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  1. Low prices + steam helps on Examining Indie Game Pricing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just bought "Defence Grid" for $2 on steam. It's not much money, but I wouldn't have paid any more, and wouldn't have even bothered to pirate it. I probably won't even play, but my brother uses my steam account and he might check it out.

    My point is that $2 is a good impulse-buy price. I won't even bother to check a demo or reviews at that price. So that's $2 more than they would have gotten.

    I'd be interested in seeing their total profit binned by price.

  2. Re:Assange is a terrorist and Anonymous are thugs on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    Not really, given the existing leaks which show the various governments doing some pretty bad things.

  3. Re:Masterrace? Reactions from Europe on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please see the case of NEW YORK TIMES CO. v. UNITED STATES which examines this section and the surrounding ones, and found that the New York Times was not guilty under it for publishing classified documents:

      http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=403&invol=713

  4. Re:Assange is a terrorist and Anonymous are thugs on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    So, telling the world about the bad actions of the banks is unethical because it might hurt those banks?

  5. Re:Masterrace? Reactions from Europe on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    > The dissemination of classified materials is.

    No it isn't. The initial leak, not done by WikiLeaks, is illegal. After that it's legal to distribute.

    See how newspapers are also publishing some of the leaks - they wouldn't be doing that if it was illegal.

    Wikileaks hasn't even been legally accused of doing anything illegal.

  6. Re:$24.5 million to build an ark? on Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park · · Score: 1

    Noah spent 100 years on it? O-O

  7. $24.5 million to build an ark? on Kentucky Announces Creationism Theme Park · · Score: 1

    Why does it take $24.5 million to build the ark, and has an image of dozens of people working on it?

    Didn't Noah manage to do it all by himself?

  8. Re:um, thats kind of not what it says on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    The women themselves don't seem to actually want to persue this.

    One woman said:

    What makes her latest comments even more bizarre is that her team have gone to say that they are appealing the Swedish prosecutions decision not to pursue the rape allegations any further. Claes Borgstrom told AFP:

            I have asked a higher-ranked special department in the prosecution’s office of Sweden to reconsider the [prosecutor's] decision.

    ( http://politicalpundits.co.uk/articles/exploring-the-charges-against-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange/ )

  9. Re:"Sex crimes" on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    One of the women told a Sweedish newspaper that in an interview. I don't speak sweedish so I can't give you an original source, but the translated quote is:

    “I had never intended for Julian Assange to be charged with rape. It is quite wrong that we were afraid of him. He is not violent and I do not feel threatened by him.”

    http://politicalpundits.co.uk/articles/exploring-the-charges-against-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange/

    You can google the quote for more sources.

  10. Re:"Sex crimes" on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    One of the women told the swedish newspaper:

    “It is quite wrong that we were afraid of him. He is not violent and I do not feel threatened by him.”

  11. Re:"Sex crimes" on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    One of the women specifically said:

    “It is quite wrong that we were afraid of him. He is not violent and I do not feel threatened by him.”

    How does that fit your idea that he "forced" them in any way?

  12. "Sex crimes" on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just in case some reads the comments and not the article..

    The women themselves said they were not afraid of him, and he did not force them.

  13. Re:Isn't this kind of obvious? on Linus On Branching Practices · · Score: 1

    And you need to read up on the concept of git.

    Seriously, this isn't SVN.

    Typical work flow in git is:

    1) Clone remote repository
    2) Make branch of the clone's master (origin/master), say, and calling it "master".
    3) Add your commits to your branch.
    4) Continue until you're happy.
    5) Merge your changes with any changes that other people have done.
    6) Push your changes onto the remote server.

    What Linus is saying is that step 5 can cause trouble. Instead of making a branch of clone's master, you should use the latest tag instead. This is not the way you'd do it on any small or medium project.

  14. Re:Isn't this kind of obvious? on Linus On Branching Practices · · Score: 1

    > I'm sorry but I've never been tempted to branch from an unstable point, and I'd be horrified if anyone on my time tried to do so.

    What?

    This would happen just checking out the latest version, then start writing some code. How is that a practise that you should be "horrified" by ?

  15. Re:Forget the laptop. on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 1

    So why aren't you doing that?

  16. Re:how about a fishing pole on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about *you* get on a bicycle and cycle around in your spare time.

    Oh, because it's not that much fun to do it all the time? Double standards?

  17. Re:He's looking for drawing, not a toolkit! on What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Qt lets you do stuff like take a button, style is with CSS to make it look how you want, then put it in an opengl scene. The result is a button that that looks however you want in opengl, but has all the behaviour of a button.

    You can CSS-style all the widgets in Qt.

  18. Re:WPF on What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Qt has its own thing like WPF, called QML.

    Youtube tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN4RrBIft6A&feature=related

  19. Re:Qt has flaws on What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    And automatic javascript support. And safe casting on systems without rtti support.

  20. Re:Qt on What 2D GUI Foundation Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Does .net let you modify the libraries and then redistribute the binaries without making the changes public? Is that something you need?

    I don't follow why this is a must-have feature for you.

  21. Re:On the subject of games on Developing StarCraft 2 Build Orders With Genetic Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but it is for me.

    This is true even for the game Go, where it's dominated up to 1st Dan by memorising as many opening and counters as possible.

  22. Re:Sure, just like what happened when XFree86 fork on 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org · · Score: 0

    And GCC.

    GCC version 3 was stable and conservative. A group of developers forked it and created egcc - experimental gcc. This turned out to be popular and was merged back in and became gcc 4.

  23. Re:Googlewin? My attempt at a nuanced opinion. on New VP8 Codec SDK Release Improves Performance · · Score: 1

    Hmm, google wave perhaps?

  24. Chopstick gene on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did the researchers avoid making the mistake of the "chopstick gene"?

    There's a gene that determines how good you are with chopsticks. It's otherwise known as the blue-eye gene...

  25. Re:Evolutionary perspective on You Have Taste Receptors In Your Lungs · · Score: 1

    It seems plausible that there is a slight advantage to having blue eyes, if only for sexual selection.