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  1. Up and running on Firefox 1.5 Final Now Available · · Score: 1

    Well, Ive already installed FF 1.5. So far so good.
    But can anyone explain to me why the older news at Slashdot now shows only as numbers between brackets?

  2. Flash exists because... on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 1

    there is no other viable alternative with so many multimedia features.
    About a year ago, I started a research on an alternative program for FLASH MX, and guess what? I found none. Only other programs that mimic some features of Flash, and at the end, they generate the same .swf file...
    So, as I work with educational software, had to learn to use it, and it is not so bad after all. I guess it just need a good programmer and designer to use it properly. Otherwise, more crap comes out (hit Bill Gates, Sadam Hussein, Osama, etc).

  3. Well, that's XXI century's BASIC on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure Javascript can be used to teach programming, but if what you do is not at least a bit useful, it won't catch teenagers attention for long. And javascript is quite powerful, even though it lacks some functions that would make it perfect (external file reading, that could be made from the same url as .js file, for security reasons).
    Or we con go back to basic, which could be handled on a disk (or CD), so learning to program would be quite easy!!!

  4. Santos Dumont gegen Wright on (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight · · Score: 1

    I learned that Santos Dumont did the 1st self powered flight, like an airplane. The most that those Wright fellows did was to create the paraglide.
    And that notion that the 1st manned flying device is Santos Dumont or Wright brothers is purely dependant on where you live. Anyway, I'd say both deserve the honor of being parents of the airplane. And it may include that Newzealandese fellow too.

  5. Re:I was hoping to post a review as well on Bay of Souls · · Score: 1

    Damn, I don't know whether I trust what this guy says, or I just start a flame war on him, for working for a company with such a lack of foresight.
    Guess I'll have to read the book first.
    BTW, SCO SUCKS!!!!!

  6. Clipart on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1

    I guess those guys are running out of clipart of people. I remember a couple of years ago there was a picture of a man talking to a woman over a desk, and I found it out on 3 or 4 sites.
    Even though that supergeek looks like me, a couple of years ago.
    HEY! THAT'S ME! I WANT MY ROYALTIES!!!!1

  7. Re:Small companies too? on The Career Programmer · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are being naive about human nature. There is no job that you can get away from those damn human beings. Unless you live like a hermit, of course.

  8. Re:German? Not only on How to Become a Supervillain · · Score: 1

    I guess that evil-doers include Korean speakers, and for quite some time, arabs are REALLY evil for tracing system. Or maybe even spanish, for their druglords in Colombia and other spanish speaking countries.
    But we can't deny that russian speaking villain had their charm on the 70's. ;-)

  9. Globalism and overtaxing steel on Globalism Post 9/11 · · Score: 1

    George Soros points out that globalism is when companies or countries can use their power to alter things in another country.
    But when it comes to US, many steel exporter countries are overtaxed when exporting to US, besides Australia (there is a Bethelem Steel company in Australia!!!). Only because american are not competitive on this market, with companies working with VERY old machinery, another countries are not able to sell them their steel.
    Globalism works both ways, not only US towards the rest of the world. Each country must do what they know best!!!

  10. "True" Origami on Origami Science · · Score: 1

    Well, as far as I know, "true" origami is made with no cuts at all on the paper. If cuts were to be used on the paper for creating an origami, it would be so far easier to create shapes.
    And as far as I can remember, some 30 years ago, a computer was used to create feasible origamis. Just crunching numbers, generating origamis, and all that could not be made were discarded. Sorry, no links on that, it was taken from a book.

  11. Fear and being smart on Looking Glass Studios Closes · · Score: 1

    Ok, Ive been playing PC games for almost 13 years by now, and when I finally found a company with some of the smartest, scariest and cool games Ive ever found, only to find out that Eidos killed it. Come on, Eidos could have killed Laura Croft (havent DC killed Superman)! Alas, I only hope the publisher doesnt hand out the games to some lower grade company, or even to John Romero (imagine Garret with a machinegun)... They better bury Thief, SS and Ultima Underworld along with LG... Oh boy...