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  1. Re:Why another filesystem?! on Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is something quite different and exciting: a log-structured file system, for storing your files on dead trees.

  2. Re:Computers and People on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Faulty data from sensors has already been anticipated by the designers.

  3. Re:Irresponsible headline, summary on Computers Key To Air France Crash · · Score: 1

    Sensor malfunction is a known failure mode. Seriously, most people commenting in here haven't the faintest clue what goes into making a fly-by-wire computer.

  4. Re:Sure, move out. on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 1

    I see a problem in the 'try' part.

  5. Re:Sure, move out. on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How so? If a criminal threatens me with a gun and wants my wallet, what the hell would I do with a gun of my own? Carry a knife if you want self defense. Carry a gun if you want to escalate violence.

  6. Re:Hmm on Scribblenauts Impresses Critics · · Score: 1

    The review seems to suggest that solving the levels isn't necessarily the hard part. It's solving them in few moves and with interesting strategies. For instance the review says: "awarded me badges -- achievements for clever word usage".

    Sound kind of like Crayon physics, in which case I'll buy this game as soon as I can.

  7. Re:Prototype, eh? on New Display Keeps an Eye On the Viewer · · Score: 1

    This is a different institute in the Fraunhofer Society, though.

  8. Re:And the blind? on Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs · · Score: 1

    The resources to train this DVD-sniffing dog *could* have been used to train this dog to do something beneficial.

    Only easy if resources can be arbitrarily assigned, and moved without losses. It takes central planning to do the first bit, and the second bit is impossible.

  9. Re:Nothing wrong with his analogy on CoS Bigwig Likens Wikipedia Ban to Nazis' Yellow Star Decree · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hope you are not implying that killing kittens is worse than killing people.

    Let's try a thought experiment, just for kicks:

    • A man kidnaps people, stuffs them in his basement, tortures them by crushing their toes, and slowly kills them.
    • Another man kidnaps kittens, stuffs them in his basement, tortures the kittens by ripping out their tails, and slowly kills them.

    Which one feels worse?

    Now, of course it's not an even comparison: the kittens are defenseless from the start.

  10. Re:The real reason. on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 1

    Being poor is a state of mind and social status as well as a wealth deficiency, is my point, not that the absolute level of wealth hasn't increased. Nor am I suggesting that the social difference is ever going to change, 'revolutions' and such crap notwithstanding..

  11. Re:The real reason. on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 1

    I had detailed moving pictures of my son months before he was born and those in 'poverty' live better than kings and queens of 200 years ago.

    But not quite. There's a social component to being on top versus the bottom, and that hasn't disappeared anywhere.

  12. Re:Let sleeping dogs lie on Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument · · Score: 1

    It may be that some crucial details are missing that would make it easier to play, perhaps around the mouthpiece. IANAwind player, though.

  13. Re:Hold my beer and watch this on Understanding Addiction-Based Game Design · · Score: 2, Insightful

    On the internet, coherent posts deserve every praise they can get.

  14. Re:Run Linux much? on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    Really? My parents have had Ubuntu on their machine since about 6.04 or 6.10. No problems updating so far. I have to assume sticking to vanilla applications keeps it simple, but how much do you have to deviate from the "norm" before upgrading becomes un-updateable?

  15. Re:Run Linux much? on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    Separate home partition is that one thing that you should have, if nothing else. Does the auto-partitioning do this in Ubuntu, though? (I've never used it)

  16. Re:Gore is Necessary on When Does Gore Get In the Way of Gameplay? · · Score: 1

    Which was my point.

  17. Re:I'm thankful I live in Canada on FCC Reserves the Right To Search Your Home, Any Time · · Score: 1

    It's no more ineffective than the parent poster bringing up hate laws in Canada in the first place. Thorougly uninspired debating, alltogether.

  18. Re:Gore is Necessary on When Does Gore Get In the Way of Gameplay? · · Score: 1

    It also trivialises violence.

  19. Re:Sun has trust issues on Sun To Build World's Biggest App Store Around Java · · Score: 1

    most of what I thought learned in useless now because sun has been messing with it in so many ways that it is just not worth bothering with.

    Honest question: what has changed that radically? I know a lot of things have been added.. but changed?

  20. Re:Final Cut Pro on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1

    I have a secondary screen in the toilet specifically for reading wipes.

  21. Re:Apples to Oranges on MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX · · Score: 1

    Precisely. LyX is to Tex what Netbeans and Eclipse are to Notepad and javac.

  22. Re:Enough Shakey Cam! on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Never mind the shakicam, every time there's an explosion in any movie and some object is hurled towards the camera and just barely misses the audience, I lose yet another piece of respect for the director.

  23. Re:The main reason on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    In an enterprise desktop environment, you don't want to have a repository where users can pull software updates, you want a system where you can push them onto user desktops.

    That's what you get with a repository! Just set workstations to update automatically from it. The users don't need to bother with it, nor do they need permissions to pull stuff on their own. It's not exactly a "push" of course, more like an orchestrated pull, but I don't see why it wouldn't work even if it seems a bit hackish. In fact, you could remove all other repos, and only use a local mirror that you update with new package versions at your discretion.

  24. Re:The main reason on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Uh.. if companies won't switch to Firefox for that reason, isn't that because of a deficiency in Windows, in that case?

  25. Re:The main reason on Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop · · Score: 1

    5/10 of the games on that list work in Wine, a couple more are getting there. I don't know if Cedega handles them better, though.