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  1. Re:The article talks a lot about the author on Ten Geek Business Myths · · Score: 1
    -You don't need threads -or- you have the $3000 bucks for a commercial license.
    doesn't emacs have some form of this since it is capable to running and controlling child processes? but you are right in that lisp has a very limited market to compete in. lisp however is very compact which often translates to higher productivity. I personally prefer python but that is just me personally. I wish I had examples to go on for python but the closest is ZOPE which come to think about it, is actually doing pretty well...
  2. choices good or bad? on Ten Geek Business Myths · · Score: 1

    its funny b/c the ability to make choices is very important in getting the best. sad that poeple are too stupid/lazy to be able to do so effectively.

  3. Re:What does AJAX have to do with Java? on Thank God Java EE Is Not Like Ajax · · Score: 1

    yes. that is also the reason I refuse to use C++. if I want something like that, Java is much better. otherwise, C is cleaner. and if I want fast and easy (read: also efficient) coding, I can use python and sacrifice runtime speed for developement speed.

  4. Re:What does AJAX have to do with Java? on Thank God Java EE Is Not Like Ajax · · Score: 1

    good point. Yours is a much better way to write it in java. also note that this is good for a buisiness but sucks for the individual who have things other than gobs of code to worry about.

  5. Re:Redundant, troll, or redundant troll? on The Troubles With the Yahool Mail Beta · · Score: 1
    you are sending a reply to an email with totaly unrelated contents... over half the time??? wtf. that is a major problem on your part.

    P.S. When you post biased content that many times, you are redundant but you are still more of a troll. redundant is when people post content others have posted but aren't that badly biased.

  6. Re:Proof? on Hackers claim zero-day flaw in Firefox · · Score: 1

    sort of right sort of not. first of, if firefox was a paid for product, you would be exactly right. at that point, your seller garantees (or atleast is supposed to. some licenses don't necessarily follow this) quality. but in this case, firefox is an opensource project. You did not pay the devs anything at all when you started using this product and while these black hats are still allowed to release bugs into the wild, it would still atleast be nice etiquete to bring these bugs to the attention of the firefox devs and give them a chance to fix the bugs. Note that I would apply the same to any software product. If I found a bug in IE, I would still contact M$ (through an anonymous source) and then maybe release it into the wild. then again, I don't use any M$ products so I don't have to worry about that :)

  7. Re:will always prefer Yahoo mail over Gmail on The Troubles With the Yahool Mail Beta · · Score: 1
    Yahoo doesn't have annoyances like having to click a link just to edit the subject when replying.

    How many times have you edited the subject of a reply you are sending??? I make a practice never to do it. th subject links the reply reliably to the original.

    Also, Quit trolling. you have posted basically the same thing ~4 to 5 times in just this story. enough is enough.

  8. Re:Not a good "innovation" on The Troubles With the Yahool Mail Beta · · Score: 1

    Somebody please mod this guy for the troll he is.

  9. Re:Gmail only superior in some ways. on The Troubles With the Yahool Mail Beta · · Score: 1

    Oh please. quit spouting BS. if you want gmail to emulate folders just assign only one label to any email and hen archive it. done. you now have folders and you can even search on them. now if you really want to use this feature, you have to start combining it with filters and multiple labels per mail.

  10. Re:What does AJAX have to do with Java? on Thank God Java EE Is Not Like Ajax · · Score: 1
    what the heck was that third line of unintelligible crap??!?!?! readibility my ass.

    Heres readibility: ht={'hello': meth_hello, 'z':blah} ht['hello'](args)
  11. Re:What does AJAX have to do with Java? on Thank God Java EE Is Not Like Ajax · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would also like function pointers and type inferencing along with dynamic classes with maybe little string execution thrown in for good measure but none of them are making it in anytime I suppose:((. God, python is really spoiling me.

  12. Re:wow, what an excellent point! on Thank God Java EE Is Not Like Ajax · · Score: 1
    WOOSH......................

    That was the sound of the joke as it wooshed WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY over your head.

    You are right in saying that bubble sort isn't that great. After all, who can beat Stupid sort (bogosort) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort)

  13. Re:Neither Proved Nor Disproved on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 1

    actually no. Einstien predicted from his theory that during a solar eclipse, stars would seem to be farther out from the sun than normal. that was pretty well tested and was infact one of the first tests of relativity. some other tests were the constancy of the speed of light and (later) measurements of the duration of time in different inertial settings (something like planes going east and west).

  14. Re:Neither Proved Nor Disproved on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 1

    Fail. ST strikes out at #2. see earlier posts for more info. You are right about ID not being a theory b/c it also strikes out at #2 but then so does evolution and evolution actually has some credible evidence against it!

  15. Re:Actually, it's being tested right now. on Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? · · Score: 1

    How about conducting a little research. thanks a hawking radiation, the tiny black hole will fizzle itself into nonexistance in a few picoseconds the moment it is formed. It will still serve as good proof since clasical theory with its ~3 spatial dimensions predicts that colliders can not push enough energy into a small enough space. With ST's monstrosity of 10 spatial dimensions, if you went smaller than the curl size of these dimensions, gravity would start to collect up at a much higher exponent (10 instead of 3) and maybe make a black hole which would then subsequently light up the collider like a christmas tree when it blows itself to bits. Of course, if there is no black hole, the ST physicists will just state that those damn dimensions are curled up tighter than tested. to eat up the earth, you would need whole countries of those colliders.

  16. Re:'Elbow cuffs' on Power Suit Promises Super-Human Strength · · Score: 1

    seems more of a question of being careful. if you use your arms and the hands just make sure the person/boject doesnot fall, that would be pretty safe.

  17. Re:No... on Giant Insect Invades Germany · · Score: 1

    cool. but will these guys behave like the worms when we pull on their backs or will they have to be trained?

  18. Re:Seriously? Fusion test? Invade now! Alpha..Omeg on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1
    bullshit alert. Have you ever looked at any defense department reports on China??? How about any economic reports?

    Let me clear some things up for you (information from The Military Power of the People's Republic of China 2005 Annual report to congeress by the US Department of Defense):

    China's GDP: $1700 Billion

    China's Defense budget: $50 Billion (note that this is a Low end estimate.)

    Active personell: 2.3 million (note that China has mandatory military service of ~24 months from 18 to 22 years of age so if needed, anybody above 22 and below 40 would be good military material. now think about their population...)

    Total personell including reserves: >3.2 million

    More data: this time from the CIA Factbook Reserves of foriegn exchange and Gold: $825.6 billion

    Another amount for military expenditure: $81.48 billion (slightly larger because this isn't a low estimate)

    Both of these publications are available on the web. I advise you read them if you want to hae any decent info about China.

    P.S. next time you make asanine comments about something, back them up with hard data.

  19. Re:China's definition of success, likely a lie. on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1

    what do you base than statement on? any concrete data?

  20. Re:screw wga because... on WGA — Too Many False Positives · · Score: 1

    add "provide meaningful releases which have more than worthless buggy new bloated features" and "fix their OS so that is has something close to a decent package manager and decent seperation of user privelages and good kernel level design (the NT kernel operates on priority levels: a really stupid idea reminiscent of the days of VMS)" to that bold sentence above and you would have it right.

  21. Re:What's counted as false positive on WGA — Too Many False Positives · · Score: 1
    Wow. glad I dont use windows anymore.

    Executing WGA in the interactive context or having WGA running in the background somewhere,sometimes is different and can lead to various problem to access the data it needs to do its job.
    So... M$ is too stupid to write re-entrant code??? That itself is a major problem.

    Also, Windows machine typically have load of various applications that interfer badly with Windows. Sounds silly but Wireless Network Card driver, Firewall, Antivirus or "rootkit" and the countless sharewares using heavy weaponery ( like kernel driver and general system hook for a notepad clone ) List of abuse possible is infinite, the most common is thinking nobody else is as 1337 as you are and so you don't have to clutter your code with the 2000 lines of error handling and cleanup code needed for the well being of the next hook, driver, ...
    A possible problem with making WGA work but then an OS design like this is a sign of incompetence in of itself.
  22. Re:Just goes to show... on Space Elevator vs Wildlife · · Score: 1

    it WORKED!!! now back to the birds. can we eat them after the shuttle in the teather is done frying them for us? could be the birth of a whole new cuisine.

  23. Re:MAD on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1
    North Korea only has a chance if China steps in for them, and personally I don't think China would do that and I'm almost 100% sure Russia wouldn't. They're just too batshit insane at this point.
    Amen to that. China is too smart to help a country going to war unless they see some really good reason and I can't think of how nk could help china either so foriegn aid for nk is out. Whether nk would have a chance is a diferent matter

    South Korea has more people and better-fed, healthier people than the north. South Korea has more modern military equipment and possibly better training.
    Vietnam comes to mind as a distinc time when such advantages did nothing to help. Then again, in a defensive war that may not apply.

    South Korea has active support from the US. (I think the entire reason we keep US troops on the DMZ line is so when/if the North does attack, they can put it on the evening news and get Americans all riled up to go to war. Remember the Maine!)
    "Active support from the US" is no longer the great thing it used to be. In this case, it may still turn out like vietnam with US withdrawl if sk starts to invade nk. Meh...

    Pretty interesting. Would be interesting to think about what would happen if it went the otherway around? Probably never going to happen but just what if?

  24. Re:Here's a question. on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    mod parent up. he makes a good point. also, On thermonuclear war makes a good reading if somebody wants to look into this.

  25. Re:Help the Unfortunate on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    I am thinking of what happened with Iran... Look it up. The US tried to help and managed to do it for a while but then got kicked out.