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  1. Re:Lizard Spock on Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors · · Score: 1

    Does Chinese TV even show The Big Bang Theory?

    Well, at least they know about it.

  2. Re:Wait. What? on Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors · · Score: 1

    Or you could remember that you were in a casino and borrow a six-sided die in case the other guy was using a bot.

  3. Re:That's way too much of a house edge on Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors · · Score: 0
  4. Re:This is useless on Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors · · Score: 1

    So add lizard and Spock.

  5. Re:Good, we don't need those satellites on WSJ Reports AT&T May Be Eying a $40B DirecTV Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, that's funny. But seriously, AT&T has been selling DirectTV for years as part of the "triple play" option for the areas it doesn't have Uverse for whatever reason. I guess they got tired of selling so many DirectTV subscriptions.

  6. Re:So what? on US Should Use Trampolines To Get Astronauts To the ISS Suggests Russian Official · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You forgot to add "I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but..." at the start.

  7. Injunction against ULA getting more RD-180s on US Should Use Trampolines To Get Astronauts To the ISS Suggests Russian Official · · Score: 5, Informative

    The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits United Launch Alliance from buying NPO Energomash RD-180 engines from Russia.

    http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/2...

  8. Re:Missing video on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 1

    Usually they are going up when they have a camera, and on a course which is accurate enough to point a dish at it to get a better signal. Even then the signal usually cuts out a bit.

  9. Re:Huh? on Designer Creates a Water Bottle That You Can Eat · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention one other thing. I eventually found out that I recover much quicker from that if I don't eat anything until I actually get really hungry. Often I don't even have to throw up, though I do still spend some quality time in sitting in the "reading room". Eating something before that bad stuff clears out just starts the cycle all over again.

  10. Re:Very specific point answer on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Yet I don't even regard C++ code written without smart pointers to be acceptable, and it certainly misses the whole point of C++.

    I thought the whole point of C++ was to add functions to structs to allow object-oriented programming. Or at least that's the idea I got when I read D&E.

  11. Re:Standard Library is both a strength and weaknes on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    It is documented down to an very low level. I can't count the number of time I've been using some .NET library only to find out that it has some undocumented requirement, quirk, or wildly unexpected time complexity.

    But don't worry, that'll get fixed Tuesday in the monthly update to all major versions of the libraries! Even those lowly .NET 1.0 programmers will get the updates!

  12. Re:It's a turd that's slowly being polished on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    And any C code that makes heavy use of pointers to functions could probably be written much better in C++ using virtual methods, even without templates.

  13. Re:It's a turd that's slowly being polished on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    It is salvageable if you throw away most of it. Using it as "C with classes" has a lot of potential. C++ does have a few problems that made templates necessary, but that doesn't mean that I don't think templates aren't a fucking mess, or that you even need to use them.

    Look at mbed as an example of using C++ without templates or iostreams. Classes are treated as an API to hardware, with a single object representing one instance of a hardware device, containing the port/unit number and state. For instance, to use Timer 3 in a microcontroller, you would create an timer class object and initialize it with the number 3, like a declaration of "Timer t3(3);" then do things with it like "t3.SetMode(Timer::MODE_PWM); t3.SetCount(1000); t3.Start();".

    Just remember that the only difference between a struct and a class is that a class's members are private by default, and a struct's members are public by default. So all you're doing is adding function calls to a struct, with the struct's address being an implicit pointer called "this", and whose elements don't need extra syntax to access them, just like locals and globals.

  14. Re:Simple on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the minor detail of lacking any sort of tty console hardware to use those iostreams on.

  15. Re:Simple on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Not all "Embedded ARM SoCs" are monsters that run Linux. They also include Cortex M, which usually comes with no more than 64K-96K of RAM and 512K-1M of flash on the high-end M3/M4 models. On those you generally want to avoid the kind of programming that throws around calls to malloc/new like they were junk mail.

  16. Re:Did they get at the free disc silos??? on AOL Finally Admits They Were Hacked · · Score: 1

    I'll say this for the AOLers... at least they would put their quotes before the reply, unlike the people using Microsoft Outlook.

    >Well played sir!

    >>Me too

    >>>I'd be more worried if they hacked the CD launchers. Ever see the movie Goldfinger? Those things can slice your head off!

    >>>>Tell me those are still okay, PLEASE!!!

  17. Re:Pretty reasonable merger on Aerospace Merger: ATK Joins With Orbital Sciences Corp · · Score: 1

    tl;dr: it sounds like a good match, which is what I think, too.

  18. Re:ATK on Aerospace Merger: ATK Joins With Orbital Sciences Corp · · Score: 1

    The real design flaw was putting the crew vehicle to the side of the SRBs with no escape rocket mechanism. All this came about because of the military side of the requirements for Shuttle, which were important so that it could have enough "customers" to make it worth the trouble of building such an elephant. But now they have the X37B for their black ops, and nobody with a clue wants the Shuttle design back.

  19. Re:Why did he do it - and why didn't they ask? on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    Apparently he was the cell phone equivalent of the guy who drives exactly the speed limit in the fast lane BECAUSE IT'S THE SPEED LIMIT. Passive vigilantism.

  20. Re:Did they get at the free disc silos??? on AOL Finally Admits They Were Hacked · · Score: 1

    I'd be more worried if they hacked the CD launchers. Ever see the movie Goldfinger? Those things can slice your head off!

  21. Re:Halo series? on Yahoo To Produce Sci-Fi Streaming Sitcom · · Score: 1

    I liked it better when it was called "Red vs Blue".

  22. Re:"Will product" on Yahoo To Produce Sci-Fi Streaming Sitcom · · Score: 1

    Yahoo is also getting into the hot new market for estate planning.

  23. Definitely still beta on GNU Mailman 3 Enters Beta · · Score: 1

    Looking at this page with Seamonkey has so much fail. Text blocks overlapping other text blocks, and the body text is a fixed-width item, so when your default font size is large or you zoom your browser, it gets a horizontal scroll bar. Seriously, fixed-width layouts should die. Also, why is "newer thread" on the left, and "older thread" on the right, and not the other way around?

    https://lists.stg.fedoraprojec...

    Really, all I wanted is for messages from people with mailers that didn't understand the concept of keeping e-mail to 80 columns or less (I think Outlook has been a major offender) not to be a mile wide because of how pre tags don't wrap long lines. I didn't want all this web 2.0 crap.

  24. Re:Reality? on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1

    How exactly do you use a nuclear reactor in precision remote sensing of metals through two kilometers of water is a mystery to me.

    It's probably got something to do with homeopathy.

  25. Re:Worst article ever... on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    Ignorance, Bullshit, and Trolling?

    Oh, yeah, and videos that play on load. I thought I had the videos blocked, but this is the UK site, so there's a different address to block.