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  1. Why not Java first? on Native Windows PE File Loading on OS X? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be ironic? Have .NET/CLR support on OS X, but no official Java :).

  2. Google is not about search engine.... on Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google · · Score: 1

    Google is an advertising company and technology is just a face (or mask) for it.

  3. Yes but.... on Patterns in Lottery Numbers · · Score: 1

    Your assertion is absolutely correct if one assumes that the lottery is not rigged. However, if the lottery is rigged, the the analysis shows what lottery numbers have been rigged most often :). Now does that mean anything for your next selection? Probably not, unless you have some additional insight into the ticket sales and selection of numbers on those tickets.

  4. Only one thing I need to know about the upgrade on Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5 · · Score: 1

    I'm a software developer heavily entangled in Java. Java support on OS X has always been weak (despite the marketing hype claiming otherwise).

    And the upgrade drops Java 1.6, and to add injury to insult it also breaks existing 1.5. So, for people like me, OS X is no longer a viable development platform, and it was never a good runtime/deployment platform to begin with.

    So, it's Windows and Linux for me as the only solid choices.

  5. You must be Canadian, on Techie Pay Approaches All-time High · · Score: -1, Troll

    because majority of Canadians think exactly like you, a strangely socialist outlook.

  6. Commercial plugins... on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    Anything a commercial plugin does can also be done manually if you actually know Photoshop well. The point of the plugin is to automate and speed up the process and produce better consistency (the manual steps involved lead to some variability in adjustments from image to image).

    I have not yet seen anything done with a plugin that I could not reproduce manually, ever. Also, the newer things in PS CS2 like shadow-highlight command can also be done in PS7 is Lab color space.

    And you are also welcome to download the Photoshop SDK (free for personal use), and develop your own plugins. You basically run photoshop processing steps and photoshop writes API calls in a C++ file. All you need to do is write nice UI around that file, compile and make some extra cache selling plugins for uesrs who don't know how to do stuff in Photoshop :).

  7. CS Degree is transferable across the globe. on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Medical degrees are useless outside the country they were obtained in, because you need a license to practice medicine (and law). US in particular has a very strict and somewhat unfair licensing exam for all foreign doctors/foreign school graduates that requires them to pretty much re-take the last 2 - 3 years of their undergrad degree, regardless of how long they practiced medicine anywhere else in the world.

    So, you may see less foreign students at medical and law schools unless those students plan on actually working in the US later.

    On the other hand you can take your CS degree earned anywhere in the world and take it with you and get jobs.

  8. What is IT by their definition? on Annual IT Salary Survey Finds Dissatisfaction · · Score: 1

    Is IT system administration (in the broadest sense of these terms), or does it include software development, systems design, software engineering etc.

    Because these are quite different things, sort of like a difference between car mechanic (making sure cars work) vs. race car driver (using the cars to achieve best times on a track).

    IT is about making sure systems work, software development is about using those systems to do useful work.

    Often times these things are bunched together even though they don't have much in common. So which is it? Their survey talks about Windows administrators and custom software development/DB design?

  9. So next time I do interval training on my bike on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 1

    in my basement I may get arrested? When is the right time to overthrow the government exactly?

  10. Did you mean "It's not so difficult".... on Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista · · Score: 1

    funny that you made the same mistake in the title :).

  11. Actually there is nothing from Microsoft to match on Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1

    ease of use and sophistication of Eclipse and Java. By the way most of the things you mention do not have anything to do with end users. Users could care less if their games are written using DirectX API or Open GL.

  12. They still have buttons... on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 1

    the buttons are just rendered on screen and they are tiny, meaning harder to target and press and as a side effect you leave greasy finger prints on your screen. Oh the progress...

  13. Experimental drug? on HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials · · Score: 0

    if they are "giving it away", then it must be an experimental drug. Hasn't your mom taught you that nothing is free (at least not in America).

  14. That's not the effect of steroids... on Springy Nanotubes Could Make Artificial Muscles · · Score: 1

    That guy is injecting oil directly into his muscle tissue causing his arms to bulge at the injection site only leading to it to look completely anatomically incorrect, unlike steroid users who just get bigger muscles everywhere.

  15. With net neutrality dieing and slow adoption of... on Ballmer Teases Software-Plus-Services in '07 · · Score: 1

    broadband in North America, this may not work or be practical at all.

  16. Re:Regenerated on FF start on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 3, Informative

    I did this on XP as well. You can always remove the FirefoxURL entry from the registry located at

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxURL

    So, go to start Run, type regedit and navigate to this key. Right click on it and choose Delete.

    Of course you could also export the entry and save it in a .reg file, should you ever want to put it back.

    To put it back, just double click on the .reg file you saved.

  17. Here's how... on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 5, Informative

    Open Windows Exporer (not Internet Explorer) and from the Tools menu select "Folder Options" menu. On the dialog that appears select the "File Types" tab.

    Now in the list of registered file types find the one that says:

    "(NONE)" for extension and "Firefox URL" for file type

    Select it and click on delete button to delete it.
    Click on "OK" to close the "Folder Options" dialog.

  18. You need a refund... on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    on your degree. It really is useless if you think that way. You don't seem to even know what math or computer science is, after earning? a degree in it? Sad, truly sad.

  19. You sir on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    are an idiot.

  20. Not quite. on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    I would correct your analogy just a little bit.

    Science: Physics
    Engineering: Electrical engineering e.g. design a micro chip
    Technology: Actually make a micro chip

    There is big difference between knowing how it works at a physics level. A much broader class of people know this. A much much smaller class of people know how to design one. And even smaller class of people know how to make one.

    Same with a nuclear bomb. I think we all know how it works. Some might even know how to make one. But very few have the technology to purify the materials to make one. See the distinction. At each level different kind of knowledge is required.

  21. I'm a trained mathematician... on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    and to me mathematics is synonymous with thinking and abstraction. So if you can do computer science without ever thinking, good for you. But as soon as you start analyzing a problem, deducing a solution etc you are already doing mathematics, you just may not be aware of it.

    I don't understand people who want to pidgeonhole math into a subset of itself and who think math is numbers, computations, or at best calculus, and forget that the processes of modeling, generalization, deduction, abstraction are the essence of math. So pretty much any scientist of any kind is doing math implicitly (even people who abhor it and who went for softer sciences because they did not like math).

  22. Not for me... on Walt Mossberg Reviews the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I absolutely abhor touching a screen and leaving finger prints on any of the computers I work on.

    In a day of use this iPhone thing's screen will look like an oil slick driving me nuts. Hence I would never ever get one.

  23. Why is this moderated funny... on CA Bill Limits Skin Implantation of RFID Chips · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To the people who believe in Jesus Christ and the book of revelation, it is indeed a valid objection.

  24. Absolutely insightfull.. on ISPs Inserting Ads Into Your Pages · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and I am not joking. Since it is often said that we should not worry about net neutrality issues at all and that "free market" and competition will take care of any issues.

  25. Who scored this insightful??? on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 0, Troll

    What has Slashdot come to.