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  1. Re:Skills For Life on New York's Video-Game-Based Public School · · Score: 1

    Of course, knowing the reproductive system of some trees helped me a lot in my software development job...

  2. Nokia buying Riverbank on Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt · · Score: 1

    Couldn't Nokia buy Riverbank like they did with Qt Software? Probably they did try, and this really was the last option available.

  3. Riiiight on Oracle To Sell Sun's Hardware Business To HP? · · Score: 1

    I find it had to believe they would lay off the hardware department. Oracle would love to have full control over the whole computing stack, from hardware, to OS, to middleware, to the development of the final software public. Suits would love to have an all-in-one package, optimized, from the catalogue, solution. Order, receive it, turn it on, it's working.

  4. Brazilian publishers on The Best and Worst Tech-Book Publishers? · · Score: 1
    If you ever have control when publishing translations of your book abroad, remember two things about Brazilian publishers:
    • Alta Books has a cesspool quality, it's a notoriously incompetent publisher. Their translation and diagramation are disgusting.
    • Bookman is awesome, but please ask them to do not translate nouns, like design patterns names or important keywords, these are pretty much international recognized brand names.
  5. Re:One step closer to robot world domination on Toyota Reveals A Humanoid Robot That Can Run · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If your definition of invention is 'to wrrite science fiction stories', then yes.

  6. Bad distros on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Part of the blame are the bug-ridden cheap distros that come with the computer.

    I've seen a whole community trying to help a guy to get his notebook, mainly the wi-fi, to work.

    Days later he gave up and installed Ubuntu. It just worked.

  7. No laws overrridden on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From TFA:

    For 30 years, the PC industry has treated Moore's Law with religious reverence. Its immutable commandment -- thou shalt double the transistors on circuits every 18 months -- created an enviable business model with consumers spurred to buy new, more powerful PCs every few years.

    The actual law is about reduction of cost, not increase of performance. Other formulation says:

    The transistor cost shall halve every 2 years.

    ARM is not breaking any "law".

  8. Re:High payload on Instant Messaging Vulnerable To New Smiley Attacks · · Score: 1

    It seems Slashdot blocks malware in Unicode...

  9. High payload on Instant Messaging Vulnerable To New Smiley Attacks · · Score: 1

    Σ(ï¾YÐ"ï¾Y)

  10. Re:SAME here, from a *longtime* Linux user on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    So you have been itching for decades and still have not scratched it?

  11. Re:Manga can be anything on The Manga Guide to Statistics · · Score: 1

    Dropping a bomb or two in someone else's country does that to you. Not to mention the occupation later.

  12. Re:Who wants to bet... on Estonian ISP Shuts Srizbi Back Down, For Now · · Score: 1

    Being even more thick:

    What the hell is ICANN and the Root Nameserver Operators doing at this time?

    They are the ones who have power to take any domain names and resolve them to an security taskforce cluster of servers to disable this criminal operation.

  13. A very fit 10 million on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    Interestingly only a year ago the i386 and x86_64 trees merged into one, greatly reducing the SLOC count at the time.

  14. DDOS world record on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe they will attempt the world record for the largest, willing, Distributed Denial of Service Attack.

    Well, what the hell, lets help bury their servers :)

  15. Wine Windows Vista on First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Wine might reach a point where it is more compatible with Windows apps than the latest Windows itself.

    Good luck running 15 years worth of Windows apps on Vista. I'd bet Wine does that more than the latter.

  16. Re:Audience like me on Dreamworks Acquires Rights for Ghost in the Shell · · Score: 1

    Matrix is the one which has GitS-like ideas, the Wachowski Brothers even acknowledged of it in an interview.

  17. It's no GUNDAM on Endeavour Crew to Assemble Giant Robot, in Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess the Canadian Space Agency beat the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture into putting a robot in space.

  18. 1-page, no ads version on Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More · · Score: 3, Informative
  19. Re:Open Source on The Benefits of 'Vendor-Free' Open Source IT · · Score: 1

    "and there's nothing we can do"

    Are there any real developers in that community? I'd say they could code their own, 10 times better, authentication code during that time.

  20. Re:Does it matter anymore? on KDE and KOffice Rebuke OOXML, GNOME Dithers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not until KDE 4.1.

  21. Genetically-oriented criminals on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 1

    So instead of "Not guilty by reason of insanity" they now might say "Not guilty because of genetic tendency"?

  22. Re:good idea on Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    Sage encourages the user to view the source of their functions because scientific work must be accountable and peer-reviewed. Everything you depend upon must be proved and their implementation must be correct.

    Now Firefox and KDE, the great majority of their users don't even know how to read a line of a program, nor they care.

    It's all a matter of "Target User Base".

    On the other hand, I'd love run Firefox with a --view-source option. Perhaps even correct/tinker with the code on-the-fly and JIT compile it.

  23. Re:Can Venus be made habitable? on New Results From Venus Express · · Score: 1

    Open a large wormhole inside Venus and Mars atmospheres, and let the pressure(Venus' is 10000 times higher than Mars') do the job. This should help stabilize both planets.

  24. Re:Sooo? on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 1

    If the perceived technological value of a product had anything to do with age, tech gurus would be ancient people with bald heads and long, long white beards.

    Oh wait.

  25. Sooo? on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >> Your daughter saw a lot of value.
    > She's 13. Am I the only one missing the point here?