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  1. Re:synergy with html 5 on Brendan Eich Discusses the Future of JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Fully agreed. Maybe I'd like to see a class keyword that extends the object literal syntax to allow simple prototype definition, though...

    class Person {
      prettyName: function () {return firstName + " " + lastName}
    }

    Ok, perhaps also something like new Person() {firstName: "Bernd"})

  2. Re:Clarifications on City of Vienna Chooses Linux · · Score: 1

    * never confuse us with Germans (...) They eat us alive if we do this.

    I'm German. I need to apologize -- I did not realize that "Wiener Wuerstchen" were actually made of living Austrians. However, they taste very well -- especially when combined with sauerkraut.

  3. Re:didnt know that abseiling was a verb on Science in Antarctica · · Score: 1

    According to http://dict.leo.org "to abseil" is an English verb (with the same meaning = to rope down). In German, "abseilen" also means to steal away.

  4. Re:'abseiling'? on Science in Antarctica · · Score: 1

    In German it means to rope down but also to steal away.

  5. German readers... on Broken Links No More? · · Score: 5, Informative
    may want to take a look at the master's thesis of Nils Malzahn (from 2003, in German) to see (in detail) how this actually can work:

    http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/DOKUMENTE/malzahn _2003a.pdf

    Basically, the thesis evaluates different methods to build a kind of "finger-print" of a page. The finger print is used to find the page with google if it is gone, or has changed significantly.

    The internet wayback machine was used to learn distinguishing disappeared pages from pages changing slightly over the time.

  6. I'm sure it's caused by the Slashdot effect on Earth Travel On Time, Again · · Score: 0

    Must have to do with many bits flowing nearly at the speed of light, and France consuming more than it is willing to provide :)

  7. Marketing.... :( on IBM Introduces 'Air Bags' For Laptop Hard Drives · · Score: 0

    Am I correct to assume that the disk heads are parked anyway when the Laptop goes to sleep mode?

    So what is the probability of dropping a laptop *while using it* ?!?

    Is this really significant when compared to the probability of a deskstar/travelstar failure without external influence?

  8. Re:"to be or not to be"... on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 0

    proof:

    bb | !(bb)
    = b | !b (Idempotence)
    = true (Existence of the complementary element)

  9. Re:I want a secure computer on EFF Position on Trusted Computing · · Score: 0

    You object to have gouvernment controlled cameras in your house to protect you?!? Do you have anything to hide?

    --
    In corporate America, your computer controls you

  10. Re:I Win! on The Oldest Mouse Contest · · Score: -1

    My mouse has no balls, you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:ISO on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 0

    Perhaps the IETF model could also help the JCP a bit, I guess... Oh, wait, and the W3C, of course... BTW: Does an XML-Schema-implementation fit in 600K? Also, I have heard even CC/PP was going to be usable until forced to be RDF-compliant.....

  12. Re:abstract commands - a Good Thing (tm) on MIDP 2.0 Style Guide for J2ME · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The problem is to find the right level of abstraction. In some places of MIDP 1.0, "abstraction" seems more like an excuse for under-specification. For example, the 1.0 "abstraction" did not cover anything that maps to "clickable" links. Thus, for implementing a browser, one would need to go to the graphics-only mode, which does not seem to be the right level of "abstraction" for that kind of application. I agree that pixel-positioning widgets is a bad thing, especially on limited devices. However, ignoring the GUI needs of basic phone applications like browsers or even nested configuration dialogs does not seem much better.

    My S55 phone has a *built in* (=probably not Java) 3rd party WML browser where the behaviour is significantly different from the UI for the phone configuration, addressbook, SMS, etc.. This is simply a pain.

    Of course, MIDP 2.0 seems to fix most of those issues, but "abstract=good" is an over-simplification of the issue. BTW: Already created your semantic-web homepage? :)

  13. Re:GTK - nyed! on What to Expect From Qt 4 · · Score: 0

    GTK has one killer app: Eclipse.

    I am currently using KDE, but that will probably make me switch to Gnome. Moreover, even if OO/Thunderbird/Firebird are not really using GTK, they seem to look more "consistent" with GTK apps.

  14. Re:What to do about the GNAA script kiddies? on Debian Turning 10 · · Score: -1

    well I think deleting dupes would be OK w/o needing to distinguish between good and bad free speech :)

  15. Re:Title is wrong on Debian Turning 10 · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hey, you forgot the obvious "There are only 10 types of people" joke....

  16. Re:Finally, web forms are getting fixed! on XForms Becomes Proposed Recommendation · · Score: 0

    Well I am actually working on stuff like this. My biggest problem is: How to let the user select from a large list efficiently (thousands of entries) without sending all the content to the client? does xform support tree selection elements where the content is requested from the server on demand?

  17. Java 1.5 = Java 3 on 10 Reasons We Need Java 3 · · Score: 0

    Java 1.5 will add autoboxing for primitive types and typed containers. Breaking compatibility seems neither a realistic nor a good option. Concerning AWT and SWING issues, I'd like to recommend to take a look at the SWT of the Eclipse project.

  18. good bye on Solaris 9 Will Be Updated WIth Gnome 2.0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll switch to Linux and KDE before this can hit me... ;-)