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  1. Re:Something else to warm up with... on Batman Begins Trailer Online · · Score: 1

    It sux0r, but at least it features Andrew Koenig

  2. Buddha on Debugging in Plain English? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Buddha is a debugger for Haskell that displays, in a heirarchical fashion, every function call in your program, then lets you declare every function application and result as "Correct, Erroneous, Inadmissible, or Unknown". It can thus track down the error to a particular application of a prticular function.

    Why is it called Buddha? Because otherwise debugging Haskell means just staring at your code until you achieve enlightenment!

  3. Re:Dusty on The History Of Pentium · · Score: 1

    emerge kde

  4. Re:Micropayments are a nice idea but... on The March Towards Micropayments · · Score: 1

    I'm positive the OP did not mean it as a slur against Jewish people . . .

    What in the post convinced you of that?

  5. Re:Micropayments are a nice idea but... on The March Towards Micropayments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then I wouldn't feel the need to be jewish with what I'm doing . . .

    You're a huge dick. I can't believe tripe like this gets modded up, especially when there are 20 other posts that say the same thing, but aren't racist.

  6. Re:Hey, that's what we use at my work on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 1

    Maybe Monk can be a bit tough. Brilliant Corners springs to mind.

  7. Bebop on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I heard Thelonious Monk while on hold for AT&T last week.

    Sweetness.

  8. Who Knew? on SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Scientific progress goes BOINC?

  9. Re:Identify only in Specific Cases on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 3, Insightful
    In other words, if the defendant HAD had a real and appreciable fear that his name would be used to incriminate him, he could have simply refused to answer on those grounds.

    A person's identity obviously bears informational and incriminating worth, even if the [name] itself is not inculpatory. Hubbell, 530 U. S., at 38. A name can provide the key to a broad array of information about the person, particularly in the hands of a police officer with access to a range of law enforcement databases. And that information, in turn, can be tremendously useful in a criminal prosecution. It is therefore quite wrong to suggest that a person's identity provides a link in the chain to incriminating evidence only in unusual circumstances.
  10. Re:Golden rules.. on Software Upgrade Crashes UK Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 1
  11. TeXmacs on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 1
    Try TeXmacs. It's WYSIWYG, it's fast as hell to use (lots of hotkeys and smart ideas like "is member of" is '< tab tab tab'), and it exports to LaTeX so you can figure out how to encode the LaTeX manually if you must.

    You can always use it for the mundane stuff and do the fancy stuff by hand later.

    Plus, it's not so ugly it makes you want to claw your own eyes out, unlike LyX.

  12. Re:New and Elegant "foreach" ? on A Taste of Qt 4 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If you want to find joy and productivity in programming, use Scheme, Common Lisp . . .

    I would, but runtime type errors keep me up at night.

    . . . or some other programmable programming language.

    I'm still looking for one with static types.

  13. Re:let it lie! on AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The BeOS source was purchased by Palm; it's still closed.

  14. Re:The FCC is unconstitutional on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    "Obscene" and "indecent" are different. The argument the OP apppears to be trying to make is that the FCC can't penalize speech based on its content. The Pacifica ruling establishes that it can.

    By ruling the routine was not "obscene," the court ensured that it could not be subject to "prior restraint," which is different.

  15. Re:The FCC is unconstitutional on FCC to Regulate 'Profane' Speech · · Score: 1

    George Carlin should read up on 1st amendment case law. It's vastly more complicated than that.

  16. Re:Short version: High price for little return on Anand Reviews Athlon 64 FX-53 · · Score: 1

    I means that the Athlon is ELEVEN PERCENT FASTER than the processor that's one notch above the absolute bottom end you can get in a Dell PC (3GHz, the bottom end is 2.8GHz).

    I don't know where you come up with that crap, but Dell sells tons of machines slower than 2.8 GHz.

  17. Re:Red Team can't really "win" in my opinion on DARPA Grand Challenge Updates · · Score: 1

    This is not necessarily a bad thing. Mistakes in problem specification lead to unwanted results, but also lead to more accurate problem specification.

    There was an AI team in the UK that wasa trying to make a box with wings fly. They gave it some rudimentary wing movement instructions and a genetic algorithm with the fitness defines as distance from the ground.

    Instead of flying, it propped itself up on its wings. Thinking about going sround the problem is sometimes as good as going over the problem.

  18. Re:My Own Low Budget Rap... on ZVUE's $99 Video and MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    I have some good news Mr. Jiggy Fly.

    No, I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.

  19. Re:Fourier was a plagerist on What If Dark Matter Really Doesn't Exist? · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's so incredibly wrong, I don't even know where to begin. Fourier sequences are about transformation into the frequency domain. Epicycles are about imaginary circles.

    This should be modded "funny"

  20. Re:A quick list on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1

    Another note: articles about the incident used "nigger" with no backlash whatsoever. I believe that the use of the slur would have faced much less backlash if it had been published - the sound of a white person saying the word with a characteristic "er" rather than "a" sound, is so grating as to cause some serious backlash.

  21. Re:A quick list on What You Can't Say · · Score: 1
    • You can't say 'nigger', unless you're black.
    • You can't usually use a racial slur at all unless you're either kidding or in a particular bigoted crowd.

    At the University of Virginia, a hospital employee said, "'Redskins' is as offensive to native Americans as a team named 'Niggers' would be to black Americans."

    The president of the university (whose only job is to raise money and apologize) apologized. Julian Bond, a prof. at UVA and higher-up in the NAACP, demanded that this employee submit to mandatory sensitivity training. The employee union demonstrated for a week.

    The issue quietly disappeared.
  22. Lazy coding on What Applications Will Drive System Performance? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What applications will drive the market? The same ones we have now, but written in python using bubblesort.

    Well, maybe not bubblesort. But non-optimal algorithms, slow languages, and copying memory instead of passing a reference/pointer will increase.

    That's not even a totally awful thing, because it means that the performance of already efficient applicatoins/languages/coders goes up as well. It also means that it's easier to start writing code without mastering TAOCP first.

    So encourage your friends to write game engines in perl.

  23. Re:c/c++ joke on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1
    class A {
    int x; //class members are private by default
    friend class B;
    void f(char);
    public:
    void f(int);
    };

    class B {
    void g(A p_a) {
    a.x = 0; // ok
    a.f('a'); // ok, calls void A::f(char)
    a.f(1); // ok, calls void A::f(int)
    }
    };

    void h(A p_a) {
    a.x = 0; // "Error, x is private"
    // NOT "Error, A has no member x"
    a.f('a'); // "Error f(char) is private"
    // NOT "Ok, calls void A::f(int)"
    a.f(1); // ok, calls void A::f(int)
    }
    The strange part about what you say is that visibility rules are separate from access controls. So, in C++, everyone can see your privates, but only your friends can touch them!
  24. Re:I suppose on "Budget" Chips go Head-to-Head · · Score: 1

    Um, but I still can't get a Dell with a faster hard drive.

    Dell has supported HD speed upgrades since at least 1999, when I bumped my 20gig from 5400 to 7200 RPM.

  25. Re:Why is this here? on Function Template Specialization in C++ · · Score: 1

    I found this artical very informative and definitely worth the read.

    That's great. I would find an article on some not-basic-but-also-not-advanced-lisp worth the read and informative. That's because I only know a bit of lisp. I'm glad the article was published, and I would recommend it to my friends and neighbors who know a bit of C++.

    But it's not /. material, just like tutorials in other languages are not /. material.