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  1. Re:4 Lines? Bleh... on The Universe in 4 Lines of Code? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why? What is wrong with syntactically significant whitespace? I've heard many people say it's so bad, but nobody has ever told me why it's bad, other than that it's different and therefore they don't like it.

  2. Re:4 Lines? Bleh... on The Universe in 4 Lines of Code? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It could also be done in 6 lines of very readable Python code. *ducks*

  3. Re:Nothing to do with "Terror" on Zeppelins on Patrol? · · Score: 2

    Someone would have to write the code to change it to '+1, Paranoid' for security-related topics...

  4. Re:It's worse than that on Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation · · Score: 2

    Touché

  5. Re:It's worse than that on Bringing Tech to Market: The Rules of Innovation · · Score: 2
    Hmm... Yes, it does. Heh. And I guess the incumbent is BSD...

    So maybe BSD really is dying!

  6. Re:Three Heads on Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card · · Score: 2

    Not when Hercules was 2/3 done with it!

  7. Re:Much needed info... on Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card · · Score: 2

    Have a look at QuietPC. I bought a PSU and an Athlon CPU fan from them, and *what a difference*. During the day, you can't even tell if the computer is on, since everything else in the house is louder.

  8. Re:Free Software Driver ? on Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card · · Score: 2

    X apps should never crash X. If they do, it's either an X problem or a driver problem.

  9. Re:Free Software Driver ? on Matrox's New Three-Head Video Card · · Score: 2
    With source ? Only with the same kind of sources than nVidia ... some wrapper code, and a big chunk of pre-compiled library (binary only!) ...

    I don't use the HAL, and dual-head and DRI-3D still work fine. In fact, I don't remember what the HAL does that everything else doesn't.

  10. Re:Consulting an attorney earlier... on How bnetd Developers Reverse Engineered Battle.net · · Score: 1

    How?

  11. Re:Processor toaster? on Design Your Very Own Microprocessor · · Score: 2
    Bah. HTML entities...

    pong {}

  12. Re:Processor toaster? on Design Your Very Own Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    pong = {}

  13. Re:Processor toaster? on Design Your Very Own Microprocessor · · Score: 2
    And don't even get me started on stability...

    Is this really the processor's fault? I was always under the impression that it was the cheap VIA motherboards that caused this.

  14. Re:LGPL. on Two Helpings of WINE · · Score: 2
    gpl and gpl stuff cannot link to closed binaries i believe.

    Nope. Please read the GPL and the LGPL before commenting on the issues surrounding them.

  15. Re:Prevention measures on The Story of "Nadine" · · Score: 3, Informative

    The whole idea of confirmed opt-in isn't to confirm *if* there is an address on the other end, but to confirm that the recipient is really the one who signed up. The "web bug" you propose doesn't address that problem.

  16. Misconception...again on MAPS vs. Gordon Feyck: Who Owns the DUL? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Incidentally, the DUL is currently stopping CmdrTaco from directly emailing one of the Slash coders.

    Sigh. No it's not. (How many times does this need to be said.) The mail server CmdrTaco is trying to email is stopping him. The DUL is just a listing; it does no blocking.

  17. Re:Unless they're morons.... on Megaspammer Monsterhut Loses On Appeal · · Score: 2
    I'd have brought up a nice real-time traffic graph projected onto a large wall...

    >clickety click<

    Let the festivities begin!

  18. Re:Woody is already great, will be even better on Debian May 1 Release Delayed · · Score: 2

    Debian takes a while to get it set up how you want it, but once it's set up, it's great to work with.

  19. Re:Marketing Eats Support on Tech Support Getting Even Worse · · Score: 2

    I think the poster was talking about thick *Quebec* accents.

  20. Re:The Soviet Union was Good on MS Exec Testifies In Favor of OS Manipulation · · Score: 2

    You almost have a point there. I mean, think of the absolutely worst-case scanario for the computing industry, then think of where it is because of Microsoft and where it probably would go because of Microsoft... I don't see much difference.

  21. Re:Capitalism... on MS Exec Testifies In Favor of OS Manipulation · · Score: 2
    Have you actually done a TCO evaluation? I have.

    Do you think there might be some way you can have that evaluation published (on the web or otherwise)? I would really like to get my hands on something like that.

  22. Re:Two forms of piracy... on RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police · · Score: 2

    s/but selling those for a profit/misrepresenting those as the real thing/

  23. Re:ATI on Hardware Manufacturers that Actively Support Linux? · · Score: 2

    ATI only releases a portion of the specs to a small group of developers who have signed an NDA.

    It's a click-through NDA that anyone can get (unless there's some OTHER NDA that you're talking about). I got the access to the specs in about a week after I registered.

  24. Re:NVidia's closed source drivers cause problems on Hardware Manufacturers that Actively Support Linux? · · Score: 2

    Don't get a G550 (or probably a G450, for that matter) -- the drivers are much crappier (from my perspective, they weren't too much better than nVidia's drivers).

  25. Re:ATI on Hardware Manufacturers that Actively Support Linux? · · Score: 2

    The delay is still there. You just get a white screen, rather than a white screen with "NVIDIA" on it.