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  1. Re:Not spam on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I realised this... Outlook is a scheduler which happens to have a built-in email client.

    But really, for most people, Outlook is an email program... That's why the lite version has email, but no scheduling...

  2. Re:Pathetic on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1
    Who had thought Java would be more than a web-developers language 5 years ago?

    the people who designed it to run on toasters?
  3. Re:I hate overloading on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1

    except in many languages, they don't hide the return; instruction...

  4. Re:No Operator Overloading is a BAD THING on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1
    I'm sure you meant
    You'll end up with s = "<><><>"
    and
    You'll get s = "<>>>",
  5. Re:No Operator Overloading is a BAD THING on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1
    Why? It lookst to me like the parent's code modifies the object 'c' by multiplying it by 'b' - no assignment needed...

    I read that just like I read
    str1.append(str2)
    which also doesn't need an assignment...

    That said, I'm not really sure whether I like operator overloading... I understand the utility, but I've never felt compelled to use it...

  6. Re:Not spam on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fair enough, but out of curiosity, please tell me, what do Excel, Outlook, C, Pascal, and Java do? None of those names are descriptive, but all are simple and easy identifiers.

  7. Re:A few quotes from the article - on MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice · · Score: 2, Informative

    apparently a few:

    Twisted: http://imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=20;q=twisted

    Grind: http://imdb.com/find?tt=on;nm=on;mx=20;q=grind

    there are a couple of relatively recent ones in there too... Spooky...

  8. Re:And they'll sniff... on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    except that sniffers cannot collide - they just listen and never post, so they cannot bump into each other...

    Except for trying to exploit each other, I suppose...

  9. Re:Vaporware on Universal Emulators Return · · Score: 1

    what if the superinterpreter can reduce 4 target machine instructions per program instruction - then you get a 75% speedup, more than enough to compensate for the interpreter's computation time...

    Be careful when making rash claims about something's impossibility. Note: I don't think it could do this, but hey, if you're going to make an assumption, any assumption will do...

  10. Re:Good question.. on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Why? on IBM to Open Voice Recognition Software · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, they spent $10 mill on developing a product. They're sinking that cost in order to get free advertising.

  12. Re:IBM is great! on IBM to Open Voice Recognition Software · · Score: 0

    OK, so I visited it... so what?

    BTW, you might want to fix up your name on the site... I understand that you jumbled it up at the top of the page, but why at the bottom too?

  13. Re:A hardware abstraction layer? on Simplifying Linux Driver Installation · · Score: 1
    and also, how is it different from hotplug?

  14. Re:Neat! on Simplifying Linux Driver Installation · · Score: 1

    Are we really that far away from devices becoming so standardized that drivers are a thing of the past?


    We *USED* to have that; now it's gone...


    In the old days, we had hundreds of video cards; but they all spoke EGA. The newer ones spoke VGA. There was no need for a hardware specific driver.


    We had modems; they all spoke Hayes "AT". Functionality could vary, yet they did not need drivers...


    We had Drives; they all spoke IDE. If you could plug it in, you could talk to it...


    *NOW*, we need different drivers for two pieces of hardware with identical functionality...


  15. Re:Bragging with percentages on LCD Pixel Response Time Halved · · Score: 1

    Surely that's reversed; if we are twice the speed of the competitor, then

    * Our competitors are 50% slower than us, but
    * We are 100% faster than our competitors.

    If we are 50% faster than our competitors, then they are only 33% slower than we are...

  16. Not choked... on Hotmail Means to Double Gmail Storage · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Surely the subscribers will simply get yet a larger spam-box...

  17. Re:The worst part about it... on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans · · Score: 1

    No... NASA and DARPA count as scientific research...

  18. Re:Browser stats also gone on OS Stats Removed From Google's Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah - that one... I forgot about that...

    I discovered that there was a blank img being displayed over the left menu or something like that - can't remember exactly what the trick was, but I believe that you could still activate the links if you knew what they were... But they've been fixed for a few months now, probably due to all the spyware/phishing problems with IE ... it's the most hit bank in .au...

    It's amazing how fast you just move on once your mind classes something as "not a problem"...

    Cheers.

  19. Re:Browser stats also gone on OS Stats Removed From Google's Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Really, how long ago was this?

    I've been a westpac customer for many years - I've never had a browser-related problem with them... Running Mozilla on Linux mainly...

  20. Re:Won't help on First Destructive Mobile Phone Virus In The Wild · · Score: 1

    That depends - I think the appropriate metaphor here is that if all the windows boxes are unable to talk because of the network traffic, then you can't talk to them either, anyway...

    In that respect, your machine is just as useless as the infected machines...

  21. Re:thin client impressions on Thin Client Solutions For Libraries? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize that a thin client is not a slimline desktop, don't you?

    A thin client is one with little or no computing power... Just a screen, keyboard and mouse, give or take...

    A slimline desktop is one where you "pay more to have all that computing power stuffed into a smaller case."

    OTOH, maybe IHBT.

  22. Re:Please Explain on Open Source RFID Project · · Score: 1

    Some have entire programs: check out http://www.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/rsa2d.h tml

    more interesting factoids at http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/stack.html

  23. Re:Only reason is the Netscape mail extension on Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd · · Score: 1

    When did netscape mail become proprietary? I seem to recall that Netscape Messenger used Unix mbox-format mailfolders... At least until 4.x when I was moving mail folders between the two on a regular basis...

    I stopped using Netscape/Mozilla for mail many moons ago, tho', and while I believe that Mozilla Mail still uses mbox files, I'm not sure about Netscape... Or Thunderbird, come to think of it...

  24. Re:Probably.. on Slate On Worms That Plug Security Holes · · Score: 0

    My assumption is that the "socialism" refered to was the freely-given repair of another person's system...

  25. Re:Vote Libertarian on Copyright Bill could Stifle Innovation · · Score: 1

    Surely greed would be a contributor to malice then...