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  1. Re:it means a lot on Multithreading - What's it Mean to Developers? · · Score: 1

    Dude, the worst thing you can do is randomly sprinkle anything all over your app, apart from comments, and maybe asserts.

  2. Re:I've noticed this at work... on Got Game · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Time spent thinking is seldom wasted.

  3. Re:Nope, you are wrong. on British Government Considers Tax on Computers · · Score: 1

    I was caught once by a little old lady who looked like she needed to sit down.

  4. Re:Nope, you are wrong. on British Government Considers Tax on Computers · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. In England, at least, it is a search warrant that is required, not a Warrant Card, which is just an ID card that the filth carry. A search warrant must be issued by a judge (and/or maybe a magistrate). As previously stated, other agencies have others powers.

  5. Re:Hmmm on British Government Considers Tax on Computers · · Score: 1

    Actually, not having "installed" a TV set does exempt you. If the TV set is in a box, or in your wardrobe, and there is no sign of recent use, then you will have no problems. I speak with the authority of someone who has been caught twice without a licence.

  6. Re:Interpretations of "silence" on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend just turning the audio amp up full blast. You should get plenty of white noise then. Be careful, though. You may shit yourself if you get mail!

  7. does it... on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1

    compress well?

  8. Re:Great News! on Robotic Arm Controlled By Monkey Thoughts · · Score: 1

    Even better news for no-armed monkeys. How else would they rewind to the best bits of the monkey-porn, and, er...spank?

  9. What's wrong with on Desktop Linux Summit Highlights · · Score: 1

    Webmin?

  10. Maybe the eggs are bad on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that the eggs actually cause these events that they apparently predicted? They must be evil. Destroy them immediately.

  11. Re:ummm yeah .. on x86 Assembly on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Especially well you call cli on a breakpoint in MS Dev Studio on your windows 95 box, while testing some code for an x86 embedded project, and the machine ignores you until reboot!

  12. More JPEG-2000 stuff on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is more to jpeg2000 than a compression scheme offering scaleable quality and resolution within a single losslessly compressed file. There is also the interactive delivery mechanism offered by the JPIP protocol. Now there is something really useful...

  13. Re:Use Slimserver and Softsqueeze on Multi-Room Wireless Sound System? · · Score: 1

    Works fine for me too. SlimServer runs on Linux or Windows. Its free. Wireless PDA works nicely connected to an amp in whichever room you want to be in.

    Another option could be a FM transmitter attached to the pda, to be received on any radio or tuner in whichever room you are in. That way different people can listen to different things in different rooms, just by using different frequencies on the radio (assuming you can select enough different frequencies), and they each have a pda or other device.

    Of course, this may be illegal, depending on where you live.

  14. Re:Database filesystems, find data quicker. on Cutting Edge Computer Interfaces? · · Score: 1

    I had a similar issue when using a laptop with a trackpad...I kept nudging the trackpad with my palm while typing, which caused my text to appear all over the place and resulted in the laptop being punched a number of times in sheer frustration.

  15. Re:Well.. on Cutting Edge Computer Interfaces? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to have a big lever for carriage return, with a bell that sounds when you use it. Would that be possible?

  16. Re:Damn! That means I have to accept the possibili on Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin · · Score: 1

    "Christians aren't supposed to hate anyone"
    Apart from arabs, right?

  17. Re:People *want* separate devices on BBC Bill Gates Interview · · Score: 1

    So, can the kids play games, the wife watch a DVD and you listen to MP3s while doing a spot of browsing, on one PC, all at the same time? I think not. Do you want to have 3 PCs to enable that scenario? It certainly wouldn't be the cheapest option...

    I've got fed up with flattening the battery on my PocketPC while listening to MP3s. I wouldn't want to flatten my phone battery by doing the same thing on a smart phone. IMHO, Battery life is the key to convergence in portable devices!

  18. Re:Indeed on Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth · · Score: 1
    Actually, I would hope that the vast majority of NASA software is considered "Safety Critical" as opposed to "Mission Critical". I sure as hell wouldn't want the odd stray rocket landing on my head due to an errant piece of software!

    You should be looking for DO-178B certifiability, if you want something above average in this regard.

  19. Huh? on Microsoft Claims Linux Security a Myth · · Score: 1

    If you understand the benefits of software engineering, as opposed to programming (by which I mean the use of some design methodology), then what is it about about Visual Studio that makes you go straight to coding? Either you know how to design code or you don't. Use paper, UMl tools, whatever you like, but simply using MSVC as an IDE shouldn't make anyone slack! That is a piss poor argument... Obviously using vi encourages a more rigorous approach!

  20. Fec it! on Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack · · Score: 1

    It might be worth trying FEC to help improve this kind of technique. I'm sure the processor could handle it at those kind of data rates.

  21. Re:MPAA name finally justified on Monkeys Pay for Monkey Porn · · Score: 1

    I'd mod this funny, but I have no points. Nobody has ever given me any either.

  22. Super-Size-Ads on Newsweek On Click Fraud, Search Engine Response · · Score: 1

    Having watched the film "Super-Size-Me" yesterday, I started wondering if MacDonalds use this form of advertising.

    I found a sponsored link to: www.supersizeme-thedebate.co.uk by googling for "macdonalds".

    http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=macdonalds&start= 0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=o rg.mozilla:en-US:official

    Its got the golden arches logo on it, and certainly looks like it carries the corporate point of view.

    So, I wonder who is paying for it, and how much it's gonna cost them, what with all the click fraud going on...

  23. Bundles of fun on US Air Force Building Space Router · · Score: 1

    "Caspian has already developed a "flow state router," which is able to work with entire messages rather than individual data packets."

    I wonder if they are equating "entire messages" with the bundling concept?

    See Disruption Telerant Networking at www.dtnrg.org

    I know it says Delay, not Disruption, but the webmaster hasn't got the message (or should I say, bundle), yet!

  24. Binary XML on Does the World Need Binary XML? · · Score: 1

    One approach might be to provide an application layer PEP, to transcode the text into binary. Then the impoverished clients can have their binary and the rest of the world can have their text. It could be at the edge of the wireless network, or at the server.

  25. Re:radar doesn't work in space on Asteroid Flies Under the Radar, Literally · · Score: 1

    you could always try sonar... fnord_uk