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  1. Soon on slashdot... on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    "MyMiniSimCity opens it's doors :("
    posted by yadda yadda yadda
    from the Where's-Gojira-when-you-need-him? dept.

    In Soviet MyMiniSimCity, links click disguised YOU!

    *shudder*

  2. Re:SpeedTree OVERPRICED on Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree · · Score: 1
    Boo-fucking-hoo, troll.

    News flash: just about any bigger library used for making games (Unreal Engine, Granny/Miles Audio/Rad Game Tools, ...) is non-free, and costs a boatload of money. So what? Nobody forces them to sell their work on the cheap.

    *goes and checks out SpeedTree pricing*

    Whoa.

    Alternate Lease Pricing:

    $995 fee + $8,495, due upon publication (source code restrictions apply before second payment)
    Yeah, I can totally see how a smaller software company might not be able to afford that 995 USD during development... NOT.

    np: Tortoise - Gamera (A Lazarus Taxon (Disc 1))
  3. Re:Power Key next to Enter Key on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    Dangnabbit, of course that should have read "<, > and | on that key"... +#%$@&!

    np: Pan Sonic - Säteily / Radiation (Kesto (234.48:4) (Disc 4))

  4. Re:Power Key next to Enter Key on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 1

    And Logitech have the left Shift key split in two parts, the left is Shift and the right is "\", so you have a good chance to miss the Shift key or even press Shift and \ at once. WTF! Here's TF:

    That's a standard European layout - my German keyboard has and | on that key. You won't find a keyboard with a big left shift key over here, and TBTH I don't miss it in the least...

    np: Pan Sonic - Linjat / Lines (Kesto (234.48:4) (Disc 3))
  5. That idea just needs a bit of proper marketing on The Age of the Airship Returns? · · Score: 1

    If this highly educational infomercial doesn't win over investors en masse I don't know what would... ^_^

    np: The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld: Peel Session (Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Deluxe Edition (Disc 3))

  6. Re:NSLU2 on iPhone Wants To Hang On To the Old Year · · Score: 1

    Both date and hwclock report the right date for me on my NSLU2 running Debian, so something must be majorly wrong on your end.

    Also, even if hwclock were to report a bad time why should it concern the date command which just reports the kernel's idea of the current date and time which is keeping its own time? Nevermind getting updated regularly via ntp?

    Not that I'd think that the ARM CPUs in the NSLU2 and the iPhone would have the same RTC hardware, since that's not part of the CPU. Also, dates are calculated using the ALU just like everything else, so there's no chance in hell there'd be a bug in it that would only affect dates and not all calculations...

    np: Jürgen Paape - Fruity Loops #2 (Speicher CD3)

  7. Re:But generally.. on The Setup Behind Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    Some protocols require stateful inspection for a firewall to even operate properly, like passive FTP where ports need to be dynamically opened up by the firewall based on the control connection's conversation. Sorry, but what you're talking about is active FTP. Passive is using the already established control connection for data transfer...
  8. Re:I, for one... on Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented" · · Score: 1

    Or it'll get destroyed crashing into a Krenim time warship, followed by the timeline changing so it'll never have happened and everyone living happily ever after...

  9. Re:Personally I'm holding out for the on What's New in Blade Runner - The Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    ITYM "Revised Ultra Final Re-Revisited Very Very Final Directors Special Absolutely Final Cut Championship Edition Alpha Zero III".

    HTH. HAND.

  10. Re:The article is too long, here's the summary... on The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America · · Score: 1

    tl; dr.

  11. Quite useful, actually... on Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive · · Score: 1

    When we drove through Italy this summer they had prepared the newly-built highways so you'd actually hear it when you were driving onto the emergency lane.

    I don't know if the sound would be enough to wake you if you were falling asleep at the wheel, but if it prevents people from mindlessly driving onto the emergency lane and knocking over people that actually are having an emergency there, more power to them...

  12. Re:Not sure about this... on MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the default were to behave exactly as ES3 or ES4 interim, and the new restrictions only applied then, it might be a justifiable change -- but that is explicitly not what the overview says. I don't know which overview you've been reading, but mine says this:

    III. Compatibility
    [...]
    Syntax
    Some identifiers that were legal names in ES3 (let, yield, cast, is, and a few more) are keywords in ES4. Other keywords in ES4 were future reserved words in ES3, and correct ES3 programs do not use them (class, interface, public, private, and many others), though some implementations allow them to be used as names. Sometimes the new keywords are contextual and can continue to be used as names, but in general an ES4 implementation that must be able to process all ES3 programs must be told which dialect--ES3 or ES4--it is looking at, so that it knows whether to treat these identifiers as keywords or not.

    The mechanism that supplies the dialect information will depend on the environment. In a web browser the information comes from the MIME type of the script or from a version parameter on the SCRIPT tag in the document. New web pages that choose to use ES4 will have to specify the dialect. So unless you specify that some script block is actually version 4 ES4 interpreters are supposed to treat it as version 3 code.

    np: Savath & Savalas - Tormenta De La Flor (Golden Pollen)
  13. Re:Base? on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if the brains are wired for specific bases, like base 10. Well, if we're all wired to the same bases that would mean "all your base are belong to us" is indeed true... *shudders*

    np: Bonobo & Amon Tobin - I'll Have the Waldorf Salad (Verbal Remixes & Collaborations)

  14. Re:Nano for Swag? Ha! That's nothing! on A Look At Free Reviewer Swag · · Score: 1

    Considering that Palm never released something called Palm IV, you either got a Chinese knockoff PDA or something non-existent. I think I'd take the Nano. I guess he meant he got a free Palm shoved up his vein - that's gotta hurt...

    np: Prefuse 73 - Smoking Red ft. John Stanier (Preparations)

  15. Re:First on Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support? · · Score: 1

    I think you should keep it. Your pony analogy is so bad I can't figure out the connection. You must be new here...

    Also - OMG! Ponies!1!elven

    np: Prefuse 73 - For Her Non-Place (Interregnums)
  16. Re:DRoD on IGF 2008 Main Competitors Announced · · Score: 1

    PS: I hate that living slime. And those nigh-invisible spiders.

    Oooh, you're gonna love the green gel, then... >:)

    Why not grab the demo and give it a whirl? Download one of the recent user-made holds if you want to see all new features in action...

    np: The Orb - Majestic (Mix 1) (U.F.Orb Remixes)
  17. Re:Sing it, bitch! on Knight Rider To Ride Again · · Score: 1

    duuuuuuuuuuuuh!

    Here it is, as sung by the Hoff himself...

    *shudder*

    np: Burnt Friedman - Chaos Breeds 1 (First Night Forever)
  18. Re:The Hoff is Busy... on Knight Rider To Ride Again · · Score: 1

    Bah, Spanish is harmless. German Hoff is much worse...

    *cringe*

    np: Burnt Friedman - Chaos Breeds 1 (First Night Forever)

  19. Re:I RTFA for a change on 'Floating Bridge' Property of Water Found · · Score: 1

    Screw cryongenics and water - find a way to change the density of fat cells, and most plastic surgeons will go out of business...

    np: Burnt Friedman - Need Is All You Love (ft. Theo Altenberg) (First Night Forever)

  20. Re:I don't understand. on Google Testing "My World" Second Life Rival? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why people spend money on books or movies - is life so bad they need to escape into an alternative reality?

    You must be new here.

    And by here, I mean this planet... :D

    np: Modeselektor - The Wedding Toccata Theme (Happy Birthday!)
  21. Re:Good Luck! on Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug · · Score: 1

    doesn't anybody know what 64K is?

    65536, not 65535. Your point?
  22. Re:SSE4 is overrated on Intel Demos Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core At IDF · · Score: 1

    This is MADD-ness!

    But this ain't even Sparta!!1!2!eleven

    np: Kid606 - Pregnant Cheerleader Theme Song (Who Still Kill Sound?)
  23. Re:stupidest key combo decision ever on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right?

    There's been a Win 32 installer for 2.4.0 RC2 available at the usual location for 10 days now...

    np: Mike Shannon - The Last Days (Possible Conclusions To Stories That Never End)

  24. Re:Nice, but... on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 1

    Well, duh... all the better reason to ask for SLI, then... :P

  25. Nice, but... on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...will that GPU run Linux?

    Just imagine an SLI'd Beowulf cluster of these!

    np: Masha Qrella - Insecure (Luck)