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  1. How far off? on AMD Graphics Chip Shortage Hits PC Vendors · · Score: 1

    An offshore AMD foundry...

    How far offshore is that in nautical miles? I am not surprised they are having troubles with what with all the salt in the air.

  2. Re:Article seems like BS justification to me. on Why Games Cost $60 · · Score: 1

    Yeah it cost 2 bucks to manufacture but MS\Nintendo\Sony get 5$ a box.

  3. Let Her on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    Let her beat you up a bit then get her arrested. She can get one of those neat leg bracelets from the penal system. Then the cops would know where she was a bring her home if she strayed.

  4. Re:How does custom firmware "lose sales" on PSP Go With 16GB Memory and Bluetooth Leaked · · Score: 1

    Sure, custom firmware can be used to play pirated PSP games much as how a candle can be used to burn down a house, yet that isn't necessarily mean thats the reason for having a candle burning in a house. There are many applications such as Nintendo emulators, etc. that will never be released on the PSP with an official release yet you can get them via custom firmware.

    Oh so we have custom firmware to pirate other platform's games but not for the base system riiight.

  5. Re:ID what? on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    So the actual keypresses to save and compile the software would be: ctrl+s, alt-tab, up arrow (or ctrl+p) and enter. Yes, that is three keystrokes more than the IDE way in which you press F9 to save and compile the software. On the other hand, with the shell way you don't even have to move your fingers away from the home position on the keyboard.

    Wow, you must have some fancy programer keyboard where the up arrow is on the home row. At least on my keyboard F9 is closer than the up arrow.

    nd when the app compiled there was a compiler warning; in the IDE a double click on the warning took me right to the source line in the editor, so I could fix it, and rebuild.

    When I type make in Vim and there is an error or warning it goes to the line automatically no click, no funky command sequence. In my experience IDE's provide slightly better project management abilities but tend to be a little slower. Code completion tends to be a little better in IDEs, though it tends to be more in your face and distracting.

  6. I think you mean 3 kernels on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support · · Score: 1

    Debian also has a hurd distribution.

  7. A two pronged approach on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    I would filter the school's internet connection to block myspace, porn etc. since the kids shouldn't be goofing off at school. Off campus I would allow myspace etc. and try to block porn not because they shouldn't be looking at porn but because you don't want them to bring porn to school. It won't be successful but at least you tried.

  8. Re:MAP vs Price Fixing on Battle Over Minimum Pricing Heating Up · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Therefore How do I sell a speaker to a customer if I am not an authorized dealer? If I sell it to them they will not have a warranty? Sure I can get it through a distrubutor but thats being shady to the customer, and downright bad business.

    It would have the same manufacturer's warranty it does now. It would just mean that you were no longer on the hook for warranty work they would have to contact the manufacturer. Just like I would if I bought a PS3 or Xbox at Target I don't expect Target to do warranty work I contact Sony or Microsoft.

  9. Re:Well doh on IEEE Says Multicore is Bad News For Supercomputers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Its not like multi-processor systems where each cpu gets its own ram.

    While I agree there are limits, AMD's NUMA arch. means that every CPU does in fact get its own ram. It is each core on that one chip that doesn't get its own ram.

  10. Re:well, this part makes me wonder if I can share on Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free · · Score: 1

    Oh I am pretty sure that the software in the f22 is open source. If the government said that this contract for 100 f22s depends on the source being available then I am sure they would get it.

  11. Re:Darwinian evolution? on Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over · · Score: 1

    > Ii, ii, Ii and II (I=higher intelligence, i=lower intelligence)

    If 'I' is recessive, then only 'II' has a high IQ. That's a 1/4 chance.

    No if I is recessive and both parents display it then both parents have to be II, Ii or ii means you aren't a smart person which is part of the original supposition.

  12. Re:Very poor summary on NSA Open Sources Tokeneer Research Project · · Score: 1

    It would be like pulling teeth.

  13. Re:"Not a trade secret" on Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code · · Score: 1

    So: if it's not patented and not under copyright then it's not a trade secret? Usually a company gets a choice: copyright/patent (publish but get protection) or trade secret (can't publish). No patent or copyright holds in favour of trade secret protection.

    Sorry, no you don't have to publish anything for it to be covered by copyright. There is nothing that prevents trade secrets from being copyrighted.

  14. Re:Yes. on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    This is an indirect form of age discrimination because older folks are more likely to have families.

    Sorry no, old people are more likely to have kids who have grown up and moved on this is more like discrimination against the under 40 group who have young children, you know the kind that might actually be at daycare.

  15. Re:Abundance on Game Developer Asks To Hear From Pirates · · Score: 1

    No one cares about the physics of data being abundant. The simple fact of the matter is they charge less than the cost to produce but in doing so you have to agree to not share. It is like renting a car I let you drive it for a week and charge you less than the price of the car. You get less than the full value of the item and promise to not do something that you are physically capable of doing, you can't keep the car or screw it up.

  16. Re:Off the top of my head? on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    int a =5; inta=5; one is valid C, one is not. All because of significant white space so looks like we need to chuck C while were at it.

  17. Re:The Iraq theater on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have just proved his point. Before we went over there and started killing them they were sitting around saying we hate americans. How many americans had they killed? A big fat zero. How many have they killed since we showed up and stuck our nose where it doesn't belong? About 6K last I checked.

    That is the thing, it doesn't matter if the PLO is Arafat's power base, he isn't a US citizen so the US gov should stay out of his business. If we stop giving them a reason to hate us( such as randomly showing up with guns and shooting at them with out provocation, as we are doing now) then that power base will fall apart. He can't goad people forever with the old evil american line if the evil americans never manifest themselves.

  18. Re:Dear Mr. McBride, on SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX" · · Score: 1

    Photoshop -- A website where I can buy photos? Digital camera software? who knows the name isn't very descriptive.

    Adobe Acrobat Reader -- Software that does text to speech? Maybe it displays pictures of the people who make Adobe bricks, performing acrobatics, while reading books. If I had just run across it on the internet I would think it was a program that "acrobatically" handled reading a large number of file types but nope it just does pdf.

    or their FOSS equiv's..

    pgAdmin III (postgresql Administrator version 3) sounds pretty descriptive to me.

    gimp(GNU image manipulation program) Sounds pretty descriptive to me, much more so than photoshop.

    Pidgin / Gaim(GNU AIM) a GNU aim replacement sounds pretty descriptive to me if you know what AIM is.

    TightVNC (Tight Virtual network computing) ok so tight isn't very descriptive but the rest of the name is good.

  19. Re:Glue and objects on You Used Perl to Write WHAT?! · · Score: 1

    I didn't miss the point. I didn't mean in some abstract turing complete sort of way. In ruby there is methodmissning that can do your nice little x.foo = 4 dynamically add a property trick. The class of an object is an object that can be manipulated at runtime fairly easily. Python has something similar to methodmissing that I don't remember off the top of my head. Heck even objective C has an easy to use method missing facility. The point of a dynamically typed language is that the type system is easily mutable at runtime. You could have learned all that you learned from perl by learning python or ruby or objective C because they provide the same sort of facilities. Now if you wanted to do something like that in C++ or java you would more or less have to build a new type system on top of the language because they aren't dynamically typed.

  20. Re:Glue and objects on You Used Perl to Write WHAT?! · · Score: 1

    You need to get out more, all dynamic oo languages offer what you describe. The only languages that don't are statically typed languages. That is why they are called dynamic languages because you can fiddle with the types at runtime.

  21. Re:Spoiled on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    From the Washington Post the other day: Economist Stephen Rose, defining the middle class as households with annual incomes between $30,000 and $100,000, says a smaller percentage of Americans are in that category than in 1979 - because the percentage of Americans earning more than $100,000 has doubled from 12 to 24, while the percentage earning less than $30,000 is unchanged. "So," Rose says, "the entire 'decline' of the middle class came from people moving up the income ladder." the only problem with that line of logic is the fact that 100K in 1979 is about 200K or more today so the whole middle class still there we just lie about who is in it. If anything real wages have been on the decline the past 10 years because pay hasn't kept up with inflation.
  22. Re:More important question on RIAA Backs Down On "Unlicensed Investigator" · · Score: 3, Informative

    They filed the lawsuit in texas so the investigator has to be licensed in texas. See the connection there, Texas law equals need Texas license to conduct investigation.

  23. Until you see the suit on Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? · · Score: 1

    If he hasn't actually sued you yet or sent you a legal C&D, then he is just full of hot air ignore it until it goes away or gets serious.

  24. Re:Sure on PHP5 Vs. CakePHP Vs. RubyOnRails? · · Score: 1

    Penny-arcade.com is RoR app on a scale that I would call impressive. So when dumb people pick up an easy to use tool then shoot themselves in the foot with it. I don't blame the tool.

  25. Re:What GNU/Linux gaming area? on AMD To Open ATI Specs · · Score: 1

    Already exists. It is called g3d.