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  1. Re:Ack on Jaron Lanier on the Semi-Closed Internet · · Score: 1

    ...and apparently they even managed to spell it wrong.

  2. Re:The GUI. on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 1

    // 10 lines in c#

    using System.Windows.Forms;

    class F
    {
        public static void Main ()
        {
            Button button = new Button ();
            button.Text = "Hello, World!";
            button.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
            button.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;

            Form form = new Form ();
            form.Controls.Add (button);
            form.ShowDialog ();
        }
    }

  3. Re:Open GL Drivers? on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    microsoft isn't deprecating OpenGL for fullscreen apps, they're just not supporting windowed OpenGL on a 3D-composited desktop.

  4. Re:The bigger picture on Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel · · Score: 1

    wait, who has Windows servers that use anything more than VGA drivers to display the login screen 24x7? the only time I hook up a monitor to our servers is to install the OS.

  5. Re:Well, hey... on Little Red Book Draws Government Attention · · Score: 1

    new?

  6. Re:Please check for this: comma in brackets in C++ on Searchable C/C++ DB surpasses 275 million lines · · Score: 1
    No, it's an array of pointers to an array of elements
    This is the default definition of operator [], but you could easily overload it to do something else.

    for example, you could easily write a set of templates such that array[row][col]=3 would result in array.set(row,col,3) and still maintain type-safety and efficiency.

  7. Re:What this means for other browsers on Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE · · Score: 1

    yup, they'll have to take firefox out of debian since it's covered by patents.

  8. Re:george dubya? on Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit · · Score: 2
    I believe it wasn't turned on. It doesn't self balance when its off.
    What do you mean, the segway or the president?

    I always thought he fell of because Dick Cheney wasn't there to hold the handlebar for him.

  9. Re:It is open on Microsoft Windows XP N Flops · · Score: 1

    you're forgetting your history. it was microsoft that introduced the concept of a configurable default browser and the 'use me as your default (yes/no/don't ask)' dialog. and it was netscape that caused a fuss by overriding the default every time it started.

  10. Re:Easy on New Server Chip Niagara · · Score: 1
  11. Re:then what is the space station for? on No More Science on the ISS Until Further Notice · · Score: 1

    the big joke is that the government is cutting budgets left right & center while pouring money into their back packets in iraq.

  12. Re:Not playing God... on The Los Alamos Bug · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if they'll take the day off when they're done.

  13. Re:Scobleized? on Gates Donates $15M to Preserve Computing History · · Score: 5, Funny
    influsnced
    No, officer, I'm not under the influsnce.
  14. Scobleized? on Gates Donates $15M to Preserve Computing History · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I wonder if Bill was influsnced by Scoble's video tour on Channel9?

    well worth a look if you can't make it there yourself.

  15. Re:The Registry is a single point of failure. on The Microsoft Protection Racket · · Score: 1

    does an INI file system handle multiple apps concurrently writing to the same file?

    are your INI files indexed by key name for performance?

    do they easily store hierarchical data efficiently?

    do they have support for per-key permissions?

    are they easily backed-up and versioned by the operating system?

    the windows registry does all of these.

  16. Re:How did he pick UW-Madison? on Bill Gates Is Coming To A College Near You · · Score: 1

    It was all part of Microsoft's new subtle plan to subvert Java in the marketplace... one lecture at a time...

  17. Re:Says it all on Holding Developers Liable For Bugs · · Score: 1

    don't be so surprised. it sounds like a pretty efficient way to kill of open-source projects. under this kind of legislation, Microsoft would just create a 'product liability' division, reduce the complexity of its products, increase testing, and hike up the price of their products to cover liability insurance (more than a third of the cost of a football helmet is liability insurance, heck, McDonalds increased their prices to insure themselves against fuckwits sueing them for spilling coffee on themselves). open-source developers and smaller ISV won't be able to survive in such a market.

  18. Re:One thing comes to mind.... on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 1

    the video on channel9 a while back with the team developing this said they plan to support common browsers, they specifically mention firefox. i believe the betas are IE only, though.

  19. Re:More reasons on Taking On Software Liability - Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    wouldn't work. nobody in their right mind would chose anything but a "0". i'd buy a copy of the first non-"0" package, find a bug and sue.

  20. Re:Is that a good thing? on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 1

    The second rule of MySQL club is a foreign key constraint with cascading deletes. oops.

  21. hi-tech solutions? on Silent Water Cooling on the SLI · · Score: 1
    this guy can build systems involving some of the most advanced technology available, and yet he didn't realize that by opening both ends of the box you can simply push the contents out the other side.

    The mind boggles.

  22. Re:interesting comments... on Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole · · Score: 1
    or maybe we are all part of some Matrix-like simulation in someone else's universe.

    Iain M. Banks extendes this into a religion in The Algebraist the premise of which is that if enough of the 'simulated' subjects believe that they are in a simulation then the simulation would be worthless and the people running it would just turn it off - a kind of cosmic Judgement Day, but without the judgement.

  23. Re:Get it right.. on Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it's possible for a toroidal star to form around a bloack hole?

  24. Re:Questions on IE More Secure Than Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    here is a good example of some very mature software that still has bugs. and it's very small. the problem with knowing the number of bugs in a piece of software is the assumption that you've found them all.

  25. Re:Not really on Anders Hejlsberg on C# 3.0 · · Score: 1

    sure, but that case is the same for both camps (although statically-typed languages could potentially subclass 'integer' to a more restrictive set). the argument that static typing is more difficult is purely subjective, but I'd argue strongly against it. what happens, for example, if one of my teammates changes some key structure in a library. how do i know that my code that uses it is going to work? with dynamic typing there's no complete code analysis, but with static typing I have a tool that'll tell me exactly where the changes need to occur: it's called a compiler. as i said before, if you're writing trivial programs then dynamic typing is great, hell bash is great, but if you're working on a large project in a large team over many years then it just doesn't cut it.