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  1. Re:Language is irrelevant on What I Hate About Your Programming Language · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that the gcc group had that figured out first. gcc uses front ends to translate the c, c++, fortran, java, and whatever other languages it can use to intermediate files, which are then compiled to assembly then machine code.

    Once again, Microsoft "innovates" themselves into territory where others have lead them.

  2. Re:they are now, officially, contemplating evil on Google To Create "Blog" Search; Potentially Remove From Main · · Score: 1

    Oh please. If your blog is anything like your Slashdot posts, then Google has one more argument for pulling blogs out of the main search. You write like Captain Kirk speaks.

  3. Re:Next Book? on 'Quicksilver' Website and Release Date · · Score: 4, Funny

    So this is the prequel to Cryptonomicon basically.

    I heard that he wants to make the prequel kid-friendly, and is introducing a large-eared sidekick that has an amusing Jamacian accent. I'm really looking forward to this one.

  4. Re:Turn that shiz-nit on on Earthlink Deploying Challenge-Response Anti-Spam System · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I use earthlink, and receive about one junk mailing a week.

  5. Re:Forget about new aliens and hairdos... on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that you didn't hold up "Murder She Wrote" as a testament to your GOLD theory.

  6. Re:Forget about new aliens and hairdos... on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh please. Go back to the b5 newsgroup and kiss JMS's ass there. What does the J. stand for? Jackass would be my guess.

  7. Re:Pronounciation on Review of SuSE 8.2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sousa is correct.

  8. Re:More Useful Statistics on Unemployed? How Long Until You Find That Next Job · · Score: 1

    Employers never feel bad, and never do "favors" like that. They bought your silence.

  9. Re:Why FP isn't much used in reality on The Post-OOP Paradigm · · Score: 1

    The first demonstration of the chaotic nature of the solar system was done using Lisp. A link. Look for the paper titled "Chaotic evolution of the solar system."

  10. Re:Not aspect, not extreme, not pattern, but... on The Post-OOP Paradigm · · Score: 1

    The Lisp community had this figured out years ago.

  11. Re:The Military And Masterlock on Slashback: Discipline, License, Name-calling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Meanwhile, rapists at the academy go completely unpunished (although the victims do if they speak out). The military is the coolest.

  12. If I could bottle Mozilla projects.. on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 1

    If I could bottle Mozilla based projects, the directions would read.

    1. Design a new interface for the Gecko engine.
    2. Come up with a name.
    3. Work that name deeply in the public consciousness.
    4. Change the name for legal reasons
    5. Rinse and repeat.

  13. Other multiverse fluff on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    It's nice to think that there are an infinite (countably or uncountably) number of parallel worlds playing out every possible outcome. The idea is this: every particle acts out every possible point in its wave function at every given time. Don't go having fantasies about the multiverse where you get laid without paying a professional for it, though. The theory also states that what we observe in our daily lives is the most likely possibility; the expected value or quantum superposition of all those states.

    To put it simply, you're living out every possible life _right_now_ but can only see the one with the highest likelihood.

  14. Re:Probabilities and reality on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    What he probably means is that even an event that has probability 1 of not occuring has a very small possibility of occuring. That result is somehow related to the proof in measure theory that 0.99999... is identical to 1.

  15. Re:A picture's worth a thousand words on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    Front pages of newspapers are history, not entertainment.

    I find that comment to be entertainment.

  16. Re:Overreacting on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    No, sometimes a photograph can be the news.

  17. How to start a Mozilla spinoff project on Mozilla's Major New Roadmap · · Score: 2, Funny

    Step 1: Proclaim that Mozilla is a bloated mess.
    Step 2: Find a name.
    Step 3: Reach the 0.5 release, and develop a loyal following.
    Step 4: Start to reach more users and get some name recognition.
    Step 5: Come up with some sort of roadmap.
    Step 6: Change the name due to legal issues.
    Step 7: Declare 1.0 victory, and add yourself to the junkheap of other spinoff projects. Don't worry, though, there are more to join!

  18. Cobol may be an easy target, but... on Mainframe Operators Needed · · Score: 1

    What's next, COBOL?

    I wouldn't knock it. Which job do you think you stand a better chance of getting: a C++/Java/C# job that you're qualified for with 500 other qualified applicants competing for the same position, or a Cobol job that you're qualified for with 10 other competing qualified applicants. Which do you think will demand a better salary?

    Jerk.

  19. Re:Star Trek on Designers - Are You Influenced By What You Read? · · Score: 1

    It's been know for quite some time that there are things that can travel faster than the speed of light, such as a group wavefront. However, the key is that you can't transmit information faster than the speed of light.

  20. Re: a little more info on DVD Review: Back to the Future Trilogy (Widescreen) · · Score: 2

    Huh. interesting. I once projected "The Usual Suspects" in a 16m theater. I thought that the boom mikes regularly dropping into the frames was an interesting touch, but never saw it in any other versions.

  21. Re:Better than... on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses? · · Score: 2

    The best place for that book? Next to the shitters at work. The company wins too, since they are saving on toilet paper.

  22. Shitty Christmas Party Gifts on Company Christmas Gifts / Bonuses? · · Score: 2

    I kid you not: a steel bolt and a used rat trap. From my boss. Thankfully he threw the rat away before wrapping the trap up. Asshole.

  23. Re:12 year olds can kick my ass. on IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology · · Score: 2

    wanted to get better at the game, but there was no other beginners to play with

    Learn grammar, then others might enjoy playing (and communicating) with you. Jerk.

  24. Re:Ethics, IP, amd AI on IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh yes, I love these little "thought experiments." Propose a means to devise an electronic circuit that behaves exactly like a neuron, then I will take your little argument seriously.

    Remember, Newtonians felt that the whole of the universe could be described if you could only write the state down of everything in it. Then came Quantum Theory and opps, all of that went out the window.

    What makes a neuron a neuron is that it is, well, a neuron. Take your philosophy 101 (Denet's "Brain in a Vat" article anyone?) and stuff it.

  25. Re:How about Yo-Yo Ma? on Will Ferrell Stars in New Apple "Switch" Ads · · Score: 2

    Or like Bobby saying

    "My name is Bobby Fisher, and I'm an anti-semite."

    Bobby would never say the first thing, because he's a prick. He would say the second, because he's a prick.