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  1. Obligatory on Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures · · Score: 1

    Sign my petition or I'll follow you home and kill your cat
    </postal2>

  2. Re:In All Fairness... on Uwe Boll To Quit Making Movies With 1M Signatures · · Score: 1

    the market decided he should stop, too... but he isn't listening - he keeps making bad movie adaptions of games...

  3. What a waste of time! on 11 Innovation Lessons From the Creators of World of Warcraft · · Score: 1
    I'll just outline what TFA basically says

    1. RELY ON CRITICS
    2. USE YOUR OWN PRODUCT
    6. THE IMPORTANCE OF FREQUENT FAILURES
    8. STATISTICS BOLSTER EXPERIENCE
    find out what people like and dislike about your product

    3. MAKE CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENTS
    4. GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
    7. MOVE QUICKLY, IN PIECES
    improve your product, based on what people like and dislike (and do that fast)

    9. DEMAND EXCELLENCE OR YOU'LL GET MEDIOCRITY
    11. OFFER EMPLOYEES SOMETHING EXTRA
    make your employees do good work

    5. DESIGN FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF CUSTOMERS
    10. CREATE A NEW TYPE OF PRODUCT
    duh!
    yeah, this article really told me, how to make a successful product...
    What a waste of time!
  4. Re:Stop crying, people. Start being HONEST. on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 3, Informative
    I remembered some numbers incorrectly:
    • The ISO members (the JTC1 committee) found 3522 defects in the OOXML standard
    • The Ecma grouped these complaints and proposed 1027 changes on about 2300 pages
    • Microsoft said they had adressed 662 of the proposals
    • At the isos ballot resolution meeting (BRM) 900 of the 1027 proposals were not checked (they didn't check if MS had implemented the changes)
    • Rob Weir used a random sampling technique to estimate how many proposals were actually implemented: about 1.5%
    http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9065903&intsrc=news_list
    http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12520.html (german)
    http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/0310208
    http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/03/how-many-defects-remain-in-ooxml.html
  5. Nothing new on T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta · · Score: 1

    They have filed lawsuits in germany about that color before
    they even tried to trademark the letter "T" (because it't their logo) - SERIOUSLY!

    and trademarks on colors aren't new either - Nivea has a trademark on the blue-tone of their cream-tins
    (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivea )

  6. Re:Stop crying, people. Start being HONEST. on ISO Approves OOXML · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the first ISO vote the members had 50 pages of complaints
    around 1.5% of them have been adressed in the meantime

    what non-bribed ISO member would say now "wow, they adressed so many complaints that I can go from a 'no' vote to a 'yes' vote"?

  7. Re:What the!? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    ok, I misunderstood that...
    thanks

  8. What the!? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    Even then, to crunch through the remaining sets, he needed a workstation with 8GB of memory and around 1500 hours of time on a Q6600 CPU running at 1.6GHz.
    What the!?
    using the A* algorithm solves a rubiks cube within SECONDS on similar Hardware!

    maybe it's better, not to use brute force, even if the depth of the recursion tree is limited to 25...
  9. Re:KI Khate Kit on From GNOME to KDE and Back Again · · Score: 1

    iObject!
    Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) Live(TM) OthersDoTheSame(TM) Enterprise 2008

  10. there may be a solution on Apple Mulls Flat-Rate "Unlimited Music" Option · · Score: 1

    The problem is that once you make it unlimited, a small but not insignificant percentage of users will immediately attempt to download the entire iTunes library. Hey, disk space is cheap, why not try, if there's no additional charge per track?
    if iTunes used P2P technology for distribution, this might not be such a big problem...
  11. Prolog or Lisp on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    Prolog or Lisp
    it's unbelievable, how useful they are, once you are familiar with them...

  12. I wonder... what has become of on Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop · · Score: 1

    I wonder... what has become of
    - Africanized Bees
    - The bird flu
    - Anthrax
    - Foot-and-mouth disease
    - deadly, mutated flu from asia
    - the banana fungus that will kill all banana supply
    - deadly escalators
    - that truck full of explosives on his way to germany
    - shark attacks in holiday paradises
    - streets running red with blood
    - weapons of mass destruction

    I am so sick of being told, what will kill me within the next 2 months!
    Every year in summer there is another deadly threat approaching...
    I can't hear it anymore!

  13. I'ts nonsense not to do so! on Should Wikipedia Sell Advertising? · · Score: 1

    Most of my Google searches' first results nowadays are Wikipedia pages - So practically Google makes Ad-Money with Wikipedia searches... why on earth shouldn't Wikipedia do the same thing?

  14. Let me get this straigt on User-Generated Content Vs. Experts · · Score: 1

    Let me get this straight:
    User Generated Content is Crap, because Corporations and Politicians etc pay people to put false Informations in the Content... So the better idea is to have Corporations and Politicians pay people to write the complete content?

  15. I wouldn't on 70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    since i only use bittorrent to download CC material, linux distros and DRM protected videos, I wouldn't stop using P2P if i got a warning... I think I'd sue them for trying to stop me from using legal software for legal purposes...

  16. Re:SCO... on Creditor Objects To SCO's Plans · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Microsoft, Sony BMG and the MAFIAA...

  17. *AHEM* on Identical Twins Not Identical After All · · Score: 5, Funny
  18. I'd sue TPB too, if I were them on Prince, Village People to Sue The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I'd sue TPB too, if I were them... i mean seriously - TPB doesn't seem to feature them enough... how are they supposed to become popular if only a fraction of their music is offered on the #1 p2p site?

    I bet some evil rival musicians pay TPB to discriminate against prince and the village people!!!one
    where are the antitrust lawsuits???

  19. I suggested that almost 2 years ago... on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 1
  20. yes, it does on Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert" · · Score: 1

    and that's why in old greece child abuse was so common - they had too much internet...

  21. It's not the first time they did this! on Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    in may 2007 MS improved maps.live.com (added higher resolution images)
    the service didn't work with firefox under linux either, unless you fooled it by using "user agent switcher"!

    here's the link (in german though)
    http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/S-Geht-ueberhaupt-nicht-unter-Linux-grundlos-und-irrefuehrende-Fehlermeldung/forum-117910/msg-12830126/read/

    if you ask me, this cries for a lawsuit for anti-competitive behaviour...

  22. I'd say on Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss · · Score: 1

    I'd say "dream on" - but we're talking about the USA and the Republicans are still in charge...

  23. Re:Monitor this! on Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure terrorists do meet in person to plot

    How could you know that? Unless...

    I FOUND ONE! Call DHS!
    BANG!!!
    muaHAHAHAHAHA - TOO LATE, mr. Ultra64! now you can't stop us anymore

    *petting a cat*
  24. Maybe MS is trying to ruin Yahoo on Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    have you thought about this scenario:
    MS offered 60% more than what Yahoo was worth, Yahoos stock skyrocketed. The FTC might forbid the deal (for example because of Zimbra vs Exchange) or MS __MIGHT__ drop the offer... this would lead to panic stock-selling which COULD ruin yahoo (one competitor less for MS...)

    I don't say this defenitely is the plan, it's just something that crossed my mind, because I don't really understand this extremely high offer

  25. Re:P2P still illegal for most in Italy on Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P · · Score: 1

    I know this sounds crazy to americans, but in countrys that respect the human rights, you are innocent until proven otherwise.

    this means that you don't have to prove the use was educational - the music industry has to prove it wasn't.