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  1. not smart enough to ask for the same salary? on Gates Calls for Increase in Tech Labor Supply · · Score: 1, Troll

    I like the assumption that employees on H1 visas have a different pay scale, performance reviews, etc. Unless you can provide proof that this is the case you should avoid speaking of what you know nothing about...

  2. Microsoft owns it, didn't write it. on Review of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    I like how microsoft buys a company, rebrands its software and suddenly it as if this product has been written from scratch by microsoft. Maybe in a few years you can complain about anti-spyware microsoft this, anty-spyware microsoft that... but this is a little premature.

  3. is pi=3.14? on Fabian Pascal Reacts · · Score: 1
    No, but it is a reasonable approximation in the real world. It seems like Fabian is complaining a lot about the difference between the pure relational model and the "impure" implementations. There is no such thing as perfect circle in the real world so what use is it to calculate the area or diameter using the full infinite expansion of pi? I don't need to understand why pi*r^2 calculates the area of a circle (in the sense of a rigorous mathematical proof) to actually do the calculation or make effective use of it.


    I'm not saying that understanding fundementals and pure theory is a bad thing. I think it is essential if you want to architect systems and be able to make strategic design decisions. But it seems like Fabian does not want to accept that the world is filled with many different types of people. Not everyone is going to be an architect (not everyone wants to either). If Fabian had his way you would need a PhD in physics before you could become a mechanic, a PhD in biology before you could become a gardener and a linguistics PhD before you became a public speaker. I'm not saying you wouldn't be a kick ass gardener if you have a PhD in biology, but it is definitely not necessary.

  4. Remember when... on More Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I remember back in the day, earlier browsers did not have the "tab to hyperlink" feature. IE was the first that did.

  5. Re:Wait till Feb. 2002 on Visual Basic and ActiveX? · · Score: 2, Informative

    VB.NET can use COM(Active X) components. There is a COM interop layer so old com objects can call VB.NET through COM and VB.NET stuff can call old COM objects.

  6. Re:MS's "Free Soda" policy threatens the American on MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source: "Threatens" the "American Way" · · Score: 1
    Yup none of those coolers full of free drinks are re-filled, repaired, or manufactured by anyone. They just magically appear and magically refill themselves when they get low. And of course the companies that provide them or the "free" drinks in them don't get any monetary compensation at all...

    Funny story, but not that well thought out.

  7. Only if the other machine can measure it. on NSA + VMware = Crackproof Computing? · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they virtualize the resource measurement/allocation. Make it so that hardware resource measurement (disk I/O, processor, net I/O, etc.) is completely isolated between virtual machines.

  8. Re:Stealing? No. on DirecTV's Secret War On Hackers · · Score: 1
    Take this scenario:

    1) A online company has a privacy policy saying that they won't share user information with other people

    2) They have a network.

    3) The charge a fee for other companies to be connected to this network.

    4) The other companies can snoop the traffic on the line and gain customer information.

    The online company hasn't violated the privacy policy. It is perfectly legal to snoop traffic on the network (receive broadcast signals).

  9. Dazed and Confused EULA on EULA In Games · · Score: 1

    If you are under the influence of some drug whil agreeing to the contract is it leagally enforcable? What if you install the software for someone else? Does you agreeing to the EULA bind any person using the comuter to it?