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  1. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Great Link! on The Return of GPLFlash · · Score: 1

    I have exactly the same problem. I have never had any problem differentiating between red and green, but yellow and light greens can be troublesome.

    I had this really annoying computer game as a child that had yellow objects flying around on a green background. Since I could barely see them I had to work out the exact timing to progress past that part of the game.

  3. Re:Viruses vs virii on HP Shelves Virus Throttler Program · · Score: 1
    It's not 4th declension though. It's a rare 2nd declension noun which has no plural at all.

    Since it never had a plural in latin, speculating on what its plural would look like is pointless. Just like this thread...

  4. Re:bounces are good on Why Do Email Admins Make Viruses Worse? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    He's not saying not stop all bounces. That would as you say be unhelpful. Instead he's saying why does a virus detection program, that knows a virus forges the from address, send a message to the the "sender" when they never sent the original message.

    I don't administer any of these programs, but I imagine they all do have the ability not to send these messages, but someone's got to change the settings.

  5. Re:Trig functions... on Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages · · Score: 1

    In addition MATLAB 6.5 now has a JIT compiler which gives much better performance in some instances. It doesn't work as well for all code, but it's the first version so I would expect it to get much better in future.

  6. Discourage them in classes on Non-Technological Ways to Combat Cheating? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Tell them that you have sophisticated ways of determining if they're cheating. The main reason they cheat, is because they think they'll get away with it.

    One year, I marked all the coursework for a year and found some ridiculously blatant cheating. So the next year they were informed what happened before (including the 0 mark for all parties involved). I don't remember coming across any cheating when I marked that lot.

    So either they got very good at Prolog or very good at hiding their cheating. Either way I don't care as had fewer meetings to attend...

  7. Re:GAIM CVS? on Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients · · Score: 2, Informative

    0.70 (which has the fix) is in unstable now. It's not in testing or stable.

  8. Re:One has nothing to do with the other on Samba Team Points Out SCO's Hypocrisy · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's entirely valid to compare bitching on slashdot to suing somebody for $3 billion.

  9. Re:Missing features still... on OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure that scaling the times (not really speeds as that implies that high numbers are good) is useful. If for instance it takes only half a second to open the document on Word that means that it's not really much worse for Open Office. If on the other hand it takes 10 seconds on Word, this is significant.

    While file-open speeds are important and might give some indication of the speed of other operations, I don't think they're really that useful. Editing speeds are far more important, although they're obviously very difficult to quantify.

  10. Re:Missing features still... on OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful
    These speeds are meaningless unless you give us some context. I assume you're giving relative speeds at performing some task since both the MS Office speeds are 100.

    But what's the task? Considering that AbiWord (good though it is) has only a subset of the features of Word and Open Office, you must just be comparing features that they share, which is never going to give the whole picture.

    If you really have performed some benchmarks you should publish them properly but I suspect that your numbers are meaningless.

  11. Re:Anjuta on Glade 2 Tutorial · · Score: 1
    I've been enjoying Anjuta as well, with one minor bitch, for which I haven't solved the problem. It saves C++ files with a .cc extension. Since I use wxWindows, and I want my stuff to compile in MSVC++, I need to have a .cpp extension instead, but there appears to be no way to change the default. I would *really* love it if someone would tell me. :)

    I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that as you can save a file with any extension including .cpp. If you mean the class creator plug-in then once you've entered the name of the class, you can change the file name including the extension.

  12. Re:DBC using assert() on EiffelStudio 5.3 for Linux · · Score: 1
    We could solve this in C++ by making a new assert() that takes only function objects that return bool (like say, from )....that would probably end up looking much, much uglier, though. :)

    Problems could still occur as the function could introduce other side effects. I think you can specify a pure function using __attribute__ ((pure)) (in gcc), which cannot have side effects.

  13. Not quite.... on Will Bounties Cure The Spam Problem? · · Score: 1

    Mike Wendland is the one who wrote the story. The Spammer is Alan Ralsky.

  14. Re:Are templates always necessary? on C++ Templates: The Complete Guide · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no reason why you can't have multiple inheritance if everything inherits from a single base class.

    C++ might have problems because it would have to use virtual inheritance which probably hurt performance. Eiffel has a base class called ANY which is like Java's Object class. So you can declare lists like LIST[ANY] if you want, but it also has genericity allowing you to declare your list as LIST[INTEGER].

  15. Don't understand their error rate calculations on ESA Satellite Recovers: Total Loss To Geostationary · · Score: 1
    Link quality was almost perfect: a bit error rate better than 1 in 109 was measured. This means that 1 bit at most is received erroneously per 1 000 000 000 bits transmitted.

    I don't get this bit. If the bit error rate was measured at 1 in 109, surely that means that there should be approximately one bit received erroneously per 109 bits? How do they get a billion? Or is that in conjunction with an error correcting code?

  16. Another review nicked off amazon on Kiln People · · Score: 3, Informative
    Why do you bother?

    Rossalina loves to plagiarise

  17. Re:Why? on Universal Music Group's New Music Sharing Service · · Score: 1
    There are a lot of people out there who want specific tracks. They might not want the rest of the album or whatever else was put on the B-side.

    This way you could download your favourite 10-20 songs and make your very own CD. No more "Now That's What I Call Music 76" crap.... which can only be a good thing.

  18. Re:No need for inter-worm communications on Malicious Distributed Computing · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It would be quite easy for the worm to get stalled in that case. If the worm that is supposed to infect one bit of the IP space gets detected and removed or if there is anything that would stop that machine infecting its IP space (like it's firewalled) then that bit of the IP space is never going to get infected.

    But if you combined those two schemes you could get worms reporting back that they're not getting anywhere and a new worm could start on that space.

  19. Re:Is it me, or is the author smoking crack? on AGP Texture Download Problem Revealed · · Score: 1
    The point is that you can send the video without sending the application that generated it. That way you could put up videos of your games and anyone could view them without having to buy the game themselves.

    Even so 10MB/s is really crap and if the drivers are that slow it might even be slowing down everything else thus interfering with the rendering.