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  1. Re:I for one.. on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 0

    Australia will still be at the bottom, unfortunatly!

    Have you ever wondered why the north pole on a compass points north? Like poles repell..not attract..so that makes no sense. The reason why that is so is because the physical north pole is actually a magnetic south pole, and vice versa.

  2. Re:Of Course on BBC Argues Games Don't Cause Violence · · Score: 0

    "Guns don't kill people. Kids who play computer games kill people."

  3. patents speed development. on Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://biotech.about.com/library/weekly/aa_penicil linpatent.htm Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, the first antibiotic, and for ethical reasons chose not to patent it. The result? No corporation saw any chance for making profit out of it, and so the drug wasn't actually manufactuered until almost 15 years later!

  4. Re:Nothing like... on Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers · · Score: -1

    [quote] Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 16, @11:21PM Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 17, @12:03AM [/quote] lol, 30 minute difference. The poor guy was probably still typing when timothy posted =)

  5. Re:This sort of thing winds me up on Kasparov Draws Game 4 and Match Against X3D Fritz · · Score: 1

    well as i see it, "artificial intelligence" is basically just a whole set of conditional statements, e.g. say we had a rock paper scissors simulator we could say IF(user = rock) print paper whearas normal intelligence is just the ability to make our own choices for things.

  6. Incidently.... on Microsoft Proclaims Death of Free Software Model · · Score: 1

    640k is enough.