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  1. Re:Freedom of a programming language on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    The de facto quality of a programming language is defined by the quality of its leading implementations. Such qualities include freedom. For instance, C is free because GCC is free.


    Sun Java is open source, probably they publishing the code this month. Your point?
  2. Re:IANAWD on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    last but not least, there wasn't any mention of the _license_.


    Open source.
  3. Re:Proprietary solutions & vendor lock-in on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    Language are not open source, just particular implementations of a language (ie: a compiler, an interpreter, a runtime, etc) can be open source, as any program.

  4. Re:Have they fixed the startup time? on Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX · · Score: 1

    That's just not true. The icon means that Sun JVM is running within your browser process. You can open the Java console right clicking on the icon.

  5. Re:Obl. on Conservative Sarkozy Wins Presidency of France · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In Spain, the left parties think of democrats as a rigth party. Republicans are considered ultra-right.


    In almost any country other than the USA, almost everyone think of democrats as a right party. Republicans are considered ultra-right.
  6. Re:all complain on Pidgin 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So in order to avoid a DoS attack we need to shutdown every server. I would tell this great technique to everyone but strangely the IM server is down...

  7. all complain on Pidgin 2.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So many complains about GAIM/PIDGIN and still the site is slashdotted.

  8. Re:Does anyone else on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    I want good environmental LED lights dag nabbit.


    They are on their way. They are being delivered by flying car.


    Why? Is the teleporter broken?
  9. Re:easy to test... on Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    all the known black holes are a bajillion miles away.


    No problem, just find a wormhole to go there.
  10. Re:Into the Unknown: The Circle on Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes? · · Score: 0

    Farscape rules!

  11. Re:Wow, what an original idea! on Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always thought they were just kind of, um, holes or something.


    Tubes.
  12. All ways... on Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes? · · Score: 1

    But while a trip into a black hole would mean certain death, a wormhole might spit you out into a parallel universe with its own stars and planets.


    Yeah, after killing your smashed atoms would travel to another universe.
  13. Re:Good for them, but... on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0 · · Score: 1

    3. gmail's spam folder is not accessed when you use POP3. You only get what "slips through."


    Given that his user is "spamking" he may need only those messages...
  14. Re:Yeah... on U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear · · Score: 1

    Soldiers??? Do you have any clue who gets killed in modern wars?


    Mod parent +1 Insightful
  15. Re:MySQL vs Firebird on MySQL Stored Procedure Programming · · Score: 1

    Is the CLI for Firebird as friendly as MySQL's?


    Firebird CLI (as of version 1.0.3 which is not a recent one but is what I use) is as cool to use as eating rocks. It made me have remember fondly the old Informix dbaccess utility...
  16. Re:Yes, the real world is a complicated place. on Pthreads vs Win32 threads · · Score: 1

    It is perfectly feasable for there to be ways in which Win32 threads are better than Pthreads (as hard as that is to believe), and also vice versa. Hence the two articles.

    Often you will find reasons to choose one thing, and other reasons to choose something else, life it tricky that way. When I was looking for a house, one was huge with lots of rooms, but out of town, and one was smaller, but so close to work.


    This is Slashdot, post only binary answers to any questions or prepare yourself to flamed.

    Example:
    Question: what is the meaning of life?
    Valid answers: true or false.

    Mmmh... maybe nerds are programmed in Prolog
  17. Re:Stargate already did it on Voltron-Like Modular Robot Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Um, as much as I love sg-1, you do know it's fiction right. What makes this news is that it's for real.


    This is slashdot, there's no such thing as a difference between fiction and reality. You should know it... unless you are not one of us...
  18. Re:OS X Intel? on Visual Basic on GNU/Linux · · Score: 1


    It's like Microsoft feels that they need to be the market leader in every single market that includes a computer chip or software in the product. Instead of real innovation, they just reimplement whats already out there.


    Yes, it is. Being recognized as the market leader is one of the things that makes MS gain billions of dollars each year.
  19. Re:Tom Cruise Missile on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    California hate crime [la.ca.us] law from the DA's office. ... threatening to use force to injure, intimidate, or interfere with another person who is exercising his or her constitutional rights.
    I thought that Southpark was in Colorado, but I was obviously wrong...
  20. Re:Rights? Wrong. on US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1
    in some sort of unambiguous formal language


    Yeah, sure. Is in the list, after world peace. BTW, the lawyerbot has crashed, please reboot while waiting.
  21. Re:How is this provocative ? on China Tests Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon · · Score: 1
    Only first-world democracies can be trusted with such dangerous weapons. Tinpot dictatorships, not so much. It's amazing how many people make your statement without considering this.


    And what when firt-world democracies support the dictatorships? (like Manuel Noriega in Panama, Saddam Hussein in Irak, Pinochet in Chile, etc, etc). How should be considered?
  22. Re:Features? on Java SE 6 Released · · Score: 1

    I'll correct my previous post: some of the links from the page are bad, others work right. Perhaps Sun hasn't yet updated all the references?

  23. Re:Features? on Java SE 6 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    On Sun's web page announcing this exciting new release, there's a link to the list of "new features and enhancements". When I clicked on it, it said "404: not found". I think that sums up Java quite nicely.


    Nice (or not so nice) try of trolling FUD but the link works fine.
  24. Re:Nothing inconvenient about the results on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 1
    That may have been what Kyoto *set out* to do, but that's not what it *does*. If you think that Kyoto is a solution to global warming, you don't have all the information.


    I don't pretend Kyoto is anything near a solution, but honestly it seems to me that neither does Kyoto participants. It is just a first, slow step into doing something.

    A more credible solution is to use some asteroids to pull the Earth into a slightly wider orbit. How much cool do you want?


    That's credible to you?
  25. Re:Nothing inconvenient about the results on An Inconvenient Truth · · Score: 2, Insightful
    1. Reduce CO2
    2. Put dust in the stratosphere
    3. Put large mirrors in orbit


    1) That's was Kyoto was about.
    2) That may be dangerous. How would you put the dust down if needed? Seems too much unpredictable.
    3) Perhaps this requeries much more rocket science than we have realistically available o economically viable today. You can provide some numbers if you feel this feasible.