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  1. Re:ORM still broken? on Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done · · Score: 1

    People nowadays don't want to delegate. They want to inherit, enhance, add a couple of tucked legs and Voila! you've got Microsoft Office out of DateTime class... There really should be courses on How To Program, showing all concepts and their strength/weaknesses. Maybe someday I'll finally see an architecture that works more like Cocoa than MFC.

    Disclaimer: I don't think Cocoa is perfect, but it's by far the best GUI (and OS interaction) framework I've worked with. I'm opened to learn a new one, but Gtk and MFC just don't blend.

  2. Re:Who Loves You, Baby? Putin Loves You, Baby !! on Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of) · · Score: 1

    Then again, compared to the communists, Putin is the saner and more honest person. Are you talking about the Communist Party or Communism in general? And, in either case, why is that you feel them dishonnest and insane?
  3. MOD PARENT UP on Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy · · Score: 1

    Now, why don't they change the engine in IE while keeping both versions for backward compatibility? Thats the more interesting question. The same reason why they didn't break all backward compatibility for Vista and use a sandboxed WinXP emulator for older applications. I've been telling my corporate friends that it is the simplest way to "break something while supporting it", but they would only tell me that it was too costly. Then I just point to Rosetta, see the topic change in 30 seconds, and laugh...

    I still think this is sad that no one would TRY something before saying it's impossible. Impossible, sometimes, is possible, just need some thinking and some guts. /sigh

    MSFT managers won't think out side the box. Unfortunately it seems that a hell of a lot of people cannot think outside the box. Developers, managers, builders, ... Most people in charge are conservative, not innovative.
  4. Re:Yeah, keep trying Sony on EA Says 'Next-Gen' Is 'Now-Gen' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tom? Is that really you? Dad?!?

  5. Re:Macs on Apple 10.4.11 Update Can Brick Macs With Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    I'd dispute that reinstalling an OS is routine. You've obviously never worked neither with Gentoo, uh.
  6. Re:Holy hyperbole, Batman! on Expert Unveils 'Scary' VoIP Hack · · Score: 1

    I still see some port 23 opened on machines on the internet (scarse but not non-existent) or local networks (much more popular)... I don't see those people implementing a secure VoIP system anytime soon.

  7. Re:Swiss ? on Ecma Receives 3,522 Comments on Open XML Standards · · Score: 1

    ALL of you are plain wrong. It's a typo, they all meant ACME. And everyone knows that ACME is US only and cover many many fields: portable holes, dynamite, fridges, anvils, just to name a few.

  8. Re:You missed something too on Half a Million Database Servers 'Have no Firewall' · · Score: 5, Funny

    You all got it wrong. If you expose your data directly over the internet, you don't NEED an app server. Elementary.

  9. Re:Finally! on NBC Direct Launches With Free Downloads · · Score: 1

    Meh

  10. Re:What? on Wal-Mart's Terrible Nintendo Wii Knock-Offs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I never look at the picture. At least, that's what my mom thinks...

  11. Re:Admins to blame? on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, how are you gonna solve the problem from the admin POV? Picking those article incorrectly deleted and undelete them is not a permanent solution. What will wikipedia do so that this admin behavior doesn't happen again?

  12. Re:beowulf on NEC SX-9 to be World's Fastest Vector Computer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, because we haven't seen that troll ever before... BTW, I'm posting this unanonymously to prove I haven't moderated, and that I have karma to burn

  13. Re:Waiting for... on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    Nobody needs, officially, more than (1Mb/s * 60 sec/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365 day/yr * 80 yr life expectancy) worth of personnal storage, at least not before we invent a medium that cannot be reasonably compressed to 1Mbit/s. Be it porn, readable documents or just music, you cannot possibly need more, or else you're using more space than you can consume. BTW, that's 2.34 peta bytes. :)

  14. Re:one step closer on Technology Could Enable Computers To "Read The Minds" Of Users · · Score: 1

    The new generation wouldn't understand this one. They don't love art, they just love to wear red caps and goggles and blogs from balloons...

  15. Re:Yes... on A Mathematical Answer To the Parallel Universe Question · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm gonna start my OWN universe. With hookers and blackjack!

  16. Re:But in Bizarro World he gets ... on A Mathematical Answer To the Parallel Universe Question · · Score: 1

    Aaaaaah quantum grammar! Is there anything Shroedinger can't solve?

  17. Re:"Yeah, those suspicious e-lectronics". on MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport · · Score: 1

    And even those are harder to find these days... jeez.

  18. Re:Call me back... on Inside the Third Gen iPod Nano · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Worse, sometimes they might be spending more engineering some other products that they plan to amortize with this one. So basically, you can only look at the profit a company made from all its product line, which is already public from Apple, instead of just one, which is unknown.

  19. Call me back... on Inside the Third Gen iPod Nano · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you have a better analysis of what it costs to develop the software, the amortized cost of engineering and other non-hardware costs (marketing, managing, distribution, etc) so that we can see a margin. Those numbers (58.84$) are totally irrelevant and only serve to misinform. Sure, you could buy the pieces that price, but for what it's worth...

  20. Re:like, totally, like, awesome on The State of Blizzard's Union · · Score: 1
    The interviewer then went on with

    What do you eat to be so awesome? Can I touch you, are you for real? What's it like, like? What do you taste?
  21. Re:Good morning, people. on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    You people are petty, reactionary, religious idiots. Sorry to interrupt, but judging from your arguments, so are you.
  22. Re:I'm torn on Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush · · Score: 3, Funny

    turd... polish... still a turd...
    What the hell has a turd from Poland anything to do with the on-hand topic? This is serious!
  23. Re:What's that noise? on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    See here, though I don't know how much it has changed. It's likely the same feel with a better look, but you might be surprised. I'd check it out at your local store when it starts to receive shipment if you didn't like the classic interface, or wait for a full review from your prefered Microsoft/Apple ****-suckers to make your own opinion. :)

  24. Re:What's that noise? on Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod · · Score: 1

    Both, actually. They changed the interface of the classic iPod as well.

  25. Re:Ghosts n' Goblins on Game Essentials - 20 Difficult Games · · Score: 1
    I've made it through, but never been able to pass the fourth boss of Blaster Master. To my knowledge, none of my friends were able to pass through the 6th boss (without the glitch). From the wikipedia article:

    Blaster Master is also regarded as one of the most challenging games for the NES, along with Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden. Man is it true... although it didn't make the list. All of us finished Cobra Triangle and Lolo, while there was only 2-3 of my friends at the time that could get through Metal Gear 2: Snake Revenge (the last boss). That list is definitely biased towards game designers (knowing Gamasutra, this is not surprising) and should be taken in that perspective.