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Comment: Two can play that game (Score 5, Funny) 208

by swimboy (#43373959) Attached to: EA Responds To Its Appearance In the 'Worst Company In America' Poll

Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.

EA continues to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is not a DRM scheme. It is. EA still wants to lie about it. We can't be any clearer - it is. Period.

Comment: Re:Even the scientists' press release wrong (Score 1) 254

by swimboy (#42799057) Attached to: New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1
I don't think that if you multiply all the known primes and add one you get a number that's guaranteed to be prime. All you get is a number that isn't divisible by any known prime. You could very well get a composite number whose factors are all bigger than the largest known prime.

Comment: Re:Sure. (Score 5, Informative) 520

by swimboy (#33831190) Attached to: Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe

Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.

Boo-freakin-hoo! Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.

Comment: Re:Really? (Score 2, Interesting) 579

by swimboy (#33441120) Attached to: Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV
Actually, printing to the iPad is already dead simple (at least if you're on a Mac). Just drop an alias of the iTunes application in your ~/Library/PDF Services folder and name it "Print PDF to iPad". Then in the print dialog box, the PDF dropdown will have an entry to print to the iPad. It automatically creates the PDF and imports it to iTunes, ready to upload to your iPad the next time you sync.

Comment: Re:It's illegal, for one ... (Score 1) 230

by swimboy (#32293568) Attached to: iPad Steering Wheel Mount

All very good points, and more than likely those same laws apply to most states/countries. This is also why you actually should do more research before filing a patent, which apparently this guy did, which I'm pretty certain is not a trivial or cheap task.

Did you actually read the patent? IANAPL but it is very enlightening.

Comment: Re:use fixed point instead (Score 1) 158

by swimboy (#30365494) Attached to: ECMAScript Version 5 Approved

instead of using floating point for representing decimal numbers, one can of coarse easily use fixed point... for currency computations, just store every value multiplied by 100 and use some fancy printing routine to put the decimal point at the right position.

and if you're afraid that you might mix up floating point and fixed point numbers, just define a special type for the fixed-point numbers, and define corresponding overloaded operators... oh wait

Do you work for these guys?

Comment: Even worse is... (Score 1) 315

by swimboy (#21604779) Attached to: Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives
The marketing department didn't get the memo about what file types aren't allowed to be shared. In the description on their own website it says:

Use This Product When You Want To... Listen to the music on your My Book World Edition drive while you're on vacation.
I guess if your music isn't WMA, MP3, or AAC you're good to go. They say they block OOG too. I guess that means that you can share your OGG music.
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+ - Second Life, Nazis, And Exploding Pigs.

Submitted by wetelectric
wetelectric writes "The first night I arrived at the protest against the Second Life headquarters of Front National, the far right French political party of Jean-Marie Le Pen, it was ringed on all sides by protesters with signs to wave and statements to distribute. By the second night I came (this was late last week), the conflict had become more literal, for many Residents had armed themselves. Multi-colored explosions and constant gunfire shredded the air of Porcupine, a shopping island which FN had inexplicably picked for the site of their virtual world HQ, in December.
— Second life makes jeebus cry."

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