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  1. Pick any one of the two, and make an alias for the other. Then each user can use the one he likes best.

  2. Professional masters degree on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    Go for a professional masters degree. Some universities will take your work experience as good enough to enroll in a professional masters, maybe with extra courses first. The designation varies from country to country, usually it's called a Master of Arts in IT or CS. Think MBA for IT.

  3. Re:Humm... on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    If they are transfered to a prison within the US, then they have to press charges. As far as I know in the US(I'm not from the US) you cannot detain somebody indefinitely without charges, except at Guantanamo that is. Please somebody clarify this.

  4. What about Valparaiso, Chile? on Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Informatics Engineering programs in Chile are similar to CS + SE in the US. Check http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/ for one of the best engineering universities in Chile, and the best for CS. Also Valparaiso/Vin~a del Mar are great places to live.

  5. Try your hand at brute force AI for abstract games on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 1

    Run any simple parallel alpha-beta searcher on games like chess, go or arimaa.

    Or paralelize several algorithms for these lkind of games and see how well they scale.

  6. Re:documented huh? on Space Station Toilets Poop Out · · Score: 1

    Any link with some info?

  7. Re:Still using safari or IE? on The Smartest Browser and OS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So extensibility is your main/only reason for choosing a browser? What about speed, ease of use, % of pages rendered OK, safety? (Yes, I use Opera)

  8. Re:How about some details? on Extreme Linux Server Available to North America · · Score: 1

    Also I would like to know if it works in high altitude > 5000 meters. It is not easy to come up with hardware that performs well and last long at this altitude. The main issue of hard drives has been solved in the last years with solid state drives, but one of the issues that still remains is cooling, at that heigth the fans doesn't have that much air to blow.

  9. Re:On that note on Extreme Linux Server Available to North America · · Score: 1

    Isn't centigrade based on 0: melting point of water, and 100: boiling point of water, and celsius based on -273.15: 0 kelvin(absolute 0) and 0.01:triple point of water? Anyway, shouldn't matter for 99.9% of people.

  10. Re:Who cares? on African Americans and the Video Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Is a dark-skinned person that was born in Denmark and now is a citizen of and lives in the USA an African-American, a Danish-American, a Denmark-born African-American, an African-Dane (Afrodane?), or...? None of these seem satisfactory. What about black? I mean, I'm south american, with french and spanish ancestors, but I wouldn't call myself european-south american, I think of myself as white. Disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen and not aware of what are the politically correct words there.
  11. Re:Va China on China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos · · Score: 1

    I mean they're going after the Dalai lama
    The Dalai Lama lives in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_Lama#Residence/

    the Dalai lama, the peoples religious leader
    About 8% of the chinese population is an active buddhist(even though about 50%-60% are non practicing but follow the traditions), in fact, about 60% of the chinese indentify themselves as non-religious.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China/

    I don't see how China is fit to host the Olympics. Do the athletes know that people are dying in tibet just so China can run the Olympic torch through tibet? Its all messed up. They are not ready yet. All that without even touching on censorship.
    And what about 1936 Berlin Olympics? I think you think too much of the Olympics.
  12. Re:Very, Very Large on Very Large Array Gets Expanded Capability · · Score: 1

    The name of the project is actually EVLA: Expanded Very Large Array

  13. Re:What about personal things on Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle · · Score: 1

    How can you have a 'wrong' garbage can? Isn't garbage garbage? Ever heard of recycling?
  14. Re:Mexico is only ordering 50K? on Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K · · Score: 1

    And that someone is Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world. Third according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_billionaires_(2007)
  15. Re:Wireless on A Review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    My Intel Pro Wireless 3945 works fine on Linux.

  16. Re:obigatory joke on Russian Police Seize Kasparov · · Score: 1

    However, when Putin starts assassinating dissidents outside of Russia So, it's OK for him to assassinate dissidents inside Russia?
  17. Re:just taking care to take care. on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    "When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny." I prefer: "Each country has the leaders it deserves"
  18. Re:Poor timing on Wii 'Popularity Bubble' to Burst? · · Score: 1

    The shelves are slowly filling as the sales rate drop and the manufactures rise. I got mine 2 weeks ago in Albuquerque. Didn't have to wait or pre order or anything like that.

  19. Re:Wasn't that always the case? on Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I just checked Opera 9.50 Alpha in this test: http://www.css3.info/selectors-test/ and I got the following result: "From the 43 selectors 43 have passed, 0 are buggy and 0 are unsupported (Passed 578 out of 578 tests)"

  20. Re:Wasn't that always the case? on Opera 9.5 Beats Firefox and IE7 As Fastest Browser · · Score: 1

    I have Opera 9.50 Alpha, and it passes the Acid2 test, just like former versions of Opera did.

  21. Medical records? Finances? Sexual life? on NASA Employees Fight Invasive Background Check · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How the hell asking those kind of things helps prevent terrorism?(which is the stated goal according to the article) And anyway, even if it did help I wouldn't agree.

  22. Re:A browser with native BitTorrent on Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available · · Score: 1
    Say you have three tabs open. You have first tab active. You switch to third tab. You close it. Opera goes to... yes, it goes back to first tab. Unlike in all /normal/ browsers to second one - but to least recently used first.
    All you have to do is press "4" on the numeric keypad while first tab is raised. That wil send that tab to the back. Then, as you close each tab, they will cicle "normally". Opera has many key shortcuts and it takes a while to get used to them.
  23. Re:I really don't understand Opera lovers on Opera Reaches 1 Million Downloads Thanks To Google · · Score: 1

    Can you point me to some of these pages? I've compared firefox and opera myself, and i found that opera does a better work usually. Anyway, my point of view may be biased since i am a long time user of opera.

  24. Re:Careful with your real estate speculations... on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 2, Informative

    it'd be interesting to hear by what mechanism the earth's oceans would be higher in some places, but lower in others

    Actually, the pacific ocean is about 20 cm higher than the atlantic.See http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/puscience/#3 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_canal for more in-depth information.

  25. Re:SALT, ALMA, ... what's next? on SALT Telescope First Light · · Score: 1

    that "alma" means "apple" in Hungarian

    Actually i think ALMA was chosen because it means "soul" in spanish.