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  1. Re:Excessive Claims Require Excessive Debunking on BSA Claims 35% of Software is Pirated · · Score: 1

    Like flood, tornado, etc.

  2. Re:What about the compiler? on The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor · · Score: 1

    Most projects, not some superexpensive code. Sure, fast API's like BLAS will use hand-written asembler, but it takes a compiler to find those optimizations that are too complex to do by hand or hard to find while being easy to do. And the asembler advantage is negative on some RISC processors now due to advances in compiler design. So gcc -O3 might outpreform asm, so then gcc -O3 is relevant as nobody will want to use asm as gcc can outpreform it. But I haven't seen anything about how true this is for the Cell.

  3. What about the compiler? on The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The paper did a lot of hand-optimization, which is irrelevent to most programmers. What gcc -O3 does is way more importent then what an assembly wizard can do for most projects.

  4. Re:PS3 will rule in 2008 on The Potential of Science With the Cell Processor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No. I think the PS3 will not have a large price drop until after the market is largely staturated. Enough about consoles!

  5. Re:A Good Foundation... on Starting an Education in IT? · · Score: 1

    For OO I would use a pure OO like Smalltalk. Add Lisp and Prolog and you have a good list of languages for every possible task. Objective-C is also worth learning if you want to put OO on C. C++ just isn't compatible with C. Objective-C is.

  6. Re:Hello Communism! on A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers? · · Score: 1

    It's a little less one-dimensonal then that. Lenin has to be credited with preventing one of the worst famaines in history from becoming even worse. The Viet Cong invaded Cambodia to take out Pol Pot's Maoist regime for humantarian resons. A lot of times it's the second leader who abuses his power. I know about Mao, but some communist regimes were bad, some were good.

  7. Re:However on S. Korea's Stress-Driven Online Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    When you are concentrating on something it is all to easy to overlook a lot of things such as thrist, hunger, and pain. So it looks like the alarms, etc. wouldn't work. Only locking the game for a few *minutes* would work to get them back to reality.

  8. Excessive Claims Require Excessive Debunking on BSA Claims 35% of Software is Pirated · · Score: 1

    The BSA says this is a national economic issue, saying the losses should be treated like Acts of God. But this is obviously wrong, since someone benifits from piracy.

  9. Why would they want to on The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time · · Score: 1

    Sun gives the JDK away for *free*. So why would they care if a different group was doing developement. Sun can still offer support for the GNU Java. All they have to do is release the source to some lower-teir Java platform and someone else will implement all the features Sun would ever want to put in. They save on development with no additional costs! Win-Win situation here.

  10. Re:Government patents and other considerations. on Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump? · · Score: 1

    Prior art. If an idea already exists and is publically known, you cannot patent it.

  11. Re:Congress shall make no law... on Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime · · Score: 1

    Say it like it is. If they drag you off, start fighting. I think some passers-by might join in/on the side of law and order against tyrrany. That could be interesting. Read Pratchet's "Night Watch" to see what happens next.

  12. Re:The fundamentalists fear it will encourage porn on .xxx registry sues US government · · Score: 1

    Yes there is. Let's apply your argument to filters on ciggarets: Smoking is deliberate, so filters are a bad idea. And not knowing people are vaccinated restricts my sexual freedom by increasing the risks unecessarily. And you can't say that my having sex with my lovers (yes, plural) harms anyone, so dissaproving of it isn't logical in any free society. Not that we have the aformentioned disease, but it still restricts our freedom.

  13. Re:In action in our tech department... on Put MediaWiki to Work for You · · Score: 1

    SVN. Problem solved.

  14. Re:Nothing New on Put MediaWiki to Work for You · · Score: 1

    SVN! SVN! Track your code and documentation at once!

  15. Even so on Wallace's Second Anti-GPL Suit Loses · · Score: 1

    It's only anti-competive if after monopolizing the market you intend to raise prices. Since that is impossible with the GPL, you have no point.

  16. Re:Nice... on New Patent Reform Proposal Focuses on Education · · Score: 1

    Because flat tax doesn't make sense. Sure, it's fair at first, but when you start extemping things like higher education, it becomes regressive. Rich people are more likely to benifit. Besides, the USA has a regressive goverment. Rich people gain more from programs, while poor people lose out. In the Netherlands, you get more services per taxes you pay. But giving people value for taxes is "socialism" and "evil" on this side of the Atlantic. Somehow, getting what you pay for seems pretty good to me, instead of getting swindled out of a Fair Deal.

  17. Re:The one that really scares me... on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 1

    Antiphsycotics treat it, and this is a very well known symptom of mental disease. If antiphsycotics treat it, its all in your head.

  18. Re:not the first wired war on Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War · · Score: 1

    They mean a war where communications technologies play a large tatical role, instead of a stratigic and logistics role. 1991 coup attempt in Russia might count, but that lasted for very little time.

  19. Re:Using Perl Should Be A Crime on UK Law May Criminalize IT Pros · · Score: 1

    "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching, therefor, should be a criminal offence" Dijkstra beat you to it.

  20. Nope on Microsoft Flirts with Open Source · · Score: 1

    They said they had a fully compatible korn shell. At the conference a bearded guy stood up and said they didn't do it correctly. The rep insisted they did. This went back and forth until they realized that David Korn was speaking to them. Needless to say, they lost the debate.

  21. Re:Dark fiber overcapacity on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    To implement HD streaming efficently, IGMP evesdropping needs to be implemented. This requires an upgrade of the software. Egress points are mute if you are peering with a lot of small ISP's who need you as much as you need them. It's the equipment cost.

  22. Re:Examples prove Linus' point on Tanenbaum-Torvalds Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    What about Exokernels? An optimized webserver running 8 times faster then Apache on Linux? Sounds like preformance to me.

  23. Re:Id has never made a decent outdoor engine! on John Carmack Discuss Mega Texturing · · Score: 1

    Because you cannot trust anything the client sends back. The client could be lying to gain an advantage.

  24. Re:The Question Is on Tanenbaum-Torvalds Microkernel Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    What if a device driver writes a byte to *any* DMA address? A microkernel would check the DMA addressess the driver could write to, but a uKernel would never have a chance against the poke of death.

  25. Re:Obsession with small business on Google's Love For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    Socialized medician works in Europe. Saying Free Market Medicine will work ignores the reasons we introduced regulation in the first place: Exernialities. People make decisions that have impacts on other people that they do not bear.