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  1. Re:Hulu +/- on Hulu Plus Now Available To All — But Be Warned · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing what the summary means is that just because you have Hulu Plus doesn't mean all the content will be available to watch on a device other than a computer (ie. PS3).

  2. Re:2.3 == 3 on Google's Gingerbread Man Has Arrived · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Winamp skipped version 4 because they said what became version 5 was the best of both versions 2 and 3 (2+3=5).

    And of course the general disconnect between Java versions of what the consumer sees and what the developer works with. Java 1.5 to the developer, Java 5 to the end user, etc.

  3. Glad to comply on Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there some kind of catalog or web site I can browse to see examples of what's legal and not?

  4. Ron Gilbert on Apple Announces iLife '11, FaceTime Mac, Lion, Mac App Store, MacBook Air · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As Ron Gilbert just put it
    "For you Apple apologists claiming Apple will never lock down the Mac, step one is in place and you all let it happen."

  5. Re:Awesome. on Duke Nukem 3D On Unreal Engine 3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Add Square Enix for their treatment of Chrono Trigger Resurrection and Crimson Echoes.

    http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/
    http://crimsonechoes.com/

  6. hunter2 on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What? ******* isn't good enough for you? I love how the new Slashdot converts your password into asterisks! So convenient!

  7. Re:Rotate the screen? Seriously? on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because the complaint about lost vertical space is not about gaming but about reading web pages and writing long methods, which isn't going to noticeably suffer at all from the framebuffer order.

  8. 64 cores on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At my last job we had a bunch of Sun T5120s which housed 64 cores. So yeah, we are "anywhere near 48".

  9. Re:There used to be a time... on Game Reviewers Face Odd Bribery From Publishers · · Score: 1

    They're still there, you just pay $10-100 more for the Collector's edition now.

  10. Canceling moderation on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 1

    Moderated wrong post.

  11. Re:The guilds are even dumber on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember, the guild cares deeply about their members getting proper credit

    I guess "their" is the key word, as they weren't interested in actually representing how the movie was made, but by who was actually paying the guild their dues. Seems like it really is all about the "money-men" still.

  12. Re:The Best-Selling Video Game of All Time... on 25 Years of Super Mario Bros. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we're including pack-in games (which Wii Sports is in North America, but not in Japan), then wouldn't Solitaire be the best selling game of all time? It was "sold" with hundreds of millions of copies of Windows.

  13. Re:Really? on Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I haven't RTFA but maybe Google includes Gmail, Youtube, Blogspot, etc?

  14. Re:step 2 missing on Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access · · Score: 1

    I thought of this after my post, this is also a good possibility.

  15. Re:step 2 missing on Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, it says "in part" because he was a Muslim. Probably more in part due to the Japanese government knowing exactly where he was being held so they could apply pressure accordingly. It's not random that a guy goes missing on April 1st, makes a few help me tweets on September 3rd and is then released a day or so later.

  16. Re:so apple does not like blind people? on Authors Guild Silent Over iBooks Text-To-Speech · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have a friend who's totally blind and is incredibly adept at technology. He runs his own web site, uses his iPhone daily, and compliments/complains daily to companies who don't have accessibility features on their apps and gadgets. He also plays video games and records himself playing and posts the videos on Youtube.

    Here's his contacts if anyone is interested in reading stuff from him:
    http://twitter.com/liamerven
    http://www.youtube.com/liamerven

  17. Re:oh man on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 1

    This is what I use my Sheeva Plug for, watches RSS feeds and downloads automatically, also acts as the NAS for the house. Great stuff, really simple to configure being Debian and all.

  18. Unit testing achievements on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://exogen.github.com/nose-achievements/

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    Instant Feedback
    A suite of at least 50 tests takes less than a second to run.
    *
    Coffee Break
    The suite takes between 5 and 15 minutes to run.
    *
    Take a Walk
    The suite takes between 15 and 60 minutes to run.
    *
    Take a Nap
    The suite takes between 1 and 5 hours to run.
    *
    Take a Vacation
    The suite takes at least 3 days to run.
    *

    Coming soon!
    Anticipation
    One test in a suite of at least 10 is slow, and all the rest pass.

    Time

    *
    Night Shift
    Make a failing suite pass between midnight and 5am.
    *
    Punctuality
    Make a failing suite pass at 9am (give or take a minute).

    Failure

    *
    Complete Failure
    All tests in a suite of 50 to 999 fail.
    *
    Epic Fail
    All tests in a suite of at least 1,000 fail.
    *
    Minor Letdown
    All tests in a suite of 10 to 99 pass...except the last.
    *
    Major Letdown
    All tests in a suite of at least 100 pass...except the last.
    *
    Happy Ending
    All tests in a suite of at least 10 fail...except the last.
    *

    Coming soon!
    Heisenbug
    Make a passing suite fail without changing anything.

    Errors

    *
    Sausage Fingers
    Cause at least 2 distinct syntax errors in a single run.
    *
    To Understand Recursion
    Exceed the maximum recursion depth.
    *

    Coming soon!
    To Err is Human
    Cause all tests in a suite of at least 50 to fail with a single error.

    Size

    *
    My God, It’s Full of Dots
    The suite has at least 2,001 passing tests.

    Frequency

    *

    Coming soon!
    OCD
    Run the suite at least 5 times in the spa

  19. Re:Underground on Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe · · Score: 1

    Hell, Michigan?

  20. Re:Interesting, but... on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    In the novelization it was right after the prologue.

  21. Re:Old or new??? on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    It was a cool scene in the book because of the tension on when he turned the lightsaber on for the first time. I remember Luke debating in his mind whether to have R2 turn it on first because if the crystals weren't positioned just right the saber might blow up.

  22. Question for EVE players on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is there a reason an out of game object is stored within the game like this? Can you buy them in the game?

  23. Simpletons! on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 0

    For values of N where N != 1

  24. Re:Already? on Why Wave Failed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because Google is abandoning it.

  25. Like the idea on The Bus That Rides Above Traffic · · Score: 1

    Very cool, and while the video seems to touch on it and explain the system (don't understand Chinese), I'm still worried about the whole cars passing underneath it and tall trucks getting told to move to the side. The buses would need to be super communicative to avoid any kind of collisions.

    Also not sure how much infrastructure would need to be modified to accommodate the buses, apparently they need two lanes and quite a bit of clearance that might currently be blocked by power lines and the like. I'd love to see it in action though, hope this actually materializes.