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  1. Re:Time is money! on Free (As In Speech) Beer, V2.0 · · Score: 1

    I have to rent the space for the barrels as well.

  2. Re:Is this really news? on Changes In Store For PHP V6 · · Score: 1

    What makes PHP nice is that, language-wise, it is basically C plus a subset of C++ wrapped up in a scripting language. Almost any code written in C (or C++ without templates/exceptions/other icky stuff) can be trivially ported to PHP by replacing the type names with "var" and adding dollar signs in the right places. (I'm exaggerating slightly, but not much.)
    You know php doesn't have pointers right?
  3. Re:My wish list for an ebook reader on Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? · · Score: 1

    I want a full color, 200dpi or better, a4 or letter sized display
    The proportion of books (or at least the proportion of *my* books but i suspect its common across all books) which are colour or a4 is tiny, why would you want the extra size and expense?
  4. Re:That's not a safe bet at all. on Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? · · Score: 4, Funny

    public libraries are often torched
    Wow, you live in a bad neighbourhood.
  5. Re:Monospace Font for Technical Books on Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? · · Score: 1

    I can understand for technical material this is a bit of a show stopper, do you think this is hurting early adoptions (since i guess geeks are most likely to be the first people to pick these up..at least until apple make one)

  6. Re:Answer me this... on Introducing Classical Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    guitar rifts
    Maybe you should do your children a favour and stop talking about something you clearly don't have a clue about.
  7. Re:So will someone stop saying 'hot debate' non st on Introducing Classical Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    Yeah thats just cos doves are usually in the sky though so its harder to run up to them, shoot them in the face then backpedal out of reach of their chainsaw.

  8. Re:Find somebody with a working Amstrad. on Retrieving Data From Old Amstrad Floppies? · · Score: 1

    He could enter the next season of the apprentice and try going straight to the source.

    Those disks were great, they had a little oval hole through which the disk were read and a lever on the side retracted the covering shield inside the disk itself. You can kinda get the idea here but they were way cooler in person.

  9. Re:Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? on Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help? · · Score: 1

    Please remember that some of us are colorblind!
    (I was trying to start the "Meet the Robinsons" Blue Ray disk the other day, and couldn't find the "Play" option. It seems some genius over there made the text green on white, and therefor invisible to me...)


    Since I'm red/blue colourblind I really wish HD-DVD had won.
  10. Re:Yes and, err, no? on NYTimes.com Hand-Codes HTML & CSS · · Score: 1

    I can type opening and closing pre tags faster than dreamweaver loads up.....

  11. Re:Hookers on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised- dating is more difficult for nerds because *meaning* is more important, but when it happens, *attention to detail* trumps all :)
    Yes attention to detail. That's why I use ICU whenever I'm dating.....
  12. Re:Kudos to them, I guess on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Both of these examples are somewhat disingenious given that there is not feature comparable open database to Oracle and that you suggested someone would choose flash for developing a data input platform.

  13. Re:Better late than early on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    There are several JREs available, even *if* sun goes under its not likely that the IBM one is going to go away anytime soon.

  14. Re:Better late than early on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    If you think Java has lost serious ground to Python and Ruby you're fairly deluded. Running JSPs in tomcat isnt that popular sure, but the J2EE stack is used all over the show in thousands of enterprise critical apps.

  15. Re:10 years ago... on Run Google App Engine Apps On Amazon's Cloud · · Score: 1

    For some reason that sentence makes me want to think that "apps" is a verb. (I'll app you good!)

  16. Re:Thou shalt not ignore warnings on Linux System Programming · · Score: 1

    i prefer to push my luck! :D

  17. Re:Appauling on First Looks at The Gimp 2.5 · · Score: 1

    2. Copy pasta
    Mama Mia!
  18. Re:You are free to call it anything you want on First Looks at The Gimp 2.5 · · Score: 1

    Allow me to present iGimp

  19. Re:What's the problem? on Many Scientists Using Performance Enhancing Drugs · · Score: 1

    pfft...is there anyone here who doesnt abuse caffeine? *shakes*

  20. Re:This was necessary on Red Hat Seeks Limits on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Red Hat is a bigger player than Ubuntu in the markets that are likely to hold software patents.

  21. Re:I sometimes feel sorry for the RedHat brand on Red Hat Seeks Limits on Software Patents · · Score: 1

    The corporate middleware I work on only supports red hat and suse for instance.

  22. Re:Easiest way to achieve balance: on What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I like to have the most significant bit aligned east.

  23. Re:These underpants have not been washed for 3 day on The Future of Ubiquitous Computers · · Score: 1

    Its ok, linux underpants would spit out a response so unintelligible you'd need to use the man page to decipher that you had dirty pants....at least they wouldnt keep crashing though O_o

  24. Re:bring on the virii on Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Im sure there are plenty of OSS apps which havent had thousands of security experts poring over them (presumably for fun). Outside the relatively few OSS apps that are used in the enterprise I would imagine code quality is worse since commits typically aren't buddy checked (buffer overflows ahoy!) and regression testing is a relatively new addition to the OSS scene.

  25. Re:Common Sense is asking too much... on BBC and ISPs Clash over iPlayer · · Score: 1

    This got me thinking, if the ISPs DID ever throttle P2P couldnt you just send it has http data. Have everyone in the swarm hosting their own webpage on port 80 with a restful URL based on the chunk MD5 or something like that.