Comment Re:the point in near term.. (Score 1) 81
But maybe you could roll it up into a scroll or something.
Comment Launcher's ugly (Score 1) 729
OK, honestly not trying to troll here, but I can't be the only one who thinks the new Launcher's ugly as sin.
Here's Unity: screenshot
Now here's the dock on my Mac: screenshot
Comment Re:The sugar lobby is worse than oil company lobbi (Score 1) 1017
Just because someone's lobbying for something doesn't mean it's wrong.
Comment Re:Ridiculously misleading, nobody crashed it... (Score 1) 468
"5/11 participants (P2, P3, P5, P9, P10, P11)"
Wait, so is it 5/11 or 6/11?
Comment Better writeup (Score 4, Informative) 108
Link to a better writeup, one that doesn't attempt strained architectural analogies (ignore the first paragraph or three, but do look at the comments).
Comment Re:Obama acomplishments (Score 1) 639
... even now he is still head and shoulders above GWB, or how McCain would have been
That's not saying a lot.
Comment Re:Just use the hardware you have (Score 1) 898
But it should still be cheaper than buying a new laptop.
Comment Re:Government Gave Engineering Jobs to H1-B Visas (Score 1) 732
Right, there are no H-1Bs in the financial sector.
Comment Re:Anti-Modular? (Score 2) 755
I can't think of anything specific about OO that makes it poorly suited to parallel programming.
Search for the "inheritance anomaly". The academic CS community has known about it since the 80s, but no-one's yet found a satisfactory fix.
Comment Microsoft? (Score 0) 116
I'm sorry, but Microsoft? How the hell could this possibly affect them?
I'm no lawyer, but I assume the legal system doesn't allow unaffected third parties to be involved in lawsuits?
Comment Re:Why IPv6 is a pipe dream (Score 1) 174
NAT. Firewall. Not the same.
Comment Re:Light on details (Score 1) 332
I suspect that proving code is safe using static analysis is probably NP-complete.
I believe it's undecidable. Rice's theorem.
Comment Re:Top Gun (Score 1) 176
Wait, there was a second one?
*scuttles off*
Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not 312
rubycodez writes "A wave of 2012-related hoopla has hit the internet about the star that makes the 'right shoulder' of Orion the hunter: Betelgeuse. Astronomer Phil Plait once again puts rumors to rest. The star will indeed explode as a type II supernova, and when it does it will be brighter than Venus when viewed from Earth, though not as bright as the full moon. It will be visible in the night sky for weeks, and could be visible in the day sky for a short time. But that event could happen today or 100,000 years from now, or as much as a million years from now. Since Betelgeuse is over 600 light-years away, its violent death will not harm Earth in any way, but will definitely provide a huge bonanza of scientific information about supernovae. As geeks, we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime."
Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries 1128
SharpieMarker writes "In what could be the most extreme and influential crowdsourcing project ever, Democrats are beginning to organize to purposely vote for Palin in the 2012 Republican primaries. Their theory is by having Palin as an opponent, Obama will have the best odds at winning reelection. Recent polls have shown that Obama comfortably leads Palin by 10-20 points, but Obama is statistically tied with Romney and barely ahead of Huckabee. They even have a state-by-state primary voting guide to help Democrats navigate various states' rules for voting Palin in Republican primaries."
