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  1. Re:Development? on PlayStation 3 To Debut at E3 2005 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The official SDKs for gaming consoles have always been overpriced (like a multiple of $1000) and don't count on buying your own CD burner (more like $10,000). You'll have to wait for some kind of GNU cross compiling tools...

  2. Re:It's been done on An Online ID Registry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft Passport and its OSS port: MyUID (as seen on /. here)

  3. Re:MIT is so over rated on Carnegie Mellon Starts Offering Courses Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's good not to have solutions! I'm reading the algorithms book from Ron Rivest, and without the solutions, I have to think really deeper and I enjoy it more when I solve an exercise. And you've got a prize for each solution found: the enjoyment of writing the algorithm in your favourite language!

  4. Re:Well... on Carnegie Mellon Starts Offering Courses Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do they have courses? All my teachers follow a general path during a lesson, but they don't have written courses. Everything is in their head, and I would do the same if I had a C lesson to give.
    You don't rewrite the K&R every five minutes, if a student wants a full lesson, he can look in a book at the library. The problem comes from all those who can't have books for free.

  5. Re:Another Robot... on Korean Bipedal Robot Kit · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the video? This robot seems to be able to do almost all the same stuff than the japanese one! And his moves can be very fast (look at the fighting poses). Both robots are great toys, but you will be able to buy the korean one only!

  6. Re:Would you look at those specs! on Korean Bipedal Robot Kit · · Score: 1

    [OT] but if it could give ideas to a few geeks out there to learn other languages (like what I'm doing with japanese)!

  7. Re:Most awesome robot EVER... on Korean Bipedal Robot Kit · · Score: 1

    And if you compare it to the Lego Mindstorms' success, it would have been the best toy ever...

  8. Re:Medical uses on Wearable Customizable Displays · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I'm having a heart attack, look at me, make fun of me, and stare at me for a few minutes before you realize this is not Real TV but real life..."
    I'm afraid this kind of behaviour is unacceptable, but people don't help each other anymore these days. I understand it's an off-topic rant about society, but I doubt this kind of display would help anyone, especially if you look at what happen to handicapped people...

  9. Re:Clay Pigeon Chucker on Homemade CD Shooter? · · Score: 1

    You just shoot it with your Nintendo Zapper, Duck Hunt style!

  10. Re:Load of Crap... on Online MD5 Cracking Service · · Score: 1

    MD5 is limited to 2^128 possibilities (which is bigger than the number of atoms in the universe). But if you try 1, 11, 111, 1111..., you'll have a collision on the (2^128 + 1)th number.

  11. Re:Sounds like a need for encrypted SMS. on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    Public key system could be easily written in Java, instead of storing the levels of a game, store the keys. I don't have a java-enabled phone, but I doubt it would be difficult to port a small RSA based crypto scheme.

  12. Re:Nintendo History on Nintendo's Boss On Western Partnerships, Online · · Score: 1

    Thank you VERY much, the only Nintendo I don't have is the N64. I want one now...

  13. Re:nintendo on Nintendo's Boss On Western Partnerships, Online · · Score: 1

    The NES and the Super NES are not what I would call a monopoly. It was more like heaven to me (or orgasm if you prefer, and it still is, I just bought Solstice on NES yesterday...) And for Sega, the Genesis had great RPGs which was not the case for the Master System. Maybe the lack of good games was a reason for the relative failure of the Master System.

  14. Re:Speaking as an American... on Dutch Parliament Reverses Software Patent Vote · · Score: 2, Funny

    E-mail could work if politicals had computers (and knew how to use it). Snail could work if it was not thrown in the trash bin (don't you ever hope that someone important will read your mails). Phone call? you must have a phone number for that.
    It's really different from the USA, where you can write your congressman as easily as buying food.

  15. Re:GET YOUR APPROVED DVD PLAYER HERE! on MPAA Names Dan Glickman To Replace Jack Valenti · · Score: 1

    Linspire claims that installing a DVD player is an expensive, tricky, and complicated process because of the commercial license!?!
    And what about the Xine license (GPL or LGPL)? Should Linspire give for free the source code to their clients?

  16. Re:Wait. on Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code · · Score: 1

    Completely offtopic, but when I read Buyukkokten, I think of Bukkake pictures...

  17. Re:Sounds like on School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking' · · Score: 1

    There no such thing as "hacking ethics" of course. But "ethics" can't be taught either. You are what you are. If you're a moron in the beginning, you have few chances to become intelligent. Of course you can always meet someone who will show you the real way of doing things (Thou shall read Donald Knuth's Holy Books, for example).

  18. Re:Except..... on Retro Gaming Gets Hot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's $25 for something you can buy $1 in a yard sale. I recently begun my collection and I haven't spent more than $100 (the price of TWO gba games) for 75 games with 5 consoles.

  19. Re:other country's? on Spider-Man in India · · Score: 1
    It's already been done by the Monty Python:
    I cut down trees. I skip and jump.
    I like to press wild flowers.
    I put on women's clothing
    And hang around in bars.
  20. Re:Captain India on Spider-Man in India · · Score: 3, Informative

    They don't need Captain India, they've already got Dhalsim. This super hero can also climb everything with his stretching arms.

  21. Re:Prior art on Profiting From A Vague Patent HOWTO · · Score: 2, Funny

    During a (boring) college C++ course, a friend of mine tried the following combination: 'ssh -C' and 'mplayer -vo sdl:aalib' to watch an episode of Naruto...

  22. Re:php-embed on Advanced PHP Programming · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why not Lua or Ruby? They can both be embedded easily (and Lua has even been used in Monkey Island 4). Were there other advantages for PHP?

  23. Re:Is a GNU/Linux biz feasible? on Linux in Iraq · · Score: 1

    They are trying (with great difficulties) to rebuild their country (houses and stuff) and you want to sell installation/training/troubleshooting services? It's like Africa, they don't need Microsoft Windows, they need peace and food before everything else.
    I agree with the OSS part, but whether we sell them Windows or Linux services doesn't matter, they won't be really happy. We should rely more on inside participation to provide free technical help.

  24. Re:addition of Bruce Schneier on HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's either a joke or the best info ever to happen. Bruce Schneier being the crypto guru who wrote Beyond Fear (I encourage you to buy it asap).

  25. Re:And in other news... on Microsoft Patents The Body Bus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Prior art: Larry and Andy Wachowski for The Matrix!