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Comment For communist party (Score 1) 421

by patrikas on Friday March 26, 2010 @04:16AM (#31623024) Attached to: Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize

It's for communist's party. It was written that they asked him to accept the price and donate everything to the party as they saw 'true communist's' spirit in him or something.. Remember that everything's being taken under control in R..

Comment What about Opera (Score 1) 391

by patrikas on Sunday March 14, 2010 @02:28PM (#31473504) Attached to: A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash

Strange comparison. Last Toms Hardware browser competition showed that Opera beats all other browsers when it comes to Flash. I regret the author doesn't touch Opera here (or did I overlooked that ?) Anyway it seems to me that Chrome HTML5 support is likely to be improved soon.

Comment GNU Screen and vim is all you need (Score 2, Informative) 193

by patrikas on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @05:41PM (#30599918) Attached to: IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability?

Vim has so many IDE features (autocompletion, ctags, syntax), hundreds of plugins that let you customize your environment.. snippets, Doxygen, debugging, compiling.. I'll only suggest you one thing: better concentrate on improving your Vim environment than searching for any other tool that embeds it. Use Vim with GNU Screen after all, that'll give you true IDE experience.

Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 21, 2009 @11:46AM from the close-enough-to-feel-the-vacuum-breeze dept.

c0mpliant writes "NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have released a simulation of the path of an asteroid, named Apophis, that will come very close to Earth in 2029 — the closest predicted approach since humans have monitored for such heavenly bodies. The asteroid caused a bit of a scare when astronomers first announced that it would enter Earth's neighborhood some time in the future. However, since that announcement in 2004, more recent calculations have put the odds of collision at 1 in 250,000."

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