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  1. Re:please everybody on The Subtle Tyranny Of Spreadsheets · · Score: 1

    Actually, don't misuse spreadsheets by coding them on unsortable things. i.e. dont' colour code an excel spread sheet since you can't sort it that way.

  2. Re:Opera's History on Making A Better Browser History · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does opera show you thumbnails or just a list of links? How does it show that you clicked from a-b-c then from a-d? Is there a way to see what a page looked like w/o clicking on the url?

  3. Re:In uml on How Do OOP Programmers Flowchart? · · Score: 1

    Last time i went to the store, beer was most certainly not free. The binary is free, not the source. Now you are mincing words. Are you trying to sell me something?

  4. Re:In uml on How Do OOP Programmers Flowchart? · · Score: 1

    ... is free, not Free ...

    ?? it is free.. they say so. No. It's not open.

  5. Re:In uml on How Do OOP Programmers Flowchart? · · Score: 1

    http://gentleware.com/ has a software called poseidon.

    It's a good tool, not suber uper, the best, but it's pretty neat.

    -s

  6. In uml on How Do OOP Programmers Flowchart? · · Score: 4, Informative

    In uml, with activity diagrams, and class diagrams.

  7. whoa.. on The Web Won't Topple Tyranny · · Score: 1

    Am i the only one who lost the first Y in the headline and thought, whoa.. slashdot got raunchy?

  8. Re:What the fuck? on Mobile Wifi Backpack · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Lemme break it down for you.

    WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet.


    It's a wifi station that's not plugged into a broaddband connection.


    It forms a WiFi "island Internet"


    It has no uplink.


    challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks


    Usually, there's an uplink, right?


    that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity.


    Think of it like Gnutella. Anyone can become a hub, and if two people connect to it, you are part of the same network. Now imagine gnutella over something like, CB radio. It's all proximity based.


    All inventions aren't about solving an existing problem. Sometimes, it's about enhancing life.

  9. Re:Bondage on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    spaces and tabs are evil for context sensitive operations. that's why {} rule. you can't mix up a { for a space or a tab.

  10. Re:Bondage on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    No, i'm complaining about depending on a character that's not only invisible, but needs to be typed in many times just to make a block.

  11. Re:Bondage on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    So instead of using a block operator which is 2 characters, i have to use one based on many MANY tabs.

    Nice way to garantee i screw up.

  12. Re:Sad thing is... on Ballmer On Microsoft's Search Goofs · · Score: 1

    Number a. You never netscape'd over to bob.com. You never assumed everyone had netscape, as there were others that worked well. b. you purposefully chopped off the other end of my statement. netscape killed itself with a bad product during 4.x.

  13. Re:Sad thing is... on Ballmer On Microsoft's Search Goofs · · Score: 1

    Big difference is, netscape wasn't synonymous with web browsing. Who is honestly going to say, "msn this" or "msn that" when "google" has penetration. It's also tons faster. Netscape went to shit with version 4, which was a "bad move".

  14. It depends. on Solutions for Avoiding Traffic? · · Score: 0

    If you tell everyone to avoid street 1, out of 2 streets, then you flood street 2. If it can be clustered or load balanced (beowulf?) so that people are distributed evenly on alternate routes.. this could be REALLY viable.

  15. localhost on What's Your Browser Start Page? · · Score: 1
    Simple, the copy of sun jdk documentation. The javadoc kicks ass, and I am more likely to need a browser fresh opened there than anywhere else.


    That and typing /Users/sporty/Documents/java/.... is really friggin' long. :)

  16. Re:Stupid Student's or maybe.. on Can Your ATM Play Beethoven? · · Score: 1

    Getting caught using media player on an open machine isn't a crime. Taking the money would have been. Stealing other people's money in the long run, a more punishable crime...

  17. Re:Macs for the blind on Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Aw man.. you know.. God doesn't like ugly. Well.. in this case, I guess it doesn't matter, eh?

  18. Re:Talk about a misleading headline! on Phoenix DRM Reads Your E-Mail · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sleep mode is your friend. :)

  19. Re:Power Power Power on PHP 5 RC 1 released · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Yet it does such a bad job of enforcing it. You'd think for a language who's job that acts as a conduit between your view layer and your model would at least do a good job at it.


    Or are we going to add another few thousand functions into the core language. Again.

  20. Re:Scalability on Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality · · Score: 1

    It'll ask you which one :P then you can uniquily identify them

  21. Re:/. the bastards! on Stop! Website Thief! · · Score: 1

    Not if you don't load the images >=)

  22. Re:shell scripts vs. programming languages... on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    shell == programming langauge...

    'cause every executable becomes a function which you pass params and get return values, if you want to.

  23. Re:Pinky and the Brain on 15 Mutations Resulted In Increased Brain Size · · Score: 1

    I for one am prepared to take the same countermeasure to thrwart our new mouse overloards!

  24. Re:Isn't that an OS? on A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS · · Score: 1
    Actually, an OS is now considered all the things to make a comptuer useful. It not only includes software that drives the hardware, but various things for interfacing with it, like a gui, a browser and a text editor.


    Though I do get the humour of the poster. :) They should give you the memory if you buy a $100+ piece of software..

  25. Re:Fabulous! on Windows Could Lose Media Player in Europe? · · Score: 1
    The same way the UI subsystem is. Same way paint and solitaire are. An OS is technically, software that controls hardware, but it also includes software to make the computer usable, which quite frankly, is always up in the air.


    MS, Apple, Redhat Linux, they are all very complete OSs until the next idea comes out, and gets integrated.


    (Yes, Linux is just the kernel, but RedHat linux includes vi, gnome, kde..etc etc...)