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  1. Re:Why? on Delphi Renaissance · · Score: 1

    Java doesn't HAVE pointers. No pointers at all. That's the point about Java.
    Sure. And null pointer exception does not exist either.

  2. Re:Switchable on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1

    I have used a fully automated metro system in Toulouse, France, and did not notice any problems.

  3. Re:Pronouncing his name on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, he was born in Poland, and we would definitely read his name with hard 't' in the end.

  4. Re:Pronouncing his name on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    Hart t at the end. In German: Mandel=almond Brot=bread

  5. Re:Quote from TFA on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    With the modern advances on storage, I'm sure we would have 8MB floppies by now.
    We have 250MB floppies now, they are called Zip-disks.

  6. Re:I know it's not tin foil, but.... on RF-Blocking Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    It's aluminium in Polish.

  7. Re:2 x A4 = A3 on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    who has boiling water and ice when they're hiking?
    Who has cold salt water when they're hiking?

  8. Re:kinda like... on Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo · · Score: 1
    "The older generations" have had different options of copying things:
    • wet (photographic) method
    • dry method (xerography)
    so it was necessary to indicate, which method they meant. Currently, the only popular option is a dry method, so maybe that is the reason.
  9. Re:Was Feynman's Submarine patent a Submarine? on 31 Lawsuits Filed Over Alleged JPEG Patent · · Score: 1

    AFAIR, he has sold the rights to this patent to the government for $1, and he insisted on getting his money.

  10. Re:wow on C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The value of C++ is actually C. It is guaranteed to be C+1 after a sequence point.

  11. Re:Assembly AND Military Experience Required on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 1

    Throughput vs latency

  12. Re:Sure? on IBM Wants to Port Office to Linux · · Score: 1

    But only when you use the same printer driver.

  13. Re:More featuares means more incremental sales on Plain Cell Phones Fading Away? · · Score: 1

    0-range is a really great name for a cellular network.

  14. Re:What? No Skoda? on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    More precise translation would be "It's a pity".

  15. Re:Spin on Apple and Pepsi Ad Sports RIAA Targets · · Score: 1

    Since when three is written as 2 in ternary?

  16. Re:Spin on Apple and Pepsi Ad Sports RIAA Targets · · Score: 1

    There are only 10 types of people; Those who can read ternary, those who don't and those who mistake it for binary

  17. Re:[H]ardOCP has had this story for a few days now on AMD's 'Newcastle' Budget Athlon64 Chips Analyzed · · Score: 1

    You mean 486SX. 386SX had narrower busses than 386DX.