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  1. Re:Can't Hear You on More Bad News About Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that you've made the point you're trying to refute. It the article says 2 degrees C is enough to cause problems and you say the the sun could account for 4 degrees K, then ... Last time I checked 1 degree change in C was the same as 1 degree change in K.

  2. Re:I wouldn't say they're going to become obsolete on Raised Flooring Obsolete or Not? · · Score: 1

    We just did this last year. Power goes under the floor, data cables in trays by the ceiling.

  3. Re:Wow! What a question to ask on Slashdot... on Hackers, Spelling, and Grammar? · · Score: 1

    Of course, without proper language and compiler support (declarations required, etc.) their programs might not be any better than their English! That could explain a lot though...

  4. mumps - m - cache on A Brief History of Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    Cache is still in very active use.

    www.intersystems.com

    in the financial and medical industries in particular.

  5. Re:politics on Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal · · Score: 1

    Dr. Pepper has been around longer than Coca Cola. Your dad must be really old. It was invented in the 1880s.

  6. Re:Easy one. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    I don't allow ftp or telnet access to our servers either, for what I consider to be obvious reasons. I do allow ssh/sftp access as well as vpn from a selected set of IPs.

    I'm IS director for a credit union and pay for cell phones, a rotating pager, and broadband for six employees.

    About the exempt vs non-exempt, one of my guys recently made the change and the raise we gave started by compensating for the lost overtime, then the bump for the increased responsibilities.

  7. a saint! on Online Banking And Browser Support · · Score: 1

    Naturally I think my credit union is a saint. I wrote their internet software. It was developed using Linux/Apache/PHP and Mozilla on Mac OS X is the browser I use myself. I made sure that the site even runs correctly with Lynx! :)

  8. Re:Please explain the LISP code on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK, I'll try. He's trying to score the word on a scale from .01 to .99. The value is the probability that the word is a spam word.

    g = 2 * (count of how many previous "good messages" the word has appeared in)
    b = (count of how many previous "bad messages" the word has appeared in)

    if( g+b 5 ) // word hasn't occured enough in previous messages
    return 0; // to have a valid score

    fb = b / nbad // nbad is number of bad messages in database
    fg = g / ngood // ngood in number of good messages in database

    score is fb / (fb + fg)
    minimum valid score is .01, maximum is .99

  9. Re:You're caught on Cheating Detector from Georgia Tech · · Score: 1

    When I taught I told the students that they could work together but had to let me know in advance that they were doing so. I did have one cheater (in four years) who just copied someone else's code and changed all the variable names. Since I only had about 30 students, I did all the lab grading myself and it was obvious what he'd done.

  10. Re:humility deficient on C++ Answers From Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 1

    from Bjarne's web site: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html

    Why is the language called C++?

    For the first few years, I called my language ``C with Classes.'' However people had taken to calling C with Classes ``new C,'' and then C. This abbreviation led to C being called ``plain C,'' ``straight C,'' and ``old C.'' The last name, in particular, was considered insulting, so common courtesy and a desire to avoid confusion led me to look for a new name. I picked C++ because it was short, had nice interpretations, and wasn't of the form ``adjective C.'' In C, ++ can, depending on context, be read as ``next,'' ``successor,'' or ``increment,'' though it is always pronounced ``plus plus.'' The name C++ and its runner up ++C are fertile sources for jokes and puns - almost all of which were known and appreciated before the name was chosen. The name C++ was suggested by Rick Mascitti. It was first used in December of 1983.
    There have been at least a dozen languages called D. See D&E for more name trivia.