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  1. Other reasons on Should JavaScript Get More Respect? · · Score: 1

    I did it for the money...

  2. Re:Problems with Programming on Bjarne Stroustrup on the Problems With Programming · · Score: 1

    I've sometimes thought about this overloading. I rarely use it, because I can't remember after a while have I overloaded stuff, but for some solutions it would be fun, but perhaps not practical to have unlimited number of overloaded operands. Maybe the notation could be somthing different like operand_name: class pseudo_string { public: ... static operator pseudo_string plus(const pseudo_string& other1,const pseudo_string& other2); assignment_operator pseudo_string equ(const pseudo_string& other1); }; then you could use it in code pseudo_string a("my"); pseudo_string b(" my what"); pseudo_string c; c equ a plus b; // c now equals to new string "my my what" this propably is subject worn out in other forums though.

  3. Re:Any word... on Big Freakin' Laser Beams In Space · · Score: 1

    Mutant sharks will fight the alien! I do welcome the mutant shark overlords!

  4. Re:A silly assumption on Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory · · Score: 1

    No, this is obviously a disagreement between "now"-peak oil theorist, "soon"-peak oil theorist and "in 24 years"-peak oil theorist. What is 24 years? Difference between not knowing about sex and having four kids, I tell you.

  5. Re:strategic paradigm shift... on Scientists Shocked as Arctic Polar Route Revealed · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was just listening some guy studying artic being interviewed on radio about his studies. On the show the reporter I think from BBC and this scientist whose name escapes me visited an iceberg. They describe the top of the iceberg to have large "swimming pools", which contain fresh water. Seal hunters used to use them for fresh water in the olden days. For somebody living and studying artic such pools are propably intresting at first but then obvious and not worth reporting.

  6. Re:Not quite... on When Is a Con Not a Con? · · Score: 1

    How about stamps, only reason some of them are rare is that postal services issued or misprinted them or for some other reason. Collectors are wierd breed.

  7. Re:That explains my innate talent on The Expert Mind · · Score: 1

    You got some pity points though. Must have been your mom.

  8. Re:TFA is well worth reading on Poincare Conjecture Proof Completed · · Score: 1

    Simply put, I believe that society is wrong. It is wrong to value the contribution of Adam Sandler as greater than that of Grigori Perelma But you have to realize that most of societys concerns are immediate needs. We need food, fuel, sex and something to make the time pass by. These things are valuable because they are needed in huge quantities. Adam Sandler might not be a great comedian, but his skill serves a huge need. Mr. Perelman might be making a great contribution to math and science, which perhaps will solve problems in the future, but in the end his contribution increase need for Adam Sandlers of the future, since most people who benefit from his contribution will have more time to be entertained. There is also a difference between value and monetary value. One could say that Mr. Perelmans contribution goes beyond monetary value, because it is something that most likely money can't buy. Not even million dollar rewards. Mr. Perelman has taken the cat out of the bag and it can't be put back.

  9. Re:Really bad idea. on Software Lets Programmers Code Hands-free · · Score: 1

    How did the comments look? Mine would look like "slash slash still some thing wrong with this f***ing thing backspace backspace ..." Problem with C++ and other case sensitive languages would be also how the upper and lower case letters are entered. But I guess that isn't so big of a deal, since most editors have some code recognition in them.

  10. Re:That's the way it is... on China Bans Running Your Own Email Server · · Score: 1

    I never thought of doing this before, the difference in results is astonishing. It really seems that Google in China is part of the government propaganda machine. I wonder if any other governments have had this kind of influence.

  11. Re:Not really on Swedish Study Finds Cell Phone Cancer Risk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... and you forgot: those who don't answer the phone in fear of radiation get killed off by their spouses when they get home by night.

  12. Re:My experience on Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Take lots of laws (designed to "protect" you),
    mix with surveillance
    add some patriotism,
    chop in belief in divine right to rule,
    let it simmer under suppression of opposition
    bake it under external threat (fake one will do if real one isn't available)
    Serve with men in uniforms

    Guess what's cooking kids?

  13. Re:According to the current New Scientist... on Alien Rain Over India · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is blood and Han Solo got to them first. We can all take it easy now.

  14. Re:Worth it? on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 1

    Well, I propably heard about it, but being old fart, I mostly fix and upgrade stuff that I have coded over the decades. So most of my code doesn't compile unless the flag is turned off (or on now days). Only last year I started really running into this standard.

  15. Re:Worth it? on Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++0x · · Score: 2, Informative

    To us stuffy old farts things keep moving way too fast. I just got gazillion errors from the spanking new compiler, because the scope change to the variables declared inside for loops.

  16. Re:Top Speed on No One Wins NASA Space Elevator Contest · · Score: 1

    Geosynchronous orbit is about 42 000 km up. So at speed 1m/s it would take year and four months for the thing to reach the end. Now it seems pretty slow doesn't it.

  17. Re:Stop This "Control The Internet" Nonsens on Lawmakers Support U.S. Control Of The Internet · · Score: 1

    The whole consept of US controlling the internet is just silly, pretty much like trying to push with a rope. US can control internet on its territory, but the truth is that outside of that it is international agreements that steal the show. If EU with help from rest of the world decide (foolishly I might add IMO) to have their own DNS system nothing prevents them. Even existing .com .net etc. domains could be taken over. It would be crazy to do this of course.

  18. Study worth nothing on Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Putting my Caucasian (are Finns caucasian?) intellect to work, I'd like to say who cares. Point of these studies is to boost the researchers ego. Variation of IQ within the population is so large that generalization is just inflammatory and serves no purpose.

  19. Re:Still lot of carbon... on Nanotubes Start to Show their Promise · · Score: 0

    It might help you by replacing cancer causing asbestos underpants when engulfed in ./ flamewar. (don't know if carbon nanotubes combust readily)

  20. Re:Most political ads are negative information on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1

    Right or wrong, I have always just called it disinformation.

  21. Re:almost but not quite entirely unlike a holodeck on View-Dependent Stereoscopic Projection · · Score: 1
    To get Star Treck holodeck effect you'd propably would want a direct connection to the neurons in you brain.

    On other note, I always thought holodeck was used in ST when the writers ran out of space related ideas.

  22. Re:Misleading post and bad article on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 1
    I googled around about hydrogen production and I guess that most hydrogen available today for commercial use is a byproduct from refining activities.

  23. Re:Obviously flawed on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That was then now the correct number is 31.2% so there is progress.

  24. Studies inaccurate but not completely bogus on Study Shows One Third of All Studies Are Nonsense · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think it states that most studies have inaccurate or overblown results not that 1/3 of studies are completely off.

  25. Re:If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet. on Flying the Wiretapped Skies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, you know all that liberty and freedom stuff they keep talking about on TV. Originally it ment freedom and liberty from your own government. Most of us just don't remember that since we live in relatively free times.