Comment: Start a software project at home. (Score 2) 516
Write some software for yourself in your spare time and perhaps learn a new language to do it in. Then give it away for free and receive adulation/ridicule.
Calibre could do with a decent rival app if you're into ebooks..
Comment: Re:Another android choice (Score 1) 800
I quite like Jeannie, although she refused to open the pod bay doors and forgot my name. When I asked for a picture of an elephant I got this:
http://i.imgur.com/Z9N2O.png
Comment: Re:already on pastebin (Score 2) 70
I found it on pastebin, it wasn't hard, just search in the last 24 hours. My email address wasn't there either despite getting the apology email.
Comment: Re:... and the problem is? (Score 1) 107
Win win.
Comment: Re:Delay (Score 1) 48
The summary says Apache 2.2.20 was released on Tuesday, the day after the Debian fix.
Comment: Re:English... (Score 1) 199
Well he was born with congenital absence of the fibula in both legs. His unamputated self wouldn't be much of a runner. So you'd have to compare his blades to what his legs would be like with different DNA. So you might was well compare them to legs in general, which is (probably) what they have done.
Comment: Re:English... (Score 1) 199
Idiot. He's a double amputee. Of course the blades augment him. The question is not whether they give him an advantage over his unbladed self, but over other runners with legs and no blades.
Comment: Re:First (Score 1) 335
Here's a better source. With lots of quotes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/04/shutter-happy-monkey-photographer
Comment: Re:Actual Entrepreneur Here (Score 1) 442
This actually sounds like good advice. mod up.
Comment: Re:And no... (Score 1) 205
VB6 has an _option_ to compile to p-code interpreted executables, which is not switched on by default.
You're right, my bad.
Comment: Re:And no... (Score 1) 205
However, VB6 does do native code generation
No it doesn't. VB6 compiles to byte code which is interpreted by msvbvm60.dll
Comment: Re:Uhm.. (Score 1) 129
It worked for me once I removed the #! from the url.
try this: http://gawker.com/5795002/the-art-of-the-animated-gif
+ - FBI: How to be a crypto expert->
Link to Original Source
Comment: Re:These are people who still believe Joseph Smith (Score 2) 1277
Actually it's a constitution-based federal republic. The CIA World Factbook says so.
It's perfectly acceptable to use more than one word to describe something.