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  1. Flash a total CPU hog? on Occupy Flash? · · Score: 2

    Nothing does a better job making my Athlon64 3000+ obsolete than by switching everything to HTML5.

    Watching a video on Youtube in HTML5 shoots my CPU up to 80% while watching it through regular Flash only uses 55%.

    Angry Birds in HTML5 is jerky (not to mention the crappy aliasing) and it'll work a lot better if implemented in Flash.

    So surely I'm missing something when people keeps complaining Flash is a resource hog.

    I hope it's not another hipster programmer fad like the functional language for everything trend a couple of years ago.

  2. Re:Great form factor but where are the cases? on Via Launches a New Mini-ITX System · · Score: 1

    People who wants NKRO from their mechanical keyboards do.

  3. Re:Welcome to real world on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 1

    This makes sense only if you're making fuck all from your apps.

    The $99 entrance fee also serves as a barrier to entry to keep amateur fart apps developers from shitting up the appstore.

  4. Re:Definitely not causation. on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 1

    Bill Clinton is not actively trying not to have a blowjob. He wanted it, he had it and he was betting his ass nobody would discover it.

    FWIW, he had enough self control to get himself voted into office.

  5. Re:Cutting Corners on NASA Reveals Hundred Year Starship Program · · Score: 1

    You may moderate him into flamebait but he's the type of American you're trying to convince.

    Insightful cowboys should take this chance and try to win him over.

  6. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    I think it's important that all of you who are planning to participate in this glorious thread of atheist rage to first consider the possibility that there really is a God but he's a dick.

  7. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh, summarize and bring the argument here please. I can't even be bothered to follow the link to RTFA. What makes you think I'd wade through a book so that you can be right?

  8. Re:so microsoft reinvented the wheel on Microsoft's Adaptive Touchscreen Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Yea, that keyboard built up my vocabulary significantly as I adapt my word choice to maximum/minimum ant kills depending on my mood for the day.

  9. Re:Seen before ... on Microsoft's Adaptive Touchscreen Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Might be useful for shortcut keys like when you're using Photoshop or Illustrator.

    The available hotkeys change contexts when you press ctrl/shift/alt and also on where the focus is on, what mode you're in, etc.

    You can even have the entire toolbox on the keyboard so you can have extra horizontal space on the screen (a bit meh to be frank since it's vertical space we're more likely to be wanting especially since the 1080 HD scourge).

  10. Re:Should we change that old saw to "Happiness is. on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    On yet another different note why is spirituality always equated to Christianity?

  11. Re:Yeah, it's called blissful ignorance on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    What difference does scientific, intellectual and cultural progress make if everyone is happy? Isn't happiness the ultimate goal?

    I blame our fully functional brains for all the problems in the world.

  12. Re:Software engineering is not a new concept. on Does the 'Hacker Ethic' Harm Today's Developers? · · Score: 1

    There's no way for even a good developer to earn 30-40k in US dollars in India.

    The average is 10k for software developers and 20k for project managers.

    Maybe you've mistaken the figures for rupees per month, which also brings up the question why Americans love to quote their wages in per annum figures instead of per month figures.

  13. Re:Vim on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 5, Funny

    too awk ward

  14. Re:In other words on Chicago Tribune Reporters Don't Want Readers' Pre-Approval · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why should the reporters care what you think of their stories? They're here to report, not to butter you up.

    If I want news report that aims to please the masses, I'll go watch Fox News.

  15. Re:vrml on Google Brings 3D To Web With Open Source Plugin · · Score: 1

    Like flash, sandboxed to hell so any security concerns are offloaded to the plugin provider. Which means you can do 3d stuffs and people can load them on their browsers without worrying about being hacked.

  16. Re:Precious Snowflakes on Narcissistic College Graduates In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    The 3.9's and 4.0's are just rising up to the challenge of whatever tasks are imposed on them and gaming it. Getting whatever needed to be done, done. Doesn't matter shit if you can engineer an aircraft out of forks and spoons if you can't get things done.

  17. Re:You really want a rape analogy? on Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's more like the rapists would always target the skirt wearers over the pants wearers because of the relative lower barrier to entry and the pants wearers would try to convert their skirt wearing sisters from their erroneous ways by calling them little sluts and being condescending.

    What the pants wearers don't realize is that it takes a significant investment of time and effort to learn how to slip into a pair of pants for people who don't sew pants for a living. Thus, the skirt wearers would rather spend extra money on mace or pepper spray that they can operate with a push of a button in times of emergency.

    Thing is, the pepper sprays leak into their skirts and whatever garments they are wearing underneath and leave them with a burning sensation and even then the skirt wearers would rather burn their coochies than learn how to slip into a pair of pants.

  18. Re:What for? on China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn · · Score: 1
    "So the sage's governing methods are:
    Emptying the mind, Vitalizing the stomach,
    Softening the will, Strengthening the character."

    - Tao Te Ching, Chapter 3:2

    Maybe they think porn ruins a person's character? Though I think it's more applicable to the "Softening the will" part.

  19. Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less on Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth

  20. Re:Addons on Google Chrome Is Out of Beta · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ads don't keep websites free. They generate a bit of money for the owners of the website. Websites were around before banner ads.

    Yea, bro. Ads don't keep websites free. Their owners do. Oh wait....

    Somebody's got to foot the bills especially when you're getting slashdotted 24/7.

    They survive even now, despite the fact that just about everybody blocks ads.

    Last checked quite a bit of people are still using IE and I think it's fair to assume most of them don't have an ad blocker.

    You're the same kind of person who claims that watching TV but going to take a whiz during commercials is stealing.

    Yea, I bet GP is a fat 40 years old virgin who still lives with his parents and has 3 level 80 WOW toons.

  21. Re:Good one. on Google Chrome Is Out of Beta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With a prominent site like Slashdot with a guaranteed amount of traffic, yes. Advertisers do keep track of who and how many people loaded their advertisements and from where. It's not pay per click all the time you know.

  22. Re:For the uninformed: on Critical Vulnerability In Adobe Reader · · Score: 1

    Sumatra PDF did a good job porting the freaking ass slow rendering experience from Linux to Windows. Have you even tried Foxit before you bash it?

    Quick test: Load a hundred pages+ PDF and drag the scroll bar across the pages. You should expect Foxit to keep up with your maniacal scrolling followed by Adobe's sub second lag and Sumatra's "Please wait - Rendering...."

    But if you mean Foxit under Linux, it's noticeably slow. Just like all the other PDF viewers for Linux.

  23. Re:Is baldness a disease? on Baldness Gene Discovered — 1 In 7 Men "At Risk" · · Score: 1

    Baldness might not contribute to depression but it sure feels like shit.

  24. Re:oh goody. on C# In-Depth · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you meant C++/CLI?

  25. Re:Expert sex change, again? on Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site · · Score: 1

    it won't be usable anyway if the width is fluid with their font size on your 30". just CTRL++ it on your firefox.