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  1. Re:Cool Game Levels on Camera Vans To Photograph 50 Million Buildings · · Score: 1

    Was this a subtle Pratchett reference? If so, well done.

  2. Re:LinuxAnt is really screwed? on Kernel Modules that Lie About Their Licenses · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only people who really need to worry about the GPL are distributers and developers (and their lawyers) who are modifying or using GPL code. Unless I have completely misread the GPL, users who just install software and use it do not need to worry.

  3. Re:Python on Eiffel as a Gnome Development Language ? · · Score: 1

    What I mean by machine-code is instructions to be executed directly by the processor. Java and Python do not generate instructions for the processor, and the first time a Python script is run, a compiled version is generated. Next time, if the script has not changed, Python will load the compiled version instead. Perl, on the other hand, compiles the script into a binary format when the script is loaded, each time the script is loaded. This is what I would call a just in time compiler.

  4. Re:Legislating nature on Eiffel as a Gnome Development Language ? · · Score: 2, Informative

    (eq 'lisp 'scheme)
    NIL

    or to put it in plain English:
    Common LISP is not Scheme

  5. Re:Python on Eiffel as a Gnome Development Language ? · · Score: 1

    From what I have read, C#, Java, and Python all compile to byte-code (not machine code), which is then interpreted by a run-time environment.

  6. Re:"But that's not music" on Consumer Electronics Make Music · · Score: 1
    Any jackass can place a fish in a blender.

    But only an "artist" can successfully sell it as art.

  7. Re:Website bit slow... on Optimizing distcc · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is more a distftp (with a few added features).

  8. Re:Creativity? on Creativity, a Problem for the Gaming Industry? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Majestic

  9. Re:Standards on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    From what I have read, Common Lisp was originally specified by Guy Steele, in the first and second editions of Common LISP: The Language. This has now been superseded by an ANSI Standard.

  10. Re:Eww on The Walking Dead of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Well, it did teach me that a Double Barrel Shotgun and Quad Damage work nicely too.

  11. Re:How are we supposed to teach calculus? on Technology In Primary Education, Boon Or Bane? · · Score: 1

    The TI-89 handles differentiation and quite a few integration problems, even in multiple variables, with relative ease.

  12. Re:Bull. on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model · · Score: 1

    So I can then employ the remarkable power of the PS2 to run that graphical wonder known as NetHack?

  13. Re:Fox News Didn't Consider Suing the Simpsons on Slashback: Diebold, Cluster, Radiation · · Score: 1

    And that is why i read Slashdot and Fark, instead of watching the major news networks.

  14. Re:You are mistaken on Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching · · Score: 1

    Actually, some advanced mathematical systems would probably use symbolic logic, and solve the equation much as a human would, in those cases where the equation could actually be integrated (not all can be).

  15. Re:Cool can be manufactured 4 segment of the marke on Microsoft Wants to Project "Cool" Image · · Score: 1

    Kinda funny, considering Metallica covered that song on garage inc.

  16. Re:JUST in the sake of fairness... on Microsoft Taking Over the BIOS · · Score: 1

    Yet you can run linux on the Sony PS2

  17. Re:Doh. on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, one thing Microsoft does well is User Interfaces for the average person. Text config files and obscure but simple console commands might make life easier for a trained administrator, but Microsoft has made it very easy for just about anyone to sit down and use a computer.

  18. Re:Article Summary on Java Desktop System Rivals XP, OSX in Usability · · Score: 1

    I managed to copy text from MozillaFirebird to GNU EMacs using this method, so I would say it works reasonably well. Apparently it is a feature of X11 or XF86.

  19. Re:Nope on Can Recent MS Patents Affect Mono and DotGNU? · · Score: 1

    People will still compete for fame and recognition, and some people will innovate because they greatly enjoy doing so. Capitalism is not the only way.

  20. Re:Blah. Blah and double blah I say. on License to Surf, Take Two · · Score: 1

    I have Applied Cryptography, and in my opinion Cryptography in C and C++ by Michael Welschenbach is a far better book. Very practical and straightforward.

  21. Re:Flash is dead, long live SVG on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent · · Score: 1

    Well, there is Sodipodi

  22. Re:To keep this topic readable... on Gnome 2.4 Release(d) · · Score: 1

    Why not w3m?

  23. Re:This is just the sort of thing... on Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo · · Score: 1

    Well, add some ice, maybe some sugar, and you would have a "cat smoothie".

  24. Re:I can see Darl McBride typing now... on Ian Murdock: Linux is a Process, Not a Product · · Score: 1

    Try:

    # pkill -9 linux

  25. Re:MUDs on Indie Games - Fast, Cheap and Everywhere · · Score: 1

    You might want to look at RetroMUD. I haven't actually tried it myself, but it sounded interesting.