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  1. Re:In translation... on libkse to libpthread switch on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    My bad, 2.6 uses NPTL (new posix thread library) which is 1:1.

  2. Re:In translation... on libkse to libpthread switch on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Linux 2.6 uses NGPT (next gen posix threads), which is an M:N system.

    LinuxThreads was 1:1 but is now deprecated.

  3. Re:Bad Statement on Court to Hear Landmark P2P Case · · Score: 1

    You completely missed the parents point.

    You pay back the amount 100%+ like you say, but do you then GIVE THEM THE HOUSE LIKE THE PARENT POSTER STATED?

    That is what he meant by 'clear title', FYI.

    Enjoy!

  4. Re:Cornice???? on Mini-iPod Mystery Drive Unveiled? · · Score: 1

    You are silly! The old iPods were all off the shelf components!

  5. Linux is steady on DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    Your linked stats unfortunately don't tell the same tale you just did.

    All that those numbers show is that linux has remained at 1% from the beginning of your links all the way to the end.

    This number has remained steady. Steady != Dying.

    Because the exact number is not known, and the value presented is ~ rounded to 1%, the data you provided is useless for either side of this argument.

    BTW: IE 5.5 & 6 work fine under crossover-office (and most probably under any recent version of wine). This nullifies your other numbers/argument.

    Have a nice day troll :P

  6. Re:Color != frequency on Scientists Freeze Pulse Of Light · · Score: 1

    What I said was correct, although simplified.

    You are obviously misinterpreting what I said, as out of the multiple points you are attempting to make, only one applies to what I said.

    ie: I said nothing about reflection generating the electrical signal. I know how cone cells work. OBVIOUSLY you must absorb SOMETHING to create a signal.

    Now, to settle your misconception of the cone cells and what colors they pick up, if you look at the graph that the other poster provided, you will see what I was saying: that there ARE NO receptors which pick up RED, BLUE or GREEN at their peak sensitivity!

    One receptor picks up a range from red to green, the other a range from reddish orange to purplish blue, the last one picks up from green to violet.

    enjoy.

  7. Re:Color != frequency on Scientists Freeze Pulse Of Light · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sorry friend, but he is correct and you are wrong.

    He stated the 'color' of our photo receptors. Although our photo receptors pick up C, Y, and M -- it is because their colors (as he said) are R, G, and B.

    ie: the Red Photoreceptor reflects RED, that is why it is a red colored photoreceptor. Since it reflects RED, it picks up BLUE and GREEN, which make one of the (secondary) colors you mentioned.

    You are also wrong saying that RGB is used for pigment. Pigment gets its color by absorbing color, and you see what is reflected. RGB is used for TVs and Monitors where there is a direct source of light.

    Cheers!

  8. WTF? on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't they have to PROVE!!!?!?! they own what they are trying to collect fees for?

    Haven't they done everything but?

    If SCO does do anything like that, they will go down for FRAUD!!!!

  9. Re:Hmm... on Apache Axis C++ v1.0 (Alpha) Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It depends on what parts of J2EE you are talking about. There are many pieces (Servlet, EJB, JDBC, JMS, etc...) that make up J2EE.

    If you just need to create a webservice, then this (Axis c++) is all you need.

    If you need your thing to run in an EJB or Servlet container, ie: your backend has to be J2EE, then you may be out of luck.

    You might want to consider the course (if it's free!).

  10. MORON! 100%, APPLE IS AT FAULT: on iTunes Disables MusicMatch · · Score: 1

    MORON!

    It says COLLECTION, not FILES.

    Unless you are a mac bigot, you might not be familiar with the terms (Collection?!?!) that Apple likes to rename already standardly named things to.

    In this case, it is APPLE's fault for using the MORONIC word COLLECTION instead FILES or FILE AND DIRECTORY STRUCTURE. Using FILES would have made both power and l(that means you) users happy.

  11. Re:Another Reason? on Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent · · Score: 1

    I use to use phoenix exclusively; however, this new and incredibly stupid name makes my stomach turn. I will NEVER even look at it again until they fix that blatant severity 0 bug.

    In actuality, the name change ended up being a good thing for me. It drove me to switch back to Konqueror while they fix the name. The later versions (>= 3.1.2) really kick ass, and now I see absolutely no reason to switch back -- even if they do fix the stupid name.

  12. NUMBERS: on Blackdown Releases a 1.4.1 JDK · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A project I am working on involves using soap (ApachesSOAP) as a transport layer and performing serialization of data to xml using Castors xml abilities (so xerces as well). It also uses the JDO part of castor to persist the data, and also to keep logs and some more complex things as well (PostgreSQL for this test). (I am running system on a Linux 2.4.19 machine with a 2.20GHz Intel CPU. (No swapping occured)

    Here are some numbers for a test involving simply serializing one of the complete object trees of data using castor, in a loop executed 1000 times:

    Sun JDK 'java version "1.3.1": (avg/3) 5.8s
    Sun JDK 'java version "1.4.1_01"': (avg/3) 6.4s
    Blackdown 'java version "1.4.1": (avg/3) 5.3s

    Sending a message with the the above generated xml full cycle through the system (multiple threads of execution here, multiple database connections as well (pooled), passing data over soap, etc), looped 200 times took the following times: (again, avg.)

    (sun 1.4.1): 44.2s
    (sun 1.4.1): 44.6s
    (bd 1.4.1): 41.4s

    In both the coded test, and the real world situation, Blackdown's JDK outperformed Sun 1.4 and 1.3 jdks.

  13. That's TWIN Turbo on Flirting With Mac OS X · · Score: 1

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  14. Re:Java based Office... on Sun Denies StarOffice on Mac OS X · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Too bad that JBuilder isn't 100% java.
    They didn't use pure swing for the GUI! They wrote their own native widgets for each platform JBuilder supports (osx, windoze, linux...).

  15. That isn't driving. on Driving from Alaska to Siberia · · Score: 1

    It is a boat with wheels. In many pictures they are floating in water. Definatly nothing special except maybe because it is a first.

  16. Re:Quality, Comfort and Safety. on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I just noticed another error/lie in your post.
    The only AWD system that has ever been proven to help at all on a track is Audi's Quattro system, and BTW: Audi is GERMAN.

    All other AWD systems, ESPECIALLY a 13 year old one, simply sap too much power from the engine, and screw up the geometry of the suspention too much, to be of any help on the track. The only point in time that AWD has any effect on the track is accellerating out of a turn (whilst still turning). It may have enough of an edge over FWD to compensate for the loss of RearWheel HP and messed up suspention geometry. But compared to RWD, it is actually a disadvantage.

    And as for in a straight line, AWD does almost nothing, as the increased traction that helps a bit in the VERY VERY beginning, doesn't at all compensate for the continously lost power all the time.

    Of course none of those points you used have anything to do with my original post, but pointing out their error simply shows how little you know.

  17. Re:Quality, Comfort and Safety. on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    That is a bet you would loose my friend.

    Wow, it has Recaro seats. Guess what? It probably didn't come with those, and it would be a trivial task to add them to any car. My friend has a set of Recaro seats in his Volvo, and yes they are comfy around the track, but for a long trip, they get VERY tiresome.

    You are wrong on beating my car as well. I have tracked my car multiple times. Many were at Mosport. Mosport is the biggest (i think) track in Canada, and is where such races as the American Lemans have raced (you should have seen the last one, on turn two when the audi hit the wall @ something like 300kph -- I was there! on turn 2! what a sight).

    I have never been beaten by any rice/jap car. The only cars I get beaten by are race prepared M3s. No american or jap car has ever touched me.

    Infact, I love when the stupid slant eyes show up at the race with their Acura Type-Rs thinking they are all that. Man do they get blown away by me and most of my friends cars. They are so slow off the line due to NO FUCKING TORQUE, which is what a turbocharge-4 is like BTW, and their shitty FWD can't keep up with us on the turns either.

    13 Years old? Sorry to rock your boat here, but that is NOTHING.

    My winter car is an 1985 VW Jetta with 400,836km on it and it still runs perfectly. The only thing I replaced in the last 2 years was the alternators voltage regulator, as it was the ORIGINAL. Yes thats right, 18 years old and finally the voltage regulator burned out, probably because of improved sound system which can take quite a few amps.

    Get a life.. and while you are at it, get a real car.

  18. Quality, Comfort and Safety. on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    I rather have my comfortable and quality car than a shitty little rice car.

    My BMW weighs more than your shitty acura or whatever because it uses metal instead of plastic where it is needed. It uses leather instead of cloth or vinal. It uses quality parts, instead of shitty little plastic trinkets. Aluminum instead of thin thin steal.

    Take a look at any jap sports car. They are cheaply made, and are filled with plastic. They are cramped and uncomfortable.

    For example, take out a window motor, or a sunroof motor (if you have one) from both your rice burner and a german car. The German car will utilize low gauge wire instead of chicken wire, and the housing will be metal instead of plastic. Do you know why? Because Bosch makes quality parts that last, not shit that falls apart in the box like japs do.

    Compare anything that is made in both japan and made in europe. See which falls apart first.

  19. Re:Physical Displacement != Power on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    You are stupid.
    Do the EXACT same things to the big shitty american engine, and its power increase will be far larger than on your shitty econo box rice burner.

    Or you could do the same thing to a perfectly engineered German engine (but wait, I repeat myself), and you will blow both the oily shitty big fat ugly inefficient american crap engine, and the shitty econo fisherprice rice burning engine out of the water.

    German engines are the perfect balance of power, economy and drivability.

  20. Crackers? on Hotmail Hacked · · Score: 1

    I use to love crackers! They are a great little snack in between meals: good with cheese or jam, and not too filling.

    And now they betray me, reading my personal email? Damn them!

    Hackers on the other hand, I keep an eye on. Some can be good, and some can be bad (or both).

  21. Re:Oh come on, use Netcraft - its FreeBSD not a TS on Human Clock (Complete with Hands!) · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the basic source code that he put up as the source of the apache port. It is kinda funny; even if it doesn't make you laugh it will make you realize its a joke.

  22. It is only Medium DAMAGE! on Code Redux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't understand why Symantec classifies a "remote root" exploit as only "medium" damage.

    Maybe because they don't! You are thinking in terms of security hole. With a virus it is different, you are more concerned about data loss.

    A virus can inflict low damage, ie: print a message on the screen that you are stupid, or a high DAMAGE rate of deleting your whole hard drive. Medium is a good measurement of this one, as it only has the POTENTIAL for data loss.

  23. Re:Morpheus on Don't Eat the Yellow Links · · Score: 1

    FastTrack is a company that makes the FastTrack library. They also make a consumer product called Kazaa which uses the FastTrack lib. The lib is licenced to other consumer based products, like Grokster and Morpheus.

  24. Ridiculous proposition? Agreed! on SuSE Announces More Layoffs · · Score: 1

    See above post... I totally agree with you! Long live SuSE!

    The /. authors use to be nobodys, who's voices went unheard by most, and it was fine that they could say irresponsible things. But now that many read their site, I think they have to grow up, and realize the impact their statements can make.

    Thank you also, for clearing things up. I love SuSE, and hope to find myself walking to the local store to pick up the latest copy of SuSE even 20 years from now.

  25. Re:Have we put an end to human evolution? on Pink Slip In Your Genes · · Score: 1

    you moron!
    social darwinism is about genetics, and has nothing to do with social values taught to children by their parents or friends.
    Fucking understand the words you use before you use them, or you will sound like a moron, just like you did in your above post.
    If you doubt me, look up the word Eugenics.