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  1. Re:Many other explanations on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 1

    I am sure there are Hungarian children doing just that every day.

    But they have no choice.
    When you're learning a foreign language you can choose to learn grammar, and it might give additional insight.

  2. Re:USB drives are writable on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    That's why you need read-only usb drives. But they're really hard to find nowadays.

  3. Re:Reply on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    What if your intruder infects the VM binaries? (Or it's hard disk images. Let's suppose it's a multiplatform virus.)

  4. Re:Reply on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Please, how a VM does provide you security, if it runs on top of an infected host? (That's potentially VM aware?)

  5. Re:Economic warfare on Dell To Leave China For India · · Score: 1

    If you look at the population of the world as a closed system, then we're selling goods to ourselves.

  6. Re:Many other explanations on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 1

    Nor do you need to learn grammar to learn a language---it may help but it is obviously not necessary for children. Maths is just another language, though it is possibly not a language everyone is capable of speaking.

    Try to learn Hungarian without grammar: there's no word order, no prepositions, and personal pronouns are often omitted (merge with verbs).
    Just because it works for English or Chinese it might not work for other languages.

  7. Re:Convenience? on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    It's more convenient than standing in lines. People who have burnt themselves are likely to try it. All you need is fast booting.

  8. BIOS on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about infecting the BIOS?

  9. Re:C# and F# on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    I know, but I prefer Groovy.

  10. Re:CLEAN ROOM re-implemented? on DarkPlaces Dev Forest Hale Corrects Nexuiz GPL Stance · · Score: 1

    He's got inverse-matrix eyes.

    (Cypher: All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead. )

  11. Re:C# and F# on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    C# as a language is as close to C++ as Java.
    And for a functional language that runs on Java platform try Scala (it's really nice). For a Python/Ruby style scripting language there's Groovy.

  12. Re:6 years old on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 1

    Only a small minority was that blatantly abused.

    Actually I was 6 year old at the time of the fall of socialism living in Hungary, and I didn't knew what was actually happening, nor did my classmates.

    Look, I know people, who doesn't taught their children German (German minority living in Hungary), so that they don't get in trouble.

  13. Re:6 years old on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 1

    In an oppressive regime you don't talk about politics to your kids, until they're old enough to know what they're allowed to say in public.

  14. Re:CLEAN ROOM re-implemented? on DarkPlaces Dev Forest Hale Corrects Nexuiz GPL Stance · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, you'd have to go to court to force them to show their code, and compare. (I'd doubt they were willing to disclose by themselves.)

  15. Re:Google needs to pull out. on China Hits Back At Google · · Score: 1

    The US is trading with Iran by proxy. (Through Germany or France, I don't remember.)

  16. Re:Fad on Nintendo Announces 3D Successor of Nintendo DS · · Score: 1

    Are there any other common gamer quirks they can exploit next? Maybe screaming to intimidate an opponent while you attack (I hope not)?

    Try Viva Caligula.

  17. Re:i'd rather have a malware infested web with ads on Malware Delivered By Yahoo, Fox, Google Ads · · Score: 1

    Google does fine with their text-ads, most ad-blockers leave it alone as well.

  18. Re:what makes a leader 'good'? on Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars · · Score: 1

    I guess in your dictionary being a good leader means being a pop-star.

  19. Re:That makes sense on Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars · · Score: 1

    If by paying the 2.5% penalty they get coverage, it's not a bad deal.

  20. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Paying for customization might cost more than buying a propriatary solution (especially for small businesses).

  21. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    " Whether and how that's practically possible is obviously a very longly debatable topic, but if you have the strong ruling the weak you don't have anarchy "

    That means that anarchy is an inherently fragile and temporal situation (directly leading to a mediaval style vassal system, where the weaker subordinates themselves to the stronger in exchange for protection (lack of harassment)).

  22. Re:Looks like Tanenbaum will have been right after on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 1

    Well, he said things like parallelism in filesystem access is just a gimmick. (See Linus-Tannenbaum debate.)

  23. Re:Legacy What? on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 1

    Vista/Windows 7 are written from scratch, they aren't derivatives of NT.

  24. Re:I'm surprised it took this long on Nintendo Developing DS Apps For School Systems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the bigger problem was that digital tools weren't integrated in the curriculum, they were always kind of gimmick.

  25. Re:Good job: Buying your future on High-Tech Research Moving From US To China · · Score: 1

    I don't remember ever using an antiperspirant that wasn't invisible. Calling the standard industry practice research is exactly what marketingspeak is.