Comment Re:Missing option: (Score 1) 452
Best time sink ever!!!
thank you Blizzard.... or should my failed career and I curse you?
Comment Re:Perforce (Score 1) 268
With all due respect to the many excellent coders who have contributed to this thread, IMHO the tools and methods discussed seem to be a rather free lance version of coding.
I have worked in areas of the computing worlds where coding is tightly controlled by humans and not software. Review boards, meetings, team efforts....
IMHO, relying of software to enforce proper coding practices is lazy. Communication is the key... Communication among coders who CAN communicate should be without question. Revision control software is not and should not be a mind reader.
And finally gvim >> emacs...
Comment Re:Hogwash (Score 1) 817
damn that was great!!!! cleaning monitor right after post....
Comment Re:If it's legal? (Score 1) 785
It is texting while holding the [hone under the desk that is the problem. I know, I have had calls from my son's teacher...
Comment Re:back in my day (Score 1) 785
You don't have a 16 year old in high school then... Sure, if the teacher is exceptional, texting will be down. But not stopped. Hormones my man... hormones...
Comment Re:i liked the biological overtones (Score 1) 336
+1 insightful...
Nice post.
not to mention probably hardwired into our psychology as a threat, again, from millions of years of exposure
How true... Nothing freaks me out more than then egg laying critters that use animals as hosts.
Also if you choose to and AvP to the discussion, I liked how the Aliens killed one of their own to free the queen. That shows evolved hive instincts.
Submission + - Austria to pull out of CERN (google.com)
andre.david writes: From AFP: "Austria is pulling out of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns.
The 20-million-euro (26.9-million-dollar) yearly membership in CERN [...] makes up 70 percent of the money available in Austria for participation in international institutes and could be better used to fund other European projects, he said.
Hahn said he hoped Austria could find "a new kind of cooperation" with CERN and described Vienna's withdrawal from the project as a "pause", noting that some 30 states were already working together with the Geneva-based centre without being members.
The newly-available funds will now allow Austria to take part in new European projects, boost its participation in old ones as well as help the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the country's main organisation funding research."
Austrian particle physicists are not happy with this. From HEPHY, the Austrian Institute for High Energy Physics: "All of a surprise Johannes Hahn [...] announced that he wants to terminate the Austrian membership at CERN [...]. This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron [...] which is dependent on collaborating with CERN [...]. Strangely enough this intention just arrives at a time where scientists are about to harvest the fruits of LHC [...]."
Will other countries follow suit?
The 20-million-euro (26.9-million-dollar) yearly membership in CERN [...] makes up 70 percent of the money available in Austria for participation in international institutes and could be better used to fund other European projects, he said.
Hahn said he hoped Austria could find "a new kind of cooperation" with CERN and described Vienna's withdrawal from the project as a "pause", noting that some 30 states were already working together with the Geneva-based centre without being members.
The newly-available funds will now allow Austria to take part in new European projects, boost its participation in old ones as well as help the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the country's main organisation funding research."
Austrian particle physicists are not happy with this. From HEPHY, the Austrian Institute for High Energy Physics: "All of a surprise Johannes Hahn [...] announced that he wants to terminate the Austrian membership at CERN [...]. This [would] affect spin-off projects like the planned cancer treatment center MedAustron [...] which is dependent on collaborating with CERN [...]. Strangely enough this intention just arrives at a time where scientists are about to harvest the fruits of LHC [...]."
Will other countries follow suit?
Submission + - Calif. v. Mass: The battle over non-compete clause (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "A case filed with superior courts in California and Massachusetts involving a former EMC top executive who is trying work for HP is pitting the two states against each other over whether non-compete agreements can keep an employee from working for the competition. California says non-competes hamper a person's ability to freely traverse the marketplace for work, while Massachusetts says the agreements actually afford freedom to develop technology without the fear of IP theft."
Comment Re:It's pretty standard these days (Score 1) 329
Then maybe the definition of a good drummer is imprecise. And who should be voting? Fans or other drummers?
Whither the 19th IOCCC? 124
dazedNconfuzed writes "Whatever happened to the 19th IOCCC? The opening thereof was announced over two years ago and the winners' names were posted, but the source code was never released — leaving the results of the 2006 contest unknown as we get well into 2009. Emails to questions@ioccc.org just bounce. Surely the quiet absence of a high point of geekdom becomes news at some point!"
Comment Re:How to stop internet crime (Score 1) 242
Thats right! Direct democracy can never work. Which is what made Switzerland such a hellhole
Switzerland Pop. 7,591,500
U.S.A. Pop. 305,690,000
California Pop.36,553,215
So you see, direct Democracy sort of works in California. But as you see, the majority just put a minority into a second class status. I cannot image the horrors of letting over 300 million people vote on issues of Rights. Switzerland doesn't even have the population of Los Angeles county, 9,878,554. So your example is not very valid when talking about USA.
Submission + - Barak Obama Voted President of The US (cnn.com) 3
eldavojohn writes: "Barak Obama has just achieved 297 electoral votes ensuring him the presidency of the United States of America for the term 2008-2012. This is an historic event for the nation and possibly even the world. What changes will he bring as he sweeps Democrats into other leadership positions? What brought this momentum and change in party majorities/control?"
Submission + - Busted From Space: Satellite IDs Cable Cut Ships (datacenterknowledge.com)
1sockchuck writes: "Undersea telecom cable operator Reliance Globalcom was able to use satellite images to identify two ships that dropped anchor in the wrong place, damaging submarine cables and knocking Middle East nations offline in early February. The company used satellite images to study the movements of the two ships, and shared the information with officials in Dubai, who impounded the two vessels. The NANOG list has a discussion of where Reliance might have obtained satellite images to provide that level of detail."
T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta 249
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday Engadget Mobile received a nice letter from Deutsche Telekom / T-Moblie demanding that they stop using the color magenta on engadgetmobile.com. ("Yep, seriously" they say.) Today several sites have gone magenta in a show of solidarity."
Submission + - Bank Julius Baer issues statement re WikiLeaks (dantynan.com)
dtwood writes: "Julius Baer finally hired a PR agency and issued a press release filled with half truths and non statements. Tynan on Tech has it, along with some brief commentary. Worth a look."
