Comment dj ozma (Score 0) 38

by BobVila on Monday June 27, 2011 @09:58AM (#36583062) Attached to: Announcing Ozma: Extending Scala With Oz Concurrency

That is a great name for a programming language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hySoCSoH-g8

Comment Re:Surf internet in 1 second? (Score 0) 164

by BobVila on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @05:17PM (#28708409) Attached to: Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time

I have the same motherboard, and I have the same problem. Maybe we need to start complaining to MSI.

Comment Re:I just call them Web Designers (Score 0) 586

by BobVila on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @01:18PM (#27573059) Attached to: What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"?

These statements might help clear things up.

server-side script =/= HTML
HTML =/= programming language
HTML == formatting language
web designer =/= software engineer

Comment missing option (Score 0) 599

by BobVila on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @11:15AM (#26981955) Attached to: I Count In

dozenal (duodecimal)

Comment ugly (Score 0) 594

by BobVila on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @06:56PM (#26630429) Attached to: Progress On Electric Cars

The Shelby looks okay, but the Aptera is ugly. If someone is looking to buy a car, they aren't going to buy that. It looks nothing like a car.

Comment Older? (Score 0) 551

by BobVila on Friday December 12, 2008 @05:46PM (#26096457) Attached to: How Do I Manage Seasoned Programmers?

Are they really older than you? Time can be hard on a Java programmer. Double check.

Comment carbon footprint (Score 0) 174

by BobVila on Thursday December 11, 2008 @12:08PM (#26075865) Attached to: Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz

Does this mean that in the future we will be able to take sequestered carbon and make electronics out of it? And diamonds are an allotrope of carbon too, let's make jewelry out of it too. It probably uses too much energy to make carbon bond in that way. I don't know the specifics.