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Living Room / Re: Sprocket Rocket: Very cool flash physics game
« on: May 31, 2010, 10:20 PM »
Amazing game.

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I don't like this list. It's all either things that anybody alive now should know by heart, or things which would be useless to them. How would you convince somebody that things are made of atoms for instance? There were people claiming this is so in Ancient Greece, but they couldn't prove it.

Another stupid thing: they say that you can measure longitude by comparing local noon to London time noon. Then, they say you can claim the prize the British empire offered for measuring longitude with this information. This is ridiculous: the British already knew that this is how you measure longitude. The whole point of the prize was to design a clock precise enough in high seas that you could know what the London time is.

The one good thing on there is vaccination from smallpox and penicillin, although I'd be hard-pressed to know how to use them using just the poster.

Maybe I'm too critical... But I'd go with a list of wars (to run away) and things you could bet on.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: iPrint v6 is Freeware!
« on: December 22, 2009, 02:38 PM »
I think priPrinter should also be mentioned here. I find it nicer than FinePrint, mostly because cropping is very convenient with it. It is a bit expensive (like FinePrint), but the banner of the unregistered version is unobtrusive enough that I'm using it all the time for personal printing. On the other hand, I'm using an old version, and living in fear that new versions will make the banner larger...

I'll certainly try out iPrint now... I'm not sure it can remove margins or crop at all, though.

UPDATE: No, it cannot. I often print papers, which have large margins to be readable on a large piece of paper. When printing these 2-up, the margins take up all the space unless I can get rid of them, and the text becomes tiny. So, without this feature, this program is useless to me.

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I bought this a few days ago, mostly on impulse. While I'm not a big fan of Samorsot, Machinarium is certainly
one of the best games I've ever played, mostly because it's clearly made with a lot of love. All the little details
those guys put in the world they made are amazing and never end.

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Living Room / Re: Can a Linux man survive in Windows Land?
« on: January 16, 2009, 11:42 PM »
My suggestion for Linux people (though it's unrelated to what the author of the article cares about): try Cygwin (www.cygwin.com). If you have 2GB free, just install everything. After installing,
immediately do: mount -c /

You'll have all the tools you can imagine without the need to install anything more. (Of course, if you are seriously
needing X, it might be worthwhile the native windows port of X, but the difference is usually minimal) If you copy
the .stuff files from linux, you'll also have all the settings you are used to.

For me, this obviates the need for linux, though your mileage may vary. Of course, the other alternative is virtualization,
but I never tried that, so I  can't compare.

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