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  1. Re:What exactly am I suppose to replace it with? on Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle · · Score: 1

    I have been using netvibes for longer than iGoogle existed. I think it is superior to iGoogle.

  2. thumbs on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    also keep the thumbs pointing outwards so you still have them when the airbag fires

  3. Re:I'm glad they didn't on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    They already know it works. It has been working for hundreds and thousands of years.

  4. Video of the disk spinner in action on Grooved Disk Spinner Cleans Up: $1M For Winner of Oil Recovery Challenge · · Score: 2

    Wadsworth's constant applies.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEoDGzBcxoI

  5. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    If it is a scam, then why doesn't he ask for money?

  6. Re:Didn't Sound Optimistic to Me! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rossi does not want your money. He has solely funded all development of the e-cat with his own money: He has sold a company he owned, and he has now even sold his house. Peswiki asked him if they should set up a donation site for him, but rossi does not want that too. He also does not want to apply for FP7-ENERGY, a european research program for energy.

    So Rossi either is a completely self-deluded man that manages to delude lots of other people around him as well, or he really has something working.

  7. Magic Roundabout. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Not only do we already have lots of roundabouts here in Europe, we also have a Magic Roundabout.

  8. Re:Is the gold rush over? on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    If these four points describe a pyramid scheme, then gold is the biggest pyramid scheme ever.

  9. Re:Why? on New SHA Functions Boost Crypto On 64-bit Chips · · Score: 1

    A fast hash can be made slow very easily: just pipe its result through the function again, and do this a million times, and use this as the hash.

  10. open source on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    These errors would never have been occured when Stuxnet were open source.

  11. Re:Waste of time on TheSpaceGame — Design Your Route To Jupiter · · Score: 1

    Since it is optimizing positions which can be easily encoded as floating point numbers, I would use Differential Evolution for the optimization, or Particle Swarm Optimization (or both).

  12. Three Laws of Software Development on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    Some years ago I had these three laws of software development:

    • A developer must write code that creates value.
    • A developer must make their code easy to maintain, except where such expenditure will conflict with the first law.
    • A developer must reduce their code to the smallest size possible, as long as such reduction does not conflict with the first two laws.

    I still believe that these rules are the essence of good code.

  13. Re:Anyone have a comparison? on FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here you can see a comparison with mouseover effect:
    http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/01/22/beautiful-font-hinting-in-ubuntu-810/

  14. Re:Who will write the software for the bird? on Real-Time, Movie-Quality CGI For Games · · Score: 1

    You have no idea how fast I can write software that is slow on any hardware in both the forseeable and not-forseeable future.

  15. Re:Help us Hari Seldon, You're Our Only Hope! on Emmerich Plans Foundation As a 3D Epic · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am most definitely sure Roland Emmerich is the Mule. Not even Seldon could have foreseen this.

  16. Re:He hates mobile phones?! on Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate" · · Score: 1

    At least they have mobile phone throwing chamionships...

  17. Re:Nice on MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period · · Score: 1

    It might be that H.264 is good enough. Look at JPEG, this standard was issued 1992, and it is still extremely popular, with no good successor available. The same thing might happen to H.264.

  18. Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 2, Funny
  19. Re:Alvin & the Chipmunks on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1

    took no creative chances? The main character is a grumpy old grandpa, who's wife has died. What other children movie dares to show something like this?

  20. Webcam on LHC Reaches Record Energy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Webcam from the LHC is here

  21. Re:Yes. Computers are unnatural. on Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? · · Score: 1

    Computers work really natural. Did you ever notice that the toilet door behaves exactly like a mutex? I did. Only one can lock it at a time, and other processes might queue up for it if you take too long.

  22. Re:Ouch. Torturous. on Neuron Path Discovery May Change Our Conception of Itching · · Score: 1

    They might not have finished your copy of Hamlet, but have produced an enormous amount of Perl code.

  23. ba duan jin, few carbohydrates on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Perform some Ba duan jin's. You can do them at work, throughout the day. You do not need much space, It does not build muscles, but it will relax your muscles so that blood circulation is improved, and if you do them regularly it will do wonders for your health.

    Also, change your eating habits. Replace anything that contains carbohydrates with fat & proteins, and you will shed body fat very quickly. Read the excellent book Life Without Bread, written by a guy who is now 96. Ive replaced all sugary snacks I normally ate throughout the day with almonds, peanuts (unsalted!), and 90% chocolate. Especially unsalted almonds are the perfect finger food. They are highly addictive AND healthy, and although they contain lots of fat you will loose weight eating them.

  24. Re:they're not that big by most measures on Google Claims They "Just Aren't That Big" · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about number of letters?

    3 letters for IBM
    6 letters for Google
    9 letters for Microsoft

  25. Re:Not to mention on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free · · Score: 1

    You also cant use any software without electricity. Internet is nowadays almost as ubiquitous as electricity, so its not really an issue any more.