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  1. Re:The mandatory pr0n reference on Google's new toys · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be even better if they made an equivalent viewer for images.google.com.

  2. Re:good thing on Tim O'Reilly Says Piracy is Progressive Taxation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're right, but this, of course, depends on the artist in question. I'm pretty sure Janis Joplin or Jim Morrison would love if everyone copied their music. I'm pretty sure James Hetfield would "seek and destroy" me for not paying him.

  3. Obvious on Tim O'Reilly Says Piracy is Progressive Taxation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course piracy doesn't hurt book publishers. How many writers work in the sea? Pirates only rob ships, you know.

  4. Similar experience on Keyboarding Love Or Keyboarding Pain · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't lift weights, but I'm a martial artist. When you train with weapons (nunchaku, jo and sword in my case), your wrists need to get stronger. After some weeks of nunchaku training my wrist pain stopped.

    So, if you don't like to lift weights, try training some traditional martial arts.

  5. Atmosphere on RPG Codex - Articles On Video Game Design · · Score: 1

    The key feature, for me, is atmosphere. The best games are those that makes you feel inside the game, such as Chrono Trigger, Valkyrie Profile or Nethack.

  6. Re:Alpha? on End In Sight For Alpha · · Score: 1

    Then in afterlife I'll have Alphas with NetBSD? I can't wait.

  7. MSA on The Poetry Of Programming · · Score: 1

    "So, the idea behind the MFA in software is that if we want to get good at writing software, we have to practice it, we have to have a critical literature, and we have to have a critical context. It looks like we may be able to start a program like that in the next year or so at a major university that I'm not free to name. It's probably going to be called a Master of Software Arts."

    I want that title.

  8. CLI on Week-Long Free-Software Class for Kids? · · Score: 1

    I strongly believe you should teach CLI first. I was amazed to discover how much a kid can think when learning CLIs. And GUIs are inconsistent and not always there; if they know how to move a file using "mv", they will know how to do it in any Unix box.

  9. Re:Geeky on Terra Soft Reveals Linux/PPC Hardware Solution · · Score: 1

    I've been studying that in university for a year and half now :-) . Every CS course should teach it.

  10. Geeky on Terra Soft Reveals Linux/PPC Hardware Solution · · Score: 1

    As both our companies (TSS + Mai) are strong proponents of the Linux community, we are eager to provide specs and support in order to gain reciprocal support of the Linux community and quickly advance support for as many cards as is possible.
    (...)
    We will encourage the Linux do-it-yourself tradition by empowering individuals to seek and discover solutions to the best of their ability before we assist them directly.

    I like this!
    With the x86 hegemony and the growth of "you-don't-need-to-know-how-this-thing-works" hardware, I find this one refreshing. If someone made something like this using MIPS architeture, I'd buy it for sure.

  11. Not so bad on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1

    What is so bad about people receiving some of those?

    Spam!

  12. And? on Legodeath - Twisted Lego Constructs · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is so scary or funny at all.There's only one picture and it looks like a blue puzzle piece, not a lego block.

  13. Re:What about: Kirin on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer Time Lord, thank you.

    (If you don't get it, go play SaGa Frontier for a while).

  14. Salamander on Phoenix To Change Name · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Salamander is a very good name. It's a mythological creature related to fire, like Phoenix, and it's a lizard, like Mozilla.
    I hope that, if they change the name, they use this one.

  15. Re: What did you see old man? on Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed · · Score: 1

    It's "gojira", your insensitive clod.

  16. Re:And how... on eDimensional Wired 3D Glasses Review · · Score: 2, Funny

    The 3D yellow 'c' that haunts me in my dreams will come true...

  17. Re:Password generation on Internet Site Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    I like to take the initials of a sentence. For example,
    "I like to take the initials of a sentence" -> "iltttioas"

    You can do things like alternate case and add symbols before/after.

  18. Re:Valkyrie Profile shall be engraved upon your so on Square To Merge With Enix · · Score: 1

    I should add that the character voices are great. The battle cries are heroic and passionated.

  19. Don't know what to think about on Square To Merge With Enix · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a longtime console RPG gamer, I don't know what to expect from this merge. Will they make good, fun games like Chrono Trigger? Will they kill competition with big eye-candy 3D RPGs with no plot at all?

    Well, I don't have money for a modern console anyway.

  20. Re:Disappointing on An Overview of the Boa Web Server · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's called "freedom of choice".

  21. Re:A bit of fuzzy logic on Another Critical Microsoft Hole · · Score: 1

    Fuzzy logic is the theory that statements aren't always 100% true or 100% false - they can have an infinite continuous range of values between 0 and 100. You are talking about fuzzy sets, an interesting field of fuzzy theory that deals with sets where elements can belong partially to a group (for example, I belong to the "fuzzy theory students" group more than you, and you more than my mom).

    "Don't trust me" is a paradox in traditional logic, but it is a common example of fuzzy statement. It is a 50% true statement, so that it is the same as it's opposite.

  22. Re:Since when did creating life become so simple? on Scientists Attempting to Create Simple Life Form · · Score: 1

    It seems you don't know what you're talking about.

    Buddha never claimed to be anything more than a man. And he deliberatery avoided discussing about things like the creation of life or the afterlife. Buddhism is based in a "what's important is here and now" philosophy.

  23. Re:Why THIS bacterium?! on Scientists Attempting to Create Simple Life Form · · Score: 1

    Science without risk isn't any fun.

  24. A bit of fuzzy logic on Another Critical Microsoft Hole · · Score: 4, Funny

    So Microsoft says to not trust them. Ok, I will not trust. But then I don't believe in this request. So I should trust MS. Ok, I'll trust'em. But then the request is true, and I should not trust...

  25. Nothing. on picoGUI: An X Alternative? · · Score: 1

    Look here. It can run zsnes. I can play Final Fantasy VI. What else do you need?