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  1. Full Story on GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Read the full story here:
    http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/grand-theft-auto-v-contains-no-disc-just-a-blunt-object-and-a-screwdriver/

  2. Only one problem with this engine on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 1

    It uses Helium which is very expensive compared to other cooling mediums. The engine is probably expensive too.
    Cryogenic systems use Helium because of its efficiency.
    Industrial systems use Ammonia (NH3) because it is very cheap and harmless to the atmosphere. The machinery is however more expensive/complicated than Freon systems.

  3. Ice Cube Scent Removal on The Next Tech Revolution · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Put a small amount of baking powder in a dish in your fridge/freezer.
    After a few days, your scents should be removed.

  4. Re:Zone *what* ? on Hitchhiker's Guide, Salmon of Doubt · · Score: 1

    Marketing purposes.
    To compare European and North American sales maybe.

  5. Re:Yes, Maybe on Gene Therapy Cures "Bubble Boy" · · Score: 1

    Then they used a modified form of a retrovirus found in gibbons to add a normal copy of the faulty gene to the stem cells.

  6. This for example on Requirements for Embedded Linux · · Score: 1

    "Note: Windows XP Embedded was not tested directly"

  7. Re:Sliderules on The Sliderule As Paleo-Geek Artifact · · Score: 1

    Maybe your calculator's no good. If I for example do 4.44 * 6.66, I get exactly 29.5704 as a result. Seems to be the right answer as far as I can tell.

  8. Re:What is the point of Public Key Servers on PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis · · Score: 1

    If you want to send a message to A but don't have A's key, why not just email A your own public key first, then email A that you have just emailed them your public key and that A should use it to encrypt their public key which they can then email to you?

  9. Re:Discoveries are not the same as consumer goods on Linus Responds To Mundie · · Score: 1

    So go ahead. Develop a passenger aircraft, or an automobile, or a new, nicer design of personal computer. Who's stopping you from doing this?
    Who ever stopped anyone doing this through patenting?

    That's exactly the problem facing software developers, however. It's getting harder and harder to develop anything without being stepped on by monopolistic patent holders.

  10. Re:The question all Slashdotters want answered.... on Windows Marketing Executive Doug Miller · · Score: 1

    I'd like to help you on this one but I can't.
    I haven't even seen the movie.

  11. Recruiters are usually the real problem on Programmers for Scientific Research? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, most recruiters can't tell the difference between muck and gems. Or rather, they can't tell the difference between gems (that which looks good) and good software developers.

    Excellent article, by the way. It pertains to most skills, not just software.
    I've still kept it even though all my old BYTE mags are long gone.

  12. Re:So now can Torvalds be a US citizen? on New Baby in the Torvalds Home · · Score: 1

    Both the USA and Finland allow dual citizenship.
    He wouldn't lose anything by becoming a US citizen.

  13. Time Spent Working != Efficiency on What Are Advantages/Disavantages To Flex Time? · · Score: 2

    1) I think a serious report would examine productivity rather than actual hours on the job.
    2) Average efficiency will always be average. If you're continuously going to fire people in order to increase productivity against what it previously was, it's going to get very hard finding new employees all the time.

  14. Re:Maybe chairs aren't the answer. on Geek Throne: A Self-Adjusting 'Smart' Chair · · Score: 1

    If you only had pain for about 2 months beforehand,
    it's possible that if might have gone away on its own anyway.
    I had had lower back pain continually, for the last three years. Before that, starting about ten years ago, I only had it for about a month each year after which it disappeared by itself.
    Anyway, it's amazing how many people seem to have a solution. Everything ranging from the esoteric (magnets, polarization) to conventional (drugs, surgery, exercise). None of these worked for me.
    Finally I found someone who managed to help me, using methods which in retrospect make perfect sense to me. Basically an intensive massage followed by manipulation to put eveything back in the right place.
    Although exercise hadn't gotten rid of the pain previously, I'm quite sure it'll help prevent it returning again. So, if you'll excuse me now, I'm off for a run.

  15. How F-ing much is -288F on Rain On Saturn's Titan · · Score: 3

    In C.
    Just for those readers born in the 20th century.

  16. Re:Incorrect... (Re:Nyquist theorem) on Sony Super CD: More Bits, More Bucks, Mo' Betta? · · Score: 1

    >>There is no need to sample higher than 96kHz >>for audio purposes

    Unless you're oversampling which will give you higher amplitude resolution using fewer AD bits.

  17. Say no more on Is Netscape's Code Falling Apart At The Seams? · · Score: 1

    And according to The Cathedral and the 'Bizarre' this sort of development model is supposed to lead to better and more secure software.
    Open source yes, bazaar no.

  18. Re:What about Flash ram memory on What Will Be The Next Generation Of RAM? · · Score: 1

    > The rewrite cycles are still limited on Flash
    > though, so you couldn't use a Flash cell to
    > store a variable - 100,000 rewrite cycles would
    > be up in a few seconds!

    There's a neat solution to this though:
    With a reasonable size capacitor you can write the variables to Flash when the power fails and restore them to RAM afterwards.
    There are small PLC's that do this.

  19. Re:bad journalism on 2600 Staffer Arrested During Republican Convention · · Score: 2

    Haven't you ever heard of an editorial?
    You know, the newspaper column where an editor get to express their own viewpoint.
    What's the point of having your own newspaper/website if you don't get to tell things the way you see it.
    Mabe that's exactly the problem with CNN/ABC - too wishy-washy. Not enough guts to tell things the way they are for fear of losing the bucks.

  20. Re:You missed these on Programming Interviews Exposed · · Score: 1

    But not:

    Instigate as in an argument
    Investigate as in what's up your nose
    Masticate as in what's no longer up you nose
    Postulate as in a suitable salary
    Relate as in explain why you're really looking for a new job

    not to forget of course:

    Penetrate
    Aggrevate
    Agitate
    Rotate
    Procreate
    Procrastinate

    etc. etc. etc...

  21. You missed these on Programming Interviews Exposed · · Score: 1

    Gyrate
    Debate
    Delegate
    Desecrate
    Designate
    Instigate
    Investigate
    Masticate
    Probagate
    Postulate
    Relate
    Dilate
    Grate
    Mate

    However, it is OK for prospective porno actors to masturbate

  22. OOPS, NOT AC on "Big Publishing's Worst Nightmare" · · Score: 1

    So old, I didn't get my password right first time.

  23. Re:a wee bit insular thinking here on How the Internet Boom Harms Society · · Score: 3

    Actually, I'd put a further angle on it and suggest that this sort of thinking is prevalent in the U.S. where money is automatically equated with success and intelligence.

    Based on this premise, with so much money being made at the moment in internet-related jobs, the people doing these jobs are regarded, and regard themselves as correspondingly intelligent.

  24. Re:Swedish? on Linus Torvalds is Turning 30, Kudos Are Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Well, a couple of hundred years ago Finland was more or less under Swedish rule, before succession to Russia, before gaining full independence after the first world war (during which they pretty well beat the shit out of the Russians, as they also did in the second world war)

    A minority (~ 5%) of Finns, including Linus Torvalds, still speak Swedish as their mother tongue.

  25. Debian not available in a box in the US? on Debian Retail on CNN · · Score: 1

    I saw Debian on retail at Media Markt in Switzerland about six months ago. 2 CD's for about CHF 35.00 (~US$ 24.00).