User: Bastard of Subhumani

Re:That depends upon you and the job.

On: How to Keep America Competitive

IF WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS IS CORRECT finding a job more in line with your personality should be easy.

Being unemployed isn't really a job.

Re:it can work... sometimes

On: Konami Slot Machines Flashing Subliminal Messages?

If I flashed a picture of a woman being reaped

You sickl-ittle pervert!

Re:These guys have totally lost the plot

On: Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code

Ballmer is carrying on about "Intellectual Property" (ie patents), not copyright infringments.

Intellectual property is a blanket term including both patents and copyrights, among other things. Seems like Baldmer isn't the only one talking out of his body-chair interface...

Re:Overflow

On: Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight

Except that they're not really because as the in-flight-entertainment crash showed, even systems that aren't connected are.

Perhaps you'd like to point us to the part of that article supporting this assertion?

It may be me that's dumb, but I read an article recently that said disconnected sytems are indeed, well, disconnected from each other.

Hmmmm...

On: Pthreads vs Win32 threads

what has changed since the first article was written?

The author got a free (as in beer) laptop?

Re:Some exaggeration in the story, I suspect

On: Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight

I doubt it even needs to be smart enough to keep the plane "stable." The pilot is quite capable of closing the control loop

It's an F-22 not a P-51, it's 2007 not 1944, and fly-by-wire is a totally different thing to an autopilot.

Re:Now you're trying to change the subject

On: Mr. Ballmer, Show Us the Code

We were talking about stealing code, not looking at it or borrowing concepts.

If the software patent advocates get their way those will be the same thing.

Re:Meetings are not meant to be creative

On: Meetings Make You Dumber

I'll see your "whither" and raise you "it's".

Film at ten

On: Meetings Make You Dumber

I think this sums it up pretty well.

Re:Procedures save the day, not programmers

On: Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System

However, there seems to be this myth that with the right set of procedures, you can have retards for programmers and still produce solid, reliable systems.

You can. It will just happen very slowly. Plus it will probably be a hog performance wise and need wide swathes of rewriting for any non-trivial modification - which is bound to happen unless the spec is 100% perfect up front.

It would probably be obsolete before it's finished.

Re:for real??

On: Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System

His next story is going to be about how two hot flight attendants took him in the bathroom and did him. It will be as believable.

LOL!!! Three people in an aircraft lavatory. As if!

Re:How about reasons not to use XML?

On: Ten Predictions for XML in 2007

That's why I gave up using bitmap images. Looking at the picture, dividing it into a grid of units (I call them pixels, short for picture elements - cute, eh?), estimating the RGB values, converting them to hex and keying them in just got to be too much effort.

Astronomy

On: Fran Allen Wins Turing Award

I thought she discovered the Fran Allen belts.

Re:Welcome

On: SETI Finally Finds Something

LISP? Dammit man, if it can't be done 23 different ways in perl it ain't worth doing.
Oh, and PHP is crap.

Re:Welcome

On: SETI Finally Finds Something

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Re:And i-bullshit too!

On: Best & Worst Decisions Starting Companies

To have a business, you need to understand cash flow (current & projected), customers, your product and how the hell you're going to get the product in front of the customer.

Is your real name Rip Van Winkle? Newsflash - there's like these things called, umm, intarwebs and stuff. OMG you're so far behind you're not even web 1.0!!!

Re:Last time I checked

On: Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System

Or plural.

Re:The customer pays. Always.

On: Who Pays For Credit Card Breaches?

To offset that, the prices are raised.

If the market would stand that higher price, why wasn't it being charged to start with? Conversely, if the market won't stand it, then lower volume (yada elasticity yada) could mean the merchant makes even less money.

Re:great...

On: March To Be Month of PHP Bugs

If it's so buggy and insecure, why do so many large (and small, like the one I work for) companies have sites that use PHP

I'm sure there's a fancy Latin name for it, but what you're saying is equivalent to "Eat shit - a billion flies can't be wrong".

Re:MOD PARENT UP

On: Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges

Some actual information there.

But apparently not much physics: "The momentum of gravity".

even riding the brakes all of the way down makes it very difficult to stay under 30 mph

GP needs to visit a mechanic. Every car I've ever driven had brakes that could bring me to a complete stop even on a 25% down gradient. Not to mention this thing called a gearbox...

Re:More likely

On: Fermi Paradox Predicting Humankind's Future?

People used to visit lunatic asylums for entertainment. Maybe the aliens would get a laugh out of us.

Re:What about visiting Bible sites or /.?

On: IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict

There is no law preventing you from discriminating against someone based on whether or not they visit porn sites

Anyone else thinking that maybe there should be?

Re:Someone's lying here...

On: IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict

he is throwing up this PTS bullshit

He'd have got more sympathy here if he'd claimed to be autistic.

Re:Someone's lying here...

On: IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict

I find Yoda you write like.

Re:Someone's lying here...

On: IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict

I wood have.