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  1. Cries on Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone · · Score: 1

    I have enough issues with our app on Citrix as it is, never mind throwing in an iPhone client into the mix. :(. I hope they just keep using blackberries.

  2. Re:Yes. on MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU · · Score: 1

    I was specifically addressing the "There is ZERO need for DX 10 graphics on a true server" statement. I should have been more surgical in my quoting.

  3. Re:ROMS on An Ethical Question Regarding Ebooks · · Score: 1

    They released FF6 for game boy advance. Better get to buying (also on playstation a while back).
    http://www.google.com/products?q=final+fantasy+vi+advance&btnG=Search+Products

  4. Re:Yes. on MS Says Windows 7 Will Run DirectX 10 On the CPU · · Score: 1

    There is ZERO need for DX 10 graphics on a true server, and really, the need for a GUI should be near zero(unless the server software vendor can't figure out how to code for a true server).

    Render farm taking advantage of the GPU?

  5. Re:Can you have read the same book? on Anathem · · Score: 1

    What a disappointing review.

    Most of the facts stated by the review's author are opinions

    Under what circumstances is a review not composed mainly of opinion?

  6. Re:Moogle Kupo d'Etat??? on Three Downloadable Expansions Announced For Final Fantasy XI · · Score: 1

    ARG, now I just want to play FF6 again.

  7. Re:domain name on Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net · · Score: 1

    Is it possible for a .de domain to be outside of German jurisdiction?

  8. Re:beep beep on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Oo, :e!. I've been using :e! %. Good one.

  9. Re:As always with DRM on Doom9 Researchers Break BD+ · · Score: 1

    I don't know that the player keys are symmetric. If they are, you are of course right. However if they're asymmetric keys, then you need to compromise the manufacturing process to use the PS3's player key (in which case you can probably skip messing with the keys altogether).

  10. Re:Calc, notepad, and pbrush on Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware · · Score: 1

    Well they didn't mess with notepad afaik, but they did miss with wordpad (it has a ribbon), calc, and paint brush (it too got a ribbon).

  11. Re:I'd go iPhone: on Which Phone To Develop For? · · Score: 1

    For example if a sw can use wifi but not a data "call", it is broken.

    Like the mobile iTunes store is? Or the Remote app? :)

  12. Re:Not a problem on Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's been "already taken" multiple times, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(disambiguation)#Computing

  13. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1

    Presumably the legislative aide referred to by the grand-parent wasn't elected into that position, they were hired. I would imagine the theory is that by making it prohibited for the aide to work on the campaign during work hours, it dissuades the candidate from using the authority they have over the aide during work hours to get "free" labor at the tax payer's expense. Likewise, I imagine the candidates don't campaign when the senate is in session (or on the senate floor).

  14. Re:It's not for dumb people on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to understand stacks to implement subroutinues, you can do it all with CPS instead.

  15. Re:Mmmm, Kay. on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 1

    When I look into a language, the first thing I check is "How do I do random IO to fixed size blocks on a disk file?" Most functional languages don't document any answer to that at all.

    http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-IO.html#21

    "How do I draw pictures on the screen, and get user responses?" Gtk is an acceptable answer. So is SDL.

    http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/
    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/SDL

  16. Re:Mmmm, Kay. on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 1

    Yes, it might make your life easier ... just as doing open(filename).readlines() is "easy" in python, but they don't not treat the machine resources as what they are (limited).

    The Haskell equivalent to "open(filename).readlines()" does treat the machine resources as limited. When you do let s = lines $ readFile filename in Haskell, it doesn't slurp the whole file into memory. Rather, as you manipulate s, it reads the file in discrete chunks on as needed basis. I think you underestimate the sophistication of the implementation of this sort of functionality.

    As for the continuous stream of NIL (what's a NIL byte? 0?) bytes scenario, you'd always have to handle that. I can't think of any language feature of any language that lets you get away with poor programming.

  17. Re:Hello... Evolution? on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    your high school biology class was better than his (and mine)?

  18. Re:But what about the .jpg? on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    Well you can see approximately how long the name of the first item in the dir listing is, as the top border of the selection indicator is still visible.

  19. Re:Epimenides would be proud on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    All he said was that your comments were funny, he didn't say anything about their content. Learn to take a compliment, sheesh!

  20. Re:Sure shes pretty and all but.... on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational presidential ticket.

  21. Re:Faster language? on Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x · · Score: 1

    He didn't say python had a single implementation, he said it was defined by a single implementation (I assume he was referring to C Python).

  22. Re:Penetrate even the best antivirus software? on Students Learn To Write Viruses · · Score: 1

    "Lotus Notes" and "work" rarely belong together in a sentence.

  23. Re:Editors? on Mother Sues After Bebo Story Hits Press · · Score: 1

    What definitions of insane and schizophrenic are you using, if you don't mind my asking?

  24. Re:The twitter version of your post: on Open Source Twitter Competitor Emerges · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that the slashdot crew has said the vast majority of slashdotters only ever click the article links and don't read the comments much less post to them.

  25. Re:Compression would be nice on 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open · · Score: 1

    I've seen almost this exact mistake IRL. (it was more like srand(time); IOW, they forgot they needed to actually _call_ the function).