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  1. Re:Don't have a postscript viewer? on Knuth Releases Another Part of Volume 4 · · Score: 1

    This works great.

  2. Re:Americans and soccer on Artificial Intelligence to Predict Sports Injuries · · Score: 1

    I think very many people in Europe would know about Milan even though they don't like soccer. And it wouldn't exactly hurt to put the name of the team into the article.

    I find it interesting to know which team it is. If it is a team as well-known and with as much money as Milan then it is likely to be well executed, unlike if it was some unknown team that hired the coach's son because he had taken an AI-class in school.

  3. Americans and soccer on Artificial Intelligence to Predict Sports Injuries · · Score: 4, Informative

    an Italian soccer team

    ah gawd, AC Milan is one of the most famous teams in the world, maybe the name could be included in the article, not just an Italian soccer team.

  4. Re:A simpler explanation. on The Empire Stumbles · · Score: 1
    Lucas had a simple good vs. evil story to tell in the original Star Wars. It did not require laborious scenes reminiscent of CSPAN in Space to explain. It was not about the special effects. They were there to serve the movie, not vice-versa as one might believe in the recent additions to the Star Wars saga.


    I'm too young to remember (hell, I was born around that time) so I can't be sure but wasn't the special effects of Star Wars pretty amazing when they arrived (was it '77?)?

    I don't know if they are comparable to ATOC where basically the whole movie is filled with special effects, but I wouldn't rule out the special effects of Episodes IV-VI as a reason so many people watched them.

    /Ryne

  5. Re:low bandwidth version on Matrix Reloaded Trailer Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anakin guards Queen Amidala. That leads to discovering a covert cloning project. Anakin sees his mother die, blames himself, and goes a little evil because of it. Big jedi fight. Reveal corrupt ex-jedi in league with Sith. Yoda makes fearful prediction. Anakin get's the girl.

    This is more story than a lot of movies has. E.g:
    Some dudes go to the mountain to throw down the ring into the pit

    Disclaimer: This was an attempt to be funny. I love Tolkien.

  6. Re:Can't wait for 1.0 on Mozilla 0.9.9 Released · · Score: 1

    I've had several problems with missing closing tags for table, tr and td. Then I get a really (I mean really) large gap in the text. And sometimes it's even crashed (0.9.8 that is, haven't tried 0.9.9 much yet).
    One page where it happens is www.aftonbladet.se. It's in Swedish but illustrates my point.
    I know this is a fault caused by incorrect html-code but it's still very annoying. Anyone else had this problem?

  7. Re:Translation on Blizzard, Bnetd Respond on Bnetd Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm stupid or something, but how does shutting out users from playing your games help your business?

    Blizzard are where they are because they've made some truly wonderful games and in my mind it's great that they offer free servers where you can play with other people (Although that will change with World of Warcraft).

  8. Re:EverCrack on Quantification of EQ Players · · Score: 1

    Is it so bad to play something just for the fun of it even though you don't learn anything from it. Personally I don't play games to learn how to shoot a gun or play hockey or whatever. I play games because it's fun and that's it. I enjoy the moments games give me _away_ from everyday life where everything is about learning/producing stuff.

    This isn't meant to pick on you (or anyone else). It's just that I hear a lot of people who don't play games or who have given up playing games because you can't learn anything.

  9. Re:Human limits on Genetically-Engineered Super-Athletes? · · Score: 1

    The world record has improved more than 0.2 since 1936. This site shows the world record at '36 was 10.38 and today it's 9.79. This is a lot for such a short distance as 100m.