to
    z -> x ->y

    The input data need to be typed, as does the output of each stage.

    so that you can say

    z -> thisdatatype,
    and the computer will know how 'you' usualy perform that operation, on that type of data in that location at that time of day in the office looking out of the window with a pen in you hand whilst playing Quake.......

    The CLI statement is a bit complex for starters, but something like file save dialogues, how you like to view the data after performing xyz, what you usually do next (print on a monday)
    It'll be a bit anoying at first (like those M$ hiding menues) but after a while the UI will taylor it's self to the way you work.

    So on a monday you'll always get the print out of the data without having to do anything, just because that's what you've always done.......

  18. Re:If only... on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 2

    How about a common toolkit interface then, ok so QT is C++ and GTK is in poor mans C++ why can't they get together and sort the interfaces out, 2 toolkits fine, two seperate interfaces cheers mate just what I wanted!

  19. Doesn't work with Windows Proxy servers on Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, this is almost true,
    please vote for this bug (99 votes so-far, lets make it 100)

    so that me and anyone else who uses microsoft proxy server 2 or any NTLM authenticating proxy can use mozilla. (this is probably a few million people, and a lot of corporations)

    This bug has been there since 2000-01-11, and won't make 1.2, hopefully it'll make 1.3 alpha 1!!!

  20. Re:String Theory... on There's a Hole in the Middle of It All · · Score: 2

    Or maybe black holes are just in harmonic resonance? so they appear to be (or infact are)one big partical.
    All that is dis-harmonic is non-singular

  21. general purpose kernel on Ensuring That 2.6 Will Perform Better Than 2.4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why have a GP kernel, Linux comes in source code form, you should be able to have a taylored kernel give the best performance for you uses.

    You could even stat the kernel and do a rebuild with what the stats say is best for you usage pattern.

  22. Re:Open Office and DB on Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite · · Score: 2, Informative

    Access for free
    Well not quite access but it's getting there, an Open Office DB driver is also in progress.

  23. compressed caching...... on Ensuring That 2.6 Will Perform Better Than 2.4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "compressed caching offers nothing to machines with heaps of ram",
    If memory transfer and access speed is causing a bottleneck then well designed compressed caching can give a good performance increase by decompressing into the cpu cache.

    Streems with small blocks would probably give the best performance increases.

  24. Linux kernel doesn't enforce..... on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 1

    How about encrypted filing systems, rights management in the filing system, user privilages (that prevent you from copying things in the memory).

    the Linux kernel does enforce copy protection, and you could create a patch to get around a lot of it (at least to increase the users rights)

  25. because of higher prices ...... on Gateway To Use Corel Over MS For Office Suite · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    caused by taking advantage of a near monopoly position, which they would not have held if they had clamped down hard on piracy.

    I rest my case...............