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  1. Re:experiments on What Could You Do With 120 Laser Pointers? · · Score: 1

    What about 1200 or 12000? I guess that in volumes you could get them even cheaper that $5.
    There's an Arthur Clarke short story in which a dictator of a third world country is burned to ashes in a soccer stadium just by the sun reflections of thousands of spectators mirror like paper concentrated on him. I guess that had some science base, given Clarke was a scientist.

  2. Re:Protest demonstration? on What Could You Do With 120 Laser Pointers? · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, you're right. They will send the apologies with a free body bag as a gift. Your family will need to pay the burying yet.

  3. Re:Rock on! on PostgreSQL 7.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Yep. Oracle JDBC makes a developer live fun. A new feature every day to discover. Action, emotion and fun in a single jar. Just not speed. Now with automatic connection drop.
    TIP: try to have a different locale in the database and the client, find the subtle differences in interpretations of different objects.

  4. Re:How about a .torrent? on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 1

    Could some kind soul explain me why the Mandrake ISOs from torrent have different names/md5 from those from ftp? I'm reading this info in the Mandrake download page but there is no explanation.

    BTW, in terms of speed, would it be faster to download from ftp or torrent?

  5. Re:Argh! on Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now you tell me! If nobody cares to explain things how I'm supposed to knew? I thought we were supporting SCO! At the least the faq should tell us "SCO bad, Linux good". Next you will try to make me think that Microsoft is the empire of evil or something.

  6. Re:Open Source base kept secret on Java IDE Technical Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Use whatever you like best and you can pay (Netbeans, Jbuilder, idea, eclipse, vim, emacs, notepad, command line, etc).
    No IDE is the best, they all have their woes.

  7. Re:Project Rave?!? on Java IDE Technical Preview · · Score: 1

    How that's different to burn your brains programming all night?

  8. Re:Can someone explain? on The Anatomy of Cross Site Scripting · · Score: 1

    I tried replacing X by Xtreme to get better effect:
    Xtreme Windows
    Window XtremeP
    javaXtreme.swing
    Mac OS Xtreme
    XtremeML
    XtremeSL

    mmmh... I dunno...

  9. Re:RTFA! on Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented · · Score: 1

    The sky is going to fall? we are going to die!! run! run for your lives!

  10. Re:I wish. on Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org · · Score: 1

    Use a fast, lean vnc to get a graphic terminal.

  11. Re:Leaving? on Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why, yes. It is called Windows XP (see the X is moved to the end of the name and the P must mean something else). Millions of VB programmer use this version.

  12. Re:Worth Learning? on Bitter EJB · · Score: 1

    Why would you want EJB to make websites? EJB is for the backoffice of the website. On the other hand there is no problem at usign servlets/jsp in a web site, is clean and have good perfomance for most cases. Using logic in store procedures is not the way to be scalable or portable, though may be faster in cases. What kind of sites do you do anyway? That can make a difference.

  13. Re:Languages need novices, novices need good books on Bitter EJB · · Score: 1

    That's ok, but how can you simplify distributed, parallel, scalable, fault tolerant applications with asynchronus messaging? It seems to me that the domain of the problem is complex on itself, and the tools somehow reflect this complexity.

  14. Re:EJB is REALLY Bitter on Bitter EJB · · Score: 1

    # You are not obliged to learn EJB every day in order to use them like you would do if you were pushed to work on a Sparc Workstation and you had to read your mail through mutt.

    Why are you obliged to learn again? you didn't your homework in the first place?

    Thanks to Free (Speech) Software like GNU/Linux distributions, or *BSDs, you may learn Unix as an hobby... fire up slackware, tune it and then play Wolfenstein ... EJB per se is only a mean to get a work done.

    False! after you tune your slackware you can install free Java AND App Server of your choice and play as you want.
    Wolfenstein is not a way to get work done, don't matter what programmers say.

    # You need a really solid Java background, a really solid Object-Oriented programming Design background and some knowledge of the accompaigning technologies (sql/jdbc), something that you may learn only if you really focus on it, not as a "collateral effect" if you are on a workplace or college where the admins wants you to use vi, trn and mutt. On the other hand Unix needs you to know how to switch on the computer, and how to use a keyboard. Also, mastering Java and OOD is difficult _per_ _se_ (even if Java is easier than C++ in many regards).

    Of course, J2EE is about big enterprise applications, no one says it takes minimal effort to use it.

  15. Re:Who gives a shit about C# on C# 2.0 Spec Released · · Score: 1

    Microsoft .NET may be a proprietary platform, but so is Java. ECMA C# is an open and free language.
    But to most people want to use the platform, not just the language. Microsoft thinks so, otherwise would not give C# to ECMA. I'm not telling C# is not good, I mean that by market presure most users will go to .Net or other alternatives rather than use C# alone.
    Java the platform may not be an open source but still is "more open" than .Net.

  16. Re:Hot damn on Linux 2.6.0-test9 Released · · Score: 1

    Is it posible to switch kernels just recompiling? Aren't dependencies between the rest of the system programs? Can I put a 2.6 kernel in a 2.4 distro?

  17. Re:Who gives a shit about C# on C# 2.0 Spec Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    What exactly do you mean by undocumented? The language and virtual machine are fully documented, you can download the sources to jdk and libraries, and is much more open than C$, though less than others open source projects.

  18. Re:Coincidental Developments on Sci-Fi Channel Looks for LGM in NASA Files · · Score: 1

    When was M$ founded :-?

  19. Are you sure? on The Art of Unix Programming · · Score: 1

    # Rule of Clarity: Clarity is better than cleverness.
    This is about Unix???? It'more like Smallness is better than Correctness.

    # Rule of Least Surprise: In interface design, always do the least surprising thing.
    rm -f * .o # don't try this at home (or work)

  20. Re:You've hit the nail on the head. on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    Most people (at the time) would scoff at the idea of writing even a 10K line of code app with Perl/TK

    That's because most people can't read their own 100 lines Perl scripts after a while, myself included.

  21. Re:What's the PHP equivalent to Java NIO? on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    No. You still have less than 100.000 and you are counting html files.

  22. Re:Improvements? on Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    Exactly why you need a car designed to violate the law?

  23. Re:Improvements? on Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    What's the point of using C without pointers?

  24. Re:Improvements? on Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    Because is dangerous. Yes, it is. Really.

  25. Re:Best choice for the job? on Samba Beats Windows IT Week Labs Test Results · · Score: 1

    good that you tell me that Windows isn't ftp compatible. I was just to get caught by this monopolistic, closed source OS, source of evil that can't ftp.