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  1. Re:Real Programmers don't use GC on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    You can actually have auto closing resources since Java 7, which is not really the same as a destructor, but will remove that pain in your ass.

  2. Re:Very old news. on Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind · · Score: 1

    Except that car travels at 2.85 times the speed of the wind, when directly downwind, ie. when the boat and wind velocity vectors are on the same axis.
    Of course, since the "sails" (the propeller blades) are moving on a different trajectory, their apparent wind is not directly downwind.

  3. Re:Some, not all... on Old-School Coding Techniques You May Not Miss · · Score: 1

    That would be merge sort, not quicksort.
    Quicksort is (basically) :
    - choose a pivot value
    - quicksort the list of elements with a value lower than the pivot value (list 1)
    - quicksort the list of elements with a value higher than the pivot value (list 2)
    - add the pivot and list 2 to list 1

  4. Re:That's because... on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    Raven killed people saying he was an Eskimo instead of an Aleut... Check your back!

  5. Re:This is an opportunity on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Just a slight correction, the reprocessing and stocking (only relatively short half-lives) is done in La Hague. Le Havre is a port in a different region.
    It not only reprocesses all of France spent fuel, but about half of the world's, according to Wikipedia

  6. Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. on See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really matter whether there is one or more truth, unless you can measure how close you are to it.

  7. Re:Wrong in so many ways on Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing · · Score: 1

    O() notation shows how performance grows with input size.
    Really?
    I'd really like to see an algorithm whose performance grew with input size...
  8. Re:Why even ask? on Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? · · Score: 1

    Give me any prime, as large as you want, and I'll factor it as fast as I can read it!

  9. Err... on T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing Cellphone · · Score: 1

    My (French) ISP plan includes a SIP account that can be used from anywhere.
    It also sells a wi-fi/GSM phone for 199.
    Not bad for 30/month.
    And no, it is not limited to the device they sell, you can use anything you want with the SIP account.

  10. Robinson's Requiem on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 1

    At least I'll learn how to fight dinos!

  11. Re:The actual numbers on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    Err, I wouldn't call the +40% on the desert eagle an insignificant change, actually.

  12. Re:PRK on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    Because some of us do not have the choice?
    Lasik works for higher corrections too. My lenses are around -9 diopters on both eyes, which rules PRK out.

  13. Re:Nice Try but... on 3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    Hey, what are you doing here, not being modded funny?

  14. Re:30 is good. on SPECIAL BIRTHDAY REPORT!!! HEMOS IS 30 :) :) :) · · Score: 1

    Errrrr...
    Given that Hemos hit 30 on April 1st, 2006, I think that at least one person here was born the day Apple was founded. ;)

  15. Re:Why no mention of Daggerfall? on The Literary Merit of Morrowind · · Score: 1

    daggerfall had all the best bugs, actually.
    I had a character that would level up everytime he slept, which was rather fun at the beginning, but got horribly annoying since you couldn't quit the point attribution screen unless all points were spent. Kinda hard to do when you have maxxed everything. ;-)

  16. Scanners only getting smaller? on Pen-Sized Color Scanner Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I remember most affordable scanners in the mid 90s being hand-held.
    Those looked a bit like a T-shaped overgrown mouse (now figure that out) and required at least two passes to scan an A4 sheet.

  17. Re:what drives this controversy? on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, the biggest american sites (the only ones that have a chance to be consulted by mainstream non americans) do have different versions for other countries (google.co.uk, yahoo.fr, etc) and in non English speaking regions, most people only check things in their language.
    And I guess if the US was disconnected from the rest of the world, most of the spam would disappear... And I do not mean in the US, but about everywhere else; at least 99% of mine is targetted to american people, even on domains that clearly aren't on the same continent.

  18. Name calling on New Tenth Planet Has a Moon · · Score: 5, Funny

    so what do you call a moon with no planet?

    Easy, you call it Gabrielle.

  19. Re:Enterprise Product? on SSH Claims Draw Open Source Ire · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we should all pay 10x the original price for openSSH and be done with the controversy!

  20. Re:Emotions from games? duh! on Games Can Make Us Cry · · Score: 1

    The strangest thing with the fear in the asylum was that you were expecting anything, and nothing came, for a loooong time, building up even more stress, the arrival of the zombies was a relief, really.

  21. Re:Wow on Trigonometry Redefined without Sines And Cosines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of them sucked.. some of them were really good (IMO).

    And that is all you can get without using maths to prove that they are good or bad, be it in the average, best or worst case.

  22. Re:Captain France? on Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films · · Score: 1

    We do have some thing like that, actually... ;)
    http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/supdupont.htm
    But well... It is more about parody than anything else.

  23. Re:What's so special on Valve's Gabe Newell Speaks on Console Development · · Score: 1

    Moreover, will any of the next gen consoles include a hard drive? (not an optional one, mind you)
    Else using Steam doesn't make much sense, who would want to download the patches everytime?

  24. Re:Assuming it's mostly water... on Saturn Moon Continues to Delight and Baffle · · Score: 1

    Well, a gram is a gram, on Earth or on Enceladus, it is a mass unit, not a weight one, hence gravity has *no* effect on the measured quantity.

  25. Re:First Obvious Remark On Weirdness on Bully To Blacken Rockstar's Other Eye? · · Score: 1

    To call the protagonist a "drug-peddling serial-killer" is putting it wrongly.
    GTA:SA (at least its hero) is definitely anti drugs, especially crack cocaine.