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Translation: Not to start a flamewar, but let's talk about something off topic, since it's sure to be something that will get under the skin of the types of people who would read this particular article..

Maybe it's just me, but isn't that the definition of trying to start a flamewar?

Not to start a big flameware about games. I realize that World of Warcraft is a massive game, with much more in-game content (for now) - but in my personal opinion, Age of Conan is a much more interesting game.

The main reason, for my part, is that it's based on a much more interested universe that has been explored in (mature) comics for many, many years. Now, with the release of the game, a whole new part of the universe has opened. A universe I personally find way more interesting and appealing than the universe of World of Warcraft.

(Of course, there's still the stability bugs, the memory bugs, the lack of content in many areas - and even the lack of areas .. but all that will be fixed in a timely manner. :-)

This is BS lime is made by heating limestone and releases CO2. Thus there would be a net increase of atmospheric CO2 because of the fuel burned to heat the limestone.

Science ignorance on the rise

Apple users are definitely wacky. I bought a MacBook recently because of the stability, ease of administration, nice kernel, reasonable dev environment, etc.

Now I can't stand it. The Apple GUI is a piece of shit. They have gone to weird symbols in their GUI instead of nice buttons with labels.

Example: I needed to add a user. I bought up the little user management app and didn't see any add user button. After a short Google, I found that to add a user, you click the small plus sign at the bottom. Maybe I should have figured that out without Googling, but it sure didn't seem obvious at the time.

It seems like Apple is generally going for a pretty interface over a useful interface. That may impress some people but it drives me batshit. The only question now is whether to put KDE on top of OS X or put some Linux Distro on it.

I heard so many great reviews of Mac and now I'm looking at having paid too much money for a Linux notebook ... sigh.

Don't be too harsh -- the standards are dependent on the application. Your application, by the nature of the information and its purposes, requires a different standard of reliability than Wikipedia does. You're certainly entitled to be proud of yourself for maintaining that standard.

But don't let that turn into being derogatory about the Wikipedia operation. Wikipedia has identified the correct standard for their application, and by doing so they have successfully avoided the costs and hassle of over-engineering. To each his own...

your post is gay you are gay

"Murdoch Mostly Mopes; Missing Money Makes Monday More Melancholy."

Slashdot submission sure sucks.

I miss the 90's too, when geeks ruled the internet and programming was an art.

Now children rule the internet, and programming is a dead end job.

What a shitty decade this is.

> but can we trust Wikipedia?

No. lol

>The Clinton thing was blown out of proportion because they had a provable lie under oath.

Even that, as it turns out, is false. And there lies the crux of the failed impeachment against Clinton.
Clinton asked the judge to define sexual relations. He then responded according to that definition.
In no court in the land is that perjury.

Regardless of whether he is booted out of office or not it is now a stain upon his much anticipated "historical legacy".

Two things:

1) Clinton was the one with the historical legacy fixation, and...

2) THIS is a stain upon his legacy?!? A nutcase like Kucinich doesn't even bother to make a speech to the House, but has it read into the record after hours??? The Congressional Record is full of dreck read into it after hours by people who wanted things on record (usually for their reelection campaign). You DO know that the Congressional Record includes a couple of good recipes for chowder, right? That's the sort of thing the Record is full of....

orlando writes "Much drama is unfolding prior to the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva, currently schedule for the end of February. After that there's a subsequent 30 day period while countries can still change their vote. As a result, Bob Sutor is recommending that saving your documents in OOXML format right now is probably about the riskiest thing you can do, if you are concerned with long term interoperability. At this point nobody has the vaguest idea what OOXML will look like in February, or even whether it will be in any sort of stable condition by the end of March. 'While we are talking about interoperability, who else do you think is going to provide long term complete support for this already-dead OOXML format that Microsoft Office 2007 uses today? Interoperability means that other applications can process the files fully and not just products from Microsoft. I would even go so far as to go back to those few OOXML files you have already created and create .doc, .ppt, and .xls versions of them for future use, if you want to make sure you can read them and you don't want to commit yourself to Microsoft's products for the rest of their lives.'"

An anonymous reader writes "Back in 2004, Slashdot posted about computer solitaire being patented. It was a ridiculous patent and made it onto the EFF's list of worst patents. However, not much had been heard about that patent until now. It turns out that the patent holder, Sheldon Goldberg, is now using that patent to sue a bunch of different online publications, including Digg, eBaum's World, the NY Times, Cnet and the Washington Post. He's also suing Google, Yahoo and AOL (why not?)."

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently the video game ICO for the Playstation 2 is using GPL-licensed code from libarc. Sony could end up having to release the source code for the entire game!"

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Physicists from both the University of Surrey and Salford University have devised a method to trap a multi-colored rainbow of light inside a prism. "Previous attempts to slow and capture light have involved extremely low or cryogenic temperatures, have been extremely costly, and have only worked with one specific frequency of light at a time. The technique proposed by Professor Hess and Mr Kosmas Tsakmakidis involves the use of negative refractive index metamaterials along with the exploitation of the Goos Hänchen effect, which shows that when light hits an object or an interface between two media it does not immediately bounce back but seems to travel very slightly along that object, or in the case of metamaterials, travels very slightly backwards along the object."