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  1. Viewtiful Joe on Anatomy Of 2D Side-Scroller Lecturer Picks Favorites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    on the GC

    It really is great
    Quite hard but very rewarding
    Lots of Cool moves
    Great cutscenes
    Stylish cellshaded graphics.

    Best platformer on the GC, no doubt about it.
    I also have a fond memory of supermarioland on the GB but it also was one of my first games so I might be biased :)

  2. Re:RFID in the UK on RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oyster (and Navigo in France) does not use RFID proper. They use RFID-style technology (i.e. electromagnetic signals ).
    There is certainly people who will build custom solution based on RF tech everywhere provided you pay the price. But it seems harder to find RFID standards based providers :( (not that I like RFID)

  3. Re:Europa is already highly radioactive! on Melting Europa · · Score: 1

    Europe is surely very radioactive in surface but water (and so ice) can stop radiation quite effectively (see your local nuclear reactor) so the submiter statement could be true nonetheless ...

    I agree that we should always be very careful with our examination of unknown territories but i'm sure the NASA is doing its best (right ?)

  4. Re:Question... on Turbo Codes Promise Better Wireless Transmission · · Score: 1

    Yep you're right :)

    Maybe there is a problem with the latency or the processing power required. It could not be used in UMTS for voice communication because latency would have been too big (see the article).

    Surely it will be used as soon as it becomes cheap to do so for the operators :)

  5. Re:Question... on Turbo Codes Promise Better Wireless Transmission · · Score: 1

    I suppose there are too few errors in wire transmission to justify the extra complexity and latency of these codes.

  6. Re:name change suggestion... on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 1

    I think you mean :

    YINX : YINX Is Not Xwindows

    really recursive in the GNU fashion this way :)

  7. Re:Not to mention... on Rexx for Everyone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the kde world DCOP goes a long way toward providing this very powerful although easy to use app-scripting environnement. Almost all KDE Apps have a useful DCOP interface.

    If think AppleScript is good too in the Mac-world (never tried this one)

  8. Re:Namespaces on Who Needs Case-Sensitivity in Java? · · Score: 1

    If you are using eclipse, it will reformat your code so it doesn't expand over X columns. If you want X=500 that's fine with me (I prefer 120) :)

  9. Re:Namespaces on Who Needs Case-Sensitivity in Java? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Concerning the long variable and the difficulty of writing mathematical code with those. I heavily suggest making use of the refactoring features of your IDE of choice (eclipse hopefully) to rename variables. This way you can write your code with small and obscure variable name and when your code is working you just have to rename your variables to something meaningful :)

  10. I'd like to be optimist but ... on Record Labels May Have to Pay Double Royalties · · Score: 1

    I think that they will just charge the customer more. Or maybe they will just cancel the price reduction some labels granted us.

    I see it coming :
    Too bad but, see these greedy artists they want more of your money ! it's not our fault

  11. Re:Would like to see... on Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages · · Score: 1

    Actually using an intermediate language helps optimisation. The fact that gcc uses an intermediary language has nothing to do with the fact that it might be slower than some proprietary compilers on specific platforms.
    This just means that the backend for this platform or the frontend for this language is not as good as the proprietary version. This might be caused by software patents on some optimisation algorithm that are known to gcc developpers but can't be used :(.

  12. No Women on Gaming Cafe Scene In Iraq Illustrated · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The reason there is no women is the same as in the rest of the world :)
    Women aren't much into gaming is it ?

  13. Re:Wheat Thins on Apple Users Threaten to Sue Over iBook, iPod · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just a little precision : Applecare for iPod extends the 1-year warranty to 2-year not 3.

  14. Re:What's with extra commercials anyway? on The State of Automated Commercial Skipping · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's so pricey nowadays that requires so many advertisements constantly?

    Shareholders ?

  15. Re:Alternative Toolkits on Trolltech Discontinue Non-Commercial Qt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Agreed that SWT is a great toolkit but VEP (which is the visual editor you mention I think) doesn't do SWT yet. For the moment it's Swing/AWT only.
    However it's on their roadmap to add SWT support.

  16. Re:Yes, that David Turner on LGPL is Viral for Java · · Score: 1

    Does this mean we can't obfuscate the java bytecode to prevent decompilation ?

    Or does this just mean that the proprietary software using the LGPL library must not forbid modifications of itself to its user (as fair use) but it does not need to make them easy.

  17. What is it ? on Struts 1.1 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    In simple terms

  18. Re:Think Different, Think Nirvana on Apple Wooing Smaller Labels · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this article from The Register, Apple is giving 65 cents out of the 99 cents to the music industry so effectively they look already thin on margin.

  19. Somebody understood something ? on Sun to Add Variance to Java in 1.5? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I did not but I would be interested to learn (I know what generics are but not variance)

    Thanks

  20. Some precisions on SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates* · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In fact the re-observations happened a long time ago (in March i believe) but the scientists are preparing the data to analysed by the SETI@Home program. Apparently it is quite a hard task as they used different instruments than for their usual data.

    Last SETI Update : 21/05/2003

  21. Re:How do two people with C/R communicate? on Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    > How do two people with challenge and response communicate?
    > If the challenge always gets thrugh, then the spammer will just issue cahllenges as spam.
    > If they don't get through, then you would have a nasty mail loop.

    In TMDA (a challenge response system in python) at least, when you send a email to somebody, they don't get a challenge when they answer. It's logical because if you send him an email, you know he will not spam you :)
    So i assume earthlink system will act the same.

  22. Re:prelink on Optimizing KDE 3.1.x · · Score: 1

    Yes it seems so.

    Thanks for the information !

  23. Re:prelink on Optimizing KDE 3.1.x · · Score: 4, Informative

    Prelink is not useful anymore provided you use a recent glibc (>= 2.3) ...

    This is done automatically by the libc and the dynamic linker.

  24. Re:IIS wiped out, irrelevant... on Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows · · Score: 1

    That was maybe two years ago but i still get a code red or nimda attack on my apache every 10 minutes !

  25. Check out Morphix ! on Knoppix 3.2 Available · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Knoppix is great but it's quite monolithic. Morphix is Knoppix-based (with the same great hardware detection) but it is based on modules so you can customize your ISO very easily. For exemple there is a Gnome module, A KDE module, A light GUI module (with ICEwm) and so forth ...

    It's also nice because it's a clean Debian unstable whereas Knoppix was (i don't know about 3.2) based on a mix of stable/unstable packages.