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  1. Re:Whats so bad about Visual Basic ? on Where Do You Go After Visual Basic? · · Score: 1
    This is a perfect example of the badness of VB:
    ...and have the mentality BASIC = BAD.
    Which is it? BASIC assigned-the-value BAD or BASIC is-equal-to BAD?

    When you move on from VB to a new programming language, you find that it does matter.
    Example:
    if(BASIC = BAD) {
    cout << "Remember kids: BASIC is always BAD!";
    }

    The assignment always evaluates to true when you code in C/C++.

    OTOH, I have no specific grudge against VB as I've only touched it superficially. I just don't care much for the syntax.

    Óli
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    WinDOS, you can't live with it, and you can live without it.

  2. Re:TNG and DS9 vs VOY on Voyager Eulogy · · Score: 1

    I would think that in (almost) all cases where a leading caracter is killed off, it is because their contract has run out. It is just a fact of (TV production) life.

    OTOH, I remember watching the episode where she was killed and I didn't think for a minute that she wouldn't come out alive. When she finally died I realized that it was quite a dramatic end for this caracter (even though the black ooze was rather ridiculous). It certainly didn't harm the overall atmosphere of the series.

  3. I propose new name: COOL on AOL Moves Into China · · Score: 1

    As others have mentioned, AOL is not a good name in China since it has 'America' in it (what with the spy plane and all).

    Therefore I propose (to all you AOL corporate drones lurking on /.) launching a subsidiary of AOL with the name COOL: China and the Orient On-Line.

    Thank you (bows to the applause)...

  4. Re:Postscript on Third Generation Display Layers Other than OS X? · · Score: 1

    PDF is just PostScript with hyperlinks, as far as I know. Both were conceived at Adobe.
    (Picture PS wearing black, holding a lightsaber saying "I'm your father, PDF" ;)

  5. Re:Link to story on Europeans in Western China, 1200 B.C. · · Score: 5

    Check out: this link

    It took some searching. Apparently, their search engine sucks.

    Óli
    ---
    WinDOS, you can't live with it, and you can live without it.

  6. VA Linux is making money on SourceForge on What Would We Do Without SourceForge? · · Score: 1

    ...believe it or not.
    They sell servers with a SourceForge environment preinstalled. This is very useful for corporations in managing internal projects.

    That meant that the people working on SourceForge were not affected by the recent VA Linux layoffs.
    According to this Salon article at least.

    There are also other webbased collaboration sites, such as collab.net, mentioned in the article.