Comment Is it a bad sign... (Score 1) 180
...that my first thought was "Ah, someone has finally understood why Gödel numbering is clever..."?
Comment calm down, everyone, it's just calcite... (Score 1) 98
No, really, once you get over that fact that calcite has been known for its double refraction property for literally hundreds of years, and every child ever to get its hands on a lump of it trying to make it show weird shit, you'll realize that these people have figured out how to make stuff disappear when you look at it from exactly the right angle... Yawn. The calcite remains visible, obviously, BTW.
Comment Re:Hey- You voted for Him (Score 0) 487
That McCain was, and still is with the benefit of hindsight, a better choice.
Comment Re:Why is the government involved in this? (Score 3, Insightful) 487
Oh, probably standardization and compatibility with government systems, if the government is going to accept the ID.
Comment Re:Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (Score 1) 614
Have you considered adding more life to your fiction?
Comment Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (Score 1) 614
would be a scientist (auto-didact, if that excludes him for you) and is among the youngest people I can think of given your restrictions (31). He has written a few very interesting pieces on AI (Warning: Transhumanist/Singularitan), as well as the best Harry Potter fanfiction I've ever read: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality
For more information see: http://yudkowsky.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
May I suggest though not to restrict yourself to actual people? "Hero" is a word I use extremely rarely, since I consider that to be a "larger than life, thus fictional" label...
Comment Re:Just a Sunday (Score 1) 489
Except there are about 60 million crazy right-wing people in the US - that's roughly the same number of people as in the UK.
Comment Re:Just a Sunday (Score 1) 489
If it wouldn't have been for a fourth of july all those years ago, Sarah Palin would be in your elections.
Comment Just upgrade to Windows 7. (Score 1) 472
XP is no longer secure. It's a 10-year-old os and it sucks. And oh yeah McAfee (and Norton) suck rotten eggs.
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
Comment Neither: Nexenta. (Score 1) 405
Nexenta is basically the OpenSolaris kernel and the Debian/Ubuntu userland.
Comment Zoom the window server (Score 1) 367
I think the window manager is the best place to do this, not the display drivers or the game engines.
Mac OS X has a whole-screen zooming function, and probably the new X.org stuff too. Smoothing is configurable. Just start the game in a window, and have a black background around it. Then zoom in at whole pixel intervals until the game is as large as it can be on your monitor.
Comment Re:Just waiting for this e-mail (Score 2, Funny) 343
This is a lonesome linux virus. Please add
deb http://malware.server.ru/debian experimental non-free
to your
Yeah, I run Fedora...
Comment +1 on Boost and Qt (Score 1) 310
So yes. Here's just a quick +1 on Boost and Qt.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 438
I'll just be keyboard'ing in a quick reply here.
It's like car'ing and house'ing at the same time.
