User: baud123

Re:What the French call la dolce vita?

On: New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails

or simply "rester peinard" ; "pour vivre heureux, restons couché !" (keep cool ; be happy, stay in bed !)

Re:Fractint

On: Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85

There's Gnofract 4D too at http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/ and with even a flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/gnofract4d/

spreading free software

On: Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It

at least, the Internet permits to spread free software and work collaboratively (even if in different countries or even without ever meeting IRL), on free software of course ;-) that's quite an achievement AFAIC

Re:"Microsoft doesn't make machines."

On: Groklaw Says Microsoft Patent Portfolio Now Worthless

didn't you read the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 before telling this ? only os/2 has been codeveloped by IBM / Microsoft, then dumped by Microsoft to work on windows only and only implement some good things from their participation with IBM in NT 3.51

Re:Take a look at MIT Scratch

On: GPL Edutainment Software

why not using logo language directly?
Here's a version http://xlogo.tuxfamily.org/ (Java, GPL)
An L-system based on guile http://bioschematics.tuxfamily.org/gallery.php (GPL) doing nice images, Linux only iirc
Knoscience a live-CD with many software on it http://knosciences.tuxfamily.org/doku.php?id=knosciences:software_list

Re:Some great examples of mathematical art

On: Art with a Mathematical Twist

You can play with k3dsurf http://k3dsurf.sourceforge.net/index.html and have a look at inspirations it gave http://www.evolution-of-genius.de/3d/ The rendering is very good in 3D

Re:How about lowering your own prices first?

On: Illegal Downloaders to be Blocked By French Government?

I suppose this is a typo as FNAC is the retailer cited, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnac it corresponds to Fédération Nationale d'Achats pour Cadres, or National Purchasing Federation for Managers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec is indeed a different thing ;-)

Re:More SimCity links

On: One SimCity Per Child

I understand that the code will be fully GPLed, will it be the same for Artwork ? (images, graphisms...)

Re:Humorous.

On: Pimp Your XP

It would have been more complete if the article mentionned that improving XP, without installing Vista, is simply a matter of installing any current GNU/Linux distribution.

Re:Appropriate response

On: Guitartabs.com Suspends Under Legal Pressure

do music publishers think "all your ears are belong to us" !? nah, can't be that... we may want to keep this kind of privacy just to sing freely in the shower

Re:I like this

On: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves

well, there's a beginning at http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Models#Armchair under GPL or Free Art or CC-by-sa licenses, that's friendly to libre-software developers at least... and even textures http://blender-archi.tuxfamily.org/Textures#Bricks if you need them.