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  1. Re:My first question would be... on Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework · · Score: 1

    There is at least one open source IDE: MonoDevelop, licensed under the GPLv2.

  2. Re:College vs graduate school on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    The British system as I recall - starting age 4:

    7 years primary school.
    5 years secondary school (after which education is no longer compulsory).
    2 years college or some secondary schools teach the same courses as a "sixth form".
    University, 3 years (or 4 with a work placement) bachelors degrees, masters and upward.

    Also they changed the numbering system to use zero indexing, so year 1 is actually the second year of primary school, but year 0 is called FILE_NOT_FOUND^W "reception". When I was there it was divided into 3 years "infant" followed by 4 years "junior".

  3. Re:"whether to triple boot or blast my XP X64" on Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows · · Score: 1

    Yes. I have had full screen flash in Linux for about a couple of years now, ever since I started using it.

  4. Re:It's yhy anti-piracy is a BAD thing... on The Golden Age of Infinite Music · · Score: 1

    The income from a service should ideally be proportional to how good it is. The income from a good should ideally be proportional to how good it is. The income from a work of art should ideally be proportional to how good it is. This would encourage people who want more money to provide better service, make better goods and create better art.

    The way I see it though, a more popular artist would likely attract the attention of more people prepared to pay, so there would be some kind of relation to popularity. But people being prepared to pay when they don't have to might make for a more substantial measure of quality than just popularity alone.

    I can also see art being made for the people who pay rather than marketed to children who would likely just take a free copy.

  5. It's kind of.. on iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot · · Score: 1

    It's kind of cute. They should make it fluffy. But not self replicating.

  6. Re:except Windows 7 on Sneaky Microsoft Add-On Put Firefox Users At Risk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or if Ubuntu is the unstable and annoying one out of distros, the rest must be utterly amazing.

  7. Re:Movies on UK Copyright Group Tells Cinemas to Ban Laptops · · Score: 1

    With some films it doesn't make much difference. Take AVP2 for example, where you can hardly see what the hell is going on half the time. Other films I'm glad to have watched over someone's shoulder before I had a chance to make the mistake of seeing, for example 'Surrogates', where the plot revolves around some technology being uninvented because people don't really want to have to deal with it.

    With that in mind, banning laptops in cinemas isn't that much of a problem, because if they don't let you in you can just go somewhere with wireless access and watch the film on your laptop.

  8. I see what's going on here: on 10/GUI — an Interface For Multi-Touch Input · · Score: 1

    Workspaces are an amazing new way to manage your windows an applications.

    With conventional window managers, your windows are just grouped by application, or even not at all. Suppose you're writing an article, and you open up a web browser with some reference material. You open up your mail client and open a PDF attachment which a colleague thought might be helpful to you. Then you put on some music and start writing. But now you're switching back and forth through all the webpages you have open until you reach the one you want, past the mail client and the music player and the PDF back to the document you're writing. Things like this are a big problem, but thankfully, that's the old way.

    With Workspaces, we offer you an awesome and new way to organize yourself. So you're ready to start writing that article again - you open the word processor. We're all familar with that, but what happens next is where the incredible new power of Workspaces is shown: press ctrl-alt-2 to switch to a second Workspace where you can open the browser of reference material. That's just amazing!

    But that's not all. Next, you can press ctrl-alt-3 and open your mail client, and it opens in yet another workspace. We can open the colleague's email attachment and press ctrl-alt-shift-left to move it to the previous workspace, where we can arrange it side by side with the web browser window. Now what's awesome and incredible about that is you can flip between your word processor and the reference material with the keyboard shortcuts, without having to sort through windows ever. Amazing!

    Oh, but before you start, you want your tunes again. Ctrl-alt-4, open your music player, ctrl-alt-1 back to the word processor. Awesome!

    Workspaces. It really is just that simple.

  9. Re:Ted Dziuba on Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" · · Score: 1

    All my free time is when I'm bored at work. And I spend that time coding random stuff.

    (Whoosh In Advance)

  10. Similarly... on Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure · · Score: 1

    Similarly, not wearing a helmet makes jumping off a cliff less safe.

    (Clip is a sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look)

  11. Re:Nothing will happen on Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware · · Score: 1

    It should happen in RIAA trials. If you copy some songs you pay in coupons that entitles the RIAA to the same number of copies songs that you have composed and written.

  12. Re:PC = Personal Computer on The Problems With Porting Games · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chicken achtung Gertrude coriander buffalo 0xfe30 had had had had had had had had had had had had off in whose tool shed they were whacking. And I think we all know what that means!

  13. Re:Worst ask slashdot ever on Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a joke. Unless you are joking, in which case it is not a joke. NOBODY WHOOSH ME! I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!

  14. Re:August on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly you don't understand sandwiches at all otherwise you would not have said that. Come back when you can demonstrate that you know what a sandwich actually is.

  15. Re:Sophos's survey on British Hacker Loses Review of Asperger's Defense · · Score: 1

    388 of 550 is ~70.55%
    393 of 550 is ~71.45%

  16. Re:No gratitude? on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    I got bitten by operator overloading when my calculations kept going inexplicably wrong. It turned out that the operator precedence was different to how I expected. Rather than quit, I took note and continue to use the feature.

  17. Re:Sorry, I have to do this on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if using the expression in the wrong order is outlawed,
    the expression will only be used in the wrong order by outlaws.

  18. Re:Best Antipiracy Tool on Ubisoft Working On a New Anti-Piracy Tool · · Score: 1

    Well the beer part is pretty true - you never see kids drinking real ale.

  19. Re:Just a minute on Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste · · Score: 1

    Next misleading headline: "Brazilian Company Importing 1400 Tons of Hazardous Waste From Brazil Into UK"

  20. Re:Think "COOP", not "Compete" on Experimental Fees Settle Royalty War For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    Maybe some day in the future computer scientists with PhDs will figure out an algorithm so that if you type a less than sign into a web form, it will show up on the page to the user as a less than sign instead of disappearing.

  21. Re:What an ass... on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 1

    But the laws of physics still let do it. It's just that everybody gets pissy about it and start whining, and arrest you and stuff. But it's not against any of the laws of physics, not like travelling faster than the speed of light or creating energy out of nothing.

  22. Re:Schizoid Moderation on Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, down, up, up, up, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, down!!!!

  23. Re:Cultural Reference on Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI · · Score: 1

    Also a purse is usually a small pouch, whereas a wallet has a flat folding design. Handbags can be ridiculously small, but are distinguished from purses or wallets by the presence of a handle.

  24. Re:Handbag Music on Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI · · Score: 1

    No we don't.

  25. Re:Paging Ray Beckerman on ASCAP Starts To Act Like the RIAA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A better analogy would be that you don't stop putting out fires and instead only teach or campaign about fire prevention.