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  1. Re:SIgned ints for cash on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 1

    Similarly in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, you can get an obscenely high score by exploiting negative integer overflow in (i think) adventure mode.

  2. Re:Old School on Tools For Understanding Code? · · Score: 1

    this is modded funny, but don't underestimate the benefits of a printout. If nothing else it gives you a break from staring at the screen and you can write on it.

  3. Re:About as good as non free can be. on Leopard Early Adopters Suffer For The Rest of Us · · Score: 1

    Binary blobs and associated problems are well explained here.
    Ah thanks. I'll check that out right after a quick trip to the ATM machine.
  4. Re:binary on Brains Hard-Wired for Math · · Score: 1

    That's almost unary except zero would be represented by no digits, not '0'. I applaud you on your invention of your own number system.

  5. Re:Just imagine on GMOs Perfected Down to the Chromosome Level · · Score: 1

    Mmmm tomacco.

  6. Re:Mayan Calender on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 1

    doesn't that imply a time-like dimension of meta-time? If time "was" time-like and is "now" space-like.

  7. Re:Mayan Calender on Time Dimension To Become Space-like · · Score: 1

    If at t=2 I walk back to t=0 am I now trapped there? (Until I get to t=1 again naturally I guess...)

  8. Re:Misleading summary on Thinking about Rails? Think Again · · Score: 1

    When I think about it, I don't even know one scripting language which has proper kernel threads support.
    Ruby and Python.
  9. Re:Mainstream Media on The Gradual Public Awareness of the Might of Algorithms · · Score: 1

    It scares me how plausible that sounds.

  10. Re:DX != OGL on DirectX 10 Hardware Is Now Obsolete · · Score: 1

    Yeah but how do you choose?

  11. Re:If only... on Judge Permits eBay's "Buy It Now" Feature · · Score: 1

    Why would a patent troll go after a "lowly (non-rich) individual" anyway?

  12. Re:Other reviews on Walt Mossberg Reviews the iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah yes observing the passenger's body language definitely increases the safety factor :)

  13. Re:1800's logic though that travelling100MPH=death on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Never tell me the odds!

  14. Re:Nice, but go renewable... on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    I really hope the E in ICE doesn't stand for "engine".

  15. Re:how about ... on Migrate a MySQL Database Preserving Special Characters · · Score: 1

    But why? No, I changed my mind I don't want to know.

  16. Re:in which a 20-year Word vet learns about ctrl-z on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: 1

    I never had the oppurtunity to use the super-productive tool of punch cards. Plus the productivity isn't the issue here, its the common shortcuts in applications.

  17. Re:in which a 20-year Word vet learns about ctrl-z on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: 1

    It's u in vi. Also in almost any terminal based app, Ctrl-Z is suspend, not undo.

  18. Re:WHS on Microsoft Pressures Testers After Software Leak · · Score: 1

    Just fyi, 1 is rsync. I don't know of equivalents for the other features off the top of my head.

  19. Re:How about a link to the downloadable videos? on Novell/Linux Parody on Apple's Mac vs PC Ads · · Score: 1

    If you are referring to the middle button pates the selection thing, that works in X11 on a Mac. Just don't use any Aqua apps ;)

  20. Re:right.... on DIY Laptop · · Score: 1

    $50 FPGA? Is that only if you buy in monstrous bulk, or can I get just one? (If I can get just one for 50$ that would be _sweet_. Hardware lisp interpreter here I come...)

  21. Re:some info on homebrew on January DS Homebrew Overview · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. It appears it doesn't matter anymore what firmware you have? (If it did I should be ok, I have a fat DS from launch day in the US).

  22. Re:some info on homebrew on January DS Homebrew Overview · · Score: 1

    Did Mario Kart update the firmware, or do you just mean DSes produced before Mario Kart came out?

  23. Re:some info on homebrew on January DS Homebrew Overview · · Score: 1

    You can bypass the health and safety screen? Holy crap that really is worth it just to get rid of that annoying thing.

  24. Re:This won't work... on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Where enhancement = simplification.

  25. I ran into this on Managing Mail Between a Desktop and a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    First I was going to setup a local IMAP server on my desktop, and do it like that. Then I decided to just ssh and execute mutt remotely. No syncing necessary as its all in one place. Just another alternative suggestion. (I also thought about an NFS mounted maildir as an alternative to full blown IMAP, but that seemed kind of silly).