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  1. Re:Linux by default? on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX.

    Linux tries to keep pretty close to to it. 'nuff said.

    What's your point? OS/400 - i5/OS - i operating system has been POSIX compliant for many years.

  2. Re:Here's to hoping Climatologists are dead wrong. on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    I have been reading closely. New carbon from fossil fuels is the issue. The rest is a distraction. From 250 ppm in 1850 to almost 400 ppm today.

    Tea Party denialists use your type of statements. Your statemernts are not the issue.

  3. Re:Here's to hoping Climatologists are dead wrong. on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 0

    I've read a great deal on climate change aka global warming and not once have I ever seen humidity and cirrus clouds mentioned as part of it until this guy claimed it was the foundation of it.

    Radiation absorbed by new CO2 released into the atmosphere from fossil fuels is the cause, anything else is a red herring distraction, which is what this Tea Party type guy is all about.

  4. Re:You cannot assume... on Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans? · · Score: 1

    You can boil this down to a single pass/fail, or you can filter into any number of categories from certainly spam, probably spam, likely spam, maybe spam, unlikely spam, and react on each scenario differently.

    So when there's more than two possibilities it's not a binary task?

  5. Re:Someone needs to check. on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    I would say from the touchy responses that it is apparently politically incorrect to bring up homo at all.

  6. Re:Awesome work Pirates! on Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    US and other naval warships patrol the area. All you have to do is ask to tag along behind one and drop the sensors.

    No extra cost, no big deal.

  7. Re:The 18-year-old Rubyist isn't a good programmer on Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age · · Score: 1

    The 64K segment size on the 8088 did permit addressing of multiple segments which required you to work within the 640K boundary when using multiple segments.

    true, which I mentioned in my asm work. The BASIC compiler made one 64K segment available to the program, and IIRC didn't provide switching among data segments in those early days.

    Of course you could (and I did) inline asm and do what you wanted to extend capabilities.

  8. Re:The 18-year-old Rubyist isn't a good programmer on Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age · · Score: 1

    Of course I am prejudiced since I started my programming using BASIC (and not the Visual Basic either). Writing programs with only 640K memory or a whopping 1024K if you could make tap the extended memory really separated the men from the boys.

    Actually the BASIC compiler only made 64K data segment available to the program as I recall. Which was enough for even my most robust commercial apps at the time.

    Of course for graphics processing and other data heavy apps using 8086 asm all the available 640K and additional EMS to 1 meg was necessary. I didn't happen to write any BASIC stuff like that, just 8086 asm.

    Those were interesting days back then, when you had to be a real programmer. Now let me go check on my lawn.

  9. Re:Well on Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results · · Score: 1

    I agree. Thanks for the info.

  10. Re:The only "nasty consequences" require courage on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    China just made a major diversification out of US treasuries. And all they were doing with it before was currency manipulation to keep their imports cheap.

    We need large import tarriffs on imports from countries running significant trade deficits with us.

    And yes, I have a dizzying intellect to be sure. :)

  11. Re:The only "nasty consequences" require courage on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Ok, I retract my comment. You are clearly very thoughtful.

    regards

  12. Re:Several Inconvenient Truths About The Debt Ceil on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    I spent too much time today reading on the debt limit crisis, but after looking at everything have come to the conclusion that we need to raise taxes significantly, doubling our tax revenue.

    This is a modified version of what I've always proposed, that is, tax rate based on spending, but we're past the niceties of deciding what to spend on. For better or for worse, we've pretty much committed to what we spend on for various good reasons. We need to pay for it.

    In the process we also take a step toward flat tax in that I propose we raise all the various tax rates to the same rate, the middle class income tax rate of 35%. After we start running surpluses and pay down debt then we can lower that rate.

    I don't think the low tax rates, let the wealthy invest to create jobs is working. The wealthy are not investing the money in the US, and jobs aren't being created.

    While I think we should have some CCC type programs to put laborers to work until manufacturing ramps up again in the US, helped tremendously by a new large tarriff on imports from countries running a trade deficit with us, the goal of doubling the tax revenue is to balance the current budget and get the money immediately spent and back into circulation and generating new tax revenues without new spending programs.

    We also need to stop business as usual, everything will be fine government operations with great budgetary pressure all the way down the line.

    This basically affects those who are wealthier than middle class. I have a feeling they'll make out fine from this.

      rd

  13. Re:doubtful on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    yes, you're right. I looked it up and it's ony 20%. I checked the link and it was to a source that adds in defense related spending from other departments, but it was still less than a trillion, less than 1/3.

    Thanks for pointing that out.

  14. Re:This threat isn't from banks this time on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Understood, But that was a state check, not a fed government check. It is not a given that a fed government check will bounce. It is not even possible.

    Still, I agree with your general point and you have personally experienced some of the bad stuff yet to come.

    regards

  15. Re:haha, you're scared of the tea party on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    false, described by his friends as "left wing and quite liberal", Jared Lee Loughner's favorite book was "the Communist Manifesto"

    wrong, it was one of many political books he had, including Atlas Shrugged and Mein Kampf.

    There was never an indication that his "favorite" was, you just pulled that out of your ass, typical right winger that your are.

    And you never mentioned the AK-47 waving Republican candidate that Laughner admired.

    Who in my opinion inspired him to put a bullet in a Democrat's head after she won the election.

    Go teabaggers.

  16. Re:The only "nasty consequences" require courage on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Military pay

    Military pay is entitlements? You teabaggers are nuts.

  17. Re:This threat isn't from banks this time on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you, but that check is going to bounce no matter what we do.

    right wing rubbish. SS checks are not going to bounce. Go rabble rouse with your tea party friends.

  18. Re:The only "nasty consequences" require courage on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    Some of it will be invested directly in the U.S. economy.

    No it won't. The Chinese are not as stupid as you.

  19. Re:doubtful on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    2/3 of the budget is ENTITLEMENTS

    The post right above yours says 2/3 is defense, and they cite a source.

  20. Re:haha, you're scared of the tea party on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 1

    but left-wing nut job recently has

    He was a right wing nut job, along with the Republican candidate he admired waving his AK-47 around.

  21. Re:Well on Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results · · Score: 1

    Thats a bit harsh isn't it. I'm sure there is at least one legitimate .co.cc domain

    I think this domain was supposed to be for some small island but a Korean company owns it. And no, I don't think any of the 11 million subdomains of garbage spewed out by this Korean spammer is legitimate.

    If there really is someone that ended up doing business with this company putting up a website with this domain they need to find a real ISP.

  22. Re:Commercial databases on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    $5k is a lot of money for a student who is hacking something together in their university dorm.

    That was the next step up. You missed the free version statement before it.

    I am not an Oracle user, I'm a DB2 user, but I happened to read the post.

  23. Re:Better sites on Online Social Security Statement In Limbo · · Score: 1

    There were several posts that address your fallacies. I won't rehash them. Just reread the thread.

  24. Re:Commercial databases on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    Why would that require rewriting the whole codebase? Isn't SQL standard?

    was this going for funny?

  25. Re:Abstraction layer on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    They would probably need to build an abstraction layer on top of MySQL. Something like "FBSQL" :) . This would create the ability to move to whatever database system they want.

    The other way around. IBM wrote a DB engine plugin for MySQL that is an interface for DB2 on the iseries AS/400. So we can run PHP apps on the iseries written for MySQL against our enterprise database.