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  1. Really? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh no I better check my version of IE, Wait I run Linux. firefox is still okay.

  2. Re:I don't understand? on If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly · · Score: 0

    No it doesn't, explain how an ugly comment = ugly code. In fact just read the GNU coding standard if you want to be a good coder.

  3. Good Move on Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework · · Score: 0

    Finally Microsoft makes a good coding choice, Open Source = Better Code.

  4. I don't understand? on If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly · · Score: 0

    Wait so because I write comments my code is there for broke. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. If the code has spelling errors in it could it be the the programming has bad spelling, or maybe bad grammer, which is turn would have nothing at all to do with there programming skill. for instance.

    int main(void) { //Prints helo world printf("\nHello World"); }

    I put a spelling error in there on purpose, well the code would work fine. What about being forced to leave comments for a prof to help explain the code. I really can never see how ugly comments lead to ugly code. Comments are a helpful feature of code if the programmer wants to put them in, they have no need to put them in and if the programmer doesn't want to they don't.put them in.

    Complaining about the comments is like complaining about the indenting. So because the Identing is done using space not tab the code is broken? Of course not, Any one who's going to complain about people not writing comments of anything outside of the code are just covering up for there own lack of programming skill. Any real programmer will agree that comments are there for the programmer them selves to help them remember in a year or two if they go back to the code what they were thinking.

    Weather the code is ugly or not has nothing to do with the code working, the code works or doesn't. Past that the code is only rated based on memory and CPU use, thats it, not comments, not identing or anything else.

  5. Do we need this? on Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer? · · Score: 0

    A phone is a phone. Well I can agree with it being wireless I don't see the need for much else. An answering machine is useful also, so all we really need in a home phone is a answering machine and wireless capability, that's it. Anything else would be useless or pointless in a home phone system.

  6. Flaw in design on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 0

    So because the design of the system results in it failing and that leads to computers sucking at math, I don't think that works. Really because someone thought of a broken method for design the computer sucks at doing the programs math. So I really don't know why you'd blame the entire field of computer mathematics.

  7. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 0

    Sometimes I wonder if people with there CCNA / CCNP certifications might know more then you skid marks, oh wait we do. Routers are not and have never been Personal Computers. They are specialized computers that do what they are designed for but are not personal computers. Take the test, you'd get it wrong if you answered that a router is a personal computer.

  8. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 0
    I never said it wasn't a computer, I said it wasn't a PERSONAL COMPUTER aka PC. PC if different from computer. If your going to call a router a computer I'll agree with you because yes a router does contain all the essentials to classify it under that term.

    How ever you said and I quote

    ROUTERS ARE SPECIALIZED PC's (meaning personal computers)

    So infact I'm not incorrect you just used the wrong term. Using your logic why not refer to a Arduino Decimal as a PC it contains ram and rom? That's because it's not a PC. If your asking if routers are computers then I'll agree because they are computers but NOT personal computers.

  9. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 0

    Routers are Routers, open one up and tell me there the same as your desktop computer! Future more install Windows on a router with out modification. Which you can't do.

    Routers contain special ram, special rom. Usually no HDD, no cdrom and no other means to make them a normal PC. So my comment still holds as true, Router are Routers and PC's are PC's. Once you install Windows on a router or install a Cisco image on a PC then you can make your point true.

  10. Re:NAT is a good thing on The Software Router As MiFi Killer · · Score: 0

    I 100% agree with you. Routers are Routers and PC's are PC's don't mix the two!

  11. we already have this just not binary on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 0

    We can already do this. Just run a source based distro and then you can easily port the code to any target you want. It's not a hard job or even difficult. The best case is Gentoo just change the chost and cflags to accept a PPC input and get a cross chain running with gcc etc.... Either way the problem is not hard to over come and it wouldn't be hard to fix.

  12. Re:Don't worry on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I speak from 100% experience as both a developer and an OS developer. I have actually build a Unix clone OS that is I grant you very simple but works, so I know of what I talk about. I'm also a Linux Distro maintainer for my own distro that runs everything special programed from the ground up. So I do actually know what I'm talking about.

  13. Re:Windows 7 fails before the race on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Prove I'm trolling or flaming. Prove that what I said about Windows is false, more so prove that in anyway Windows is has anything good to say about it's self. I know you'll never be able to make a good point so I can leave and laugh because I just asked you to do an impossible task, Prove windows is a good OS.

    by the way number of people support aka using it doesn't mean it's good. if that would be the case then Hitler would a good man because look at how many people supported him!!! so I don't want to hear that old every one uses it excuse and hence it's good I want something for once to back it up, well have fun trying that.

  14. Re:Don't worry on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 0

    lmfao, of course. They do the development, Microsoft does the stealing!

  15. Windows 7 fails before the race on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: -1

    It's official Windows is the worst OS of all time ever programmed, people are going to come on and call me a troll or flamebot of what ever else but who cares. I've had my last f***ing round with windows. Updates that completely wipe out drivers, C programs which fail for no reason 1 hour after they worked. Programs choosing to close because they can't respond, having to restart the computer to do pretty much anything. Opps I moved my mouse better restart because who knows what f***ing broken and poorly programmed Windows API just failed and needs to bed updated.

    People say windows is getting better, there is nothing better about Windows 7 then there has been about any other release. Windows works as well as an OS released in the alpha stage of development. It's only after 3 service packs, 2 new releases and a 60 year old CEO crying on national TV that they manage to fix a 6 year old release bug. Well as far as I'm concerned this time will be the last time for me on Windows. To many programs that fail, freeze, lock up, stop responding or do something else completely random. in fact Windows update decided that out of no where that my girl friends CDROM driver needed up dating, and now it doesn't work. It updated to a driver that conflicts, really really good idea, lets update to drivers that don't work so we force our customers to buy the new versions. Well in this case I have Windows 7 for free, I won it and it's going to make a great cup holder, although I'm a little worried that the cup might stop responding or the cup might just fail for no other reason then being near a Microsoft product.

    I can only hope by Windows 8 they get at least 1 developer that graduated high school because at some point I'd love to use there "easy to use" system which for pretty much everyone I know is the "Come over and fix " system. if i wanted something broken i'd install freebsd, I want something that work that means I want Linux.

  16. Re:Windows 7 is better than Linux on Windows 7 On Multicore — How Much Faster? · · Score: 0

    If you consider poor memory management, slow performance and blue screening better then okay, have fun.

  17. Just be smart on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 0

    A live cd's a good idea but whats stopping an attacker from an ssh drop in? If you really need to be secure go into a teller!

  18. What Distro? on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 0

    This is actually a good question but what Distro do you run. If you run Gentoo or a Debian / Ubuntu distro then search the portage tree or the apt cache. So for instance in Gentoo cd /usr/portage/games-?, or Ubuntu / Deb apt-cache --searchdesc games. As for gaming in Linux for me I tend to stick to Tetris or nothing lol. I'm not a gamer but I do know there are some good ones. Have you looked at getting Sim City 3k for Linux or even Heroes of Might and Magic for Linux, both fun time consuming games.

  19. Re:Fix the problems first on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    NT is horrible, it crashes every 3 months. That might now seem like a big deal but a good Linux / Unix install would NEVER crash once. As far as XP goes, Bad memory management, bad resource management and over all bad design. I'll grant the most stable, but that's that not saying much because it still loves to blue screen / freeze / just reboot for no reason. So like I said above, Will windows 8 finally be stable, they've had enough practice, why not apply it to design now!

  20. Fix the problems first on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is this going to be the first stable release of Windows.

  21. OH NO! on Microsoft Blocks Pirates From Security Essentials Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wait I run Linux, thank god I'm already safe!

  22. Re:Money on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    The evidence is evident if you think about it. I didn't state any links to back my self or references to medical text but then again you didn't either in your reply to me and before I posted my argument you didn't to make your points. So I fail to see why you can call some one out of the same thing your guilty of. As for you being a diabetic, if you had read the post then you'd clearly see how I state several times that it's not directed toward medical conditions which can't be helped.

    You can give a person a gun and they have the choice to shoot it!, They have the choice to use the poison and they have a choice to do anything in there life. I know many many people 50+ who haven't had ill effects because of an unbalanced diet, it's not a problem until the person chooses to make it a problem. Which is completely what I was talking about.

    Clearly you missed the clear point of my post, which didn't need any hard evidence to back anything up. I didn't make any legal clam or say anything which needed to be referenced as a fact. I simply said if people can't control there own life's why should we have to pay for it.

    Really it's more of a stupidity tax, you can't think so pay up!

  23. Re:Tugboats on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Personal experience with BSD shows me just how messed up that system is. I'm surprised they could even install the thing to bench mark with it, and then waited 5 days for ports to grind away getting the packages set up.

    That's not what I said with that paragraph, what it means is that the installer is badly designed. Now to be fair the Ubuntu installer isn't great but any one can figure it out. You never partition a disk using auto, unless you don't understand how to partition a disk and then why aren't you using windows.

    The best installer is Gentoo, just extract the base system into the root partition and then use the package manager to install the rest.

  24. Re:Tugboats on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected!!!, I didn't know there was binary options available for free thanks for letting me know that. Still would it not be a better idea to compare the kernels

  25. Re:Benchmarks... on FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Writing fast / optimized code doesn't mean writing hard to read code, it just means writing the best code.