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  1. Re:Isn't there a way... on This Boring Headline is Written for Google · · Score: 1

    An easier way to do it at the moment would probably be to define H2 (sub-heading normally) as coming before, and being rendered larger, then putting your pun headline in there.

    Meanwhile, H1 (which the search engine considers more important) appears with the normal headline in it.

    This is probably just oversimplifying it to a dumb level, so feel free to chip in and refine it.

  2. Re:Is this really true? on Gamers Better at Driving w/ Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    Just as an FYI, in the UK the motorcycle riding course is one-way (Instructor to Learner). I'd have to say that instructors and police riders are equally well trained in such things, given that most seem to move from one profession to the other.

  3. Re:2.0? on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I'd say it were Napster (original, obviously) - iTunes might make it 2.1

  4. Re:Wouldn't it be funny if... on Creating .NET C# Applications for Linux · · Score: 1

    That depends if the previous code that you're trying to extend actually used OdbcClient et al, or whether it used SqlClient and the namespace full of SQL Server specific types.

    Picking on Oracle for a moment, there is also a bunch of classes for that - I'd hate to be the guy who has to try and support those three to get native support out there.

  5. Re:Replication? Clustering? on 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta · · Score: 1

    For me, it fails the "Is a programming language" test on two levels - you can't loop, and you can't branch. Without those two features (and their brother, sequence) you cannot do anything which complete programming languages can do.

    HTML is a poor mans layout language, while the combination of HTML/Javascript is an application platform. The fact that a HTML page will always load and render has nothing to do with the language, but the part where the HTML page adheres to a standard (whether it be MSHTML or W3C) which the parser also understands.

  6. Re:512 is better... which is newsworthy why? on Pushing The 512MB Barrier On Video Cards · · Score: 1

    I suppose its because you can still buy machines off the shelf (or Dell, or whatever) that come with less or equal amounts of main memory. I don't believe that that was the case at 64MB or 128MB, and I wasn't paying attention at 256MB

  7. Re:Slow down cowboy! on DARPA Contracts For AI Technology · · Score: 1

    Except that you'd probably get a Marylin Monroe bot like in Red Dwarf (ie, not very much like her at all, before walking through a wall and disappearing)

  8. Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. on Solaris 10 Released · · Score: 1

    Just one point - If you're not a licence holder on the software (In this case, RHEL) then you have no rights to ask for the sources in the first place.

    I'm fairly sure theres nothing stopping them from asking for the reciept or invoice for your copy of the software before they are required to give source out.

    *note* This is just my interpretation of the "gimme source" clause of the GPL.

  9. Re:Iconic stature on Gates v. Jobs, continued... · · Score: 1

    Just out of interest, has anyone seen the Black iPod?

    Its an abomination compared to the others, with its silly red central dial. I would have bought the black one if the dial fitted in with the black theme, or even if it was the same white as the other iPod dials.

  10. Re:Wow, they did it on Two New TLD's Near Approval · · Score: 4, Funny

    don't forget bigasa.post for the spam emailers

  11. Re:Can I run .NET/CLR and JVM bytecode on it? on Parrot 0.1.1 'Poicephalus' Released · · Score: 1

    I guess that depends on whether your libraries are written in the language that you're porting the parser for. If (for example) the class libraries were all pure c# and you ported mono to this new architecture, you'd automatically get the class libraries with a recompile. I think it would become self-hosting pretty quickly that way as well.

    Mind you, I was just being flippant when I posted the original ;)

  12. Re:Can I run .NET/CLR and JVM bytecode on it? on Parrot 0.1.1 'Poicephalus' Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    well, seeing as the .Net CLR and JVMs are currently built on top of a register based architecture (namely a CPU), theres no reason why someone (preferably not likely to miss their sanity) could port mono or an OSS JVM to run on top of parrot.

    mmm... JVM on Parrot on CPU goodness

  13. Re:Why even bother open sourcing Java then? on Open Source And Closed Standards? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This Javascript thingy that some browsers support is nothing to do with either Java(tm) or Microsofts J++... Java (the language) and Javascript (the browser thingy) are completely different

  14. Re:Doesn't happen here on Curing a Corporate Virus Infection · · Score: 1

    Become Root

    tell me what OS is running (Linux)

    set the default policy for incoming packets to DENY
    set the policy for packets on established or related* connections to accept

    leave root

    * Related is stuff like ftp-data, when the command channel is open

  15. Re:Chicken and Egg on Is Open Source An Advantage For Game Developers? · · Score: 1

    I'd say that this was an ideal place to apply the clauses in the GPL regarding source distribution. Instead of shipping the source with the app, stick a mail-in coupon into the box saying that the person can redeem this for a source CD at $FIXED_COST. As the majority of users probably won't care too much about having the source code, such secrets wouldn't be distributed to the majority of users.

    Of course, the cheats (to take FPSes as a typical example) would be among the groups which request the source, to add their l33t wallhacks and so on.

  16. Re:Patents?-A paradigm divided. on Mono's Cocoa# Underway, GTK# Takes on Windows.Forms · · Score: 1

    That was what I meant - portable stuff + GTK# = app.net on Linux, windows and MacOS X (I've been to mono-project.com again since then)

  17. Re:Patents?-A paradigm divided. on Mono's Cocoa# Underway, GTK# Takes on Windows.Forms · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think their intention is to use GTK# as an alternative which works on Linux and Windows as well. I'd guess that this means Photoshop.net for Linux is a possibliity using that toolkit instead

  18. Re:Stupid... on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    The problem is that (apparantly, from reading the article and the genuine katie.com site) people are thinking that the book and the website are related in some way. It doesn't appear to be helped by the part where Katie J and Katie T are both using katie@domain for their e-mail addresses, which is bound to confuse all concerned.

  19. Re:Port knocking, firewalls, DMZs,... on Combining Port Knocking With OS Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    I think he means the bit where you can now go to www.cocacola.com as well as all those university/govt sites.

    Thhe web has become a lot more corporate, in the same way television has (due to advertising). I'm fairly sure that initially, TV was just the programmes and nothing else, although I'm too young to be a primary source ;)

  20. Re:It looks good on PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net · · Score: 1

    Where did the OSI/FSF distinction appear in your parents post?

    The great-grandparent wanted an OSS solution because he believes he can get it at zero-cost, where the grandparent corrects him about OSS and price (ie, that they are unrelated).

  21. Re:It's Visual Studio, not the languages! on PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net · · Score: 3, Informative

    as far as ASP.Net is concerned, I'd recommend www.asp.net as a starter site, along with w3schools' asp.net section for a reference/overview.

    I'll add another namedrop for MSDN though, and point you to the .net Class Library reference

  22. Re:PHP vs. ASP on PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where would you put Mono or Rotor (the BSD one?) in your global pool of cross-platform solutions? Theoretically (because I've not found anyone willing to actually try it, the solutions offered are all on IIS 6) you could offer a large hosting system run on apache + mono + mySQL in the same way you would now offer apache + php + mySQL solutions.

    Granted, its not the officially supported path, but MS wouldn't support anything other than IIS anyway.

  23. Databases, Platforms, my opinions on using ASP.Net on PHP 5.0 Goes For Microsoft's ASP-dot-Net · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I liked the way the article talked about ODBC being a downside, then showed sample code which used ADO.Net with the native OracleClient instead.

    Apart from that, the main differences between ASP.Net and PHP5 appear to be platform related, rather than anything to do with the respective languages (or processors, if you prefer).

    Don't forget some of us actually like a little bondage from the toolkit, so we can maintain the code afterwards. Its nice to have all the page manipulation code in page_load() where you can happily mangle everything using syntax similar to the XML DOM, rather than having chunks of code all over the place to insert the various dynamic elements.

  24. Re:Ah... I can't... oh no... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget to round it up to $9700, and have a copy of the game to play

  25. Re:For those of you wondering.. on IBM Subpoenas Several Companies in SCO Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are doing this to probably scare Microsoft out of ever trying to thwart Linux and Linux development again.

    I think the correction would be "They are doing this to scare Microsoft out of ever fucking with IBM again." From what little business studying I've done, I'd say that they're only looking out for their own interests. Red Hat on the other hand, are looking out for the GPL because their stuff is bound under its terms. :)