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  1. Re:One step forward, one step back on Federal Grant Applications to Require Windows · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://grants.gov/GSIAbout

    I think there was a period for taking comments (end of the plan document), but no one mentioned ability to be cross-platform.

  2. contact info link on Federal Grant Applications to Require Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://grants.gov/ContactUs

    Let 'em have it.

  3. Re:More misplaced effort on Lyrics to OpenBSD 3.7 Song Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "User-friendly" and "secure" mostly don't go together.

  4. Re:I'm torn on Kernel Changes Draw Concern · · Score: 1

    First of all, I wouldn't call that stability; I might call that "robustness."

    You'll need to define tinkering more clearly.

    Need a lightweight DE? KDE is not it. KDE and GNOME are trying to be as full-featured as possible, which requires more computational power. What about Xfce? It's probably better suited to what you're looking for.

    The kernel itself can scale in any possible direction with the proper options implemented. It seems to be the userspace in which you have projects unable to do this.

  5. Re:Problem on Users as Innovators - Why Open Source Works · · Score: 1

    Last line should read: I cannot stress enough the importentce they play.

  6. Re:Problem on Users as Innovators - Why Open Source Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This needs to be modded up higher.

    In general, artists fear that someone will claim their work as their own, so they tend to be very anal about their babies: often, they ask that you not redistribute or alter their images, which kind of goes against the whole idea of free culture. (Trivia: the Berne Convention happened essentially at Victor Hugo's insistence. Case in point.)

    We must mollify their fears if we are to largely gain them as an ally. We must show them that they will be no worse off using the principles of free culture than they are now, if they are willing to accept some change.

    I cannot stress the importentce they play.

  7. Re:Where's Coop on Quake IV Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    That's because co-op is (generally) only fun if you know and can trust the other people.

  8. from the duh dept. on Dell Still Intel Only · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's Dell. They use these rumors to get a better deal from Intel.

    Or so I've heard.

  9. Re:SVG question on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which is why the development track for SVG needs to be accelerated. Somebody needs to start churning out the content.

  10. and to add on on The Eight Stages of Permadeath Debate · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could make it so that if you "die" in the special world, you revert to your original state in which you first gained access; but if you "die" in the regular world, it's a permadeath.

    Or maybe the other way around. I don't know, the only RPG I play is Nethack, where death is (almost always) permanent.

  11. what about on The Eight Stages of Permadeath Debate · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Move/allow characters of a certain level into a separate world which is inaccessable to lesser characters and may or may not let the greater characters to leave and reenter. Sort of like an Olympus or Valhalla.

  12. Re:What's a GPLed document? on Unintended Consequences of Using GPL Fonts · · Score: 1

    I've seen all sorts of stuff out there that GPLed but shouldn't be, mostly plaintext and art.

  13. Re:rawr on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would most nearly be described as "hedonistic." Neither of those two terms, "pornographic" or "erotic," quite get the sense of it.

    There are quite a few translations of each work online. Obviously, the original Latin can be translated in many different senses, but not all of us have the time or training to translate.

  14. Re:Potentially Interesting Finds, and a correction on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    It only comes into existence once the process has been applied.

    Oh, never mind. We could be pedantic about things like this for another 2000 years, when they dig up our old hard drives and recover the data.

  15. Re:rawr on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    The Satyricon and The Golden Ass, while not hardcore, most definitely have explicit sex in them. It's not much, but it's something, so there's always the small likelyhood that more of it exists.

    And I also would enjoy the discovery of some more vulgarities in ancient languages. You get tired of the same 500 words for "whore" (which is the only one of plenitude) after a while.

  16. Re:Potentially Interesting Finds, and a correction on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    Well no, but it could certainly increase the number of them that we can read.

    If we cannot perceive well enough to read something, does the phrase "in existence" really apply to it?

  17. "Holy Grail" indeed on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    Using an infrared technique originally developed for use with satellite imaging, scientists are able to view the original writing, which 'could lead to a 20 per cent increase in the number of great Greek and Roman works in existence'.

    dei scientiam arrident :)

  18. Re:You can't chose program/processor on A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along? · · Score: 1

    Let's put this succinctly: you know very well that this isn't so much about Windows as it is about Microsoft. The refutation of their emotionally charged argument at face value is fine, but I hope you're not lying to yourself on the inside about this.

  19. Re:Isn't that where threading comes in? on A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along? · · Score: 1

    I saw some news about Linux doing some work on drive schedule control, and then it kinda died. I've had several people tell me that drive scheduling is unimportant because you always want response from the programs you're running, but while that's true, each one may have a different level of importance.

    /sys/block/?d?/queue contains the scheduling configurables for each drive (this can also be specified as "elevator=_____" for a kernel startup option. There are four IO schedulers: noop, deadline, anticipatory, and cfq.

    Does that answer your question?

  20. Re:NVIDIA users are too spoiled... on Opens Source Nvidia TNT/GeForce Driver Effort · · Score: 1

    Drivers have value only to the extent that having bad ones cripple hardware and (conveniently) shorten the lifespan of older cards, the latter of which is absolutely coincidental with the fact that the 3D drivers' source and documentation largely remain under wraps.

  21. Re:Perhaps it will be used for on North Pole Gets Wi-Fi Hotspot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, they would be using a Prescott for that...

    (couldn't resist)

  22. Re:Aside from "magic"... on Final Fantasy XI Suffers DDOS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: IANAMMORPGer, so I wouldn't know better.

  23. Re:Aside from "magic"... on Final Fantasy XI Suffers DDOS Attacks · · Score: 1

    Somebody who doesn't particularily care about the quality of the game. A successful community is always more fun to disrupt than a troubled one. Or so their values are.

  24. Slow news day? TGIF? on Animaniacs Video Game In The Works · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong---I love the Animaniacs, and along with Freakazoid, they made some great cartoon humor---but how is this even news, even if it were timely?

  25. Re:Beyond my understanding on Blogs Latest Source of PC Infection · · Score: 4, Informative

    Storage space + bandwidth + gullable users: that's all anyone needs to do this.