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  1. Should have named it rock lobster. on Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source · · Score: 1

    Then we could have had fun with the "It wasn't a rock it was a ...Rock Lobster! comments.

  2. Re:HELP!!! on French Police End Missing Persons Searches, Suggest Using Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    As per the article. Searches will continue for minors, and for those who disappear in worrying circumstances -- for example those with suicidal intent, or victims of a crime -- as they are conducted under a different procedure.

  3. I am incredibly saddened on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I cannot believe that someone could target children like that. My two daughters are the same age as the dead and I will have to hug and hold them for a long while tonight. My heart goes out to those parents.

  4. And this is why HTML5 apps will make it big. on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 1

    You avoid having to pay for different developper licenses and losing a cut of the costs. As browsers and javascript engines get better and developpers get smarter then we won't have to be tied into walled gardens. Then we will just have to work at getting pricing down for wireless plans.

  5. Convert to a renewable resource. on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 1

    We should all be looking at burning Zombies from now on in. It will become the biggest renewable resource in the near future. If you get the loading mechanism right you can even refuel on the run.

  6. Wow a lot of demands frmo EU. on Bye ACTA, Hello CETA · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian it looks like the EU is trying to butthurt me through this agreement. I hope Mr Geist gets on this.

  7. Let's blame clothing manufacturers as well on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    Hoodies and scarves allow these people to do things in plain view without being identified.

  8. What happens if you do not have net access on Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google? · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out these things will work in non-internet environments? Is it only a brick in places like jets and traveling in cars?

  9. Re:How About FreeBSD? on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Any of the BSDs. OpenBSD might be another choice. http://www.openbsd.org/ I've installed it on several older computers to keep them going.

  10. How is this news? on New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Informative

    Xandros and other distros have had this for years.

  11. Laptop == Cellphone on Intel Prototypes World's Thinnest Laptop · · Score: 1

    Small end laptops and high end cellphones are starting to look an awful lot like fraternal twins nowdays.

  12. Re:CDs on Answers From The Civ IV Team · · Score: 1

    Civ 3 Complete had a check for that on the PC side.
    If you have Daemon Tools or Alcohol 110% installed it would refuse to start until they were removed.
    They'll porbbaly use this in Civ 4 as well.

  13. Linux ports. on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    Will you ever release a native linux port of your new games?

  14. Don't feed the Trolls on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated? · · Score: 1
    Everytime I hear about Fred Langa he is bashing an OSS project or a Linux distro.


    Everytime I read about him it is the front page of Slashdot.


    Why is it a media troll is getting all this attention when he should be relegated to obscurity with the crap he publishes. Please Please do not submit anymore of his stories so hopefully he will go away.

  15. Re:Prices . on Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What is your message then for freely downloading a product that others have paid for? And your assuming that your opinion is the only one that matters? Many others appreciate the fact they can run Windows applications under Linux. Making Linux easy to transition to from Windows is exactly what the linux community needs. Not everyone likes whips and chains of having to compile things themselves or spend two or three days configuring their system to work. Advocating something and not doing amounts to pretty much the same thing. Just because you drove the car but did not rob the bank doesn't mean your not guilty.

  16. Re:Prices . on Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    So Kevin. Would you appreciate doing consulting work and then the person refusing to pay for it because it should be free? Thought not. Why don't you stay away from priating small business products who would like to keep making a good product enhacing Linux's reputation.

  17. Re:Broadcom? on Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition Reviewed · · Score: 1

    We do include NDISWrapper. You have to manually load the windows drivers but the wireless configuration is all GUI.

  18. Re:Could someone on Xandros Releases Open Circulation Edition · · Score: 1

    No your not missing anything. GPL states that you release modified source code of GPL software. Most of the Xandros cusomtizations are developped exclusevly in-house. You need to brush up on your back porch lawyerism.