Java is one language. Python is one language. With .Net-like technology, FOSS can invade the windows space like never before. There's the potential to share business logic on everything from Android to XNA. Wake the F*@& up. The growth of cross-platform FOSS breaks down the walls that separate platforms and prevent cross-platform competition from occurring.

The day that FOSS comes up with a totally free CLR and CIL that allows static inclusion of the VM in the binary is they day that people can talk trash about Mono as if FOSS already has a better solution.

Group executive officer since 1998. "With his experience primarily in the media industry, Stringer was responsible for the media business of Sony in the U.S. by overseeing the release of the Spider-Man movie series, among others." SAY IT AINT SO!

Directly from Miguel de Icaza's blog: "Mono for Android uses the Mono Linker to ensure that only the bits of Mono that you actually use end up in your package and that you do not pay a high tax for just using a handful of functions."

This test was created in a time when there were certain things that you just needed to "learn." The test is about exclusivity, not intelligence. That's why the math proofs probably needed to be memorized prior to sitting for the exam. Sure, someone who can't remember anything accurately wouldn't pass, but neither would someone who hadn't had the highly specialized and basically useless preparation.

The Latin and Greek translating sections or that era's history references are inheritance from earlier universities, which acted in some degree as a sort of social-status certification. Had you spent time learning *gasp* the classics? The first universities to teach engineering didn't have this idiotic obsession with academic circle-jerk, and I imagine their math sections would have been harder while being more practical as well. It hurts to see this introduced on slashdot as though we're supposed to marvel at how hard it is. Could anyone pass a test of Aristotelian medicine? If you could would it be valuable? I'm going to stop before my phlegm gets out of balance.

Death to curly braces and semicolons. We should just erase them from ASCII already. Disaster. Absolute worst way to organize language ever.

What does Java have that Python doesn't in two weeks?

Last sentence is a nightmare. Revise to: Furthermore, given the demonstrated capacity of the Japanese keiretsu to coordinate focused industrial efforts, robust electricity savings could lead to a clear demonstration of how sustainable technologies can affect the growth of an economy, perhaps showing the rest of the world how to continue developing economically while colliding politically over energy demand a little less. With power consumption fresh on the mind, what are some back-burner items that perhaps should be looked at more carefully moving forward from this disaster?"

I don't want to live in China. Whether wikileaks is good, bad, right, wrong, or ugly, if we endorse the self-protectionist nature of the PRC govornment domestically and internationally, if we deny the truth in intellectualism in our graduate schools, then we have ourselves fearfully denied the truth of human nature to seek improvement through understanding and expansion through creativity.

That societies and the global community will have difficulty digesting the recent events does not mean that we shouldn't learn to cope with what is merely a more true revelation of where our mutual interests exist and where our relationships are perhaps thinner than we believe ourselves capable of addressing.

Design the socket to point towards the cieling. Passive light from the reflection. Use light colors. Socket now has the hot part towards the room. Problem solved.

Process
Step 1: Make a sentence that's memorable, such as "I am making a password that I will never forget"
Step 2: Use title capitalization rules, such as Article Adjectives and Prepositions: the Capitals of Tomorrow.
Step 3: Convert to Acronym. Preserve capitalization.
Step 4: Convert at least a few letters to l33t.

Example
Step 1: i'm telling you, it's easy to create strong passwords
Step 2: I'm Telling you, it's Easy to Create Strong Passwords
Step 3: ITyiEtCSP
Step 4: I'I'yiEtC5P

Randomness avoids dictionaries. Using conversion rules like these, you end up with something that has a meaningful basis, but looks quite random.

Five important aspects of a mouse:
1 Frictionless Scroll Wheel (no bumps while rolling...carpal tunnel)
2 Buttons click with very little vibration. After several thousand clicks per day, the difference between Thwump and TwhaCkchkchck becomes painfully obvious
3 Very, very precise tracking. Although Blue-track is awesome on rough surfaces, I like that first pixel to be quantum mechanically entangled with the first detectable movement. Making users hands numb is not an acceptable way to bring tactile feedback and mouse movement into synch.
4 Shape. Just don't make it suck. Mechanically, I really like there to be troths for the fingers. I think they help bring more of the finger into contact and use the soft tissue to dampen vibrations quickly and gently. It also helps reduce the total moment carried by the fingertip because some of it is applied towards the base.
5 Transmitter and battery....afterthoughts but they need to be on a list that includes everything a mouse engineer should know.

When I started using blender to do tons of 3D modelling, compositing, skinning, animation etc etc, I noticed how crappy mice really are. Most seem to be designed so that oilfield workers will still feel comfortable using them after pulling several thousand feet of pipe.

When truly tied to lots of mouse action, the most important thing is to make it as much of a psychic experience as possible. The mouse should barely exist.

It closes a chapter. We all had high hopes that F-spot would have an easier to find interface than G-spot.