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  1. So twencen... on Why Buggy Software Gets Shipped · · Score: 1

    On the web, you can ship a new build every day (if not oftener). CD's or DVD's in boxes, trucked to stores are a waste of time, energy, oil, and trees.

  2. Re:They get a life? on Where Do All of the Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Or, like me, you could start out with Fortran, FAP, and Bendix G-15 assembler (1963-64), go to college & study math(a little IBM 1130 Fortran), then go on to RPG, COBOL(68-69), PL/I(70-71), variou minicomputer assemblers(using full screen text editors)(72-79), various mini-&micro-computer Basics, C, Pascal and assembler(Macs), Modula, Oberon, Ruby, etc.(80-present). I've gone through punched cards, a bit of paper tape, head-per-track disks, ASR-33 and 35 teletypes, rotating drum memory, core memory, and worked on one of the earlies flatbed page scanners and ditto digital VTR [2-inch Ampex jobby w/custom interface{used for storing 1000's of scanned images ca 1975}]

  3. Re:best degree to compliment comp sci on Best Degree to Pair w/ a B.Sc. in Computer Science? · · Score: 2, Funny

    and incompetent marketing at that - he didn't even post a link!

  4. Re:Happens every now and then on Microsoft Developers Respond To .NET Criticism · · Score: 1

    Take a look at Pascal-6 AKA Oberon-2 plus AKA ...Component Pascal available currently in two versions, one in an IDE for Windows, the other a compliler for Java and .NET.

  5. My objection to creationism on Hobbit Is A New Species · · Score: 1

    is the utter blasphemy of it: creationists are calling God a liar. The record of evolution written in the rocks is unambiguous: evolution happened, like it or not. To claim otherwise is to say that God's world is lying.

  6. Jobs, not Apple... on Apple to Buy TiVo? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    TiVo would seem to fit much better into Steve Jobs's portfolio than into Apple's product line...

  7. No, the REAL danger is Russia on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 0

    ...and all the loose nukes.

  8. Re:Science beats pseudoscience every time on Study Points to Sixth Sense in Humans · · Score: 1
    Please tell me this is sarcasm. Because I already know enough to classify it as post hoc nonsense.
    How could u possibly ? the veridical quality o'gp - obviously a post of the highest integrity and insight.
  9. Re: An idea on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1
    Call me when they make real predictions that are verified by experiments. Until then, they are no better than dancing savages casting stones and reading the results.
    RTFA! That is exactly the point of the article - the models which predicate human influence causing global warming make correct predictions where the competing models foul up.
  10. July 2000 on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to the date in the archives listing on the site...

  11. Re:What about Gordon Freeman? on SF Writers Sting Supposedly Traditional Publisher · · Score: 1
    Guess who guest-edited the issue of Can. J. Phys. in which the article appeared?

    Gordon R. Freeman...

  12. Re:Nothing new... on SF Writers Sting Supposedly Traditional Publisher · · Score: 1
    These people are in favor of literal interpretation of and adherance to nothing.

    including the evidence of their senses, and the existence of the real world.

  13. Not just votes on Is Anti-Municipal Broadband Report Astroturf? · · Score: 1
    It's not just the votes.

    It's also non-revolt.

    If you're out of work, and your kids are starving, you're probably going to be willing to run amok.

    And if there are a lot of you, people power happens.

  14. Look at global dimming. on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1

    and the facts of what happened to temperature range in North America during the days after 9/11, when (almost)no jets were flying.

  15. Re:And when there is no significant immediate thre on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1

    And what happened on 9/11? The death rate in the USA approximately doubled for a day. And the politicians piled on to make hay, and stupid laws, regulations, and loss of liberties.

  16. Parent has obviously never woirked w Modula-2 on Abandoning Header Files? · · Score: 1

    ...or has forgotten everything he ever knew about it.

  17. Re:Shared memory w/ processes is no better on Quest For "Unbreakable Java" Unites ABAP & Java · · Score: 1
    If a process crashes then all memory that the process has access to is suspect. If that's all the jvm contexts then they're all suspect.
    No, only the memory to which the failed process has write access is suspect. The shared stuff is read-only.
  18. Ivan Sutherland invented GUI on Revolution In The Valley · · Score: 1

    Actually folks, Ivan Sutherland invented the GUI.

  19. I call urban legend! on Green Energy Almost Cost-Competitive with Fossil Fuels · · Score: 1
    From a solar energy company's list of selling points:
    Counties in California are prohibited from increasing your property tax assessment due to the added value of installed solar equipment.

    And, from a more authoritative source,

    Summary: According to the California Revenue and Taxation Code, section 73, when assessing property for property tax purposes, active solar energy systems installed between January 1, 1999 and January 1, 2006 are not subject to property taxes. Active solar energy system means a system that uses solar devices, which are thermally isolated from living space or any other area where the energy is used, to provide for the collection, storage, or distribution of solar energy. Active solar energy system does not include solar swimming pool heaters or hot tub heaters. Active solar energy systems may be used for any of the following: domestic, recreational, therapeutic, or service water heating; space conditioning; production of electricity; process heat; and solar mechanical energy.
  20. Re:wow, irony on History of the First Internet · · Score: 1
    From TFA in grandparent:

    Al Gore and the Internet

    By Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf

    Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.

    (And if you don't recognize the names, do your own bleeping Googlery).
  21. Re:A moment of silence... on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 1

    teh 'p" is psilent, liek in 'syk0l0jee

  22. Re:A moment of silence... on Adieu to Ken Jennings · · Score: 1

    They didn't call him a geek - they called him a dork. If you don't know the difference, and you read Slashdot, you must really be a dork, well maybe just a dorky geek, or a somewhat geeky dork.

  23. On an ironic note... on Meet Millionaire Spammer Jeremy Jaynes · · Score: 1

    One of the Google sponsored links at the bottom of TFA page was to a site that seems to be running a scam very similar to the "Fedex refund processor" Jaynes was selling.

  24. They blocked tabs in Hotmail... on FireFox Sets the World Ablaze · · Score: 1

    Microsoft changed the html emitted for hotmail messages, so that now you aren't able to open links from email in a new tab: it forces a new window.

  25. Re:Cheeky! on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    Speaking of Christmas lists, I could do with one of those Gmail invites - maysonl@hotmail.com is one of my email addresses. AtDhVaAnNkCsE.