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  1. Re:Lol don't on Ask Slashdot: How To Start With Linux In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Linux is only free if your time is worthless

    Which is why my job pays handsomely

  2. Re:I CAN'T be the only one to misread the title on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 1

    I swear I had to read that three times before I realized that the article title wasn't "LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hardons"

    "erotic hardons"

  3. Re: Cognitive dissonance on Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability · · Score: 2

    If the vulnerability is on GTS, Google can patch it directly, as long as those devices are registered to Google services. Since it's in android, it's up to the device makers, or in USA case, device maker and carriers to push android 4.2 to the affected devices

  4. Re:Save Slashdot Classic! on NASA Pondering Two Public Contests To Build Small Space Exploration Satellites · · Score: 1

    I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

    I would love to support your cause, but I need to ask you a question. What is the linux equivalent of this "go to your windows" step?

  5. Re:I would think it already has taken #2 on Ask Slashdot: Is Linux Set To Be PC Gaming's Number Two Platform? · · Score: 1

    I would think Linux already has taken #2 if you include Android game apps.

    The article specifically mentioned PC Gaming. Yes you can run android and play android games on your PC if you want to, but I bet the number is insignificant

  6. Ubuntu One Drive! on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    This should be fun

  7. Re:NO, no no! on FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database · · Score: 1

    Think of something more like the Arab Spring vs the Civil War. Maybe i'm being optimistic, but I can't see the US army rolling tanks through the streets to quash widespread revolt. In the US. Killing US civilians.

    Arab spring is civil war. It's just named differently since it was backed by the west

  8. Absolutely zero emission? on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    I love alternative, cleaner energy sources, but lets be real. The emission was probably performed somewhere else, except if they can guaranty that the energy conversion and delivery process produced absolutely zero pollution

  9. Re:Google already has a noose on manufacturers on Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store · · Score: 1

    There is a white knight saving us from Google domination while still firmly grounded in the Android camp: Cyanogenmod. They're starting to ship presintalled in devices, now. I hope it's an ongoing trend, since the true power of open source is the ability to fork. And if more and more closely related forks appear, Google will want to keep everything compatible with its Play Store, which will halt its gradual proprietarization (eh?) of Android.

    The pre-installed Cyanogenmod on the Oppo N1 is Google certified, akin to TouchWiz on Samsung, Sense on HTC, or Timescape on Xperia, and not exactly a fork.

  10. Re: That doesn't seem right. on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    Since there's no dolphin voltaire around, can we assume that dolphins lack intelligence too?

  11. Re:Shut your mouth! on Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    Cultural mis-reference!

    Patlabor! I just want to know if the robot was named "Griffin."

    SCHAFT's Type J9 code name is "Griffon"

  12. Re:People watch netflix on a computer? on Run Netflix On OpenSUSE · · Score: 1

    B-b-but fweeeeedum!

    Don't worry, your tv will most likely run some sort of linux distro

  13. Re:they're still neighbors on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: 1

    is, not was

    Still nearest neighbor? Of course. Still most important regional neighbor? Hmmm... maybe?

  14. Re:Why do you find it interesting? on Dell's New Sputnik 3 Mates Touchscreen With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Probably true, just a bit worried since it ships with 12.04 which is almost two years old. 13.10 would be a better choice to get a more useful version of Unity.

    12.04 is the current LTS, and will be supprted and patched until 2017. Alternatively, almost any hardware that is supported on 12.04 will run just fine on 13.x, with maybe certain AMD cards as an exception, but that has nothing to do with ubuntu

  15. I got offered to download mobogenie .apk a couple times I open slashdot on my phone. Do any of you experience this too?

  16. Re:Are PC gamers benefiting ? on AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less · · Score: 1

    Matrox dabbled, but never got close to a cost efficient gaming card, really IMO... the closest they came was the G400 IIRC. That was the era when you could possibly claim there were 4 competing vendors. Soon after, Matrox left the market to concentrate on 2D, and 3dfx dissapeared up their own arse. I'm not sure who the other 2 you are alluding to are.... SiS, VIA?

    3DLabs? PowerVR? Rendition? Granted, most of them only released 2-3 generations worth of graphic chips, but they did gave us options back then. I remembered the how PowerVR delivered competition when they released the Kyro after the success of PowerVR2 on DreamCast

  17. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    An entire country locked in a mexican standoff, that sounds nice.

    Or could this actually be a new type of standoff entirely? The American standoff?

    You guys did it at worldwide scale back then. Remember the cold war?

  18. Re:Do the kids still chase the newest video card? on AMD's New Radeons Revisit Old Silicon, Enable Dormant Features · · Score: 1

    Once in a while I check Tom's Hardware for the video card roundups and they all seem priced accordingly. There is no longer a "best bang for you buck" card. A $70 Nvidia cards performs as well as a $70 AMD card.

    The last bang for buck video card that I had was the GeForce 4 TI 4200 64MB. It lasted roughly 3 years before I migrated to the a 6600

  19. Re:This is simple numbers pumping on Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    The fact that it runs on low end luminas with 512 megs of ram and single core cpus and runs decently where gingerbread wont even boot is why I wrote that. I have a galaxy s1 with similiar hardware with the exception of a dual core arm and its barely functional with Android 2.3 which is obsolete.

    Windows 8 kernel uses less than 20 megs of ram. Try having linux run with that

    Windows is not vista or xp anymore. They have gotten their act together with the exception of Metro. 8.1 runs on 10 year old systems fine with the exception of a real video driver.

    My problem is, it doesn't really matter to me, the end user, that a certain OS runs on less resource than other OS if both handsets is priced the same. If both handset performs similarly on benches or general use cases, but one is much, much cheaper than the other since it uses last year SoC and less RAM than the other, I might be swayed to buy the cheaper one. As of now, My S4 is a power sucking, plasticky toy, but it will do (almost) everything a Lumia 920/1020 or the 5s can, and perhaps a little bit more, while being priced the same, or cheaper than the 5s

  20. Re: Wrong way round. on Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Microsoft loved that excuse back in the day! There are no third party drivers on android noob. Their programmers just suck.

    So the drivers for each SoCs is written by google android developers? Or are you saying S3 did not write the driver for my S3 Trio64 back in the day? Back in the day? My obsolete ATI card uses 3rd party (OSS) driver today on top of Ubuntu, and it runs fine most of the time

  21. Re:a change is gonna come on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 1

    are you by chance opened radeon.com? Go to amd.com instead

  22. Re:At the risk of being labeled troll on AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle · · Score: 1

    The most recent AMD card that I have is the Radeon 5650, embedded on my Vaio E-Series. It certainly won't win any speed contest, but it can comfortably runs MOH, BF3, Skyrim, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Dragon Age 2 on windows, TF2, Dota 2, and Strike Suit Zero from Steam's Linux library, and finally Street Fighter x Tekken on wine on Ubuntu. No crash whatsoever, at least nothing GPU related. I started with ATI Rage Pro, and went Nvidia for several generations (Riva TNT2, Ti 4200, and 6xxx). I returned to ATI with the X300, just in time when ATI released their first linux binary driver. I'm not really an avid gamer and any graphic chip will suit my daily usage scenario, so I decided to support them, and my next two cards are AMD's 3470 (on Toshiba M300), and the aforementioned 5650. I have ran GTA III, Need For Speed (Most wanteds, carbons), Fallout 3, Super Street Fighter IV, and many other things, and the AMD cards are the least of my problem

  23. Re: Very interesting... on Group Attacks Bad Software Patents Before They're Approved · · Score: 2

    And probably none of those has business portfolio as extensive as IBM

  24. Re:Still using 3.6 on Firefox 24 Arrives: WebRTC Support and NFC Sharing On Android · · Score: 1

    3.6 has a status bar, and a real status bar at that. As opposed to the always-present extension bar add-on, I see status messages in the status bar and not above it intruding into page space.

    I also have a real back and forward button, as well as an arrow I can click if I want to see my backwards or forwards history. I don't need to hold anything down if all I want is to go back three pages, or go forward to the most recent one from five pages back.

    I regularly using 17 and 23 in different environments. The only thing I like about the newer versons is that the URL is under the tabs and not above it (but for some reason, search is also under the tabs even though it is not tab-specific).

    Right click on the back/forward button shows history. It looks like a timeline, and It will tell you how many pages are in front of you, and how many are behind. I like it. As for status bar, I used to be like you, bothered that the pop up is blocking the page content. But then I realized when I see the pop-up, I don't really want to see the content, and when I move away the mouse, the pop up is gone

  25. Re: 64-bit BS on Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s · · Score: 1

    They still need to maintain 32 bit arm for the 5c, which will have the same lifespan of the 5s. If there were any real world reason to move at all, this release cycle was a wasted opportunity to move all of their stuff to 64bit