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  1. Re:Uhhhh on Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower? · · Score: 1

    yes, and one of his short stories called "little lost robot" explores this subtle distinction.

  2. Re:Your cause and effect's all out of whack. on Apple Announces New Pro Software · · Score: 1

    You need Acrobat if you're a professional designer making PDFs to be sent to a pre-press house. OSX PDF rendering is ok for one copy to send to your mum, but if you're sending it to a professional print shop, then you'd better have the PDF settings just right. You need Acrobat for this.

  3. Re: Really, really slow learners on Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money · · Score: 1

    He doesn't have a driveway.

  4. Re:How easy to disable? on Satellite-Assisted European Road Tolls Next? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yeah, but what they really want to do is charge more for certain roads or road types - eg super-mega-freeways will be expensive (but fast and convenient), whereas smaller roads will be slow but cheap.

    You can't do this by taxing fuel.

  5. what Novell really does these days on Novell to Make Linux Robust and Reliable · · Score: 1

    On a related topic, there is an interesting article here with one of Novell's top guys in Asia/Pacific.

    He says that Novell has refocussed its entire company onto two issues: "secure identity management" and "application integration". He also says that they are not interested in taking on XP as a competitor because that's one they can't win.

    Quite an interesting read.

  6. Re:The only once inside the GNOME-community on Has GNOME Become LAME? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's nothing basically wrong with this (.x) text file kind of configuration, but XML is more flexible in several ways:

    * it has inbuilt validation (of a sort) via DTD files
    * it is a format which lends itself to generation by other machines, eg many databases have native XML interfaces

  7. imagine a... on Mitsubishi Robot - Watchdog, Nurse, Annoying Friend · · Score: 0, Redundant

    imagine a beowulf cluster of these babies. ;^)

  8. Re:MS Office will be hit first on OSS Officially On Microsoft's Financial Radar Screen · · Score: 1

    True, but he's already sold almost all his stock (all bar 10%, I seem to recall)

  9. Eclipse has an excellent sanity checker (for java) on Using Redundancies to Find Errors · · Score: 1
    The Eclipse IDE has some of this functionality, eg unused variables, unreachable blocks, etc.

    One of my "favourite" bugs is a simple accessor:

    public Integer theVal;

    public void setTheVal(Integer theval) {

    this.theVal = theVal;

    }

    Which, of course, is legal java but does nothing when the accessor is called, and can be difficult to find that the parameter is incorrect case.

    Eclipse warns you if you have just made this mistake. Man, I love that IDE!

    And I think there is a c++ plug in for it.

  10. Re:Since When Did America Have a Tech Edge? on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 1

    Yep, the internet was invented by Al Gore, no less.

  11. Re:why the kill bit does not work. on Another Critical Microsoft Hole · · Score: 1
    You really need to get more out.

    What should he get out?

  12. IAAG = ? on What Would You Do With a New Form of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    I am a god?

  13. Re:This should be Mod'ed sky high on Yucca Mountain, Open For Business · · Score: 1

    Because to make it useful for reactor or weapons use, it must first be processed, making it a billion times(*) more potent than the naturally ocurring stuff.

    (*) note: wild estimation to illustrate a point

  14. Hold on, cowboy on Where is Largest Linux Desktop Install? · · Score: 1

    I use Barclays online baking regularly, and it is superb.

    It works perfectly on Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4 on Linux.

  15. Re:chroot on Monitoring What Files Your Applications Leave Behind? · · Score: 1

    find .
    shows files & directories
    find . -name \*
    shows files only

  16. Re:IP V6 Sooner than Later on Security Through Varying IPs · · Score: 1

    True if you rely only on your machine to make the random numbers for you. That's why you need a bettor random source - atomic decay, radio from a distant star, etc..

  17. Off topic, but you asked... on Bob Young Responds Personally, Not Officially · · Score: 1

    Das Wienerschnitzel
    Der Schweinebraten

    are both correct because the definite article (das or der) must agree with the gender of the noun. In these cases, the noun is compound, ie. "Wienerschnitzel" is made up of "Wiener" and "schnitzel" -ie. the schnizel from Vienna, and "Schweinebraten" consists of "Schweine" and "Braten" - ie. the porc roast.

    So, since "schnitzel" is masculine and "braten" is neuter, we have "das Wienerschnitzel" and "der Schweinebraten".

    Lesson over.

  18. JSR 101 on ESR On XML-RPC · · Score: 1

    And Sun is in the act aswell with the recently released "java api for XML RPC"

  19. Yes on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 2

    This is true, but it has to be viewed in the context of the times. The 50's was a time in which people were less cynical of government than today, and hence were more willing to believe that civil servants were to be trusted unquestioningly.

    For their part, the government agencies genuinely believed that aboriginal babies were better off taken from their village surroundings and put with white families. This was based on the facts that education, healthcare and opportunities were better elsewhere.

    Of course, I am not condoning this practice in any way, just presenting their justification for it, until it was abandoned in the late 60's.

  20. The Aussies.. on Draconian Censorship Push In South Australia · · Score: 1


    The Aussie government as a whole has a bad record on privacy concerns.

  21. Re:Some days.... on Canadians Hang Bug Off Golden Gate · · Score: 1

    Maybe he wasn't referring to himself.

  22. Re:Bah! on Microsoft, Unisys & Dell To Make New Voting System · · Score: 1

    Yep, this is how it's done in Australia as well. A little low tech, but it works, and the results are always available about 4 hrs after closing.

  23. Re:Argh on Alaska To Siberia... By Rail? · · Score: 1

    The normal way to build these things is not a tunnel through rock, but a submerged pipe kind of sitting on the bottom.

  24. Suckers. on Credit Card Database Stolen -- 4 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Imagine all the spam these guys are going to get now...ring...ring..."would you be interested in a table lamp for only $9.95 ? It's exclusive to CreditCard.com customers..."

    10 million times

  25. Re:Conspiracy Theory on The Impact on Open Source of Stolen Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    Or lets say that it was posted to ummm... slashdot.org by an AC.

    I suppose most people involved in open source read slashdot now and again...