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  1. GPL for paintings or pictures on 9th Circuit: Thumbnails Are Big Enough For Fair Use · · Score: 0

    So now we need the GPL to work for linking to a GPL painting or picture?

    Or can it be deemed illegal for linking and taking anything out of context but then again this is free speech, not copyright infingment?

  2. Re: Netscape on mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 0.9.8 · · Score: 0

    Where is my Netscape 5?

    Oh, by the the way where is IE 6.0 for the Mac????

    Okay, better make this good, Where is WWW for Mac OS X?

  3. What About ………? on What Games are You Addicted To? · · Score: 0

    Coding, I do it for fun and I am addicted to it, it is a game to me.

  4. Re:Throw-away code on Why Coding Is Insecure · · Score: 0

    You should follow your own style and not of others while in the University but make it constituent though one assignment and maybe make changes to the style while learning what is best for you.

    Grading by looking at someone style is wrong because everyone (including teachers) have a slightly different one.

  5. Re:the name... on A Kitchen Computer That's Actually Useful? · · Score: 0

    The stand alone model looks very like the all-in-one G3 which were sold to the Education market only (before the iMacs).

  6. Movies on Robots vs. Humans And Other Security Issues · · Score: 0

    Possible outcomes: Terminator, Matrix?

    See I what I mean this can be prevented and defeated.

  7. Re:Marketing hype obviously on Microsoft Stops New Work To Fix Bugs · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is actually year%4!=0||(year%100==0&&year%400!=0).

  8. Re:Oh, those dual G4's look nice on Benjamin Herrenschmidt On PPC/Linux, Apple and OSS · · Score: 0

    They used Cocoa on Mac OS X.

  9. Re:Oh, those dual G4's look nice on Benjamin Herrenschmidt On PPC/Linux, Apple and OSS · · Score: 0

    Actually it Cocoaized, not Carbonized. So it is not just cleaned up code from classic but a port done by OmniGroup.

    The port is now worked on by ID.

  10. Re:Some gcj facts on Java Native Compilation Examined · · Score: 0

    Mod this up because this is the main gcj guy who is dealing with the classpath merge.

  11. Re:Fat-binary? on Java Native Compilation Examined · · Score: 0

    if every one starts to use the mach-o file format (used in Mac OS X and NeXTStep and OpenStep), you can have fat files with at least 4 different processors.

  12. Re:Java for servers on Java Native Compilation Examined · · Score: 0

    Java is as secure as the vm is.
    So if the VM is not very secure then you have problems.

  13. Re:What about Java's safety advantages? on Java Native Compilation Examined · · Score: 0

    In gcj you can turn off bounds checking, -fno-bounds-check.

  14. Re:AWT support a must on Java Native Compilation Examined · · Score: 1, Informative

    A simple GUI java application now can run and be semi-usable in gcj (in 3.1) but there are still bugs and more to implement. Help either the Classpath or gcj, they are in the process of being synced up together (see http://gcc.gnu.org/java/).

  15. Re:nice on Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy · · Score: 0

    That annoying child was talking about an AU/X the other Apple Unix.

  16. Re:Not likely on Mac OS X: Game Developer's Playground · · Score: 0

    The original editor for Quake or Doom (I forgot which one) was made on a NeXT with Objective-C for fast development.

  17. Re:Some scientists still share... on Scientists No Longer Sharing Information? · · Score: 0
  18. Re:Same thing for human genome... on Scientists No Longer Sharing Information? · · Score: 0

    And the mouse genes from Celera before this year always had start missing.

    So it was pretty useless.

  19. Re:Not quite interesting... on Intel C/C++ Compiler Beats GCC · · Score: 0

    Prefetch analysis for loops is some what in gcc3.1 (going to be released in April). -fprefetch-loop-arrays is the option and you have to -msse to get the prefetch instructions, also the option, -fmove-all-movables, is for "Force all loop invariant computations out of loops" which helps and so does -fomit-frame-pointer.

  20. Faulty on Intel C/C++ Compiler Beats GCC · · Score: 0

    The benchmark is not right; someone could be running something will the gcc version was running, they used time instead of clock which gives better resolution and gives only time the program has been running.

  21. Re:not only that on Microsoft Promotions Turn Up in USPS Offices · · Score: 0

    No it is part of the amendments which then becomes part of the Constitution.

    That is what amendments are for amending the Constitution.

  22. Re:I'm gonna get modded to hell for saying this... on Canadian Government Controls Online Flag Displays · · Score: 0

    If you read that page carefully you would see that it was declared unconstitutional in 1989 and again in 1990.

  23. getting rid of cyngus.com on AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat? · · Score: 0

    Did you ever wander why RedHat is getting rid of cyngus.com, well this looks why???

  24. Windows and house and computers on LindowsOS.com Email Lists Collected For MS Suit · · Score: -1

    It is generic term that is used to describe the panes of glass in your house and also to describe the actual things on computer screen that display a GUI and it is also a program from 4.3BSD which came out in June 1986. And no this is not a joke.

  25. Re:Undelete on various operating systems on Why 'rm -R star' Isn't Enough · · Score: -1

    More like System 1 (around 1984). :) :)