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  1. Re:g-cpan on Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl · · Score: 1

    nah, gentoo comes up with collision warnings all the time for various modules that are already installed but another module wants to install them too. Gentoo is for people who want to fart around twiddling their machine all day long

  2. Re:at last, a climate change scenario with facts on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    you don't know how to read the graph you linked - that solid black line plummeting downward from over 0.6 to below 0.5 is my point

  3. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 4, Funny

    since you thing anything with "radiation" is bad, I have dire warning for you, your ear is less than 30 mm from a 150 watt infrared radiation source! better rip that 3.5 kilogram source off your ear, stuff it into a bio-hazard bag, and incinerate it now! you won't miss the thing, you're not using it anyway.

  4. Re:at last, a climate change scenario with facts on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    Global average temperature has fallen last three years, you say earth is warming. one of us has problem with "facts". Guess that fact doesn't coincide with your Al Gore Climatology religion's world view.

  5. Re:Yawn. on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    he might have been describing a passenger piston prop plane. There is a pulse jet engine, but i've never heard of one for passenger craft, only unmanned craft

  6. Re:Yawn. on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    nonsense about the holes, the outflow valve in a 727 is a square foot, in bigger jumbo jets several square feet. you can therefore lose three or more windows and the plane could *still* maintain cabin pressure. humans can and have survived 30K feet, but most will black out without following the instructions about the safety masks.

  7. Re:RealClimate has a big reply on this on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    you're talking about something different, comparing one tree to another, from one millenium to another. Anyway with Redwoods thick rings indicate heavy precipitation during previous winter, while heavy fog stunts growth the rest of the year.

  8. Re:RealClimate has a big reply on this on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you should get your facts straight. anyone who's ever cut down a tree knows that thin rings correspond only to drought years and nothing but. no temperature correlation at all, whatever ivory tower bullshit you might come up with from someone whose never even been in a forest. of course, this well known FACT doesn't discourage people willing to spew nonsense to support their agenda

  9. it doesn't run xp on An Electron Microscope For Your Home? · · Score: 1

    it has a USB 2.0 connector to attach to PC which is recommended to run XP. Probably not a big deal to get it to work with Linux or BSD or Mac OSX

  10. great news everyone! on NASA's LCROSS Moon Impact Mission Provides Great Data · · Score: 1

    The real reason that there was no plume is that the moon is so frickin' wet with water at the poles the probes each stuck in the mud with a mighty *splat*. We're talking the kind of mud that sucks the boots right off your feet, so muddy they'll have to jack up the cows to milk them.

  11. Hahaha, what a anticlimatic letdown!!!!! on Front Row Seats To NASA's Lunar Impact · · Score: 1

    The boffin-hyped"plume" wasn't visible with ten inch nor twenty inch amateur telescopes. It wasn't even visible with 200 inches telescope that Palomar Observatory has! PR nightmare, bwahaha.

  12. Re:What's wrong with you guys and gals? on Front Row Seats To NASA's Lunar Impact · · Score: 1

    after considering your post I believe we need a "blow this post up" button next to the "reply" and "parent"

  13. Re:Missed opportunity on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    It's more embarrassing than that, what we have here really could be succinctly stated by use of an offensive word usually used to communicate racial hatred. but in this case I'm going to use in a phrase it to point out a problem that exists between the ears of the Nobel committee and much of the mass media, that they are being stupid. The phrase is "token niggah symdrome". They are getting such a romantic thrill from seeing a non-white as President of the USA that they aren't being objective.

  14. Re:Many Canadians already had swine flu on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    how do you know that was swine flu, it could have been fungus and spores in your company's HVAC ducts. Immune reaction to forced air HVAC is quite common.

  15. Re:would not be surprised on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    considering most of them are in either marketing, sales or management...yes, damn straight. they treat me like expendable asset, so why not return the favor?

  16. Re:Don't forget: on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    I don't buy that, very old people have survived the past occurrences of swine flue, that's why they are old and living. they have advantage over younger generations. They might be recovering nicely or barely infected from a round of flu that will kill *you* off.

  17. Re:netcraft didn't confirm but Perl is dying on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    uh, your graph shows constant ~1% of all language *internet listings* of Perl for the last four years. Proving what, I'm not sure. And let me tell you how internet job listings work. One place has a real job, and then 30 other recruiting firms see that job and also run same listing with slight variabtion hoping to find person they can then present to the original company so they can get a cut. So the number of real actual Perl jobs on your graph is in the "statistical noise" percentage of perhaps 0.03% or so.

  18. Re:Perl has died in industry. on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    sure, great libraries built and are reason Perl still used. but share of its use on the web has dropped to less than 20% of what it once was. the contention isn't that Perl 5.x is dead, but that it is dying out.

    For better or worse, PHP has eaten much of Perl's lunch. PHP Libraries adequate enough for 80% of the uses.

  19. Re:Also try Perl 6 on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    haha, but note perl 5.8 or 5.10 *would* meet my criteria. pre-release 6 does not

  20. Re:Also try Perl 6 on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "a Perl 6 implementation on the Parrot Virtual Machine, already implements a significant portion of the language."

    you really can't seriously suggest I recommend this to a paying client? Perl 6 is pre-release as it has been for 9 years, parrot just has its first 1.0 release, and Rakudo implements some subset of Perl pre-6?

  21. Re:Also try Perl 6 on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    for real world apps, they code in languages that have definite stable production release version.

  22. Re:netcraft didn't confirm but Perl is dying on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    hahaha, never heard of github until now? and the fifth most popular language of these gits means what exactly? bet Perl was their #1 a few years back if that site more than four years old

  23. Re:Also try Perl 6 on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    clearly it's not targeted at anyone who writes real world scripting langauge applications. everyone cares since no one is using it other than as a fun diversion to fart around with ideas

  24. Re:Also try Perl 6 on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 1

    no No NO. partial implementations of a pre-release language in flux exist, people who need to write reliable real world applications aren't going to touch that with ten foot pole. Perl 6 is the HURD of programming languages, high school science project with some cool ideas here and there.

  25. Re:Seriously? on Perl 5.11.0 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    and Perl use had dropped to 15% of its former level in the past five years because the perfect number of applications have been developed with it, there's almost no software left to write.