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  1. Re:Why would you use this? on The New C Standard · · Score: 1

    The problem is garbage collection. This causes determinism to go out the window. If I am writing mission critical, real-time software, that can cause the program to miss some important hard dead-lines.

  2. Re:Beware? on Wired Strongarms Subscribers? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you should know your rights. In the US, regardless if the debt is legit or not, once you tell them to stop calling you, they have too. Further investigation does not matter.

  3. Re:Microsoft and New Grads on Microsoft's Personnel Puzzle · · Score: 1

    You twist my words Coward. I do not have a problem with showing samples of my code. As a matter of fact, samples of my code actually got me interviews with companies who cold called my about them. Nor do I have a problem with having a very technical discussion with an interviewer. What I do have a problem with is coming in for an interview and being directed to a chair with a test and a pencil. Here is a clue for you: I been gainfully employed in the field for a very long time (probably when mommy was still wiping your ass). I have NEVER not been offered a job I interviewed for. I work for a great company. I love my job and I knew I would, because they treated me with respect at the interview. They asked pointed questions about my skills and knowledge, but I was not degraded like I feel quizzing does.

  4. Re:Microsoft and New Grads on Microsoft's Personnel Puzzle · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. You are not going to come into an interview with me and "talk turkey" unless you know what the hell you are talking about. You can bullshit your way through an interview with HR, not with someone in the field.

  5. Re:Microsoft and New Grads on Microsoft's Personnel Puzzle · · Score: 1

    When I got out of college and was look for a job, I would immediately walk out of any interview that included a test. I find the whole process degrading. I had no problem with interviewers that asked questions about my skills and got to know me. If you just sit me in a room with other applicants to take a test, I will leave. I think from the interview process one can gleen information on how the company treats its people.

  6. Re:not all on Why Do We Have to Use a Floppy to Flash BIOS? · · Score: 1

    Why? Gigabyte boards have a dual BIOS. If the flash fails and corrupts the primary BIOS, just reboot from the secondary one, and try again.

  7. Re:galileo first stated relativity on 100 Years of Special Relativity · · Score: 1

    That is comment wrong. Galileo was talking about inertia, not relativity.

  8. Re:Sci-fi fans would do well to consider this... on 100 Years of Special Relativity · · Score: 1

    The "twin paradox" just points out the limitations of Special Relativity in that it does not account for acceleration. For that (and gravity) you need General Relativity. There's not really a paradox.

  9. Re:This sounds familiar on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    0-255 are discrete values, not analog.

  10. Re:comparisons on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    6 * 9 = 42

  11. Re:I don't think it will work. on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    Again and still, it's the object (nucleus) that has potential energy, not the force.

    You stated: you get a lot more energy per nucleus from fission then from fusion.

    I hope you didn't put that on your exam. The amount energy PER EVENT is greater for fission. But the amount PER NUCLEON is 7 TIMES GREATER for fusion than for fission.
    A quick google search...
    http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:pY7eiZtxh8kJ:w ww.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae534.cfm+&hl =en

  12. Re:I don't think it will work. on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    Well, I won't dispute it as you seem to know what you are talking about. But General Relativity does state that there is no difference between inertial and gravatational mass.

  13. Re:I don't think it will work. on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    No, *objects* have potential energy. Says gravity itself has energy makes no sense.

    Hydrogens "weight" has nothing to do with it. If you graph all the elements showing the amount of energy they release from fusion or fission (which ever is appl.) you see that you get much, much more will come from fussing atoms.

  14. Re:I don't think it will work. on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    That's a simplistic answer that dances around the question. To date, we do not know what causes gravity. Yes, more mass equals more gravity but that still does not explain its cause. You can increase mass, and thus gravity, without adding more "stuff" by approach the speed of light.

  15. Re:I don't think it will work. on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    Wow, you should seriously consider taking some more courses in Physics and Chemistry. Yes, you get energy from both, but for different reasons, and you get *a lot* more from fusion than from fission. Gravity does not have energy. It is a fundamental force (or a field, depending on the theory) of the universe. What causes it? If we knew, it might ask a lot of questions, and lead to the unified field theory (the theory of everything).

  16. Re:10 Years? on France Will Be Home To Fusion Plant · · Score: 1

    I think you miss read that. The project start in 1985. The construction (not started yet) will take 10 years. Maybe reading was optional in your school?

  17. Re:Then don't take the university's money on Universities, the GPL and Patents? · · Score: 1

    Reminds my of this guy I encountered on a forum years ago. He had written a book on web design techniques. He was furious and threatening to sue the people who read his book because they were using the techniques from his copyrighted book! I never could make him understand the problem with his logic. "Buy my book, but I'll sue you if you use what you learn."

  18. Re:Not a "fan" of Whedon's past work on The Browncoats Rise Again · · Score: 1

    My God...does your wife have a sister?

  19. Re:Brownstains? on The Browncoats Rise Again · · Score: 1

    Serenity? Why would he have to watch a "good deal" of the series to enjoy the pilot episode??? I believe the episode he is referring to is "Out of Gas," my personal favorite. I think his reference to it being "backward" is a misunderstanding with the flashbacks, which I guess would be confusing it that is the *only* eptisode you saw.

  20. Re:Types of matter on Home Networking Simplified · · Score: 1

    It's not me. I've seen comments appearing in the wrong articles all this week. Great, Slashdot's code futzzes up and I get modded down for it.

  21. Types of matter on Home Networking Simplified · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What actually delineate types of matter? What constitutes a new form? Is there a standard definition? If so does it allow for the weird ones like glass (which is a fluid, not a solid) and ketchup (which is that weird form in between solid and liquid, but I forget its name)?

  22. Re:In summary on Programming Jobs Losing Luster in U.S. · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is why I always posts from people with Indian names on the usenet programming groups asking the most basic questions, and whose posts show a lack of understand of very simplistic concepts.

  23. Re:You insensitive clod! on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least give the authors of the song credit: Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe.

  24. Re:Next on Slashdot on Comparing Linux and BSD, Diplomatically · · Score: 1

    Which ever one has the hottest women.

  25. Re:What are the legal ramifications of this? on The First Annual Underhanded C Contest · · Score: 1

    Get yourself a legal dictionary and look up "entrapment."