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  1. Re:now correct me if im wrong on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Metric system and miles per hour, really?

  2. Re:A mink, not a ferret on Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer · · Score: 1

    Woman holding a ferret is a famous painting in the Discworld universe, actually.

  3. Re:Put the blame where it belongs. on Government Pressure on ESRB · · Score: 1

    Now you know the dirty secret of the /. editors: it's not their fault, but the copy/paste mechanism's .

  4. Re:How does it compare? on Total Annihilation Sequel Preview · · Score: 1

    Exact opposite of warcraft III: very little micromanagement, (well, imposed micromanagement, you can choose to do so, but you aren't forced to) huge maps and armies, and a sense of scale that is missing from about every other RTS: the range of the different units vary, wildly.
    You also get a quite different method to build units and structures: instead of paying the full cost when you click the build button, the building units consume those incrementally during the creation.
    Basically it is mostly about exagerating everything, and strategy.

  5. Re:40 person raid? How EQ. on WoW, EQ2, SWG Content Updates · · Score: 1

    Errr, actually, there are already two 40 people raids instances: Molten Core and Onyxia Lair.
    Basically, even the non boss mobs are harder than other instances bosses, you get epic loot everywhere and you spend half the time waiting for various things. (like establishing strategies, distributing loot, etc.)

    You can also find a few world bosses that require far more that 15 people to go down.
    So, basically, that kind of things isn't new.

  6. Re:What's wrong with making a checkmark? on NYT Says Paperless Voting A Serious Problem · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, I have never seen a vote that required making a mark, in France.
    Our votes only imply putting a piece of paper with the chosen candidate's name on it in an enveloppe and putting the thing in the ballot.

  7. Re:Not flamebait... on City of Heroes Issue Four Released · · Score: 1

    There have been a pvp arena in Anarchy Online for quite a few years, and it probably wasn't the first.

  8. Re:write protection switch on USB Flash Drive Round-up · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use my drive mostly to carry around anti spyware and antivirus software, so it tends to get a lot on quite unsafe machines, and even if the times when malware was mostly reproducing itself onto executables is past, you can't be too safe.
    So my usb keyring is write protected most of the time.

  9. Re:Sigh. on TrekUnited Campaign Ends · · Score: 1

    Yeah, solve corruption now by throwing more money on the problem!

  10. Re:Interesting on Cornering the World of Warcraft Markets · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, sorry, after ready the forum post linked in the article, I realized that my point is moot, servers are actually named the same on both sides of the pond.

  11. Re:Interesting on Cornering the World of Warcraft Markets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have to account for the fact that Elune is a French server, and only opened onf February 11, so the number of level 60 is still relatively low. Besides, Elune isn't a PvP server, hence competition is at a lower level.

  12. Re:Bad, but Not Too Bad on French Designer Ordered to Give up milka.fr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Squatting a domain in the .fr TLD takes a bit more work than doing the same in the .com one, actually.
    You need to have a registered business with the same (or a close one) name to be allowed to apply for it.

  13. Re:Old news on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    Single point of failure, especially on a boat is not everyone's cup of tea...
    If you know the shoreline by heart and can navigate eyes closed, fine, but for the rest of the people, landmarks, lighthouses included, can be a lifesaver.

  14. Re:An Internet beowulf on Sun Enters Grid-Computing Rental Market · · Score: 1

    Grid computing tends to have relatively high latency between nodes, usually, (and worldwide ones are obviously even worse in that respect) and quite small bandwidth, which limits its usefullness to a relatively small category of problems. (think SETI@Home kind of problems: not a lot of data to transmit back and forth, loads of cpu power required)
    And interactive real-time rendering in a game definitely isn't one of those, to even get a compressed video at 720x480 resolution, compressed, (DVD Video) you need a 9.8Mbit pipe...
    Just try to use a remote desktop application or export an X session, and you'll see what kind of speed you get...

  15. Re:Red neck of the woods on Report: Broadband In US Homes Nearly 20 Percent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh, so basically there is a fair chunk of the population that is neither urban nor rural, to reach the 19.9% figure?

  16. Re:Half-life 2's invisible walls annoying... on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    I had the very same problem.
    It happens in the harbour with a sunk ship in the middle, two vehicles shooting at you on the piers, and in which you have to shout a barrel inside a container (big parallelipedic one, the kind trucks or ships move) to get inside with the airboat.
    But instead of shooting and entering, you can jump on a tree near an inclined platform you are supposed to jump from, and you end up missing the jump everytime, whatever your speed is.
    I actually didn't realize it was intended and banged my head quite a few time. :-)

  17. Re:what temp? on Real World High-Temperature Superconductor Engine · · Score: 1

    According to that site http://www.amsuper.com/products/htsWire/ it is likely to be under 100K, and most info being given at 77K, sounds like liquid nitrogen cooling.

  18. Re:innate, perhaps on Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? · · Score: 1

    The combination of your sig and your parent's is really disturbing...

  19. Re:I think France got it on France Considers Open Source · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, the second statement is from MandrakeSoft president, though, not Dutreil. And as far as I know, Mandrake isn't a country, let alone an evil one. :-)

  20. Re:If there's one thing I know on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 0

    It hasn't been (dis)proven that you can't solve NP-complete problems deterministically in polynomial time. It certainly looks like it is impossible, but the proof has yet to be seen.

  21. Re:Not the most expensive on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1

    I doubt the Thrust SSC is a very good example of production car... ;) (not that the Royale is that much better in that regard)

  22. Re:Read the whole article? on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, circular, with a diameter approaching infinity, of course. :-)

  23. Re:Sam & Max FPS on Steve Purcell On Sam & Max 2's Cancellation · · Score: 1

    Actually Max was in Jedi Knight, hidden in a house somewhere, and when you freed him, he would go on killing about anything he encountered.

  24. Re:Imperial, not English... on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    Actually no, the wavelength are used as practical measurements, but the metre is *defined* as 1/299792458th of the distance travelled by light in a vacuum.

  25. Re:the binary license? on SCO Responds to OSDL Legal Aid Announcement · · Score: 1

    I do hope you get 0 as well with the binary one...