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  1. Re:May also show wider adoption... on Torvalds: "People Who Start Writing Kernel Code Get Hired Really Quickly" · · Score: 1, Troll

    Remember, some years ago, when Microsoft was spewing that Linux is cancer? It's the best kind of benevolent growth to hit our industry, for quite a while. Thank you, Linus & Richard! :)

  2. What good is it? on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 2

    What good is all this speed when they keep blocking interesting sites? This kind of bandwidth is only good to seed / share large things and we get blanket bans here in the UK on all kinds of torrent and other sites. I'd rather be with a smaller ISP which doesn't block things and has a lesser bandwidth allowance than with these guys, who make it harder and harder to have freedom on the net.

  3. Re: Don't worry, AMD would never lie to us... on NVIDIA GTX 970 Specifications Corrected, Memory Pools Explained · · Score: 1

    Wow straight to the "race to the bottom" hey mate? Your masters have trained you well... Why instead of condemning false advertising, do you excuse it as a common practice..?

  4. c++ templates design on Interviews: Ask Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose a Question · · Score: 0

    Heheh... well, designing c++ templates, in my mind, ranks as low as Java genetics design....

  5. Yeah OK... on Apple Pay For the UK · · Score: 0

    "uncomfortable with the amount of personal and financial information Apple wants to collect about its customers." - Apple executive
    Yeah, right. F$$$ you Apple.

  6. Re:Oh yeah, it's "bombing" in the US alright... on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    I've seen this movie, it's not great... Just a stoner movie. That is all. It probably had a net gain from all the kerfuffle as of late, but still, I couldn't recommend it. Cohen's "The Dictator" was much better, and that wasn't amazing either.

  7. Great news for OSS on Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given NVIDIA's terrible reputation of open sourcing code (remember Linus' middle finger anyone?), I for one welcome our new GPU overlords...

  8. Re:DRM-only? on Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Hah! Keep saying that to yourself buddy. And keep buying Apple, someone's got to prop up this economy.

  9. Re:Not surprising at all. on Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge · · Score: 2

    It's not unsubstantiated you moron, read the experiences of other people in this forum above/below and stop religiously buying Apple shit. Or dont. I don't care.

  10. And I foresee using less Google on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    'Nuff said!

  11. Re:Greedy Upper Management. on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have a point. But this is goes deeper. It's about keeping salaries down, and IT salaries have been stagnated. So it's working...

  12. Re:Android on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Freaking joke of a language? It's the number 1 or 2 language in use today (along with C) if you consult language ranking sources... The reason it stood still for a few years is due to Sun going under. But we can't complain. Sun created Java and languages directly inspired by it (such as C#) owe a lot to them.

  13. Re:Software Apocolypse... on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Oracle wins the suit, this project will be liable for damages to Google :) A brave new world indeed!

  14. "Useful twitter?" on Kenyan Chief Foils Robbery Via Twitter · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but this is the most awful example I've heard of how Twiter can be a useful "service"... What's the moral of the story? She didn't have to send the text multiple times? Or that she didn't get billed for multiple texts? She could always call or text directly...

  15. Forgetting Intel tactics? on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's not forget the underhanded tactics that Intel used. They were forced to pay a minimal $1bn to AMD for it. I always thought its too small an amount for losing their position as leaders in the CPU market. And now look how things turned out...

  16. Re:Yiobe's bogus metrics on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 1

    From my experience (Lead dev, London, Finance, JVM) I'm hearing of more and more projects being done in Scala and Java than any of these other languages...

  17. Re:At least Scala is dead on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 1

    I'm very surprised... But it's just Tiobe, which uses a brute-force "page-count" approach. Scala is becoming more and more relevant. Lots of projects in major banks are being done in Scala, some would say "eating" Java's lunch. But in my opinion, these two language can co-exist very harmoniously...

  18. Re:Android has many problems on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    How did you get first post with such a long verbiage? ;D

  19. So... what? on JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    You can get petaflops with a fraction of 12,000's x86 price, just use GPUs...

  20. Re:This should be illegal on Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists · · Score: 1

    I don't feel as if a stand is being made. It's just a stalemate / horrible situation. And there is nothing I feel I can do about it...

  21. Re:This should be illegal on Two SOPA Writers Become Entertainment Lobbyists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This crap is precisely the reason me and my peers don't vote.

  22. Re:Look the other way on Human Survival Depends On Space Exploration, Says Hawking · · Score: 1

    Captain Nathan Bridger of the SeaQuest DSV, is that you, sir?

  23. hackers on Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It was the 1960's hackers in MIT that made programming cool.

  24. Re:No Surprise Here on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Change you can believe in right? I'm not a republican, or even American. But it's business as usual in Washington DC.

  25. Re:Java is cool on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 1

    There are some pretty cool developments going on in Java lately, e.g. LINQ, functions and reified generics. Why wait for the JCP when there are enough mad people out there who will implement all the tools that Java is perceived to lack? See for example: https://github.com/nicholas22/jpropel-light

    Also see http://slashdot.org/submission/1810940/java-linq