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  1. Re:Internet Years Vs. Real years on Internet Turns 35 Today · · Score: 1

    And then theres academic years.... taking things slowly, where they could have trippled techy nerd staff and blasted the real net in 1988 publicly instead of keeping it in University realm.

    "hey lets do a text based protocol/scheme that achieves what desktop publishing does but only lets use the simple subsets, and use little icons like the mac desktop to jump to different pages"

    Those sort of things were done in the 80s using Amiga hackers releasing disk based magazines, if they simply had those net nerds together with the graphic hackers/music nerds , they could have mixed their talent to product a real http style web back in '88.

    Someone give me a time machine :)

  2. Story summary sounds fake... on Internet Turns 35 Today · · Score: 1

    I mean seriously, even those days, some common sense log-ic could have made a better system, so either they took too much LSD or are lieing their asses off coz they just cant remember or it was utterly boringly simple.

    crashing after "lo" , what they stored the IO buffer in a *pointer, that pointed 0x0 by accident overiding offset 0x0000002 ??

    Even 15 yo programmers did better in 1984 on C-64 :)s

  3. Re:And why _aren't_ you voting for Bush? on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 1

    Being rich to the tune of billions, ie the whole familily, means you get the 'greed bug', and you turn into Mr Evil, its like super grade-A heroin.

    Nothing is enough, thats how they work, if you have excess resources/money, everything becomes dull/boring, but running the world is the numero uno grand prize :)

  4. Re:Someone explain to me how this is news on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    Australia, 20m population, there are 1m Aussies living outside australia, 15000 in NY alone, rest all over Europe/USA/Asia.

    Now USA with 280M? how many are outside usa? 14m? I bet not even 14M have passports.

    But still its gota be a significant number (outside military employees)

  5. Re:Progress on C++ In The Linux kernel · · Score: 1

    Why dont you just ban #defines in C then, because you could just as easily make even more horrid wierd code in C using 100s of MACROs and enums.

    HELL, you could make your C code look just like wierd VB code using #defines.

  6. Re:Great news! on C++ In The Linux kernel · · Score: 1

    If your a C++ coder that cant understand C, then your in a more sorry state. By default how can you not understand it? You can still use all the C isms in C++, just use the part of C++ that is best suited, ie classes/objects... ignore the rest of c++ that you find too complex and do C style coding inside your classes using a small part of C++.

    If you understand how C++ gets turned in C and how C gets turned into ASM, then your good (like me), but you dont, then stick to making dicky web apps/asps.

  7. Re:C++ in embedded applications is a bad idea on C++ In The Linux kernel · · Score: 1

    So tell me why would any coder with >10 years experience would ever use that long complex C++ code to set a bit ???

    I would still use "*SOMEREG_ptr = BIT_A | BIT_B;" in C++, but perhaps it could be easier to do that in a virtual fuction called "SetValue()", at least then the code is more pretty and can be changed easier later.

    The whole point of C++ is to have objects with members/classes of isolated functions. No one is saying , "hey bob, now that its c++, use all the wierd shit you can find" , jeez, if they do that , then REMOVE them from any project.

    My rule of thumb is, still use C style coding, but inside C++ usefull layers/classes. Only a complete nerd/dill brain would use your C++ sample there.

    But still there are complete pointless ways to do stuff in C too that can be bloody ugly and horendous.

  8. Re:Please repost the letter. on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 1

    So america still lives in the 1940s? oh make that 1850s, coz im sure they were randy as hell in the 40s.

    But where is democracy at the work place? why cant it be like survivor and just get the 10-15 people around you to cast a vote, who leaves, you or the said offended person :)

    I bet you a 150k major manager responsible for millions of $$ of profits will never be fired, mainly because he has his OWN office where no one can see what he views on the web.

    The more you think about it, an office work place resembles a pure communist style regime system.

  9. Re:Please repost the letter. on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 1

    If companies fire people because of looking at one website then they are in more serious trouble because of dumbass management and currupt to the core wankers. Though I bet you the main IT managers and business managers are 'exempt' from the rules and probably look at real porn daily and screw another girl in the office after hours or some gay action as seams to be quite high in telco managerial staff :)

  10. Re:To Insane Levels on Nintendo Threatens Suicidegirls Over IP Use · · Score: 1

    I seriously think that the lawyers are getting no work, and are sitting idle, so the head lawyer says to his slave lawyers, "go find some crap to do so we can charge nintendo" and off they go.

  11. nothing compared to 500TF per floor at the CIA on SGI & NASA Build World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. I bet CIA has something in order of 10-100x more powerfull, I mean if you can afford to wire up 5 full office floors of computers, say 20*512 * 5 per floor * 5 , thats a hell lot more. CIA can afford to spend 200m on it, and have 10 super clusters of 1000 tf each.

    2. I bet the CIA also can change the weather, go read HARP etc... if the russians can do it in the 80s then the CIA can do anything.

  12. Re:More info on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Doesnt apple own 1/2 or 1/3 of a major samsung LCD making company or it could be someone elses?

    If they make tonnes of LCDs for laptops/imacs, then theres bound to be heaps of left over LCD screens too small to be used for their ibooks. So instead of selling them at cheap prices, they just re-use em for the ipods at virtually zero cost, but gain another $100 profit margin for nothing.

  13. Re:A LOT more new stuff... on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Well, all those yuppie wifes who want to carry all those 5000 photos of their kids/babies, they will get one.

    But it has svideo out which is great for tvs/projectors. What it really needs is a UHF transmitter so you dont need a cable.

  14. Re:It Doesn't Matter on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hehe, just like the WMD in iraq joke.

    Yeah these top notch grads with honors become cops after their father is a sargent too. And the whole currupt ball keeps rolling being handed down from father to son.

    Funny how the wacko type thing hasnt happened in other parts of the planet... must be something about paranoid schizo cops, too much sunday church meetings I think.

  15. Re:Or DON'T VOTE! on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 1

    you can do a postal vote if you cant make it to the booths

    In australia , we vote on saturday

  16. Re:Or DON'T VOTE! on Thinking About the SnitchCam · · Score: 1

    OR that 50% could be;

    under 18 yo
    over 75 yo
    in the middle, but an illegal alien

  17. Re:Just to clarify on DS Preorders Outsell PS2 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I think the japs are seriously stupid asses, I mean the xbox has much better graphics than the ps2, and when chipped is absolutely awesome, I am supprised they wont get em and make it the 'super' box they can.

    Perhaps they are just 'mindless' consumers and have no tallent for 'hacking'

    As for hating a foreign company and only buying local products is a bit rich coming from them, after all we do buy lots of their stuff without a second thought as to where it came from.

    I bet all those 173 units wher probly US army people in japan :)

  18. Re:I fixed similar problem too! on Saving Huygens · · Score: 1

    And I bet your boss got a fat $50k bonus for saving the companies ass and got invited to all international meetings and stuff.

    Hopefully some bad ass trojan/spy ware hijacks his 4.3m etrade account and cleans it out.

  19. Re:American health care costs on Medical Care Gets Outsourced Too · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well with all these old sick people, I have one great solution;

    1. legalize medicinal pot, that will

    A) fix lots of sick people for virtual no cost, who cares if there is no patent and some big corp gets no money out of it, I can live with dieing companies (those ceos can live on their 10M+ bank accounts easy), not dieing people. And I am not saying they have to smoke it, any one with 1/2 a point of IQ will realise that you can get the THC oils out and apply as a vapor or orally.

    B) reduce the wasted (fake) war on drugs which does nothing, but ruin peoples lives by getting in goal or getting records. Or generally just giving them the 'criminal' label which stuffs up their career prospects (damn evil Dupont screws)

    C) reduce wasted $$$ on police force/prisons etc... AHH BUT wait, theres private prisons and people are making money, and thats all they care about, not the people.

    But I dont expect that to happen, since they are all so currupt and evil , worse than any pot smoker could ever be. May god strike them all down with cancer that will be expensive for their children to pay for.

  20. Re:Good Point on MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track? · · Score: 1

    are people that stupid? i know of no one that is, even 14year olds.

    Or is this just an american thing?

  21. Re:Uh no on MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ahh another simple mind that only likes 4/2 beat and 3 guitars, but has no idea what tb303s' and moogs can do.

    Gee lets look at it this way, techno can have 5x as much melodies/notes per minute than rock can, so if you brain is too slow to process 5 at ones at 250/min then you're just an old fart who is just too slow ( like a 386 )

  22. Re:Antenna on Hot-Rodding A Bluetooth Adapter · · Score: 1

    Simply being physically bigger have more RF in more atoms will cause a larger RF field.

    Imagine if you had ZERO antenna, your signal drops, so there is a maximum antenna size that will boost your signal, of course a 100foot antenna wont work because 4 feet of it will absorb all your signal, so then you would need to boost its wattage to 100-1000 watts perhaps.

  23. I hate BT too on Hot-Rodding A Bluetooth Adapter · · Score: 1

    I cannot belive the BT people invented something without being aware of Wifi, their stupid code of channel hopping randomly everywhere is so stupid its beyond belief, when they could have kept a record of the channels with wifi activity and not hopped on those. Damn McFLIES

    Now someone, make a device, that can KILL a BT device by short bursting it with 1000WATTS of BT power for 1 second or so (while your wifi is turne 100% off)

    What cell phones should have is low powered Wifi (under 50feet) instead of BT.

  24. Re:Geeks do not solder on Hot-Rodding A Bluetooth Adapter · · Score: 1

    Im a gee, and I solder.

    What do you do?

  25. Re:The best advise.... on Programming Assignment Guide For CS Students · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, here trades people are in DEEP demand (au) and they are getting 80-100k plus, while programmers are being given 32-45k starters at best, (seek.com.au)

    What a joke, be a kitcken cabinet installer, get mega bucks, if you want to be creative, do it at home, why spend 9hrs/day being a slave and getting fat.