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  1. Re:How boring on Kidney Printer · · Score: 1

    The same technology has already printed a chicken heart, that spontaneously started contracting and coordinated the rhythm across the whole organ within a day.

  2. Re:a drag on the economy on National Security Jobs To Rival Silicon Valley Over the Next 10 Years? · · Score: 1

    Whereas government jobs create knowledge and infrastructure, Silicon Valley mostly produces stock bubbles with "Step 2. ????" business plans.

  3. Re:DCA - Dichloroacetate (NOT Dichloroacetic acid) on Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Aerobic respiration, which most microorganisms and tumor cells don't do.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect

  4. Re:Calls to virt funcs during member con/destructi on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    In the garbage collection case, either
    1. The parent should not have been hooked to garbage collection before its members were contstructed
    or
    2. Garbage collection should be suppressed during a constructor

    In the exception case, a constructor that is going to throw has the responsibility of cleaning up its members before it throws. When a constructor throws, the destructor is not run. If a constructor fails and exceptions aren't available, it should still clean up its members and set a flag to let the destructor know not to do anything.

  5. Re:Calls to virt funcs during member con/destructi on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure of the answer to your question, but the answer to your problem is not to do this:

    - the construction or other initialization of the derived class members BEFORE executing the body of the derived class constructor calls the virtual function.

    This is a circular dependency that will never make logical sense, much less have a sensible implementation. If you find yourself needing to do this, there should be a way to renormalize your object model so that the member objects are not dependent on (or even aware of) the existence of the thing they are destined to be members of (at least until all the parties involved have completed their constructors, but preferably maintaining orthogonality through the entire life cycle)

  6. Re:Meanwhile, in Japan on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    IMO, "broadband" is "better than a POTS analog modem"

  7. Re:To compute what? on IBM Warns of China Closing the Supercomputer Gap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    China beats IBM, we can no longer say that we're the most technologically advanced country and that's what I want. If that happens, maybe we'll get a boost in science education like post-Sputnik.

    We don't need more science education (except maybe educating legislators). We need more science investment and employment to clear out the backlog of science postdocs that have been educated in numbers far in excess of jobs that require that sort of qualification.

  8. Re:An interesting counterpoint... on CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead · · Score: 1

    The author of the above quote is an employee of a company selling proprietary software that could be seen as competing with the ACH method.

  9. Re:blah on Churchill Accused of Sealing UFO Files, Fearing Public Panic · · Score: 1

    some come to faith by evidence

    People come to knowledge by evidence. Faith implies lack of or denial of evidence.

  10. Re:if that's true... on World of Warcraft Can Boost Your Career · · Score: 1

    If that's true, then why is everybody I know of who plays WoW or other similar games an overweight unemployed loser?

    Sample selection bias - ie, that is the social sphere you move in.

  11. Re:I can't see the tags... on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    The universe is a sandbox.

  12. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, because people who cheat are ALWAYS bad, and it has nothing to do with the fact that their partner might be completely unsuitable for them and/or positively damaging to them.

    Perhaps someone in those circumstances should get a divorce.

  13. Re:Relativity is just a model on Neutrino Data Could Spell Trouble For Relativity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Just a model" is not what physicists seek. The aim is to seek laws of physics that are absolute, inviolable, and a complete description of space, time, and mass-energy.

    And when you have what you think are laws that are absolute, inviolable, and complete, what you will have will be a model. The map is not the territory.

  14. Re:Some Additional Speculation on Google Considers China's "Web Mapping License" · · Score: 1

    The AFP also reported that 'Foreign firms wanting to provide mapping and surveying services in China are required to set up joint ventures or partnerships with local firms.'

    China and other countries (Qatar) seem to have these kinds of joint venture requirements on a lot of industries/markets. What I don't get is why we can't get the WTO to smack them down. If the US enacted laws that required say, Lenovo, to do all its US business through a US-owned intermediary, you know there'd be a raft of WTO complaints.

  15. Re:What is needed is 2 levels of FDA on Stem Cell Tourist Dies From Treatment In Thailand · · Score: 1

    Clinical trials are selective based on criteria that serves primarily the needs of the scientific study. So for example patients are excluded on the basis of age, race, comorbid conditions or whatever else might be foreseen as a confounding factor to studying the effectiveness of the treatment - and well they should - but it doesn't constitute a general framework for letting individuals make informed consent to risky procedures out from under the thumb of the FDA.

  16. Re:statistics on DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis · · Score: 1

    Sounds like mostly statistics, with a side of marketing and IT (and selling itself as something like operations research).

  17. Re:Supply & Demand vs Acceptable or Insane gra on BFG Exiting Graphics Card Market · · Score: 1

    One of the ways BFG differentiated itself from all the sweatshops turning out copies of nVidia reference designs was to factory overlock with better than typical stock cooling - but factoring in the inherent unreliability of these chips and the lifetime warranted BFG offered, its easy to see how it wasn't sustainable.

  18. Worst of both worlds? on Seagate Launches Hybrid SSD Hard Drive · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not only would this still have the noise of a physically spinning platter, and still have long seek times for anything outside the cache, but it would also wear out the rewrite capacity of the flash part with frequent cache filling.

  19. Re:LOL.... on Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images · · Score: 1

    Mohammed: O-|-

  20. Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? on Why Computer Science Students Cheat · · Score: 1

    I would expect the result of i=10 to be implicitly converted to a boolean, which would always be true, so the code would print an infinite series of 10's.

  21. Re:Why I still think we need vouchers on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Schools do not just appear. They take a great deal of financing and legal paperwork.

    That sounds like a problem it itself, not a problem with vouchers per se.

  22. Really exchanging dimensions? on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    The description sounds as if you choose which of the four dimensions to project onto your three, but in the video it looks like you keep the standard 3 and represent the fourth by phasing objects a fixed distance into the 4th, represented by translucency. Haven't had a chance to get hands on this yet, though.

  23. Re:Bah on The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    It's well known that Dijkstra was a curmudgeon with hearty disdain for anyone who wrote software on anything but a chalkboard.

  24. Re:Maybe they'll grow up as well as old on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with the music itself - just self image. They associate classical music with _boring people_ - parents, teachers, and other stuffy authority figures. Modern music sells an identity and a social clique more than it sells the bits on the disc or the vibrations they encode.

  25. Hard to do right on Why Are There No Popular Ultima Online-Like MMOs? · · Score: 1

    The main reason is that games like that are hard to make. UO had problems, but they could have been refined into a game unlike any that has yet to exist. However, that would have been very hard to do and less financially rewarding than a reasonably enjoyable game following the Diku model. UO and Star Wars Galaxies trashed what was great about themselves to become more like Diku/Everquest/WoW. EVE is probably doing the best at it currently, if you can accept that your character is a ship rather than a person.