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  1. Re:Chrome produces high battery life on Mac on 2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    You people slay me. I really don't care that a reality TV star became president. But nice cherry picking, why not use one of his other labels like "billionaire" or "successful businessman"? Doesn't sound as bad does it? If you want to turn people against trump, you need to convince them trump is bad, you don't do that by writing something so biased and opinionated that the people you're arguing against see right through you.

  2. Re:Elon is a genius!! on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and your point? The end result is that he is pushing progress forward. Many other areas and industries get subsidies or tax breaks, just the way the world works.

  3. 4. Starve them of resources, so they have no choice but to implement a clean and simple design, with only basic functionality.

    Yeah. I'd love to work for you, where do I sign up?

  4. Re:Buying the bakery on Ford Spent $200,000 To Dissect a Limited-Edition Tesla Model X (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No they didn't. Palm pilot treo 600, blackberry etc. A number of vendors did it long before apple. Apple refined the UI (full touch, no stylus, and sexy / lots of eye candy), not the idea of a smartphone itself. Heck the first iphone didn't even have copy and paste, lol. The iphone was not more usable as a smart phone, just very pretty.

  5. Re:Quality was never the problem on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    No problem.

  6. Re:Quality was never the problem on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    What a load of crap. The majority of people use windows, so it's natural to expect that majority of developers will too. That doesn't mean MS VS is the best tool. As a professional developer, I have used java on linux exclusively since 2004 sometime. Netbeans / IntellIJ are just as competitive as visual studio in terms of features. I'll take the entire java ecosystem over any of the crap that MS puts out.

  7. Re:Of course ... on KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Matured Past the Point of Plasma 4 (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha, I did something similar when I started my business. First cheque I wrote was numbered "1024". Wanted a number > 1000, and 1024 is that nice, magic number.

  8. Re:Cultural? on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't be such a douche bag. Getting your car e-tested to prove it's playing environmentally nice is no different then getting a license to prove you know how to drive.

  9. Re: 16GB in the Java Space is very nice on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    Your devs are a bunch of hacks. No developer needs 64 gigs of ram. You just know your project is going to end up on the daily wtf one day...

  10. Re:Is RDP really the answer? on Wayland 1.7.0 Marks an Important Release · · Score: 2

    Because it's fast. I don't care what any linux user says (and I'm 100% linux on my own stuff at home), RDP is still 10 times quicker than anything linux has to offer in this area. I do like the desktop integration of remoting through SSH, but it's dog slow. Seems to me there ought to be a way to run RDP type stuff remotely and still have each app appear in it's own window and be managed by the desktop.

  11. Re:Java-Free Like NeoOffice? on LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ha! The clown complaining about "security risk" is more dangerous with his lack of knowledge than anything else. LibreOffice is slow because it's a crummy code base (written in C or C++ by the way, not java), you don't need java installed at all for libreoffice to work. The fact that LO is slow without java, should make you rethink you're opinion about java; massive, badly written software, performs slowly. Java has nothing to do with it.

  12. nice stats on Americans Rejoice At Lower Gas Prices · · Score: 2

    The jeep stats are way out to lunch and have nothing to do with low price of gas. Jeep has been the start of FCA for quite some time now, not just recently.

  13. at least they're trying... on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    ... here in Canada, we just buy up the UK's old junk and they don't float either.

  14. Re:oh get real... on CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Riiiight.... so university's just kick people out randomly when they do nothing wrong. Uh huh.

  15. oh get real... on CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All that happened was some young hotshot did something the dept forbids. He paid for that, end of story. How you go from there to "CS depts out of touch with today's world" is beyond me, but then again I'm not some CTO either.

  16. Re:well, this article's lost it on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point... "works better over dialup" means it works better over any faster connection too. It's not a meaningless title when it shows how fast the stuff works on a slow connection. Just because you may have fibre optic, I certainly don't. And RDP works better over my LAN as well. Get it now? It works better EVERYWHERE. I really love your third paragraph... yeah no shit, the cloud requires bandwidth and there are latency issues, so it actually in fact becomes very important to discuss these arguments; as in, solution X performs better than solution Y. Holy crap man did you even think about that for more than 2 seconds? Yippee for you, you are allowed to decide for yourself when you prefer local or remote; many of us don't have the luxury (think business). Attitudes like your are part of the problem... you just can't believe that a windows / msft solution would be better than the equivalent in linux, so you wave your hands in there, spout a lot of bs, and nothing gets fixed. I'd pay good money for a linux solution that works just as good as RDP.

  17. Re:well, this article's lost it on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, that's the problem. RDP is unbeatable, and you'd finally clue in if you actually tried it. I have, I've tried them all... X, ssh -X, freenx, vnc, and RDP; RDP takes the crown son, sorry... Perhaps we could finally get some real thin client solutions working on linux if linux users would admit that RDP absolutely smashes anything that linux has to offer in the "works over dialup" area.

  18. Re:These CEOs need to learn about Agile... on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is it and North Americans claiming RIM is dead? What a bunch of blind people... RIM is only hurting in North America, in many other markets they are on the top or close enough. They still make money every quarter and are a in transition phase. Nobody is claiming RIM doesn't have an issue or two to work out, but to close your eyes to the rest of the world and blabber like you have any clue what is going on just shows how little you know...

  19. Re:anti aliasing? on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Hinting is totally separate from aliasing. I run kde / gnome / xfce with anti-aliasing off, but full hinting. Last time I checked (within past 6 months) there was no option to turn off the eye-seering anti-aliasing. The fact that the head developer doesn't see the need to provide this feature (because they do it right!) tells me everything I need to know about the state of this project.

  20. anti aliasing? on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 1

    Can I turn off the antialiasing feature? Last time I looked into this, Mr Rasterman basically said "it looks perfect the way we do because we do it right". Yeah, until I can turn it off I'm not touching it with a 10 foot barge pole...

  21. Re:Bias is sad on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    That is the first the sane comment I've read on this topic in a very long time... And I happen to agree 100%. If you think about it, logic dictates that there must be a creator / supreme being. 0 + 0 = 0. Permanently. This does not change over billions of years. So if you originally have nothing, how do you get to the initial "something" / material / energy etc for the whole big bang? The answer is that you can't, and this is a mathematical fact.

  22. Re:Scrap them all on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 2, Informative

    What does population size have to do with anything?? It's all relative, you have X amount for your population, you setup X / 10000 people to do the counting... or whatever.

  23. Re:Slow news day? on Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive' · · Score: 1

    It's not about "wasting time writing a rant", it's about encouraging discussion, getting the problem recognized by a bunch of different people, and fixing problems across a bunch of distros, one of which is opensuse. And yes, not all programmers are equal; his time is more valuable than many other's, maybe even yours; get over it.

  24. Re:Neat on MINIX 3.2 Released With Some Major Changes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wayland won't feature remote windowing. The best we can hope for is a pixel-scraper which dumps compressed bitmaps over the network.

    You people need to get over your whole "x11 can run over the network" thing... I don't care what the theory is, nothing beats RDP (windows remote desktop) for running applications. I've used them all: rdp, vnc, ssh -X, nx... nothing comes close to rdp, and if you guys took of the "windows sucks" blinders you would admit that too. Whatever advantages Xorg might have, running appliations remotely is absolutely NOT one of them.

  25. Re:Flash on Mozilla Public License 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah I gotta agree... at a certain point you'd think he'd stop and consider what he is doing and if everybody else on linux has to do the same thing (use IE in Virtual Box). I hate flash as much as the next nerd, but it has been "working" on linux for years now in pretty much the same state as it does on windows.