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  1. "needs" on RFID Cookware · · Score: 1

    Nothing "needs" this amount of control...Oh, but the flavor!

  2. People who do dirty work of ten look down on those on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 1

    People who do dirty work often look down on those who don't. The working class looks down on management as not earning an "honest" day's pay. Many older people look down on the young. Somebody had Judge Judy on the other day, and the plaintiff referred to laughing kids as "drunk".

  3. Why I don't need PDF warnings on Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career · · Score: 1

    I hover my mouse over the link and the address appears in the status bar, including the file extension. It might be even better if it appeared in a tooltip, but still...

  4. Disfunctional state government... on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 1

    They seem to have started a race to see who can be the most disfunctional state government. Look at the attempts to pass legislature in some form or another trying to regulate the distribution of games having content that "might harm children".

  5. Re:gawd the moderation is bad sometimes on New Ion Engine Being Tested · · Score: 3, Funny

    You have a choice. If you mod 'Insightful' we smash your face against the bulkhead. If you mod 'Interesting' we smash the bulkhead against your face.

  6. GPL requirements? on Open Sourcing with (Imperfect) Revision History? · · Score: 1

    It was my understanding that code could be open sourced under the GPL without the dependencies being open sourced, but if one or more dependencies are open sourced under the GPL then the project has to be open sourced

  7. They seem to have a confused concept of aesthetics on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 1

    They seem completely oblivious to the fact that some people would like the looks of the windmills.

  8. Learning utility on Open Sourcing with (Imperfect) Revision History? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When learning about certain code bases, I find it extremely valuable to start with whatever beginning code there is because it illustrates the core concepts while not being a thicket of code. It also helps to see what design decisions were made and then rescinded.

  9. John Doe is a pretty generic term... on Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe · · Score: 2, Informative

    and I don't know what the producer's name is.

    Fortunately, Wikipedia to the rescue:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe_(TV_series)

  10. Yes on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    We've rather moved on quite a bit from that. You might want to consider keeping up with the direction the conversation is moving or you'll end up caught in the conversational equivalent of the getting run over at the nearest zebra crossing, which refers to a pattern of black and white stripes on roads, and not a crossing for actual zebras, for those coming across this posting that happen to be unaware of that fact.

  11. Significance of the NIV translation. on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    1. The NIV translation is a reflection of the new meaning in common usage, and not a going back to see what words actually meant back then.

    2. In most churches, the pastor is still the diviner of God's will, since most Christians still accept the long established lie of God's ineffability.

    3. The NIV translation reinforces the pastor as the diviner of God's will and the fact that the pastor is the diviner of God's will reinforces the apparent truth of the NIV translation.

  12. Excommunication on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    Excommunication meant more than that. If the Church excommunicated someone, from the Church's point of view, and the perspective they wanted the excommunicated to have, it was issuing the person a ticket for a one way trip to Hell, so you'd better stay in line, or you're going straight to Hell.

  13. Read my passage again. on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    The reason I allege is that they want God to be ineffable. The things that you cite are the consequences of that reason, not the reason itself.

    There are a few reasons why someone wanted God to be ineffible. One would be that if God is ineffable, only his chosen powerbase can carry out the will of God. Pretty handy if you are claiming to be that powerbase. Want proof? Excommunication is proof enough.

    True faith is the past performance of the IRS and not the surity that one may choose to affect from it. In fact, that decoupling causes the results that you misread me saying was the cause. Once that decoupling occurs, any surety regardless of backing ends up being called faith.

    I've han many people tell me to "Have some faith" when they wanted me to affect that surety, when I didn't have the evidence (real faith) with which to go on.

  14. Modern faith is a lie on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    Somebody wanted to expunge some essence from reality, so they neatly redefined it.

    According to Hebrews 11:1, Faith is the evidence of things unseen. For example, any evidence of a god or spiritual things is faith. But somebody wanted God to be ineffable, so they changed it so that it means something close to what the NIV says for 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.

    Tuning faith into a sort of "I know what to believe because I make it up myself sort of thing"

  15. Having trouble observing your post. on Symantec Competing Unfairly Against Spybot? · · Score: 1

    It must not have collapsed yet into a single quantum state. Perhaps an observer one quantum reality out from me would have a go at it so I could try again, and see if it collapses this time...though I suppose this message is bound to encounter some quantum turbulence, so who knows what will happen.

  16. Re:Causes for stability... on New Technology vs. Old Gamer Classics · · Score: 1

    But drivers are frequently written that fail to cover situation x, and many of the patches released for games these days seems to be to cover situations where driver doesn't cover situation x, or where for some reason, be it poor documentation or just poor understanding of the relevant issues, the game tries to do something that's just to the outside of what the driver/hardware combo wasn't designed to handle. Then you have the situations where the software was designed to run with older drivers, older hardware, or both. The music in an early PC release of Sonic R stopped playing the music on newer releases of DirectX, (at least I think that was what the problem was) I rebought Sonic R in a collection that said everything was certified to run in Windows XP, but I got robbed before I got around to trying it.

  17. Sound levels on I Dream of Silence From My Web Browser? · · Score: 1

    Many sites play sounds at whatever volume level they found the file recorded at, which can vary from file to file, and Windows normalizes nothing. Also Firefox will play sounds not in the currently active window (or maybe it's just another tab in the same window, I'm not for certain), so I've had to hunt it down. To make things even worse, Midi and waveform generating files get different volume settings and it's not always clear which one you're dealing with.

  18. Causes for stability... on New Technology vs. Old Gamer Classics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ability to target a single platform reduces bugs. Also, the more complex the platform is, the harder it is to be certain that your program takes into account all the idiosyncracies it may encounter. Furthermore, input devices have gotten more complicated.

  19. But what if you write your own game and sell it.. on Valve Angry Over Counter-Strike Subway Ads · · Score: 1

    but say it requires the CS engine that the buyers of your game would have to buy from Valve?

  20. Gulfs of similarity... on Teachers Want Games In The Classrooms · · Score: 1

    How does, "would consider" turn into "want"?

  21. Probably just a partially implemented feature. on WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? · · Score: 1

    There are lots of those floating around in the Windows code. Places where something was put there so that future ideas for functionality can be built on top of it. The "deskbar options" tab,
    http://www.maxpc.co.uk/tips/default.asp?pagetypeid =2&articleid=10542&subsectionid=718&subsubsectioni d=566
    is another instance of this.

  22. Some tips on Print Gaming Magazines Doomed? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Adjust the monitor's brightness and contrast so that it is comfortable to you. Also font size and selection can be an issue. I prefer the room to be dark when looking at the monitor, other's preferences may vary. Also, refresh rate. The current refresh rate of your monitor may be playing havoc with your neural net. Try faster or slower refresh rates.

    About schools. They don't seem to publish much in the way of disclosing what they teach children, which is a real pity. Then there's the whole grade system. You can graduate wanting to take a Calculus class, which public schools teach, but you can't because, well you've graduated.

  23. Noticed one assumption on Game Publishers Contribute To Bad Journalism · · Score: 1

    He says:
    "The Japanese representative for Konami made the condition that we were not allowed to run the interview in the magazine until they were able to properly read/review it"

    and then just assumes that they intended their edits to be manditory as well.

  24. Media hyping themselves again. on The Media's Crush on Apple · · Score: 1

    So the era of Apple computers bearing microprocessors from Intel started at the time the Associated press issues a "NewsAlert". Not when a contract was signed, not when an announcement was made, but when the self-important media does something. I think they're long overdue for some sort of soul-searching or something to re-evaluate their proper role in society.

  25. Korean on Slashback: Dry Mars, Wet Doc, Keyboard Teaser · · Score: 1

    Don't expect the results of the inquiry to reflect reality, just what they want people to believe. He may have made those breakthroughs, or he may have done much worse than they say. It is immaterial.