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Comment: Re:"small scale MMO"? Jumbo shrimp! (Score 1) 192

by BabyDave on Thursday July 15 2010, @12:52PM (#32915348) Attached to: BioWare On Why Making a Blockbuster Game Is a Poor Goal

Bonus points for the first person to make an MMO where all the characters are photons, and refer to it as "Masslessly-Mulitplayer"

Comment: Re:Not Facebook! (Score 1) 326

by BabyDave on Tuesday July 13 2010, @04:00PM (#32892316) Attached to: Man Claims 84% of Facebook, Gets Order Blocking Assets

"Give me a few of your tired, some of your poor, and a reasonable proportion of your huddled masses ..."

Comment: Re:ZFS was developed and trademarked by Sun (Score 1) 231

by BabyDave on Friday July 09 2010, @03:19PM (#32853812) Attached to: NetApp Threatens Sellers of Appliances Running ZFS

It's about patents - NetApp claim that ZFS contains their patented technology (that NetApp incorporated into their WAFL filesystem).

Comment: Re:Footprints? (Score 2, Informative) 105

by BabyDave on Saturday March 06 2010, @09:13AM (#31380178) Attached to: Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars?

Don't be silly, those are obviously the footprints of the Martian gorillas.

Comment: Re:Just like desktop linux. (Score 1) 636

by BabyDave on Tuesday February 23 2010, @01:44PM (#31246846) Attached to: Google Android — a Universe of Incompatible Devices

To be fair, an SSH client/terminal emulator isn't exactly stretching the limits of Windows APIs, as compared to e.g. GTA 4.

Comment: Patent number in Kodak press release (Score 1) 285

by BabyDave on Thursday January 14 2010, @05:11PM (#30770836) Attached to: Kodak Sues Apple & RIM Over Preview In Cameras

Kodak press release containing the patent number - 6,292,218 - and also stating that Kodak has won a ruling that the patent is valid and relevant in a similar case against Samsung.

Comment: Re:illegal? (Score 5, Funny) 773

by BabyDave on Monday November 16 2009, @01:36PM (#30117662) Attached to: Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google

Not to be confused with "Tortoise interference", which severely disrupted the 2009 hare-racing world championship.

Comment: Slight misunderstanding by the journalist (Score 3, Funny) 518

by BabyDave on Tuesday October 27 2009, @08:48AM (#29882555) Attached to: Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software

They were actually having a flamewar on LKML about what the best scheduler for the Linux kernel is.

Comment: Difference from the T1/T2 on-chip cryptography? (Score 3, Interesting) 59

by BabyDave on Wednesday August 26 2009, @11:23AM (#29202347) Attached to: Sun Plans Security Coprocessor For New Ultrasparc

As I understand it, the T1 and T2 chips both have on-chip crypto accelerators (one per core) already - what's the difference with the Rainbow Falls version?

Comment: Re:King Canute tried and failed (Score 1) 1100

by BabyDave on Wednesday August 26 2009, @09:12AM (#29200215) Attached to: Global Warming To Be Put On Trial?

<pedantry>I assume that you RTF link, and realised that the point Canute was making was that even the king couldn't make the tide turn on his command.</pedantry>