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  1. Re:Perl6 is the problem on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're using the wrong editor. If you move pieces of code around in languages other than python you should be changing the indentation too....so your editor should provide an easy way to do that.
    Personally I use nedit where I can select a rectangular area and delete it to outdent. To indent I usually create a macro. space space space space back back back back down...repeat. My editor is not that feature rich and doesn't have buttons for indenting and outdnting and I do fine.
    If using proper indentation is so hard for you that you won't try Python I hope I never look at your code in other languages.

  2. Re:Photoshop Please!!! on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    of course it would. I was looking for a humorous picture...and I got a couple ;-)

  3. Re:Photoshop Please!!! on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    Yes... you win! While the post below your's has more ports it doesn't look practical. Also...bonus points for using GIMP. I said photoshop because it is slowly becoming a verb. I know I didn't use it as a verb, but you see what I mean. Could you please photoshop this up using gimp? ;-)

  4. Re:soforkit on Android Also Comes With a Kill-Switch · · Score: 1

    details details

  5. Photoshop Please!!! on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone skilled in photoshop please show me a lightbulb or socket with an ethernet port

  6. Re:Developing My Own on PHP5 CMS Framework Development · · Score: 1

    As far as the initial product I'd say I'm 80% or so done.

    If you install django and run "django-admin.py startproject cms" you'd be 80% done too.

    The part I have to work on now is making the site much more efficient to the average user (IE faster page generation times, fewer queries, etc). Anyone have any tips for testing sites under load? IE any software out there to emulate 100s of viewers looking at the site at the same time?

    If you used a framework rather than PHP directly you wouldn't have to worry about stuff like that... other smart people (not that you're not) do that for you.

  7. Re:How to write GOOD code? WTF? on PHP5 CMS Framework Development · · Score: 1

    I know the PHP language itself encourages that. Also the fact that it is easy to configure a web server and just throw in your anywhere you like.
    But aren't there frameworks available that force you to separate models and views?
    Is there nothing like django but for PHP?

  8. Re:Great Book. on PHP5 CMS Framework Development · · Score: 4, Informative

    I highly suggest django, 10 lines of code gets you a working CMS with authentication, admin interface, permissions, syndication, pagination, etc.

  9. not impressed with orbit on Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia says that the GeoEye-1 was supposed to be in Sun-synchronus orbit... but look at the shadow on the water tower

  10. Re:Perl6 is the problem on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 1

    Don't know much about Ruby, but I find the whitespace significance very nice and makes reading existing python code very pleasant.
    If you indent your code properly anyway it shouldn't make a difference. Actually, you wind up not having to type out parenthesis or curly braces. And who likes looking at...
    }}
    }
    }

  11. Re:Anyone prefer this to the stock firmware? on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The advantages are that you don't need to use iTunes. You obviously use Windows or a MAC. If thats fine for you great...for me it is not.

    I use Linux and I can sync my iPod with a single rsync command.

    The advantages are that when you plug a RockBox into another computer it is a disk drive. You drag your music onto it in whatever folder you want and it is available. Because you can store your files on your iPod the same way you store them on your computer you can use it like a backup device.

    There are ways to get mp3's off of an iPod that uses the stock firmware but you lose your directory structure.

  12. Re:They will trun it back the day after the CUBS w on LHC Offline Until April 2009 (Or Longer) · · Score: 1

    Cubbies i thought...or am I wrong?

  13. What does that mean? on Microsoft To Buy Back $40bn of Its Shares · · Score: 1

    What does it mean when a publicly traded company buy's its own stock?
    That doesn't make sense to me. Don't the stock owners own the company? What does it mean when you own shares of a company that owns shares of its company. Isn't it redundant?

    Disclaimer: I got A's in all my CS classes and B's and C's in my Economics / Business classes.

  14. nedit on Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? · · Score: 1

    Nedit is good. I think it works on Windows through cygwin. Some features that make it stand out are good macro programming, regular expression support, and rectangular selection, deletion, and pasting.

  15. Re:Firefox Left In The Dust By Chrome...and IE, LO on In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads · · Score: 1

    It did sound a little Flamebaitish but seriously, Firefox is horrible on Linux. It is slow and little javascript / css menu dropdowns appear behind flash objects and I can't click them. I wind up firing up Windows in VirtualBox just to be able to click on a link. Maybe it is adobe's fault...I dunno.

  16. Re:DRM on FONTS?! on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I call #FFFFFF, #000000 and everything inbetween!

  17. what is the point? on Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I can't believe that today people think DRM actually works. You make it part of some standard, it is cracked 2 days later, then for decades we still have to deal with it.

    Why not just assume that it will get cracked, then not implement DRM in the first place?

  18. Re:Use of Boost? on Boost 1.36 Released · · Score: 1

    How about Jython and use java.lang.Thread?

  19. wow on Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph · · Score: 1

    that last link with the video was amazing. I hope it makes it into a commercial (or open source) product and isn't just some research that gets abandoned. Hopefully canon or adobe or someone will buy the technology.
    I'm still waiting to be able to buy a plenoptic camera

  20. Re:KDE? on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was referring to the area and not the circumference. The area of a circle with radius of 1.0 is pi.

  21. Re:Get your affairs in order, people on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    Go on youtube and search for CERN black hole, there was a 4 part radio interview. It will start out very very slow but it will increase rapidly. So much so that it will be undetected for about 5 years, and then you will only have minutes before we all die (or go to another dimension). This, by the way lines up up for the end of the Mayan calendar.

  22. Re:First actual use scheduled on... on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    Actually, someone predicted that if we created these black holes they would be undetectable for about 5 years then we'd only have a matter of minutes before we all die. So, if that guy is right then we're right on schedule.

  23. Re:Thumbnails on A Photo That Can Steal Your Online Credentials? · · Score: 1

    A better solution is not to allow GIFs. No more animated emoticons!

  24. Re:Linux on A Photo That Can Steal Your Online Credentials? · · Score: 1

    emerge jdk

    Yeah, you're right...that was hard.

    Java has never been hard to install, it just isn't installed by default just like Nvidia drivers. Although, I just gave a Gentoo example where nothing is installed by default.

  25. Re:Pound Sand. on Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them · · Score: 1

    As soon as service providers realize there's a buck to be made, say good bye to that feature and this questionable service.

    You have it all wrong. As soon as they realize this, they will find a way to charge you 10 cents every time you bypass straight to voicemail.