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  1. Re:Wrong day, Bunsen born on 31 March, not 1 April on Robert Bunsen, Open Source Pioneer? · · Score: 1

    As of your posting time, in my timezone, March 31st still had a little over 8 hours left.

  2. Re:The profit motive is a great motivator on German Foreign Office Going Back To Windows · · Score: 1

    *shrug* "Linux on the desktop" has been a reality for me for the last 9 years. I think that the whole debate about whether it will become completely mainstream is a little pointless. As long as the community is large enough that hardware support expands along with new development with the consumer market, I think we're set. If you want desktop Linux, it's available and highly functional. That's what matters to me.

  3. Re:Samsung on What Exactly Is a Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Neck-belts are SO 1997!

  4. Re:This raises questions: on Woman's Voice Restored After Larynx Transplant · · Score: 1

    This video has some video of her talking a little later. She still sounds worse than most smokers, but she's perfectly understandable, and the voice is identifiably female.

  5. Re:Real Old School on Sony Planning Serial Keys For PS3 Games? · · Score: 1

    That was Monkey Island 2.

  6. Re:I'll be first to say WTF on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    Think about it from the other direction. You'd agree that 1.0-0.999...=0.000...1, right? So follow those zeroes....where is the 1 that "magically" gets added to 0.999...?

  7. Re:Im sorry - define Kit on EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kit. Equipment. Stuff. From here: "Today, Apex manufactures and ships EMC's market-leading EMC® CLARiiON® CX series of networked storage systems, EMC Celerra® network attached storage systems and EMC Centera(TM) content addressed storage systems."
    I'm assuming that the equipment and software stolen was from those product lines.

  8. Re:I used to write 6502 assembly... on Preserving Great Tech For Posterity — the 6502 · · Score: 1

    I know there's one that if you're using an indexed address mode, and the index would cause the address to cross to the next page of memory, it loops back to the beginning of the page.

  9. Re:okay thats great but on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    Ah. So you're saying you're No True Scotsman, eh?

  10. Re:3D animation primer on Beginning Blender · · Score: 1

    Blender has the perennial issue of a shifting interface. Generally, it's for the better, but each new revision has some degree of learning curve. So, the problem now is looking for tutorials that use the same interface that your copy of the program has. 2.5 is a brand new release, so tutorials written using it are likely to be relatively rare, in comparison to the ones based on previous versions of the program. This early on, picking up a book may be a good move. Or just learn with the older version. If you're not looking to become a professional Blender artist, my guess is that a 2.4x version would work out just fine.

  11. Re:Biggest legal issue, IMO on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    In this situation, a reasonable person might balk at the idea that the machines save the images, and that individuals besides the presumably professional security guards may easily have access to those images (like the ones that leaked 35,000 such images from a scanner in Florida. You can't tell me that there aren't likely to be smaller, quieter leaks of these images going on that we won't ever hear about before they start showing up as fetish material on some NSFW website.

  12. Re:And Windows is? on Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle? · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the PWN2OWN competition in 2008, attackers were able to crack the OSX and Vista laptops, but no one succeeded in breaking into the Ubuntu machine. There weren't any Linux targets in 2009 or 2010 (it looks like the focus shifted more toward web browser vulnerabilities anyhow).

  13. Re:Black Ops on Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases · · Score: 1

    Zelda Twilight Princess. There's a bug having to do with saving the game in that underground room with the cannon up to the sky city. Basically, if you save there and reload the game, you're stuck, and you have to start over. Sure, it's easy to avoid, but definitely something QA should've caught.

  14. Re:You've got it all wrong! on Street View On iOS Pierces German Privacy Veil · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, in the 4th season, the show kinda jumped the shark with that whole love triangle between Mal, Inara, and River....that's not even mentioning the introduction of that robotic dog, Quan, or when Kaylee turned out to be the one to design an interstellar drive, and they went to find aliens....really disappointing!

  15. Re:Chewie the Wook? on Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew · · Score: 1

    "Chewie the Wook"

  16. Re:Be careful what you wish for... on SCO Assets Going To October Auction · · Score: 1

    Obviously SCO's bitter minions are going to poison the source trees of all open source projects, and it will be the job of the one project that escaped infection to scour the corners of the internet for the cure.

  17. Re:wow on Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year · · Score: 1

    I want the OLD UI back. The new one sucks donkey balls. At least the old one kept the ads segregated to the page where you were buying stuff anyhow. I absolutely LOATHE turning on my 360, because I know it comes up with a wall full of ads. I paid for the damned thing, it didn't have quite that level of advertisement when I bought it, and the ads bring nothing but pain to the experience. And Avatars suck.

  18. Re:In other news on Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Marriage isn't about sex. It's about a personal connection to another human being. Sex isn't that important on its own. You don't get anything out of it that your hand can't provide. I'd rather have a sexless but loving marriage than I would a parade of young, easy pussy.

  19. Re:Ever been to Tokyo? on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    Simply because of its simple sounds, Japanese benefits from kanji as differentiators of homonyms. Using only the kana would be equivalent to processing speech only if punctuation was added for tonal emphasis in words (Japanese has a certain degree of tonality that helps differentiate homonyms).

    (As a side note, "carburetor" is written phonetically, as "kaburetaa")

  20. Re:Worst summary ever on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    But it requires extraordinary effort to "un-blow" the eFuse (certainly beyond what most consumers could do, and beyond what many techies would have the equipment to fix).

  21. Re:safety issues on George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser' · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Computer screens must look odd to you, then...

  22. Re:The funny part is, it's still better than Andro on Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. · · Score: 1

    My phone's an HTC Hero, and I really wish it had foreign language text input to match what the iPhone has. I'm studying Japanese, and the text input methods and dictionary apps on my iPod Touch are lifesavers....that being said, I don't think the iPhone would be worth it (between AT&T's network, the cost of the plans, and the cloud of smug hanging around Apple products)

  23. Re:Square to hexagon conversion on Civ 5 Will Let You Import and Convert Civ 4 Maps · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that there are special scenario maps already produced for Civ4, and they want those scenarios to provide content for Civ5 as well.

  24. Re:Too literal on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 4, Informative

    No one hears frequencies that high. People that claim to do so are generally hearing much lower frequency harmonics of the sound that they claim to hear. The commonly quoted maximum human-audible frequency is around 24kHz. Secondly, 3840 X 2400 is the largest display resolution I could find any mention of (aside from multi-display arrangements). You could find a display with over 3x the pixel count of a 1080p display, but not with 3x the resoution. That's a 22-inch display by Toshiba, which means it's about 2/3 the dpi of the iPhone screen. Essentially, you shouldn't be able to see the pixels from over 2 feet away, 3 feet if you have excellent eyesight.

    So....can I have your autograph, Kal-El?

  25. Re:A higher layer of abstraction on Preserving Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    I have a 2600 that plugs into my hdtv using an rf modulator. It seems to be the same modulator that the machine shipped with, and it works perfectly well. Same for my NES. The both just plug into the converter, and the converter plugs into the coax on the television.