Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 128
And the reason for this insulting abuse of a whole nation would be...?
Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 128
Thomas More. Than man who liked to torture people so that their souls went to heaven? Great role model!
Comment Sue the judge for mental trauma (Score 1) 799
This is outrageous. The amount of stress the judge is inflicting on this little girl is tantamount to child abuse. Someone should lock him up.
Researchers Pooh-Pooh Algae-Based Biofuel 238
Julie188 writes "Researchers from the University of Virginia have found that current algae biofuel production methods consume more energy, have higher greenhouse gas emissions and use more water than other biofuel sources, such as switchgrass, canola and corn. The researchers suggest these problems can be overcome by situating algae production ponds behind wastewater treatment facilities to capture phosphorous and nitrogen — essential algae nutrients that otherwise need to come from petroleum."
College Credits For Trolling the Web? 1164
A user writes "Some undergraduate and masters level courses at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary require trolling as part of their requirements.
In William Dembski's classes on Intelligent Design and Christian Apologetics, 20% of the final grades come from having made 10 posts defending Intelligent Design Creationism on 'hostile' websites.
There seems to be no requirement that the posts contain original writing; apparently cut-and-paste jobs are sufficient. Is this the first case of trolling the net being part of course requirements?"
Comment Re:How many more (Score 1) 351
In the first company I worked for, we used Delphi as standard for all of our PC-based development. It provided fast execution of generated code but was an excellent environment for developing in.
Now I'm coding in Java and ActionScript, I still miss some of the features of Object Pascal: indexed properties, sets (esp sets of enumerated types), arrays bounded by enumerated types.
If only they'd targeted Delphi at the JVM instead of going down the Kylix road, things may have been so different!
Comment Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle (Score 1) 234
I strongly disagree that HTML5 is meeting the needs of the RIA world. If that were the case, why would Adobe Flex be doing so well?
As someone who has worked on web development, desktop development (in the good old days of Delphi) and used Flex, I can categorically say that any HTML-based web development is painful and slow compared to using Flex or any homogenised development system.
HTML+JavaScript+AJAX+CSS+WS+Java+Spring Web (or Tapestry or Struts or....)
OR
Flex (CSS+MXML+ActionScript) + Java on the server
OR
JavaFX (CSS+JavaFX Script) + Java on the server
I am personally fed up with trying to use HTML as a platform for applications. It isn't fit for purpose and it was never intended to be. It takes good old fashioned ideas of sane development and uses them as to clean its rear end.
NEWS: INTERNET BROWSERS ARE A RUBBISH PLATFORM
Comment Re:It is most munificent of you, (Score 1) 489
Design etiquette? Not sure what that means! Maybe he farted while deicding the the exact shade of green to use for the background.
I like the colours. It's nice to have a dark background once in a while - it's more soothing on my eyes. When I have a display that isn't back-lit, I may agree with you!
