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  1. Re:Might work ... on Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if it's only a little code, why do you need it? Just download and compile all the code.

  2. Re:The Tenuous EULA Claim Apple May Make on Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist · · Score: 1

    Nope. Early x86 models seeded to developers had them, but production x86 Macintoshes don't have them.

  3. Re:What a slippery slope! on Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist · · Score: 1

    Earlier this week in their quarterly results call, they did state that they will be dropping their profit margins on established products (new, cutting edge will still have the higher profit margin).

  4. Re:Here's what they will accomplish: on FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars · · Score: 1

    initially, they'll probably use llvm-gcc (in fact, it's included with XCode now).

  5. what a bunch of douchebags on FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars · · Score: 1

    Maybe all the 4chan guys should come here and post pro-hitler/anti-jew comments!

  6. Re:SSD on Tweaking Solid State Drive Performance On Linux · · Score: 1

    Does MySQL do journaling? (I'll guess only BDB and InnoDB do).

  7. Re:Norton Commander in the '80s on Microsoft's Decade-old Patent On Tree-view Mode! · · Score: 1

    The patent must be filed within 1 year of being made public.

  8. Re:Scoping is Awful? on JavaScript: The Good Parts · · Score: 1

    In JavaScriptCore and SipderMonkey, accessing a property requires calling a function and doing a string comparison. ("length" and numbers are special cases for Array objects). I don't think the compiler/interpreter has enough knowledge to prove that the length won't change... The XMLHttpRequest properties, for example are volatile.

  9. Re:Scoping is Awful? on JavaScript: The Good Parts · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it's easier than doing closure generation inline, or creating a function from a string. Javascript 2 is slated to have a Function.bind(function,thisp,...) function.

  10. Re:Alternative? on JavaScript: The Good Parts · · Score: 1

    The form would have to be submitted, of course. You could have javascript automatically submit the form when a field changes. asp.net can do that automatically. Of course, if you're going to write javascript to submit the form, you might as well just do it all in javascript. Or a spreadsheet.

  11. Re:Scoping is Awful? on JavaScript: The Good Parts · · Score: 1
    or:

    Array.forEach(elements,function(e, i){
    e.onclick = function(){doSomething(i); }
    });

  12. Re:Alternative? on JavaScript: The Good Parts · · Score: 1

    you can either do it client side with javascript or do it server side with php, perl, ruby, asp, asp.net, c, etc.

  13. Re:Scoping is Awful? on JavaScript: The Good Parts · · Score: 3, Informative
    Ick. Requires an eval. What if you need to pass a string or an object?

    Extend function.prototype a bit:

    bleh.onclick = doSomething.bind(null, {one: 1, two: 2});
    bleh.onclick = doSomething.curry("...");

    (also, you should use level 2 events, but that's another issue).

  14. Speaking of expectations... on Craigslist Forced To Reveal a Seller's Identity · · Score: 1

    Hash slashdot ever stood up when threatened with a lawsuit? Co$ lawyers complain -> comments deleted. Microsoft lawyers complain -> comments deleted. Maybe the goatse lawyers need to complain :-)

  15. Re:It's the patents, Rufus. on DragonFly BSD Releases Version 2.0 · · Score: 1

    ZFS isn't just a filesystem, it's also a volume manager, disk manager, and RAID. IIRC, Linus and some other kernel bigwigs want to keep those things separate. Sun/Jonathan Schwartz has stated that they won't file lawsuits over ZFS implementations (not sure if that applies to MicroSoft :)

  16. Re:Falling Down on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: 1

    some people would say that drug laws are unconstitutional. But let's consider medical marijuana. California (and other states) have declared it legal. The federal government has declared it illegal. If you take a doctor approved bong hit, are you opposing an unconstitutional law?

  17. Re:'the only person he felt he could trust.' on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey dreamchaser, this is your boss. I need write access to the email archives. The SEC has been poking around and, well, you know how it goes.

    PS - get back to work.

  18. Re:Also, he gave up his ass cherry on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, I popped your mom's ass cherry. She was a little scared, being "surprise sex" and all, but I think she enjoyed it.

  19. Also, he gave up his ass cherry on SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    being in prison, and in San Francisco.

  20. Microsoft? on MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition · · Score: 1

    Pot, Kettle, etc. When will slashdot support it? There are plenty of OpenID libraries, so CmdrTaco won't have to stop editing to work on it full time.

  21. Re:Oh man. on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 1

    Prepared statements and stored procedures are not the same thing.

    A prepared statement is when you send an SQL template to the server (SELECT * FROM foo where columm=?), it parses it, gives it a temporary name, and you can later execute it by passing in paramters. This is a very good thing since it prevents sql injection problems (and the query doesn't need to be reparsed every time).

    Stored procedures are written in their own db language (tsql, plpgsql, plperl, pltcl, plsql, sql etc) which is generally turing complete. If you had a php/perl/etc function that made a couple database calls and computed some sort of result from it, that's the sort of thing that could be moved to a stored procedure. My experience (with postgresql/plpgsql and sql server/tsql) run counter to his assertions (based on not using them).

  22. Re:Ob on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 1

    They were never there to begin with :-) Now, they're advertising it as a feature.

  23. Re:Giant leap toward the MySQL dream on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 3, Informative

    InnoDB (and BDB for that matter) is owned by Oracle.

  24. Re:Prior art? on Nintendo Loses Controller Patent Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    SCO went to trial and lost.

  25. Slashdot vs the bible on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    Sadly, the bible is more accurate than slashdot. You'd think copy/pasting news blurbs wouldn't leave much room for error, yet most slashdot stories are old news, dupes, have incorrect/misleading titles, summaries with factual errIgnoors, or quotes taken out of context.