Zhila the Great Z - Slashdot User

Comment Re:125 MORE years until the US gets time... (Score 1) 429

by Zhila the Great Z on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @08:12AM (#29821783) Attached to: 125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich

The 31st of April? That's an April Fool's joke, right?

Comment Zero Wing (Score 1) 1120

by Zhila the Great Z on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @09:49PM (#28861447) Attached to: Which Game Series Would You Reboot?

For great justice, someone to setup us a game new!! Main console screen turn on, play for 3-D hours!! Take off every online players, for all their base are belong to us!! What happen!! You know what you doing!! With new zero wing, you have no chance of survive make your time!!

Comment Re:Evolution is great. (mostly) (Score 2, Informative) 337

by Zhila the Great Z on Saturday July 25, 2009 @09:39AM (#28818125) Attached to: New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp

The time period for a generation has little to do with how long the organism can survive, but rather how long until the organism is capable of reproduction.

Comment Re:It doesn't matter (Score 1) 505

by Zhila the Great Z on Sunday June 21, 2009 @10:57AM (#28410759) Attached to: Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al.

http://xkcd.com/37/

Comment Re:How do you punish a corporation? (Score 1) 593

by Zhila the Great Z on Saturday May 23, 2009 @09:22AM (#28066083) Attached to: Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life"

Hell, they probably have the technology to do so without the dude even being able to make a call other than 911.

I may be mistaken, but I have been led to believe that all cell phones (possibly mandated by law) were required the ability to make emergency calls to 911 regardless of service status. I know with all the phones I've had, with the SIM card removed (no SIM, no authentication, no service, no calls) allows emergency calls to 911 (in fact, will ignore all key presses other than the sequence 9,1,1, TALK).

Comment Re:how about that (Score 1) 204

by Zhila the Great Z on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @03:57AM (#27500551) Attached to: Design Software Giants Target the Unemployed

Unless I misread you, or you made a mistake in your post... In what way are the free student and VS Express software temporary? Other than the eligibility of obtaining student software being temporary (you can't be a student for life), once you obtain the software, you are licenced for life. And, the VS Express products have been free from the first beta of 2005 until this very day.

Comment Re:Fuck Python, no, Fuck C# (Score 3, Informative) 187

by Zhila the Great Z on Friday October 31, 2008 @10:07AM (#25579657) Attached to: How To Make Money With Free Software

Not sure how serious you were, but I think I can counter.

First, you say that C# is a closed and proprietary language. You also say there is no spec for the C# language. While Microsoft's C# compiler itself may be closed source and proprietary software, it is an open standard per ECMA. You also state that developers won't be porting the language to new systems, yet I can count at least two compilers (both open source) available for non Microsoft systems.

You then ask if it can be used to create an operating system, if it can program set top boxes, or be used in embedded systems. Well, yes (Singularity), eventually (it has been noted that one use of Singularity would be set top boxes) and yes (.NET Compact Framework or Embedded Linux with Mono).

You may state these solutions are inefficient or inadequate, and I won't argue against that. However, to say they don't exist at all is not true.

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