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  1. Re:Sounds like people need to fix thier names on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 5, Funny

    homonyms?

    Hey, learn a little tolerance, bud.

  2. Re:Ibex 8.10 Cloned on Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned · · Score: 1

    Of course he does, that's kinda why he started it in the first place. ;)

    The more cloning of the Ibex, the better!

  3. Re:Automated Telephone Systems on A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And as for those "image transformers," they're around too, but not so widespread, and they're at the will of the video sender, not the receiver.

    http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/04/logitech_quickcam_orbit_mp_1.html

  4. Re:Study Abroad FTW on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 1

    I went to foreign campuses of my US-based university. Actually, I started/completed my schooling entirely overseas, so while I could have gone to school in the US, I elected to do it all abroad.

    If you live in the States, that's probably the best course of action; go to a US school that has good international transfer options.

  5. Study Abroad FTW on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I went to Australia and Japan for grad school, can't recommend it highly enough. Not only was my program great, but the international experience is invaluable. You owe it to yourself to spend at least a year studying abroad, whether it adds to your technical degree or not.

  6. Re:Need clarification on Why We Need Unlicensed White-Space Broadband Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it's because you're double posting. Or maybe, like Chyeld said, you're just spouting useless drivel.

  7. Re:So you still cant bitch about being rejected? on Apple Drops Part of iPhone Developer NDA · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is that really so hard to understand?

    Any piece of code that elucidates Cocoa Touch/iPhone OS functionality couldn't be disclosed, because Cocoa Touch/iPhone OS was under the FNDA. It may be the developers' code, but it can speak volumes about the structure of the iPhone SDK.

    Now, the only code you can't distribute is code that uses new features in prerelease versions of the OS/SDK.

  8. Re:Very telling Slashdot editor on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 1

    lol

  9. Re:Very telling Slashdot editor on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 1

    You are voting for a candidate who believes that Sarah Palin is qualified to fill his shoes. Just sayin'.

  10. Re:This reminds me of a joke... on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you just call Ballmer a pig?!

  11. LittleBigPlanet went gold! on LittleBigPlanet Goes Gold, Trophies Leaked · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Great! I can't wait to not play it!

  12. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    Mod parent funny, plz thx.

  13. Re:Apple Design Awards on Apple Rejects iPhone App As Competitive To iTunes · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I have to say I think it'd be a pretty big sign if all the good devs abstained and some worthless shovelware/nibware like I Am Rich gets "Best iPhone App." Apple does not want that to happen, I assure you.

  14. Apple Design Awards on Apple Rejects iPhone App As Competitive To iTunes · · Score: 4, Informative

    So, hopefully iPhone devs do something about it. Ars's John Siracusa proposes boycotting the iPhone category at the Apple Design Awards. Makes sense to me; like he says, it'll cause a blemish on Apple's reputation without damaging the pocketbooks of those devs who have invested in this platform. (And for Chrissake, yes it's a platform, just a badly restricted one at the moment.)

  15. Re:FASA Ensemble Bungie Hired Gun on Microsoft To Close Halo Wars Studio · · Score: 1

    >H A L O

    Hi, you misspelled Halo. Not sure why.

  16. Realtime LHC Data on LHC Success! · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com

  17. Re:You use this word, 'gambit...' on Can You Build a Fiber Test Kit On a Budget? · · Score: 1

    intensive purposes? do you mean intents and purposes?

    O <---- Joke

    ~=~ <----Earth's Atmosphere

    X <-----Your head

  18. You use this word, 'gambit...' on Can You Build a Fiber Test Kit On a Budget? · · Score: 4, Informative

    "running the gambit" I don't think it means what you think it means.

  19. Same Song, Different Verse on Amazon Payment Systems Take On PayPal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Auction giant eBay, which owns PayPal, has prevented consumers from using the Google system.

    So, thank goodness Amazon has released a system, so that eBay will not use it too.

  20. Re:Probably the same thing! on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Implode, be incinerated, be eviscerated, bleed to death, slowly fall apart from radiation, and gasp desperately for a few more breaths of air, ultimately surrendering.

    ...And then become a worldwide cultural phenomenon for animation and video games?

  21. Re:It shouldn't be... on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    "There's nothing about being "an embedded OS" that should make it any more or less stable." Embedded OSes are engineered towards a specific tasks. General OSes have many, many libraries in order to run any program you throw at it. In a nutshell, embedded OSes run less code, and the code they do run is higher-priority, and thusly more likely to be robust. This is why the previous discussion on Windows in embedded usecases is relevant; ~650MB of operating system isn't necessary to run ATMs, photo kiosks, elevators and the like. Your stripped down OpenBSD is essentially a custom version of OpenBSD for embedded use cases. (My captcha was "simplify." :)

  22. Obligatory Penny Arcade on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 2, Informative
  23. Re:Estoppel on RIAA's Throwing In the Towel Covered a Sucker Punch · · Score: 1

    It depends on jurisdiction. I did pretty bad in Civil Procedure, and don't have my FRCP in front of me, but in Federal Court (which I don't even know if theyre in since I didn't RTFA), you get 2 bites at the apple. You can voluntarily remove yourself once, then refile and I think if there's a procedural problem, you can also remove and refile. Don't quote me on all that though.
  24. Re:Why take a snapshot? on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 2, Informative

    Command+Shift+Ctrl+3 copies to the clipboard.

    Also, Command+Shift[+Ctrl]+4 gives you a reticle to do a rectangular selection before copying to the desktop/clipboard.

  25. Re:ok, how about the technology? on Prototyping 50 Games in One Semester · · Score: 1

    The project later released an experimental gameplay framework to help in your rapid prototyping, consisting of many of the tools they built during the project itself. It's slashdotted now, so here's the Google cache for immediate satisfaction.