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  1. Here's an idea on Combating Cheating In Online Games · · Score: 1

    why not create a game that's all about cheating...

  2. amazing! on Walking Around In Spherical VR · · Score: 2

    That's the bigest trackball I've _ever_ seen!

  3. Re:Everlasting light on Displays That Harvest Light Instead Of Creating It · · Score: 1

    When you focus the ambient light the fiber "catches" to the size of the dot the fiber produces the intensity will probably be much higher than that of the dot produced by the fiber.
    Therefore the intensity of the light produced by the fiber when the only light source is itself (if you can get it kick started) will not increase. So this is not really an infinite power supply

  4. No true color on Displays That Harvest Light Instead Of Creating It · · Score: 1

    It's no computer screen yet (at least of the quality we're used to). he just switches the R,G, or B on or off.

  5. indeed on New Singer Sewing Machine Uses ... Game Boy · · Score: 1

    > I kid you not
    yes, me grown-up, ugh

  6. canada? on Could Mars Be Habitable In 100 Years? · · Score: 1

    > resembling Canada's climate (this would be enough to sustain lichens and algae)
    last I heard somebody even spotted a human in canada.

  7. slow and weird on Does P = NP? · · Score: 1

    can anyone please put a readable version of this document on a fast mirror?

  8. how about /dev on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 1

    a friend of mine tried it out, and it worked, but do you really gain anything from things like this?

  9. obvious on Tim O'Reilly Debates Patent Office Director · · Score: 1

    you really cannot judge obviousness, at hindsight everything is obvious...

  10. GCC? on Red Hat 6.2 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    tsk.tsk.

    They don't even supply gcc 2.95!

  11. ISBN 1-55860-320-4 on Good Books on Compiler Programming? · · Score: 1

    It's called "Advanced compiler design and implementation" by Steven S. Muchnick
    It's not very formal and shows a lot of programming details, but on the whole it's a good book, it doesn't discuss parsing and emitting and such but more the optimizations and transformation applied to intermediate representations inside the compiler.

  12. There's one more on How To Write Unmaintainable Code · · Score: 2

    Interleave your code with as much trace code and printfs as possible. This way even the expert maintainer really can't figure out what statement does something useful.

  13. is this really new? on CBS to Pay One Million to Desert Island "Survivor" · · Score: 1

    I've heard that somewhere in sweden this kind of show already exists, and that someone that got voted out commited suicide. Anyone from sweden got any info on this?

  14. Re:My favorite design process on Ask Slashdot: On Good Software Design Processes · · Score: 1

    Well, think about it, maybe that is because you never really thought about the design until you totally screwed up version 1;)

    I think it's best to make a rough sketch of your program first and only start filling in the details when you've coded the sketch (you can code a sketch you know, it won't work, but you'll learn from it anyway). This has the advantage that interfaces you code are usually pretty good...

    just my 2 cents..

  15. Re:Have they all gone mad? on Microsoft looking at mail client for UNIX · · Score: 1

    True, I have never seen it, but that is what I heard from the system administrators over here. Perhaps I am speaking of another release. (then again perhaps the system administrators are just plain stupid). I'm sorry if I stepped on any toes.

  16. Have they all gone mad? on Microsoft looking at mail client for UNIX · · Score: 0

    Lotus notes is a terrible program! (from what I know about it handling mail) you have about 75% chance of a message actually arriving, no biff or .forward capabilities and the unix version is still buggy like windows. No wonder NATO misses all targets ;)

  17. Non-Programmers: Other ways to help on Algamics: The Dynamics of Gift Society · · Score: 1

    not only that, how about websites and user interface design, you don't really need coding experience to do that, right?

  18. ideas are more important than code on Algamics: The Dynamics of Gift Society · · Score: 1

    The quality of the code should really not be an issue for releasing it. Most of the times the idea is much more important. Sometimes people just have an itch they forgot about. Then a newbie comes along and scratches the itch and only then does the Jedi Master Coder remember the itch and implements the perfect solution, but the newbie had to point it out.

    The mentoring environment, I think, is a good idea. Not only for newbies to learn stuff, but also for experts with to little time to submit ideas for other people to implement. I have plenty of ideas but just not the time to implement them all. (I'm not saying I'm an expert, that's all pretty relative)

  19. Econometrics and Social Cost Pricing on Algamics: The Dynamics of Gift Society · · Score: 1

    line 3: Syntax error: unterminated string
    :)
    sorry couldn't resist myself

  20. Actually... (journaling is coming) on Linux 2.2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    hmm... what is a journaling FS?