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  1. Re:Right Now It Doesn't Bother Me... on Overpeer Spewing Bogus Files on P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    understandable, but it depends on how these people are doing it. on one hand, you could just share a bunch of loop-tracks you made. or, you could act as a proxy which downloads the first part of other people's mp3's and creates the loops on the fly to send to users. the later means you're wasting both persons bandwidth and the song might even be legal to download free.

  2. Re:This wouldn't work with me... on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    1) I've never seen such a post-happy story on /. (at least not for a Looong time)
    2) My last year in public school, I refused to say the pledge. I was kicked out of the room for the rest of the year and had little choice but to wait in the office or wander the halls in the morning.

    I don't care why the ruling happened, I don't even know, but im glad it did. Alot of friends will be very glad to hear this.

  3. Re:Mozilla Google toolbar on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    maybe we need a standard browser toolbar API.

  4. brutal but full on Properly Testing Your Code? · · Score: 1

    a little overkill, but i usually make a very tiny program to test every function in my project. tell it what to give the function and what the function should do back. lets you control the testing alot. now, if i had a team, id have someone take the code documentation and do all this, so i can code more. but this works for me.

  5. Mandrake? on Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs · · Score: 1
    Great choice... I'm running it now, my first try of the distribution after loosing all CDs of other distros and not being on a high enough bandwidth to download anything else. Red Hat is just too expensive.

    I've already begun hating them. The "support" you pay for is pathetic. I had some problems getting OpenGL working with my GeForce2 MX 200 and still haven't resolved it. I entered the incident at Mandrake and they tell me opposite information that I should do, when I now find I should make sure those lines are NOT in the x config file.

    Most things run OK, aside from RPM saying that I have NO packages installed. Makes removing/upgrading packages a blast! So, now I'm off to LFS to custom compile my entire system myself. No Gentoo or Sorceror, I'm just doing it all myself. I'm sick of distros. Obviously, not a good choice for per-packages with a computer, just saying: Mandrake sucks.

  6. Re:What about BSD? on Is RPM Doomed? · · Score: 1

    BSD != Linux
    Article is about Linux

  7. rednecks on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 1

    Yes, its prejudice. However, the term can mean more than one thing. In this use, I think it means more of a "people who dont know much about this sorta thing" than the typical redneck remark. Doesn't make it right, of course. But, not as bad as everyone is making it out to be. Besides, they couldn't pass this up because of one little remark, it is something I'm sure we all want to know. Most of us, at least. It's cool. maybe I'll try Lindows out myself.

  8. distributed shared memory on Moshe Bar on Programming, Society, and Religion · · Score: 1
    Will it really take so long? I'm not a linux hacker... yet. But, from what I do know I would implement it pretty simply.

    I would just place a layer for the networked nodes between accesses memory and the memory itself. Make pointers 64-bit and create an object to access the memory that sends the request along to the correct machine. Maybe I'm stupid. probably. I just REALLY want to see this happen. I want my own cluster soon and I'd love to see this kind of added preformance. Clustering, right now, seems to only help with many processes, not much a boost for a single/low process (machine running only an X-server and Quake3 for example). Not that clustering wouldnt help me now, as i regularly have all six of my desktops filled.

  9. red lights before gas petals on Conceptual Models of a Program? · · Score: 1

    I prefer learning syntax first. The whole "Hello, World!" program being your first code is nice. You could go about learning all the conceptual stuff first; but, what can you do with it if you can't actually code yet?

  10. I Plead the 5th on Echelon Architect Interviewed · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to the 5th ammendment? Doesn't this have any pressence in such situations? If I can refuse to give information when I'm sworn in on the witness chair, why can I have no say over if they listen to my phone calls?

  11. gnutella on KaZaA Collapses · · Score: 1
    All these file-sharing companies going down, yet Gnutella is still alive and well. Yes, it has its problems. But it's still there. Morpheus, Kazaa, etc all fall because there's anything there to fall. Gnutella doesn't really exist.

    It isn't the answer, but its in the right direction. If a company owns the sharing network, even a Peer-to-peer network, it will fall. Public domain P2P is the only thing that will survive.

  12. Linux on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 1

    Any word on support yet or planned? I don't run Windows but I'm getting this the day it comes out and I'll spend all the time I need to getting it to run on Linux.

  13. Re:plot: HL on E3 Doom III Preview · · Score: 1

    Remake of the original, remember? At the time, the plot was decent enough, and not that important anyway. Did you read it, even? More than aliens, them things are from Hell, buddy. The plot did spawn a whole series of books, which I hear are pretty decent even. Did you know the IRS has an armed division?

  14. public air on Unlimited Airwaves · · Score: 1

    Personnally, I believe we need to work on these ideals and work towards the abolishing of owned spectrum space.

    With a full, publically owned spectrum, freedom will be unbelievably enhanced. Internet could become faster, free, and available almost anywhere.

    Corporations shouldn't be afraid of this. They have to pay for the space they use now. They wouldn't have to pay for this. And, no or less FCC could lead to at least some tax cuts, if they don't feed it into FBI Terrorism agecies.

  15. scary, scary, scary on Digital Mouths, Synthetic Faces at MIT and Lucasfilm · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is some really scary shit. Just think of the possibilities. Like my girlfriend asking for a threeway... hard to resist the temptations possible with this sort of technology isnt it? Maybe it should be banned, limited, etc. But, in order to do that, people would have to know about and care... oh, nevermind. we know we're the only ones that care about these really scary technologies. thats why the internet went bad, only us geeks know the dangers in this sort of thing, and who listens to us?

  16. damn! on Kazaa, Verizon Propose Compulsory Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    and here i try so hard to hate both of these companies...

  17. Re:Lowest Common Demoninator on Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Privacy · · Score: 1
    This has been my opinion on the matter a long time.

    Lets do something about it. Email me and lets start the awareness!

  18. Re:Playability over 3D? on Neo-Geo : The Game Console That Won't Die · · Score: 1
    I think he was refering to the fact that there is still so much hype over great 3D graphics when most of the games get boring after a few minutes anyway.

    Look at Castlevania: Symphany of the Night, its almost six years old and I'm still playing it.

  19. stolen dreams on Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I came up with that whole displacement mapping thing last year when I was working on a little engine and started messing around with curve rendering formulas.

  20. Re:How about 7 languages? on Quadrilingual Crazy Programming · · Score: 1

    yes, of course, he didnt do the absolute best in the world, and that makes him nothing. rethink yourself.

  21. skywalker brothers on Spider-Man, Star Wars and the Power of Myth · · Score: 1

    this makes me wonder about something im not sure why i didnt realize before... Luke's uncle, his father's brother, apparently. Yet, Anakin has no brothers...

  22. Re:could be good on Digitizing Your Dead Trees? · · Score: 1
    Just some follow-up...

    What about things like tables and lists and things like that? How well will the OCR handle that sort of thing? or custom fonts, images in the book, etc. Buy a nice 120 gig harddrive and just keep those jpegs!

  23. could be good on Digitizing Your Dead Trees? · · Score: 1

    Couple this with one of those new dual-screen laptops and you're set. I'd love to do this myself actually, I probably have around 100 to 150 pounds of technical dead trees. Of course, I'd look and see what digital documents are already available. For example, dont scan that XML Blackbook, just download the official spec.

  24. Code your own? on Software Based Echo Cancellation? · · Score: 1

    If what this comment describes is correct, it wouldnt be touch to code this yourself. Find a decent Sound API you can use and cache the sound as it is received. Then remove that sound from the outstream with a small delay, which you might have to make optionally tweakable.

  25. Re:Until it runs *NIX on Multi-head Meets the Laptop · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was going to post. I'm sure someone(s) will get to work on getting Linux running on this. Maybe I'll give it a shot :-)