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  1. Re:Confusion on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're right.

    Would you like to buy some double glazing? I'll do you a special price.

  2. Re:Stupid on Building A Better Inbox (Updated) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sounds like 2 concurrent sources of income. Surely if they charge advertisers to let mail through, they shouldn't be charging me - and vice versa?

    I'd be happy to get free blocking except for allowed ads, or paid blocking with no ads, but i can't really see the point in paid blocking with ads...

  3. Re:Development Tools Need Work? I don't think so . on Survey: Linux Draws Windows Developers · · Score: 1

    compiler != development tools.

  4. Re:Despite all the video game talk. . . on The Thin Line Between Reality and Video Games · · Score: 1

    There are 2 different styles of rendering, BSP-based (like quake) and Quad- or Oct-tree based, as used by morrowind (which actually used both, BSP for indoors, quadtree outdoors) and other outdoor 3d engines.

    It is extremely difficult to on-the-fly convert to BSP format, but octtree mappings should be pretty straightforward, even when you're drawing data on the fly from a fat old database.

  5. Re:R&R Software... on The Thin Line Between Reality and Video Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then imagine the next step... getting rid of the DM and other players entirely!

    Oh, hang on...

  6. Re:Morale is your own responsibility on Improving Company Morale? · · Score: 1

    It's all about how you sell it. It wasn't a bad decision 5 years ago because the technology then (especially the free stuff) was too immature to make it viable. That system was the only way to get the job done. However, now, it's time for a change.

  7. Re:to the victors goes the spoils.. on More PlayStation 3 Predictions · · Score: 1

    I think you're missing my point - maybe I don't want my 8 year old playing it, but I dont think anybody else would want to play it.

  8. Re:to the victors goes the spoils.. on More PlayStation 3 Predictions · · Score: 1

    Wise man once say, a mature rating does not an adult-targetted game make. Baldur's gate and red faction look like the only non-kiddy titles there.
    Course, that said, super monkey ball is fun no matter how old you are.

  9. Re:XFree86 on XFree86 Politics · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never mind XFree86, I could use a good fork...

  10. Re:logic? on Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders · · Score: 1

    Exacltly. It wouldn't act as a deterrent; it would act as a neon banner to hilight the insanity of the sentence.

  11. Re:SKY PPV on Users Conned by Cable Con · · Score: 1

    Unless you were planning to sell them on ebay. Fancy going into business?

  12. Re:photorealism on A Photorealistic CGI TV Series Coming Real Soon Now · · Score: 1

    I think the cursory glance theory is broken though. That's a damn impressive fake, and I wouldn't have known without being told.

  13. Re:If you're a Google H4X0R... on Google Hacks · · Score: 1

    It says 'Directory' but it's not a dialect I'm familiar with. I'd have said '|)1|23(70|2y'

  14. Re:Great Review on Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ · · Score: 1

    That was kind of the joke...

  15. Great Review on Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ · · Score: 1

    For a change - it's almost like you're a real writer. This review wouldn't even look out of place on a real site.

  16. Re:Isnt it funny on The Business of Instant Messaging · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's true. It is certainly a helpful tool when the person you want to speak to isn't next to you.

    My company, an IT solution provider, uses IM for the majority of inter-office communications. When you're working on a project with a 50 man team scattered between 3 continents (US, Europe and India (well... Asia. Whatever)), then IM is the only practical solution.

    Emails are ok, but you never get proper discourse. Phones are crap because they are expensive and, unless you record them, unlogged. IM is perfect. No need to be too polite, you can ignore it if you're doing something else, or answer immediately and get a quick understanding of the real problem, and make sure your answer is understood (or vice versa).

    I've worked with a number of clients in recent years, and more and more of them - even the non-tech-focussed companies - are coming around to the idea that IM is an efficient means of communication. As far as I'm concerned it's an *essential* tool for distributed teams. We couldn't have done half the work we do now without it.

    Of course, having said all that, Jabber r00lz.

  17. Re:"I like to eat your sperm!" on Wireless Mesh Networks · · Score: 1

    Impressive literacy. Looks like you managed to spell Chirac right both times! Although you only got one of the Schroeder's, never mind. 10/10 for effort.

    It's a shame your attitude on foreign affairs is that of a 5 year old, when you've already got your reading and writing skills up to 8 year old level.

  18. Re:This is a great theory, if... on New Computer Program Determines "Hitability" · · Score: 1

    Don't you see? 5% of all songs have hit potential. 5% of artists have hit potential. This simply allows the record companies to save lots of money by pairing hit song to hit artist.

    I can picture it now; an Elvis style song done by Eminem... instant hit!

  19. Re:Classic Ultima vs Online - ultima flawed crap on Spector, Garriott on Games · · Score: 1

    Article 1: I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours.

    Article 2: True, it was a masterpiece, as was Ultima 3.... but it was a flawed UNPLAYABLE piece of crap.

    Am I missing something here?

  20. Re:Related Goodies on Pattern Recognition · · Score: 1

    Does the real book have as many typos in it as that sample chapter? There are about 3 or 4 per page...
    What the hell is a Califonian telephone?

  21. Re:the for loop thing on Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques · · Score: 1

    It's not the preprocessor, it's the compiler. And it turns the pattern

    for (x; y; z) {code}

    into

    x; while(y) {code; z;}

    which, as it happens, gives declarations in x a wider scope than intended. Also, I don't think that this is ANSI, this is MS specific. The ANSI alternative is

    {x; while(y) {code; z;}}

  22. Re:what does this have to do with rights online? on DALnet For Chatting, Not File Sharing · · Score: 1

    DCC is a direct client connection? Who'd have thought...

  23. Re:Big legal mistake... on Kazaa Fights Back · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or an abortion clinic.

  24. Re:Big legal mistake... on Kazaa Fights Back · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anotherwards, your business can't be illegal.

    Mate, I don't know how old you are, but for your entire life to date, you've been mishearing people when they say 'in other words'.

  25. Re:Same old problem... on Using gzip As A Spam Filter · · Score: 1

    False positives don't destroy the value of filtering at all. I find it massively helpful not to get irritated by alerts 50 times a day when I receive another bloody spam message.
    And I don't miss the false positives because I scan my spam. But the key point is I don't interrupt what I'm doing in order to respond to spam anymore. Well, less often anyway.

    Spam is bad, but spam is life. Filtering is not perfect, but it is helpful.