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  1. Re:Significant problem... on Modeling Urban Panic · · Score: 1

    Wrong. You can easily have a panic where people are trying to get to a place. Think of a stadium, something happens (fire, explosion) people are trying to get TO an exit before they try to get away from the stadium.

    Panic is just people acting stupid in a stressed situation.

  2. Re:Useless article on How to Recognize a Good Programmer · · Score: 1

    Well that is what the job offer is, its a first view to how they look at themselves as a company, if you like what they say you send in your CV telling them who you are and how you view yourself.
    If they think you look about right they contact you - this is the next process of finding out if the buisness is a place for you. Then comes the interview - another place for you to screen _them_. Now some companies think they got the right to issue you with an HR for first interview to see if you fit in, my personal experience is to avoid those places like the plague.

    Here in Denmark you get a 3 month "probation" when starting at a new place, in that period you as a employee can quit from day to day if it doesn't work out, they can throw you out with two weeks notice. After the first 3 months the period for quitting is 1 month from both sides and it grows after a while so both parties have longer and longer period for breaking the employment.

    Our system makes it easy for both parties to find the right one.

  3. Re:Error on Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4 · · Score: 1

    Or both.

    Thats very weird, but hey I'm getting old, probably alzheimers or something kicking in ;)

  4. Re:Error on Mars Rover, Spirit, Turns 4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was thinking the same, I have been living where I live for 3 and a half year, the rovers sure wasn't up there when I moved in.

  5. Re:I bet it's closer to 100% on Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP · · Score: 1

    No no no and NO!

    Software patents are ONLY valid in the US, therefore it should be any non trivial piece of software infringes on someones patent in the US, and thus wont be sold there making sure the US are behind in technology.

  6. Re:Ignore the GPL too? on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    Why?

    The GPL is by no mean a US only thing. Stuff created in the US and under US copyright is however in trouble.

  7. Re:Internal or export? on WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright · · Score: 1

    No thats the whole point of it.

    Anything copied and subsequent sold from Antigua will be perfectly legal under the WTO rules.

  8. Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    Yeah and while you are add it write your pin code on the CC...

    My phone (not in the US, so this is probably not useful for you guys, rumor is you are a few years behind) has a nifty little feature called code memo, it stores passwords in a scrambled format, but on a device that I'm guaranteed to bring me most of the time.

    (Oh and I keep a backup on paper in a safe place in case the phone should decide to go into paperweight mode)

  9. Re:Two points about the article's headline. on Exploit Found to Brick Most HP and Compaq Laptops · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't get why its called bricking a device, another poster said it has the same functionality as a brick, well no it doesn't. A brick can be used to build houses and all sorts of useful things. A proper term would be paperweight imo.

  10. Re:Bet there still isn't a decent "Stop!" button on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    Thanks for pointing that out, never come across that function before, about time PHP started doing things the right way. (Last time I programmed PHP was back in v. 5, so that is properly why I didn't see the addition, but I stand corrected none the less).

  11. Re:He Who Smelt It Dealt It on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 1

    anyone not knowing where that quote came from should have their geek status revoked.

  12. Re:How many languages have multithread support? on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1

    Any CSP implementation will help on that.

  13. Re:Bet there still isn't a decent "Stop!" button on HTML V5 and XHTML V2 · · Score: 1

    The worst part is PHP still don't have prepare/execute statements for binding values.

    It is so much easier and you don't have to worry about php screwing up again.

  14. Re:Vim is painful. on Hacking VIM · · Score: 1

    As one of the siblings has posted, use the cheat sheets, VIM really comes to real power when you need to do repeatable tasks, use of recording "q" for repeatable inserts etc. Also registers for copy/paste is a really nice feature, ie. "ayy and "ap for copy and paste in register a.

    For instance I needed to create 50+ triggers with somewhat similar content, but unable to create a script to do the intelligent decisions, I put in the trigger bodies into a register and created macros (q) for inserting the different parts of trigger bodies I needed, really handy and really quickened the process.

  15. Also blocked on The Register Exposes More Wikipedia Abuse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We have the same issue where I live, more than 1000 homes behind the same firewall. We have been blocked from editing at some point, bit harsh to block out so many IP's, but thats life I guess. Good thing I don't have the need to contribute.

  16. Re:Intelligent Design is an important theory... on Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements · · Score: 1

    Do they? When I do something really wrong they fly everywhere.

  17. Re:foreheat meet desk on How Mainstream Can Code Scavenging Go? · · Score: 1

    Is it really?

    Don't know about you, but I don't have the legal background to figure out what happens to licenses for the code when you copy and paste others code into your project.

  18. Re:Another Perspective on Leopard as the New Vista? · · Score: 1

    http://oio.dk/ is accessible according to danish standards. Just disable CSS and you got a nice computer readable site. (In FF click view, page style, no style). It's not that hard to do, but it costs a lot extra and does put some limitations on how you render the site.

  19. Re:Online tutorials are better and free. on The PHP Anthology 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    I don't get why the programmer has to escape strings in the first place.

    q.prepare("select something from foo where bar = ?");
    q.execute(['foo'])

    the database magic should take care of putting in the string/int where it belongs. (Python ish code)

  20. Re:Macs on Apple 10.4.11 Update Can Brick Macs With Boot Camp · · Score: 2, Funny

    About a year ago I was working as a sysadmin, an iMac came in and was tagged for disposal, but to ensure no data could be extracted we needed the HDD. Those things are build like Fort Knox, in the end I dismantled it using a hammer, bit hard to get it back together again I guess, but luckily not an issue there.

  21. Re:Stoopid scientists get sailors killed. on New Software Could Warn Sailors of Rogue Waves · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about numerous UFO observations, Loch Ness etc? are you suggestion those should be regarded as proof of existence since there have been numerous observations and murky photographs? Science works by being skeptical, yes it can take decades for something to be acknowledged and that might be bad but taking every observation as proof would be worse.

  22. Want us to stop copying? on MPAA College Toolkit Raises Privacy, Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    How about releasing the movies in a timely manner on a product we want to buy?

    Surfs up hit torrent sites at least a month ago, just about to appear in Danish cinemas, that means at least another 4-5 months before we can buy it on DVD.

    Yeah they want to get as much money from us as they can by forcing us to go to the cinemas, I did just that tonight to watch beowulf - my first trip to a cinema for 3-4 months and I got reminded why I hate it there - the stink of popcorn, the constant yabbering and 25 minuttes of commercials before a movie I have paid premium to watch!

    Want us to buy your product? Sell one we want to buy!
    (P.s. I don't copy music, I don't copy movies - I do however read books and buy music from indie records (see other thread from yesterday) - I will buy movies when they sell a product that gives me value for my money).

  23. Re:I grab mine on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? · · Score: 1

    Just because its a student bar doesn't mean we got student bands.

    Tonight these guys play: http://www.myspace.com/deanandbritta along with those: http://www.myspace.com/theicicles .

    One of the coolest concerts we have had while I have been there is Pantheon Rococo: http://www.myspace.com/panteonrococooficial

    3 of the bands practicing in the locales connected to the bar have record deals, most noteworthy are: http://www.vibrashop.com/default.slrp?ArtistID=550&StringSearch=Screaming%20Eric%20and%20the%20Erections
    and
    http://www.cherryoverdrive.dk/

    I think you are just grumpy because people are having fun...

  24. Re:I grab mine on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? · · Score: 1

    You need to define good music before anyone can answer that. We got everything ranging from hip hop to noise rock, from eastern European folk music to experimental jazz.

  25. Re:Go away, you're not 21 on How Do You Find New Non-RIAA Music? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, move to a different country :)

    From Denmark, legal drinking age is 18 (in bars, you can buy alcohol at the age of 15 in supermarkets), but if you don't drink we (the student bar) often allow minors in to see the music.