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  1. Re:Binaries not Free on Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can compile Qt from source on Linux. The GPL is a perfectly fine license for it that inhibits no real-world use. That means that Qt is a great toolkit for Linux. It would be that even if it didn't run on Windows at all.

    So I'm curious, what makes Qt worthy of special distinction that gives you pause?

  2. Re:Two different issues IMO on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    "to gain muscle you need to actually (image that) eat more than you waste"

    I managed to do both for a while. To gain muscle mass your body only needs the resources to repair it. More specifically, it needs protein, and lots of it. What it can't acquire from ingested protein it will synthesize if it can. In the meantime your body will dig into its fat stores for energy if it needs it.

  3. Re:[Citation-Needed] on Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You · · Score: 1

    I drive an '05 subaru impreza, and I've noticed what appears to be an averaging behavior in the gas gauge. I think it's achieved by having the gauge very slow to react to changes. The end result is things such as changes in inclination do not have immediate effects, and the indicator is very stable and even. The only significant side effect is when filling up the tank from near empty it can take 10-15 minutes for the needle to move to the top.

    I'm not sure if this would have much an effect on the issue of shape, but most gas tanks I've seen on cars are very long and wide, but not very tall. It seems some rounding of the edges would not have a very large impact in that case.

  4. Re:WHA? on Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality · · Score: 3, Informative

    In case you're wondering, this is the bit that gave away that you have no clue what you're talking about:

    Your set may have a hard time decoding and displaying some uniquely challenging data. This is not new - I have a CD of a symphony that has a passage that is rarely decoded cleanly by any player but the very best.

    Uniquely challenging data, eh? You mean like RGB values of 0.01,0.03,0.02 instead of 0.8,0.2,0.6? Tough.. the set is being asked to show a darker color.

    Even better is the CD bit. That doesn't even have compression to complicate things. Are you familiar with the concept of digital? I'm fairly certain my $30 dvd player with digital output can "cleanly decode" your passage. If it didn't, it would *skip*.

  5. Re:Why ... on Review of KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8 – On Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    QT was not GPL on windows until version 4

  6. Re:kwrite? on Review of KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8 – On Windows · · Score: 3, Informative

    already done

  7. Re:I don't understand "fake art" on Nuclear Explosions Key To Spotting Fake Art · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's the difference between owning a piece of history or just wanting something to look at. If you do not understand why someone may want to own a piece of history; why it matters so much that the one you have is the one the artist himself made with his own hands, then there's probably not much point trying to explain it.

  8. Re:Recipe for neutralizing it on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    Then the command should be:

    sudo tar -czf ARDAgent.app.tar.gz ARDAgent.app :)

  9. Re:opera is faster on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 2

    My connection has been faster than most browsers can render for quite some time now. The bottleneck is rendering speed, javascript execution speed, and ui speed.

  10. Re:Anything else out there? on The State of X.Org · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Anything else out there? on The State of X.Org · · Score: 1

    It shares similar concepts, but its performance far exceeds it. There are foss client implementations for everything but windows pretty much which is unfortunate, but when I'm forced to use a non free os I find little sense in demanding a foss client to throw on top of it so I just use the free commercial client.

  12. Re:Anything else out there? on The State of X.Org · · Score: 1

    Why not just use NX? It blows away anything else I've ever used in speed and responsiveness even over slow or unreliable connections.

  13. Re:and piracy killed music on Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I must respectfully disagree. That's the kind of attitude the forces an endless stream of ads my way every moment of every day. If there's something you need or desire (a better code editor, for example) then sitting back and waiting for someone to force the ad in your face is *your* failure. When I want a better tool I go and I look for one. I'll search for quite some time. I'll compare and read user experiences and quantitative assessments. If you have a tool worth pursuing I will hear about it from that. Your ad just makes me want to strangle you to death.

    The being said, I've not heard of this one either. The reason is simple enough to me. I've never felt that what I use is inadequate. I spend much more time thinking about what to write and how to write it than actually writing it, and my speed in writing it is more or less limited by how quickly I can type. Were I to feel my editor was getting in my way and slowing me down then I would look for a better one.

  14. Re:There Can Only Be One on To Whom Should I Donate? · · Score: 1

    Software and formats should be adopted based on their merits

    Should? Perhaps, but they're not. Refusing to participate in the game won't cause it to spontaneously become fair.

  15. Re:Combined effort is necessary on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is not set in stone. It is still implementation specific, and many mis-configured mail servers do send a bounce to the envelope from address if mail is rejected due to a dns blacklist entry.

  16. Re:Combined effort is necessary on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The use of dnsbl/enhdnsbl also does bounce back to the sender with a reasonable message for the cases where a message is denied so the sender shall be informed about any messages that are denied. Of course - it isn't fool-proof, but it works for me.

    Do you generate a bounce, or do you reject with a 500 error and a proper message at spam time? You should not generate a bounce to remote mail. Ever. This is the cause of e-mail backscatter and is a significant problem. Always reject at SMTP time with a 500 error.

  17. Re:Fun in games on Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester · · Score: 1

    TF2 being? For something you want other people to try please consider not using insider abbreviations. Thank you.

  18. Re:So... on Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    800.. that's the 800 lbs. gorilla.. 300 lbs. is close to 200 lbs. gorilla which means something entirely different. A 300 lbs. gorilla is a pushover. Why do people keep screwing this saying up?

  19. Re:FCC mandate on A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports · · Score: 1

    A .ts file is mpeg audio and video. It's simply a container designed for broadcast. mplayer at the very least can demux it for you. It's a standard demultiplex and multiplex back into a different container.

  20. Re:C-Net on A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports · · Score: 1

    Hey! I run a qotd server on my machine! Don't take my port away!

  21. An idea for a modification on Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? · · Score: 1

    Place an armed "researcher" behind each players head. If the player dies in the game, they die irl. Then, measure those responses and see how they take it.

  22. Re:Far too much power on Supreme Court Won't Hear ACLU Wiretap Case · · Score: 1

    What I meant is that as arbitor there is nothing in there about remedy. So the judicial branch can rule that a law is in violation of Constitution, but does not have the explicit right to strike it down.

    And what effect, exactly, do you suppose ruling that a law is in violation of the constitution does? Perhaps make the law ineffective, null, unenforceable, .. striked down? This is very simple. You have 2 conflicting laws, so which one has the bigger dick? The constitution does one might think. So.. what do we do with the other law? It can't stand. It can't be enforced. .. Think about it.

    I'm not saying I'm against Judicial review, but there are alternatives. As I mentioned the Executive branch can decide to not execute, or Congress can decide to take the opinion of the court and change the law.

    What you managed to completely sidestep is the issue of the legislative and executive branches not being above the law. If we do what you suggest and just remove the need for the judicial branch at all then that's EXACTLY WHERE WE PUT THEM. If a law says "you must do this" and a senator doesn't do it then the judicial branch *can* be used to slap them around for BREAKING THE LAW. It's still up to the citizens to use the judicial branch. The executive and legislative get away with as much as we let them get away with and no more, as it should be.

    Selective enforcement does not give anyone the power to interpret the law. It only gives them the power to ignore it at their own peril.

    the Judicial branch has no power to penalize, that falls upon the legislative

    The legislative branch defines how and to what extent violations of law can be penalized. That is all. The judicial applies the penalizations. Judges wield enormous power. They can throw a senator in jail if given a good enough reason to do so within law. The police are under the authority of the judicial branch.

  23. Re:apply the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag please on Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Memory Loss · · Score: 1

    precisely

  24. Re:apply the whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag please on Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Memory Loss · · Score: 1

    I was hit by a jeep while crossing the street (at a pedestrian crosswalk, thank you)

    The crosswalk doesn't give a person magic abilities to win out in a car vs. human contest. Looking both ways is still pretty important.

  25. Re:Virtual Monopoly to boot on P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments · · Score: 1

    Comcast is in the process is replacing Insight Communications here. It's depressing as hell. Verizon keeps promising FiOS here, but they never seem to deliver.