User: toxis

Re:Seriously?

On: An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands

The UN is pathetic and should be dismantled. This is an organization that has a "human rights committee" staffed by such countries as Iran and Libya. It's a total joke.

No one of the elected members is from said countries. They're actually very respectable persons. You can download their CVs. Also, denying countries access to councils and committees just gives them an excuse to completely ignore the whole thing, but if you let them take part they will be held to higher standards.

EU allows up to 1 W in standby mode

On: Fujitsu To Show Off "Zero-Watt" PC At CeBIT

it's able to use no power while in standby mode -- but this is a feature that will be required from 2010 for new PCs released across Europe.

This is not true. The EU will allow 1 W from 2010 in standby mode and off mode and 0.5 W from 2014. There is an exception for devices that have an "information or status display" which allows for a power consumption of 2 W (2014: 1 W) in standby mode.
See commission regulation 1275/2008 Annex II.

Re:i like dvorak but stick with the standard qwert

On: Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY

Yes, very mysterious.

Frequencies English:
y = 1.974%
z = 0.074%

Frequencies German:
y = 0.04%
z = 1.13%

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequencies

Re:bablefish

On: Next Generation X11

abgekupfert is the perfect form of the verb abkupfern (Kupfer = copper) which comes from the old profession of engraving famous paintings in copper and other metals.

Though it takes a lot of talent those engravers (Kupferstecher) were not creative by themselves and if today a German says something is abgekupfert he/she means it is still just a copy and ignores the hard work behind it.

Re:Misses the real problem

On: State-Sponsored Solitaire?

Alt-Tab doesn't work if there's no other window open. ;)

Re:OpenOffice has a show stopper bug in it

On: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Preview

Have you tried altering the default style in the Stylist? F11 brings it up.

Re:No Operator Overloading is a BAD THING

On: Numerical Computing in Java?

Well you're line 3 would end up like this since you don't want "a" to be modified and assuming your methods return new instances:

CrazyObjectNumber c = a.multiply(b).add(53);

That's okay, I think. With Java 5 this works with autoboxing/-unboxing. But only with predefined classes:

Integer a = 12;
Integer b = 23;
Integer c = a * b + 53;

The last line is internally converted to:

Integer c = new Integer(a.intValue() * b.intValue() + 53);

And there is operator overloading for class String:

String a = "fu"; // equals new String("fu");
String b = a + "bar"; // equals a.append("bar");