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  1. Re:Disposable Income? on Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    You should consider using your savings to pay down your mortgage and then open a HELOC. If you don't own a home, you should consider buying one.

  2. Re:Two Words: MARIO KART! on Online Consoles Marginalizing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Actually, everything at -1 drops off when the page is archived. 0 might too, but I don't recall if that is the case.

  3. Re:Standards on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    *&(int)f = 1;

    That's not C? I thought *value is an lvalue, and lvalues could be to the left of an assignment. I knwo the C compiler I wrote in 93 would allow that. You should be able to go *(int*)0x0 = 1; to generate a fault. If tehre is some explicit rule that the value in the lvalue could not be from a dereference, I've never heard of it.

  4. Re:Oh, I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay... on Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine · · Score: 1

    "Oh, I'm a robot sub and I'm okay" is another good meter

  5. Re:An OOP question on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 1

    oops, yeah, 1000. I might have done that, but I felt it made the joke too obscure.

    What I actually normally do is make a final static class variable. I'll still have the constant build from it's logical parts (multiply millis by secs by minutes by hours) because it is more self documenting and there isn't really a performance hit (a good compiler will preevaluate, even if it doesn't, the amount is stored).

    Also, similar to my 1000 gaff, there's only two Es in sleep.

  6. Re:An OOP question on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 1

    an important peice of the implementation is

    public void finalize()
    {
    new Thread() { public void run()
    {
    try
    {
    Thread.sleep(3*24*60*60*100);
    }
    catch (Throwable t){}
    finally
    {
    Jesus.this.wake();
    }
    }}.start();
    }

  7. Re:An OOP question on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 1

    I think it's only that way in the Catholic API. Another structure in this API is

    struct Pope
    {
    God* god;
    }

    which indicates the Pope's direct link to God. Multiple instances of the Pope type at the same time can cause a memory schism fault.

  8. Re:An OOP question on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fun is, most people never get an acknowledge for the messages they've send, let alone a response.

    This is fine. His omniscience provides guaranteed delivery, but you have to accept that the message is asyncronous and may not be acted upon based upon God's will.

  9. Hmmm on Dealing with False AOL Spam Reports? · · Score: 1

    our members have agreed to receive

    Depends. Did they really agree to receive it, or did they just forget to uncheck the "receive promotions from our affiliates" when signing up for free porn?

  10. Re:Where is the deterence? on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    Yup, it's currently up $.30.

    If there is one thing I've learned, you cannot predict the market based on news.

  11. Re:I'm curious... on .mail Domain To Eliminate Spam? · · Score: 1

    FYI, there is more than just a front page to /.. There are articles that get posted that do not go on the front page, but are listed in their specific sections. Here is an example from Science. The front page has a listing of which sections have additional articles.

  12. Re:hehe... comments CAN bite back... on .mail Domain To Eliminate Spam? · · Score: 1

    If you also cannot metamoderate, then you've been $rbtl'ed. I get mod points almost every freaking week. It's actually a little annoying, because you can't comment in stories you mod in (otherwise you revoke the points you've spent). So I'll have to decide whether I'm going to comment or mod for each story.

  13. Re:even better.... on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    Putting aside the fact that the baby was on the pre-op xrays taken that showed her kindey stones, morphine should not be administered to a female who is sexually active without a pregnancy test. I would imagine that the pregnacy test would be paid for by the same enitities that pay for the morphine (insurance, the patient, medicaid). Pregnancy tests that hospitals buy are not expensive, costing the hospital about $3 each (according to a pharmacist friend of mine who works in a hospital who was rather agast at the fact that they had her on a morphine drip for 5 days before they noticed the baby on the post-op xrays).

  14. Re:Music sharing may be legal in US too! 17 USC 10 on Burnt Coffee and Burnt CDs · · Score: 1

    This section says nothing whatsoever about the actual infringement of copyrighted materials.

    what about the part that says

    the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making [...] musical recordings

  15. Re:it's linux! be a man! on DVD Authoring Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of an arguement at University I once heard:

    One guy: Real programmers use C!
    Next guy: Real programmers use assembler!
    Last guy: Real programmers cat > a.out

  16. Re:only on slashdot on DVD Authoring Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    that's because you should have bought a house that came with a lightbulb!

  17. Re:Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 on DVD Authoring Under Linux? · · Score: 1

    That's version 6, not 7

  18. Re:.mob? on New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming · · Score: 1

    Because my PCS phone only uses cellular technology when it is in analog mode.

  19. I remember on How The Web Ruined The Encyclopedia Business · · Score: 1

    In a time before the web, some encyclopoedia company trying to get custoemrs by selling their "A" volume for 4.95 and the rest for $80 each. My parents, being the skinflints they are, bought said volume for me and suggested I do my essays on aardvarks and such. In a bind, I actually would pick an "A" topic to write about, but normally I'd just use the school library's collection.

  20. Re:even better.... on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: 1

    I think 99% is a little high. It is a naive position that doctors can screw up. My friend was 3 months pregnant and did not know it (she was still spotting) and had to have a gall stone removed. They put her on morphine without so much as running a pregnancy test. That is negligence, and I personally don't feel that them giving her a form that asked he if she was pregnant is indemnity if the child does have a problem.

  21. Re:How can they get away with this? on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1

    prosicute and jail the folks at Enron

    Did I miss something? Did they sucessfully prosecute more than one person there? Were they able to do so without the defendant pleading, as in the case of Fastow? Is Lay behind bars?

  22. Re:Can't... type... reply... on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1

    I think I was disappointed because I was expecting something more like the Tick comics (never saw the cartoon or live action), where superheros are all over the place and kind of annoying to the general public. The movie wasn't off the wall hilarious, but when I watched it the second time, it was actually pretty good.

  23. Re:ummm on Gyroscopic Wireless Mouse · · Score: 1

    It goes slower in any other medium.

    Actually, it can go faster, but information cannot go faster.

  24. Re:Uhh...no on DRAM Price Fixing Investigations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I paid $54 for a 512MB 400Mhz DDR stick last year. The weird thing is that two months later, the same stick from the same retailer was up to $80 (I was going to get antoehr one) and it was the same elsewhere. I thought a fatory had blown up or something because all the RAM had gone up.

  25. DaimlerChrysler next target on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just released, DaimlerChrysler is the second target. Note to mods: in the event the post is updated, this comment is before that.