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  1. Re:4 years too late? on Blizzard Announces Diablo 3 · · Score: 1

    Yes, the city fronts are way too static, and if you get up close you notice they are pretty onedimensional.

  2. Re:4 years too late? on Blizzard Announces Diablo 3 · · Score: 1

    I worry about that. At least Hellgate was random though still too linear. This looks like static levels.

    It looks mighty sharp, but gameplay was what it is about, and the "all-mouse" angle of the walktrough doesn't make me happy

  3. Re:ELM on User Not Found, Email Drops Silently · · Score: 1

    I never got pine. I do use mutt for its threaded view though.

  4. ELM on User Not Found, Email Drops Silently · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Makes you wonder why people abandonned ELM :-)

  5. Re:dead... on FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion · · Score: 1


    If you use the svnmerge script (shell or python versions exists), 1000-2000 will be marked merged. One can also block revs not to merge.

    It works reasonly fine, but the problem is that it doesn't work properly on windows. Or at least in a straightforward way if you are using e.g. tortoise + plink.

    SVN 1.5 would lay the foundations for merge tracking in the repository, but in how quickly this will be usable and an improvement (read: support all functionality of svnmerge in tortoise) I don't know yet.

  6. Can sb feel a pandemonium moving emerging here? on Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old · · Score: 1


    After more then 120000 years, the flesh eating bacteria awakens....

  7. Re:Police State on Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Yes, and at least in the Orwellian scenario one was only at war with one other party at a time.

  8. Evolution on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1


    I think it is only normal in a Darwinian way. Women seem to prefer creating an mysterious image, and this evolutionary enhancement adds to this without any effort from the male side.

  9. Re:Soap? on Janus Particles as Body Submarines? · · Score: 1

    Which is why I made the "grafted" remark. Well defined dendrimer of magnitude 16 and higher are roughly spherical afaik. Still the asymmetric synthesis might be difficult.

  10. Soap? on Janus Particles as Body Submarines? · · Score: 1

    > spheres whose halves are physically or chemically different

    Sounds like soap. Or the relevant groups grafted on some substrate (dendrimer, cellulose)

  11. Steamboat Willie on EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright · · Score: 1


    Streamboat willy close to expiration again?

  12. Virus analogy on Boing Boing Founder Warns of "Internet AIDS" · · Score: 1


    Well, one of the less nice properties (and then I'm making an understatement) is that it is euh, viral and contagious.

    So this analogy is a bit overdone I guess.

  13. Re:Wow on Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details · · Score: 1

    Well, you are forgetting the main Vista feature. Finally being able to load RAID drivers from USB stick, and toss floppy out of the window for good.

  14. Re:Under Fire? on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    Which, outside of the US, is pretty much the same thing anyway.

  15. Re:Why bother? on Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because Microsoft is quite reluctant to label anything "Critical". Nearly all superficial bug amount comparisons falter because of different habits to rate a bug.

    Microsoft probably things "Huh, the world didn't end? Ahh, then it probably isn't critical."

  16. Re:I still like Pascal on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Actually, in my last job, several programmers had set the default colors of Delphi to be yellow on blue claiming it was more soothing to the eyes. This was not a whim, they had it for at least 1 1/2 years :-)

  17. Re:Two Classics on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    [sarcasm]
    Yeah, while Anonymous Coward is one of the most respected posting persons (by far the most) on Slashdot!
    [/sarcasm]

  18. Re:What advantages does this have over Ada? on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    - Does gcc support Win64 in any release?
    - FPC doesn't use GCC.
    - I've no problem with Ada. Except that FPC hooks into the quite big commercial Delphi scene's codebase (despite all blabla about Python, Delphi is second in the commercial component market only after VB6 and MS .NET variants)

    And of course the only available freely ADA compiler is GNAT, which is ok for a gcc derivate. But gcc derivates sucks on Windows, and that is still the main platform for most people

  19. Re:What advantages does this have over Ada? on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    No, the Mac Pascal mode goes a long way to standarized pascal, including mac dialects.

  20. Re:What advantages does this have over Ada? on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Note btw, that the cuteness of the multi dialect support is being able to combine the various dialects in one binary.

  21. Re:What advantages does this have over Ada? on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    I've investigated FPC vs gcc in the past, and fpc's speed depends on the following factors:

    - compiled more than one compilation unit (sourcefile) per execution of the compiler.
    - not having to interpret source to compile something dependant (IOW precompiled units)
    - integrating AS. This is a factor 5 easily. Yes. Seriously. Just gcc generating ASCII, and AS reinterpreting it

  22. Re:Linus is right on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You know what free software means don't you?

      "Free from GNU"

    That is not as ethereal as you'd expect. GNU is getting an awful lot of power. And no, that is not because of the GPL. (v2/v3)

    It is because the grunts doing work on GNU projects sign their copyrights away to the GNU politbureau. Who get an awful lot of power this way.

  23. Re:What advantages does this have over Ada? on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    >Does Free Pascal offer any advantages over Ada?

    Ada or GNAT? If GNAT, then, uhh, it is not GCC based.

    One Free pascal binary allows you to generate code for both your PDA, Linux and your windows machine. Native code. Crosscompiled, and anything.

    Seriously. GCC is a great compiler, but as a development platform it is slightly user unfriendly, specially on Windows. (see the article btw, where is a release worthy win64 gcc?)

  24. Re:Mixed Reaction.... on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    > If a company is using software based on Pascal it is obvious that they have zero willingness to change for one reason or another. So what would motivate them to change to a different compiler?

    Read the bloody manifest. Multi platform support obviously

  25. Re:orphaned Delphi code? on Free Pascal 2.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    Well, read the manifest. If you need a bit of memory for instance :-)

    (not to speak of Kylix. Though I still think that Kylix demise says more about Linux than Kylix. The product was not perfect, but way better than any competition (including FPC/lazarus at the time, and I love them))