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  1. Not VB..... on Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? · · Score: 1

    VB is has way to many things that makes the programmers job easy.... It hides a crap load of code from you - to learn you need to learn how to make the wheel not just how to put it on a bike - C++ if you ask me is the best one to start with -

  2. In other news.... on Testing Cell Phone Radiation on Humans · · Score: 1

    cell phones can now cook eggs....... No - Realy

  3. AC - to - DC? on Was Thomas Edison Right about DC Power? · · Score: 1

    It was my understanding that the power supply converted ac current to dc for the pc's use - so rather then having 10 servers with 10 power inverters you have 1 big power inverter and 10 servers w/ no power supplies....

  4. iPod this - iPod that - on iPod Takes Japan by Storm · · Score: 1


    nothing beats the look of a 25 lb, 2.5 foot long boombox on a sholder, remeber when the guy with the strongest upper body would bring the tunes to all!! ahh yes, I still have back problems from back then.

  5. If I was going to guess.... on What is Microsoft's Origami Project? · · Score: 1

    It is a handheld game system like psp....

  6. Billionth??!!? on iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download · · Score: 0

    Hmmm, that sucks - hope they sell a whole song soon.....

  7. Bahhhh on Quantum Computer Works Better Shut Off · · Score: 1

    A Quantum computer is never really on or really off - it's relatively a little bit off and on at the same time!

  8. Re:Emails kill careers? on Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers · · Score: 1

    My point, they should not have that chance for stuff like that IMO....

  9. Emails kill careers? on Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers · · Score: 1

    Since when do *most* thing kill careers? I personally witnessed a HR Manager accidentally forward peoples compensation in a spreadsheet to the company email group (everyone). This person did not even get a hand slapped. Another time a different employee showing up drunk/stoned - told to go home and come back the next day - they got a warning. An Executive level manager getting trashed at a client dinner and getting physically abusive, next day we were told that they resigned. It is sickening what people can get away with in today's corporate world because of fear of a lawsuit etc... I would like to see a little bit more enforcement of the rules if you ask me. What the hell is wrong with firing people?

  10. should add a rating system... on An Interview with Wikipedia's Jimbo Wales · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think Wikipedia articals should be rateable by anyone. Similar to /.s..

  11. From TFA.... on Self Contained Power Source? · · Score: 1

    Has anyone actualy read TFA? This is NOT a new energy source/prepetual motion device or anything that claims to work around current laws of physics - the comnpany simply found a way to make a better electric motor by manipulating the magnetic fields, they cliam a increase in efficency noithing more.

  12. Re:Kamen's Problem on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    "talk to an economist and a marketer before trying to build something."

    - I must be mistaken then but I thought that 99% of all bitching that us programmers/engineers/geeks do is specifically because we are forced to talk to an economist and a marketer before trying to build something.

  13. here is the root of the problem.... on Chinese Claim Internet Censorship Modeled on West · · Score: 1

    Government should stay as far away from the daily lives of people as possible, The government exists only to protect the INDEVIDUALITY of the person. I do not wish for the government to "help" me with medical care, or with child care, or with censoring information I find objectable, or any other choices. I want the government to keep it's nose out of my bisness all together.

    Flip Side:

    Govermnet should protect the citizan, giving them equal opportunity to succeed. Government should provide me with healthcare, child care, protection me from objectinal material. The government is for the people, there to protect the comunity.

    So what is better, what's more important - the indevidual or comunity - this is what this all boils down to....

  14. Re:Flipping magnets... on Magnetic Processors - Computing's New Future? · · Score: 1

    The Industry would issue a alert something to the tune of: "We are please to notify consumers of BCPU's that a Firmware patch is currently being tested in our labs and we expect to have the fix out no later then 2019. This fix will be avaible only to customeres running Microsoft Pannorama 2018 OS or later with TrueMS (tm) Subscriptions, unfortunaly customeres without TrueMS (tm) will have to purchase a valid license for this upgrade."

  15. Re:Why no free VMware Workstation? on VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer) · · Score: 1

    the Workstation is a application, you need the ui running for the virtual system to be up... GSX on the other hand runs the systems as services, and gives you a neat littile control panel.

  16. Black Mail or extortion? on Unlimited Legal Music Downloads for $3.95 a Month? · · Score: 1

    Is it me or does this = "I know what you did, but will not take you to court for a little $$"

  17. Re:Not for monetary gain??! on MPAA Makes Unauthorized Copies of DVD · · Score: 1

    as long as they are not encrypted... by decryting your breaking the DMCA law...

  18. Re:Proof of Intelligent Design on Humans First Arose in Asia? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most countries have a noodle or spagetti type food that is considard ethnic to that region, however the earlyest record of a noodle-type food comes from China - 4,000 year old noodles were recently dug up at a archaeological site near the Yellow River in northwestern China. Check it out!

  19. Re:In parallel? on Humans First Arose in Asia? · · Score: 1

    Humans, only being 120,000 years old or so as a species, did not have a chance to diversify enough before thier migration started to overtake said evolution - if we all stayed put for another 120,000 years there might be issues IMO...

  20. Re:Just wait on Reality TV "Astronauts" Lift Off · · Score: 1

    Until the blue screen of death pops up on the projector, wonder what they will tell them? "Well it apears that the windows have locked up?"

  21. Re:Heavy Boots on Reality TV "Astronauts" Lift Off · · Score: 1

    Ha!! I was in a similar situation a while back, but it was trying to explain that in fact the moon does rotate about it's axis.....

  22. Re:Who The Hell Use .NET These Days? on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1

    I was not talking about langauge level, but harware abstraction. If your writing a driver for something logical choice will be C++ ect... if your making a DB front end - well I just don't see C++ being a good fit.

  23. Re:Who The Hell Use .NET These Days? on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1

    C++ is good at what's it's designed to do, lower level programming, we should not compare C++ with higher level languages. Java - 90% hype that died out 5 years ago - inho. Just about every single negative aspect of the .net platform if plegues java - so I don't buy the Java > .NET argument.

  24. Re:5 January Conspiracy on Sober Attack on 87th Anniversary of the Nazi Party · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    All your GNU are belong to us!

  25. Re:Oh boy on Is the Cyberterror Threat Credible? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When someone straps a bomb to thier arse and blows it in a crowded market - that's terrorism.