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Comment Re:atmospheric stresses (Score 1) 432

There were a couple comments on Gizmodo (by "jepzilla") about "hitting yourself" too. Can you explain why you would necessarily be hit by the projectile? I would think that the possible impact points would lie anywhere on a circle around the earth, depending on launch velocity.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Scientific nomenclature policy (Score 1) 632

What's wrong with redirecting the scientific name to the article? The point is being able to get to the article somehow. If an article has settled under a common name title that's ambiguous, you can always use the "not to be confused with" templates or just clarify in the article text.
For those interested, there is a published policy for article titles for organisms.

Comment Re:Who'd have thunk it? (Score 2, Informative) 289

they can't effectively take advantage of advanced features or greater available resources in the high end phones, because they'll lose out on all of the potential customers with the lower end models.

The fact that lower-end models exist in no way prevents devs from taking advantage of the advanced features of high end phones. If high-end phones are their target market, so be it, and they can make money from sales to those customers. The API specifies a tag that can be used to restrict installation to devices that contain the features your app requires.

Comment Re:STFU needs to be heard. (Score 1) 757

the goal should not be 'unconfigurable' but 'no configuration needed 90% of the time, and configurable the remaining 10% of the time'.

Another example of "unconfigurable" is file rename behavior in Nautilus. Click-to-rename behavior (like in Windows) was implemented once, but was later removed completely rather than making it a configuration option.

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