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  1. Re:"Plagiarism" on Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically Proven · · Score: 1
    However, reading about an idea, digesting it, and recommunicating it in your own words without attribution to the source is plagiarism, and will get you kicked out of a lot of schools in a hurry.
    Wouldn't that be punishment against good memory? How am I supposed to know where every bit of information I have picked up over my lifetime came from? I don't think I could judge over what is original/plagiarised/common knownledge with clear consciousness. More so because I know that most ideas have no "single source" and proper attribution is simply impossible whithout leaving someone out.
  2. Re:Sounds more like transient social consciousness on Bloggers' Plagiarism Scientifically Proven · · Score: 1

    Which brings us back on topic...

  3. Re:I wonder if anyone has bothered... on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1

    Damn it, what is /. comming to. All I wanted was to flame one of the "this MUST be a bug" posters. And of course I pick someone who turns it into a meaningful discussion, obviously hopeless for me.
    *Mutters while adding Steve to friends list*

  4. Re:E-M-A-C-S on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 1

    On a related note: Emacs runs on my 386 with 8MB RAM without any swapping...

  5. Re:I wonder if anyone has bothered... on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1

    Spin it how you will, but the most sensible is to think that they have "xfree86" in some database, somewhere for some reason. It may be a bug that is showing that to us, but they seem to have it somewhere in there... And im not paranoid. It's just that Microsoft have shown again and again that they are evil. And it doesn't make much difference to me if they are blocking "xfree86" or just selling it to nightsurf.com.

  6. Re:I wonder if anyone has bothered... on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1

    I have seen many bugs mister insightful, but this would be the top. Could you provide one, just one reasonable scenario how they could flag XFree86 but NOTHING similar?

  7. Re:SCO? on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1
    Mod parent funny. For the record:
    SCO Long-time vendor of UNIX for PCs has made the transition to Linux. Learn about their consulting services and their software offerings. www.sco.com
  8. Re:What's weird on MSN Search Blocking Results For XFree86? · · Score: 1
    gpl - 2nd
    Just look what comes up first.
  9. Re:You got to be kidding me on Sam & Max Sequel Canceled · · Score: 2, Informative
    The first game was so good I still have it and a 486 just so I can go back every few years and play it.
    Get ScummVM and turn that 486 into a firewall or something.
  10. Re:Their other accolade: on SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Execution is fast, painless. It seems that IBM has no interest in executing SCO. They're doing it by the book -- one claim after another. Once they are no claims left to destroy then, and only then, we will get to the the sweet part of this show.

  11. Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content on Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content · · Score: 4, Funny

    The other half are Anonymous Cowards.

  12. Re:The real question... on Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content · · Score: 1

    Yes we need GLOBAL KARMA, that will make the internet usefull again...

  13. Re:1/2 post, less than 1% quality on Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LiveJournal is still much better than the "My first homepage" group, mainly because it's harder to set an animated gif as the background image.

  14. Re:Too many designers? on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 2, Informative
    resizing frames often left artefacts on the image
    Yes, stable gimp has that. 1.3.* and 2.0pre* work fine.
    I found no way to line up all these popup windows in a sane way [..] with a lot of kludges and work involved, tho.
    Less than you might think. Here are my current gimp (2.0pre*) kludges and a screenshot to illustrate them:
    -- GIMP
    winprop {
    class = "Gimp-1.3",
    target = "gimp-tools",
    }

    winprop {
    class = "Gimp-1.3",
    role = "gimp-startup",
    target = "gimp-image",
    }

    winprop {
    class = "Gimp-1.3",
    role = "gimp-image-window",
    target = "gimp-image",
    }

    winprop {
    class = "Gimp-1.3",
    role = "gimp-message",
    target = "gimp-image",
    }

    winprop {
    class = "Gimp-1.3",
    role = "gimp-toolbox",
    target = "gimp-main",
    }

    winprop {
    class = "Gimp-1.3",
    role = "progress",
    target = "gimp-main",
    }
    -- /GIMP
    That takes care of most basic things, as the crop dialog in the screenshot. Some things I use less still require manual shuffling (most could be fixed with more kludges or a bigger screen), but much less than with Gnome/Metacity, which I used before Ion.
  15. Re:Too many designers? on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 1

    Give it a shot? I've been using Ion since last September. And yes did improve my gimp expirience. You know about kludges.lua right?

  16. Re:He's wrong on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 1

    Two words: Interactive Fiction

  17. Re:Too many designers? on Anatomy of Game Development · · Score: 1
    Gimp is okay for 2d stuff (please someone give it a docked interface rather than having to shuffle through dozens of independent windows...)
    First you have to realize that that is not an apllication problem, but a window manager problem. So you need a good WM. Good. Now you can wait for the release of Gimp 2.0 with dockable dialogs, or grap a prerelease.
  18. Re:In other news... on Rome Moving to Linux · · Score: 1

    That should be: "Feed him to the penguins!"

  19. Re:What about the rest of us? on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Or get a WM without such silly things at all. Best way to run the Gimp, but YMMV.

  20. Re:This just makes my day! on A First Look At The GIMP 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Thank GTK you can change the theme and get "real" buttons.

  21. Re:Stripped down? on MS May Be Forced To Sell Stripped-Down OS In EU · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, no, no. It will include a srtipping Clippy...

  22. Re:Feasibility on Jet-powered Nausicaa Glider Project · · Score: 3, Funny
    Which illustrates the point...why would you consult slashdot for aeronautical advice?
    Where is Grokflight, when we need it?
  23. Re:Hungarian? Forget about it. Use Finnish. on Morphing Code to Prevent Reverse Engineering? · · Score: 1
    You are aware that hungarian and finnish are closely related languages, right? And that basically no other language is closely related to either of them?
    I don't know how finnish is related to hungarian, but I wouldn't take your word for it as you managed to forget estonian and liiv.
  24. Re:wooooooo, so neat and pretty.....too bad on FBI Anti-Piracy Seal · · Score: 1
    According to the FA: "criminal copyright infringement is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000." I think you can murder someone and have a lesser punishment than that.
    Remember kids, don't download your music and movies from Kazaa. Shoplift.
  25. Re:Why would 'Proprietary Drivers' be so 'sad'? on Intel to Increase Linux Support, Release Centrino Drivers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little hardware compatibility deserve neither drivers nor liberty.