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  1. Re:C/C++ lacks.. on The Role of the Operating System In the Future · · Score: 1

    POSIX threads could propably be considered a standard threading library for C/C++. Though for true C++ standarized threading library, check out N1907 which is propably going into TR2 and later into the standard.

  2. Re:Boo H2 ...'Termite guts can save the planet' on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    H2 is BS.

    Ahem, it is CH4 that is BS, not H2.

  3. Re:Settle down Beavis. on The Math Behind the Hybrid Hype · · Score: 1

    I have a very large truck -- it weights two and a quarter tons, thats it.

    You forgot to include the weight of the passenger. ;) Few things can beat the cost efficiency of a bicycle, and it has nice health releated side effects.

    I don't know what kind of studies you have been reading, but my anecdotal evidence shows that a bus carrying 10 passengers is more resource efficient than 10 cars.

  4. Re:C++ has bigger memory issues on More Effective Use of Shared Memory on Linux · · Score: 1

    Balanced like tr1::shared_ptr and friends in TR1? The lack of standardized GC support in C++ is no longer a valid argument. Now all that is needed is for them to be implemented in the major compilers.

    Though it still doesn't solve the problem of bad coders.

  5. Re:Microsoft code? on More Effective Use of Shared Memory on Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It has something to do with the direction in which you read the code, from the left to the right. In the former example, you'll have to push "EOF !=" on the mental stack before parsing the meaning of "(c = getc(stdin))".

    I like my manga right to left, my code left to right.

  6. Re:C++ has bigger memory issues on More Effective Use of Shared Memory on Linux · · Score: 1

    C++ is a multi-paradigm programming language, and is still evolving. (Rather, should we call it ID?)

    It supports procedural, OO and functional programming, the last still needs improvement. Contract programing is in the works, and will amongst other things alleviate all those nasty template error messages. Fine-grained GC is already in TR1 and should be available from major compilers pretty soon. It is interesting to note that GC is being done in the standard library, unlike C# which does it in the core language. Some would propably claim this means C++ doesn't have "true" GC support, rather than realizing it is just a different approach to the problem.

    C++ won't die as long as it keep evolving, even though it is a rather glacial evolution. So to say it doesn't follow new research into computer languages is to ignore the progress that does happen.

  7. Re:Oh, let me say it this time! on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this mean that the antecedent post is also a dupe?

  8. Re:rather than power a craft by ANTI-GRAVITY on Anti-Gravity Device Patented · · Score: 1

    Are those gravity waves kinda like those mind-control waves I must protect myself from? *Puts on his hat made of transparent and weightless aluminium*

    If gravity is a curvature of space, how will you mend the shear that one side of your spacecraft will cause? Wouldn't that possible require alot of energy, perhaps as much as you are getting as acceleration?

    IANAP

  9. Re:IPv6 - too little, too late on IPv6 Still Hotly Debated · · Score: 1

    No fixed size address space limit.

    What would be the point of this? There's no practical need for addresses larger than 128 bit unless you wish to encode some extra meta-data there. Having a fixed length address length makes programming alot easier.

    Removal of the arbitrary distinction of hosts and ports in favour of a unified end point specifier.

    Do we consider different services as being provided by distinct entities, or do we look at them as systems running multiple services? IPv4/6 can support the former and latter, your hypothetical IPv7 can only support the former. (Unless a standard is used for encoding the ip address) When i SSH into my server, is it really beneficial that I need to connect to a different address than when doing http requests? What's the benefit of denying that ability, when it doesn't give any benefits that can't be implemented already.

  10. Re:Hmm on How Microsoft Takes a Name · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sure, but Microsoft does not have a trademark on the word Windows, not in this nor any other domain. They got Microsoft Windows trademarked. Windows is, and has been for a long time, a generic word in the computer field.

  11. Re:Libraries are terrible, terrible institutions. on Reining in Google · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I'd rather buy the book rather than pay for a copy machine just to get a few pages.

  12. Re:Their software on Microsoft Threatens To Withdraw Windows in S.Korea · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The Korean goverment is also free to take the latest windows release, copy it and distribute it for free within their country. If MS goes complaining to the WTO, then Korea could just point out that said company didn't want their market and it is a vital part of their economy.

  13. Re:Well, at least they didn't.... on Microsoft Loses Two Key Executives · · Score: 1

    I'm sure "motor racing hobby" is just an euphemism for a Google job.

  14. Re:Which distro to recommend ? on A Closer Look at SUSE 10 · · Score: 1

    s:use:lackware:

  15. Re:Keep the budget even lower on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Money isn't some magical thing that makes things appear out of thin air. If you don't spend R&D money on space or related areas you'll have alot of scientists and engineers doing the equivalent of flipping burgers.

    Or you could retrain them, but adding man-power doesn't nessesarily solve the problems very much faster.

  16. Re:Mine asteroids instead on Hubble Zooms In On Moon Minerals · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's kinda like running around in a large field hunting rabbits with a stone club, while there's a large flock of sheep walking around in your back yard.

  17. Re:This man is a moron on Jack Thompson Rescinds Offer · · Score: 0, Troll

    CaptainFork, you are a fucking moron.

    PS. Note that I'm neither the OP nor the 14yo kid, so my calling you a fucking moron won't affect their arguments.

  18. Re:the War... on Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove · · Score: 1

    Just say No! ... to Microsoft and amphetamine.

    They both fuck you up bad. Go for MDMA, LSD or THC instead.

  19. Re:emacs and vim are too difficult to use on Vim 6.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Emacs is not too difficult to use, it's actually really easy. I never think about what keys i need to press to do something, it happens automatically. Jump around the text, yank a few lines, write abit, yank another line, switch file and past the first yank. The speed at which a skilled emacs user can do this is astounding to mere mortals.

    If you are a programmer; choose your editor wisely, it's what you'll spend most of the rest of your life using.

  20. Re:Non sequitur on Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China · · Score: 1

    Your high-school called, they want the math grade you stole back.

  21. Re:Video games as lucid dreams. on The Future of Videogame Aesthetics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've had numerous lucid dreams and i've found that there's really two changes of states in your mind, when you become aware of the dream and when you "wake" up. Once you become aware of the dream (not entirely the same as being aware you're dreaming) you need to kinda flow along, avoid thinking that it is a dream. It's really is awesome, especially when you have some cool/pleasurable dream, totally different from just imagining things while awake. Too bad they tend to last only a short while.

    It often happens when I've been up late into the night and bright lights wake me up before I'm done sleeping.

  22. Re:Hoax! on 200gb Hack for iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    A very clever observation, you deserve a cookie.

  23. Re:And in 10 years... on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity · · Score: 1

    That would depend on your definition of 'maybe' in this context.

  24. Re:Why Fire[xxx...]? on The Firemonger Project · · Score: 1

    Once long ago there was Phoenix, this turned into FireBird and later to FireFox. People had become used to these name changes and felt disappointet about the longevity of the latest change. Thus some bright soul created FireSomething, that gave you a new Fire* every day.

    The FireMonger name is propably a part of this meme.

  25. Re:Sigh. on Exoskeletons in IEEE Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Instead of these costly solutions we should just turn the elderly and disabled into Soylent Green.