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  1. Re:What a lot of Americans don't realize.. on Talking CCTV to Scold Offenders in UK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Way to go. People here (I'm English) are too afraid to say anything to the youths. That's why they feel they can get away with it.

  2. Re:Here's TFA on A Look at the Compiz and Beryl Merger · · Score: 1

    And I find it sad that you cannot comprehend that they pretty much had to chose that license in order to push changes upstream to X11.

  3. Re:Simplfy the game and the AI gets better on Most Impressive Game AI? · · Score: 1

    Sounds interesting to watch. I don't follow chess that much, but I played at school. Is there a commentated movie of it?

  4. Re:Hammer, Feather, Freefall on the Moon: Revisite on Newton's Second Law, Revisited · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That assumes that the difference in position and momentum is greater than the uncertainty principle allows, which isn't immediately obvious. If you do the calculations, you may just find that the difference is smaller than QM allows, and thus there is no difference.

  5. Re:Why is it not compelling? on How Microsoft Can Make Zune a Success · · Score: 1

    You forgot to account for inflation. 3% ish of the $1200 needs to be kept in the bank account to make sure you always have $1200 'worth' of money in there over time. That gives you $20 a year extra

  6. Re:Replace the .0's in the summary. on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 1

    Actually we just switched from Qt 4.2 to Qt 4.3 beta :-)

  7. Re:Let's Get Serios on Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? · · Score: 1

    KDE runs a clipboard manager that lets you do what you describe.

  8. Re:Thought crime on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 1

    In pretty much any country you can be changed for plotting to do a serious crime before you get to actually do it.

  9. Re:Wow on Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS · · Score: 1

    And yet you think that MS _should_ only do what benefits their bottom line and nothing else? How does that work?

  10. Re:Wow on Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS · · Score: 1

    Everything has to be an extreme for you, eh? Either you are a totally ruthless capitalist, or you are a communist, eh?

    It is possible to earn money and do so honestly. I know that must be a shock to you.

  11. Re:There is no altruism, only agendas & intere on Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS · · Score: 1

    I hate people like you. Why should we all just do only what is best for ourselves? What a selfish dick you are.

    We all need to survive, and (constrained) capitalism is what makes the world go round. But if you think that's all there is to life then, damn, I hope you die unhappy.

  12. Re: Cost =! price. on Why Next-Gen Titles Cost $60 · · Score: 1

    > The cost to make a game (or any other product) ALWAYS factors into the end selling price; with very few exceptions (one of them being game consoles, which recoup their losses from licensing fees); any first year business student can tell you that.

    Total rubbish. You sell the game at a price that maximises your profit. The cost of the developing the game doesn't come into it.

    Just because the game cost you more to produce that doesn't change the optimal price for maximum profit.

  13. Re:In Poor Taste... on What We Owe the Columbine RPG · · Score: 1

    But what if the photographer did do that? Would that make the photograph somehow worse?

  14. Re:Which is why insurance needs heavy regulation on Life with a Lethal Gene · · Score: 1

    > That's true. If you're uninsurable, it's because your risk is an order of magnitude larger than everyone else's. You aren't talking about spreading risk, but rather heaping your problems on everyone else.

    So? The point of a society is that the strong look after the weak.

  15. Re:Let the flamewares begin! on Japanese Company Admits To Nuclear Cover Up · · Score: 1

    The shops that have open doors usually have a heat curtain thing.

  16. Re:"Holographic" quantum storage... on New State of Matter Boosts Quantum Computation · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can have Quantum Error Correction

  17. Re:Try again. on Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing · · Score: 1

    > I can definitely prove that hydrogen and oxygen combine in a ratio of two volumes H to 1 volume O.

    Nope. All you can show is at some specific time, at some particular place, with some particular collection of hydrogen atoms and some particular collection of oxygen atoms appear to your instruments and interpretations as combining as a ratio of two volumes H to 1 volume O.

    Likewise you can't prove the geese thing. And how do you know you're not the Queen of England, but just dreaming that you're not?

  18. Re:Competing monocultures on Microsoft Cracking Open the Door To OSS · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the intel c compiler, icc, compile most linux apps?

  19. Re:I agree with two of these... on Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    > These days, with GUI-installed Linux distributions, Linux suffers from the same problem Windows used to be derided for: services are on by default.

    Ubuntu, like almost all distros, has a policy of no public running services by default.

    I can't speak for other distros, but I'm pretty almost all of them they have similar policies.

  20. Re:Five more things... on Five Things You Can't Discuss about Linux · · Score: 1

    > How about instead of Kubuntu, we just stuck with Unbuntu, and got someone to maintain some sort of system for installing KDE

    Which is exactly what you do have. It's just that you can't really fit both gnome and kde on the same CD. So you one cd for gnome and one cd for kde.

    Once installed, there's no difference. You can apt-get install kde or apt-get install gnome etc.

  21. Diffs on Building an ODF Intranet Portal? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Store the odf's as unzipped folders. Zip it when the user downloads it, and unzip it when the user uploads it.

    You'll probably want the download/upload down via webdav. User uploads say via webdav, you notice the upload, unzip it elsewhere, and commit. Should be easy :-)

    As a slight twist, you could probably instead have the unzipping done as a pre-commit hook in svn server.

  22. Re:tossed out an airlock on NASA Fires Astronaut · · Score: 1

    A lot of astronauts have snapped. Several have severe depression and other mental illnesses

  23. Re:XML advantage on ODF Threat to Microsoft in US Governments Grows · · Score: 1

    With XML you also get xslt (so you can convert say xml from your program into open office xml), and xpath (a standard way to point to any element in the xml file), css (so you can have a way to display nicely the xml if you want to edit it visually), and all the other xml technologies.

  24. Re:Heavy databases on Microsoft Plays Up Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I somewhat step down from my position. :-)

    Like everything else, it has its uses, often abused, but can be very useful.

  25. Re:Humor? on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 1

    Everyone agrees it's worrying, and nobody has any more details. What exactly do you expect people to say in comments?