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  1. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 0

    I thought someone would bring that up. :P

    Some Aboriginals still live out in the bush in their own little clusters.
    Thats their choice.

    But if you see a aboriginal you dont think "Hey there is a aboriginal". They are just another person.
    Along with the asians, indians, europeans, americans, etc...

  2. Re:Yes please on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    So a lot of the people who it actually occurred to are probably dead?

    Why is it still a issue today then?

  3. Re:Yes please on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    And this was how many hundreds of years ago exactly?

  4. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    In Australia we really dont care too much.
    Mind you we are the multi-cultural country.

  5. Re:Can someone enlightened with engineering.... on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    Yeah I've always wanted to fly supersonic.
    It would cut the long flights dramatically.

    I also dont know why no one is going there anymore.

  6. Re:I guess... on Internet Sites Biased Towards Supporting Suicide · · Score: 2, Funny

    Darwin is also satisfied. :)

  7. Re:Really? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 2, Informative

    SDL is a pretty good equivelant for DirectX.
    It does all the extra stuff like sound, input, timers and threads.

    Guess what? A RPM of it is 208K. (I dont have it installed atm)
    A thousandth of the size of DirectX.

    You can throw everything in from Alsa to the video card drivers and you wont get near 200mb.
    A full install of KDE 4 (minus sounds and images) is half the size of DirectX.
    The amount of bloat is astonishing.

    And remember that the OP wanted to put DirectX on a embedded system.
    See why I'm laughing my ass off? :P

  8. Re:Not designed for Firefox, eh? on NASA Launches New Science Website · · Score: 1

    Fine on Seamonkey. Its just you.

  9. Re:Really? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 1

    That was on Linux.

  10. Re:Really? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You'd think they would clean up their code so it runs efficiently on normal computers but obviously its so bad that they cant. :P

    DirectX 9.0c is 218MB.
    Does that explain why you cannot have it on a embedded device?
    OpenGL is tiny for reference. The core of it is 0.7MB on my computer.

    And locking the iPhone in that manner isnt difficult.
    But its impossible with Windows. Need to be Admin to install stuff.

  11. Re:Really? on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 2

    Vista is just XP once you strip it down for embedded applications.
    Aero, UAC, DirectX 10, etc... all goes out the Window (pun intended).
    You simply cannot have that stuff on a small device.

    Anyway my P3 laptop running Linux will boot to GUI (KDE 4) faster than any Vista box no matter how much you chop out.

  12. Re:So, explain ... on Google Shares Its Security Secrets · · Score: 1

    Javascript which is executed by a computer?
    That makes it easier, not harder.

    No need for a JS engine either.
    For a target the size of Gmail just reverse engineer the JS and then reimplement it in to your bot.

    Using machine readable things to make something which isnt supposed to be machine readable is...uhh... stupid.

  13. Re:global warming on The Texas Petawatt Laser · · Score: 1

    And what exactly powers it? Oh wait coal.

  14. Re:Biter bitten on Imperial Storm Troopers Skirmish in Latest IP Battle · · Score: 1

    I am Australian. :P

    We have our own slang but the core of our language is British English.

  15. Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey if God was proven to be real one day, I think every major religion would be shattered, not just Atheists.

    All those religions. Not all of them can be right.
    By proving that God exists you destroy hundreds of faiths overnight.

  16. Re:Biter bitten on Imperial Storm Troopers Skirmish in Latest IP Battle · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US has had plenty of time to mutilate it.

    Just like how you guys have mutilated the English language. :)

  17. Re:Amazon or ebay incognito? on POD Braces Itself Against Amazon · · Score: 1

    What country are you in?
    Australia gets everything fine. From the .com site anyway.

  18. Re:WTF is wrong with slashdot? on Apple, New York City In Legal Dispute Over Logo · · Score: 1

    He said that it was shitty. Not that it didnt work. ;)

  19. Re:Enhance Your Sausage! on pizza.com Sold For $2.6m · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate system admins like that who only provide a www dns entry. :(

  20. Re:Never had a drive fail on Disk Failure Rates More Myth Than Metric · · Score: 1

    I make a point of buying WD drives in Australia.
    Never had one fail yet. Very impressed. :)

  21. Re:Heck, even Microsoft runs its wireless on Linux on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    Not to mention what their website uses.
    Yep. Linux.

    Well the Akamai portion of it.
    It does most of the work anyway. :)

  22. Re:Let's be honest. on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    Very limited number of open source projects?

    Go sign up for a shared hosting account if you dont already have one.
    Then have fun counting the number of individual projects are involved with it.
    It may take awhile so get a cup of coffee before hand. ;)

  23. Re:Use != Take Over on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    Some? Quite a bit actually is from BSD.
    Massive chunks in fact. ;)

  24. Re:No, the contract defines if it is legal on UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers · · Score: 1

    Thats the thing. It wasnt in the T&C and they denied they were doing anything at all.

  25. Re:What's the best method of defeating all this ** on UK ISP Admitted to Spying on Customers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They have defended our rights where others have not.

    They are also relatively honest and havent done anything immoral in regards to privacy to date.