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  1. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dont work out on low wage offers. They are companies, and in a salary negotiation situtation your boss is always trying to screw you no matter how nice a guy he is. It is his job. If you get a too low offer, tell them what you expect, and why you expect that. If they say stuff like, it is a "standard contract", everybody makes the same here. Tell them they are lieing and there is no such thing as a standard contract. In business world you have to know, everthing is up for negotiation.

  2. Re:full C compatability? on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 1

    That depends very much on how the allocation/deallocation is done. The examples I've seen where garbage collection was proven or shown to be faster have all used malloc/free ineffeciently.

    In much the same spirit, I've seen a few reports proving garbage collection to be slow, that had lously garbage collectors.

    The only thing that seems certain is that garbage collectors use more memory, and they can always be beaten in speed by a malloc implementation that also allocates too much memory by using large blocks (2^n), or dealloacting in chuncks (arenas, regions).

  3. Re:MS seems to be doing a lot of this lately... on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    No you need to find a version of libc that is compatible with linux 1.0 AND with gcc. I doubt it is possible.

  4. Re:Scandinavian deathmatch! on Interview With Trolltech's CEO and CTO Eirik Eng · · Score: 1

    The Scandinavian penisula is named after Scandinavia, not the other way around. Scandinavia is named after Scania, which is a historic part of and the cradle of Denmark, but now part of South Sweden.

    Scandinavia is Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Nothing more, nothing less, always is, always has been. The nordic countries are the historic territories of Denmark and Sweden, which besides Norway include Finland, Foerese Islands, Iceland and Greenland (and partly Shetland Islands but they have been forgotten).

  5. Re:Wow! on Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you ever tried that, you would know most public HTTP-servers closes the connection almost instantly due to timeout. You need to write the request in advance and copy it to telnet using the middle mouse-button.

  6. Re:disk space is cheap. on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Use the same system as binary usenet, divide the email in parts that are easily assembled again.

  7. Re:ID4 on Best Sci-Fi Space Battles? · · Score: 1

    I think "Independce Day" had one of the all out best sci fi aciton in it. I mean come on, it had great special effects a decent plot, and good acting..... gotta love will smith

    April 1.??

  8. Re:Redhat may count the cost... on IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is now (look for old news about open-sourcing yast)

  9. Re:Peering into my crystal ball... on Microsoft To Be Fined E500M By European Union? · · Score: 1

    So when you spend x4 times more for the _fastest_ pentium 4 compared to the second fastest you get a processor that is more than 4 times faster??

    Unfortunately innovation is always more costly than sticking to old well-tried methods. The EU militaries lack the US by 5 years making their technology costs more than 10 times less expensive, since the US has paid for the most costly part of the development, the innovation. But effectively the US is only 5 years ahead in technology giving it only a small margin on the battlefield.

  10. Re:questions... on Ask Mike Godwin About Internet Law · · Score: 1

    No problem if you can get Earthlink's SMTP to accept your mail. But most ISPs reject emails that does not have their servername in FROM.

    You can then send directly from your own computer, but if you have a dynamic IP or are behind a NAT, you will run into the problem with the SMTP RFC that states that SMTP-sender's address has to be reserverse lookup'able in DNS.

  11. Re:Forget them on Melting Europa · · Score: 1

    Actually the 50 million people wasnt killed by the invadeds but mostly by carried diseases, and later by ... americans!

  12. Re:But the point is...? on Melting Europa · · Score: 1

    You have a very short memory...

  13. Re:A lot of astronomers don't want to count Pluto on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1

    You better make sure that the needle doesn't rotate... Otherwise, chances are the Earth will be cut in two halves.

    What harm would that do?(*) It's a planet not an orange, it is held together by gravity.

    (*) besides masive earthquakes near the cuts.

  14. Re:I'd fine them a dime for each security problem. on Microsoft Facing European Sanctions · · Score: 1

    None of these product use exclusive OEM contracts that prevents competive products from entering the marketplace and competing against them on fair ground.

  15. Re:No , we don't on Ask Mike Godwin About Internet Law · · Score: 1

    that the Government will end up Killing 6+ Million of us.

    What are you a jew? I am not, so talk for yourself. But I am part of humanity of which the WW2 including the nazis killed over 30 million of us, out of these 25 million russian soldiers (no a plus doesnt encompas numbers that much out of magnitude).

  16. Re:questions... on Ask Mike Godwin About Internet Law · · Score: 1

    Technically is sortof spoofing, and it gives all kinds of problems with idiotic spam-defenses.

    Technically they can reject most of these emails by refering strictly to the RFC.

  17. Re:Mods, kindly put down the crackpipe for a secon on Intel Plans CPU Naming Change · · Score: 1

    He is confusing the regurlar Thunderbirds and Thunderbird Durons. The performance rating is based upon Thunderbird Duron CPUs.

    The 1400Mhz Thunderbird was faster than the first 1400+ XP.

    On the other hand your CPU is an XP (palamino), there are no thunderbirds with XP ratings (although a lot of resalers are smoking crack).

  18. Re:Out of Context on Mono Poises to Take Over the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    "To me Migual is dead" (or should be).

    C will never die until someone makes a new language that is just as awfull.

  19. Re:Yep, it's happening in the Navy, too.... on U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off · · Score: 1

    Unless, of course, you use features within your document that are unsupported in '97 (i.e. avoid bar tabs in Word).

    And when you implement new features by changing the format, instead of reusing to old format in new ways, it is not changing the format?

    In what ways is changing the format, not changing the format?

  20. Re:Who actually pays? on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 1

    Exactly: EULAs are not signed contracts, so they are not legally binding. In the US the status is grey, with verdicts to both sides. In Europe it is clear, EULAs are not binding, and often even considered misguiding.

  21. Re:Cheers on Coffee is a "Health Drink" · · Score: 1

    Eh? Are you trying to say cigarettes are not a physical addiction? And cocaine is?

    He is right. Cigarettes are not physical addictive. There are some physical effects of quiting, but nothing to make it really difficult physically to quit. The hard parts are psychological.

    Heroine and cocaine on the other hand physical addictive as well as psychological. To such a degree it is dangerous to suddenly quit a regular consumption of heroine.

  22. Re:Who actually pays? on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 1

    No, he's not assuming that. (Although the ProCD desicion strongly supports the validity of EULAs)

    I guess this a US court decision? In other countries there been much clearer verdicts that clearly states that EULAs have absolutly no legal binding unless you signed it befor buying the product. Such rulings have been made in atleast Germany, Denmark, Sweden and France (In the UK there was a similar case but I can't recall the exact outcome).

  23. Re:Who actually pays? on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 1

    OEM licenses? This might be different in the US, but there isnt (and cant be) any difference for the consumer between a regular and a preinstalled version, both a bought products with no signed contract. The OEM might have signed some agreement, but that is really his problem.

  24. Re:One word - Karate on Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths? · · Score: 1

    Yes. Besides the job doesnt require social skills but they help. As such your focus changes and you get experience in social interaction. Social skills are like any other skill, they need to be exercised, and since no one are teaching you have to do it yourself.

    Personally I got over my fear of talking to crowds by taking a job as a teacher.

  25. Re:Memory protection only on 64-bit platforms for on Windows XP SP2 Could Break Some Applications · · Score: 3, Informative

    No one uses segmentation, so the feature is useless. The paging model for x86 have not had the benefit of a non-execution flag. This was introduced by AMD in x86-64, but unfortunately not copied by Intel in ia32e