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  1. Re:Danger on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    most people speed... but most people obey the traffic signals as well.

    if the traffic signals stop rewarding speeders by making them miss a light, then the speeders will slow down.

  2. makes sense on Stoplights to Mete Out Punishment? · · Score: 1

    this removed the benefits from speeding... namely, beating a traffic light or getting somewhere on time when you are running late.

  3. Re:They're not playing fair... on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 1

    so, you can't make a cd image via itunes and then reencode the music?

    I can.

  4. Re:Can someone elaborate on... on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    I am not wrong... just because your Math skills do not give you the knowledge and tools to understand the proof that goes into proving that 0 less than 1 does not make me wrong.

    read up Analysis of the real numbers, learn the field axioms which happens to be the tools we use to prove 0 less than 1.

    don't tell someone who knows more than you that he is wrong.

  5. Re:Can someone elaborate on... on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    I am not wrong... just because your Math skills do not give you the knowledge and tools to understand the proof that goes into proving that 01 does not make me wrong.

    read up Analysis of the real numbers, learn the field axioms which happens to be the tools we use to prove 0 1.

    don't tell someone who knows more than you that he is wrong.

  6. Re:Uhh...yeah... on Downloaded Music Gets More Expensive · · Score: 1

    you dork...THE MUSIC INDUSTRY wants to RAISE THE PRICE....

    not apple.

  7. umm..excuse me but I take offence on Installing Linux on a Dead Badger · · Score: 1

    Script-kiddie != Geek.

    Script-Kiddie = loser.

  8. Re:Create vs. Verify on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    a proof that is to complex for a human to understand or verify?

    is it really a proof then? should a proof not need to be able to be human understandable and verifiable?

    could you not just break it up into lemmas?

  9. Re:Can someone elaborate on... on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    damn HTML.

    Obvious things are hardest to prove.

    prove to me that 0 is less than 1.

    that proof takes about 15 - 20 lines of crap.

    pretty long just to prove something that is so obvious.

    your a physics person aren't you.

  10. Re:Can someone elaborate on... on Are Computers Ready to Create Mathematical Proofs? · · Score: 1

    dude...obvious things are the hardest to prove.

    prove to me that 0 1

    that proof takes about 15 - 20 lines of crap just to prove that 0 1.

    your a physics student aren't you.

  11. Re:Having a lot of something is no excuse to waste on Why We Need a Second Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    damn right....what is funny is that we would be running DOS 1.0 all in L1 cache on the CPU.....

    how frigen rediculous is that!!!!

    if we had a better optimized OS, then fewer disk fetches would need to be made, fewer memory swaps, and much faster operations would be achieved.

    but then....I don't think you can get down to 64K again, but I am sure you could drop an OS down to say 500 MBs and still keep all teh eye candy we have..

  12. Re:It still on Pioneer Electron Beam DVD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you are the whiniest little bitch I have ever read...will you shut up!!! you have ben whining about solid state storage for the last 5 years!!! shut up already!!!...

    solid state is not coming ever...we will be using holographic media in the next 15 years which will be a much much higher density than anything solid state will ever give us.

  13. Re:Disagreement on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    excuse me, but no matter what, you must know what the software is going to do before you can decided how it is gonna do it(function) or how it is gonna work(form)

  14. Re:Disagreement on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    the software could do everything and wash your dishes, but if it is unusable, why use it?!?!?!

  15. Re:Yawn... same old argument on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 1

    yeah...some one better since their UI while it looks nice is really a functional NIGHTMARE when it comes to usability.

  16. Re:Disagreement on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    function before style was the mantra back in teh days of small memory, small hard drive or no hard drive, and slow CPU.

    now with mass marketing of Computers...form MUST come first, and not be an after thought.

  17. Re:Disagreement on Making Things Easy Is Hard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    all redhat is, is a network services company that brings together a bunch of free tools to a free OS and has some developers on staff to help in the development of those tools. they then sell their conglomeration as an OS while making real money off their network services business...

    the difference in how they came into that business is that they started from the software side rather than the hardware side.

  18. Re:The concept is great, but... on PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent? · · Score: 1

    easily solvable....

    if a mirror has a different parity than the their's..it is not used until it gets synced and parity is equal....

    you can also set it up so that when the main site maintainers update, that it sends a message to the mirrors and the mirrors begin updating automatically using an update protocol that give order to the machines to download so that the site does not use all its bandwidth to update a bunch of machines at once...and once the first tier of machines are updates...the next tier can begin downloading from the main site AND mirrors that have the parity check that passed, and so on.

    it is not a hard problem to solve really.

  19. cool... on PDTP - The Best of Both FTP and BitTorrent? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the guy at autopackage.org was attempting something simmilar to this but for package distrobution...it looks like with this protocol, youjust need to set up all the OSS servers with packages on them and boom...you have one huge honkin FTP site with all packages nessisary for all things...then you just ned to download a discription file and then the package manager can grab all the packages from a few PDPT gets and your done...good bye RPM hell.

  20. Re:Nautilus on Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated] · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    let me guess...your a 55 year old Mac Classic die hard that will never upgrade to OS X because your principals just don't allow it.

  21. Re:Gnome needs an install program on Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated] · · Score: 1

    what the default package managers need to do is look to apt-get and Yum sources as dependency resolution sites so when you double click, you can get the packages with out having to type anything.... or better yet....have the package creator list some servers to download the dependencies from...that makes for a more dynamic less user fuss system.

  22. Re:"simpler interface" but at what cost ? on Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated] · · Score: 1

    huh? xchat rocks....it is about as hard to learn as a MUD...try reading the verbose instructions that appear when you do something wrong.

  23. Re:"simpler interface" but at what cost ? on Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated] · · Score: 1

    well,

    1) disable the spacial version
    2)popular and ease of use are mutually exclusive and given a choice, ease of use should win
    3)I can outpace anyone with either of those modes using the terminal window....should I complain how the new feature of a GUI is a bad idea because it is not necessary for me?
    4)an expose feature should be out in time for 3.0

  24. Re:I Like Gnome on Ars Technica Looks At GNOME 2.6 [updated] · · Score: 2, Insightful

    to me...KDE while having a lot of features and tweeakables...is way to messy. Gnome on the other hand has decided to go down the road of OS X with an HIG and simpler is better and integration is paramount(and by integration I mean the tools as part of the Desktop environment, not necessarily a modular design like Kparts)

  25. Re:They'll be able to deal with it.... on Nuclear 'Asteroids' Due In A Few Hundred Years · · Score: 1

    how about sleeveless shirts and pit hair?

    that is some of the nastiest stuff you will ever see.