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  1. Runtime Revolution on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    http://runrev.com It's based on Apple's Hypercard. Pretty easy to create simple apps. Cross platform as well.

  2. Christopher Bahn is right on the money. on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    Ever since Joseph Campbell made the mistake of interviewing Lucas for that "Myth" book, Lucas has grown a huge ego. Too bad he doesn't have the brains or tallent to match.
    My vote: Drop ST3 altogether.

  3. You mean like XUL and Nexaweb? on Papers From W3C Web Apps Workshop Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jssta ndard/reference/techart/nexaweb.html

  4. Too bad miguel can't. on Patents and the Penguin · · Score: 0

    nt

  5. Re:Why open Java? on Gosling on Opening Java · · Score: 1

    I usually don't side with anon-cowards but seriously, post a reason - other than that pedantic free!=beer crap. Or are you the moron?

  6. And we were complaining.... on PacManhattan Relocates Classic Game To New York Streets · · Score: 1

    about a Trekky movie about speaking Klingon???
    Wazzup with that?

  7. Time to go back to NetBUI. on TCP Vulnerability Published · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please. Let's make Bill happy.

  8. Re:About time... on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 3, Informative
    Quote: " ...although long filenames might've been considered, hardware limitations may have made them infeasible at the time."

    No it was incompetence. Apple DOS (even before ProDOS) had long file name support. That was wayyy back in like 79-80.

  9. Never happen on P2P News Syndication? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quote "This would require a high level of international agreement to be effective." We'll all be running around in ape suits chasing an (almost) naked Charlton Heston before this happens.

  10. It's not necessarily illegal on Code Copying Survey for Developers · · Score: 1

    It is if ONLY you've signed an NDA. I did not sign an NDA at my current employer. I explained to my employer (developing web apps) that 1/3 of the code is freely viewable anyway (right-click view source in the brower), 1/3 is the database stuff which is obvious and the 1/3 that's "business logic" is not that much of a secret anyway. What counted most (in our case anyway) is support. We support what we sell. My PHB was fine with this argument. Maybe I was just lucky.

  11. Bad idea on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    First change your name to Br4|) and live with the humiliation of it for a while before inflicting that on your child.

  12. Re:GTK is out, then? on Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated] · · Score: 1

    Then I guess Miguel does want to get sued.

  13. Re:GTK is out, then? on Novell Desktop To Standardize On Qt [updated] · · Score: 1
    Not sure how this gets modded up...

    C# is a lot like Java in that is it "portable" but not really

    So it's not like java at all. right?

    Last I heard they were planning to use Wine to provide the GUI .Forms interface

    Er, no. Mono will never be able to provide parts which are IP encumbered unless Miguel want's to get sued. How hard is that to understand?

  14. Neither of which have helped Gnome on Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project · · Score: 0, Troll
    GNOME Foundation Board
    GNOME Release Team

    Neither of these have helped Gnome's lousy inconsistent UI.

    Heck Miguel himself realizes the huge kludge that is the gnome API. Now he's wasting his time trying to "re-imagine" the API as a .NET clone. LOL. What a joke. He'll be following BG around with a roll of toilet paper for years before that goes anywhere!

    Sad really.... If Linux is going to make any headway on the desktop, Gnome's gotta go.

  15. Does Red-Hat cost more? on Microsoft's Platform Strategist Speaks On Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No troll. Just curious. Anyone have pricing info?

  16. There goes symantec... on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 1

    ...and all the the other AV vendors out there.

  17. Here's the link to the Suse angle on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 1

    From Suse's web site I guess Eric missed this. :)

  18. Unicode string support yet? on PHP5 Just Around the Corner · · Score: 1

    Just wondering if PHP has come out of the 80s yet.

  19. Re:Open what? on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free! · · Score: 1

    see: http://www.manageability.org/manageabilityWiki/Why JavaIsBetterThanDotNet Or do a Google search

  20. Aluminum Hat on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the SCO software division wrote this virus to discredit the open source movement... Had to be said.

  21. Re:Incident response times on New IE Holes Discovered · · Score: 1

    You said: "And would the Mozilla and Konqueror communities fully regression test their changes against all of the various software it might affect.. no."

    Can you say 'commingling'? A properly written application software should only have to test against itself. M$ has so deeply imbeeded IE into the OS that it requires a MASSIVE regression test against everything. Heck, I remember once applying an IE patch and my CD-ROM stopped working!

  22. MOD this ARTICLE DOWN on Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google · · Score: 1

    If the author had bothered to click 'next' Results 16-30 of about 8897489 containing "linux windows" DOH!

  23. Is this a JOKE? PHP doesn't even support UNICODE! on PHP Scales As Well As Java · · Score: 1

    From the PHP manual

  24. Re:My opinion... on Red Orchestra, UT2003 Mod, Released · · Score: 1

    I don't know about TypoNAM, but ET is great. It's fast for lan/internet games, has very team-oriented ruls and it run on Linux too!

  25. I guess only monpolies can get away with DRM on Intuit Apologizes to Turbo Tax Customers · · Score: 1

    ... on software. You know who I'm talking about. :)