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  1. Re:The user should not have to care on Shuttleworth's Commitment to Kubuntu and KDE · · Score: 1

    While it would have been great if they had done that, it would be infeasible. Passing code around is essential in something like that--even if both sides are using different languages. Sometimes, telling how something should be handled is no substitute for giving demo code that the guys in the other project could take and convert into their code/framework. This simply isn't possible between KDE and GNOME for one reason: license incompatibilities.

  2. Re:Better NULL handling? on How Would You Improve SQL? · · Score: 1

    A Hammer is pretty deficient at screwing in screws. The guy should be using a flat file.

  3. Re:Error in linked article on BusinessWeek Interviews Miyamoto · · Score: 1

    Starfox for SNES is one good example. There were also a few for genesis, some F1 racing game, using a chip similar to the "superFX" chip.

  4. Re:Who wants a laptop! on Preview Of The $100 Laptop · · Score: 1

    Yeah, food would be so much better. Food is just a patchwork solution that falls apart. Pump in more food, more babies get pumped out. You have to build education and infrastructure. If these things were done right you coulddo way better than $100 books--for example project gutenburg has hundreds of thousands of books available free that could be loaded onto the things by default (blatantly assuming english language...).

  5. Re:except that on Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    "It just means the robots will need to implement javascript if they want to get behind AJAX." They will also have to figure out that pesky "halting problem."

  6. Re:Are you sure about that? on FreeBSD 6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    He isn't asking why you used 1.4 instead of 1.5, he is asking why you responded to a post that claimed 1.5 was stable by saying, "no it isn't! 1.4 isn't stable!"

  7. Re:IRC has gone downhill lately on IRC as a World-Changing Medium · · Score: 1

    Why do you care if it is open source if you are just using it for warez channels anyway, N00B.

  8. Re:#WinProg on IRC as a World-Changing Medium · · Score: 1

    It means, "Are you fucking serious?" There is a particular motion one can make the head, moving it forward and simultaneously opening the eyes wider, that is available in physical communication, "..." is the equivalent in text. The same emotion just can't be captured with, "you shouldn't be using borland command liner compiler."

  9. Re:Our corporate-mandated antivirus blocks IRC on IRC as a World-Changing Medium · · Score: 1

    Most of these people are talking about using it in compnaies as a private server. This means you can use any ports you want. If you want the advatages of developers visiting outside rooms for support on problems, etc. then you have a point. But in the context of this thread.. your anti-virus woes don't apply.

  10. Re:Publish, not issue on USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent · · Score: 1

    I dunno.. the doonesberry VR online store prior art example was pretty convincing to me.

  11. Re:This could be brilliant. on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even better would be if there were pictures of people enjoying pepsi with the same question and answer as you gave and then they also had ugly people drinking coke and cringing, etc. with the same question, but new answer, "coke."

  12. Re:Satellite Internet? on How World of Warcraft Operates In China · · Score: 1

    Satellite has traditionally had "such low ping times"? I wasn't aware. Historically they have had high ping times.

  13. Re:Preparing for the Next Revolution (or 3 or 4?) on BusinessWeek Interviews Miyamoto · · Score: 1

    No. He is referring to the tech demo where 3d images are imposed on camera images with full understanding of being "behind" or "infront" of the objects in the images. It was on slashdot a while back, it wasn't the nintendo ON thing, and in fact it had nothing to do with nintendo. I can't remember the name of it or I would search.

  14. Re:Error in linked article on BusinessWeek Interviews Miyamoto · · Score: 1

    They also said that mario 64 was the first 3d console game... not true.

  15. Re:Not a bad patent... on Nestle Patents Coffee Beer · · Score: 1

    Amazon's "1-click" patent doesn't say anything about how to implement it, it just says basically, "the customer makes one click and is automatically billed and the product is shipped."

  16. Re:Bingo! on Microsoft Plans Deliberate Xbox 360 Shortage · · Score: 1

    "During the great depression, farmers would purposefully destroy the majority of their yields in order to drive up price just so they could break even. But the problem here is that limiting supply doesn't create the perception of scarcity (what a console maker wants), it creates actual scarcity (what a console maker certainly does not want)."
     
    Wait.. how does destroying crop yeilds not do the same thing? That is, create actual scarcity instead of perceived scarcity.

  17. Re:Pirated Material on GUBA makes Usenet search easy as Google · · Score: 1

    Hey dumbass, about slashdot I said, "(provided they removed it if notified)." And then you go on to correct me by saying, "Slashdot can get sued if they are notified of the material and fail to remove it." Wow, way to be redundant.

  18. Re:But I'd rather have it the other way around! on Transcoding in 1/5 the Time with Help from the GPU · · Score: 1

    I don't think you grasp how insignificant 100 free cycles per frame is.

  19. Re:Already available.. on Transcoding in 1/5 the Time with Help from the GPU · · Score: 1

    >They suck, they didn't fix my situation
     
    No, no, no, they rock they fixed my situation.
     
    Charles L. Stevenson would be proud.

  20. Re:ESPN.com as a notable bug fix O_o on Firefox 1.5 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse sports jocks with sports nerds. The two do not form a dichotomy, but they are also not one and the same.

  21. Re:So, why all the jokes? on GORM 1.0 Release to Take on GNOME/KDE? · · Score: 1

    The fact that is GPL instead of LGPL isn't necessarily bad, but it does ensure that Gnome will never go away.

  22. Re:Pirated Material on GUBA makes Usenet search easy as Google · · Score: 1

    "I realize that they are not actually holding the videos and files on their machines"
     
    Actually, they are/i holding them on their machines. They get by with it for the same reason that your ISP gets by with having a router that has a bit of memory to hold a packet queue even though packets in that cue might contain bits of copyrighted works that their customer is downloading. It is also the same reason that Slashdot couldn't get sued (provided they removed it if notified) for a user posting a comment full of copyrighted material.

  23. Re:Advert? on GUBA makes Usenet search easy as Google · · Score: 0

    He isn't saying they bought the article. He is saying it looks like they submitted the article.

  24. Re:I've been following this... on BBC Tells World About The Warden · · Score: 1

    "What is the impact if I don't wear a seatbelt or a helmet? I get injured or die. But do I affect anyone else? Not in any way that I can think of."
     
    If you are a retired old foggie, I say go ahead and die. Otherwise what's wrong with seatbelt laws: society invests x dollars in educating people to be treadmill style workers; we wouldn't want any of them to die before they have paid off would we?

  25. Re:Obligatory quote on Vista To Get Symlinks? · · Score: 1

    This statement is false.