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  1. Feature that most dont use.... on Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features · · Score: 1

    And the feature will not be missed... If I could disable the useless search on the iphone I'd do it in a second.

  2. Then dont BUY the unreal engine. there are a shotloads of engines you can have for free or cheap. What moron would base on the Unreal engine when you can use the Quake3 engine for free and that is the same.

  3. Re:Won't work on UN Declares Internet Freedom a Basic Right · · Score: 2

    So as a human out smart them. A buddy of mine did. he has a cover over his patio painted to look like his patio. you cant see what is going on from the sky and it looks as if nothing is out of the ordinary.

    Turn to military strategy to hide from your own government.

  4. Re:Ok Then. on UN Declares Internet Freedom a Basic Right · · Score: 1

    This is true. We need to send Assad several cruise missiles.. In fact they self deliver. What is his address? we can send 12 of them right now.

  5. Re:Lightworks, the recently open sourced NLE on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    It also sucks horribly. I have been in the Video Editing Biz and have used everything professional out there and Lightworks is a toy at best. I spent 4 days messing around with it and dismissed it as less complete than the OSS Cinerella that is also a giant steaming pile of goo.

    No stability, crashes a LOT, incredibly limited tool set, and the deal killer, does not support ANY modern file formats. Noboy edits in AVI.. it's AVCHD for 99% of home video and MPEG2HD for 99% of professional right now with some smatterings of AVCHD. Nobody uses tape at all anymore so capture capability is 100% useless to anyone but a church that refuses to replace that 17 year old Canon XL1. It also claims it supports 4K editing yet it will not accept files from a Red One, Or a red Scarlet X. That's epic fail right there.

    Dont look at lightworks as anything other than a mess they are hoping that the OSS community can fix. Not one company out there uses Lightworks for any real work.

  6. Not if the person contracting it has a brain.

    Contract out the Graphics, the contract states you own all assets code and copyright 100%. My company does that all the time. any company making a game or application that they are going to sell is ran by fools if they dont do the same.

  7. Re:The google's way ? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 2

    If you dont distribute the program you dont have to release code. They are playing by the rules.

  8. I cant see this working... on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 1

    Unless you send the fake stuff to all t he senators, and diplomats. Someone can easily determine the fake stuff if they see that Z,Y, and X never get's sent to the president, or any diplomat, but A,B,and C does get sent and matches the news. Otherwise a nice export of all messages sent to diplomats over the past 2 years will contain both and therefore will not tell you anything.

    I guess it will catch the dumb opportunistic spy, but I cant see it catching anyone with a brain.

    How about simply getting AWAY from the stupidity of storing everything in pain text? all messages are encrypted and KEPT THAT WAY. a message from hillary to Bohner should not be stored in the clear or with a key that some lowly tech can access it's contents. How about upgrading the Government and Military IT away from commodity crap like Windows and to a custom system that is actually secure from threats inside and out?

  9. Re:Someone might want to tell HTC on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    Samsung does make some high end Washers and dryers. But they are typically only found in homes that have walk in SubZero refrigerators.

  10. Re:Someone might want to tell HTC on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    Heck with competing with apple, they cant compete with samsung.
    After the past 2 years with an android phone, if it's not a unlocked nexus from google, it's a crap android phone. But samsung's latest quad core godliness may change my mind.

  11. Can we please.... on In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just end all software or method patents?

    This is the problem and until it is fixed more of this sillyness will happen.

  12. Re:evaluations on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance? · · Score: 1

    They stopped giving me those. Because I was always rating myself as , "Exceeds Expectations" and then giving examples of how and where I am exceeding expectations.

    The department manager, on the other hand made everyone "satisfactory" with a couple of "needs improvement" points. We were pulled into a meeting with several senior managers asking why such a disparity and I pointed it all out, citing examples and even citing examples of above and beyond of other co workers.. They sided with me, and that royally pissed off the department manager who was just outed as screwing off on performance reviews.

    I still did not get a raise. But it felt really good to throw a manager under the bus and watch all 18 wheels run over the body.

  13. Simple.... on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance? · · Score: 1

    Everyone, Including when you save the company by performing a miracle.....

    Needs improvement.

    That way no raise is warranted. We cant be giving out raises, how would we keep our record breaking profits?

  14. Re:Six hundred no's and a yes, is a yes on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 4, Funny

    Europe needs to go back to killing the messenger. If they send the guy carrying the next version of ACTA back in a coffin, it might get the point across.

  15. Re:Only a little evil on Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports · · Score: 1

    "Apple's products don't weight over a ton, and aren't capable of speeds up to 200mph...."

    I have had several apple products up to 200 mph and far higher than that. They are certainly capable of speeds of over 200mph.

    Now doing that under their own power? that's another story.

  16. Article misses the BIGGEST hidden Cost. on Keeping Your Cloud Costs Under Control · · Score: 4, Informative

    Increase in size of Internet connection to the office.

    We switched to the cloud expecting it but many IT departments dont think of the impact.

    5-10 people syncing to hosted services and other onlne apps is one thing, when you have all 6900 employees doing it, it will utterly CRUSH that wimpy T3 you have.

    And no, you cant use the garbage DSL or Cable modems. You need a real connection. we are buying an OC3 connection here to have upstream and downstream to be 100% reliable. and luckily we have fiber to the building already and a local POP is cheap enough that we are only spending a little more than 2X of what we were spending on the T3. We do have a business class Cable service as a failover backup.

    When you scale up with "cloud" you can saturate a internet connection quite fast.

  17. This is getting beyond ridiculousness. on Samsung Appeals Apple's Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love apple products, but this is becoming disgusting. I cant see how anyone can think that android is anything like iOS except for where it uses icons, and you use your fingers, and it runs apps.

    The whole thing with this is underlining a major flaw in our court system.

    1 - Judges are not educated enough to make a ruling need to be retired. Sorry, but why are you presiding over a technology case when you know nothing about technology?

    2 - Our patent system is so broken that it's proving to anyone that has a brain that it is causing a strangulation effect. A little guy in his garage has ZERO chance of creating anything without being gunned down in court by a rich company afraid of competition.

    The sad part is that we cant change it. No matter WHO get's elected into congress, they are always outnumbered 300 to 1 by the bought and paid for senators that are there to do what the industry tells them to do instead of doing what is right.

  18. Re:Nokia was first with this idea on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 1

    For example Me it seems.

    Both of my posts were modded down for daring to not worship the holy google.

  19. Re:Why stop at salt? on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is 100% incorrect. I suggest learning about the filter before making things up.

    you can already buy a filter for drinking virus laden pond water safely. This filter will be just as effective as no viruses are small as or smaller than a H2O molecule.

    The way these filters work they will not have a mold or bacteria growth problem either, Please actually learn about the subject before commenting.

  20. Re:Nokia was first with this idea on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 0

    Impressive! Most of the people here think that Nokia or Google invented this. I have seen people modded down that were talking about Prof Man and Prof Starner's work on Wearable computing and questioning the holy google and holy android.

    Glad to see someone that knows the real history about it. And yes, he is weird, all the professors that are doing pioneering work are exceptionally weird.

  21. Re:Why we still have Android 2.3 devices on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    "Jellybean is totally new and there is no way any phone can have it yet."

    Odd, the Phone I got at IO has 4.1 on it. In fact the update was available to install before I left to come back home. Sounds like you dont know what you are talking about, There are several thousand phones with it on it. and if you go to google.com and buy one, you can have it too.

  22. Re:No one wants to keep phones up to date on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    The first step it to lobby your government to make phone contracts illegal.

  23. Not enough on Google Trying New Strategy to Fix Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    google needs to build in a OS update push that bypasses all carriers. Waiting for the carrier to get around to it is not working and will not work. Bypass them.

    android phones should check for updates from the mother-ship at google. and tell Motorola, HTC,Samsung,Dell,Sony,LG, ATT, Verizon, etc... all to suck eggs.

  24. Re:Advertising will kill it on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 2

    Not on any device I own. I have advertising blocked on everything. Heck I dont even watch LIVE TV. It's all recorded via MythTV and commercials stripped. I listen to podcasts and Sirius radio in the car, no ad's on my phones or PC.

    If you just sit there and let them have control, they will blast ad's at you. Dont let them.

  25. Re:Agree and Disagree on 'Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm,' Says Google Glass Team · · Score: 1

    Your information is way out of date.

    $1400 now for developers. $799 next year. they already released that next year they will be available for nearly have the price they released them at IO for.