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  1. Re:Games on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Wine works for me since I'm still playing warcraft 3.. actually, I prefer the mouse movement in wine vs. windows. Difficult to explain, but it is much more precise for me.

  2. Re:nVidia ION nettop on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 1

    Believe the issue with Hulu and linux is that Flash video decoding is not hardware accelerated on linux. So, for HD that can be an issue right now. Likely that we'll see this change in the future.

  3. dosbox and emulators on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 1

    If you like the old games, maybe you still have them hanging around somewhere? I'm a big fan of dosbox: http://www.dosbox.com/ and other emulators that run great under linux. I've got a couple of wireless logitech game controllers for the ROM emulators. http://tinyurl.com/yz6tyop

  4. IE users don't like installing software on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    or at least it seems to me that firefox users are more likely to care about which browser version they're using

  5. Re:Yes, in fact, RoR DOES suck (WARNING: RANT.) on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are wrong about MVC. In classic MVC, Vs access Ms directly. Cs manage changes to Ms and select Vs to be displayed (which in turn access Ms). Web frameworks do not implement classic MVC. What you're describing is something that used to be called model 2 in the struts world.

    The /*/view mapping is a way to have "restful" URLs and are the result of browsers (and I guess HTML) not fully supporting/integrating with HTTP. In general, they are good thing, and you'll see them outside of Rails, of course. "view" just happens to be a bad one because browsers support GET which is what a view is going to be.

  6. teenagers are liars on 70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP · · Score: 1

    They say they would stop ..

  7. Re:Make the bad man stop on Rails Bigwig Rails on Rails Community · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For something that doesn't matter, it's generating a lot of comments and mod 5s.

  8. Re:What? on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that were perl scripts before gtkpod and the like, and that those same perl scripts are still around.

  9. Stop! on Touch-based Handhelds Turned Inside Out · · Score: 1

    You had me at transparent rear touch interface ..

  10. Re:Wait for next on A Gut Check On Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    If you are able to hack into a non-privileged user that is in the sudoers file, you have root. You still need to "hack" their password. Just having access to their account does not necessarily grant you access to their sudo permissions.
  11. not exactly on Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law? · · Score: 1

    Consider that Moore's law predicts an increase in the number transistors on a chip. In order to achieve this, the transistors get smaller, and smaller transistors are more energy efficient while costing less to produce. So Moore's law isn't really counter to energy efficiency and price. The cost to the environment has to do with people wanting more computing power vs. the same computing power for less.

  12. answer on Does Moore's Law Help or Hinder the PC Industry? · · Score: 1

    Does Moore's Law help or hinder the PC industry?
    No.
  13. Sneaky compiler error? on Java Generics and Collections · · Score: 1

    If you see the error at compile time, then it's not sneaky. Feel free to use generics with Java 5. Just be sure that your work compiles ...

  14. Re:What? on Intel Admits To Falling Behind AMD · · Score: 1
    Around eighty % is still incredible, not least when you have a competitor like AMD. But I guess companies like Intel do what they can to instill fear in their employees to get them to work harder.

    These two statements don't make sense together. Or am I missing something?
  15. We *think* we accomplish less on Tech Makes Working Harder · · Score: 1

    From the article, it's not that we actually accomplish less, it's that we think we accomplish less. We're stressed out, probably due to the fact that we're doing more work-- regardless of the "accomplishment" factor, which is, as I understand it, opinion based.

    Take it easy.

  16. Re:Not everyone cares about Coding... on Open Source vs. the Database Vendors · · Score: 1

    SFAIK, this is an ongoing debate. But the strongest argument that I've seen, and this is presented by C.J. Date in his book _Database In Depth_, is that it is preferrable to take a *declarative* approach to the relational model, rather than an *procedural* one. Of course, the best way to take a declarative approach is to use the SQL standard. So, I recommend that people do so whenever "such solutions are feasible."

  17. Not true! on Beyond Java · · Score: 1
    That same example now requires deployment descriptors, packaging into WAR files, configuration files, etc, etc
    This is not true. Here's my 3 step guide to creating a hello world servlet with Tomcat: 1) Make directory $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/helloWorld 2) Make directory $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/helloWorld/WEB-INF 3) echo Hello World > $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/helloWorld/helloWorld.jsp Voila!
  18. Is AMD profitable? on Intel Loses Market Share to AMD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's the biggest question in my mind. Market share is important, but will AMD be able to sustain whatever growth they have accomplished? So, within the last few years, they've opened up new fabrication plants, and probably they have more room for growth. Still, it will be interesting to see their earnings (revenue and profit).

  19. Re:Amazingly socially unsophisticated. on The Economist on Mitchell Baker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Socially inept? Maybe that explains why she gets along with so many geeks? Are you a geek? Are you at the wrong website?

  20. how to lock down linux ... on Hardening Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    Delete it and install OpenBSD.

  21. Re:Epic Poem on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 1

    You misspelled choad!

  22. Re:Prostitution on Google Map Hack & Chicago Crime Data · · Score: 1

    Awesome. And it has fetish potential. For instance, I searched for prostitution at the car wash. I'm like that.

  23. Too busy to post on Sun Opens OpenSolaris.Org · · Score: 4, Funny
    Is everyone so busy downloading that they don't have time to post their anti/pro solaris comments?

    Shocking, I tell you.

  24. Re:Nice on Intel to Spend $2B To Stay In The Game · · Score: 1
    So, when you vote for "less taxes", you put one more stone in the end of the great American empire. I, as a European, shake my head and wonder whether you Americans have any idea what is happening in your country...

    It seems that voting either Republicrat or Demublican is a vote for increased deficit spending, i.e., deferred taxation. Sadly, simple economic truths are lost on a people obsessed with intruding into people's privacy. Read: Gay marriage, recreational drug use, and abortion.

  25. Re:Great Interview on Trekkies Director Roger Nygard Answers · · Score: 1
    Have made a lot of people think of me as a jerk, but these aren't the kinda people I particularly want to be associated with, anyway.

    You uppity bitch!