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  1. Re:Here's how to make Java again on The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant · · Score: 1

    People don't type method names any more. I suspect that auto-complete is part of the reason for misspelt method names persisting in just about every code base I've seen.

  2. Re:Why did they have to use Eclipse? on Flash Builder 4 — Defective By Design? · · Score: 1

    I recently moved from writing Java in Eclipse to C# in Visual Studio, and while it's nice to have non-buggy cut-and-paste I miss the more powerful refactoring and better searching in Eclipse.

  3. Re:Bad things to say about chiropractors? on In the UK, a Victory For Free Speech · · Score: 5, Informative

    Trolling or just not reading the previous discussions? The issue is indeed about making claims without evidence to back them up: Singh observed that the British Chiropractic Association claims that they can cure a laundry list of medical issues but that there was no evidence to support this. The BCA responded by suing him.

  4. Re:5%... possible? on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 1

    The traditional model had the cost to the man on the street below the cost of salaries and production, with the actual income and profit coming from advertising. That means that the online version of the paper is effectively competing with Google for online advertising budgets. No wonder it's not sustainable in the long term.

  5. Re:Old saying on What Is Holding Back the Paperless Office? · · Score: 5, Funny

    What kind of soup do you find works best?

  6. Re:I don't see the issue... on Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage · · Score: 1

    I first used this portal to submit my taxes about 5 years ago. I think* that what's new is that they're going to give everyone an account. So really it's just a question of how broken the scalability is.

    * No, I haven't RTFA.

  7. Re:begs the question on Microsoft Lifts XP Mode Hardware Requirement · · Score: 1

    Why do purveyors of prescriptivist poppycock insist that a term means something other than the meaning ascribed to it by the majority of native speakers?

  8. Re:Who the fuck cares? on Millennium Prize Awarded For Perelman's Poincaré Proof · · Score: 1

    What are "most people" doing on /.? The people who do care already know how much the CMI prizes are and who Perelman is.

  9. Re:Most people are not bothered on UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Not if the government declares it necessary for national security.

  10. Re:Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. on Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I remember reading in New Scientist in 1998 or so that there was precedent forbidding the defence from explaining Bayes' theorem because it would confuse the jury.

  11. Re:I am in the same boat too with these things on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    My last pair of glasses cost me GBP 120 or so - frames, lenses correcting for myopia and astigmatism, photochromatic coating. So I would expect that you can buy them online for less than USD 1000.

  12. Re:Sounds rather disappointing, really on Hollow Spy Coins · · Score: 1

    I've received foreign coins in change occasionally. And I once accidentally gave a laundry token to a homeless guy.

  13. Re:Priorities on UK's Anti-File-Sharing Bill Could "Breach Human Rights" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with Lord Mandelson having dinner with David Geffen of Dreamworks, and I certainly wouldn't dream of suggesting that a politician whose first resignation was due to lying about business dealings might not be telling the whole truth when he denied discussing it with Geffen.

  14. Re:Uh, rant much? on The New National Health Plan Is Texting · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that's even the low point of the "summary". The last sentence

    Once again, Dilbert proves to be scarily prescient.

    equates a private company abolishing its health care provision for employees with a government creating a scheme to provide people with information.

  15. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    My point was that some of the cycle lanes I've used are so badly designed that it's safer to go on the road at the mercy of car drivers.

  16. CAm on First Room-Temperature Germanium Laser Completed · · Score: 1

    In Cambridge they just have to use a dielemental approach which mixes carbon and americium.

  17. Re:Where is the Outrage... on Europe's LHC To Run At Half-Energy Through 2011 · · Score: 1

    Looks like a perfectly reasonable NP to me ([[government woks] projects]), so although you may have pragmatic problems it's no grammatical abomination. Your missing apostrophes in the follow-up post, turning two VPs into genitive pronouns, are the real grammatical issue (and even then don't obscure understanding).

  18. Re:Sad on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    Unless the architecture has changed since I left the company the only non-Java code is a tiny library for non-blocking network I/O, which wasn't available in Java until NIO in 1.4.

  19. Re:Sad on Sun's Project Darkstar Game Server Platform No More · · Score: 1

    Are you calling RuneScape immature?

  20. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm concerned any path specifically designated for cyclists is a cycle lane, whether it's separated from the nearest road by a line of paint or 200m of field.

  21. Re:Fonts, Plugins, History... why? on De-Anonymizing Social Network Users · · Score: 1

    I saw the Java plugin fire up when I visited the Panopticlick site. It contains an applet.

  22. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Get it into schools. My primary school (in the UK), I think in conjunction with the local council, offered a week-long bicycle training course with a test and qualification at the end. For some reason I couldn't do it in school, but I took the course with the council in the holidays and passed. Full marks on the theory, reasonable performance on the practical. I still have somewhere the badge they gave me.

  23. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Hope yours are better designed than the ones in the places I've lived. In the UK the cycle lanes appear to be designed by car drivers for car drivers, and many cyclists believe they're much safer on the road than the cycle path. In Spain half of the cycle lanes I've been on have surfaces so smooth that it's not really safe to go faster than walking pace in the dry, and when it's raining just forget it.

  24. Re:ftfy on Botnet Targets Web Sites With Junk SSL Connections · · Score: 1

    It's a fairly important distinction though that it's a jury of peers who do the convicting, not the feds.

  25. Re:per cent on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mod parent off-topic. This thread is about inability to write, not inability to read.