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  1. Re:No thanks on Optimus Keyboard Starts Shipping · · Score: 1

    in the same vein, showing extended characters when holding the option key (on a Macintosh, not a Piece of Chit).

  2. Re:Why compare? on Mossberg Reviews the Lenovo X300 Vs. MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    There's this wiki TeX Editor page. (I'm a happy TexShop user).

  3. Re:Why not save $40 billion then? on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Depends on the clause... When I was under one, breaking it meant paying back certain (non-salary) expenses, like cost of insurance, college courses, training, relocation expenses, etc. I know plenty of people that have had new companies cover non-compete expenses. Higher level executives are more problematic (I vaguely recall MS suing google over that).

  4. Re:Yeah, but how exactly are they "seeing" this? on ICANN Finds No Wrong Doing in Domain Front Running · · Score: 1

    how do you think they know if a domain is available? They ask other people. Lots of other people can and do see it.

  5. Re:Good reporting there, submitter on LLVM 2.2 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly! From the clang readme. Half of these things are a nice feature for XCode/IDE integration.

    III. Current advantages over GCC:

      * Column numbers are fully tracked (no 256 col limit, no GCC-style pruning).
      * All diagnostics have column numbers, includes 'caret diagnostics', and they
          highlight regions of interesting code (e.g. the LHS and RHS of a binop).
      * Full diagnostic customization by client (can format diagnostics however they
          like, e.g. in an IDE or refactoring tool) through DiagnosticClient interface.
      * Built as a framework, can be reused by multiple tools.
      * All languages supported linked into same library (no cc1,cc1obj, ...).
      * mmap's code in read-only, does not dirty the pages like GCC (mem footprint).
      * LLVM License, can be linked into non-GPL projects.
      * Full diagnostic control, per diagnostic. Diagnostics are identified by ID.
      * Significantly faster than GCC at semantic analysis, parsing, preprocessing
          and lexing.
      * Defers exposing platform-specific stuff to as late as possible, tracks use of
          platform-specific features (e.g. #ifdef PPC) to allow 'portable bytecodes'.
      * The lexer doesn't rely on the "lexer hack": it has no notion of scope and
          does not categorize identifiers as types or variables -- this is up to the
          parser to decide.

    Potential Future Features:

      * Fine grained diag control within the source (#pragma enable/disable warning).
      * Better token tracking within macros? (Token came from this line, which is
          a macro argument instantiated here, recursively instantiated here).
      * Fast #import with a module system.
      * Dependency tracking: change to header file doesn't recompile every function
          that texually depends on it: recompile only those functions that need it.
          This is aka 'incremental parsing'.

  6. Re:Good reporting there, submitter on LLVM 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    The FSF requires all GCC contributions to be assigned to the FSF. Apple has contributed code to GCC. What if Apple (or any other contributor) supports the GPL v2, but not v3? The FSF has the legal right to update the license (to GPL v3 or closed source proprietary), but that code was contributed under the GPL v2 license.

  7. Re:Good reporting there, submitter on LLVM 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    In the OS 8/9 days, Apple experimented with Linux. The result: mkLinux. That was 1995/1996, before Steve Jobs returned, but Apple was involved until 1998.

    I've heard rumors (from a couple different sources) that Apple considered replacing the OpenStep/OS X BSD kernel with mklinux but considered it unsuitable for technical, not legal, reasons.

  8. Re:And at what point do we close the doors on them on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    I check labels when I'm at the store and also search the internet beforehand. There are some sites with a list of American made products, but they have a tendency to be out of date. Manufacturer web sites sometimes mention if a product is US made.

  9. Re:AEBS backups on Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update Brings Welcome Fixes · · Score: 1

    leopard betas supported AEBS/time machine usage.

  10. Re:And at what point do we close the doors on them on Space Shuttle Secrets Stolen For China · · Score: 1

    I find it easier to buy American goods at Walmart than many other stores. I make an effort to buy American (or European) products even if it is more expensive. Imported third world shit has no value to me, so it's overpriced at any cost. Of course, I make enough money that paying a premium for premium quality is worth it to me.

  11. Re:Actual trial of the exploit..... on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nah... this is a nasty hole.

  12. Re:Beauty of OSS on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that's the drawback of a monolithic kernel. You need to recompile to add or remove offensive parts. And those offensive parts aren't sandboxed.

  13. Re:For those that would rather write than read. on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 1

    There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people with a local account and shell on a $5/month linux webhosting plan. Many of those people don't know what they're doing (the users and the admins), use guesable passwords, etc. Add in the phpbb, etc. exploits and every script kiddy in the world has shell access to a linux machine.

  14. Re:desktop to black? on WGA Under Vista SP1 Is Kinder and Nags More · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should use hello.jpg

  15. Re:Uh what ... yeah on OpenBSD Will Not Fix PRNG Weakness · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not compatible with GPL 2. It's not compatible with GPL 3. The googles of the world are already using GPL (2 or 3) software and won't be affected.

  16. Re:Uh what ... yeah on OpenBSD Will Not Fix PRNG Weakness · · Score: 1

    Is GNU a strong selling point for using *BSD? gcc, gdb, bison, bash, as, emacs, groff, make, and tar are the only OS X GNU command line tools I can find.

  17. Re:Knuth, the typesetting expert on Web Graphic Design for Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    and a few graduate students.

    Of course, roff/nroff/troff were used for typesetting 10 years before that.

  18. Re:Not smart on Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid · · Score: 1

    More of that $3 a gallon gasoline goes to state and federal gov't (via taxes) than to those evil oil companies (via profit).

  19. Re:Quality code? on Open Source Code In a Closed Source Company · · Score: 1

    Having talked to MySQL about licensing the proprietary version, all I can say is you're full of shit.

  20. Re:"How will you use XML in years to come?" on The Future of XML · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OpenStep property lists kick json's ass 7 ways to sunday.

  21. Re:Quality code? on Open Source Code In a Closed Source Company · · Score: 1

    Im thinking of MySQL. I'm thinking of the closed source version they sell.

  22. Re:microyahoogle on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They're losing employees. And by losing, I mean firing.

  23. Re:undervalues? on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft offered $31/share for a stock that was trading at $18 (not $12, my bad)/share. With the recent layoffs, declining profit, being bought looks pretty good.

  24. undervalues? on Yahoo May Re-Consider Google Alliance, Rebuff Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Last I checked, $31 is greater than $12.

  25. Re:mod parent up on Desktop Environment for Proprietary Applications? · · Score: 1