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  1. Re:Europe is a continent on Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad · · Score: 1
    braindead American tourists

    Well, you seem to think that America is a country, what's wrong with 'Americans' thinking the same of europe?

  2. Re:Ob (someone's got to say it) on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 1
    At most it will give you the freedom to get out of a chair and get a glass of water, go to the bathroom, or whatever.

    Well, unlike us, old people have better things to do than sit on their asses all day.. They probably want to go outside to be under the sun, or go dancing, or whatever (it's that strange thing some people call 'IRL'). Of course we don't care, because we're sitting on our asses coding all day now, and we'll be sitting on our asses coding all day when we're 90, but guess what; you're not the norm.

  3. Re:If I were Brian... on Linux Journal Interview With Brian Kernighan · · Score: 1
    Grandparent is correct, two distinct types are "created."

    struct { int member1; int member2; } foo, *bar;

    How many structs are "created" by this declaration?

    Of course, but we are not talking about memory allocation.. We're talking about a visual asociation with the declaration.. The complaint was that 'int foo, *bar;' is confusing because 'bar' is not an int, but from a visual standpoint '*bar' is the int.

    Of course you can't just use *bar uninitialized right after the declaration, but the problem was looking at the code, not memory.

  4. Re:If I were Brian... on Linux Journal Interview With Brian Kernighan · · Score: 1
    int foo, *bar; creates an integer named foo, and a pointer to an int named bar. Right? Or am I wrong?

    So you have one declaration line which created variables of two totally disinct types.

    No you don't. "foo" is an int, and "*bar" is also an int. The difference is that you can also use 'bar', but if you pretend that's the same as *bar, you're just not paying attention to the declaration.. There would be no difference in complaining about &foo, or even worse, &bar.

  5. Re:SCONS is awesome on Make Out with SCons · · Score: 1
    I haven't tried using it on Windows yet, but my understanding is that you can use the same script under both platforms.

    I work on a project of about 600+ cpp files, we build on linux (gcc2 and gcc3) and windows (gcc2 and gcc3 on cygwin and mingw, msvc). Scons worked almost unchanged with the cygwin and mingw versions of gcc. VC++ required some minor changes, mainly because of the specific command line switches, and because the guy who 'ported' it was very anal about integrating it perfectly with his miscrosoft interface (wich he did; he runs scons from within 'microsoft visual c++ .net', or whatever it's called) instead of just using the shell, like a real man ;)

  6. Re:Does it have to be ``type crash?'' on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1
    Does it have to be ``type crash?''

    From what I've seen (IE 5.0, win2k), it can be anything, or nothing. "<input type>" is enough to crash it, the rest is not necessary (including the html and form tags). As someone mentioned before, if I enclose the input inside a body tag, it doesn't crash.

  7. Re:Oh brother... on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I think I've heard enough of the words "shock and awe".

    I agree.. It sounds like a name for a japanese product with en english name to sound 'hip'. They might as weel have named it "the super terrific 100% bombing ocurrence!".

    It's a fucking war, and CNN sounds like they're about to show the good part of the movie.

    (and I have a new signature ;)

  8. _new_ layout? on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1
    I'm still looking for a standard 101 keys keyboard with a long backspace and a backslash that can be pressed by a human with standard 5 finger hands (as opposed to those 'altgr + key on the other side of the keyboard' things, or 'shift+7' for the normal slash) and without the stupid windows keys..

    Do they still make those? Maybe it's the fact that I live in a spanish speaking country, but I can't find a keyboard anymore. I got my hopes up a couple of years ago when all the computer stores started putting up posters with little penguins on then, but nothing.

    And it's not because I'm a linux fanatics who refuses to use a keyboard because it has a little window on it; I just want to play doom2 without the annoying windows menu popping up! is that too much to ask?!?!?

  9. bookwarez? on Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet · · Score: 1
    I always got the impression that there are more titles available on the bookwarez scene than on project gutenberg.

    I might be wrong, or maybe some books are more '1337' than others, but I got the impression that there definitively are enough people willing to get the texts to digital format.

  10. Re:The first? on Cleveland Public Library Readies E-book Downloads · · Score: 2

    so is the protection thing easy to circunvent?

  11. Re:hehe, nippon on Exchange Email Addresses With A Handshake · · Score: 2

    and (as far as I know) the word 'black' in french is 'noir'.

  12. Re:Computers for who? on Get Ready For The Simputer · · Score: 2
    Targeted at the 'third world' at $214 a pop? Who exactly is going to buy them for these people?

    Actually, a year ago, $200 would have been _very_ reasonable for the 'common man' in south america (I don't know about the rest of the 3rd world). But that was a year ago.. right now $50 would be too much.. they'd rather upgrade the existing (desktop) machines.

  13. you're not buying a password. on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits? · · Score: 2
    You're not just buying the password, you are also buying the 'permission' from the guy to use it forever, and his consent to not using it anymore. The password is just the actual tool you use for security.

    It's like a server.. You can '0wn' a server by having the root password (or access as root), but you don't actually _own_ it.. The real owner can just pull the plug, and mount the hd somewhere else to change the password.

  14. Re:best thing never mentioned: keywords for bookma on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 2
    http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s

    I wonder if they pass that string directly to sprintf or whatever.. (and yes, I'm too lazy to find out for myself)

  15. Four on Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You · · Score: 2
    Speaking as a person who used to use gopher quite a bit - how many gopher links are left on the WWW? Three?

    Actually four. But that's not really the point.. Probably none of the existing 'legitimate' gopher sites are 'hostile', so it doesn't matter if it's 4 or 400000000. It's not that hard to publish a _new_ gopher link to a hostile site.

  16. syntax on Spoken Japanese-English translation Using Your PDA · · Score: 2

    does it speak like yoda?

  17. internet2? on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 2

    what speeds would they get if they used ipv4 with public internet ips to transfer data over these wires? why do they attribute this to 'internet2', and not just a fat pipe?

  18. Re:It's still unix... on Microsoft/Unisys Unix-bashing Site Runs FreeBSD · · Score: 2

    I got this:

    --
    punto@charly:~$ echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n"|nc www.wehavethewayout.com 80|grep Server:
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
    --

  19. Re:but what about the AI? on Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos · · Score: 2
    Also in aoe you can use the dot key ('.') to select idle workers, makes it a lot easier to find the lazy bastards.

    And on Starcraft you can give units more than 1 order at a time, so you can tell an scv to build something and then go back to harvesting, or repair 3 or 4 buildings in a row.

    Of course none of that is AI, but it helps.. ;)

  20. http / 1.0 ? on How to Work Around Broken Port-80 Routing? · · Score: 2
    Does it work with http 1.0? you could get them with that.. (1.0 doesn't require a 'Host: ' header, so the request could just say 'GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\n', and the proxy wouldn't know where to send the request).

    you could also setup a proxy on localhost that rewrites the Host header from 'Host: www.weird_ass.domain' to 'Host: www.weird_ass.domain.existing_domain.com', and then have the DNS server that resolves 'existing_domain.com' to reply with the IP for 'www.weird_ass.domain' when it gets a request for 'www.weird_ass.domain.existing_domain.com'. Maybe the maintainers of the 'weird_ass.domain' zone alredy have that.

    You'll probably need a lot of custom code for something that can be fixed by changing ISPs tho.

  21. Re:It's not a big deal on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'? · · Score: 2
    The reason why Columbus, Cook and Magellan get the credit is because they were Europeans. And, in those days, Europe was the center of the world.

    Furthermore, the concept of 'discovery' revolves around the european culture. The people that were alredy living in america (the 'indians'; Colombus didn't know he was discovering a new world) didn't just appear in america out of thin air. They probably came from another continent (I'm no anthropologist, but I think Asia). And they obviously knew about America before Colombus or the Vikings.

    So 'discovery' just means they found something Europe didn't know about. The real discoverer would be Americo Vespucio, the guy who actually figured out that it was a new continent and not India.

  22. Re:Whose desktop are we talking about? on Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop? · · Score: 2
    Yeah, it doesn't pass my "Dad" test either.

    That's because you are comparing a binary package (the self-installing windows file) with a source package (the .tar.gz for linux). Tell your dad to type 'apt-get install program_name' on linux, and it'll get downloaded and installed, without having to answer anything.. On windows, he has to locate the program, download it, and run the installer.

    (and there's probably a GUI interface for apt)

  23. software on BBS Documentary Starting To Film · · Score: 2
    How come there's no mention of 'Terminate', wich was by far the best terminal emulation software for DOS? I still keep all my porn on c:\ter400\download\pictures

    And LORD2 was very cool too.. Too bad it doesn't work under DOSEMU on linux.

    I still miss the > sign to address a msg to someone on a public teleconference channel. IRC sucks.. ;)

  24. nurse suit. on Inventions of 2001 · · Score: 2

    how about that totally cool japanese nurse suit with motors to help them carry heavy people? I saw an article here; I can't find the URL, but I want one of those to fight crime (or destroy the world, haven't pick a side yet)

  25. Re:Buffy Musical on The Tick Premieres Tonight on FOX · · Score: 2

    of course tv comes on FTP.. I downloaded buffy on monday, one day before it aired.