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  1. Re:Bush on Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so "do or do not.. there are no try" and now "only the Sith see things in absolutes".. Hmmm.

  2. for the record on The Future of Linux on Laptops · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu was the first distro that, first, installed w/o hitch on my Fujitsu E, and, more importantly, had both suspend and hibernate working out of the box without my usual little configuration dances and overnight compiling with little hand-held fan attached to its side ;-)

  3. Re:Tandberg on Creating a High-Tech Meeting/Conference Room? · · Score: 1

    yep. Slashdot 2005 in all its glory.

  4. Re:No big deal on Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML · · Score: 1

    not all of them, just the ones with invisible tags and optional attribute values ;-)

  5. sometimes all you need is simple object store on Beyond Relational Databases · · Score: 1

    .. like MAOS

  6. Re:I didn't have high hopes about this but... on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    I always thought that Lucas missed a perfect chance to bring another angle into the Vader' story: Anakin goes bad due to marital difficulties between him and Padme after their marriage: she just becomes this untolerable bitch.
    - Honey, did you take the garbage out as I told you five times already?
    - I find your lack of faith disturbing (Vzzzzzzt!)

  7. Re:And this is news? on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 2, Funny

    you are right: what kind of news item this is? Where is the torrent link?
    ;-)

  8. EnterFind Appliance on Search Engines for Your Intranet or Small Business? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.enterfind.com/
    Supports indexing docs on Windows shares directly (as well as HTTP crawling), supports hundreds of document formats (including exotic ones like dwg files), allows precise control over indexing process and allows access via Web Services API as well as browser.
    No limitations on number of users or documents and fully customizable search page.
    Disclaimer: I participated in the development of this product. They (company) are good people, take care of their customers.

  9. if you want to do cross-platform sharing.. on Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles · · Score: 1

    ..over the net (not just local) you may want to try http://www.jetfolders.com./

    Java web-start here

  10. Re:Education is useless on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 1

    In general I would agree. But it seems like professional programming at the moment is like 80% art and 20% engineering/science.

    You may benefit from going to school and picking up pieces to help you fill the 20%.

  11. Re:There is a problem on Johnny Can So Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    so why is this a problem?

    The guy who stays and wants to code is the one we want. It is perfectly normal, IMHO, that in a group of decent size only few actually can program. Our educational system should be designed in a way to identify those precious few and make sure they can go as high as they can.

    It is silly to assume that Indian (Chinese, Russian, etc.) person in general is better programmer than an American one or that there are more programmers born there per 1000 population. It is simply those education systems were (for a while) better tuned to identify and pull up those selected ones.

  12. Re:Redsigning your applications. on AMD's Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it does not have to be the same application. I have seen the environments where the business users are crippled because they have over-agressive anti-virus running in the background. Their apps would fly with a dual-core (or even hyperthreading).

  13. on global warming on Slashback: VoIPersecution, Israel, Plug-in · · Score: 0, Troll

    I try to approach everything from practical point of view. Where I live, we have historical evidence of a) desert some time in the past b) ice some time in the past.
    That is far greater change than anything humans could possibly contribute to. On the other hand, the so called global warming is a convinent political vehicle especially when such a controversial neocon administration is at the helm.

  14. Re:Job Advertisements Tell The Truth on Gates on Google · · Score: 1

    that is such an eye opener: next time I see a company looking for (multiple) Java/Oracle people and willing to pay 110K, I will stay away from them like if they were plague!

  15. that is very powerful concept on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    So if no one during this convention reveals him/herself to be the time traveler from the future we can be absolutely positively sure that time travel does (will) not ever exist!

  16. Re:Ahh yes. on Does launchd Beat cron? · · Score: 1

    .ini file or any other key=value file IS in fact an XML file. It just has invisible tags ;-)

  17. Re:Amtrack should get NOTHING on High-Speed Trains in the US? · · Score: 1

    How profitable roads are? How much money those roads are bringing in? How many privately-owned highways are there? None at all... That's because no private company will touch that.
    Not exactly accurate. Truck industry in US is like 200 BILLION a year. There are a lot of privatly (or jointly) owned tollways (at least in Texas). They are going to build a giant trans-Texas highway entirely out of private money.
    Historically, money going into the highway system is what pulling country out of recessions.

  18. it is not about Excel errors.. on $10B Annual Tab for Spreadsheet Errors? · · Score: 1

    .. it is about people using spreadsheet to run their business INSTEAD of properly designed application.
    Sometimes it is stupidity but most of the time this is about general failure of today's IT to provide users with everything they need as far as application development.

  19. is there a feature list somewhere? on Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System · · Score: 1

    pure Slashdot - noise with no substance so far.
    Link to features/tutorial anyone?

  20. Re:Pardon my ignorance.... on Rapid J2EE Development · · Score: 1

    no, as OP said J2EE is a spec. It describes how things should behaive to be considered J2EE: servlets, JSPs, EJBs, JMS, ...
    J2EE "container" (application server) implements J2EE spec fully or partially. Struts does not implement any portion of J2EE spec.

  21. Re:Pardon my ignorance.... on Rapid J2EE Development · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Poster you, mr. Coward, replying to was not correct: Struts is NOT an implementation of anything J2EE. Struts is how-its-developer-saw-it implementation of MVC pattern/principle.

  22. does not cover Spring I suppose? on Rapid J2EE Development · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spring is a must-know-about thing for potential readers of this book, IMHO

  23. I think I'll get a second cheeseburger on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    2029 was pushing it, 2037 just not realistic for me. You the young ones can handle that. ANd do NOT raise my taxes mind you.

  24. Re:WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE... on Sanswire Demonstrates First Stratellite · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they need, you know, to be able to attach nickname or something to posting so we can tell one AC from the other. Oh, wait..

  25. Re:Lovely on Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats [Updated] · · Score: 1

    mod parent up even if it is AC. This is a new low for /.