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  1. Re:Icon is back on Time For A Cray Comeback? · · Score: 1

    "Proper grammer would force you to include the period within the quotes."

  2. Re:Icon is back on Time For A Cray Comeback? · · Score: 1

    In generaly, as you add machines interconnect complexity increases.
    For example, two people painting a fence will finish faster than one person painting a fence. However the amount of time is not directly proportional to the number of people working, because now you have to figure in that working together will usually take slightly more effort than working seperately.

  3. Re:Evidence? on Gartner Says Delay Linux Deployment Due to SCO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps you are right. No one said take a "go slow" approach to internet explorer or windows just because of some legal proceedings. The fact is that companies will continue doing whatever it was they were doing before and change things afterwards if it really becomes a problem. I for one, do not like the what-if approach. Just do it.

  4. Re:Progress on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    Every time a new tech has come along (sailing ships for example) people have said the same things. All those poor rowing people won't have anything to do now... How about we just realize that there is always something more to be done. It is what has kept our race so great. We all might just do something socially important with all that "spare time."

  5. Re:maybe 100 years.... on Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050? · · Score: 1

    I don't think there is a single person who is too stupid to perform a job. I can think of lots of jobs that stupid people can do.

  6. Re:Amen, brother on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    Why do you say Microsoft is despicable? Do you have any real evidence to back up your claim? Are you a leader in the industry? Have you ever worked at a Software company as a developer, or technical staff? Give us some reason why you are not just a follower of ill conceived notions.

  7. Walk to lunch on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1

    do sit ups, and push ups away from the office, before/after work, or during lunch. Perhaps even walk to lunch.

  8. Re:.Net was never clearly defined on .Net:... 3 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Java bytecode is very easy to disassemble.

  9. Re:Full text of article in case of /. effect on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pointing out that we are infringing on one copyright agreement in order to perpetuate Linux interests is a bad move. The Linux community should desire to keep away from negative aggressive behavior, less we become more like our adversary.
    Also, should we not leave the bully (ie. blackmail) tactics to those inside the corporate sphere?

  10. Re:Full text of article in case of /. effect on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I completely agree. It's a very sad that they are blaming Microsoft for being arrogant, when they were arrogant for taking this step without the consent of the Linux community or Microsoft. The Xbox is supposed to be a game console. A game console is not a home PC.

  11. Re:No michael means happy /. readers on Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to help. I'm going blind, and I would just ask a friend or spouse to help with this one 4 second operation on the computer. In addition I would feel no discrimination for doing so. There are lots of normal things that are just easier to do with a small amount of help.

  12. Re:Calling All Trolls! on Build a Multi-Output MP3 Server? · · Score: 1

    Deep breath, inhale, exhale. There. All better now?

  13. Re:The devil you know on Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4 · · Score: 1

    I think that everyone is making a big deal out of the theoretical size of an integer. It truly does not matter for many applications whether we are dealing with 8 bit or 32 bit software internally.

  14. Get a brain. on Job Chances for Older Coders? · · Score: 1

    You, clearly miss-interpreted the message before yours. Why not play nice?

  15. Re:Combo 10/100/1000 + fiber on DSL Hardware for Wiring Condos? · · Score: 1

    fibre is a good idea, dlink is a very bad idea, alo make sure to buy your cable pre-made or have a very good technician install it for you.

  16. Re:Consider the alternative on Cheap New 1 Inch HDD Holds 1.5GB · · Score: 1

    640k of ram. Even then they had megabytes of physical disk storage.

  17. Re:Billings on A Positive Outlook on the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    Get some help from a professional resume writer or a technical recruiter. Computer science jobs are high paying so you need to change your resume to reflect skills that and the wage that you deserve. Also, your verbage needs changed. In addition, you should volunteer for a couple of companies writing web pages or small programs. In addition to that, your objective makes you sound dumb. Remove it alltogether, or change it to something short and intelligent.

  18. Create a cgi app from scratch. on Alternatives to Java and C# for Client-Side Imaging? · · Score: 1

    Create a cgi app from scratch, however obviously automatically installing something on a pc will be a lot better.

    You could also check the version and name of the browser, for example I'm pretty sure that ie6 should be combined with a .net package. Netscape will likely have a jvm installed. bla, bla, bla etc. etc.

    Still the best solution I can think of is to write a cgi from scratch, but good luck with it. You may be better off, handling requests to an apache server directly from the http protocol. Although I assume this is going to have to be through https, and then it might be more complicated. I know java eliminates this problem.

  19. Re:What about the Matrix? on Realistic Portrayals of Software Programmers? · · Score: 1

    I agree, but if you've ever looked at assembly language for any length of time, then the real world side looks pretty similar to real life mov 0101, eax bla, bla, bla gpf at address 000000050 in application ...

  20. Re:Jihad on NES PC · · Score: 1

    What about the Intel guys? They are all totally blue. Are they like, really hard core blue stripes? Maybe they have some kind of obscure code? Pent, eee, um, in, tell, in, side.

  21. Re:Only 70%? on Galileo Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    Become an engineer, then we'll talk.

  22. Re:Thanks on .NET or CORBA? · · Score: 1

    Visual Studio is an excellent program for creating and deploying .net solutions. Also there is a wide variety of documentation available to help.

    Though don't discount corba as it is supported by Borland's implementation of Delphi. C# and Pascal are quite a bit alike since the same person was the chief architect for both languages.

    One thing to consider is that .Net will likely improve rapidly and therefore change. While corba will likely remain the same due to the lengthy standards process it went through. The good thing for .Net here is that obviously it will improve, but if it changes a lot then you will have to work on maintainance more.

    Also Microsoft is beginning to phase out IIS.

  23. scope... on .NET or CORBA? · · Score: 1

    Consider that ui issues only relate to the development environment that you are using.

    Corba with Delphi will allow opengl. .net with vs.net will allow opengl, and directx.

    Java is pretty useless (if used by itself) in this case. Python may work, because I do think they allow for the necessary hooks. Java would likely call a c program to create the needed functionality.

  24. Good advice from a well versed programmer. on .NET or CORBA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .Net will support opengl, but you should use directX instead because it will always be more supported by Microsoft.

    I do believe corba supports opengl.

    If you own Delphi use corba. If you want this app to run on Linux and Windows, do not use com/.net because there is only one (poor) unix implementation currently.

    If you choose .Net write the application in c#

  25. Re:Well, I've already noticed... on Engineering Careers Short-Circuiting · · Score: 1

    I agree, however we must consider that such a paradigm has only been successful on small scale projects so far. An example of that success is obviously the Linux operating system. I like this operating system, but government and social issues are much bigger than computers.
    In the current state of affairs, we must consider that large philanthropical organizations such as the curch, and the gates foundation and the political engine are were the roots of progress grow from.
    The free software foundation is currently very small in comparison. We couldn't even win over India with the draw of something that is literally free?