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  1. Re:ARGH!!!!!! on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 1

    I'll bet he's using pre 1.5 too. 1.5 isn't available for MacOSX yet - at least I've not seen it.

  2. Re:Which is why... on Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals · · Score: 1

    -pedantic doesn't necessarily do what you think it does.

    I came across this the other day while compiling some code that used an ancient C++ library. The compiler errored on a function declaration that looked something like this:

    extern foo () ;

    The C++ standard doesn't allow you to omit the return type. I was able to work around the problem by adding -pedantic and the compiler threw out a warning but managed to create some code. It seems the default setting for g++ (at least) is -pedantic-errors.

  3. Re:Just ordered my first album on Music Download Service Targets Linux Desktops · · Score: 1

    I hate to add to your woes, but you've got the accent on the e the wrong way around. Café is how it should be.

  4. Re:What about the Beagle? on Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yay!

    We Brits get there first again. Your American Rovers have failed to do anything more spectacular than create a few wheel tracks in spite of being there for months and months.

  5. Re:20-30 bugs per 1000 lines??? on Linux Has Fewer Bugs Than Rivals · · Score: 2, Informative
    Bzzzt wrong
    jeremyp@dhcp-2-1-56:jeremyp$ cat foo.c
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main ()
    {
    if (0)
    return ;
    printf ("Hello World\n") ;
    }
    jeremyp@dhcp-2-1-56:jeremyp$ gcc foo.c -o foo
    jeremyp@dhcp-2-1-56:jeremyp$ ./foo
    Hello World
    jeremyp@dhcp-2-1-56:jeremyp$ gcc --version
    gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
    Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  6. Re:How to speed OpenOffice file-format adoption on Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats · · Score: 2, Informative
    Do you think PDF support should be integrated into the OS?

    It already is in my operating system (Mac OSX) - well not the OS but the GUI framework.

  7. Re:"Burglarize" on Robbers Scared by GTA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Surely somebody who burgles is a burglator.

  8. Re:China on EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine a war between the US and China being anything but a global conflict.

    In reality, the US would not shoot down Galileo since that in itself would be an act of war and I would expect the US would rather we Europeans were with it rather than against it.

  9. Re:First hand information on EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System · · Score: 1

    "can I get a WAAS based GPS and get the benefits from EGGNOG?"

    Yes. My Garmin eTrex Vista can pick up the EGNOS system.

  10. Re:Too much tech? on Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers · · Score: 1

    Jackie Stuart has had nothing to do with Jaguar since the team was sold to them. When he did run the team, it was a reasonable middle of the pack outfit which lacked for nothing except money.

    By the way Jaguar had nothing to do with the team either. It's just that Ford decided it would be a sexier name than "Ford".

  11. Re:Don't forget the drivers, too. on Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers · · Score: 1

    I remember watching that race. The telemetry from Schumacher's car was shown in a graphic at the corner of the screen. Anybody viewing the race live in th UK could see he was stuck in fifth.

  12. Re:It's a joke! on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jacob's brother Joseph was travelling along the same road in the other direction also at 220 mph in a car of identical mass.

  13. Re:Barbie said it best on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the wonderful thing is that the marks actually turn out to be meaningful.

    for e.g. when somebody first said "let's pretend that -1 *does* have a square root" it never occurred to them that complex numbers would turn out to be important in physics and electronics.

  14. Re:From the article... on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    No they weren't. They were encouraged to ship the Microsoft compiled ones which ship with Visual Studio.

  15. Re:From the article... on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    And if this application is a product that his company distributes?

  16. Re:Why did they make relay-based computers? on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 2, Informative

    A diode valve/vacuum tube allows current to travel in one direction and not the other. "Valve" seems a good name to me.

  17. Re:Try it with NFS... on Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just tried it on my Mac OS X box and the -r was not deleted but everything else was including directories.

    It all depends on whether the file "-r" is first the collating sequence. When I added a file called "+r", the -r was treated as a regular file rather than a switch.

  18. Re:Differs from a drvier's license, how? on Blunkett Backs Down on UK ID Cards · · Score: 1

    This post is actually partly bullsh*t.

    Most adults in the UK do drive.

    SUV's are popular although not as popular in the US.

    Scotland has never counted as part of England. For some reason the Scots always seem to get upset when we English refer to the whole island as "England".

    Scotland certainly does count as part of the UK and the northern most tip of the UK is a little less than a thousand miles from the furthest extremity to the South.

  19. Re:More serious apps... on 30th Anniversary of Pascal · · Score: 1

    That's an implementation issue. Blame the compiler, not the language.

  20. Re:Lucas Also Plans on George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    They are probably making the said remarks *because* they own the DVDs or have seen the films.

  21. Re:/dev/null on UK High Court Orders ISPs to Identify File-sharers · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the ISPs are on *your* side. Maybe the guy who owns the ISP is also an internationally known pop star (Bob Geldof used to have one). Maybe the ISP doesn't like to be associated with people breaking the law.

  22. Re:Emergency Calls? on France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming · · Score: 1

    Yes, because

    a) terrorists are *completely* unaware of the idea you might have a mobile phone and will not have confiscated it

    and

    b) nobody outside the auditorium is going to be aware that there are terrorists holding the people inside hostage.

  23. Re:'Greatest and Luckiest of Mortals' indeed on The Greatest And The Luckiest Of Mortals · · Score: 1

    Newton was a nasty man who had vendettas against Hooke and Leibnitz and others too. I think it entirely probable that he "slipped in" ad hominem remarks.

  24. Re:Delta P, Delta E on Smart Cars Coming to Canada and U.S. · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Smart car has a Euro NCAP rating of 3, which is not good by modern standards.

  25. Re:Code review and pair programming on Alan Cox on Writing Better Software · · Score: 1

    My understanding of a code review is that you and the reviewer(s) get together and walk through the code line by line. If asll you're doing is checking the code in and at some later date somebody else is glancing over it to see if it is OK, you're doing it wrong.

    Furthermore, having the code reviewer "fix" your code is wrong on so many levels e.g. if you do something badly, it should be your job to fix it, otherwise you'll never learn to do it properly. As in the case you mention the reviewer might have an incomplete understanding of the code and make it worse. It's also bad for your self esteem to have people redoing your work.