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  1. Re:Conquering Windows on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right, Boeing is dirt poor compared to a software comapny that makes FPS games...

  2. Re:.NET on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    I would really suggest that you go and check out the COLT libraries from CERN: > CERN Colt project

  3. Re:Outlook XP/2002? Where's Outlook 2003? on Next Generation Mail Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    So there are such huge leaps in 2003 that 2002 is not good enough...seems like I should just wait to buy till 2004, or even 2005.

    I want to know how Pine stands up!

  4. Re:Hmm, I dunno. on How To Hire Great Open Source Developers? · · Score: 1

    Might be a useful skill for email and code comments.

    Not really, since we all mispell the same words, those who are good spellers would be ostracized for having good spelling and making us all look bad. Not to mention the fact that we wouldn't understand the correct spelling of common words. Like "elite hacker", you mean l33t hax0r, right?

  5. Re:They still exist, just not in quantity. on Are Modern Games Too Easy? · · Score: 1

    Or Halo.

    I play a lot of mutliplayer Halo, and trying to do the one-player one Legendary is frickin' hard. I think I maybe made it to the second level once. Even on Heroic the gameplay is excellent, when you have two groups of aliens killing each other, then trying to kill you...a truly great game.

  6. Re:Define: on Favorite Hidden Google Features? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The best is "santorum", which was an effort on the part of lots of Savage Love readers to defile the name of Senator Rick Santorum.

  7. Can someone explain it all to me? on Mono 0.30 Released · · Score: 2
    So I just downloaded and built the CVS version of mono using their linux script. It seemed to work out well, but now I don't know how to do anything. Here are the programs I have at my disposal:
    • mint
    • mono
    • monodis
    • monograph
    • monosn
    • pedump
    • mcs

    Now, I know that mcs is the compiler. I know that mono and mint run things ( but I don't know what the difference is ). I have no idea about the rest. I also don't know how to set up my "classpath". I am quite experienced in Java, but I am not sure how to go about using mono. Any hints would be welcome.

    The ultimate goal is to get Piccolo.NET to run. Since I use the regular Java Piccolo all the time.
  8. Re:Why Generics? on Hejlsberg Talk About Generics in C# and Java · · Score: 1
    I think so, I believe that you can now say:
    List<double> dList = new List<double>;
    dList.add( 42 );
    double value = dlist.get(0);
  9. Re:Nothing's changed here... on Hejlsberg Talk About Generics in C# and Java · · Score: 1

    I don't think that it makes List into int[]... since it sounds like you can put whatever into List, which means that you could have a subclass of int.

    The impression I got was that autoboxing was not necessary because everything is always boxed ( i.e they have no primitves in C# ).

    Please correct me if I'm wrong.

  10. Re:Roundabouts. on Gridlock Expert Takes On Sim City Streets · · Score: 1

    So they put in a roundabout in my home town of bainbridge island wa, everyone loves it, my mom goes out of her way to go through it. It helped immensly.

  11. Re:Well how can they safeguard against this? on Student Fights University Over Plagiarism-Detector · · Score: 1

    One day he had to bring someone into his room to tell them that in future, it wasn't advisable to plagiarise from his own book and hand it right back into him, because he could recognise his own style!

    This is perfectly acceptable. However, if a student goes to the trouble of digging up a really good source that even the prof doesn't know about...then maybe that student should get some credit for doing the research...

  12. Re:Wish you luck. on Building The Ideal Geek Gaming Center? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the best way to solve this problem is to have a set "LAN party room". Have a server in the room with all your ROM images, but now outside connection. People could BYO or use yours, and rent the room for a day ( $100-300, make it $10-20 per player ) plus a discount on food ( $1 hot dogs, like they had at the LOTR trilogy would get scarfed like nobody's business ).

    Make sure that the room has dividers so that teams can talk strategy, and have someone come in once an hour to pick up the trash.

  13. Re:2004 - the solution !! on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    Arnold being born a non-native makes this impossible. Go read the constitution sometime ( or at least the GPL ;) )

  14. Re:It's got to make up a lot of ground on iRiver Announces 40G Player & Previews 2004 Line · · Score: 1

    So that means that if the ~1,000,000 /.ers buy one it will have sold half as many as the iPod....

  15. Re:Office monopoly will begin to crack on More Linux Predictions for 2004 · · Score: 1

    Name one person you know who has installed these.

  16. Re:KDE is not to be ignored on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1

    I am sure that I could easily up her "productivity" without the use of electronic aids. Unlike some people around here.....

    that was meant as a general insult, more directed to my roomate than any particular poster

  17. Re:No one does CAD in their spare time. on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    Under the GPL you only have to release code to someone if they buy your product. RedHat has spolied us. So, one you have the code you can keep releasing it yourself, but someone had to pay at some time. But it is still OpenSource just not really "free".

  18. Re:problem 'interview' link on Interview with Peter Jackson on LoTR Bloopers · · Score: 1

    same set up, but e16.6. No problem.

  19. Re:Just an organizational change? on Microsoft's New Core OS Team Learning from Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would say that "/" is the middle name of GNU/Linux.

  20. Re:No one does CAD in their spare time. on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    no, FreeSoftware means free. OpenSource does not imply open to all.

  21. Re:No one does CAD in their spare time. on Myths About Open Source Development · · Score: 1

    Opensource does not mean free. His company could give hime the source, let him fix it if he wants to, and he would probably sign an NDA to do it.

  22. Re:Problems on The Opening of Biotech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget that while someone may have 20-30 articles, what matters is how often they are referenced. That way the impact that you have has a measurable quantity.

  23. Re:Mapping engine status: Stalled on Latest Maps of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Go look at the H3 viewer here. This is the definitive work in this area. Tamara is now at UBC, I talked to her at a conference, she's cool.

  24. Re:Linus?!? on OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign · · Score: 2, Informative

    Linus would be the Penguin with the flask, aka Fux, Andrew Morton would be with tbe briefcase, aka Bux.

  25. Re:Name Change on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    No, no,
    in San Francisco everyone knows its "Pitcher" and "Catcher".

    The best part is that these could be used since they are baseball terms as well as butt-sex terms.