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  1. Re:Perfect thing to fit on a truck to ram somewher on Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages · · Score: 1

    It is cheaper, better and easier to dispose of the waste. I agree with you, but can we avoid using the word 'dispose'? Can we all agree that it's really just 'sweeping under the carpet'?

  2. Re:Wow... on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    No, please don't come here. It's fine the way it is. You're not missing anything anyway, honest.

  3. Re:Painful distribution.... on Microsoft To Enable User-Created Xbox 360 Games · · Score: 1

    2. The receiving user must have downloaded the XNA Framework runtime environment for the Xbox 360
    3. The receiving user must have XNA Game Studio Express installed on their own development PC


    Ew. I remember people espousing Java as THE programming language of the future... but those runtime libraries, eh? Where is all the (consumer) Java software today? (Notwithstanding Azureus).

    I'll give it a looksee but C++ is still way more attractive to me for GD. Web on the other hand...

  4. Re:He Had No Choice on Iran's President Launches Blog · · Score: 1

    (which must amount to literally millions of pages).

    Actually the true number of pages on the subject has been grossly over-estimated, and most of the pages on the subject were written inadvertantly by people writing about other things. Strange but true.

  5. Re:Minority Report on The Ultimate Dual-Hand Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    The thing that causes me discomfort when using a computer for long periods is shoulder tension from suspending my arms and hands in place over my keyboard. This screen will free up your shoulders to move. Besides I think that if it takes a little more physical effort to use it's a good thing.

    As long as you could freely adjust the angle and position of the screen I bet you wouldn't need as many micro-breaks.

  6. Re:This is insulting. on Superman 'Too Big' for the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Mine has a kind of leprous growth.

  7. Re:Hear hear on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but I thought the concept of 'Irreducible Complexity' in the context of Intelligent Design came out of a thought experiment: Consider an organism with several parts that work in unison. If the organism requires all those parts in order to function, how could evolutional process gradually build the organism from molecules?

    Is this the same as your definition?

  8. Re:Attack the messenger (please) on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    > If He wants to violate non-contradiction He can.

    No he can't. Yes he can. So can I.

  9. Re:Sure, all games can run without one... on J. Allard Responds to Hard Drive Criticism · · Score: 1

    'Specially given how much they cost.

  10. Re:Let's look at some facts... on War of the Worlds Remake · · Score: 1

    good record with Sci-Fi? take E.T and Gremlins - two movies with cool ideas that could have been scary. and look what he came up with.

  11. Re:This has got to stop on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager · · Score: 1

    At the very least someone could establish communication with the patent office, pointing out that Slashdot vast living database of tech tidbits. If a patent office worker had a column on Slashdot asking for examples of prior art where he/she couldn't dig any up, there would be no problems..?

  12. Re:shouldn't ATM machines be designed better? on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 1

    we've got 'em in new zealand. for about...15 years? at least?

  13. Re:It was done intentionally!!! on Windows 2000 & Windows NT 4 Source Code Leaks · · Score: 1

    Why did you make me think of this?

  14. Re:Um, how would anything change? on How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? · · Score: 1

    Yes, food *is* a bad example. It sells itself.

    You just have to LOOK at a range of food and you know what you want.

  15. puntastic on Why You Don't Have a Broadband Connection · · Score: 1

    "But the growth of broadband is lagging. " i wonder if John B. Judis even realised the pun here ;)

  16. Re:Genetic Algorithms? Anybody? on A Robot Learns To Fly · · Score: 1

    i think the article expained a slightly different method: "Krister Wolff and Peter Nordin of Chalmers University of Technology built a robot with wings and then gave it random instructions through a computer at the rate of 20 per second. " what i understood was that the technicians were feeding it instructions themselves, rather than the robot generating it's own possible instructions. so it wasn't actually _working out_ how to solve the problem, it was essentially asked to try different things and decide whether they helped. i'd like to see a robot generating new trials for _itself_ and _then_ eliminating the less helpful ones - this would then be a model of animal learning, which would get me really excited! with an exclamation mark! that's pretty excited. but correct me if i'm wrong :)

  17. Re:The only problem is this: Culture on A New Kind of War · · Score: 1

    are you saying that the rest of the world is not a cesspit of drugs and violence?

  18. i think it could be interesting to watch.... on "The Sims" To Have Its Own TV Series? · · Score: 1
    if they write the show from the right perspective it could be really interesting. the writers would have full freedom to do whatever they like to the characters, just to see how they react...like the simpsons really.

    a live action show where we follow all the regular sitcom shite (the characters interact by themselves in the game don't they?), but with a hand zooming around which can do fun things, like;

    Click->Turn Off TV->Argument Ensues->Someone Gets Punched;

    or perhaps Click->Remove Toilet->Soggy Carpet->People Get Evicted. stuff like that.

    i think it could be fun to watch...that is, of course, assuming the TV executives are interested in making a really good show that doesn't piss all over the game.

    hey, _I_ trust them. don't you?