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  1. Re:SVN branching a daunting task? on SVN's svn:externals To GIT's Submodule · · Score: 1

    Huh? Branches are versioned in subversion just like everything else; you can simply svn delete the branch directory (and unlike the git solution--keep your branches to yourself and rebase them out when you commit--you can subversion branches back).

  2. Re:Another Shock Story on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 1

    eval("pri" + "nt 'however unlikely to occur in real code, some stuff will still be undetectable'")

  3. Re:Hmm good bye automotive paint?? on Femtosecond Lasers Used To Color Metals · · Score: 1

    You would suspect wrong; I just smeared some vaseline on some butterfly wings from my butterfly collection and they kept their color (I didn't actually, but a cursory reading of Wikipedia will tell you that there is a translucent layer of chitin over the cells that exhibit the nano-color effect suggesting that clear paint would have no affect on so-colored cars). Thanks for not even trying.

  4. Re:print as function vs. keyword on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 1

    You happened to pick the one that that is almost entirely statically determinable, and hence can be translated automatically (I say almost because you could conceivably dynamically generate a string containing a print statement and then call eval on it).

  5. Re:So close... on Messenger Probe Sends Back Mercury Photos · · Score: 1

    At the geo-sycnronus altitude the atmosphere is essentially in orbit as well, so there isn't any drag.

  6. Re:The Great American Jobs Scam on Asian Nations Battle for Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a 100% tax (from Washington's point of view) cut by not having them in the state?

  7. Re:whatcouldpossiblygowrong? not much. on Rumors of Google and Dell iPhone Rival · · Score: 1

    I don't know, when something is tagged badarticle it usually is; in the past I would have to wade through a few comments to find that out or click and give the bad-article writers money, along with wasting my time.

  8. Re:Cool... on AIDS Drug Patent Revoked In US · · Score: 1

    Unprecedented investment by taxpayers into research, unprecedented investment by pharm companies into marketing.

  9. Re:An inside view of the Scientology reality tunne on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 1

    You clearly aren't from the south; you probably imagine that all Christians are similar to Unitarians or something.

  10. Re:As a matter of interest... on LIGO Fails To Detect Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    Newton's bucket caused the opposite effect in Einstein (made him uneasy about aspects of relativity).

  11. Re:Go on on Hacking the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    Bitfrost also causes the whole laptop to be incompatible with GPLv3.

  12. Re:The problem I have with QT's licensing on Trolltech Adopts GPL 3 for Qt · · Score: 1

    I guess the OLPC won't see QT, since no GPLv3 code can be distributed with the laptop (it's anti-theft measures violate the TiVo clause).

  13. Re:Pulled Together? on How Apple Rumors Became Reality · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently writing didn't enhance your cognitive abilities enough to know what "ascending order" means.

  14. Re:Googling the Adium logs on How Apple Rumors Became Reality · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's a bit revisionist. The MacBook Pro came before the MacBook, and it was a replacement for the PowerBook, not the iBook. The reason for the name change only tangentially was for "[making sure that consumers knew that] even though it's Intel based, it still has the Mac OS"; the real reason was to avoid having "Power" in the name since it no longer used the "PowerPC" architecture.

  15. Re:Capri Sun on Corkscrew Cups Could Keep Space Drinks Flowing · · Score: 1

    Informative? Do you know what a Capri Sun is?

  16. Re:Not faster... more efficient on Prosthetic-Limbed Runner Disqualified from Olympic Games · · Score: 1

    Right, this isn't a scandal at all. This, on the other hand, is.

  17. Re:Cheating in online games on The State of Security in MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    But Everquest literally start enforcing a *line* to kill the dragon, banning people who broke in line. What a farce.

  18. Re:It's accounting rules, actually on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    But if it wasn't part of the advertising for Touch, Touch was delivered when Touch was delivered.

  19. Re:I also left long ago on Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution · · Score: 1

    I guess you somehow managed to miss out on the libexpat fiasco?

  20. Re:!vegan tag on Edible Antifreeze For Smoother Ice Cream · · Score: 1

    Ice cream is full of animal parts--bacteria.

  21. Re:Almost anything is better than corn on Switchgrass Makes Better Ethanol Than Corn · · Score: 1

    I don't think *anyone* is arguing that corn subsidies increase the price of corn. That is completely nonsensical.

  22. Re:Any way to... on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    You do realize that enumerating every name up to 50 alpha-numeric characters in length would break the universe, let alone network solutions' database, don't you?

  23. Re:No surprise here on Why Intel and OLPC Parted Ways · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you, except for this pesky thing called logic: if intel didn't want to do something charitable, THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE JOINED THE BOARD OF A CHARITY.

  24. Re:SLA? on Microsoft Giving Xbox Live Users a Free Game · · Score: 1

    The main thing that will happen is it will be seen that MS saw this coming, but wanted to make all the christmas sales anyway, so they didn't do things like pause the sale of live subscriptions until they could get enough hardware, thus proving it wasn't "best effort", but rather "premeditated service problems".

  25. Re:The best tools stay out of the way... on Goodbye Cruel Word · · Score: 2, Informative

    You really should have learned TeX/LaTeX.