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  1. Re:No it isn't on How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software · · Score: 1

    For example most people find it much harder to memorize lines of commands than to look through a set of icons

    This is dead fucking wrong. Look at this picture. Tell me, which tabs made immediate sense to you? Hint: they weren't the ones with icons on them.

  2. Re:Usability is a matter of opinion on How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software · · Score: 1

    The GUI will always be better at displaying output, because it necessarily has a higher resolution(and at worst case can use xterms). The CLI, however, is an incredible input interface, because language(natural or otherwise) is the most flexible method of communication. (And don't say anything about regular users not using CLIs--most probably use one every day)

  3. Re:Usability is a matter of opinion on How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software · · Score: 1

    At that point you open up your Fitts's Law rant.

  4. Re:The real news is Vala on Games Come to Pidgin · · Score: 1

    Well, I mean, shortly after she was made a main character, Stargate SG-1 was canceled...oh wait, that Vala.

  5. Re:Old News on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    Tony Stark's suit?

  6. Re:Back to Basic on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    It's a lot harder in Python. You have to work against the language. In Perl, you work with the language, you get unreadable code.

  7. Re:Back to Basic on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    The reason we have these problems is because of the word "strong" typing. There is static/dynamic typing and there is "safe"/"unsafe" typing. Those are two independent features.

  8. Re:I don't really get the Java hate around here on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    Python 3000 doesn't exist anymore. The plans were scrapped and they've decided not to remove those features.

  9. Re:I wish they'd change the title on Dave Gibbons On the Forthcoming Watchmen Movie · · Score: 1

    That is correct. The movie would have been called "Hardwired". (Although there is an interesting thing about the title I, Robot--it wasn't Asimov's choice. It was actually pulled by the publisher from the name of a short story about a robot who killed its master--which is, incidentially, the plot of the movie.)

  10. Re:Are you kidding? on Dave Gibbons On the Forthcoming Watchmen Movie · · Score: 1

    How do these myths persist? It's like you've never even heard of The Departed. The only thing Hollywood won't do is make a work not based on something else.

  11. Re:WTF? on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Libya tried to kill us with RPGs? I thought World of Warcraft was a Korean weapon!

  12. Re:It's correlation masquearding as causation. on New Book Cuts Through Violent Video Game Myths · · Score: 1

    It's still violence, or at least it's still violent, but it's not wrong.

  13. It's a free market of ideas on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    and in the end that's what's important.

  14. Re:bringing down companies that create wealth on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I like to arrange things so that there's just enough room to fit the penis-shaped shipping container and four lines black out.

  15. Re: Who cares (Who knows?) on Toshiba Paid Off To Drop HD-DVD? · · Score: 1

    And anyways, although broadcast TV uses Beta it usually uses one of the more expensive Beta systems like Betacam rather than Betamax.

  16. Re:A second PC on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 1

    There are structural reasons that Linux will be less vulnerable than Windows even if it has larger marketshare. I say less vulnerable because there's still password problems. Unfortunately, there's no even vaguely mainstream capability OS.

  17. Re:Where are the 4-player PC games without 4 PCs? on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 1

    But does it run Linux?

  18. Re:free market? on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 1

    To mitigate that, all that needs to be done is decrease the barrier to entry to nothing but hard and smart work And how do we do this again?
  19. Re:What? on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 1

    There are acceptible curves of spacetime in the absence of matter, and they are called "gravity waves". Dark matter is just matter that doesn't interact with photons.

  20. Re:Photon rest mass? on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 1

    If the photon had a non-zero mass(there is only one type of mass. What people call 'relativistic mass" is properly called energy. Having time and space use different units in SR is as logical as having different units for altitude and ground distance in a Newtonian theory.) we'd be able to get it at rest*. We can't so it's mass must be zero.
    *Before anyone mentions neutrinos I'll point out that neutrinos interact a lot less than photons.

  21. Re:I Shall Not Leave My Tin Foil Lair on Optimus Keyboard Starts Shipping · · Score: 1

    Commodus was really that much of a jerk in the real Roman Empire though.

  22. Re:Yeah, BUT... on Richard Feynman, the Challenger, and Engineering · · Score: 1

    For some reason, the person linked to one in the middle of a storyline. Have you started at the beginning?

  23. Re:Is my documentation worthless? on AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming · · Score: 1

    Nowadays, the colleges are requiring you to do (some of) your homework in Maple/Mathematica so they can grade it automatically.

  24. Re:Life Insurance & Medical Coverage? on NIST Working On "Deathalyzer" · · Score: 1

    This is why we need an Obama presidency. As president, he'd support a healthcare bill and not get the passage screwed up like Hillary did in the 90s.

  25. Re:I smell the strong odor of SULPHUR on NIST Working On "Deathalyzer" · · Score: 1

    Everyone hates Bush now. Hell, even Republicans hate Bush now. Hugo Chavez isn't the only one saying bad things about a certain rhesus monkey.