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  1. Re:Blah on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    No the design is a compromise. I have an Android phone now (since a few days) and I find the use of a screen keyboard horrible. Really, really horrible. I love the open model, love the apps, love the touchscreen for functions other than typing, but having to fumble to find keys is a bloody, bloody mess of a design compromise. And I will stand by that.

  2. From my own experience on UK License Plate Cameras Have "Gaps In Coverage" · · Score: 1

    Funny, that. And true. I was driving in England a few weeks ago, and even the simple, solar-panel fed digital speed-warning systems read your plates. Even my (foreign) plates!

  3. Yawn on Samsung Opens New Apple Store In Australia · · Score: 2

    And every convention stand has prior art.

  4. Re:Does anyone realize the consequences? on Birth Control For Men Edges Closer · · Score: 2

    There is a distinction. Decisions regarding the sexual are oftentimes made spontaneously. Yes, even the pregnancy-part of it. A condom is a man's to carry, that's true, but it deals with the spur of the moment, not with anything that you can reconsider in a day or two. Presumably, the pill for men will take a while to wear off.

  5. Re:Courage on Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt" · · Score: 1

    I bet you fantasize about both.

  6. Re:Classes/Templates are not a magic bullet ... on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 0

    Unnecessary change is unnecessary. But it is one of the more vexing characteristics of open source projects. There are many problems with C++, but one of them is that, in general, programs benefit from simplicity. I would trust a C compiler written in C much more to generate bug-free instructions than I would trust a C compiler (or any compiler for that matter) written in C++. Not because of the 'write the compiler in the language itself'-principle but because of the closeness of C to assembler; it's easier to see where the code is going.

    Oh well, it was good while it lasted, I suppose.

  7. Re:I'm not going to panic just yet... on NASA Satellite Measurements Show Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt · · Score: 1

    It's pretty stable, it's just that we're adding into the atmosphere at a screaming rate, all the carbon that was only last seen in the Jurassic period. The earth was fine then, too but yeah, it didn't look quite like today and it was a notch or two warmer.

    So the question is not - will the earth (and most species) survive - the question is: will we, and in the numbers that we're used to.

  8. What I find most striking on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 1

    The guy gets his home raided by SS-goons, sicced on him by Apple, and his first inclination is: Yay, let's go buy another Apple product!

  9. Re:Simplicity and clarity on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    Depens on what you're trying to do with it, and how long you've been involved. If, like me, you were with Java from the first days, you'll remember your anger at them completely overhauling the GUI and IO APIs, and the lack of debugging possibilities. Oh, and strictfp of course. And the format of jars, and the command-line format. Oh, and nulls as arguments to ambiguous methods. Oh, and casting of course. There's always casting.

  10. Re:OH a correction.... on Arsenic-Friendly Microbe Now Seems Unlikely · · Score: 1

    You're using a strawman.

  11. Uh, Oracle? on MemSQL Makers Say They've Created the Fastest Database On the Planet · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Seriously, why do people, and then I mean slashdot nerds, think 'fast database' and then think 'mysql' ? 'MySQL-compatible' equals 'bad' in my world and, in comparison with Oracle, 'not so fast at all'.

  12. Where it happens, it's not important enough on Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration · · Score: 1

    I, for one, can live with the fact that a few adolescents think that the article on Micheal Jackson is important enough to make a fuss about. Same with GW Bush. The lemmas that are mired in controversy, are usually the ones where you know about it, and have your own opinion on.

  13. Re:This is Genetic Modification on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the difference between a poison, a drug, and a food is concentration. Those poor cows should have just evolved quicker - I'm sure this will teach them!

  14. Re:Why Post This? on Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government · · Score: 1

    You forgot about the right-wingers who rant about how the govt is in the pocket of leftwing msm, and wants to regulate the size of the carrots that you buy in the supermarket.

  15. Re:progress on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    'China meddles extensively with their economy. While smaller businesses do enjoy a freer market than the US, big corporations are in bed with the government, reaping the benefits that come with it.'

    That's the same in the US - and Europe. Big corporations either get big government contracts, or they are considered 'too big too fail'. Governments even spy for them and stuff, like Clinton did for Boeing in the '90s.

  16. Re:ERECTED in 90 days would have been more consise on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    That's what building is, though. You simply have to create a broader definition of what a component is. You don't count the time it costs to create a brick when you just build a house, right ?

  17. Re:Helium rain on Tropical Lakes On Saturn Moon Could Expand Options For Life · · Score: 1

    What about Venus ? I thought it rained on Venus, hot sulphuric acid, but still..

  18. Re:Same problem here in the US on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    Theoretically that, in turn, would give the Eurozone room to say to Ireland - so, you're introuble and you want a bail-out ? How's about normalizing your tax situation first ?

  19. Re:Just by posting this... on Whose Cameras Are Watching New York Roads? · · Score: 1

    Yeah because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties - you want them on that wall.

  20. It is on Free News Unsustainable, Says Warren Buffett · · Score: 1

    If you can fold a device, such as a pad or an e-reader, around it. Without a physical access barrier (which obviously has to be attractive in other ways) - forget it.

  21. In a world on Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy · · Score: 1

    where 80 percent (number pulled entirely out my arse, btw) of freeways is used for getaway-drives, he would be right, yes.

  22. A certain Mr Boies is involved on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 1, Informative

    That is all that should be said about this case. The guy cannot seem to help finding himself on the wrong side of a technological argument. Why do they keep hiring him ?

  23. Re:in other words on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: 1

    Huh ?

    1) But it's not.
    2) Intel's is, and it's one of the best ones around.

  24. Re:GPLv3 on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: 1

    It could be a combined issue; where Apple wanted to integrate those features into GCC, but then keep them for themselves (lest not to supply any 'competition' with it). Given the fact that it would be a large effort, not so strange.

  25. Re:vs cdma & friends? gsm interference on 20 Years of GSM and SMS · · Score: 1

    THAT is what you have against GSM?! Wow. And here I thought on this website we would soon venture into a discussion about its now broken crypto. But no, speaker noise. Wow.