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  1. Re:hmm.. decomposing fiber on Twin Robots Scope Out Titanic, Europa Next? · · Score: 1

    Decomposing fiber? I guess that explains my network problems. AAARGGHH!!! I was tracking connection problems for days. And now you tell me there is decomposing fiber.

  2. Re:Why bother running GAMES under Linux on O'Reilly Showcases PS2 Linux Gear · · Score: 1
    With this kit a small operation can start creating a game, get far enough to prove to investors that they have a good product underway, get more money, get the real develloper kit, finish the game, release the game, get rich.

    Hey, I didn't notice it was that easy. Seriously though I guess the amount of small teams getting money for their development through programming a pre-version with this kit which they couldn't have gotten writing a pre-version on just any platform is zero.
    Or am I wrong in my impression of what this ps2gl thing is - an opengl version that is layered ontop of ps2 specific graphics functionality? So what you do is show off your opengl skills not your ps2 skills. And you could do that just as well on a pc. No console required.
  3. Re:Classical measures of productivity on It's Not About Lines of Code · · Score: 1
    It's hard to look at an unfinished piece of software and know how it's coming along, but it's easy to look at a painting or a statue that's in progress and see work being done.
    If you solve rubik's cube by one popular approach you finish the first two rows (layers) first. The cube looks two-thirds finished. When continuing you go through a long pattern of turns that completely destroys the previously seen progress. At the end of these steps the final result suddenly appears and all the colors are in order.
    Sometimes in a project there are series of days in which no progress can be reported that is visible to a watcher outside. I think of that as these steps during solving rubik's cube.
  4. Re:ID papers for implants on Airport Security vs. Cyborg Steve Mann · · Score: 1

    For a moment you had me thinking about what mental implants are.

  5. Re:I'm responding to a troll. Shoot me now. on XS4ALL Wins Anti-Spam Suit · · Score: 1
    I propose a simple and effective email charge system, where bulk mailers are FORCED to pay an appropriate amount in order to mail to a few thousand, tens of thousand, etc people.
    Which bulk mailers will be forced how and by whom to comply with this?
    Make providers charge per application layer "artefacts" and not per volume independent of its semantics. Charge per email, per HTML page, per whatever and not per bit transferred.
  6. Re:the bad guy is always a german... on To The Pain · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I have also noticed that us Germans are considered second rate in evildom lately. But don't laugh just yet, Englishman! We already refuse to eat your meat and won't give you our shiny new currency which is much better than yours because it's named after a continent and not a obsolete weight unit! Also the French like us better than you. Go figure! We have this PLAN, you know!
    > In the UK we usually cast Americans as Gung-ho > idiots with Germans as the bas guys and the > British (stiff upper lip and all that) as the > heroes....
    In Germany we don't cast for movies. We dub American movies. We never figured out though how to give people a German accent when everyone is already talking German.

  7. The offline popuulation... on Online Population now Half Billion · · Score: 1

    ...is 6 billion. The online population is 5. billion. Studies show the intersection to be less than .5 billion.
    Slashdot community finally proven to exist. No news at eleven. Online population dont't care enough.