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  1. Re:gnustep on GNUstep Project Gets New Chief Maintainer · · Score: 1

    TeXview.app, Altsys Virtuoso, Poste.app, Webster.app, Digital Librarian / Shakespeare, Oxford's Book of Quotations

    I tried GnuStep a while ago and i never heard of any of these great apps you mentioned. Are they new?

    Only app i knew from your description is Mail.app. And i think it's awful. It crashed alot, support for gnupg was buggy, it looked awful and had no real support for using it with keyboard only.

  2. Re:Suckitude? on Last Chance to Help Free Ryzom · · Score: 1
    My monster will not pursue a level 4 or below unless you're a male character, it is saturday, and your nick name starts with an f! It has a +4 bonus against goblins or dwarves (actually, it has nothing against dwarves but it is too stupid to notice the difference). When struck with an unholy bastard sword of doom it immediately vanishes leaving its treasures behind, but you don't gain any experience.

    Sounds like you're a nethack dev...

  3. Re:Nuclear Fusion on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, i don't see what's misleading about that. AFAIK nuclear reactions are not classified by the energy they release or absorb. _That_ would really be misleading.

  4. fusion with boron-11 on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 4, Informative
    AFAIK for fusion with boron isotopes you need a 10-times higher temperature than what you would need when using hydrogen isotopes instead.

    See the p-B^11 fuel cycle, too.

    Moron at eleven.

  5. Re:Clarification on Google CEO — Take Your Data and Run · · Score: 1

    s/move/copy/

  6. Re:ain't really laws then are they? on A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules · · Score: 1

    Hey, it's chemistry! What do you expect?

  7. Re:Strings or Navel Lint? on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 1
    would need to incorporate a property of the universe that has until now been completely neglected. That property is wholeness.

    Is this you, Plato?

  8. Re:How could it be dangerous? on Are Nuclear Powered Mars Rovers a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    If the rocket had a malfunction within the earth's gravity field, this reactor will surely come back to earth, exploding above our heads on reentry. This would IMHO scatter the amount of radioactive material included in the rocket over a more or less huge area.

  9. Re:Two Simple Questions on Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels · · Score: 1
    The graph and text speak of temperature variations in tenths of a degree. We must assume then that temperature measurements over the past century have always been of that accuracy or better.

    For the thousandths time:

    NO!

    It's called mean temperature (:= calculated ), not absolute temperature.

  10. Re:For the critics on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 1
    You have to remember-- we went from THE WORLD IS GOING TO FREEZE! to THE WORLD IS GOING TO WARM AND FLOOD!

    Both should happen. If the Gulf Stream stops, Northern Europe and America will freeze, while regions near to the equator will heat up. This means, AFAICS, that water will evaporate more quickly near the equator and fall down as snow in northern/southern regions (= droughts and more deserts near the equator and huge glaciers in the north and south). Though i can't see where the "FLOOD"-part comes in here...

  11. Re:Cool GIF animation. Not! on EU Craft Successfully Hits The Moon · · Score: 1

    A telescope isn't a cine camera.

  12. Re:Been there, done that on EU Craft Successfully Hits The Moon · · Score: 1

    Maybe you don't know it, but crashing onto the moon was just 1 out of 3 of SMART-1's missions. And maybe, just maybe, North Americans will be interested in the maps SMART-1 made of the moon...

  13. Re:Please - help me suggest EVERYTHING! on Patent Law Ruling Threatens FOSS · · Score: 1
    Did I miss anything?

    Yes, you missed anything:

    "doing nothing with anything"

    "doing anything with nothing"

    "doing something with anything"

    "doing anything with something"

    "doing anything with anything"

    Though, finding prior art for the first shouldn't be a problem while IMHO the second isn't possible at all (repeat after me: "I should not challenge the first law of thermodynamics"). :-)

  14. manipulate and/or control the charge? on 18th Century Pigment to Revolutionize Chip Design? · · Score: 1

    Seems to be the real breakthrough! ... uhm, or lacks the slashdot-crew a person who actually knows *sth* about physics?

  15. Re:Yes it's a dupe, but lets get something straigh on Text-Mining Technique Intelligently Learns Topics · · Score: 1
    Fortunately there are millions of old books that desperately need to be indexed

    When i first read the headline, i thought more about how this could be used to filter the flood of information that RSS-feeds opened for the tiny fraction of actually interesting information.

    I don't know if this method is good enough for indexing old books. Sometimes you want human-made indices. And maybe the parser gets irritated by archaic forms of current language...

  16. Re:The heart of the issue on Linus Speaks Out On GPLv3 · · Score: 1
    a view of freedom that is more like anarchy: the "do anything you want" style of so-called freedom

    That's not anarchy.

  17. Finally... on Google Accessible Search Released · · Score: 1

    a slap in the face of Macromedia Flash.

  18. Re:it's really not that delicate. on Shuttle Cameras Yield Excellent Footage · · Score: 1

    kg of force!

    1kg of foam at 223.53 m/s exerts a force of about 705841 newton upon an area of one square meter.

    or

    1kg of foam at 223.53 m/s generates a pressure of 705841 Pa (about 7(!) atm)

    ;-)

  19. RTFSP on Athens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes" · · Score: 1
    Read The Fucking Slashdot Post

    In the case you could only read the headline because of a disability: Sorry.

  20. Re:How do we REALLY know? on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1

    How on earth do we know what the tempetures were 400 years ago?

    Glaciers in Antartica and Greenland are good archives for carbon dioxide levels in the earths athmosphere dating back up to 650,000 years. Those carbon dioxide levels are indirectly linked to global temperature because CO_2 is a typical greenhouse gas.

    And according to them, we have wamred 1 degree over 400 years, which the allowance in variation for themometers is usuall 2-10 degrees.

    It's a calculated increase in global mean temperature not an increase of an absolute measured temperature.

    With todays Galileo thermometers you have an accuracy of 1C. Todays electric resistance thermometers, available over hundred years, have a accuracy of ±(0.15+0.0025|t|) in Tolerance class A (-30 to +350 C) ( "t" stands for measured temperature).

  21. This isn't "shit". on String Theory a Disaster for Physics? · · Score: 1

    An idea or framework is a hypothesis .
    Laws of nature like the law of gravity are theories .

  22. Re:Ahhh!! My ears!! on Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons · · Score: 1
    atonal whining

    It's Grunge. What did you expect?

    SCNR

  23. Re:Same as a snail mail letter on Why Emails Are Misunderstood · · Score: 1
    Email is simply a sped-up version of the old fashion hand-written letter.
    Only problem is, that people tend to apply "sped-up" to their writing-style. Must be some psychological problem...
  24. Re:We need to get hardware going autmagically on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 1
    My Mustek 1200 Scanner won't work in Windows

    My Mustek BearPaw 1200TA Scanner works with Windows. I guess that's almost the same (if not the same) as your 1200, is it?

  25. Re:Easy on Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification · · Score: 1

    I use the so called "Windows Defender" Beta 2 and have a lot of FOSS installed. The last time i scanned my System with this utility (1 minute ago), it detected no malware.