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  1. Re:Jon Carmack, eh? on Doom 3 for Linux Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games.

    Seems that you should have taken another example...

  2. Re:Errm on Doom 3 for Linux Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux is a patch aimed as a Windows replacement for PC users ;)

  3. questions on Doom 3 for Linux Released · · Score: 4, Insightful
    1. does this means this uses OpenGL instead of DirectX ?
    2. has somebody any clue when the osx version will be released ?
  4. Re:Some quicky info on The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I kinda liked the Wiki article which mentioned the quarks' colours...
    with the antiquarks anti-colours, I just wonder whether anti red would be cyan, anti-green, would be magenta and anti blue would be yellow, as suggested by this ?

    Of course, I understood this colour case is only a paradigm and doesn't reflect any visible characteristics (also because there's no such thing as a colour, at this subatomic scale)...

    But I would not be surprised if some colour-coordination actually reflected what happens at the quark level.

  5. Where will this take us ? on The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it some 100% theoretical stuff or will it have technical repercussions in the short term ?

  6. Re:If true, the stakes are now higher. on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 5, Funny

    600 crackers for almost 23 million persons ?
    I understand why they say they are starving !

  7. Re:9 TB / 20 hours on Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution · · Score: 1

    Erm.

    terabits 9
    TB 1.125
    GB 1152
    MB 1179648
    kB 1207959552
    B 1.23695E+12 /hour 61847529062 /sec 17179869.18

    MB 16.384

  8. Re:9 TB / 20 hours on Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution · · Score: 1

    OK, just calculated, it was about 16.384 MB/s which is not exceptional but as I imagined below, I guess the bottleneck was each of the nodes' rendering time.

  9. Re:Sarcasm on Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution · · Score: 1

    Maybe because the distributed computer farm was busy correlating the data at the same time ?

  10. 9 TB / 20 hours on Global Internet Telescope Tops Hubble's Resolution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How heavily has this impacted the transatlantic Internet communications, during these 20 hours ?

  11. Re:If true, the stakes are now higher. on S. Korea Claims N. Korea Has Trained 600 Crackers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This report could also come from Microsoft public relation who' claim it's not their products which are not sure but rather some malicious hackers trained to break into them...

  12. Typical post-y2k demise on HP Kills Off Utility Data Center · · Score: 0

    Since around 2001, companies have been workind even harder to restructurate their activities, layoff staff and relocalize projects and services.
    This one is just another of these.
    Of course, it's HPaq so we might feel it differently.

  13. Re:Excellent! on Microsoft FAT Patent Rejected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It may surprise many to know that patent officers are often promoted on how many patents they reject, not how many they approve.

    This is indeed surprising and probably partially true ... and partially false.
    Please, quote your sources.

  14. Is this a patent system feature ? on Microsoft FAT Patent Rejected · · Score: 1, Troll

    I cannot believe this very patent was rejected, not that I am unhappy with this but we live in a world where one-click-buyis okay to patent, unlike a rudimentary but at least more complex file-system...
    Guess the patent people run Windows.

  15. Not laughable on Auto Accident at SANE Conference Kills One · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I was thinking about suggesting Hans' girlfriend would be looking for s strong shoulder to cry on but it's not funny.
    I'd like to tell that all my sympathy goes to his friends and family.

  16. Re:Still no operators... on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1

    I have been using Java for a very long time.
    For private use, it's ok, I like it.
    Not as much as Perl but I like it.

    For corporate use, you have to obey the architect's guidelines and to code in a very specific way... You have to be replaceable and it's not fun to code in Java in an enterprise, especially when you have to do with Weblogic's Beans.

  17. Re:Still no operators... on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1
    Java 1.4 was comparable in speed to C++

    The authors conclude, "On Intel Pentium hardware, especially with Linux, the performance gap is small enough to be of little or no concern to programmers."


    What about Sun/SPARC, Apple/OSX, AMD ???

    BTW, what about GUI programing ?
    I have worked wth Java/Swing and C++"/Qt2 and I have yet to say that Java GUIs are just a pain in the ass to code and to use...
    Qt/C++ is by far the most elegant way I ever coded GUIs for both Linux/Intel and QTopia/ARM.
  18. Re:Still no operators... on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1, Troll

    This should become part of a choice, it's like templates.
    Actually, the more I code in C++, the more I feel like explorating it further. Its' not the case in Java where it sounds like there's only 1 way to do each thing, mostly because of the plethora of APIs (WebLogic, etc.) that corporations force you to use over it...

  19. Still no operators... on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The operators, a^Hthe feature that I just love in C++ is stil not present in Java, ok, it got faster, but still not as fast as C++ too.
    I guess this will finally come but when ?

  20. Re:Jay quote on Internet Censorship in Australia? · · Score: 1

    I think this was directly aimed at Jimmy Swaggart himself.
    Now, concerning the fact of keeping kids far from churches, I think thius is a dangerous generalisation, I happened to meet many religous people and if some of them (the noisy ones) are indeed jerks, most of them are peaceful and you can still easily find highly frequentable priests to discuss with.
    The same applies to muslims, jews and other religions.

    Now, it's true that the churches I attended when I was young were unlikely to fit a fragile child mind...

  21. Jay quote on Internet Censorship in Australia? · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is the Internet ?

    This is the problem we got here :
    Internet has a reputation of raw unfiltered contents, which is what makes it so interesting, IMHO.
    Now, people want to see it tamed for God's sake.

    As Zappa wrote, "Jesus think (they)'re jerk(s)".
    They'd rather take care personally of their children instead of giving them yet another reason to fight their regulation once they reach adolescence.

    It's not the Goatse which is offending, it's the fact that people have been taught to take it personally as an offence.

    Now, you might force people to pay to finance your censorship but its return-effect will be much more painful than the Aussies' boomerangs.

  22. Re:Good thing too... on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    Yep, but if it was after them being forbidden, then it was illegal.
    There are lots of illegal stuff that you can buy in Paris, mostly in Barbes-Rochechouart but also around.

  23. /.ness on Apple Releases Logic 7, New Jam Packs · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Loads of comments here.
    Mostly trolls or flamebait... a few people who suggest sx3, reason or Live are better...
    I am surprised to be the only one asking about:
    • when will the update be available ?
    • is the Gb-ethernet mandatory in order to use the xgrid functionality or will it run but not as quickly ?
    • were there main engines updates besides the xgrid stuff ?
    • does the update take mLan further into account or is this supposed to be 100% handled by the system ?
    • will the update dvd also contain new Apple Loops and EXS24mkII samples ?
    • If I visit Apple's CHF/FR Logic pages, the specs only appear in English, isn't Logic 7 already localized ?
  24. Re:Easy to get these lasers... on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe because American lawyers do not fight over sensible matters but over financially substantial ones...

  25. Re:Easy to get these lasers... on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 5, Informative

    All of these handhelds laser have had their public sales suspended in France where there had been to many complaints from both victims and their optometrists.
    It's still possible to buy some but in a very restricted context.