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  1. Re:But, but, but,,, on Spanish Judges Liken File Sharing To Lending Books · · Score: 1

    I would rather have a few grays in my pocket.

    I'd rather not .

  2. Re:Just give up. on What Microsoft Must Do To Save Its Mobile Business · · Score: 1

    The answer is called Maemo - the next generation Nokia OS based on debian Linux. I've a Nokia N900 and the most recent update (3 days ago) seems to have solved all the issues I had noticed in the past.

    In the recent update of n900:
    - VOIP is still not working correctly
    - After the update, the phone sends an SMS to Nokia with your phone number, IMEI and network operator data
    So no, I am not happy with it.

  3. Re:ATM Machines on Hacker Develops ATM Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it doesn't even make logical sense: How the heck do you have an Asynchronous Transfer Mode "Machine"?

    You put in the card, enter pin and then the machine releases the money at some later time.

  4. Re:ATM machine on Hacker Develops ATM Rootkit · · Score: 1

    You almost made it through the whole summary without saying it.

    But forgotten to mention PIN numbers.

  5. Re:He will be missed. One question though. on "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle · · Score: 1

    java.lang.NullPointerException

  6. Re:Beware the key term there: on Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20% · · Score: 1

    I like to mentally replace that with the actual meaning: "between 0 and".

    Are you sure, that this implementation cannot be actually slower in some cases?
    "It could allow software applications to run between -20% and 20% faster!"

  7. Re:...Or an arms race on SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I could see a netbook with a flash drive right on the motherboard.

    It' s called eMMC and you can find it e.g in n900.

  8. Re:Why left? on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    The mouse cursor points up-left. If you want to hide it, you move it right or down.

  9. Re:There is no free lunch on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    "Nothing worthwile is free." Air?

    Not for long. Ever heard about CO2 quotas?

  10. Re:There is no free lunch on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    I've found that OSS is typically good for common software like browsers, media players, word processors, and so on, but not for specialized tasks like CAD or ASIC development, or for operating systems

    I wonder, what operating system you are using to design your ASICs. There is no Cadence port to Windows yet, and probably never will be.

  11. Re:"Well Recieved" my foot! on Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC · · Score: 1

    Google pays Mozilla and Canonical for making Google their default search engine choice.

    I was suprised when I started the Lucid Lynx livecd - google was not the default search engine. It does not pay enough any more?

  12. Re:Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC on Microsoft Behind Google Complaints To EC · · Score: 1

    You've got the point. The feature I want is to search exactly for the string I type. Putting it in quotes does not always work.

  13. Re:IQ != Intelligence on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    travelling toward each other on a railroad

    Do we consider tracks on a deck of a ferry a railroad?

  14. Re:If women are so smart . . . on How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Age, height & weight of the parties

    Age? So, the younger, or the older one is more likely to be arrested?

  15. Re:Comments are good on If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly · · Score: 1

    Read comment,
    Read code,
    Do they agree?
    - Yes, good, this is probably not the bug
    - No, is this a bug?
    - Yes, comment is correct, fix code, check if bug still exists
    - No, correct comment.

    When code and comments disagree, both are probably wrong.

  16. Re:Cars??? on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    Keep your family safe with never-dying smoke detectors.

    The smoke detectors already contain radioisotopes.

  17. Re:Happens all the time, but... on Nvidia Fakes Fermi Boards At GPU Tech Conference · · Score: 1

    their cutting edge products

    Like in "cutting off the edge of a PCB"?

  18. Re:Apple's activity is criminal here, Palm's is le on Palm Ignores USB-IF Warning, Restores iTunes Sync · · Score: 1

    This is a Pre telling a competitors service that it is an iPhone. Is that legal?

    Internet Explorer tells the server it is Mozilla. Is it legal?

  19. Re:Reason on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    What I can see is all a sudden the friction from the water is gone, the inertia of the huge spining masses causes the turbine to over-rev and it tears itself apart.

    It is not possible. It cannot rotate faster if the moment of inertia is not changing and there is no energy flow from the outside.

  20. Re:Worried about the cost of your actions? on Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    if you get caught eating it instead of throwing it out you will be charged with theft, who's the victim? the birds at the landfill that dont get to eat it anymore???

    The food manufacturers of course, as you will not buy more food from them. Just as if you have copied a song.

  21. Re:advice on Suggestions For Learning FPGA Development At Home? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would also add that VHDL/Verilog are *not* programming languages, in the sense that you are creating programs to compile and run on a system. They are Hardware Description Languages that you use to describe a functional piece of hardware. Thinking about HDL as a programming language will only get you crossed up, especially if you are new to the hardware design world.

    For hardware implementation, I agree. However, they are also simulation languages. In such a case, you compile them and execute on your PC, you can then print messages to the console and even open files.

  22. Re:Max 5 meters depth quoted on RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy · · Score: 1

    See Figure 3 in this paper.

  23. Radio Controlled Submarine on RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy · · Score: 1

    Radio controlled - under water?

  24. Re:Well... on SLI On Life Support For the AMD Platform · · Score: 1

    whatever your local currency is, electrum pieces?

    Maybe one of these elektrons

  25. Re:Where are you located? on VHDL or Verilog For Learning FPGAs? · · Score: 1

    VHDL is far too verbose. It requires replicating the entity definition before instancing it. Now when you change ports(and large designs will require MANY port changes) you get to change them in 3 places instead of 2. In ASIC applications, netlist brevity becomes very important when gate-level fixes need to be made.
    Not really. You can use the notation
    inst_name: entity entity_name port map ...
    without the need for using the component declaration. However, you have to be careful about the analysis order in that case.