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  1. This is why on What Game Devs Should Learn From EVE · · Score: 4, Interesting

    EVE is so popular. It's not a game (anymore). Everyone takes it very seriously.
    CCP even hired economists to be able to cope with in-game markets...

  2. Turn everything off on Your Computer Or iPad Could Be Disrupting Sleep · · Score: 2, Informative

    before you go to sleep. Not only it saves your bill, but you'll get comfy environment to sleep in. No buzzing of adapters, no sound from IM, no fans, ... only silence to enjoy.

    occasionally I let my computer run with shutdown -h +40 and let it play some music like vangelis or enya. computer is in the switch which controls whole multiplug -> comp goes off, everything's going off

  3. Only relevant on Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 · · Score: 5, Informative

    part for the coders is:
    http://0xfe.muthanna.com/jsnotation/vexnotation.js

    this is the code responsible for generating the content.

  4. Diamond age on Do Children's E-Books Ruin Reading? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My guess is we're approaching Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", at least in terms of technology.
    The Primer also reacts to its owners' environment and teaches them what they need to know to survive and grow
    some more info on his ideas about "mediatrons" as he calls them: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=214

    e-ink, e-paper, ipad, not only technology changes, but the way people are educated too. now that they will have interactive textbooks, studying is not only going to be faster, but even more fun. anything from physics, chemistry, biology is going to be not only described, but shown. encarta of size of your palm. fantastic.

    indeed, I think some books will be better off left as they are now. the main reason behind this is imagination and fantasy of reader. if you are shown everything, then there is barely some space for you imagination to fire up. it might be fun to roll and twist your ipad, but it might be even funnier to have all those characters shaped up by your imagination instead of imagination of the artist who worked on it. but this applies to less extent than the former case with textbooks. i guess it's great technology to have in overall.

  5. Looks like they on Games Workshop Sues Warhammer Online Fansite · · Score: 2, Interesting
    chose the very opposite path that CCP hf. (EVE-Online) decided to go. They are doing whatever they can to prevent their fans to create some fan platform.
    CCP is helping fans with:
    • making videos
    • writing and publishing books about eve
    • reporting on events from eve universe
    • writing howto's and publishing them online
    • reporting on events from within CCP
    • providing API's for fan's servers and custom programs

    creators of warhammer seem to take the exactly opposite way...
    let's see how long it'll last

  6. Before we get on What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic · · Score: 4, Informative

    to floating point, please, everyone should've read Everything you ever wanted to know about C types and part 2 (which explains fp too).

    this will save a lot of time & questions to most beginning (and maybe mediocre) programmers.

  7. Certainly someone on Can Oil-Eating Bacteria Help Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    needs to read Neal Stephenson's Zodiac to talk about fallout of such action. Everything's connected, once you employ the bacteria in the process, something changes, maybe some other organisms start to feeding on them. Once the harmony is unbalanced, it'll take a while to regulate itself to sustainable state. I'm no eco-scientist, but I believe, there would be dozens of experts arguing against such action.

  8. Re:I swear on Israel Repeals iPad Ban · · Score: 1

    Great, so you have to leave the country to use things you "own". Do I understand it correctly?

  9. Why not on Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ask them, what they feel like would work for them?

  10. Re:Wasn't the Buran autonomous...? on USAF's Robotic X-37B Orbiter Launched For Test Flight · · Score: 5, Informative

    The two surviving are OK-GLI and OK-TVA.
    The former one was used for atmospherical tests, i.e. it had mounted 4 jet engines (from SU-27) and could take-off and land autonomously.
    Out of 25 flights, 14 were completely autonomous including landing.
    Last weekend we went to see OK-GLI locate in Speyer in Germany. Photos can be seen here:
    on picasa

  11. fight back on How Do I Fight Russian Site Cloners? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    check the dns domain registrar of theirs and report domain abuse.
    that's what whois information is about too.

  12. Here is the link to the video on Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoPYFxu-8w

    TEDxTampaBay-JimmyWales-021210

  13. *clap* *clap* Bravo *clap* on Future Ubisoft Games To Require Constant Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Now you will have even more people pirating your games because they will be bothered by your antipiracy measures, even though they bought titles legally.
    Just like everyone who buys legal dvd needs to watch fbi warning, despite the fact he didn't do anything bad. That's ingenious.

  14. working mirror on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Re:Here is video of the battle... on EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) · · Score: 1

    too bad given today's computing power, they must divide and reassign universe to nodes manually during downtime. imagine what it could be like if it ran on mainframe+cell addon cards: http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800463141_1800001_NT_b30dcef8.HTM http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/13685/IBM_Integrates_Cell_Into_Mainframes_For_Virtual_Worlds.php one truly self-contained universe...

  16. Here is video of the battle... on EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Re:Not bad for an update verion of "Fern Gully" on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1

    Actually flying rocks were explained in script (and it was also drafted in the movie) that they are full of unobtanium which (as we could see) levitate under some circumstances. The commander of base mentioned in the movie that they can't make bulldozers dig the flying mountains...

  18. How many more times are we going to run out? on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    This is zillionth news article I read about running of ipv4 addresses, first in 2000, then 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2014... what next?
    some corporations are given /8 subnets, they clearly don't take use of all of it, so it's not a problem to cut piece of cake from those ip ranges.

    i'm pretty sure, if we are in trouble, we can find "few" millions of unused ip's...

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/map_of_the_internet.jpg

  19. Re:Anatoli Bugorski on Life and Work On the LHC At CERN · · Score: 1

    proton beam moving at about the speed of sound

    just to fix that, speed of light
    otherwise perfect info, thanks for sharing!

  20. try OpenSolaris on Low-Power Home Linux Server? · · Score: 1

    I would recommend you OpenSolaris as ZFS can do compression on the fly what could save you some more bucks
    (in terms of hw or electricity if you avoid buying bigger hdds)
    it does all you require and with one or two line commands to enable it.
    for me it was definitely way to go...

  21. EU is to blame on Sun Microsystems To Cut 3,000 Jobs As Oracle Deal Drags On · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck EU. Dragging the deal because of OSS product. Stupid.

  22. Re:SELinux? on Local Privilege Escalation On All Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    actually grsecurity can (if configured properly) prevent this This issue could be mitigated by three things: "on IA32 with PaX/GrSecurity, the KERNEXEC feature" RTFA

  23. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    sounds brilliant, only if I had the mod points to mod up you...

  24. Re:Had This Problem Myself on AVG Update Breaks iTunes · · Score: 1

    I loved AVG for a long time

    How can someone actually *love* antivirus program? Something that slows down your work? Oo

  25. Re:Google Earth - Aerospace flight simulator *free on Entire Moon Added To Google Earth · · Score: 1

    Well, having flown all Flight Simulator series (at least in last 10 years) I realize that you can't fly a plane on a mars :) Indeed it's nice that Google Earth has this feature.