* Posts by MayorBoris

6 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jan 2013

FLABBER-JASTED: It's 'jif', NOT '.gif', says man who should know

MayorBoris

Déja-vu

Thank goodness, I though I was losing my mind. This whole thread, almost verbatim, seems to have happend already 6 months ago. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/15/gif_is_pronounced_jif/

Soak up CO2 with sponges, says CSIRO

MayorBoris

"a process for turning carbon DIOXIDE + energy into fuel"

You mean photosynthesis? Basically, you're saying they discovered how to grow some trees for firewood?

Earth-like planets abound in red dwarf systems

MayorBoris

Re: Space is big but time is big too

"In the time since then Earth has been smitten innumerable times"

how fickle of it.

Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs

MayorBoris

Re: Death to Javascript

I dunno, in a language where strings and numbers are interchangeable to some extent (eg you can add them together), then it makes sense that if 0 resolves to false (as it does in C/C++), then so should "0".

Having said that, it's about time we had a decent, fully oo, client-side scripting language.

MayorBoris

Re: Dart runs 130 per cent faster

You beat me to it. I assume they mean it runs at 130% of the speed, ie 30% faster.

NRA: Video games kill people, not guns. And here's our video game

MayorBoris
Joke

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The right to bare arms should be revoked during summer time, what with all the cancer resulting from extensive exposure to the sun...