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  1. Re:So? on A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People like you that work two shifts are responsible for half of the high unemployment, the other half is the absence of decent working regulations that makes that type of ridiculously long shift illegal.

    You can't produce quality code at 80hr a week in a sustainable way. The only type of code that can be produce at that constant rhythm with a reasonable level of quality, would be the kind of code best left to a generator.

  2. Re:Stop posting deeply sensitive material online on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 1

    If being a picture of you at a party is a bad thing at you work, please change of workplace;
    now if the said picture, was showing you snorting cocaine off a naked prostitute back, please stop doing that, it is degrading to women and it's a waste of good cocaine !

  3. Re:two is company, three is "every else" on The Letter That Started AMD's Open-Source Strategy · · Score: 1

    I tend to trust science daily but they could be wrong

  4. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    sorry I have the flu and my thinking is also obstructed, I deeply apologize.

  5. Re:two is company, three is "every else" on The Letter That Started AMD's Open-Source Strategy · · Score: 1

    by count you have more bacteria than cells read this : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603085914.htm
    please cite your sources....

  6. Re:The usual way on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 1

    dental floss is free when you have an annual checkup with the dentist. Each years he gives me 100m of dental floss and I use about 1m a week so it takes me 2 years to go trough one roll. I have a box full of dental floss rolls and I guess that I am not the only one....

  7. Re:feature creep? on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    Powershell is awesome to automate the administrative tasks in outlook 2010 server and for general automation in windows 7 and windows server 2008 R2.
    If you are interested the best place to start is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332526.aspx .

    By the way, I am a java architect, not an Microsoft shills, but between 10% to 20% of my time at job is officially dedicated to the wonderful role called 'technology scout' and when I see a good tech I do not care from who it came even though it is still weird to recommend a Microsoft solution...

  8. Re:Market fragmentation on The (Big) Problem With RIM · · Score: 1

    You got the sequence of event wrong, Android was announce before the iPhone on november 2007 and the iPhone was announced on January 2007.

    However the first Android phone was on the market way after the iPhone but you had access to the android dev board way before you had access to the iphone if you were int the right group.

    Windows Mobile was there way before both of them, it was a real smartphone with a sucky default ui. WinMo 4,5,6 was a nice platform for research as you could replace everything in the phone with what you wrote and the documentation was quite extensive if your lab had the right MSDN subscription.

    Please stop the revisionist approach to history.

  9. Re:That's great, but why don't they... on Synaptics Working On Advanced Touchscreen For Phones · · Score: 1

    You should develop keyboard for Logitec, I am delighted by my G11 but if it had a the configuration you describe, I would only have use the mouse in fps and rpg. I could use shortcut for almost everything as I know most of them but Diablo II made me into a compulsive clicker so I need my daily allowance of senseless clicking. And I don't have that much time for rps or fpg anymore.

  10. Re:feature creep? on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    You got it backward, you select an object first, then you ask it what operations does it knows.

    and if you need help on a specific method, function or alias, you call get-help <thing you want help on>
     

  11. Re:feature creep? on Windows Server 8 Is A Radical Departure From Previous Releases · · Score: 1

    powershell is an object oriented command-line shell based on introspection so you can always know the command available on the object you have selected using the get-command call so 2300 commands is not that bad if they are not 2300 globally visible commands.

  12. Re:Yikes on More Info On Google's Alternative To JavaScript · · Score: 2

    at least Go has a better syntax than Haskell ;)

  13. Re:Heaven forbid on Authors' Guild Goes After University Book Digitization Projects · · Score: 2

    from your link I will remember mostly one thing:

    If contracts were fish, then the contract on my house would be an ornamental carp, the book contract would be a bluefin tuna, and the option contract would be an angry great white shark.

  14. Re:Why the government should subsidize? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    I specified capital gains at the beginning of my post and I did not said sales tax I talked about a luxury goods tax. if you include those in the income, why would it leads itself to a positive feedback loops in wealth concentration ?

  15. Re:I hope not on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 1

    no, not that but it accused me of being a bot for knowing the answer to the square root of 16...

  16. I hope not on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 1

    I just chatted with him and it is was total failure, it kept changing subject and it never answered any of my question. Those 59.3% techies from India must have been really dumb.

  17. Re:Why the government should subsidize? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    replace Ha/O by Ha/Oa

  18. Re:Why the government should subsidize? on How Game Makers Like EA Mine for Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    In an ideal world, you would not have to tax the corporation but each share holder directly for capital gain and dividends. There would have no exception to the tax code except health related condition, no deduction for children, no deduction for old people, ... The tax should be a fix percentage, like 25%, of your incomes minus the minimal income to be considered poor in your state. That ceiling should not be determined by a political process but by the application of a formula that would look likes this:

    Variables:
    Ha = average of the 5% lowest cost Housing available in the state for a year.
    Fa= average for a minimum but healthy grocery for a week for a person (the composition of the cart would be determined by a committee of doctors and nutritionist selected randomly at a 5 years interval)
    Ea= average of the 5% lowest energy bill in the state for a year for 1 car and 1 household.
    Oa=the number of non disabled adult occupant.
    Od=the number of children or disabled resident.
    Pc=Poverty celling for taxation purpose
    Formula: Pc =Ha/O+(Fa*Od+Ea)/Oa

    And there should be a luxury taxe around 25% that applies on all alcohol and tobacco, on object worth more that 2000$, on non commercial vehicles worth more that 25000$ (you also require a log book that can vvalidate that the vehicle was use for business purpose only else you fine and tax the car buyer) and on houses worth more that (state average*1,5), tools and other production equipment would evidently be exempt of this luxury tax.

    This proposition would be a loophole free fair tax code

  19. Re:They likely made a deal with those ISPs on Hurt Locker Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand why ISP's aren't fighting this. Once p2p traffic goes down, they lose a lot of the high-paying customers, and the investments for the infrastructure will be harder to recover.

    Each of those companies is involved in 100$/month TV subscription, they hate the fact that they have to deliver the Internet, if they could they would charge for the service but never deliver it...

  20. Re:What's the point? on Hurt Locker Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too · · Score: 1

    it is a rhetorical point but if everything is free there are no bills to pay....

  21. Re:Proof on Apple Finally Removes DigiNotar Certs In Safari · · Score: 1

    I repair my stuff, it is a nice hobby, you feel as good as a maker but you work way less because, most of the time, it is the simple things that breaks. I only had to replace an IC once in my life and it was in 2010, the faulty component was a DAC in a receiver from 1995. 75% of what I have repaired was broken due to an old capacitor that had leaked or new capacitor that had bulged*1 and when I replace something like a capacitor, I always over-spec the voltage and the Tmax. Depending on it's usage in the design I might double the Farad too. The rest were easy to test components like a voltage regulator or a diode.

    *1:
    There are 2 frequent problems with the modern electrolytic capacitor.

    1-There was a bad batch of branded clone from china and those damm components are still around.
    2- Stupid capacitors location by stupid (or malicious) engineering. ex: Samsung LCD TV power supplies engineers had the brilliant idea to place 2 caps rated for 85C very near a heat-sink hot enough that it can evaporate water on contact. They could have been located further from the heat-source as they had a lot of empty space on that PCB. And I said malicious engineering as the caps break usually the year after the warranty is over.

  22. Re:Perspectives from a British CS graduate on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    All the rest go to the bad universities (which are more like colleges - polytechnics which weren't even previously called universities)

    That's funny as here the Polytechnic School is our university known for being the hardest to get into and it is supposed to be even harder to come out with a diploma.

  23. Re:Time to shift focus to another kernel? on Linux Kernel Moves To Github · · Score: 3, Informative

    before the move
    1- remove hidden intel drivers.
    2- use something like belarc to get you serial number in case
    2- sysprep -pnp -mini -reinstall -nosidgen -reseal -forceshutdown
    move the drive or clone it to the new machine

    upon reboot windows shall detect the new hardware, it may prompt you for the installation files if your hardware differ wildly but that's all, it may also prompt you for your serial for a reactivation but you noted it at step 2.

  24. Re:Ironically accurate title on The iPhone's Role In Crippling T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    jailbreaking and iphonre or installing a rootkit on it is pretty much the same, so your claim about security don't hold very well, now if you want to talk about the perceived security, the iPhone wins....

  25. Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, on Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage · · Score: 1

    Haaa.... nepotism is so good when you are on the good side. I take home the higher pay, without the overhead of a student loan. Because of my mom's union (she worked at the U), I had free scholarship to a great University from 18 up to the age of 25. I to see too many people with student debts, that why I also work in at the University : I want create more indebted students. Hahahahaha (evil laughter)