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Living Room / Re: The boy who lived before

« on: September 20, 2006, 12:51 PM »

After viewing the TV documentary, I thought that they gave a fair assessment of the story. However, the "Sun" article was all hype. I didn't realize that the "Sun" is not a REAL newspaper.

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Living Room / The boy who lived before

« on: September 20, 2006, 05:06 AM »

Interesting....


http://www.thesun.co...3-2006410683,00.html

“Cameron has never spoken about dying to me. But he told his pal not to worry about dying, because you just come back again.

“When I asked him how he ended up with me, he tells me he ‘fell through and went into my tummy.’

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Living Room / Albert Einstein on the Meaning of life etc...

« on: September 04, 2006, 09:08 PM »

Arguably the smartest scientist to ever live, shares his views on religion.

http://www.sacred-te...instein/einprayr.htm

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Living Room / Learn goal setting from drug addicts?

« on: August 15, 2006, 08:37 PM »

Morbid way of presenting goal setting techniques, but interesting.

http://goalsuccess.t...what_a_drug_add.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon 2.0 Invitation

« on: August 05, 2006, 08:02 PM »

Free download here if you don't like surveys.

http://www.softpedia...a-Download-6199.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ruby executable

« on: July 20, 2006, 04:01 PM »

Also, here is a Python, Ruby, Java, C++ shoot out that I found very interesting.
Too bad perl wasn't included in this comparison.

http://dmh2000.com/cjpr/

Link to side by side comparison
http://www.dmh2000.c...m/cjpr/cmpframe.html

C++ vs Java
Java garbage collection is the big productivity gain
Java is significantly slower than C++
C++ is (much) harder to code correctly than any of the others
Java vs Python/Ruby
Python/Ruby interpreted execution and dynamic typing are big productivity gains over Java.
Python/Ruby are slower than Java
Python/Ruby programs need less extraneous scaffolding (cleaner code)
There are two important tradeoffs : [interpreted vs. compiled] and [static vs. dynamic typing]
Python vs. Ruby nearly equivalent

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Developer's Corner / Ruby executable

« on: July 19, 2006, 04:58 PM »

Link to make your ruby script into executable.

http://www.erikveen....cript2exe/index.html

I tried Ruby recently, and I like it! Ruby is like the crazy Uncle who will let you do what ever you want.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AltSwitch: Make Task Switching Cool

« on: July 18, 2006, 11:00 AM »

I tried this one today, and immediately removed it.

ET calls home even after I told it not to.