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  1. Re:Lack of standards, quality. on The Wretched State of GPU Transcoding · · Score: 2
  2. Re:How much of this was out of their heartfelt goo on Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes · · Score: 2

    Perhaps it was the fear of what happened to HBGary with Anonymous.

    // ville

  3. Re:I'm sure I am not alone on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    It's a planet from Star Wars of course.

    // ville

  4. They are both platform agnostic. on Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    C++ and OpenGL are both platform agnostic, why do you need the tutorial to be for a specific platform? Perhaps you need a tutorial on how to use your toolchain to compile C++ and OpenGL programs or linux?

    // ville

  5. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 1
    Then what about the OS loading up the binary and swap?

    // ville

  6. Re:Delivery vehicles on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1
    They did; Operation Tidal Wave was an operation against Ploiesti refineries.

    // ville

  7. Re:Microsoft still wins. on Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated · · Score: 1
    Visual Studio 6 came out before or at the time the first C++ standard came out in 1998. Its C++ compiler and the standard library implementation are absolute abominations. To be fair GCC and its C++ compiler were not much better at the time either.


    Visual Studio 7.1 and newer or GCC 4 and newer are quite reasonable.

    // ville

  8. Re:It's there, and it works on The State of Open Source 3D Modeling · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Lack of ngons is a serious workflow deficiency and something that forces one to kludge around when building models. No point stating quad-only models are better anyway, supporting ngons isn't about that. Having ngons while you model speeds up the workflow when you don't have to work around them and can leave them in temporarily.



    Apparently work is done to introduce a new mesh type and tools that support ngons. Just pointing out that right now blender's workflow is rather restricting.


    // ville


  9. Re:Blender changes over time on The State of Open Source 3D Modeling · · Score: 2, Informative


    Then you're probably happy to hear, or already aware, that the UI/event part of blender is slated for rewrite.


    // ville

  10. "or any later version" insanity on Torvalds "Pretty Pleased" With Latest GPLv3 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I've always wondered that who as a non-FSF entity would leave in the "or any later version" clause. That's just insane and I don't understand why a "good" organization like FSF, which also probably tries to educate people, even has such a potentially dangerous clause in their license.


    Maybe the clause is just that, a clever scheme to teach people to read carefully. I was once in a situation where an employment contract had a "or any later version" clause. The contract was contested and found to be in fact illegal in Finland. I realize contract and copyright law are different, just an example that read before you agree to anything.

    // ville

  11. Re:Is anything Novell offers under GPL3? on Perens Rains on Novell's Parade · · Score: 1

    C++ is likely to get quite a few things in 2009:
    http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers / // ville

  12. Re:Stroustrup is the problem on Bjarne Stroustrup on the Problems With Programming · · Score: 1
    Interfacing with some library with a C interface often requires passing out pointer to the first element of an std::vector.

    // ville

  13. firefox 2.0 find vs quick find on 2.6.19 Linux Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Howdy,

    If you hit ctrl-f you get find with the [x]/next/previous/highlight all/match case widgets. If you hit / you activate quick find functionality which doesn't have those. No idea if there's a config setting to force quick find to have those widgets as well. // ville

  14. Re:But does it have a useable file-save dialogue? on GNOME 2.16 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Patch your GTK+ to open the save-dialog expanded. Patch that works with 2.8.6 and 2.8.19 at least:
    http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beautify_GNOME#Save_d ialogs_expanded_by_default

    // ville

  15. Re:XBox port of HLTV? on Microsoft's Online Spectator Patent · · Score: 2, Informative
    Game called Air Warrior allowed people to spectate on-board others' planes. I can't recall the years but I played it on Amiga over the internet so it must have been early '90s.


    I've no idea how long it had the ability to do so before I started playing. Anyway you didn't participate in the game while you were an observer. Guess that could serve as prior art to this nonsense.

    // ville

  16. Re:UB313's name on Slashback: OSS, Lawsuits, History · · Score: 1

    Or asspuhelin would be equally nice. // ville

  17. google.com search result links on Benefits of Using Access Keys in HTML? · · Score: 1
    So when will google.com let us open the result we want through keyboard? Or maybe it already does and I'm behind my times.

    // ville

  18. Re:Reminds me of John D. Rockefeller on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually he has to do it if he wants to get any.

    // ville

  19. boost.serialization on Object-Oriented 'Save Game' Techniques? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Boost has boost.serialization which takes care of such things as pointers. Check it out.

    // ville

  20. Re:All I want on X.Org 6.8.2 is Out · · Score: 1

    Only happens for me if I use one screen on TV out.

    // ville

  21. Re:Good news for GTK+ on Win32 on Novell to port Evolution to Windows · · Score: 1
    irssi.

    // ville

  22. Re:Mozilla/Firefox Workaround on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1
    I was unable to get either of the tests to work with firefox 1.0. Is it perhaps because I have changed all of the browser.link.open_* from their default values?


    browser.link.open_external 2
    browser.link.open_newwindow 1
    browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 2
    browser.link.open_newwindow.ui 1

    // ville

  23. Re:Not quite right... on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1

    If Linux doesn't exist then that's a division-by-zero.

    // ville

  24. Re:Yikes... on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Running On Sunflower Oil · · Score: 1
    I hear Chris Rock is goog...



    // ville

  25. Re:But if your using Linux your outta luck on Alias Releases Maya PLE 6 · · Score: 1

    I've emailed them also to ask for a linux version of the PLE but they refused politely.

    // ville