Comment Webroot (Score 2) 294
Very fast, very high testing marks. Not free but you get what you pay for - it is worth it.
Comment BlitzMax (Score 1) 224
Try BlitzMax (http://blitzmax.com/Products/blitzmax.php). It can do GUI, console, games, even CGI. Nice OOP language with hundreds of libraries and east C integration. It made me love programming again, the way I did back when I first learned. It's a great language to bang out a quick tool or idea.
Comment Bilt (Score 1) 141
I suggest looking into the Bilt application: http://buildadatabaseapp.com/
It's a fairly easy to extend system built for creating adhoc shared database applications without having to write any code. You could use a bit of custom PHP on top of it to integrate into whatever public forms or whatever you need to pull data from. All your operators and employees would only need to interact with the UI provided by Bilt.
Comment Re:If you do it right (Score 1) 997
I thought I should clarify that the bonus we use for OT work is paid by the hour. This is a direct incentive to work more hours. If the hours make the company more money then it makes sense.
Comment If you do it right (Score 1) 997
This can work for short periods of time, up to a couple of weeks IF you pay an overtime bonus to the sallaried employees. My company does this and most people actually look forward to the infrequent times when it is needed because we are well compensated for it (in addition to our profit sharing program).
Comment Re:Queue the libertarians.. (Score 1) 225
OP was suggesting that objecting libertarians be formed into a line
and shot?
DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries 183
DARPA is working on a project that will convert energy from the human body to power a variety of military gadgets. From the article: "Obviously, our bodies generate heat — thermal energy. They also produce vibrations when we move — kinetic energy. Both forms of energy can be converted into electricity. Anantha Chandrakasan, an MIT electrical engineering professor, who is working on the problem with a former student named Yogesh Ramadass, says the challenge is to harvest adequate amounts of power from the body and then efficiently direct it to the device that needs it." If I remember the movie correctly, this didn't turn out so well for the humans.
Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? 300
An anonymous reader writes "I was asked to manage a number of Linux servers at work. I would like to use volume snapshots to improve my backup scripts and keep recent copies of data around for quick restore. I normally manage Windows servers and on those I would just use Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy for this. I tried Linux LVM snapshots, but most of the servers I manage run regular partitions with ext3 file systems, so LVM snapshots will not work. I found some versioning file systems out there like ext3cow and Tux3. Those look interesting, but I need something I can use on my existing ext3 file systems. I also found the R1Soft Hot Copy command-line utility, but it does not yet support my older 2.4 Linux servers. What are you using to make snapshots on Linux?"
Comment Re:Crossing the line (Score 1) 698
Fuck yes it is.
Comment Re:Note to the President (Score 1) 857
"If Texans have a way they want to do something, LET THEM, and don't live there if you don't like it."
Not if their decisions shapes text books all over the country. Not if they are receiving any Federal funding for their schools.
If they want to blur the line between church and state, and between facts and politics, then surely they won't mind the Federal Government taking away funding. After all, the Church will pick up the slack, right:)?
I have to admit though, living in an ultra-blue state (Oregon), it would be amusing to see my communities reaction to receiving a K-12 set of "Texanized" books.
Comment Re:Black Galaxy? (Score 3, Informative) 118
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but that post really makes it sound as if you don't know what you're talking about. 100000 light years is the size of a typical galaxy, i.e. the Milky Way (admittedly diameter, not radius). And the more massive a black hole, the bigger it is (as measured by the Schwarzschild radius); a black hole with 100 billion stars - which, again, is a typical galaxy's worth - would be about 600 billion km across. That's something like 100 times the size of the orbit of Neptune, and much bigger than any star.
Comment If the dose was calculated right, not a problem (Score 1) 357
To put the dose in perspective, the ICRP 60 recommended dose limit to the whole body for the public is 1000 microsieverts/year. A 0.02 microsievert effective dose to the whole body is nothing. You would have to fly 50000 times to exceed this limit.
Comment Bad idea (Score 1) 148
What concept is this proof of?
Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript 148
JonathansCorner.com writes "Even if Ajax was backronymed to 'Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,' it works with JSON substituted for XML. Here's a proof of concept that JavaScript/VBScript are not strictly necessary either. The technique, besides being used standalone, may be useful to provide a better 'graceful degradation' for Ajax applications used by clients with scripting turned off."
Comment Easy solution (Score 1) 1019
Reply with a resignation letter signed by all of the programmers. He'll let you use your music players.
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