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Re:More Raskins

On: UI Designers Hired by Mozilla

Yeah. Clearly the guy who invented holding down the Caps Lock key and typing "open firefox" to start firefox (real example from their home page) is a UI genius.

These gaming articles are boring

On: High School Sophomores Discover Asteroid

Yesterday we get "What Was Your First Gaming Experience" and today it's "High School Sophomores Discover Asteroids". So what? Who hasn't played Asteroids?

Re:But... why?

On: AT&T To Replace 17,000 Batteries

Because customers demand quick-charge batteries - it's a dicey proposition - you have to measure the current draw pretty carefully, or the battery temperature itself. Picture filling a bucket with a firehose without overflowing the bucket and you get the idea.

Re:Not that old, but still

On: What Was Your First Gaming Experience?

Sorry, never saw it. /sheepish

Re:Not that old, but still

On: What Was Your First Gaming Experience?

Clatto Verata N... Necktie... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!

That's "Klaatu barada nikto".

Pong

On: What Was Your First Gaming Experience?

I bought one when they first came out. Before that, it was chess.

Re:Server in the Sky?

On: 'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium

Sure, why NOT call it "Server in the Sky"? After all, it's purpose is To Serve Mankind.

Ummmm...

On: Modeling Urban Panic

5) identify, if possible, the tell-tale signs of a peaceful crowd about to metamorphosize into a hellish mob;

Post a story about Microsoft/Sony/SCO, that sort of thing?

Re:"Net Neutrality" is the wrong term.

On: Net Neutrality Summit

How about "Nyet Neutrality"? I think that's more like what we're going to end up with.

Another concrete example

On: Lax TSA Website Exposed Travelers' Information

Of why DHS is out front and pulling away in the "Scariest Agency" poll.

Re:getting old

On: EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory

Dude. If you're gonna talk reasonably then you can't have a conversation with the RIAA. The current generation of "leaders" there are the guys who got rich (re)-selling Beatles and Zepplin CDs to the people who already owned (and didn't realize they were going away) the LPs of those same albums. These clowns have an "I'm entitled to make a shitload of money" attitude, not based on the quality of the product they're putting out today, but on the format change that put the last forty years "greatest hits" on sale (and desireable) all over again.

Re:The surprising part

On: Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools

A Government department suggesting schools investigate the use of Linux? That's rather encouraging and should be seen as significant.

"Major Strasser has been shot. Bribe the usual suspects."

Re:Listen, and understand!

On: 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions

These religious fanatics can't help it, it's the way their brain is designed.

Hee hee.

Re:Opposed to facts

On: 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions

Indeed. Evolution is a fact. Punctuated Equilibrium (for example) is a theory.

Opposed to facts

On: 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions

Oscar Howard Jr., superintendent of Taylor County's School District, and Danny Lundy, vice chairman of the School Board, spoke in accents from that other Florida. ''We're opposed to teaching evolution as a fact,'' Howard said, adding that his School Board and 11 others have passed resolutions against the imposition of evolution in the school curriculum.

Before the "It's just a theory" folks start up, I'll point out that a theory is a model to explain the facts.

Re:How about a regular Cell based laptop?

On: Toshiba Uses Cell Chip In Consumer Laptop

Yeah, they were SO serious about NT on Alpha ;-)

Re:Doesn't run on Linux

On: Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree

Oh? Is your /usr/local/bin world writable? Or do you just always work as root?

Doesn't run on Linux

On: Computer Scientists Grow a Better Virtual Tree

Windows and Mac only. From the FAQ:

When will a Linux version be available?
As soon as we finish compiling it. Given how many things we have to statically link, it may be a while.

(emphasis mine). And then this gem

On Windows and Linux, trees.dat can be found in the same directory as the Dryad executable.

leads me to believe they're not real clear on how Linux works.
Oh well - looks like fun, though.

Re:texas drivers license

On: ID Tech May Mean an End to Anonymous Drinking

Careful, bro. Tampering with it could get you the death penalty.

Re:Iodine Clock Reaction

On: Chemical Reaction Changes Color Over and Over

Mumble. Blew the link.

Re:Iodine Clock Reaction

On: Chemical Reaction Changes Color Over and Over

Actually, it's this reaction TFA is talking about.

Re:Recommendations

On: FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment

Here you go. There'll be a quiz later.

Re:Learn the low level things.

On: What Skills Should Undergrads Have?

Agree completely. Learn pointers, pointers to structs, SQL and regular expressions. Write practice programs to read & parse CSV or other flat ASCII data files - XML isn't everywhere yet. Become competent at a Linux command line.

Re:Old news.

On: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

It is a really good book. It got me thinking about objects in ways that GoF never did. Maybe it's time to introduce a new generation of /.ers to it.

Re:well

On: Startup Building Floating Data Centers

AIEEEEEE!
Go to your room.