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  1. Re:Isn't that called VRML? on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    the industry decided that it didn't want vector rendering of the web

    That was when vector artists had artistic abilities of a rubber stamp.

    Alot has changed since then.

  2. Re:we'll vector you right up on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    Just close your eyes, bend over, and wait for Silverlight.

    That has inspired me to install a traffic signal over my headboard.

  3. Re:Damn graphic artists... on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    Native JSON should clearly be at the top of this list.

    Huh ?!

    I could have sworn JSON was adopted as a method of transfering data from server to client instead of XML because JS Object Notation was already something native to browsers.

    I only have about 5 years of experience with Javascript, so I could be wrong.

  4. Drive away on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    Computers themselves have always been enough to interest me.

    In the beginning the thing that drove me away from computers was my father and stepmother controlling every single thing I did with their computer because it cost them $2,000 USD nearly 20 years ago, I absolutely hated being confined like that & I instead got involved in construction where there was more room (for me at least) to grow.

    I'd have an extra 10 years of experience, and might have even stayed in school, if I'd been given even a piece of crap computer to do whatever I wanted with or at least hadn't been confined like I was.
    Sad part is they'd bought it to be a "business" computer & it just ended up going to waste, fucking assholes. I hate them soo much.

  5. Re:Move to CVS on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 1

    SVN and CVS both suck. Google doesn't use SVN internally for its main codebase (it uses Perforce).

    Which was put into use first ?

    From what I see, that whitepaper details Google hitting the limits of what Perforce can do.

  6. Needs on Internet Users Not Updating Browser · · Score: 1

    The majority of people don't upgrade their browser because they want to, they do it because they have to.

    The sooner support is dropped for browsers, the sooner people upgrade em-mass.

  7. Re:Move to CVS on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google Code uses SVN.


    Subversion wins, fatality.

  8. Re:partner learning on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pair programming is a software development technique in which two programmers work together at one keyboard. One types in code while the other reviews each line of code as it's typed in. The person typing is called the driver. The person reviewing the code is called the observer[1] or navigator. The two programmers switch roles frequently.

    With the exception of that last sentence, that sounds like something I would tell someone to get out of doing any actual work.

  9. Ice to Eskimos on Companies Coming Around To Piracy's Upside? · · Score: 1

    Statistics about the traffic on file-sharing networks can be useful. They can reveal, for example, the countries where a new singer is most popular, even before his album has been released there.

    At first I wondered why people would buy an album they've downloaded from the Internet, then I thought about all of the songs I used to hear on the radio before the album was in stores & it made more sense.

  10. Re:afafasdf on Encrypting Google Calendar With Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    42

  11. Experiment on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nothing beats getting together with team mates and toying with things in your spare time.

    Past that, I suppose just add new people to the mix slowly.

  12. Re:yea on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We're workin on that.

  13. Re:braces on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    On a high volume site, even the relatively minuscule difference between passing something straight to the browser and echo("something"); can make a big difference in speed and resources.

    Which goes right out the window when things like XCache & Memcached get involved.

    Now it's like reading a newspaper where the editor decided to randomly switch between English, Spanish, & Klingon when trying to do anything with it for no reason.

    Some people argue that the potential "headers already sent" errors from inline PHP are reason enough not to do it like that because it makes it harder to bail, realisticly you should be checking if you should bail before the DOCTYPE is passed through though, so I really don't follow that gripe.

  14. Re:Old Vs. New on Did E3 Just Gasp Its Last Breath? · · Score: 1

    Buy a brothel & fill it with every trendy thing you can find, now.

  15. Brilliant ! on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 1

    Fill the plane with virgin stripers and they might be able to trick terrorist hijackers into thinking they're already in wherever terrorists think they go long enough to land the plane safely.

  16. Re:Wrong title on Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers · · Score: 4, Funny

    I see what you mean.

    The flood was going to kill the animals anyway, might as well feed them to the homeless instead.

  17. Re:Disappointing on UK Mobile Operator O2 Leaks MMS Photos · · Score: 1

    Look on the bright side, you got there before the goat.cx guy found out about it.

  18. Re:Put a picture of Zeus on them. on Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    I suggest a big BEWARE OF DOG sign. It works in my yard, and I think it can scale.

    Think about what would happen if China was the only survivor of a world war & lived underground for 9000 years before running out of food and surfacing to find more.

    Guess who gets the last laugh.

  19. Re:Obligatory Bill Engvall joke: on Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Or brown pants.

  20. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean to S.O.L.O.N.

    Next thing you know they'll be sending C.O.L.O.N. to Uranus.

  21. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've grown used to the idea that some imaginary being that makes foliage spontaneously combust may be watching me masturbate, however the idea of the entire staff at NASA yelling "T minus..." towards the end absolutely terrifies me.

  22. Bullies on MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation · · Score: 1

    The patent system was invented by the same people who used to pull our underwear over our heads and take our lunch money.

  23. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's scarry to think that NASA could be the new GOD.

    Owners

    Bob we didn't spend 90 gazillion dollars to watch our robots self-destruct lightyears away on earth, what do you plan to do about this ?

    Bob

    we've prepared 10 commandments that should prevent them from harming themselves any further sir, we're sending them down to M.O.S.E.S. now.

  24. Re:Funding on Thwarting New JavaScript Malware Obfuscation · · Score: 1

    Apparently I don't belong on either side of the fence. I suppose I'll just have to burn it down with my bait of flame. :)

  25. Funding on Thwarting New JavaScript Malware Obfuscation · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who pays these freakin people ?!

    I could sit here all day comming up with ways to put ghosts in the machine !