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  1. Re:Dragon Book on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1

    Off the top of my head: LISP.

  2. Re:Wrong problem! on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    Point taken. Factoring primes is still not NP-Complete, which was the point I should have been trying to make.

  3. Wrong problem! on Prominent Mathematicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · · Score: 1

    Actually, factoring prime numbers is not NP complete, as it has already been proven to be in P on Quantum computers. So, if factoring were NP-complete, then we could very happily say that P=NP.

  4. The relevant law: on Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic · · Score: 1

    TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 - SECT 46 Misuse of market power (1) A corporation that has a substantial degree of power in a market shall not take advantage of that power in that or any other market for the purpose of: (a) eliminating or substantially damaging a competitor of the corporation or of a body corporate that is related to the corporation in that or any other market; (b) preventing the entry of a person into that or any other market; or (c) deterring or preventing a person from engaging in competitive conduct in that or any other market. (1AA) A corporation that has a substantial share of a market must not supply, or offer to supply, goods or services for a sustained period at a price that is less than the relevant cost to the corporation of supplying such goods or services, for the purpose of: (a) eliminating or substantially damaging a competitor of the corporation or of a body corporate that is related to the corporation in that or any other market; or (b) preventing the entry of a person into that or any other market; or (c) deterring or preventing a person from engaging in competitive conduct in that or any other market. I suspect that 1 (a) and (b) could be a problem here.

  5. Re:trademark infringement? on If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over · · Score: 1

    No. The product name is Office Open XML, not Open Office XML.

  6. Re:And one of those is on No Wine for Dell Ubuntu Users, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    No it's not, there are about 4 packages you can make that will cover 99% of users: RPM, DEB, TGZ and source. Just configure your build script to make each one every time you build, it's a 1-time cost in effort for the author.

    This, of course, assumes that every distro that uses RPM uses the same version of libc, was built against the same libraries etc etc etc -- the same can be said for DEBs. There are many packages from older versions of Debian that will not run on Etch. In other words, even though the package is in the same container, you would still need to re-build it.

  7. Re:Isn't is supposed to be legal? on Australians Allowed to Format Shift Media · · Score: 5, Informative

    No... the law here previously stated that the only fair use for copying was for educational, etc. purposes... The law hadn't changed since the 1960's. The issue was that the law explicitly stated that you couldn't make copies. So, now the law has a fair use clause like the one in the States, and all is now good in the world of CD Ripping

  8. Re:References... on Google, Jabber, and Jingle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah... The BETA is out tomorrow. It's called "Gaim-vv"

  9. Re:this, from the expert on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 1

    The article mentions about three comps that I've been in, but they were fairly well hidden. SOrry for the confusion. Over the past year, I've been involved in about 4 (Australian Computer Programming Competition, twice, UNSW ProgComp and the SEARCC comp). Sorry for the confusion.

  10. Re:nothing to see here, move along on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 1

    Yes, writing a Space Parser in advance is fair, if your language doesn't have it built in - gives an extremely unfair advantage to C++ coders if you don't.

  11. Re:Bogus Template on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 1

    and are basically the same thing, and work in the same way. I've been forced into using Borland Turbo C++ (from 1992) before: You have a much better chance of the older C libraries being available than the new C++ ones.

  12. Re:this, from the expert on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 1

    You could read TFA - This isn't a documentation of a one-off event, rather many. I only found myself entered in the first one unexpectedly...

  13. Re:Code before competition on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't, but I'd assume that you have a National Informatics Olympiad. The best thing to do would be to Google it :).

  14. Re:Code before competition on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the Competition in India, we had around 10 minutes to get used to the IDE and compiler, and we used that to have our code ready. Most other comps are the same.

  15. Re:Code before competition on Introduction to Competitive Programming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you don't get your own teminal, sometime it can only be what you can write in 1-5 minutes. So generally, you can only code what I put in the article.

  16. Re:But wont.. on Firefox Continues to Bite into IE Usage · · Score: 1

    People harp on about this, but its "integration" is really no different to khtml into KDE.

    No.. IE ties directly into the OS, not just the GUI (which is what KHTML does)
  17. Re:Confused... on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 1
  18. Re:adding in OGG? on Hacking the iPod Firmware · · Score: 1

    http://www.audiocoding.com

  19. Re:Some software SHOULD be not open. on Is Some Software Meant to be Secret? · · Score: 1

    Generally, there is some sort of central control in the project, so that someone actually sees the security exploit before it gets released to the public -- open source doesn't mean that the changes are public as soon as someone (your 'agent') decides to put it there...

  20. Re:Good for Australia, sucks to Haradine on Australia Chooses Education Over Filtering · · Score: 1

    But they don't vote for him anymore since he retired, and that can only be a good thing.

  21. Re:Very, very hot water? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 1

    where the hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium atoms I'm sure that that would mean that they can't get hydrogen out of the said water then, as there is no hydrogen in it?

  22. Re:sweet on Winamp Down for the Count · · Score: 1

    There is an mplayer backend for xmms, and can be found at TheGraveyard.org