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  1. PRK on Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hurts like a bitch for a week, and takes about 2 weeks for your vision to clear, but works great for those of us who are, for some reason or another, bad candidates for LASIK.

    I wish I'd done it sooner.

  2. Re:Positive Changes on Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors · · Score: 1

    I don't think that OP was objecting to the ads in general, but rather to their timing and placement -- during childrens' shows.

  3. Re:Non-Condradiction on No Naked Black Holes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe that some solutions have space being discrete at the Planck length, rather than continuous, and this discreteness also removes singluarities.

  4. Re:Someone is going to get into trouble on Jobs Rumor Debacle Besmirches Citizen Journalism · · Score: 1

    It could be someone *covering* a previous short.

  5. Re:Obligatory on Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on. Everyone knows that P2P Killed Elvis

  6. OK, I've watch too many on Cheaper Car Insurance For Gamers · · Score: 2, Funny

    bad Japanese monster movies.

    I read the headline as "Cheaper Car Insurance For Gamera ".

    I guess Godzilla and Mothra have to pay more.

  7. Re:And in other news... on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    OK, I'm really an idiot. Let's leave it at that :-P

  8. Not to mention... on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    MGM and Arthur C. Clarke.

    And in other news, in Canada, the year that everywhere else is known as 2010 will hereafter be known as "the year between 2009 and 2011".

  9. Re:And in other news... on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    I'm an idiot. Clarke isn't dead yeat. Drop the "'s estate".

  10. And in other news... on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1

    Arthur C. Clarke's estate and MGM are suing the IOC for unauthorized use of the number "2010".

  11. Re:Okay... but... on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, they do have a wave function, but the wavelengths are really small....

    E=hv.

  12. Re:Recommended reading on The Stigma of a Tech Support Background · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In other words, you were hired for a job that you were woefully unqualified for?

  13. Re:Who are the famous programmers? on Becoming a Famous Programmer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interestingly, the wikipedia article only mentions Kernighan for AWK and ditroff. It doesn't even mention that other language that he's known for.

  14. Re:Cost on On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. That whooshing noise is the sound of the joke going over your head. Follow the fracking links in GP, and you'll see they're talking about a South Park episode.

  15. Re:A challenge from the Falcon 1 team... on On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    Later, Harvey Birdman declined to comment.

  16. Re:I wrote to my Congresswoman... on US Senate Passes PRO-IP Act · · Score: 1

    Use his own prejudices. Use terms like, "Unwarranted government intrusion into business" and "liberal Hollywood elite".

  17. Re:GoogleSat Raise-Your-Hand Voting . . . on California Sec. of State Wants Open Source E-Voting Systems · · Score: 2, Funny

    I vote third party, you insensitive clod!!!!

  18. Re:I wrote to my Congresswoman... on US Senate Passes PRO-IP Act · · Score: 1

    Not just your CorruptionPerson. Write to Bush as well, urging him to veto it.

  19. Re:Do the lawmakers get overtime pay? on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 1

    Well, since the CA state constitution flat out says "Thou Shalt Pass a Budget by 1 June", I don't see what the problem is. They fail their constitutional duties, they don't get paid.

    If I don't do my job, I don't get paid. Why should they?

  20. Re:Do the lawmakers get overtime pay? on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 2, Interesting

    News reports claimed that the legislature would benefit from the budget stalemate due to the overtime.

    I'd love to see a state constitutional amendment to the effect that if the budget is not approved by June 1, all statewide elected officials shall forfeit all pay, and any person hired by their office shall receive the federally mandated minimum wage, with no chance of reimbursement, until the budget is passed.

    The bit about "person hired by their office" is to spread the pain. Lets face it, in CA, most legislators tend to be relatively wealthy. But when Assemblyman X's secretary starts bitching at him because she doesn't get paid, then he realizes the pain he's causing.

  21. Re:Goto is good on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Because I put the math into the comment.

  22. Re:Goto is good on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and I wanted to break out of *BOTH* loops, not just the inner.

  23. Re:Goto is good on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    And how do you plan to throw in C (either C90 or C99)?

    I *said* that in C++, you'd throw.

  24. Re:Goto is good on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    There are places in C where I can see a goto.

    for (i = 0 ; i < something; ++i) {
      for (j = 0 ; j < something_else; ++j) {
      do_something;
      if (disaster)
          goto bailout;
      }
    }
    bailout:

    However, in C++, you can use exceptions to clean up gracefully.

     

  25. Re:Goto is good on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Yep they "why". Though sometimes they overlap. I once wrote a comment that took up about 3/4 of a printed page.

    I was doing some nasty 14-bit scaled fixed point trig work, and I didn't want to lose any precision due to multiplication, so I converted the sin/cos multiplications to angle additions.

    The 3/4 page comment was the mathematical description of what I was doing (the what) along with the rationale for doing so (the "why").