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  1. Re:Can I run Logic on it ? on Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts · · Score: 1

    Porting not only means "make ; make install" but also organizing a support helpdesk, especially when you''re called Steinberg.
    Until then, this is a hack which is of no interest except for hackers.

  2. Re:Can I run Logic on it ? on Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts · · Score: 1

    Since emagic has been bought by Apple, Logic only runs on MacOSX.
    And I doubt Steinberg will port Cubase SX to Linux within the next months...

  3. Criswell ? on Simcity Microwave Power by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Criswell also the name of the guru, in Tim Burton's Ed Wood?
    I guess this is quite unexpected and funny...

  4. Re:Paying on 1st Real Internet-Option Election in North America · · Score: 1

    In all the countries in which I have lived, votes take place on Sundays ???

  5. Re:Paying on 1st Real Internet-Option Election in North America · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't it even easier and cheaper to buy the voting system ?
    Which guarantee do the voters have that their voice and only their voices will be counted expectedly ?

    BTW, why don't they just move their asses to the voting booth ?
    Voting is not a formality, it is supposed to be a conscious act.
    For example, you have to seriously consider a candidate's program before voting, it's not like a Slashdot poll (unless cowboy neal does politics) : who does remember which slashdot poll option he choosed 3 months ago ?

  6. Re:Fish Murdering Bastard! on iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003' · · Score: 1, Funny

    How would you like it if somebody wore your skin?
    Somebody's actually wearing my skin, and the b4st4rd's also posting on slashdot now!

  7. Invention ? on iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Making some digital media available online is not new.
    I remember having the possibility to purchase media online long before this.
    Now, if, of course, having these integrated in iTunes is cool, I somehow doubt it is that "cutting edge" (even though I am a Mac enthusiast and I love OSX).

  8. Re:Pixar should go it alone on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Holding hands and chanting to crystal spirits won't get you anywhere.

    Funny bit.
    I am however sure movies are much too expensive nowadays and most masterpieces are ignored because of too much commercial noise from the big blockbusting factories.
    Is it what you call "holding hands and chanting to crystal" ?

  9. Re:Talk to this guy.. on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 1

    it could, but at least it still looked like it had not.

  10. Re:Pixar should go it alone on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 1

    giving the US a studio to compete with some of the higher-budget anime of recent years (a la Ghost in the Shell or Final Fantasy)

    Excuse me but IIRC, this is about ART, not COMPETITION.
    Why do you want US to compete with others when you could just have nice things coming from both ?

  11. not the most important. on Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings · · Score: 3, Interesting

    3D is not all.
    I personally consider that "The Emperor's new groove" though classsically designed is much better than some more technologically advanced movie.
    Now, if they want to privilegiate the marketing and the buzzwords to the storytelling, it's their business.

  12. Dear CN on The Matrix: Resolutions · · Score: 1

    Some folks who've never seen the Twilight Zone or even the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horrors thought that was a spoiler. If you're one of those people, I'm very sorry.
    I have never seen these "movies" (?) but, given the way you introduce my fellow folks, I somehow doubt you mentioned us respectfully.
    Now, lemme tell you.
    I considered the only decent way the Matrix could have ended would have implied some Metamatrix.
    Now, by simply riting what you wrote, I consider you did not spoil that movie's suspense, but you just confirmed me that my money will never get in the WachoBros pockets.
    So, I guess they'd better sue people such as you and your wannabe journalism for their increased lack of audience.
    Mode me down please : validate my point.

  13. Lula ! on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 1

    Lula, of course :)

  14. Re:McDonalds on McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway · · Score: 1

    Does _anybody_ go to McDonald's and _not_ get fries?
    Salad (no dressing) and a coke light.
    some would not actually risk their health eating fried carbohydrates.

  15. Re:What a surprise on Longhorn's Flash Killer? · · Score: 1

    Anyone including Macromedia...
    So it will directly be possible to export Flash animations as "sparkles".

  16. Re:speed limit on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    These gadgets are supposed to be helpers : they'll only slow your car down in case they detect a situation.
    Of course, a bleack box will also be in the car and will report any overriding case, not that it will be forbidden but simply it has to be known.

  17. Re:speed limit on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    OK, I'll be short.
    Thanks for the funny words you're vomitting in your post.
    I guess your cradle got rocked a little too close to a wall.
    Now, If you were smart, you'd guess that I was in Belgium because I mentioned a Belgian policeman, then you'd wonder whether I could get my inspiration from the German model : In Germany, there are no speed limit on highway (unless specifically indicated).
    I consider this a good model which more countries should take as an inspiration.
    As a Swiss resident, I also consider it vital not to drive too fast in children-friendly zones, I am not as stupid as you, you know ?
    Now, if you're tired, you'd better switch your computer off and just get a life instead of whinning like the moron you look like.

  18. Re:speed limit on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1
    Mercedes already installed radars in their cars :
    My idea consist of :
    • a sat (or using the wireless phone network, btw) communication device to communicate global speed and deviation orders to individual vehicles
    • a bluetooth like detection device (with a minimum of 100m range) in order for each moving car to detect any potential obstacle which could either endanger his life or whose life it may endanger. Of course, this device could be relayed by fixed stations in case a hill or whatever would prevent proper detection...
  19. Re:speed limit on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    Unless I patent it, I guess you're right.
    Imagine this : patenting an idea, making it a law.
    Each time someone pay a fine, I get royalties.
    We're not far from it.

  20. speed limit on Tanker Truck Shut Down Via Satellite · · Score: 2, Interesting

    at least we might finally get rid of the idiotic speed limit concept : if it's that important not to drive that fast, then we should have our car slowed down remotely instead of having some policeman whinning avout a "danger".
    I once got a fine, by snail mail, one month after driving a 100km/h on an highway because some Belgian cop decided to put a 50km/h speed limit fine 10 meters OVER the lane.
    I argued that the traffic was dense, so this only meant everybody was driving that fast but this just didn't help.

    Now, once we get some very personal speed limitation, I hope they'll take our car engines into account : some get damaged quicker at 120km/h than at 128km/h... might be a resonance issue but if they waste my engine with an unadapted control device, they'll have to pay.

    I however guess that we'll eventually get some custom processing which may allow awaken BMW drivers to speed up at night on straight highways if there's nobody in a 10km radius. If not, then it only means such laws are meant to milk the drivers with idiotic fines...

  21. diversity on UCB, USC To Build (And Hack) A Model Internet · · Score: 1

    how do they think they'll reproduce the Internet's first characteristics : diversity, with a budget that might at most buy them 10000 computers ?

  22. Re:It's possible, after all on Climate Data Re-examined (updated) · · Score: 1

    No because of some very specific molecules he found and submitted to a fellow chemist.

  23. It's possible, after all on Climate Data Re-examined (updated) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It however doesn't mean that we should not pollute.
    A friend of mine is prepairing a PHD in geology.
    He often climbs on top of the Mont Blanc (4807m) where he analyzes the ice cap.
    He found out that ther chemicals that impregnated the ice are similar only to the ones which emanates from the General Motors factories, in Detroit, US.
    There is a serious issue, there.
    It is not because it won't make rain more that it is not a bad thing.

  24. yes, indeed. on Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Subject is in answer to :
    trailer is beautiful!

    Looks like there's a lot of computer graphics in it...

    BTW, Lots of us see the original GITS as the movie that got plagiarized by the Wachowskis.

    It's nice to see an incoming sequel of the original thing.

  25. Re:Nothing really matters. on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    Think about it, can YOU name any war that happened 1000 years ago?
    Yes : I am European. :)

    BTW, I pity the moderator who modded your troll up.
    I shall cancel his puny judgement next time I metamod : you are an OFFTOPIC TROLL.