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  1. Don't forget... on US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography · · Score: 1

    Why won't you all stop beating your wives for crying out loud!

  2. Hiu as 'he' on New Chip Promises Longer Battery Life · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought he was trying to pronounce Hiu as 'he'

  3. Re:Get a room. on Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X? · · Score: 1

    Where is it, how long will I have it, who will I share it with, and is it free?

  4. Re:Thats interesting and all on New Chip Promises Longer Battery Life · · Score: 0

    Because they are all red, and red bends more than other colors.

  5. More than one person Bazaar on Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has many programmers working for them. They are a citadel system. That book with four authors, still a citadel system, which is why one author wouldn't do anything different. Citadel system result in "one true ways" most of the time. Bazaars can be better than that.

  6. The difference on Timeline Set for Intel/AMD Antitrust Trial · · Score: 1

    The outcome of this trial would either encourage or discourage a future White House occupant to undertaking antitrust actions. Depending on the occupant the justice department could treat this as a precedent with which to construct more cases or as a fluke.

  7. Rich Corinthian Leather on Ajax and the Ken Burns Effect · · Score: 1

    Maybe it would help if they hired Ricardo Montalbán to say the title on account of his Star Trek background, and perhaps Fantasy Island?

  8. Torts on Timeline Set for Intel/AMD Antitrust Trial · · Score: 1

    And the two hardest professions to file a tort against is the legal profession and the mental health profession.

  9. The part where... on Timeline Set for Intel/AMD Antitrust Trial · · Score: 1

    law companies collude to increase the billable hours yet don't get slapped with an antitrust investigation.

  10. Glad that's sorted on Ajax and the Ken Burns Effect · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When I read "Burns" I thought some guy in that "The Simpsons" show...

  11. Re:Citadel vs. Bazaar on Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines? · · Score: 1

    But where are the community generated tutorials, and the tutorials that have you play a game or do some computer guided exercises? Most tutorials are written by one person, and merely rehash the "one true way that worked for them". Where are the programs that detects where the person is struggling and adjusts the curriculum accordingly?

    When it comes to forums on the other hand, why haven't any specific ones been mentioned here?

  12. Citadel vs. Bazaar on Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines? · · Score: 1

    It just seems that when it actually comes to learning the stuff the answer is "Go to the citadel".

  13. Re:skillset on Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, could you at least provide a dewey decimal number or something?

    No, it's more like saying the minor leagues doesn't make it easy... no, not quite, more like saying once you're out of HS there's really not much infrastructure for learning any given sport.

  14. Re:skillset on Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, how do you get the skill set? Seeing something of a chicken egg problem here. This is something Open Source in general needs to work on. None of the open source packages are easy for beginner coders to get skills.

  15. Syria the region, vs Syria the government on U.S. Government Developed the iPod · · Score: 1

    The argument as I hear it put forth is that Saddam wasn't giving the weapons to the Syrian government just to factions in the area.

  16. Funny, the way I understand it it was the other... on J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Trek' Film · · Score: 1

    way around... They wanted the character to continue but she didn't want to be stuck doing Star Trek anymore, so they killed her character because they couldn't explain her absence and Worf's presence.

  17. The problem with Marvin is... on 2006 Robot Hall of Fame Inductees Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everytime anyone goes to a computer to cast their vote for him, it immediately locks up, sends out a beep code that roughly translated says "Why Me?" and... and... well, I don't know what and... wait a minute, does not turn on ever again. That got rather costly, one would think.

  18. Worked for me... on Evolution of the Netflix Envelope · · Score: 1

    but the detail they provided is practically useless... like everything else on this bloody planet.

  19. er, um... on How The THX Noise Was Created · · Score: 4, Funny

    where exactly did you go to kindergarden?

  20. Re:Get a room. on Run Windows Applications Natively in OS X? · · Score: 1

    Don't tell them to do something you aren't prepared to help them do. If you want them to get a room, offer them a room, don't just expect them to be too terribly motivated by your missive.

  21. Garbage Collection. on Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs · · Score: 1

    Ideally, if time and resources allow it, I would think that one would make the copy when one has some free time between the time the memory gets shared and the time the memory is attempted to be written to. It isn't garbage collection in the strictest sense, but the same concept is involved.

  22. Turbo - That way at first... on Updated CPU For 360 Next Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was the idea at first, but then the two clock speeds seemed to be chosen almost at random once it became mainstream, although as games progressed to newer hardware, the speed they generally tried to clock to may have changed.

  23. Time spent on Ebert Reviews 'Silent Hill' · · Score: 1

    And his time spent doing that doesn't leave him much time for doing anything else to put in in any sort of context.

  24. Context on Ebert Reviews 'Silent Hill' · · Score: 0, Troll

    Surprise, surprise... A man who gets most of his reality spoonfed to him through movies lacks the context with which to understand a movie that offers back-stories, historical perspectives, metaphysical insights, and occult orientations.

  25. Re:What is "stereo vision" on An Alternate Human · · Score: 1

    No. Transmissive means light has to pass completely through to create the image, while reflective means it strikes the surface and comes back.

    Another thing I bring up is that I'm nearsighted and no matter which side of my glasses I look through, my vision is corrected. The way they depict lenses in science textbooks, one would think that it's only one way.