Comment Re:All this in the mist of global warming. (Score 1) 302
Ho! "in the mist" of global warming. That's funny. Mist is a phenomenon of small droplets suspended in air. The word you're looking for is 'midst'.
Comment Re:"Truly random numbers" (Score 4, Funny) 326
I don't believe such a thing can possibly exist.
Of course they can. Here: 7, 3. I've just given you two *totally* random numbers.
Comment Which came first... (Score 1) 271
I occasionally have to use vim to edit the Makefile for emacs.
Comment Re:The Silmarillion (Score 1) 222
I once had to read The Simarillion for a class. It was my first exposure to the fantasy genre and I was quite confused, although I had already *not* read so many books for that class I had to continue. I slogged through literally the first quarter of the book before the scales suddenly fell off my eyes and suddenly I grokked it.
I closed the book, reopened it to the first page and breezed through the whole thing. It's still one of my favorites.
Comment Re:Popcorn! (Score 1) 188
A girl's got to have her standards.
Comment Re:Ow ow ow. (Score 1) 530
Yeah, irregardless of the fact that I should be use to reading this sort of thing by now, it literally made my head explode when I read it.
There. Fixed that for you.
Standards For Interconnecting Virtual Worlds 142
Tao Takashi writes "Linden Lab, developers of the popular 3D platform "Second Life" started to think about an open standard for interconnecting virtual worlds. The motivation behind this is to make Second Life more scalable but also to allow connection of other grids not hosted by Linden Lab. The process of defining components and protocols is supposed to be handled completely in the open with community participation. When finished the protocol documentation is supposed to be submitted to standard committees such as IETC, W3C etc.
The discussion has already started on the Second Life wiki and you can also find a first architecture proposal by Linden Lab."
Submission + - Parallels Releases WineD3D Source Code (winehq.org)
something_wicked_thi writes: Seeing as Slashdot ran the story about Parallels being out of compliance with the [L]GPL, I think it's only fair that they provide an update. On the very next weekday after the Slashdot story ran, Parallels, apparently, has released the source code. The Wine developers are verifying that it really is what they say it is. The Wine page provides a link to the sources, though it is temporary. It would be nice if someone could mirror that before it gets Slashdotted.
