Comment Re:who wrote this?? (Score 1, Insightful) 583
Python doesn't have real threading, Perl is basically dead, and Ruby is slow as shit.
Comment Re:Alternatives (Score -1, Flamebait) 583
Scala is the worst POS I've seen in a long time.
Comment yes we know (Score 1) 498
There are aliens, its obvious. We're probably some common 6th grade alien science fair project where the kids have to terraform a planet and then create semi-intelligent beings. Extra credit if they don't destroy each other within 100 years after nuclear technology.
Comment Re:Sure, if you can ... (Score 1) 989
Proof doesn't matter when your delusional, I mean "have faith".
Comment Two different branches... (Score 2, Interesting) 989
Technically, evolution and creationism are separated by about 14 billion years. If your going to teach creationism, shouldn't that be in astronomy class? What does the fact that organisms have DNA which allows them to pass on traits to their offspring have to do with the creation of the universe?
Comment this just in (Score 1) 249
This just in! Playing video on battery powered devices drains the battery faster! Unless you use HTML5! It breaks the laws of physics and actually charges your battery!
Comment too bad its runs different in all browsers (Score 1, Insightful) 208
HTML5 is just another level of bullshit to worry about when writing a web page that needs to render properly on multiple browsers.
Is LGP Going the Way of Loki Software? 124
An anonymous reader writes "After the demise of Loki Software, Linux Game Publishing sprouted up in its place, and for the past nine years has ported a number of games to Linux. But LGP may now be sharing the same fate as Loki. Linux Game Publishing hasn't updated its blog or news pages in months, has stopped responding to e-mails, and its only active ports are games they began work on in 2002/2003."
Comment Re:Some Helpful Advise (Score 1) 528
But...Linux far out numbers windows in the server room. Running a server on windows is like taking your head and slamming in a doorway 100 times, its painful.
Comment webkit!! (Score 1) 570
End the HMTL5 compatibility nightmare before it starts. All browsers should just move to webkit and then compete with the interface features.
Comment Re:Author should look into Scala (Score 1) 253
Too bad scala is awful. Great for academic use, aka annoying students. Why anyone would want to take 10x longer to code in the real world means a. they are dumb, b. they have money to burn and don't care.
Comment Re:Using Java for web development (Score 1) 253
He didn't use Java, he used Groovy.
Dwarf Planets Accumulate In Outer Solar System 93
An anonymous reader tips a piece in Australian Geographic indicating that Pluto may be in for another demotion, as researchers work to define dwarf planets more exactly. "[Australian researchers] now argue that the radius which defines a dwarf planet should instead be from 200–300 km, depending on whether the object is made of ice or rock. They base their smaller radius on the limit at which objects naturally form a spherical rather than potato-like shape because of 'self-gravity.' Icy objects less than 200 km (or rocky objects less than 300 km) across are likely to be potato shapes, while objects larger than this are spherical. ... They call this limit the 'potato radius' ... [One researcher is quoted] 'I have no problem with there being hundreds of dwarf planets eventually.'"
Comment We're all mind readers (Score 5, Insightful) 441
Wow the list of magical things you can't do with your iPhone app sure is growing.
Comment iTampon (Score 0) 367
That name is garbage compared to Microsoft's new iTampon.
