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  1. Re:Language is more than words on Deriving Semantic Meaning From Google Results · · Score: 1

    but theres a difference between a programming language word and a natural language word. printf or goto is more like a letter (or possibly syllable) to a parser than a whole word. Thats not really true either, but context doesn't work the same way. A parser expects a finite class of objects to come after printf, and while natural languages are technically finite, its not quite the same thing because communication doesn't have to be correct all the time to be understood.

  2. Re:stackable design? on New Intel Trademark Filed · · Score: 1

    It means Intel is finally dumping the x86 instruction set, and the IA64 instruction set and replacing them with Forth.

  3. Re:PROOF: Direct Link on Google Planning Web Browser? · · Score: 1

    You get a medal. Amazing. Funniest joke all day.

  4. Re:.Net to M$; .mac to Apple? on The Race Is On For .net · · Score: 1

    Apple could make a .mac. Just have all mac's point to an additional DNS that resolves .mac addresses. Sure it would only work on apple computers, but so does OS X.

  5. Re:"It Gets Better"? on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: 1

    bitter much?

  6. Re:This is only a 20% difference on Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming? · · Score: 1

    "good" + "day" doesn't concatenate two strings not even in C++. you'd have to type string("good") + "day".

  7. Re:entry explained on International Obfuscated C Code Tattoo · · Score: 1

    i is declared globally. This means that on an x86 box (maybe other archs as well) it will probably be allocated in the bss section of the image which means it will be zero by default.

  8. iWebPress on CMS for High School Newspaper Website? · · Score: 1

    This was coded by a friend of mine, and its designed expressly for this purpose: http://www.iwebpress.com/

  9. Re:Keep the header files on Abandoning Header Files? · · Score: 1

    what if object files are left out in the distribution froma compile on a different platform? Isn't that a reason to use make clean? I'm not trolling, I'm seriously asking, since I'm not really an expert on Makefiles (I can write simple ones).

  10. Re:Great, away from hands-free on Samsung Launches 3D Movement Recognition Phone · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Great, away from hands-free on Samsung Launches 3D Movement Recognition Phone · · Score: 1
    I'd hope for better voice controls, like 'dial 8-6-7-5-3-0-9" type stuff.

    They have that. It works fine.

  12. Re:"Windose"? on 64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed · · Score: 1

    sure it does. Two typos!
    w e
    s

  13. Re:"Windose"? on 64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I think it was actually a real honest-to-god typo. Look at where the w and s keys are on a qwerty keyboard.

  14. Re:WinXP x64 on Xeon machine on 64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah yeah, Linux is soooo great. Blahdy blahdy blah. Torvald's piss cures cancer, blah blah. Theo de Raadt invented security blah blah blah. Bill Gates is dumb/evil, blah blah.

  15. Re:Nice to see things coming along... on Qt 4 Beta 1 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    if A inverse is equal to -A then A is orthogonal IIRLAC. (LA = Linear Algebra)

  16. Re:What's next? on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you'll notice that the thread was started by talking about the government watching your im's to see if you were trading files. Someone brought up encrypting IMs, and the post that I replied to mentioned the DMCA, free speech and monitoring. I don't know about you but as far as I know, the DMCA doesn't say anything about wiretaps or privacy or searches or any other monitoring of any other sort. The post I originally replied to, took the post regarding monitoring, and took it as an opportunity to take a "pot-shot" if you will at the DMCA. My point is that while it my be necessary to duplicate portions of something to discuss it, this has nothing to do with monitoring anything. Saying the government has no right tro monitor your internet activity and then claiming the DMCA spits upon the first amendment is a non-sequitor. One has nothing to do with the other.

  17. Re:Arbitrary limits are unavoidable on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to start a python vs. ruby war, I swear.

  18. Re:Arbitrary limits are unavoidable on Comair Done In by 16-Bit Counter · · Score: 1
    No he's not talking about a variant type, he's talking about a numeric type that stores numbers it can natively, and automatically promotes numbers that it can't to a heap representation. Such as in ruby for instance:
    irb(main):001:0> x = 1234
    => 1234
    irb(main):002:0> x.class
    => Fixnum
    irb(main):003:0> x = x ** 30
    => 54885141842922207462706050754135963848157659549253 1140166924984667909193218216496312222744576
    irb(m ain):004:0> x.class
    => Bignum
  19. Re:What's next? on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1

    And the monitoring?

  20. Re:What's next? on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA · · Score: 1
    Thats true, but you missed the point The government has no right to monitor your telescreen... erm i mean your internet activity. The DMCA is a blatent spit on the first amendment

    Huh? What does monitoring and the DMCA have to do with free speech?

  21. Re:Who searches for these things?? on Google Suggest Dissected, Part II · · Score: 1

    I couldn't remember the url for google suggest so i typed that into google. Fascinating thing is that the news result came up with this exact article. In fact short of google's actual suggest page most of the results point at slashdot.

  22. Re:Japan on Homebrewed Robot Exoskeleton In Alaska · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Korea only old people haven't picked up on the latest almost-meme.

  23. Re:big deal on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    it is open source, I don't know if its Open Source though.

  24. Re:H2G2? on More on H2G2, Including an Early Review · · Score: 1

    HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy.
    Count the Hs, count the Gs.

  25. Re:Small? on More on H2G2, Including an Early Review · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to "sleek running shoe?"