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  1. Re:Wonder if they screwed this one up too on Bejeweled 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Timer? I don't remember there being a timer the last time I played - the game ended when you couldn't make any more combinations. Admittedly been a while since I played the official version, mind.

  2. Re:Count me as a fellow Lone Coder on Is The Lone Coder Dead? · · Score: 1

    Me having less money, hmm... I don't see that there's any advantage to open source that can compensate for that!

  3. Re:WOW! == Negative calories on Museum of the Future · · Score: 1

    Nope, users of Xenical get a similar reaction.

    They don't work by stopping you absorbing fat, they work by stopping you from eating it because you don't want to be shooting oil out of your arse.

    It's fairly logical - if it's not being digested, etc. then it's got to go somewhere.

  4. Re:British-made detectors? (OT!) on Ion Rocket to Map Moon with X-Rays · · Score: 1

    I think the British Science Mueseum has a computer designed a couple of centuries ago that disagrees with you.

  5. Re:Nothing uncommon here on Konfabulator Coming to Windows · · Score: 1

    Except that Konfabulator was simply an idea stolen from 1980s era Mac OS with a new paint job.

  6. Re:Port from Darwin? on Adobe Forming a Linux Strategy? · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be too hard.

    It's a shame Photoshop CS on OS X isn't "kinda-sorta" BSD code, but Cocoa/Carbon code. Neither of these would be an easy porting job, unless Adobe wanted to make GNUstep somewhat more functional.

  7. Re:Frequency response? on Waterproof MP3 Player Uses Bone Conduction · · Score: 1

    Also, what effect does the extra layer of fat in the female cheek have on the sound quality?

  8. Optronic gates on Optical Control of Light on a Silicon Chip · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought diffraction and interference was to be the answer to switching light. Does anybody know what happened to this technology?

  9. Re:No mono or dotgnu? on Gambas 1.0 Release Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    As others have said it's old. Possibly also because there are people who don't think .net is the answer to every question.

  10. Re:Increased Pointer size on What Makes Apple's Power Mac G5 Processor So Hot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On Silicon Graphics 64-bit machines, this was solved by having two ABIs, one 32-bit, one 64-bit. You could still use 64-bit operations in either mode, but pointer size depended on the width of the ABI. This allowed you to optimise memory use on small memory jobs, but still have access to vast amounts of RAM when you had to, just by choosing the right ABI for the job.

  11. Re:64 bit integers on What Makes Apple's Power Mac G5 Processor So Hot · · Score: 1

    It can perform the 64-bit floating point operations correctly, but it has to load the numbers in a two step process, 32 bits at a time, so it's not direct.

  12. Re:Spatial Orientation on Estrogen Linked to Research and Programming Skills · · Score: 1

    I can't remember the exact example, but they're generally something along the lines of "take a vertical dumbbell, red on top, blue on the bottom. Rotate it by 180 degrees along the X axis 3 times. Which colour is on top?"

    Some would solve this by visualising the rotation.

    I solve it as follows:

    R=a rotation of 180 degrees
    RR=a rotation of 360 degrees, which is the equivalent of no rotation

    therefore:

    RRR=R, and the blue is therefore on top.

    I'm probably explaining this badly, but suffice to say I get lost easily, but I'm very good at algebra, discrete logic, etc.

  13. Re:Spatial Orientation on Estrogen Linked to Research and Programming Skills · · Score: 1

    I've taken tests before that involve questions regarding manipulating mental images of 3D objects to judge abilities.

    It's a shame my mind refuses to solve the problem by making a mental image, but instead prefers to translate it to a symbolic problem, which I then find trivial to solve.

    Maybe I'm just strange.

  14. Re:Virgin Trains vs Virgin Player on Virgin's New iPod Rival · · Score: 1

    Parts of Yorkshire, especially West Yorkshire, have council subsidised public transport, which is far better than that provided in most of the UK.