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  1. Re:test on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You guys aren't thinking far enough. A time machine is clearly in order!

  2. Re:Errrrrrr on Anyone Besides Zune Owners With New Year's Crashes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Especially today.

  3. Re:Dammit on AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if mesa outperformed their drivers.

    You think you're joking. . .

    I use hardware rendering because it takes the weight off of the CPU for the most part, and because it seems to generally work better (software rendering seems to often give strange artifacts). In my experience, it's not actually faster than software rendering.

    lspci | grep Graphics
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
    00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

  4. Re:If you can't fail, why bother playing? on Avoiding Wasted Time With Prince of Persia · · Score: 1

    Penalty != challenge. Taking away the penalty for death does not mean you do not have to face the challenge. Unlike an invincibility cheat, the challenge is still there in full force. The actual effect of removing the penalty is that you spend more time facing challenges.

  5. Re:am I missing something? on The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion · · Score: 1

    has "Insert" key (VIM friendly)

    What's wrong with 'i'?

  6. Re:Weird priorities.... on The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion · · Score: 1

    If you mean the super thin ones, then I agree, except that I'd still say my Thinkpad's (X41 tablet) keyboard is a bit better. My only gripe with the Apple ones is that sometimes the keys don't feel like they go down straight, they seem to tilt slightly when you press them. I suppose it's something you get used to, but it feels a bit strange at first.

  7. Re:Big trouble at PositiveSSL. on Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs · · Score: 1

    Hmm, yeah, I get that too, but when I look in Page Info under Security, it tells me that they did not provide identification information. I guess that's a glitch, though, and it's just saying that because the site didn't provide verifiable identity info.

  8. Re:Big trouble at PositiveSSL. on Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs · · Score: 1

    Firefox is telling me that the site is not providing identity information (check Page Info), so they are probably just not serving the certificate anymore.

  9. Re:The keyword, however, is "quality" on Is JavaScript Ready For Creating Quality Games? · · Score: 1

    In fact I don't give a shit about ads and clickable areas in videos, I just want to watch videos.

    Well, that settles it!

  10. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 2, Informative

    Whoever modded that "troll" should read this.

  11. Re:I agree many things don't need to be printed on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 1

    x^2
    ---- = 0.8 -> x = sqrt(0.8 * 12^2) -> x = 10.733    AREA FAIL
    12^2

  12. Re:Frozen Bubble on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Yes! rRootage is actually one of my favourite games.

  13. Re:Neat - Mac OS X ? Linux? on Google Chrome Is Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    Could it be that developing cross-platform applications is something for which Google doesn't have any aptitude?

    If they'd written it as a web app, like most of their other services, this wouldn't be a problem!

  14. Re:Hmmm... on Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty · · Score: 1

    For instance, to simply output a line to a command line in Java you're looking at System.out.println("output"); whereas with c++ (for instance) you have cout << "output" << endl; As someone who's teaching this stuff, the second is easier to explain in detail and doesn't rely on saying "don't worry what System.out is".

    I'm no fan of Java either (and I think that none of C, C++, or Java make a good starting language), but that example is unfair. The C++ code would look either look like std::cout << "output" << std::endl; or feature a using directive, both of which require about as much hand-waving as "System.out".

  15. Re:The tense is wrong... on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Actually he did that. You can't say that "You can't do that", because he did that.

    Actually, he said that. You can't say that "You can't say that", because he said that.

  16. Re:Taxpayers shouldn't be bailing out any of these on Should Taxpayers Back Cars Only the Rich Can Afford? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's not socialism, it's just greed.

  17. Re:Best use of the Kindle on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Stupidly enough, you have to do the format shifting yourself for it to count. Downloading a pirated e-book from the internet does not count as format shifting even if you own a physical copy, same as downloading a DS rom is still illegal even if you own the original game.

    I wouldn't let it stop me, though.

  18. indie indie indie! on Game Industry Optimistic About Surviving Economic Crisis · · Score: 1

    Instead, he said, new tools, ubiquitous broadband and hungry independent developers are going to all combine to eat away at the continued supremacy of the $60 big-name title.

    Cool, I hope to be one of those hungry indie developers. =)

  19. Re:the short answer on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    When they refused I merely crossed it out before signing.

    Does. . . Does that work?

  20. Re:GH Lawsuit? Please on Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looking past the fact that two items are clearly not identical if one of them is defective. . .

    When you "return" something that means that you are "returning" it. Meaning that you are giving back what you got. If you "return" something else, you are misrepresenting it, and obviously it is fraud.

  21. Re:Just tried to purchase the game on steam.... on Independent Dev Reports Over 80% Piracy Rate On DRM-Free Game · · Score: 1

    Apparently this is no problem if you buy it direct from the official web site (as opposed to through steam or such).

  22. Re:Need a way to un-highlight on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I my experience this works in the console versions as well, when you have mouse support enabled though the terminal and vim.

  23. Re:Yeah but... on How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    I can guarantee that that is not at all typical. The Xbox 360 should be well into the game's splash before 5 seconds are up. No way in hell any release of OS X on any hardware boots that fast.

    Come on, that's BS. The Xbox 360 splash screen alone takes almost that long to play.

  24. Re:Hurray for us lynx users! on Alarm Raised For "Clickjacking" Browser Exploit · · Score: 1

    Those of us who browse with wget/less are safe too!

  25. Re:Nothing to see here shortly... on Google Claims User Content In Multiple Products · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah. . . but, really, who uses Slashdot?