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  1. Re:How could it not change things? on 'Long Tail' May Not Wag the Web Just Yet · · Score: 1

    It's a question of shelf-space. My local Blockbuster has mostly "hits" on the New Releases shelf, and an even larger percentage of "hits" among the year-old titles they've decided to keep on hand.

  2. Re:Academic community on How Google Manages Click Fraud · · Score: 1

    > It does not give any clue on how much fraud is not detected by the algorithms.
    Ummm... But... Oh, never mind.

  3. Re:My statistical sampling of "one" matches theirs on Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Grocers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! Be nice! :D

  4. Hmmmm on Free Visual Novel Design Engine Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This might be an interesting way to (user) document GUI appliactions. Take your screenshots and write your script.

  5. Re:Bloat on The Future of Computing · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is true, but that code was wickedly hand-optimized assembly code written by Andy Hertzfeld. The hardware was known and closed. That sort of thing is frowned on these days.

  6. Re:Explanation on Visual Radio Coming to India · · Score: 1

    Thank you. In a perfect world, your post would get +5 Informative :D

  7. Re:I am prepared on The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    > Always carry a pocketfull of eyeballs and thumbs...
    At least that way you'll always be able to find your keys - just follow your nose.

  8. Re:1 2 3 Profit! on Google Doubles its Profits · · Score: 1
    1. Don't be evil
    2. Be Evil
    3. Profit!!!

    I think we have a winner here in the "Secret to Life" category...
  9. Re:Will it come packaged with.. on Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Duke Nuken Forever?
    Yes, and the TV ads will be done by the Prophet Zarquon.

  10. AIEEEE!!! on Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui! · · Score: 3, Funny

    So many jokes, so little time...
    ...our new rude smelly overlords...
    ...robot army surrenders...
    ...collabrative software...

  11. Re:Working with the hardware directly on New Itanium More Powerful, Power Efficient · · Score: 1

    Sigh. I guess it's our best hope since your management has killed both Alpha and PA-risc for this albatross.
    Maybe Cell...
    Lots and lots of Cells...

  12. Re:Shared source? Here's one with no license at al on Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source · · Score: 1

    What??!!
    "char **" is the type definition for "a". Yes, the "**" is part of that datatype. It's a pointer type, most emphatically NOT a character type.
    "char **a, b, c" is a mixed declaration; simply bad programming, and the perpetrator deserves what happens to him.

  13. Re:Shared source? Here's one with no license at al on Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source · · Score: 1

    Actually, "char **" is a datatype, "pointer to pointer to char", and since argv is of type "array of pointer to char", and since an array by name is simply the address of the zeroeth element (i.e. given int x[3], x is by definition == &x[0]), therefore "char **argv" and "char *argv[]" are exactly equivalent.

    Here's a little experiment for you:

    char *p = "foo1";
    char q[] = {'f', 'o', 'o', '2', '\0'};
    char *r[] = {"foo3", "foo4", "foo5"};
    printf("1 = '%s'\n2 = '%s'\n3 = '%s'\n4 = '%s'\n5 = '%s'\n6 = '%s'\n", p, &p[0], q, &q[0], r[0], &r[1][0]);

    Ask your teacher how this works.

  14. Re:Shared source? Here's one with no license at al on Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source · · Score: 1
    #include "windows.h"

    int main(int argc, void* argv)
    {
    while (true) suck(balls);
    }
    ... oopsy dupsy! no balls!! :)

    Perhaps you meant:

    int main(int argc, char** argv)
    {
    for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++)
    suck(argv[i]); // "suck(argv[i])", I just like the sound of that...
    return(0);
    }

    Besides, all the ballsucking is already in windows.h ;)
  15. "OK, listen up,line forms on the left" on Windows CE Device Emulator Goes Shared Source · · Score: 4, Funny

    "All you guys who want to be Windows CE "shared source" developers, line up over here..."

    *crickets*

  16. Re:Open Theft on Former MS Employees Explore OSS · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part about running the docs through the remove useful information, translate to baby talk and insert cross-references to unrelated pages process.

  17. Re:Fact-checking and Wikipedia on The Dangers of Open Content · · Score: 1

    Did you really just say that the paper you work for, The Daily Texan (University of Texas at Austin) "may be the most prestigious college paper in the U.S." and then go on to decry source bias and credibility???

  18. Wasn't it closed source software on Open Source In the National Interest · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Star Trek pushes us forward again? on Gold and Helium Combine for Needle-Free Injections · · Score: 1

    Remember this?

  20. Re:lame on Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System · · Score: 1
    further entrenching the enslavement of animals
    Riiiiiiight. Because if humans weren't enslaving them, cows wouldn't shit.
  21. Re:This is old news, on The Energy of Empty Space != Zero · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's true, but now we call the "luminiferous aether" the "Higgs boson".

  22. Oh come on! on The Energy of Empty Space != Zero · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that the dark energy comes from the turtles that are smaller than the Plank distance.

  23. Re:Paying for Potential on Jeff Minter on Sony's Arrogance · · Score: 1

    Reality is for people who can't handle games ;)

  24. Re:But, but...Master Card/Visa on eBay Bans Google Payments · · Score: 1
    I hear Google are pretty good at search technology.
    Oh really? Do you have a source for that?

    You bastard!! I got coffee all over my keyboard!
  25. Re:Japanese on Handheld Device Reads Printed Words to the Blind · · Score: 1

    "AIIEEEEEEE!! RUN! GOGIRRA!"