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  1. Re:Try Surfing the web blind... on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1

    Only follow that link if you use a particular popular OS. For the rest of us don't bother.

  2. Re:power your CPU by burning wood on Power Your AMD Via Tesla Coils · · Score: 1

    How is that moderated as being interesting? Damn funny, yes. But interesting?

  3. Automate the testing on Properly Testing Your Code? · · Score: 1

    Firstly, I strongly recommend a peer-review system where other developers eye-ball the code to make sure it all looks ok. This should catch most bugs.

    The other thing we use is a system that peeks at the code and data structures and look for common mistakes. The code can't be checked in unless this automatic test has been run and the recommendations followed. Automated systems are great for picking up easily recognisable (and often silly) problems before it ever gets to QA.

    The great thing about rules based systems is that you can often automatic checking that the rules have been followed.

  4. Re:This script thus far is HORRIBLE on Slashback: Swiftness, Ender's, Streams · · Score: 1

    Peter and Valentine played more central roles in the 3 sequels, so does cutting them out of the EG movie pretty much rule the 3 sequels also moving to Hollywood?

  5. Scary on Science a Mystery to U.S. Citizens · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only 50% of people surveyed knew that the Earth revolves around the Sun once a year. I am absolutley gob smacked. Is this really a cross section of American society!?

    What do Americans teach their kids at school, if not that the Earth goes around the Sun once a year?

  6. Impressive on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle · · Score: 2, Funny

    It takes a fair bit to impress me, but this article does. "ACCRC is a self-sustaining, self-funded organization that trains unemployed, unskilled volunteer workers how to build and maintain Linux computers" They must get their money from somewhere to be able to afford a 38,000 square foot complex. Good on them.

  7. Re:Here's how I do it. on Finding the Programming Zone? · · Score: 1

    I highly recommend having a dual-head display for developing. My productivity has increased quite a bit since adding a second monitor.

    This does partly depend on what development tools you use, some tools favour multiple monitors more than others.

  8. It needs to be inherent. on Tips on Managing Concurrent Development? · · Score: 1

    Source control needs to be inherent in the development environment you are using. Relying on third-party tools or add-ins to successfully manage multiple developers in the same project is a mine-field.

    The IDE we use is called Jade (www.jade.co.nz) and is a OO database. The beauty is that the IDE is written in Jade which means that the classes, properties and methods are actually objects in the database. Handling for mutliple developers at once is a breeze as the system does it all for you. We have 10 developers updating and managing a 1,000,000 lines of code project with ease.

  9. Re:Science is.... on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    It hasn't been observed directly, but there is a lot of evidence that supports it. Just like people haven't observed atoms directly.

  10. Re:Science is.... on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, macro-evolution is watching the tide for a millenium. Same thing, different time-scale.

    And besides, I can only think of one belief that thinks that the whole Earth was covered in water ("up to the highest mountain"). Crazy eh?

  11. Re:Science is.... on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    There is evidence for the atom.
    There is evidence for quantum.

    Macro and micro evolution are the same ting, just over a different period of time.

    And finally, anyone who suggests that humans evolved from apes is, quite frankly, ignorant. Science has never suggested that. It HAS suggested, though, that humans and apes have a common ancestor.

  12. Re:Darwin's Radio on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    I've read it, and I quite enjoyed it as well. It's quite possible that the fiction he wrote could become fact.

  13. Re:Not "what evidence" on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    Hogwash. Atheism is not about belief, it's about lack of belief. Please people can you understand that one simple point.

    It's about lack of belief, NOT about belief.

    People who don't believe in a god are atheists, but not all atheists believe gods don't exist.

  14. Re:None v. Atheist on Jedi Knight Now (Not) Officially a Religion · · Score: 1

    The definition I use is from the meaning of the parts of the word. "a" means "without". So atheism means "without theism". A theist is someone who has belief in a god, therefore an atheist is someone without a belief in a god. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

  15. Re:None v. Atheist on Jedi Knight Now (Not) Officially a Religion · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but that's an incorrect definition. An atheist lacks belief in gods. There may be a term for "believes there is no god", but it is not atheist.

    It suprises me how a word with such a simple definition is so often ill defined.