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  1. Re:Does it handle OpenGL, then? on WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, hardware accelerated graphics is available in the Android SDK emulator, it's still marked experimental and has a few caveats, but is available (since SDK tools 17).

  2. Re:Some stuff won't work? on WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC · · Score: 2

    You are mostly right, except virtualization needs same instruction set too, it is emulation that allows one to run a different instruction set to the host.

  3. Already in the SDK. on WindowsAndroid Lets You Run Android 4.0 Natively On Your PC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The SDK can already hardware virtualize an x86 image already (via Intel HAXM on windows and Mac and KVM on Linux), and there is a 4.0.4 x86 image in the repositories.

  4. Re:Or the reverse on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    Just cause they have a permit does not mean they generally carry it around, literally all it means is that they have a permit.

  5. Re:Not the bug... on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, it's the maintainers job to do code review on the changes they merge up.

  6. Re:I wonder on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    Considering Linus' wife first asked him out via email, I think you might need to reconsider that point. Also I believe all Linux development is via email.

  7. Re:Arsehole on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    If you go read the full email, Linus explains exactly what is wrong, introducing the File/Path not found error code when the reason the file is not that at all and we aren't even in path handling code. He then goes onto actually chew him out for it, then points out just how many times this one issue is wrong in the code. The reason pulseaudio is crashing is cause it's not expecting such an error from the kernel after the kernel has already told it it has found and opened the file.

  8. Re:Still.... on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    Developers, developers, developers!

    Throws chair out of window.

  9. Re:Do you heat your house? on Is It Worth Investing In a High-Efficiency Power Supply? · · Score: 1

    There is still conversion and inefficiencies in that and transport inefficiencies when burning stuff. Combustion is a chemical to kinetic (mostly) energy transfer no such transfer is 100% efficient as we want heat in this case the losses are the light and sound emitted. If burning wood one needs a transport truck to get it from where the the tree was chopped down and with gas there are pumps keeping the pipes under pressure and there are friction losses in the pipes. Finally one can never get more energy out of a system than put into it, heat pumps don't use less energy but instead they take it from somewhere else other than the electricity coming down the power line.

  10. Re:Pay the $3.99 on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? · · Score: 1

    Unless you rip apart the .apk and find the source included, that is a valid alternative too.

  11. Re:And... on EU Resists US Lobbying As Privacy War Looms · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it was in reply to the wife part. It was quite common (especially in France, but also in England and Scotland) for the king or their heir apparent to marry for political alliances but maintain a mistress (in France, sometimes more than one simultaneously). Therefore the Queens/Wives knew about it and were often quite happy with the arrangement. Frequently the mistress was given title, power in the royal court and rather luxurious lodgings. They also were often married themselves. The most famous of these is Jeanne Antoinette Poisson also known as Madame de Pompadour who had a cordial relationship with the queen of France,

  12. Re:And... on EU Resists US Lobbying As Privacy War Looms · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Fundamental lack of intelligence on Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence · · Score: 1

    QEII wasn't exactly unattractive in her younger days. Remember she is 86 now. But also her power is heredity anyway.

  14. Re:Propaganda on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 2

    Sorry, there has been no deceleration of war declared, emergency powers for use in war have not been legally activated. Technically speaking the US is currently in a state of peace.

  15. Re:Propaganda on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the US legislators are allowed to spout this kind of drivel then so is Hamas. I propose that if they try to force the issue the accounts of legislator and any US agency involved also be banned.

  16. Re:Get A Real Job! on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Sorry, are you complaining at those using the most green form of energy for a powered vehicle? Maybe you should think about where else the technology can be applied to. Also we would be nowhere without our culture, and sailing is a major part of that culture. All work and no play makes for a very dull, rebellious person.

  17. Re:So on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    0MPH? It'll have a broken mast ripped sails and capsized. Not to mention one couldn't control it, probably even reefing the sails to their most extreme reefing point wouldn't help. The maximum speed of a sailboat doesn't just increase with windspeed, it's a bit more complicated than that.

  18. Re:Its worse than that. on After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code · · Score: 2

    The message was sent to GCHQ in Cheltnam to decode, GCHQ is what replaced the Government Code and Cipher School which was based at Bletchley Park and had 2 tasks: 1) keep our communications secure using codes and ciphers and 2) break AXIS codes and ciphers. People focus on the second one but the first is also important and we were very good at both parts. Now they kept copies of the code books like you describe (our bomber crews replaced them regularly and were charged with burning their copies if they crashed), these were mostly used for spoken communication where one is still saying words into a radio. I expect they just can't figure out which cipher key was used as this is a cipher not a code. And they would just have to go through the codebooks to find the right one if they found it was a code too.

  19. Re:Glacial pace on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the correction, looks like not everyone has signed on the dotted line yet for the final official ratification....

  20. Re:Glacial pace on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 2

    Quite a few of them have been standardised (border-radius), web developers aren't updating their sites and opera do parse the WebKit ones that they understand.

  21. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 1

    I believe W3C requires a reference implementation before ratifying it for the standard anyway?

  22. Re:Microsoft is right on Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards · · Score: 5, Informative

    And webkit prefix is supposed to be either not yet ratified in the standard features, or for internal rendering, opera and firefox have similar prefixed extensions. What Microsoft did in the past is even more heinous and used already ratified statements in ways contrary to the specifications, requiring IE comment hacks so other browsers don't see corrections needed to get IE to display properly.

    Oh, and before anything gets ratified by W3C there needs to be a reference implementation, this is why prefixes are a good thing, now web developers using them without understanding the repercussions, that needs to stop.

  23. Re:Bootloader Unlocking is not Rooting on Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted · · Score: 2

    no, but it's not much more:
    fastboot oem unlock
    fastboot boot .img

    maybe then depending on how image above was setup:
    adb push su /bin/
    adb install SuperUser.apk/SuperSU.apk

    adb reboot

  24. Re:Missing the point on Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted · · Score: 2

    You do not need to install a custom recovery image like clockworkmod recovery to root.

  25. Re:Bootloader Unlocking is not Rooting on Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted · · Score: 1

    Bootloader unloacking also allows one to boot a ROM stored as an image on another computer, so, I can then plug the device in and boot an insecure boot image which is basically an image of a pre-rooted ROM, I then use this to add and change a couple of files on the device (the insecure boot images tend to have this prescripted and automatically reboot back to the now rooted ROM on the device after) and job done.