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  1. Re:You ran my TEMPLATE troll (you messed up) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds

    Bullshit. That is not a Python Template. I suggest you educate yourself on Python Templates here: http://jtauber.com/2006/05/templates.html and not make luser n00b mistakes like that in the future, it's downright embarrassing.

    Then learn some more I/O and come up with a script that doesn't require source-code modification on each run, instead of the pseudocode nonsense that you posted, which "can be reduced to one line of code which is incorrect", as the saying goes (since a single print statement would have done exactly the same thing). The program you posted was no more useful than "hello world", but at least "hello world" does what it purports to do (unlike your program).

    And THEN I suggest learning a REAL programming language, instead of toy languages like Python, VB, and Delphi. Those are languages for babies to learn on.

    In short, come back when you're not just a script-kiddie.

  2. Re:The C Programming Disease by MikeBabcock · · Score: 1 · on Beginning iPhone Development

    Say it as often as you want but some people will try.

  3. Poincare project by littlem · · Score: 1 · on Mathematician Claims New Yorker Defamed Him

    Hmmm... "I'd better go back through my recent Poincare Project posts to make sure I haven't assumed the simple connectedness of S^1" (from the blog).

    Somehow, I don't think he'll be getting to the nitty-gritty of Perelman's proof any time soon...

  4. Re:Yau by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Informative · on Mathematician Claims New Yorker Defamed Him
    I'm not far enough along in my math studies (will I ever be?) to understand their papers, but if it's true Yau is pretty sleazy.

    There's a blog called the Poincare project that is seeking to build up enough math, from the ground up, to understand the proof. So far it's only just past stating the conjecture (which still takes a lot of work if you're going to cover all the technical material required to state it properly), but it's pretty god work and understandable by most anyone.
  5. Prior art if there ever was by SomPost · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Morfik Defends IP Rights Against Google

    I know of several Highlevel-to-Lowlevel language translators (e.g. Java-toC, Oberon-to-C, you name it) that have been around for decades. Surely, you cannot get a patent for doing the same thing with a different language, can you. Can you?!?

    Compiling something to JavaScript in the browser environment is about as obvious as compiling to C on Unix. Case in point, here are a few other X-to-JavaScript compilers pulled off the top of my head: Python, Prolog, Oberon, etc. Seems pretty obvious to me. Not that that has ever prevented the US Patent Office from granting a patent, of course.

  6. Consider Microsoft blames sun! by DenDave · · Score: 1 · on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux

    http://jtauber.com/blog/2005/09/23/microsoft_blame s_sun

    No surprise!!

  7. I started writing one six months ago by jtauber · · Score: 1 · on Bounties for free software

    The second part of the Sun/Adobe prize is for an XSL formatting object to PDF formatter written in Java.

    Six months ago I started writing what I still believe to be the only XSL formatting object formatter around and I happened to output as PDF and write in Java.

    Due largely to lack of time, I haven't done much in the last few months. I would have accepted $5000 to finish it!

    I'm going to try and finish it now.

    see http://www.jtauber.com/fop/ as well as http://www.xmlsoftware.com/xsl/ for XSL-related software in general.

    James