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  1. Re:If only... on Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills · · Score: 1

    Pfff i dont know what ur talking about at my job /* TODO: insert some anedote */ so u c because /* TODO: insert some reasoning */ so stubbing is totally in.

    besides with all the verbing i do i like to rite code like i talk & stuff.

    still its better than xpath 1.0 i had to write a max function with that:

    substring-before(substring-after(substring(concat( ':', $x, ':', $y), $x $y), ':'), ':')

  2. Re:Inherited code on MMOG Industry Community Vet Speaks Out · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    My inherited code is in Perl... now, while I know Perl, and I was already good at Perl before hand... you really have to realize that this is PERL we're talking about.

    You know, that language where when filtering against a list of files, you can just build one gigantic regular expression, and then just match against it.

    I rewrote that piece of code to use a hash like any sensible programmer would...

  3. Re:Confusing Sentence Structure on Did an Exploding Comet Doom Early Americans? · · Score: 1

    I definitely read this as:

    Well, we at least can't blame this misreading on bad spelling...

  4. Re:Starcraft II is all well and good... on StarCraft, Nothing But StarCraft · · Score: 4, Funny

    As one of my friends said way back when even 1024x768 was thought to be miraculous about 320x200: "Pixels the Size of my Hand!"

  5. Re:Slow your horses there, cowboy. on Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    What does that mean? ...

    No no, what does "exasorbate" mean?

  6. Re:Finally on Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    A friend was witness to a garage fire that ended up melting a bicycle into a bit of a puddle.

    So, just open-air burning wood can get hot enough to melt at least one metal. Now how much more hot would you guess that a fuel fire would get?

  7. Re:Welcome! on Fruit Flies Show Spark of Free Will · · Score: 1

    Well, fruit flies may have a free will, but time flies still like arrows!!!

  8. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I must be out of my mind saying that the mods are weird... I thought this was pretty funny, considering he pegged my last post with "what kind of underwear are you wearing?"

    Sure he's a troll, and all his comments are at -1... that doesn't make it not funny that he's so stupid!

  9. Re:Does that mean on Judges Rule Google Search by Employer Not Illegal · · Score: 1

    Consider yourself lucky, my name is uncommon enough that all hits for my names are relevant to me. In fact, my last name is uncommon enough in the English speaking world that just using my last name, all hits using English Google, are relevant to me.

    I'm kind of hoping to get married with someone who has a really common name, so I can then hide *laugh*

  10. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know one patent that people for sure have been infringing upon is being able to navigate through a webpage by tabbing through links. Yes, Microsoft really does have a patent on that.

  11. Re:Does that mean on Judges Rule Google Search by Employer Not Illegal · · Score: 1

    Wrong, Google can still be used illegally.

    For instance, someone is interviewing for a job, the employer googles them, and suddenly, the person finds out that he's no longer a candidate for the position.

    What was the #1 google hit? A gay dating webpage, a communist blog, anything that they are not allowed to consider for application.

    Of course, they'll likely come up with a different reason than "We googled for your name, and found out that you're Jewish."

  12. Re:The Money Quote on The Story Behind a Windows Security Patch Recall · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your sig: Sheep, Sheepdog, or Wolf: Choose.

    I choose moof!

  13. Re:Yes. on Text Messaging Device For the Hearing Impaired? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a Deaf friend.

    He uses a Blackberry. You get a data-rate only, with no voice... perfect for him.

  14. Re:Irrelevent on Videogames Really Are Linked to Violence · · Score: 1

    I think anyone doing even a cursory examination that a major contributor to aggressive and belligerent behavior is TESTOSTERONE...

    But you don't see Thompson suing steroid makers for making violent people...

  15. Re:Ridiculous on several counts on When Tax Day Comes to Azeroth · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, I got one of those Epic drops from that Huge boss at the end of that massive Raid, but I had to pass it up, because the taxes would have killed me. Turns out that they would have charged me $1,000 in tax on the item... that just wasn't worth it.

    Oh, and griphon rides? I don't use them anymore. Ever since the Alliance started charging taxes on flights the prices have been soaring out of this world. This one time, I got a flight from Stormwind, to Ironforge, and I kid you not, they charged $100 to my credit card, claiming it was some Federally mandated aviation tax!

  16. Re:It was only a matter of time... on Word 2007 Flaws Are Features, Not Bugs · · Score: 1

    I like those, but I think this one speaks to the topic more specifically:

    http://www.ubersoft.net/d/19960429.html

    "Everytime I print, it crashes."

    "Well, with a bunch of research, we've found that users typically quit after printing, so we combined the features."

    Priceless :)

  17. Re:what? on New Way to Patch Defective Hardware · · Score: 1

    When I was first reading about FPGAs, I think I read that they are used on many first-to-market products. Think about it, if you design your product with an FPGA that will eventually be replaced by a regular ASIC chip, then you can send it off to be constructed while you're still working on the final designs. Patch the ones that arrive with the FPGA, and once you've sufficiently tested the deal, switch to an ASIC chip for cheaper results.

    Seriously, FPGAs are WAY more expensive than their ASIC chip equivalents... It's really only useful for intial production before your design is set in stone (or do we say "etched in silicon" now?)

  18. Re:Incentive for alternative roots on DHS Wants Master Key for DNS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ah... the joys of the americo-centric viewpoint. Forget your own sovereigncy, it's probably too much for you to deal with anyways. Just let the US do it all for you.

    God, it sounds like the exact same ideas that the USSR had running puppet governments in the other Soviet States.

  19. Re:OpenBSD PF on Firewall Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    If you read the first response to my post, you find out why. Theo causes a lot of headaches for many people. Often times working with him can get very very bothersome. (So I've heard)

    Theo's autocratic rule over OpenBSD typically has let to very effective and quick decisions about what to do with OpenBSD, and his paranoia in the matter lends greatly to the security of OpenBSD.

    But just because Cuba has never lost a life to a hurricane since Castro got into power, and Cuba's healthcare is the best in the world, does not mean that people are lining up to become citizens.

  20. Re:OpenBSD PF on Firewall Recommendations? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have to lend my support towards OpenBSD's PF. It is by far the clearest yet most powerful firewalling configuration setup I've seen.

    I highly recommend it over IPTables at least.

  21. Re:My favorite bug on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    Wow... hehe :) That's perhaps the best bug I've read about amoung all of these.

    Basically, it's an unintentional solving of the very problem you were just expecting to solve part of the way.

  22. Re:ModeX graphics? Buffer overflows? on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    The Z80 processor (related to the 8088 that was released by Intel) has a number of flags that are technically undefined, but still operate very effectively, and pretty much across the board of implementations of the Z80.

    What happens is that there are actually 3 bits of the flag that are just simply mapped from the result into the flag register. These are the sign bit, the 6th bit, and the 4th bit (starting from C=1st bit)

    As I recall there's a version of Ghosts and Goblins that required this emulation support to be there, or it would work wrong.

    There were quite a few other "undocumented" opcodes, that none the less made it into the Gameboy's processor and the Z80 processors in common use (like in the TI-8x series) and ended up being very commonly used.

  23. Re:What about technology in general on Language Learner Looks for Leads in Learning? · · Score: 1

    I've really found that a mix of the two, hands-on/practice and teaching works the best for me. Basically, it allows you to use what you learn right away, and you have a better chance of retaining it long-term.

    However, college courses and teaching classes themselves are pretty inefficient at giving you any sort of meaningful experience or practice with an idea, as you use it then move on. Course work typically is also fairly easy, and constrained so that it doesn't take up your whole life.

    I've found a more immediate need to prioritize what to do and what to work on. I'd like to see an unbalanced workload in course work, that no one is expected to complete fully. The aim is to have the students prioritize and work on parts, giving them a more self-directed study.

    Essentially this is what I did in High School and college, except I didn't get credit for it. That's also essentially the reason why I didn't date at all. :( Oh well, I'm making up for it well right now. :)

  24. Re:Spend the money elsewhere on Killer NIC K1 and Custom BitTorrent Client Tested · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I said it before, and I'll say it again. If you buy this card, then you deserve Everything You Deserve To Get(tm).

    I'll still say that you don't need to trademark every silly thing that your card does "special". Like, "This case now with SafeCorner(tm) so that you're likely to get less BloodNStuff(tm) on your NetworkBOOST(tm)"

    It just sounds way too much like you're marketing snake oil...

  25. You've already figured it out... on Language Learner Looks for Leads in Learning? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    You've already figured it out...

    I'm not convinced one of these methods was more effective than the others.


    It's not what language you know. It's about knowing how to solve a problem independent of any language, and then using the language that best solves the problem.

    Just keep learning languages for new ideas to express things, but don't keep learning languages thinking that you're going to end up learning The Language, that conquers them all. That language doesn't exist, and it likely never ever will.