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  1. Re:This really isn't a surprise. on Illinois Raids Welfare for Videogame Legislation · · Score: 1

    If I ever find myself living out in the ass end of nowhere I'll be sure to console myself with the stellar DMV service. The food court outside that branch has a larger population than your town.

  2. Re:This really isn't a surprise. on Illinois Raids Welfare for Videogame Legislation · · Score: 1

    I went to the one in the State of Illinois building in the Loop yesterday. In and out in 50 minutes, with a wait of around 25 minutes before getting called. They've really improved things since I went there a couple years ago to get my ID renewed.

  3. Re:Who cares? on EVE Online Scandal Deliberate Frame-Job? · · Score: 1

    Why should anyone care what happens in an RPG?
    Next up: pinball tilt scandal!

    It getsa lot more interesting when 100,000 people are playing the same game of pinball
  4. Re:Badgers belong firmly in web 1.0 on Social Computing and Badger's Paws · · Score: 1

    Tagged: badgerbadgerbadgerbadgermushroommushroom

  5. Re:My experience with Dojo on Five AJAX Frameworks Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We have a tree of nodes that recently ballooned in size to 40,000 nodes and this was causing our CSS/javascript tree to choke as it loaded everything once and used the CSS to handle opening and closing of nodes.


    Are you sure javascript is the problem here?
  6. Re:let me know when copper is an insulator. on Electrically Conductive Plastic Polymer · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about solar-powered swimsuits?


    Is that your carbon offset or are you just happy to see me?
  7. Re:Me too on Wii May Be Succeeding in Widening Game Market · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's no excuse

  8. Touche incoming on Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

    So much for the free market, then
  9. Re:Sounds like multi-threading AND NOT Parallelizi on Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay · · Score: 1
    Mod parent down

    Anything when more than a single thread or process is executing simultaneously is parallel. Anything running on multiple computers at the same time can also be called parallel, but is more precisely (and commonly) referred to as clustered or distributed computing. These are the commonly agreed upon meanings.

    Since he has his Ph. D. and all I didn't feel the need to correct him and explain that unless his code was both parallel and multi-threaded he was only getting the benefit of 8 cores.


    Or you could (very obviously) start two instances per node.
  10. Re:Reentrant? on Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay · · Score: 1

    Practically all for loops written are independent of order, so they could be trivially implemented using MapReduce.

    That is a very large, very unsupported assumption to be making. It certainly doesn't hold true for the code I've seen in the wild and have written myself.
  11. Re:Lucky on Why the Gaming-Violence Connection is So Comforting · · Score: 1

    I don't know about written language, but Socrates would certainly have something to say on the matter.


    He would say "The politicians made me drink a big ol' cup of poison. I didn't like that."
  12. Re:Portable turntable on MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain · · Score: 1

    I prefer to keep a portable turntable in my pants

    Thank you and goodnight!
  13. Re:American honeybees... on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 1

    Thanks. That pun just killed about 40% of the remaining bee population.

  14. Re:Very Minimal Perl for Unix People on Minimal Perl for Unix and Linux People · · Score: 1
    The shortest correct* version, cross-platform:

    perl -pe"s/\r//"
    * Bulletproofed: s/\013\010/\010/g
  15. My BB's mail config broke over a year ago on Blackberry Owners Chained to Work · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never got it fixed

  16. Re:Frets on Fire on The Future of Harmonix · · Score: 1

    Ok, point conceded. The dexterity requirements for GH don't really approach that of a real guitar, my DDR knowledge is minimal, and I can see where flailing your body around like a spaz would be difficult than flailing your hand around like a spaz. And, yes, the guitar is about 600 times cooler. I don't think it's so much a stigma of dancing being lame, it's more that when *I* dance *I'm* lame. That, and I find the DDR music repulsive.

  17. Re:Frets on Fire on The Future of Harmonix · · Score: 1

    What? What exactly is supposed to be the GH analog of having a machine gun fired at my feet?

    Misirlou

    Jordan is like having a bazooka fired at your head.
  18. Re:Frets on Fire on The Future of Harmonix · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it might be fun if you don't already think playing DDR with a hand-held controller is lame ...

    Play on expert. I think the DDR equiv would be playing on two pads simultaneously while somebody unloads a machine gun at your feet, which just so happens to be the only thing I can think of that would make DDR interesting.
  19. Re:Frets on Fire on The Future of Harmonix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Worth downloading alone for the ingenious way they make you hold the keyboard as a makeshift Guitar Hero controller.

    You do realize the reason Guitar Hero is fun is because of the guitar controller, right?
  20. Re:Opposite way of thinking? on PHP 5 in Practice · · Score: 1

    I have this same problem with Lisp. I can never remember where the parentheses go!

  21. Re:Pshaw! on Dell Laptop Burns House Down · · Score: 1

    That's nothing... An iPod killed my family!


    When they tell you to shut off your electronic devices on the plane they are NOT FUCKING KIDDING.
  22. Re:Dethrone? No. on AMD's Showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU · · Score: 1

    Intel applied concerted effort to kicking its own nuts during the P4 years. If AMD couldn't deliver a knockout blow then, it sure as hell won't now that Intel has a real lineup.

  23. Re:The original Hall of Fame, and hubris... on Ethernet Creator Makes the Inventors Hall of Fame · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ozymandias, anyone?

    Look upon my works, ye mighty, and...hey, hey COME BACK!
  24. Re:Guitar Hero 2 on Have You Hit a Gaming Wall? · · Score: 1

    GH is one big series of walls, and I love it for that. I've beaten both on expert, but the Buckethead unlock will vex me basically forever. That dude's fingers do not inhabit the same plane as my own.

  25. Re:The trick is projection on String Theory Put to the Test · · Score: 1
    So where's my freakin' Nobel?


    Nowhere. Everyone knows that it's turtles all the way down.