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  1. Re:Isn't magnesium silicate... on Green Cement Absorbs Carbon · · Score: 1

    Well H2O is the major component of cancer cells. Though, I am not sure where this is going.

  2. Re:ORLY? on Leaving the GPL Behind · · Score: 1

    As it was, though, the problem was that KDE basically wasn't legally distributable due to the licensing snafu; the additional requirements in the QPL made it GPL incompatible, so you couldn't have an app that used code licensed under both.

    Only if you believe that Qt was a derived product of KDE because KDE linked to it. The GPL only has requirements to derived products, not to parent products.

  3. Re:ugh on How Famous OS Logos Got Started · · Score: 1

    Whatever you get, you wouldn't get four colors.

    Why not? The human eye has four colour receptors that may cross eachother a little, but is essentially: Red, Green, Blue and Rods (low light). Though the later is
    mostly used when it is too dark to use the other three.

  4. Re:So we still have... on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Either we'll figure it out or we'll blow ourselves up..

    Blowing ourselves up won't make the Earth uninhabitable. Contrary to common belief, we are just not that good, not even at being destructive.

  5. Re:Wolves on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    Lions are the only feline species I can think of offhand that live in groups.

    Interestingly lions is also the only other species besides humans that accepts useless lazy Fat Cats as leaders.

  6. Re:brace yourself.... on Microsoft Finally Joins HTML 5 Standard Efforts · · Score: 1

    What do you think Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) has done? They largely ignored HTML5 until it started going their way. Then the standard moved towards their work. So its okay because Mozilla does it, but not when MS does it? Grow up fanboy.

    I hope this is just a simple mistake. WhatWG created HTML5. W3C ignored it and was pushing XHTML2 and XForms until they realized HTML5 was where the action was, and officially accepted it. Note btw. that WhatWG is run by browser implementers, while W3C is more broad.

  7. Re:easy on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 1

    boogers = nostril bugs = grooming -- meaning, clearly, nose-picking should be socially acceptable.

    The same with wiping your ass. Still there is no good reason to have to do in public.

  8. Re:Why do noses run? on Ten Things We Still Don't Understand About Humans · · Score: 0

    To keep the nose clear, and unfrozen. You need to breath through the nose in a tough cold. Getting the cold air directly into the lungs will cool you down faster.

  9. Re:Let me see, I might have done stuff like that on Finding New and Unintended Ways of Playing Games · · Score: 1

    I would then buy 300t of grain, 50t of narcotics and a few sex slaves, a few automated mining installations, and head straight AWAY from the civilizaed core of the galaxy, into the unknown (and the unpopulated), where I would simply jump from star to star, refueling out of the outer layers of gas giants' atmospheres, dropping mining stations on select asteroids and rocky planets.
    I once managed to reach the center of the galaxy that way (hundreds of hours of play), until a statistical rarefaction of gas giants occurence inside a 300 ly zone forced me to stop jumping and settle.

    Pussy.. Realm men scooped fuel from the surface of suns! :D You needed proper shields, perfect timing, enough speed to slingshot back-out and a very accurate aim.

  10. Re:No sound....? on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone has proposed an audiocanvas yet...

  11. Re:Nows not the time to be logical on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    You have to be someone she can look up to. In this day and age this doesn't have to mean huge amounts of muscle bulk. She might look up to you for your leet skillz, your artistic prowess or your meticulously cultivated good manners, whatever, but if that element is missing, but being all touchy-feely is not a plus, but something that has to be compensated for.

    True for most girls, but he is not marrying a random irrational girl. These things mainly apply to stupid girls, by that I means girls with poor introspective. Geek girls are typically much more rational and introverted, which this comes improved introspective.

    Or put in less technical terms: If you stick the few hard to get girls in the geek and nerd circles, you don't have to play those stupid relationship games. Just be yourself, especially if she already likes you. If she falls into a standard female trap, then talk with her about it. This applies to both woman and men with introspective skills; you can talk about mistakes they make, even if it is common mistakes 99% of their sex are doing. Unlike other SOs, introspective ones can actually be improved.

  12. Re:What's the point? on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    How is this useful? I just want a fucking command line. It hasn't needed improvement in 30 years.

    If you think the commandline can't improve or isn't. Try zsh.

    And if you are a real daredevil, try running multiple terminals in X. For instance by using the Konsole program. It really improves the command line productivity. No kidding!

  13. Re:1984 on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    Actually, your terminology is a bit out of date. Indeed, "liberal" used to mean what you say, but it now means leaning toward a socialist agenda. The word you are looking for is "libertarian", which isn't the same thing as "liberal"!

    That meaning is only implied by critics of liberalism. You can't judge a word by how republicans are using it. You also have to be careful what the word means internationally. For instance in the UK the liberal party remains the major 3rd party and in the center, the same applies for the liberal super party in the european parliament. Libertarianism is a just the politics of the libertarian party, a classic liberal party. The word doesn't mean anything in itself.

  14. Re:1984 on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1984 isn't on either side of the "conservative-liberal" spectrum, it is heavily on the freedom side of the "freedom-fascism" spectrum which is orthogonal to the "conservative-liberal" spectrum.

    You are a bit confused. Liberal mean the ideology of freedom and is opposed to dictatorial regimes like that in "1984", so the book is extremely pro-liberal. The word you should have used for the spectrum is socialist, which in the US sometimes is confused with liberalism because you have no party confessing to socialism and the so-called liberal party is the closest (major) party you have in that direction.

  15. Re:It it hadn't been for the Catholic Church .. on Linguistic Clue Pushes Back Origin of "World's Oldest Computer" · · Score: 1

    No, please don't give me that line about how the church promoted scholarship. The ONLY thing the church did was force monks to copy old texts, and that's how SOME of the ancient knowledge was preserved.

    And build universities and schools and fund scientists. Funny how Europe can have so many old universities isn't it? And funny how they were all founded by a pope?

    However monks weren't allowed to pass that knowledge on to the general public, and didn't communicate much among themselves lest they be called heretics.

    You are making that up. It has absolutely no basis in reality.

  16. Re:Games of my youth! on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    There are about a hojillion XCOM reboots out there: some open sourced, some commercial. A common phrase is "spiritual successor." Honestly, you can't swing a dead cat on a google search without finding one.
    UFO Aftermath was the start of a great series with both the strategic and tactical options, all set in a post-apocalyptic world. UFO Extraterrestrials is another. Then there's UFO2000, UFO:AI ... different games focus on different aspects of the game type.

    None of these are close to the original X-COM. I really can't understand: How hard can it be? But they are all simpler and has less content than the original. Where is destructible terrain, or mobile weapon platforms? Where is the political aspects? To make the optimal X-COM game just take the mechanics of X-COM II and combine them with the story line of X-COM I

  17. Re:Space Quest on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Have you played any of the X games? Current iteration is X3: Terran Conflict.

    It has the trade and the mission, but where are the planets? Where are the solar systems? Where are newtonian physics. Why the hell are they using ancient greek physics for a futuristic space game?

  18. Re:Origin Systems Games on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    There hasn't been a good single player fantasy RPG game released in quite a while.

    Yeah, Morrowind and Gothic II was some time ago and only First Person. Oblivion seemed deliberately crappified, and Gothic III was too buggy. Fallout III is an acceptable RPG, I can recommend it, though it is an embarresment to its ancestors. I am looking forward to Dragon Age though, might just break the deadlock of crappy FP RPGs

  19. Re:Great advertising for new versions! on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 1

    People expect to find used books in a used book store. The last time I checked, Borders doesn't put used books on the shelf next to new books for 10% less, and then confront you at the checkout to ask you if you didn't really want to buy the cheaper used book instead of the new one. That would be pretty trashy, would't it?

    Have you heard of a place called amazon.com? Check it out, they are pretty trashy aren't they?

  20. Re:Poor Aussies on Australian Website Bans ... Australians · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between not having cheap enough food and not having enough money to buy food?

    Why isn't that obvious to you?

    If you don't have enough jobs you can still pay the unemployed unemployment benefits, but if your country doesn't have enough food, even with full employment someone is going to starve.

  21. Re:whats the crime in hate crime? on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    You can't fight bad words with censorship, only good words in response to bad words can do that. Censorship just takes away the opportunity for someone to respond with good words.

    It is so hilariously ironic to read that in post where you somehow has the idea that the US has less censorship than Europe. Especially "Bad Words"..

    Remember censoring is an act, the entity committing the act is only relevant for the legality of it. Censorship is censorship no matter who does it, and no western country has more censorship throughout their society than the US.

  22. Re:not surprising.. on Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo · · Score: 1

    Most GPS units hold 8-15 GB worth of maps depending on their detail level.Most GPS units hold 8-15 GB worth of maps depending on their detail level.

    Where do you get that idea? My GPS came with a 512Mbyte card containing _all_ roads in Scandinavia, and I just bought a 2Gbyte SD-card with all roads in the EU (not just major ones, all of them).

    My cell-phone incidently has 512Mbyte of maps, which it claims is all roads in Denmark and all major ones in Europe. Haven't used GPS in the cell-phone though.

  23. Re:That any government attempt to control... on What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System · · Score: 1

    First of all, we're calling Global Climate Change now, since, you know, the planet has been COOLING for the last decade, despite all the CO2.

    Nope. The rate of warming has slowed for a number of years (not a decade). This is well known and was predicted by every single global warming model I have ever laid eyes on. It happens because there used to be a secondary cause of global warming due to sun-spots, the sun-spots are going away and taking the secondary effect with them. The CO2 based warming is however filling the gap on schedule, which is why we haven't experienced a cooling.

  24. Re:I know why.. on Nokia's Maemo Switching To Qt · · Score: 1

    Uh, maybe because Qt was bought by Nokia? They're the ones who decided to LGPL it, but they can do anything they want with it.

    Not anything they want. They have to keep it open source due to the Free Qt agreement with KDE.

  25. Re:A time and place for everything on Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Design an efficient table relating a tree structure. Then design queries to answer questions such as:
    * Find the nodes in the subtree under B.
    * Find all ancesters of G
    * Find the nearest common ancestor of D and H

    Trees is a wellknown problem of SQL, but the fact is that SQL can't handle most datastructures and complex relations, only very simple one dimensional ones.