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  1. Re:In my day, we had the ZX-80 on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    If you have windows you can get an ide for free. It's called visual studio express.

  2. Re:About Parrot .. on perl6 and Parrot 0.5.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Um, your 3.5 app still uses the 3.5 libraries and and 4.2 app uses the 4.2 libraries? Side by side is a wonderful thing...

  3. Re:Where your flying car is... on Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack · · Score: 1
  4. Re:He seems conflicted on Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year' · · Score: 1

    My Dad was in Vietnam during the moon landing and he hasn't seen it either. I would argue that's sadder.

  5. Re:Why is this news ? on Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    The 'partial state ownership' is via the future fund which is basically the super fund for commonwealth public servants so I would say that there is no state ownership anymore.

  6. Re:Why is this news ? on Major Australian ISP Pulls OpenOffice · · Score: 2, Informative

    Used to be state run but not anymore.

  7. Re:A new AGENCY?! on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 1

    USA and Europe might play that game but many countries (Australia that I know of personally) don't.

  8. Re:ORM still broken? on Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done · · Score: 1

    Yep, everyone knows you should use Guids for primary keys.

  9. Re:Kinder? Gentler? on Is It Time for a 'Kinder, Gentler HTML'? · · Score: 5, Funny

    No way! Those are aerodynamic and make the html travel faster through the pipes!!

  10. Re:Begs the question on Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists · · Score: 1

    KY Jelly is not a lubricant of love. It's terrible at that as it dries out too quickly. It's designed for medical use.

  11. Re:Battlestar Galactica on Star Wars Television Series Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    In space yes, but the cgi of buildings was horrible!

  12. Re:The Real Reasons Howard Wants Broadband = Spam on 99% of Australians With Broadband By 2009? · · Score: 1

    The private sector is not always better at allocating resources. If it works better as a monopoly then the government can do a better job.

    How would things work if there were 10 companies with garbage trucks driving past your house and you had to choose one?

  13. Re:Controlling the Russian Beast on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    And how well does the west treat people of different sexual orientation?

  14. Re:constitutional lawyers? on Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8:

    The Congress shall have Power *** To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

  15. Re:What's your opinion on MySQL Stored Procedure Programming · · Score: 1

    fortran? wtf? That doesn't make any sense. Did you mean cobol?

  16. Re:The real problem on TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have lived in Australia for all of my 32 years and I can tell you I have never seen a toilet flush clockwise or counter clockwise. They just don't work like that.

  17. Re:Let's Make this Political! on Heinlein's Last Novel Coming in September · · Score: 1

    Have you ever read 'Stranger in a Strange Land'?

  18. Re:A combination of hardware and software does it on Managing a Huge Music Collection? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what programs are good for fixing up the tags on lots of mp3s?

  19. Re:Its a compressed mp3, not a cd. Its more portab on Sound Quality of the Fifth Generation iPods? · · Score: 1

    ATRAC is lossy but Hi-MD can record and store uncompressed PCM.

  20. Re:Its a compressed mp3, not a cd. Its more portab on Sound Quality of the Fifth Generation iPods? · · Score: 1

    Hi-MD disks can store 1G of uncompressed PCM.

  21. Anybody want a gmail invite on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 0, Redundant


    I guess everyone that wants an invite has one by now but if there is anyone else send me an email to cdonges at the mail provider we are talking about.

  22. Re:Apples and oranges on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you can add lazarus to freepascal and get something similar to delphi.

  23. Re:Delphi too, please on Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse · · Score: 1
    LCL is the alternative to the Delphi VCL libaries. Lazarus IS the alternative IDE to the delphi IDE. Free Pascal is the compiler.


    It's coming along nicely. You should grab a nightly build and have a look.


    Documentation is a big problem though, as with most os projects.

  24. Re:Delphi too, please on Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse · · Score: 1

    It's still pre-release and there are things you can do about it.

  25. Re:Delphi too, please on Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about Lazarus?