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  1. Oh gawd on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 0

    Sinofsky is a fucking dipshit and he's overreaching. You couldn't get away with this on Linux because they would just jettison your dumb Metro window manager like used toilet paper. When Metro grows dated (almost there already) they're hardcoded and fucked. XAML & C++, eh? Can anyone see the obvious retardation? If you guessed that C++ doesn't have reflection and XAML is based entirely on reflection, you are correct. IThis, IThat, death-by-COM, surely that was what we were all clamoring for instead of an optimized WPF right?

  2. Out of the frying pan into the fire on Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US · · Score: 2

    What this article has endorsed (i.e. government intervention) is exactly what has caused the problem. Nowhere in Part One of the article did I see any mention of actual economics, just a bunch of OMG THEIR TAKING R BUSINES. Ask yourself, what makes it cheaper to manufacture overseas? Could it be corporate taxation? Regulation? Expense of Social Security and unemployment insurance? Yadda Yadda Yadda? Anyone listening?

  3. Re:It just works like that on Why The US Will Lose a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Just look at their new aircraft carrier, for example.

  4. Re:Better to be redundant than totally miserable. on Native Apps Are Dead, Long Live Native Apps · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself.

  5. Re:Blaming environmentalists? on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Ask California about the competence of federal water management.

  6. Re:News Flash on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    And yet people think this federal government is so intelligent to pull off a 9/11 conspiracy.

  7. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: -1, Troll

    States like California and Massachusetts are broke as a joke because their efforts to control peoples' lives and transactions and confiscate their property in the name of "social welfare" are chasing out taxpayers at a ridiculous rate. They habitually endorse only enough freedom to debase any moral order and use laws to arbitrarily lock down the rest. Liberalism and its bastard child environmentalism are religions only worse, because they ignore centuries of empirical data (booksmart with the wrong books) and rather than just try to interpret God, they try to BE God, leading to horror after horror. Such as your statements deciding who is worth what and what should be done against each person you dislike. Go ahead and log in before posting your bullshit.

  8. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, Hitler? From liberal to monster, before our very eyes.

  9. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    We all know COM wasn't invented for the browser.

  10. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    But it still takes them out of the trusted sandbox, FWIW.

  11. Re:Microsoft should know... on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 2

    ...and are adding P/Invoke to Silverlight last I heard.

  12. Re:An odd analogy on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    Not all music graduates are in orchestras. Many are average and simply play in local bands, if they even continue on with music that is.

  13. Re:Are "hackers/crackers" good or better programme on Enlisting Game Hackers Instead of Fighting Them · · Score: 1

    Going the degree route is absolutely meaningless because of what little they teach in college. In fact it's a liability because if you were already a good programmer at age 18 (an age you know you enjoy programming rather than chase the dollar) you wouldn't have pursued it.

  14. Re:But... on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1

    In fact, because the supply of gold stays relatively static over long periods of time (barring gold rushes that never happen in modern times and are vastly less frequent or severe than quantitative easing), prices actually go DOWN as more goods match the same money, which means purchasing power RISES.

  15. Re:A competing DNS, that's what happens on Can World Governments Veto Your Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    That's actually a good perspective.

  16. Re:The first step on Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity · · Score: 1

    You will never eliminate money as long as you have human freedom and incentive. And to contemplate eliminating human freedom and incentive would be demonic.

  17. Re:doesn't matter even if it is good on Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? · · Score: 1

    No they haven't. Look to Slashdot itself for the winner between Lotus Notes and Outlook.

  18. Re:Why do we keep talking about her? on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    Don't speak so dismissively of your next president. Your desperate repetition that she is unelectable does not make it so.

  19. Re:Feudalism and the new serfdom? on Facebook Buys a Private File Sharing Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The health care "reform" was designed to MAKE you a serf. But you won't realize this until you can't move under the chains. Fortunately most of the country has realized this and will say so on Tuesday.

  20. Re:This is second place on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    And what is the set of all zeroes that come before the 1? The retarded guy is the one who jams mismatching puzzle pieces to finish a picture that doesn't exist (psst that's you).

  21. Re:Anonymous Coward on Tesla Signs $60 Million Contract With Toyota · · Score: 1

    Buy their stock and the profits will go to you too.

  22. Re:This is second place on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Long division followed by long multiplication?

    That's not division/multiplication, that's a for-loop. When do you perform your corny "proof" operations? After a million nines? A trillion? After infinity nines? Well then you will never have your chance. You can't perform an operation on a value that is never presentable. That is the principle of the matter, and helps explain why everything that sounds hokey about these proofs really is.

    Putting an infinite number of 9's, "with a 1 at the end", is nonsense. If the 9's end anywhere, they weren't infinite - so where does your 1 come from?

    Your 9's terminate at the initial decimal point. Or did you hope I wouldn't notice? What is that, half-infinite? Is that really the desperation here? Once you see any multiple or offset of infinity appear, you're fucked, and your efforts to rationalize whose infinity is better sounds retarded.

  23. Re:This is second place on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    And where did your 9's come from? So you get to break the rules of decimal notation (pretending that algorithms can be written as numeric literals) but I don't?

  24. Re:This is second place on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Any child can see that 0.99... will never be 1 because it is always separated by 0.0...1. Yes people, the Emperor has no clothes, and you ought to laugh at these "mathematicians" who use fallacies to prove fallacies. You're doing "operations" on algorithms that never complete, using a base-10 digit system that is only capable of expressing constant values.

  25. Re:What happens .. on Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon · · Score: 1

    Simple, this lures them into a trap. And so you reveal that they would rather be slaveowners telling people what to do, than to exercise actual concern about the environment. Though this is puzzling why I don't hear a peep out of the eco-crowd about the volumes of junk mail we receive.