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  1. Re:I only download free books on Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Quite a few artists would likely be happier if we changed advanced into wages, but who is going to pay those wages?

    I propose the white king and the left black bishop. The king shall levy a tax of one turkey by acre of farming land and the bishop shall levy 1 gold coin per furlong from each able men.

  2. Re:Explain the mind of a genius? on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    I never learn how to do it manually, but I did understand i:.
    At that time I was in an EE school where a TI-92 was mandatory, the teachers selected problems unsolvable by the analytic solver of the calculator but solvable if you applied theirs successive discriminants method. I therefore implemented the techniques and outputted the reasoning and the text I had to wrote to answer to those questions. It took me 15 minutes to finish the exam. The professor surprised by the time I took to complete his 3 hours exam, took a red pen out of his pocket and to his sad surprise everything was right; there was no red on my answer sheets.

    He asked me how I accomplished that. I then told him about my software and he then said that I should really consider leaving EE for CS and asked me not to copy my program as it would require the university to redo a big part of their curriculum. I kept my end of the deal and he was right as I eventually got bored by EE and I effectively went into CS a year later...

  3. Re:COBOL might be an awful, outdated language on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 1

    Plan for batches, as they will come back to bite you in the ass.
    I had the happy fun time of having to write a software that could print batches of up to 18000 invoices (with a lot's of special font that made the pdf creation an exercise in baroqueness) on a commercial xerox printer, as that feature was forgotten in the analysis phase... You know the marketing department forgot to told us that the mandatory electronic invoice was opt-out, that the seniors were automatically excluded and some other minors details like that. In the marketing guy head mass printing and online viewing were the same thing, the reality is that even in 2012 enterprise mass printing is still gory mess.

  4. Re:Read some history then on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 1

    You know how to measure cuteness in the aliens culture!!!! BURN him he must be one of THEM;)

  5. Re:Good luck with that... on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 1

    You can be effective even when the culture makes it hard. My strategy: full speed ahead, torpedo's be dammed; I do this as in my institution asking for forgiveness takes less time than asking for permission. That worked as I got promoted to a point where's my only way to move up is to wait that those above me retires or dies. But in a big organization like mine, mavens like me represent about .5% of the workforce, in a start-up that ratio could be as high as 1.

  6. Re:Awesome! on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    masturbate

  7. Re:Well, if they're going to generalize, I am too on Are Porn and Video Games Ruining a Generation? · · Score: 1

    restart with a fully shagged 70's used car salesman
    right now you seems to suffer from to much cartoon and porn

  8. Re:What do you mean, "now" starting? on Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School · · Score: 1

    I forgot to add that it is deeply recursive (most Spirograph, like those taught to kids using logo, are instances of L-system fractals) so it's interpreter usually supported tail recursion properly.

  9. Re:Whatever happened to Perl 6? on Perl 5.16.0 Released · · Score: 1

    have a look at Apache camel : http://camel.apache.org/enterprise-integration-patterns.html
    I have the feeling that it is the kind of problems you have to solve...

  10. Re:Clueless court on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    So can blowjobs and illegal drugs. Would you argue they are also useful?

    Hell yeah, I would only be half productive without them !

  11. Re:What do you mean, "now" starting? on Programming — Now Starting In Elementary School · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Logo's better than you think.

    It is a scheme like language:
          world model --> initial environment
          procedure level -> nested environment
          turtles --> thread environment

    It revolves around a built-in actor model funnily named turtles.
    An implementation of a multithreaded logo interpreter is trivial because of that.

    If Logo was compiled to byte-code or machine code using a modern compiler it would be a competitive language assumed it had a decent library or the capability to call to other languages transparently.

  12. Re:testing the password on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    there was a dot that disappears at the end of the url

  13. Re:testing the password on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    they are conflicted with themselves :
    security:6 weak
    entropy: 117.5 bits
    but try that one:
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=password+strength+Correct_house_battery_staple :
    security: 151 very strong
    entropy: 185.4 bits

  14. Re:Damn Dolby... on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the information, I have not ask a professional about that and at my next biannual checkup I will ask him an appointment with an audiologist !

    And for the guitar you are right about the frequencies and the cheap distortion pedal that introduce a lot of almost random high frequencies. That is why, when I play the bass I use a BOSS-GT6B and feed either LPCM over SPDIF or balanced XLR to the sound board. I keep the jack connection for my clean amp an Ibanez SWR-100 from 2000 with the tweeter turned off ;) Sound console with SPDIF input are not common but when they have it, it is awesome. Never had I a sound man complain about the quality of the signal coming from my pedal however I had complain about my lousy style ;)

  15. Re:Damn Dolby... on Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays · · Score: 1

    and some people are extremely annoyed by them, I am in my 30's and I still have to lower the sound above 16Khz by about 6db else I feel attack by the sound.

    I hate to be near a metal guitar amp and yet I like live metal rehearsal when I am closer to the bass while being further away from the guitar amp...

  16. Re:doesn't work like that on Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin · · Score: 1

    Why not try no revenue tax combine to a sale/rent tax equal to 1/2 * (percentile rank of the purchase/rent value) with the following exclusions: the amount paid for a house up to the median cost of house in that state, medical expenses, fresh foods item under 15$ and finally no other exception ever.

    We would need a model on sales value to correctly adjust the tax rate. I think that after a serious 4 years efforts we could have a really good model of sales values distribution and we could keep them updated as we collect taxes.

    Please find the bugs in that code.

  17. Re:Not getting RDMS on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Then how do I, say, indicate the date of death for someone who hasn't died? An IsDead field? Really? (Yes, a NULL in a field is a shortcut for proper relationship, but a lack of relationship when using a linking table will still be represented by NULL

    Usually the lack of a relationship is represented by not have an entry between the related entities. But your remark about nullable columns being a shortcut for proper relationship is quite insightful.

  18. Re:Where's the one on Apple? on Windows RT Browser Restrictions Draw Antitrust Attention · · Score: 1

    then it can also be on win7 if it used ieRT rendering engine. Firefox without the gecko engine is not firefox, your argument is ridiculous.

  19. Re:Most powerful? on Member Claims Anonymous "Might Well Be the Most Powerful Organization On Earth" · · Score: 1

    . When you go and start thinking how powerful you are, that usually means you have lost your way, and you are in too much of a power kick to get any real work done.

    But how can you be prudent with that power if you do not think seriously about it ? I would correct your statement by replacing thinking with proselytizing or proclaiming.

  20. Re:Magnets?! How to they %#^&^@# work? on Subdermal Magnets Allow You To Wear an IPod Like a Watch · · Score: 1

    My wife is pierced between the c7 and c8 vertebra and she do not get any infection from that huge piercing. Based on my anecdotal knowledge of the situation, I assert that those 4 small holes are not the good source of infection you think they are.

    Prove me wrong with quantified data or challenge me with 2 anecdotal evidences ;)

  21. Re:Next Gen File system on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 1

    I said it many time, MS Research is not MS Product...
    Go read the best paper on Monads called :

    Tackling the Awkward Squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell

    or a recent one named :

    A monad for deterministic parallelism

    , those are world acclaimed pure CS research papers. A part of it went into F# and another went to LINQ. But the rest of it is still not productivized...

    A similar thing could be said about the series of papers on the Courrier device but like almost everything else from MS research they failed to productivizeit.

  22. Re:What a dick. on Arrested CERN Physicist Gets 5 Years For Terror Plot · · Score: 1

    Almost, it is someone who extract shale gas while wanking.

  23. Re:take look at amahi.org on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 1

    note to myself : do not do stats after work

  24. Re:take look at amahi.org on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 1

    fuck I meant lose 2 drives and I rounded up to 25% to compensate for the fact that one drive is smaller than the others so it has less chance to be used than the other

  25. Re:So, they returned a server on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    FIRE, burn it with FIRE !

    For the added fun:

    Go to a sand pit, make a big pile of mixed hay, dried leaves and woods, put a nice layer of polystyrene chunks over it, pour gasoline on the foam, wait until the foam has started to melt, step back and throw a match. Nice isn't it ?

    Plug the server into an extension cord connected to a good capacity fully charged UPS and an LAN cable connected to a laptop and ssh into it tail -f /var/log/thelogfileofyourchoice.

    Throw the evil server into the fire and have fun looking at the console logs after you have enjoyed the fire !