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  1. How nice. on Flash Mobs: Peaceable Assembly for Spontaneous Fun · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now if only I could organise a Flash Mob to my Website.

  2. Some quotes from the book. on Harry Potter and the Entertainment Industry · · Score: 1

    "Joe, you're so weird," he said. As they ran off, and Harry thought he heard Akshay randomly yell 'Linux' or something.
    "Man, that kid needs help," said Ron.
    "Akshay comes from a family of computer programmers," said Hermione. "He's used to things going logically, not spontaneous magic. He finds it very exciting, more so than the other first years."


    It was by far the worst after-Quidditch event that had Harry ever taken part in; staying in the hospital wing for several hours, being constantly visited by people, some he didn't even know. All of the annoying first year Gryffindors stopped by too: Joe wrote him some sort of incomprehensible get well note (|

    "Over the summer, we're all going to get together and practice Quidditch!" said Chris excitedly.
    "Yeah, and maybe we'll be able to make the team next year," said Mike.
    "Oh my god! That would roxorz my soxorz!" yelled Joe.

    My review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
  3. Domain Names are Clientelle. on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: 1

    You can sell the goodwill of a business, i.e. its customer base.
    This is treated as property.
    Praise search engines as much as you like, if your a small site and you change domain names, sure your new name will soon be indexed and you will once again receive visitors, but you won't receive hits from people who have memorized your domain name or access it from a link.
    Also you will loose your google page rank.
    Visitors = money (especially in the case of sex.com's $500k/month advertising revenue.
    If the content was moved to another domain name, it certainly wouldn't receive the same number of hits.
    If my domain names aren't my property, then what am I working for?

  4. How about fish gills or wings? on Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us? · · Score: 1

    I wrote a fun to ponder article about some of the potential improvements we could make to ourselves.
    We can rebuild him - A guide to the perfect human.[EliteGeek.ORG]

  5. Portability isn't everything. on Mono and .NET - An Interview · · Score: 1

    The great thing about .NET is that it is language independant.

    That is the big deal.

    You have your .NET Framework which is free (although not open source).
    The framework contains all the functions.
    Then languages C#, Perl, VBScript, Java etc are modules that fit ontop of the framework.

    If you have some functions written in Java, and there are some functions which do just what you need but are only written in Cobol, you can use them.

    You can have a single program written using 25+ languages (thats roughly the number of language modules for the framework last time I checked).

    You can learn the location of the functions once and the will be in the same place no matter which language you use.

    This means that no longer does it matter what language you choose.
    Because the language is no longer the important factor to writing an application.
    The only hassles you might encounter using other languages is comprehending the code contributed to your application by other programmers.

    Mono sounds great, as applications written using .NET will also be able to run on non-win32 platforms.

    This is a great achievement.
    The most impressive componet of .NET in my mind is the IDE.

    I would really like to see the features provided by Visual Studio .NET in an Open Source implementation.

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