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  1. Re:Trust (was Re:Plane OS) on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    I don't place my trust in such things. If God wants me to do it, I do it...Physical 'reality' merely the stage for his will against the corruption he placed this world into.

  2. Re:Plane OS on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    I would have guessed the pilots relying on sensors that tell them where important points of reference are.

  3. Re:Plane OS on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    I really don't know about the plane OS situation to say if I'd get on a plane flown by Linux, and the question is worded vaguely enough that I'd venture that I'd prefer a plane flown by human pilots over any OS, on account of the fact that I'm not sure that the A.I. is mature enough.

    And I figure that most people are in the same boat.

  4. Shared memory? on Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate · · Score: 1

    So how does giving each program its own memory space, but having chunks of memory mapped into multiple memory spaces fit into the scheme of things? I'm confused!

  5. Re:"Uncanny Valley" on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 1

    That's just it. The valley is different for each and every one of us. Final Fantasy: The spirits within doesn't bug me for it's shortcomings as much as it does others, for example. We all have different areas which we value and recognize as uniquely human that we slight others for when we find them missing. I took this nick because I could relate to Gadget even more than I could relate to the people around me. That still holds true. At this time I am reminded of the story where each of the two robots in a room decide that the other is the most human. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%94That_Thou_ar t_Mindful_of_Him

  6. Re:Who cares... on Kevin Carmony Responds to Criticism · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gundam Wing expresses it nicely:
    From a historical point of view, warriors who have lost what they were protecting and were further betrayed by those they were protecting are losers. But they do not recognize themselves as such. Not only that, but they retain a strong will to continue fighting. The emotions of those who were thought to be beautiful are always full of sorrow, and honored tradition disappears in the cry of the weak. Winners of a battle will eventually decline in power and become losers, and then those 'losers' will cultivate a new leader.

  7. Re:She's hot..... on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 1

    Well since there was only one before this... I thought they were referring to ASIMO, but the Wikipedia article says that ASIMO is actually 11th in it's line, so what, exactly counts as an android?

  8. Re:"Uncanny Valley" on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thing most people don't realize is that people can be in the uncanny valley with respect to other people. This is one of the why wars are (must be?) fought. This is also why "but a gecko, he can be trusted".

  9. Well you see... on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 0, Troll

    The women get robot men and the men get robot women. The robot tenticles get used on real women and the robot woment get used on real men.

  10. Re:Wave of the future... on Ageia PhysX Tested · · Score: 2, Informative

    Set a data request line. When the data request line is cleared and the data ready line is set, then the data is new data.

  11. Re:Making money on T-Mobile Releases New Card, Outlaws VoIP and IM · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The problem isn't whether or not they want to make money but what rules they don't want to follow to make that money. The government auctioned off spectrum without laying down any rules as to what has to be done with that spectrum. The trick now is to persuade others not to give the spectrum winners money if the spectrum owners break your rules.

  12. Where the problem really lies. on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that the problem lies with you and not the executive. Who told you what a crazy person was "supposed" to be like. Headsets have been out for how long? That's how long society has had to decide that they were "rude". Doesn't seem like enough time to me. Nobody knows what respect is, but they all want it!

  13. Let's roll! on Wal-Mart Trying to Trademark the Smiley Face · · Score: 1

    Remember that nasty bit of 9/11 trivia. Some punk trademarked it after the incident and we had an e-mail exchange over it.

  14. Re:RTFM on Evolution of a 100% Free Software-Based Publisher · · Score: 1

    A lot of times I try to RT(Freaky) Manual but I get bogged down in the first few paragraphs, the stupid thing expects me to already understand certain concepts that I don't, is written in a mental model that does things completely different from how I do them, uses regional figures of speech, is written in alpabetical or some other order other than in order of what one needs to know first, or something of the like.

    For example the manual for FreeBASIC is most useful if you programmed in QB before and had a QB programming implementation style similar to the writers of FreeBASIC.

  15. Re:No gun, eh? on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1

    The court is a big gun. If we were all friends we could sort everything out without resorting to extra efforts. The gun is the first of these. But then society got tired of people shooting each other so they agreed that instead of guns, they'd have courts with the authority to act and use the force that a gun otherwise provided. There are two types of "mutual associations". One is that of friends. The other is one of holding a gun to the others head to make sure that the other side will agree to do what it is vital for this side to have them do. Sure we've vested the power of the gun in other agents, but the power of the gun is all it amounts to.

  16. Re:Many so-called "ordinary" users on Evolution of a 100% Free Software-Based Publisher · · Score: 1

    Many so-called "ordinary" users don't think in terms of power vs. time, don't know the difference between logarithmic and exponential, and feel that if they needed to know the difference they should be able to just look it up.

  17. Re:Memory on Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean that we actually remember now what various people called various things back then.

  18. Re:Brevity on Teaching Engineers to Write? · · Score: 1

    This device creates a wormhole.

    Brief, but non-technical.

  19. Re:Pointless aspects on Dell, HP, Lenovo Announce New Display Protocol · · Score: 1

    Waterwings is not a ubiquitous term for them throughout the entire US. Also, one might not have a clue if they don't have kids.

  20. No gun, eh? on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1

    Well, then I guess we can abolish all courts of contract law then.

  21. Re:Active voice, active voice, active voice on Teaching Engineers to Write? · · Score: 1

    Why do some people like it so much? Why is active voice in any way desirable. The hardest and most important question I always have to answer is why is a certain way desirable, because without that answer it won't get done that way.

  22. Would you care to elaborate? on Managing a Huge Music Collection? · · Score: 1

    IF that's all that you have to say about it, the gestalt would indicate it isn't very good.

  23. Re:mySQL database? on Managing a Huge Music Collection? · · Score: 1

    But the players are expecting the files to be in a filesystem not a database.

  24. Re:Free Market. on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the corporation has a much bigger gun pointed at your head than you do at it's.

  25. Re:The Real Problem on Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? · · Score: 1

    Look down, look down, upon your fellow man...