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  1. Re:Not on modern Macs on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    Unless you use a version of OS X with Rosetta installed. CS2 worked fairly OK, albeit a bit slow in that setup.

  2. Re:Goof. on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the EULA:
    "2. Software License. If you obtained the Software from Adobe or one of its authorized licensees and as long as you comply with the terms of this agreement, Adobe grants you a non-exclusive license to use the Software in the manner and for the purposes described in the Documentation, as further set forth below."

    There was an official Adobe download page that also lists all the serial numbers, and makes no mention of any other terms on that page. I'd say that satisfies the above term.

    And now, you don't even need an Adobe ID to download - they've since removed even that restriction.

  3. Re:If they are smart... on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    The binaries are already out there. I've already downloaded mine. It doesn't contact an activation server. How would it prompt me?

  4. Re: Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    In the real world, I suspect a significant part of the population will spend whatever money they can get their hands on. More credit, more spending. Essentially limited by whomever is providing that credit. Why would this be any different for a capitalist-crazy country?

    Which is exactly why democracy is breaking down. Nobody is voting for or thinking about the common good. Everyone is trying to get more for themselves. Before, it was republicans whose constituents wanted more tax breaks. Now, it's democrats whose constituents wanted more entitlements. Either way, nobody's fixing the federal budget. They're just pulling from different directions.

  5. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    And they still voted for someone in the 1%, and instead of fixing the economy it's just a free-for-all on entitlements.

    In an Internet age, where Rebecca Black can end up on national TV because she can't sing, why can't we get the word out and vote for someone in the bottom 90% of wage earners and even maybe someone with qualifications - like a Ph.D in Economics. Or mathematics or statistics.

    We keep voting for people who want nothing more than money, power, and fame.

  6. Re:Yes, unfortunately TIOBE is bollocks. on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    Replying to your single letter words.

    FM? IDTS. IDWT. = "For me? I don't think so. I didn't write that."

  7. Re:Heavy stuff on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 1

    Can't afford pliers?

  8. Re:Yes, unfortunately TIOBE is bollocks. on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    FM? IDTS. IDWT.

  9. Re:Yes, unfortunately TIOBE is bollocks. on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    I think someone should mod AC informative. This does sound like a worthless statistic.

  10. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    0 C - point at which water freezes, 100 C - point at which water boils.

    At an arbitrary elevation.

  11. Re:The PS3 Is The Top Selling Console In The World on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    Yes, until the slim. The slim took care of the worst of the heat problems (melting solder on graphics chip - which itself was poorly done in the first place).

  12. Re:Just kick him out. on Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not always - it's the curse of overqualified.

  13. Re:Let me be the first to patent... on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    A sticker over an RFID chip? Better make it a foil sticker. And you also won't get your game decrypted to play it either.

  14. Re:Remember Steam on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 1

    I don't want to resell. I want access to the game in perpetuity. And Sony is adding hardware restriction headaches. On top of that, since the PS4 or whatever hardware gets this wouldn't be general purpose hardware, they are going to stop making the systems that can play the games someday. I can still put together a Windows 95 computer if I had to or virtualize one.

    The only way to play 3DS or PS3 games right now is to own a PS3 or 3DS. The DRM prevents the game from outliving the hardware.

  15. Re:The PS3 Is The Top Selling Console In The World on New Sony Patent Blocks Second-hand Games · · Score: 2

    Isn't that just because so many people waited until the price dropped to buy it? The Wii was cheap enough to buy it near launch. Of course I'm not sure if hardware failure prompted more additional sales of PS3 than Wii.

    It's like those movie trailers here in the U.S. that say "The #1 movie in America." Well of course, if you have a $200 million movie budget and $50 million marketing budget you're probably going to be #1 on opening weekend.

  16. Re:But the FTC found that they didn't do that on Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    I said "would be" I didn't say "was." I know that Google doesn't do that. I was responding to a parent post that said it would be perfectly fine if Google did so, and some garbage about free speech.

  17. Re:Submit the best examples to TheDailyWTF on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    And since they anonymize the code, he won't know its his own at first. And he'll see hundreds of comments of why it's wrong and maybe even agree with them before he figures it out.

    At the very least, he'll get the point that you don't respect such code, and it's much less personal than attacking his own code directly.

  18. Re:He knows something you don't. on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 2

    No company can afford to have a single point of failure

    Please note: ideals do not match reality.

  19. Re:This is as it should be on Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    Their search information is presented as a collection of unbiased facts. It's not like they're saying "Like Google? Try Google Plus" - it's more like responding to search queries for "most popular social network" with a link to Google+ as the first result.

    The browser ballot screen that the EU requires Microsoft to use shows the top 5 browsers in random order. They aren't even allowed to put their own first.

  20. Re:Hmm on Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case · · Score: 1

    They own Zagat, and the Google Places reviews come from Google+ users. They used to scrape snippets of text from around the web - and linked and cited them, but never entire reviews unless they were so short as to be not very useful.

  21. Re:This is as it should be on Google, FTC Settle Antitrust Case · · Score: 2

    Google unfairly ranking their own products higher on their search engines would be an abuse of monopoly power. It's not as damaging as a state-run newspaper praising the government, but it has a lot of the same effects.

  22. Re:Another view; a catch-all inbox on What's In Steve Ballmer's Inbox? · · Score: 1

    It seems you don't know what a catch-all inbox is.

  23. Re:Another reason we're stuck on this blue planet on Trip To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains · · Score: 1

    You know, Mars has plenty of oxygen locked up in its soil.

  24. Re:Perhaps its a good thing. on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 1

    Most of the people I know who play Zynga games have addictive personalities and waste large, otherwise valuable blocks of time on the games. Just because not everyone who plays isn't addicted doesn't mean they don't target and prey on addictive personalities.

  25. Re:And nothing of value was lost on Why Do You Want To Kill My Pet? Zynga Shuts Down PetVille, 10 Others · · Score: 1

    I only use FB because of the people too obstinate to keep using email.