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  1. heres some landing photos at night on Stroke Victim Stranded At South Pole Base · · Score: 2
  2. and new technology? on Incomplete PDF Redaction Leaks Data From UK MoD · · Score: 1

    If govt/nsa scientists have create scientific break throughs decades ahead of the real world, they have to publish it.

    Imagine if the govt found antigravity or real alien tech 1000 years ahead.

    They should free it, not keep it secret for 100 years and make trillions of dollars profit out of the tips of the iceberg.

    Imagine if the telescope was kept secret for 100 years before the official 'invented date'. Oh yeah, the British did.

  3. time measured in coding time not exe time on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 1

    If you take 6 weeks to code something in C++ that only YOU can debug (job security) vs something in C# or java that can be coded in 1 week, then unless youre willing to take a pay cut to $5/hr, your too slow.

    Or lets say 6hrs vs 1hr.

    So not only do you want more $$/hr, you take 6x longer to code.

  4. Re:*yawn* on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 2

    Before commenting, I have programmed in both, but they are not my primary langs.

    1) .NET is not light weight, the HD size of the framework is huge, 300meg+ . Ram usage is hard to guage because its a grey line between .NET and Windows resources.

    2) besides ram, what other resources does java use? I know it likes to pre allocate ram, but it doesnt hard reserve the ram, so its not really that hungry. I want some real analysis done. Like how much ram is used between languages for say 1 million nodes in an array, or list, or hash,directory map.

    One thing I did find weak in .NET was audio control, well something like volume control. Where is the one liner?

    To me, its not so much the language, its the framework toolkits/apis to the OS or libraries which are more important.

    But now both language are owned by two evil corps. So that sucks.

  5. then why cant they stop spam on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    if they can track down and listen to everything, but they cant detect/stop find the spam bot control servers?

    Who profits from spam?

    They could arrest them all in one day and have zero spam.

    Get of yer ass DHS, do your job, virus's come in spam, they can do evil things.

  6. Amiga did it on Team Fortress 2 Running In a Web Browser Using WebGL · · Score: 1

    If the Amiga can do it in 7mhz and in 1985-2000, then get with it dudes , get some elite old school coders to do it . And hurry up slow ass.

  7. Re:Au revoir. on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if he donated say, 2-3 billion dollars to a cancer institute 4 years ago, would they have saved his life, or at least make him half MAN, half iAndroid.

    There have been many breakthrus in science. Or was he very 'let fate take its course' guy.

  8. Re:RIP on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Most new windows software will still work even in win2000, and WinXP, its not hard to write software that disables new os features if the lib versions are too old.

    But only macs make new software LOCKED to the new OS, and not run on the older 1 gen OS on purpose by business decisions, not technical ones.

    OS & APPS should be very very separate, and very little of the higher layers should depend on very recent versions of middle/lower layers.

  9. and outside USA timetables? on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Common, just like now, apple's releases took months to get to countries outside USA.

    VIC20 Release date 1980 (VIC-1001) / 1981

    What about the Commodore PET , it was released in 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

  10. C64 still kicks ass on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but even back in the 80s, we still thought of AIIs as overpriced crap schools paid for, but we got the elite cool hacker machines called C-64!!

  11. Re:I read somewhere... on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    You mean business desk, home users still used commodores and ataris and amstrads.

  12. Australia just started one before Paris on Paris Launches World's First Electric Car Share Program · · Score: 1
  13. Re:They just choose to lose customers on Mass Piracy Lawsuits Come To Australia · · Score: 1

    1. stop getting credit, stop buying houses, let the credit market die and the banks die.

    2. all you young people stop being lawyers! seriously.

    3. vote for the real independants, the weirdos, dont vote for any possible winners.

  14. Not sleep mode? on Hot Multi-OS Switching — Why Isn't It Everywhere? · · Score: 1

    I thought this was using sleep mode , to swap two OS's, ie you sleep windows, and when you wake up, the BIOS can choose between two sleep states, of the other OS. So you can wake up Linux.

    Is this feasable?

  15. Wankers on Canadian Government Says DRM Circumvention Not Related To Copyright · · Score: 1

    Ubisoft is still alive?

  16. but TSA gets 9 billion $ on Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch' · · Score: 1

    Fake security is more important, and also they need to hire 50,000 deadbeat theives and sexual perverts who like to finger super models vaginas.

    Oh did I say they steal ipads/iphones too.

    Makes 1940s germany a very nice place indeed.

  17. pay people to find prio art on Apple Denied Trademark For 'Multi-Touch' · · Score: 1

    Give the person who finds prior art , double the fee that the patent applicator paid for. If its ibm or the big wigs, charge them the 'cancellation' fee.

    Or like RIAA, make the bogus patent fine, like 1000x the fee.

  18. neither did billgates or steve jobs on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    They left school early, did that hurt their abilities?

    Why do people still use COBOL? Its an engineering failure.

  19. what about source codes still stuck in 80s on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    All source codes are stuck in the 80s, based on files and directories.

    What we need is a new better organization.

    Yes IDEs rule, but they dont share 'project' files. They should, it should be open and standard.

    All functions n classes should be each in a different 'object' or file.

    Let the IDE Hide how it looks.

    The idiotic management needed by coders to decide what function goes in what file and what dir, is a nightmare, because it makes it difficult to move functions around and restructure and share parts.

    Its so 1980s!! Someone please redesign the code editing ecosystem.

    Besides having compilers accessing files constantly is garbage, if its all in ram, it should compile with zero disk IO.

    Flash IDE is part way there, hiding the files/objects on disk and manage it all as a project.

  20. Re:I guessed wrong on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    if its apple or microsoft employees, they 'read' their corporate secrets.

  21. strong types suck... on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    I want to spend my time programming the solution, not fighting the language.

    The future will be where any app or api can go global, interchat with remote apps/services/apis/devices.

    strong types belong to hardware specs even those are getting more dynamic and flexible.

  22. Great target for bebe gub on Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars · · Score: 0

    Just like bf2 , shoot the suckers

  23. Re:first poster has no problems with dlink on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    8 year old dlink won't have 11.n
    New ones with less than 32m ram suck, it kernel panics on bit torrent .

  24. Yeah 6 core is so 2007 on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    I agree, you Gita go for the big ass servers with amds new 12 core CPUs x 4 , 48 cores per box is hell nice . And it takes 1/8th the space and power.
    You only need 150 boxes not 1200 boxes

  25. so give me 0% taxes on $300M To Save 6 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Then why cant we have zero percent taxes. And the govt can 'create out of thin air' the money they need.

    If they require 10% of GDP, then print it, dont steal it.

    Id be happy with 0% taxes, and 10% inflation.

    Simple, run it in Sims and see how you go.