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  1. Why the fuss?? on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What's it to you if I think I can hear the difference when you think I can't. Maybe I can hear the difference, maybe I can't. It's a personal thing and if I preffer listening to flac or 'pure' music or iof I want to hear crap played from out of a tin can, it really shouldn't make diddly squate difference to you! SO GET OUT OF MY EAR SPACE!

    On another train of thought...

    If you want to manipulate the music and say put it in another format, up the bass whatever and save it again, you really need to work with the lossless formats. Then if you must lower it to MP3 to save space, cheep hard drives makes that need a little less. Of course, on your IPOD or other little device with your cheasy headphones, you might as well go to some quality 4 bit recording format and really spave space. You won't hear the difference once the earbuds are done with it.

  2. Re:Windows 7 will solve your problem on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had to speel it out.

        I. W.A.S. M.A.K.I.N.G. A. J.O.K.E.

      or at least an attempt at

                              S.A.R.C.A.S.M.

      I hope this helps

  3. Windows 7 will solve your problem on Easing the Job of Family Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    According to an earlier article, Windows 7 looks and smells like a mac but is way more stable than a Mac.

  4. Re:Use PGP/GNUPG auth on Man-In-the-Middle Vulnerability For SSL and TLS · · Score: 1

    SSL at least in the context of web browser is not only to secure our communication, but authenticate that the web site is the web site we really want to be at.

  5. Obviously it's time for... on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1, Insightful

    PANIC and Irrational fear!!! Run for your lives!

  6. WT Toolkit on Platform Independent C++ OS Library? · · Score: 1

    If you want what looks like a promissing web interface you might try http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt. Life's beautiful when you can do web stuff in just one language

  7. Re:More Sugar on Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't tell the sugar farmers in Florida and Southern Texas (not to mention all of the sugar beet farmers) that their crops don't exist. It will just ruin their fantasy! Nobody likes a killer of a good fantasy!

  8. Re:And the liberal war on science... on Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets · · Score: 1

    Wait, just last week it was those pesky conservatives waging war against science. I guess all of science is doomed since both sides are now aligned against it!

  9. It should be okay for the kids on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as the President didn't come up with it!

  10. What's so dangerous about nixies? on Open Source Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Tube Clock · · Score: 1

    Sheesh a hacker who is afraid of 170V at low current, is a wimp. If the PS is properly designed to NOT be a bug zapper, then it may tingle, but it will hardly hurt you. Under the best circumstances if it can put out more than 50MA it is way overkill for a nixie clock. Even 20MA gives plenty of headroom.

      You want to see a real neat clock, checkout http://www.nixieneon.com./ I haven't touted it as Opensource, but the code is GPL. It does come with complete schematics and a good assy manual.

  11. Breaking News... Java performance on Java Performance On Ubuntu Vs. Windows Vista · · Score: -1, Troll

    sucks less on Ubuntu than on Windows!

    In other headlines, researhers have learned more cumbersome coding techniques taking the CS community one step closer to having chimpanzees writing code which will work good enuf at a low cost of just 1 banana per 1000 lines of code.

  12. Well... I know I'm going to stop coding OSS! on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yep, the first thing I thought to my self when the housing bubble burst and the stock market crashed was "Well that's it, no more writing opensource software for me!".

      Yea right! Some companies will quit contributing. Those that were doing it just to make a buck. Folks who do it because they feal it's the right thing to do will continue on through thick and thin.

  13. Re:Except that, not on Stuck In Google's Doghouse · · Score: 1

    Actually, I have not needed his site for real, but it does have advantages over most. First and foremost, he has a link to the actual website and does not just run you around his site (though he does have plenty of possible loops for you to choose from).

    He also gives pretty decent descriptions of the companies.

    Granted, you only know how useful his site is when you are looking for something you need, and with my check that was not the case.

  14. Googles ads always sucked for me on Stuck In Google's Doghouse · · Score: 1

    I've tried the several times. Each time 100 to 300 dollars poorer and I got no sales as a result.

    They're making my good link placement less relevent as well. Not they're are effectively 6 ads before you get to look at the first real search result. Now my number seven rank is 13!

  15. I thought they uses a big hammer... on The Tech Behind a Nine Inch Nails Show · · Score: 1

    That or a really big nail file!

  16. Yes, use PHP, I've never seen poorly written PHP on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    yep, that does sound like the solution to the problem Re-write the code in PHP or Java. They can't be written poorly due to their supperior design. NOT!

    Sheesh... Perl a good language, I like it. I dread writting another web page in it myself.

    Php is no better. It is just the cat gutted from the other direction.

    Java is maybe, if it wasn't such a anal language.

      I've been playing with WT (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt) which is C++ based. With it I get to write almost entirely in C++, it generates the Javascript, HTML and CSS. I need to only know a little HTLM, CSS and Javascript (if any) to make a nice AJAX page.

  17. Like being made into twice fried rice on Scotty's Final Mission · · Score: 1

    Or maybe refried beans

  18. I turn 50 in a couple of months and if I was... on NASA Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    given as much money as they, I could've accomplished just as much. Probably would've have, but that's not the point.

  19. Re:High price of oil on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    It costs even more to ship S/W from the US to Europe when you send it through China!

    Personally, I would think most companies would settle for just having it cross the Atlantic.

  20. High price of oil on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    It costs a lot to ship boxes of bits across the Atlantic Ocean.

  21. Waah.... Waah... on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 1

    Sheesh... I can get better grief from my kids!

  22. Re:It is still easier to write a GUI on Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? · · Score: 1

    Spiff, but the first two examples, from what I can tell don't solve the RPC issues. The 3rd is questionable, it may.

    What Qt and Wt both offer in the RPC arena is SIMPLICITY. GWT does not offer this out of the box.

    Also, do any of these allow me write a single app which splits the functionality of the server and browser for my without me having to do the work? I know GWT out of the box does not. Write your java code for the Browser, compile to javascript, Write your code for the server, put it on there using Tomcat or whatever. Hope you have your RPC calls handled proper...

  23. It is still easier to write a GUI on Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? · · Score: 1

    Sadly, unlike WT (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/), the google web toolkit forces me to write java on the server and the client and does not make it easy to have the serverside actions happen on button clicks etc.

      What I really want to do it write an application like a gui where I write in a single language (c++/Java/whatever) and it deals with the browser and the server and I don't have to think about it, when a button is clicked this function is called, if it's on the server, great, if it's on the browser fine. Wt is very close. What it is missing is the graphical designer that Qt has. Add that and it will be quite the tool!

  24. Re:Start with configuration. on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    When I think configuration I thing /etc/* resolv.conf rc.d scripts, /etc/sysconfig stuff, nfs nis blah blah blah... For true hackers always fun. To teach programming to a teenager, BORING!

    Like I said, always good to know. I use it almost regularly as a programmer (have to get the system to start your program somehow). To pique ones interest in programming, NOT!

  25. Re:python on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know what they say about presumptions...