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  1. Re:Cheats in chess? on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 1

    Yes, I remember him wanting to randomly change all the pieces on the back row before each game. Is that what "Fischerandom," is?

    Anyway I agree with him on this,
    I am decent at chess but I have always refused to memorize moves and openings because then it started being work and not fun.

  2. Re:Who here thought... on Nursing Homes Go High-Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are correct. Workers in nursing homes are all rip off artists and like to abuse old people.

    My mother-in-law works at a nursing home and she really cares for elderly people.

    My wife also worked as a nuring administrator for a little while.

    Your statements(and plenty of others) show a clear lack of understanding of what it is like to run a nursing home. Trying to please the patient, the family, and the government at the same is a daunting task.

    Patient: there is a reason why they are in the nursing home. Sometimes they are hostile, senile, or just in very bad shape. Sometimes thy are as sweet as pie.

    Family: Many times they are no existent and have huge guilt factors. Also, the patient will lie(probably not on purpose) about something and the family will go ballistic. Families have also been known to lie, cheat, and abuse their parents.

    Government: I heard of one nursing home getting cited because they had an activity of breaking beans and then later they would eat them for supper. For you city folks, breaking beans to older people is called a relaxing and social time. They were cited because the nursing home was asking the residents to work.

    Another nursing allowed a homeless man to stay in a empty bed, he never caused problems. But everyday around 11:00 he would walked around the building for a half hour or so. They were cited because this was dangerous to the man and they had to kick him out back to the railroad tracks were he came from.

    Another government offical watched a elderly person slip and fall lying on the floor in obvious pain and did nothing waiting until a nurse came.
    So she could record the time. My wife cried when she read the report.

  3. Re:C pointers and arrays on Favorite Programming Language Features? · · Score: 1

    I believe you are correct, it won't compile.

    But you could do something like

    int x;
    chat y[2];
    x=1;
    y[1]=99

    Then they would be the same.

  4. Re:C pointers and arrays on Favorite Programming Language Features? · · Score: 1

    Are you refering to the assembly part or using a double as the array?

  5. Re:C pointers and arrays on Favorite Programming Language Features? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You are correct. Thee compiler just sees memory.
    The x could also be a double.

    double x; won't change a thing

    One another interesting thing:

    the x[y] line compiled into assembly(using gcc non-optimized) will use less lines of code than y[x]

    Optimized they use the same.

    Learning this stuff actually gave me a much better understanding of pointers and arrays and their relationship in c.

  6. C pointers and arrays on Favorite Programming Language Features? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just to confuse people do this:

    main() {

    int x;
    int y[2];

    x=1;
    y[1]=10;

    printf("%d\n", y[x]);
    printf("%d\n", x[y]);
    }

    What will happen?

  7. Re:Limits Create Curiosity on A Parent's Guide To Linux Web Filtering · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, my daughters love pill bottles. Love to try and open them and eat anything that pops out.

    But according to half the people here I should let them at it.

  8. Re:Cool on John Deere American Farmer - The Game · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You must live in the city.

    Farmers are not rednecks. Rednecks are not farmers.

    Most farmers don't think that getting drunk every weekend is fun.

    Most have family, kids, and could work your butt off any day of the week.

    The list and differences go on.

  9. Re:I don't know. on How Good is Gmail's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Well give me your e-mail address and i'll send you an invite.

  10. Re:Advantage Id or Advantage Valve? on Doom 3's Release Date; Quake Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    Depends how good the software the game is?

  11. Re:Good on them on Valve Gets Tough On Counter-Strike Cheaters · · Score: 1

    Yes, cheating has ruined CS.

    I was an average CS player.

    But one time one snuck behing some players with a deagle.

    3 headshots in a row(lucky), instead of praise I was called a cheater, blah, blah.

    Ruins the game.

  12. Re:Microsoft lost the API war on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 1

    How is this off-topic?

  13. Re:Adaptation on Terraform Humans First, Then Mars? · · Score: 1

    I don't think so and here's why.

    Natives to africa have large nostrils to breath more hot air.

    The in northern regions have small nostrils to protect from the cold.

    Over time, certain genes would dominant.

    But in mars tech would take of all this.

    But then again, say there is some unknown background radiation that certain have a high resistance to, other people have little or none.

    So actually I agree with you there probably would be some differences given enough time.

  14. Re:Notepad on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 1

    I know you are joking(i hope), but I have 3 journals, one for each child. I plan on giving it to them when they turn 21(maybe 16).

    That being said there is a good chance the youngest will never be able to read it.
    I find that writing to him is different but good for the soul.

  15. Re:Notepad on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but I consider it a to-do list.

    It tells me what to do at certain times.

    That being say, know any good calendaring programs? :-)

  16. Re:Notepad on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 1

    Here's why:

    I need to change my air filter in my furance/air conditioner once every three months.

    I need to add septic junk to the john once a month.

    I need to write in my daughter's journal one every six weeks.

    I have remnder to flip the mattress once every six months.

    Clean the grill once a year.

    Take a bath once a week(ok I'm joking there).
    etc, etc, etc

    Currently, I use outlook task manager(no flames) to help me keep track.

    But if there something else out there that's works just as well I am all ears.

    I would lose any yellow legal pad, no doubt.

  17. Re:Why not create it yourself? on Best To-Do List Software? · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you could do it in an hour.

    Please let me know when you are finished, where I can download the source and how long it took.

  18. Re:It's more than $12.95, really... on Starz, RealNetworks Offer Movie Download Service · · Score: 1

    Ok the b is imortant.

    Is it 600 Kb or 600KB?

    When connecting to a fast I can download from my cable modem at about 400 KB/s. I have seen it up in the 500's.

  19. 1000 numbers on Happy Birthday, UNIVAC I · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but what is the range of those numbers?

  20. Re:Govt. releasing software as GPL should be illeg on Government-Funded GPL Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Word can't express how much I agree with this statement. Mod up.

  21. Re:Riemann hypothesis proof is useless on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    I am guessing that about 98% of the people here on slashdot believe you because they don't understand a word you are saying. :-)

  22. Re:Maybe on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    What makes him a kook?

    I don't know anything about him but I thought a kook who solved the Bieberbach conjecture, would be called ecentric.

  23. Re:Methane is the real answer on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    Tn was in the daily paper.(i think)
    You know black and white delivered to your door. :-)

  24. Bias on Engineering An End to Aging · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If people lived longer would we see an end to hatred.

    I personally have no problem with people from Japan.
    My grandfather disliked them, he lost a borther in WW2
    My grandfather is dead.
    If he lived to be 2,000 years would he ever get over this?

    Would the Japanense who dislike Americas for the atmoic bomb ever get over it?

    Death solves many problem including this one.

  25. Re:Methane is the real answer on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 1

    I think I just read an article about some dairy farmers who are using cow manure, to power their farms.