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  1. Re:3 Stages on Might Episodes VII - IX Still Be Made? · · Score: 1

    And sometimes we can just stay aside. So we're back to square zero :)

  2. Re:3 Stages on Might Episodes VII - IX Still Be Made? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, now that you mention it, that kinda looks like a bit of a self defeating statement :D Not that it doesn't make sense...

    BTW, check out my current sig :P

  3. Re:On being a roach on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 3, Informative

    The cockroach doesn't feel the velcro since they don't have nerve endings on their cuticles, according to the site. The ball probably doesn't feel very unnatural, I guess...

  4. Re:Both sides need to get a grip. on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    That's not the matter at hand here. But yes, maybe I could have phrased it a little bit better...

  5. Re:Both sides need to get a grip. on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Please don't confuse Bittorrent with the things shared with it. Bittorrent is perfectly legitimate, but many things shared with it aren't...

  6. Re:Torrent is dead... on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1
  7. Getting it already on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 1

    I'm downloading this already, although I don't plan to watch it before I go to the cinema (tomorrow, tickets at hand right now :D)...

    I don't know how some people can spoil the experience of seeing the movie with decent quality just for the sake of seeing it first...

  8. Re:here's how to get it out on Mars Rover Opportunity Still Stuck In a Dune · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this worked for me once, when my car got stuck... so it must work for the Rover too! I guess...

  9. Re:Building a MineSweeper player? on Reverse Engineering MineSweeper · · Score: 1

    My friend has done it in C, it usually solves the expert level under 4 seconds in a Pentium 4 Centrino :D

  10. Very good news on Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is very good news if this pattern catches on... Many times I've wanted to read papers which were referenced on other papers, and I couldn't because they were in paid-subscription sites such as ScienceDirect, IEEE, or ACM...

    I don't want to have to subscribe to that many associations if I just want to read a paper or another ocasionally, science research should be free for all!

  11. Re:Give me my any-color-but-blue SOD! on Longhorn: Fewer BSODs, More RSODs · · Score: 1

    Try googling for CrashOnCtrlScroll... But be careful in order not to fuck your file system, registry or something when doing it, which means - close all applications and maybe even services before you do this...

  12. Re:/.ing on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    It was enough to slashdot the server. Welcome to the world of facts, Ta Mere...

  13. Nice troll on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    Nice troll... now go out and catch some fresh air :)

  14. Re:Truly random on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Oops, I got it now :)

  15. Re:Exactly. on Google Web Accelerator · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but my point was that the fact that they were correct wouldn't help them much during a trial...

    By the way, are you invoking Godwin's law? :D

  16. Re:Exactly. on Google Web Accelerator · · Score: 2

    Ethical standards aren't above the law. Not for corporations' wide-known measures at least...

  17. Re:Truly random on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but I didn't get it yet - in which way is the number of turing machines limited? Can't I have as many states and transitions as I wish?

  18. Re:Truly random on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 1
    Alternatively, observe that there are uncountably many infinite sequences of bits, but only countably many programs.


    What are the assumptions which lead you to say there are countably many programs? On Turing machines, that's not true.

    Anyway, thanks for your explanation :)
  19. Re:infinitely improbable on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    No... After being tortured in the Guantanamo prison, Pi has agreed to have the value 3. All the remaining digits are currently being analysed in order to gather intelligence about terrorism related activities.

    In other news, Pi has been refused the status of prisoner of war, since it's just a number...

  20. Re:Truly random on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    By your definition, no data ever would be random.

    I can make a pseudo-random number generator which generates a very big uncompressible file (with any entropy encoding method), but then you could say - I can compress it by finding your program by brute force.

    Our mathematical system (with which you wrote your formula for pi) is only one of infinite systems with which we can describe sequences of numbers. If I make a compiler which generates a random-number generating program, when the input to the compiler is just a single space, would you then say that the data wasn't random because you could reduce it to just a single space?

    That's what you did when you wrote that formula...

  21. Re:Microsoft has always gone "dog food" on Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Actually they have been using Visual Studio to build most of their products for many years now.

  22. Re:A couple thousand servers... on Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Just multiply it by 2 libraries of congress, or by the speed of a bicycle...

  23. Re:To contrast on Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Well, there's your starting rate of 2, which some moderator could consider to be too much... ;)

  24. Re:OT / Is anyone getting screwed up pages? on The Darth Vader Blog · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I saw that one too... Was even wondering if many people were commenting on that in the stories, then I found your post :)

    That ad SUCKS...

  25. I hate this kind of posts... on 64-Bit Windows Releases Now Available · · Score: 1

    What on earth does that mean?

    It means just what it says.

    Does a call to MS support cost so much that one free call is worth mentioning in the summary?

    Read the sentence which is before the one you quoted.

    Or do they know that anyone using W64 will need to call MS support, or what?

    Not necessarily ;)