User: mrrazz

Psion OPL

On: Microsoft TouchStudio Uses Phone To Program Phone

Reminds me of OPL (Open Programming Language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Programming_Language that was embedded by default on the Psion Series 5mx.
I had great fun making stupid applications on that thing back in high school.

Re:IE Made Me Do It

On: W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic

That could easily be fixed by making the URI use a different (nonexistent) protocol handler like schema:// instead of the usual http://

Re:commercials

On: N-Gage QD - Nokia's Answer To The Critics?

Obligatory futurama reference:

"Fool me seven times shame on you, Fool me eight or more times shame on me" -- Amy Wong

Re:Java can be faster then C sometimes

On: Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles?

Function pointer calls and designated initializers are both defined in the c99 standard.
But the kernel does indeed heavily depend on some gcc extensions.

Re:AMD and Intel have a cross-licencing agreement.

On: Intel Potentially Reverse-Engineered AMD64

No, code segments are always executable, unless the pages aren't accessible at all.
You can only mark them (non-)read/writeable.