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  1. Re:Java Applet Failed on Breaking Into the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    You probably don't have java 5 installed correctly. However, if that's not the case, please send me your console output and i'll look into it. Java 5 installation error is indicated by a class loader version error.

  2. How I broke into it on Breaking Into the Video Game Industry · · Score: 4, Informative

    I made a couple of small freeware games, followed by a couple of successful quake mods. The quake mods were successful enough to have been played by the game developers who later interviewed me for a position at Blizzard North, which I got.

    Then later after finding out how painful it is to work in the gaming biz, I got out. But if you want in, make some games.

    Now I just make fun little games in my spare time, like squish:

    http://ptth.net/squish/

    If you check it out, journal me how to improve it please!

  3. Re:The Anagram is.... on BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or maybe it was based on the pseudo-reality TV futuristic wood chopping show, "How To Cord".

    Or since they mentioned it would be adult, maybe it derived from "Rod To Chow"

  4. Re:Medical information on Google Changes Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Really at best they can work out that someone who has access to your ip address (maybe one of thousands of people freeloading your wifi) wanted to search for a given set of search terms.

  5. Re:Perl's place in todays world? on The Perl Foundation Gets New Leadership · · Score: 1

    The OP claimed the decision was made two years ago, an enormous amount of time when you consider what has been going on in ruby/python in that timespan.

    But my post was mostly intended to be a +1 funny, I don't really hate perl or anything. I've used it for a few small projects, it's fine. I'm comfortable with enough languages that at this point I prefer to just work with whatever has the best dev environment. At the moment that's java with idea, but i'd be happy enough to switch to perl if it had a superior development environment. Maybe the next version of perl will make such a thing happen.

  6. Re:Perl's place in todays world? on The Perl Foundation Gets New Leadership · · Score: 1

    Ok, but you might assume at this point they are committed. The question is would they make the same bad decision today?

  7. Re:This man is a moron on Jack Thompson Rescinds Offer · · Score: 1

    In all fairness to the OP, he implied that Jack Thomson was a moron for resorting to name calling, and that the kid was not, but made no claims in regard to himself, hence no inconsistency.

  8. Re:An original brain teaser on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    http://www.research.att.com/cgi-bin/access.cgi/as/ njas/sequences/eismum.cgi

    I am sorry, but the terms
    1, 4, 8, 13, 21, 30, 36, 44
    do not match anything in the table.
    If your sequence is of general interest, please send it to me using the form provided and I will (probably) add it to the data base! Include a brief description and if possible enough terms to fill 3 lines on the screen. I need a minimum of 4 terms.

  9. Re:The Dilema on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Popularly known as the false dilemma, for straightjacketing you into one of two imaginary solutions to a real problem.

    The proposed solutions also value life and death in a strange way, and at the same time both require the evaluation of and the ignoring of long term outcomes.

  10. Re:One I like on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    I thought for sure it was:

    Xvyy obgu zra, ab bar jvyy zvff gurz, gurl'er whfg gbhevfgf.

  11. Re:Lightbulb problem on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    This will be a fun one in a couple of generations, when you'll be able to ask kids:
    At what time in history was this puzzle solvable, and how?

  12. Re:The BART Ticket Puzzle on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Hint: Imagine starting this puzzle with 2x dollars in your wallet.

    Second puzzle: how would even a second rate engineer solve this problem in 10 seconds with roughly 4 lines of code?

  13. Re:Knight's reward on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint: neither strategy is correct, and there is a mathematical proof of this.

  14. Re:Violation of angular momentum on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Cats push against the air to rotate themselves. Run the same experiment in space, the cat doesn't land on its feet.

  15. Re:As I was walking to St. Ives... on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether you met at a fork in the road, and who walks faster.

  16. Re:Hmmn, this brings to mind if other car makers . on Toyota Develops New Plant Species · · Score: 1

    You can't have a recall, but you could use a RoundUp.

  17. Re:Dude! on Toyota Develops New Plant Species · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've never understood why our government restricts the sale or posession of marijuana when smoking cherry sage will get you so much more f'ed up and it's completely legal!

  18. Re:Gaming freaks indeed. on Dual GeForce 7800 GT SLI Single Card Performance · · Score: 1

    In fairness to car nuts, most people who buy a sports car speed on a regular basis. They may not get much over 120, but it's also not like they're sitting at the speed limit either.

  19. Re:Sure on AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker · · Score: 4, Funny

    They do it by dancing the can can, I don't understand your problem with this claim? I mean sure, you have to get the DDR keyboard mod to do your coding, but those aren't so expensive as to make this claim implausible.

  20. This is very good news! on 1/5 of All Human Genes Have Been Patented · · Score: 1

    With luck, we might get all human genes patented in the next couple of years. That means that within 20 years, every human gene will be free game for companies to work with, develop treatments with etc. etc. Companies can even do their work now, and just hold it for 20 years. Expect a huge cornucopia of medical advancements in two decades!

  21. Re:Dell's disservice to its customers on AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales · · Score: 1

    And yet ... the dell customer is at fault as well, because they could switch to hp/compaq or gateway or even alienware for that matter, and get AMD powered computers. Why is everybody choosing dell, if dell has made a gross mistake in its purchasing choice for the heart of its computers?

  22. Re:fuzzy (2-bit?) math on AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that AMD is regularly begging Dell to name their price. Dell can definitely negotiate an excellent price with AMD, but their exclusivity agreement with Intel is apparently much too valuable. (my guess is >40% off retail, plus coadvertising, given their prices).

  23. Re:fuzzy (2-bit?) math on AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales · · Score: 1

    AMD has plenty of capacity to supply dell. Could they supply all of dell? Not yet. Probably in 6 months they could. They supply hp/compaq right now, and hp/compaq are #2 after dell. Realistically, they should not have to be able to supply 100% of dell's needs to make a deal with dell: no one else is demanding that. So the question remains, why doesn't dell sell 1% of its computers with AMD processors, which AMD could easily supply.

  24. Re:fuzzy (2-bit?) math on AMD Tops Intel in U.S. Retail Sales · · Score: 3, Informative

    In case you (or someone reading this) really doesn't know:

    Dell is the worlds largest PC seller, with $49 billion in sales last year.

    They ship 0% of their systems with AMD processors, due to some unholy deal they made with intel.

  25. Re:Should anyone... on Western Software Used to Support Censorship · · Score: 1

    Yes to all? Of course you should be concerned. And you should give thought to whether or not you can do something about it. I didn't pay taxes for years to avoid having my money contribute to a war effort I thought was wrong.