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  1. Re:A programming language inside documents? on Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility · · Score: 1

    That's true. Because this is Office, though, it'll probably keep both languages indefinitely and people will have to support and maintain legacy VBA until they die.

  2. Re:A programming language inside documents? on Office 15 Development To Go JavaScript, HTML5 For Extensibility · · Score: 1

    I'd be more than happy to translate my VBA macros away from that rather shoddy and awkward language into a different shoddy and awkward language.

    FTFY

  3. Re:A better idea on Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill · · Score: 1

    Not until Sen. Brown (CA) introduces a "Back to the Future" bill, anyway.

  4. Re:he's right on Mathematics As the Most Misunderstood Subject · · Score: 0

    This will be the next big plan to discredit climate change.

  5. Re:MacBook Air on When You Really, Really Want to Upgrade a Tiny Notebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the latter case, you know what you were getting into when you got an Apple, boyo.

    Or, to be honest, when you bought a laptop.

  6. Re:How Long... on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if you're the admin, it means you get the 'document' sent to you with no extra effort.

  7. Re:H3rb41 V14gr4? on Spammers Using Soft Hyphen To Hide Malicious URLs · · Score: 1

    I hear you can get better by grinding.

  8. Re:Setup on Gaming Mouse Changes Shape For a Custom Fit · · Score: 1

    It's silicone rather than epoxy based.

  9. Re:I guess I'm not surprised on 15-Year-Old Boy Fitted With Robotic Heart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what you're saying is that they might as well implant his brain in a terrifying robotic body *now* and save some time?

  10. Re:We've been spoiled by Televised Science Fiction on Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    I think in this case it's poor science education that's hurt real science. Honestly, if people can't tell the difference between space opera tech and real tech, there's some problem with those people, not with the space opera.

  11. Re:It's down to the cost of one disk? on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 1, Interesting

    A separate bootable internal SSD large enough to hold an image which can do it couldn't be that expensive.

  12. Re:Crap Flash Games on Zynga Investment May Herald Google Games · · Score: 1

    It's okay that they'll be buggy, though, since they'll just be beta versions.

  13. Re:tell em how you feel... on HSBC Bank Sends Activated Debit Cards Through Mail · · Score: 1

    A GBP bankers draft from HSBC Canada cost me something like CAD$3. Going the other way, HSBC UK charges GBP£30 for CAD$ draft. HSBC UK are wankers.

    On the other hand, HSBC UK don't charge you a monthly fee just to have an account and access to services, so...

  14. Re:Ordering and Convergence on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    This isn't true, though - the question makes no statement about whether the other can also be a boy born on Tuesday.

  15. Re:I don't know what the complaint is about? on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names · · Score: 1

    That said, his other points, especially about the fact that not all names are properly mapped in unicode, is a good one.

    I didn't quite get this - is it a thing about combination characters and accents, or about Unicode not being complete?

  16. Re:Asperger's syndrome on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    Devoid of empathy, social reasoning, social context, or self awareness, they are subhuman meat-calculators,

    All I know is that beef == 48879. Oh, and 3735928559 if you kill it.

  17. Re:Just for fun on Microsoft RickRolls Wi-Fi Network Leechers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Appropriate variants of the 1984 ad.

  18. Re:Two predictions on China Emphasizes Laws As Google Defies Censorship · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Remember that their customers are not the people who search but rather, the people who advertise to the people who search. If the Chinese advert market isn't making them money, they probably don't care so much about the people searching there.

  19. Re:Oh God, not the bourbon. on Organ Damage In Rats From Monsanto GMO Corn · · Score: 1

    I note that among other failures noted in the introduction, the study does not include a sample fed on 'unaltered' corn plus an added dose of the proteins the different corns are supposed to be modified to produce.

  20. Re:Shrimp free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that in many cases, this actually made the reaction *worse* each time.

  21. Re:Wrong on Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    And it never really worked very well, if I recall.

  22. Re:The Grotesquely Ugly Truth on Iranian Crackdown Goes Global · · Score: 1

    Um, I've seen quite a few reports of bits of evidence that together strongly suggest that the election was rigged. For example, try this: BBC News: Where did all the votes come from?

  23. Re:The Grotesquely Ugly Truth on Iranian Crackdown Goes Global · · Score: 1

    If the overwhelming majority of Iranians (like the overwhelming majority of Poles) truly support democracy, human rights, and peace with Israel, then a liberal Western democracy will arise -- without any violence.

    So that brutal violence in the protests following the election was what exactly?

  24. Re:Curse of binary floating point on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    Using this case as an example: If you use an integer variable for your tick, it's never rounded. Whenever you use it to calculate a time, then you can multiply it by 0.1 to get a much more accurate number than one obtained with the cumulative error of adding on a rounded floating point 0.1 to a rounded floating point sum every tick.

  25. Re:LyX on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    A straight line is just a special case of curve.