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  1. Re:Compete with drugs on Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades · · Score: 1

    the problem is that you can earn a lot more than $500 selling drugs. In fact, just casually selling I made more than that a week back in high school, before I put that business behind me.

  2. Re:weird on Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades · · Score: 1

    did you think that way when you are in grade school?

  3. searching rights? on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 1

    I know school administration has the right to seize a student's phone, but isn't a little questionable to actually poke through the phone enough to look at all the pictures they have on it. IANAL, but that seems like illegal search with out reason to me. If I'm wrong please explain why.

  4. fixed title on Let Your Theme Song be Your Password · · Score: 1

    let THE MD5 CHECKSUM OF your theme song be your password.

    thats all this is doing, dont let them make it sound glorified.

  5. Re:Bah let me know when the XBox 360 breaks $200- on Xbox 360 20 GB Price Cut "While Supplies Last" · · Score: 1

    what pc is it that you plan to build for $299 that can outclass the xbox360 in graphics.
    Not that I support the xbox or anything, but even if you assume no operating system or monitor, hell lets say you already have a case, cd drives, sound card and hard drive. The motherboard, gpu, cpu, and ram are going to cost you more than $300. Sorry.

    Also the reason that many developers are going console only, is because of piracy.

  6. CGI? on The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? · · Score: 1

    well I've always written my CGI executables in C so "web scripting" in C isn't anything new

    I don't know if its just me but rippng off the C syntax for an interpereted language is ridiculous. Please leave this to perl and flash.

  7. kernel tasker responsibility on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 1

    Despite the huge push towards writing programs optimized to control their own threading, I still cannot comprehend why this is not left to the kernel tasker.
    If the kernel can manage process time on one core, I feel that scaling this to work efficiently over a number of cores, with the use of semaphores to protect data and control thread access would allow for a much more efficient system level approach.
    My experience controlling data access between multiple threads has been riddled with unneeded tweaking. I think that gcc should insert code to control memory leaks and process safety and the kernel should be in charge of tasking between cores.

    fork() that intel.

  8. Re:As a student currently taking it on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    public void delete(int id){
    TreeNode temp = rootNode;

    if(((idpair)temp.getValue()).id == id){
    temp = temp.getRight();
    while(temp.getLeft() != null){
    temp = temp.getLeft();
    }
    temp.setLeft(rootNode.getLeft());
    rootNode = rootNode.getRight();
    return;
    }

    The type idpair is a just basically a struct that has a value for the id and inv values (this is assuming that you are doing the same assignment I had to do last month). Should work universally with a little editing. Best wishes

  9. Re:Teams Without Trophies - or Competent Coaches on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    I whole heartedly agree!

    Computer science classes fail because they are trying to take some thing that is an art in its purest form, and make it into a soulless science.

    I always thought it should be "Computer Arts"

  10. Re:Other Courses were also cut. on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    I am currently taking AP Computer Sience AB online as offered by the Maryland State Dept of Education.

    In maryland there are as of this year 17 people taking the class.

    Its just a sad fact amigo, theres not enough interest drummed up in computer science in an academic fashion.

    the most prominent use of computer science in my high school is hacking the network for remote root access and playing pranks from there.

    Most of the really talented people aren't into drawing attention to their skills

  11. Re:Very Disturbing on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    I hate to tell you mate, I tried to get my high school to go for letting me have an independent study in C++, I even went to the Maryland board of ED with my request.

    they told me that There were no teachers competent to set my curriculum and aid my learning.

    I just told them my Ap comp sci A teacher is incompetent too and that didn't stop that

    (That was probably a bad idea) :]

  12. Re:This is a shame on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    Honestly? The only reason I've been able to succeed "learning java" in the high school environment is that I've been doing OOD in C++ since middle school. I Honestly think think the level of abstraction in Java makes it closer to a basic than a C type language, just because the syntax is similar, java is focused around useless programming practice. e.g. I got a 0 on an assignment because I referred to static methods by class name rather than an instantiation of a class. I tried that in C and the compiler complained! My experience says that computer science doesn't belong in a high school environment unless its independent study. My teacher does nothing to teach other than assigning reading, I feel bad for the kids who think the teacher is going to teach them, because its really just BS work adding stress onto something I enjoy

  13. Re:This is a shame on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    Right now, I'm taking AP Comp Sci AB on the online class

    The code project now deal with Bugs and is called gridworld. Its Still just as terrible mind you.

  14. but US laws... on Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism · · Score: 1

    1) US laws only apply in the united states
    2) AG is talking about terrorism in other countries.
    3)Blatant Lies
    4)????
    5)Profite

    actually "?????" can be replaced with, "freedom raping civil lawsuits that have more steep punishment than the statute of limitations of the same infraction charged as criminal"

  15. Re:All part of the master plan on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 2, Funny

    Step 4 -- ?????
    Step 5 -- Profit!!!

  16. Re:Any purpose Left? on Multi-Channel Communication Patent Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    Of course, as soon as I posted that, I realized that rights have been a commodity as long as there have been both.

  17. Any purpose Left? on Multi-Channel Communication Patent Up For Sale · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Doesn't it destroy the purpose of a "patent" if you can sell the rights to it to someone completely uninvolved with its creation?

    Rights shouldn't be a commodity!

  18. the Problem is on Why Aren't More Linux Users Gamers? · · Score: 1

    The people who have been writing games have been writing windows DX games for a long time. The Developers that release Linux and Mac Games (id and Blizzard) write their games and their engines from scratch to be cross platform. But when company X licenses the Unreal Engine and don't know how to specifically use platform independent modules and GL, it isn't cost efficient to then rewrite it for linux. The problem arises in the fact that most developers don't think about alternative platforms while writing and look at it as an afterthought, which isn't a cost viable way to include linux support in a game. The only "way" is to write the code to be platform independent using GL. With the Current push for DX10, many companies are backing off on this because its not the most "cutting edge" (in the eyes of the Gamers who don't use linux).

  19. Re:Holy crap! on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 5, Informative

    That research lab at Alberta is know for releasing under-researched findings before complete testing is applied. I also want to point out that it would be near impossible to make anything but a vaccine out of this discovery. So people already having aids with be out of luck, regardless of what TFA says.

  20. Re:De-Shaky Cam on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 1

    Yes in fact there is, and you don't necessarily need HD source. I work at a video production lab, and this could take a total of maybe a week to "do-shake" a whole movie with reasonable results. We just identify one common point in each part, and tell the software to anchor it. It moves each frame from the center so that the object better reflects the movement pattern visible in the film. It really is great technology, we usually use it to clean up home/amateur video but it has many uses.

  21. 1988? on Can Blockbuster be Sued Over Facebook/Beacon? · · Score: 1, Troll

    People complain that the US's laws aren't keeping up with technology. And yet in this case, a law from 1988 is being applied today. Does anybody else smell the irony?

  22. Re:For the record.... on Twelve Game Music Tracks Worth Keeping · · Score: 1

    for the record, I did a google search and found it for $10 USD. Not $40. Fail.

  23. Re:How Ironic on MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple has their own proprietary format called AAC What an insensitive clod!

    AAC is not Apple Proprietary, it is in fact License and Royalty Free and a superior Codec. Hence the reason that it is pushed as MP3's successor.

    MP3's limitations lie in the fact that it is a Royalty Ridden Audio Codec. Mean using MP3 for commercial use requires an fee, not exorbitant by any means, but enough to throw off your local recording/production studio to a superior format.

    If the only reason why MP3 is used is because is just plays on 'everything' then why do I have to manually (PacMan) install an MP3 decoder library every time I install Linux on a computer?

    Because you are all bigots and lack the mental capacity to think outside of the electronics that you own.
  24. Re:Slashdot refutes accusations of illiteracy on Nintendo Refutes Wii Shortage · · Score: 1

    You do realize that "Denies" and "Rejects" have different meanings than the word "Refutes" right? Fail...

  25. MIcrosoft not involved? on Listing of Vista Drivers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does it seem to me that Microsoft couldn't care less about vista. Vista has compatibility problems out the wazoo, and microsoft won't even host drivers on their web page.