Comment On grammar (Score 1) 147
The current project is mainly C#, so I've need to be able to type brackets, semicolons and parentheses quick and painlessly."
You are looking at adverbs here, so repeat after me:
"Typing how?"
Quickly. Painlessly.
Comment Re:hunh? (Score 1) 383
Sure, the service is undeniably convenient. But what will you do if they choose to delete your account due to some recently announced policy change? Also, on a more general note, how do you feel about Google indexing all your correspondence including banking, medical, trade and other very personal data?
Comment Links? (Score 2) 544
So, do we have any good links?
Comment Visual Studio for C++ (Score 1) 1880
I am a C++ dev. As such, I highly value my convenience and productivity and my choice of IDE is Visual Studio. Most of my code runs on Linux yet I choose to write/build/debug on VisualStudio. Why? Because of IntelliSense/VisualAssistX, good compiler and integrated debugger.
That is why I am still on Windows.
Comment Port the C++ code (Score 1) 302
Well, I doubt they would ever port the massive codebase to their new C++/CX dialect. Does anyone remember the C++/CLR thing and all the talk about Office.NET? Yeah, right.
However, I am sure there will be a small tile-based viewer.
Comment Re:If you think $50 for the Apple cable is bad... (Score 1) 259
Dude, that will be a real value for money. Imagine the claim: "you can hear the difference when playing your crummy old 128K MP3s". Or, perhaps, they should just move into the "fashion accessories" niche and just acknowledge that they add real mother of pearl, white gold and diamonds to a perfectly capable digital piece of kit?
Comment Re:What scrapers? (Score 1) 238
Yep, you are seeing scrapers' pages.
Comment Re:Oops (Score 1) 213
... A friend of mine works on the Centaur and I saw him on Sunday. I asked how work was and he told me about the upcoming launch.
...and Taco is already on the phone with NSA giving them whatever is present in your profile. Next step, you'll have to explain your relationship to this friend
Comment Re:Having it installed cuts the Battery? (Score 1) 509
The tester has not heard of AdBlock and friends? Hello, it's your CPU, your bandwidth, your UI experience while using the site - don't waste any of it by downloading crap.
Medieval Copy Protection 226
An anonymous reader writes "In medieval times a 'book curse' was often included on the inside cover or on the last leaf of a manuscripts, warning away anyone who might do the book some harm. Here's a particularly pretty one from Yale's Beinecke MS 214: 'In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.'"
Russian Scholar Warns Of US Climate Change Weapon 415
According to Russian political scientist, and conspiracy aficionado Andrei Areshev the high heat, and poor crop yields of Russia, and other Central Asian countries may be the result of a climate weapon created by the US military. From the article: "... Areshev voiced suspicions about the High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP), funded by the US Defense Department and the University of Alaska. HAARP, which has long been the target of conspiracy theorists, analyzes the ionosphere and seeks to develop technologies to improve radio communications, surveillance, and missile detection. Areshev writes, however, that its true aim is to create new weapons of mass destruction 'in order to destabilize environmental and agricultural systems in local countries.'"
Comment Re:Not the best timing (Score 1) 396
Learn a little bit of C++?
OpenSSL 1.0.0 Released 105
hardaker writes "After over 11 years of development since the start of the OpenSSL Project (1998-12-23), OpenSSL version 1.0.0 has finally hit the shelves of the free-for-all store."
Nmap 5.20 Released 36
ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. '"
Comment Re:Before the FUD creeps in again: (Score 1) 312
But what about non-English texts?
I had asked Amazon and they don't support Russian with their existing Kindle 2 product. There is a half-assed workaround - Russian
So, what's the story with the new product? Can it handle Unicode?
