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  1. Re:I declare this year of the mouse! on Suspended Animation In Mice Without Freezing · · Score: 1

    (meaning they will probably be the first organic space pets) At first glance, I read this as "first organic space pests".

  2. Re:I like it. on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    Not pointless at all. It's also good to have feedback of what the machine is doing.

    For Linux, check wmhdplop.
    (check the animation at the bottom right of the page)

    Also available as a gkrellm plugin.

  3. Re:I like it. on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    I also like the sound of the disk activity, but not the constant sound of the spinning.

  4. Re:So what's the Gregorian music website? on The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 · · Score: 1

    maybe because it's in the parallel universe of ipv6?

  5. Re:Oh, come on. GMail? on Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was · · Score: 1

    Too bad the imap support is shitty.

    Otherwise, it's a good email tool, and certainly the best webmail out there.

    And yes, it is used by millions.

  6. Re:Same bugs? on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 1

    This disappearing scroll never occurred to me, but the proxy prompt surely is annoying. And more yet as it seems to be easy to fix.

    Also, if it already stored the password, why don't it try to reconnect automatically instead?

  7. Re:Uhhh on IE 5.5 Beats IE6 and IE7 On Acid 3 · · Score: 1

    What happened to E?

  8. Re:Today? on The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    You can take things from this universe, and create a new thing from them.

    Like if you take my own pen, and my own paper, and make a beautiful drawing, and give it to me.

  9. Re:Email for things? on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 1

    Email for things should be like in Mercano, el marciano.

    I won't explain in detail to avoid spoiling it, in case anyone will watch it.
    It's a really great movie, I highly recommend.
    (As iMDB doesn't show it available for purchase, I'll hit that I downloaded it from edonkey.
    Btw, I first saw it in the theater at a local animation festival.)

  10. Re:Thanks for the review! on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 1

    I've rarely seen a multiple assignment much more complex than the simple swap case ("a, b = b, a") in Ruby; I don't think anything remotely like that example is common. I don't do Ruby yet, but in Perl I see this multiple assignment is often used.
    Examples:
    my ($x, $y) = ($i % $width, $i / $width);

    my ($from, $to, $subject, $date) = get_email_info($email_header);

    my ($dirname, $basename) = $path =~ m{^(.*/?)([^/]+)$};
  11. Re:day/night cycle on NASA to Demonstrate Moon Rover · · Score: 1

    I rather believe in my own eyes than in a vandalized web site.

    I'm telling you: I saw them! They were about this (/makes a round shape with fingers/) big.

  12. Re:day/night cycle on NASA to Demonstrate Moon Rover · · Score: 1

    19km wide? You must be kidding me.
    I once saw the craters on an old telescope of a friend, and they looked pretty small.

  13. Re:day/night cycle on NASA to Demonstrate Moon Rover · · Score: 2, Interesting

    detach the solar panel, leave it at the top, and use a cable?
    maybe too many extra complications.

  14. day/night cycle on NASA to Demonstrate Moon Rover · · Score: 1

    to operate in continual darkness at extremely cold temperatures with little power. Just put it to sleep, and wait for the next sunrise.
    Or am I missing something?
  15. Re:Unrelated re your sig: on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 1

    No, your faith in gravity is far for blind. It's actually the opposite.
    You know gravity is here, you feel it, you see it's effect every day.

    "Blind faith" does not mean you can't optically see the subject.

  16. oh no! panic! on Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth · · Score: 1

    So we have only 7 million years to live?

    Oh wait, you said 7 billion.. nevermind then.

  17. Re:Assembly isn't obsolete! on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or figuring out what the C++ (or any other) compiler does. When you're concerned about performance, you may need to be sure that your template/virtual function/whatever is properly optimized. Use the gcc option to output assembly code, and study it.

  18. Re:Free love? on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 1

    Yeah, free stuff isn't worthy.

    I'll stop breathing this stinky free air right now..

  19. Re:512B pov-ray? Screw that! on POV-Ray Short Code Animation Winners · · Score: 1

    Nothing impressive to see here though, just a fat-ass raytracer with a small input file. These are pre-rendered animation.

    POV-Ray is not intended to render in real time, and there's no such thing as a fast-ass ray-tracer yet.
  20. Re:So when do we get its successor? on X Power Tools · · Score: 1

    I agree with that, but you haven't even told us what's wrong with X, or how another system could be better.

  21. Re:A related topic on An Older Demographic May Soon Dominate Gaming · · Score: 1

    parents becoming more involved in video gaming with their children Or parents becoming more involved in video gaming despite their children.

    http://community.livejournal.com/wow_ladies/838090.html
  22. Re:I suck at poetry on Haiku OS Resurrects BeOS as Open Source · · Score: 0, Troll

    by the subject of your post
    i'd mod you +1 informative
    indeed you suck

  23. information wants to be free on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    .. right?

  24. Re:Microkernels are the future on The Great Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is.

  25. Re:Indict Google... on Four Indicted in Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    When your entire business model is based on violating copyright for money.

    Which Google DOES NOT do. But Pirate Bay does. No, it does not.

    Pirate Bay is useful for anyone who wants to publish a torrent, including legal ones.

    Yes, there are legal torrents on the Pirate Bay.
    I, for one, published the complete discography of a local band, after asking permission from them.