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  1. Re:Christ... on Judge Invalidates 13 Motorola Patent Claims Against Microsoft · · Score: 1

    doesn't describe how you might actually go about doing the encoding or decoding.

    In his order, Judge Robart specifically points out that the patent describes how to do the encoding but not the decoding.

  2. To answer the original question on Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? · · Score: 1

    The answer is no, you're not limited to the set of OS versions on the page you linked to. That page just lists the OS versions where you put the /PAE switch into boot.ini. Later versions support PAE just as well, but have a different configuration mechanism to enable it. Details are available from the page you linked to.

  3. Re:GameMaker? on Gamestar Mechanic Teaches Kids to Write Their Own Computer Games (Video) · · Score: 1

    One of the big differences is the "quests", which not only teach you about using the tool, but more importantly teach you about game design (or at least level design) and how to make your game interesting/fun. The free quest covers things like setting goals for the players and using space in the levels to control difficulty.

    I've only gone through the free quest. It was interesting, and I'm interested in seeing more, but I wasn't interested in paying a monthly fee. If there was a one-time, reasonable cost for the premium content instead, I'd probably go for it.

    The site claims that more free content is coming, but I've been watching for more than a year and haven't seen any new free quests yet.

  4. Another shortcoming on Book Review: Java Performance · · Score: 1

    I just started reading this book, based on the review, and it looks like it'll be worthwhile.

    However, in the first chapter, in the section titled Choosing the Right Platform and Evaluating a System (which really just focuses on how the newer Sun Sparc processors differ from other multi-core, multi-threaded processors), they manage to repeat themselves four or five times, using almost the same words each time.

    I'm hopeful that this is an isolated case and not something that happens throughout the book. The earlier parts of that first chapter didn't have the same issue.

  5. Re:Age is of less importance than you think on Controllers for Kids? · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. Is there evidence that kids really have any trouble with standard controllers?

    My son is nine now, and I don't think any controller out there would be a problem. He's been playing games forever, and I can't think of any controller that's given him trouble. If a kid is interested in playing, he'll make the controllers work for him.

  6. Re:Is it me or is this article not exactly useful? on A Newbie's Guide To A Lo-Fat Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find hardly any sites with really useful information for running Linux on machines as old as a 386. The two I do know of are Stephen Darnold's at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/, and my own at http://www.cei.net/~rreed/linux.html

    Stephen's is the more useful site.