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  1. Re:Mac to Edit/Process, Linux to Capture/Store on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1

    No im not

    If you're going to use Windows for any serious video editing, you may as well shoot yourself now.

    Video editing has next to 0 interaction with the operating system, so the only difference between windows and macs (that is good for macs) is final cut.

  2. Re:Mac to Edit/Process, Linux to Capture/Store on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1

    So your saying that final cut is the ONLY serious video editing suite? (because all the rest run on windows, which for desktops is considerably cheaper than a mac box)

  3. Re:Mac to Edit/Process, Linux to Capture/Store on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why a edit on a mac desktop? Adobe suite + powerful pc will come in at less than just the cost of just the mac!

  4. Re:MacOS X or Windows on What OS and Software For a Mobile Documentary Crew? · · Score: 1

    software (not to include editing)

    Insightful for failing to RTFS?

  5. Re:Collusion on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    !smart car doesn't mean SUV though.

  6. Re:Yeah, real big secret on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty bad comparison, the graphic images of what those sick fucks were doing showed what they were doing, reveling the location doesn't actually add anything valuable to the story!

  7. Re:So? on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    right that works. erm unless everybody fucking knows about the bunker anyway. since 2002

  8. Re:So... on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    -5 for not being able to cope with humour that didn't come from the simpsons!

  9. Re:Yeah, real big secret on Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker · · Score: 1

    If its sooooo secret then couldn't fox have strung him up for reveling the location WITHOUT reveling it. The story is that he revealed the location, there is no need to report what locations!

  10. Re:Group by site? on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 1

    I think the key concept has to be grouping, i think
    1) not kicking anything in until there are more than ~5 tabs (a lot of users will not go passed this)
    2) grouping, not entirely sure by what but IMO for me a blend of site and history would work pretty well (go to slashdot then load up lots of links, that is probably just one set of "work" (even if it contains many tabs). Every time you launch something from the addressbar that's a new group and if a group gets to big cur off older branches. Sure it doesn't work for 100% of situations, nor is it perfect, but I think its a good start.
    3) Interface, i really don't like the idea that just because a screen is widescreen you should start using it all, shrinking/faviconifying are much better ways to hide old groups and maximize the space available to the current one. I also find colored tabs help, but that might just be me and would need more work on picking the correct color than hashing the url (take the most prominent color (non black/white) on the page? (youtube -gray, slashdot - by section, etc?)

  11. Re:Group by site? on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does it
    1) not mess with other extensions
    2) not use up loads of memory (some leaks, some due to features)
    yet?

  12. Re:AS Long as we're doing this--- on Embedding Video In a Site For iPhone/iPod? · · Score: 1, Informative

    looks fairly simple:
    script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.redtube.com/thumbchange.js'

    you can see there is nothing fancy, you just use onmouseover to invoke the script (onmouseout to clean up), the rest is just taking snapshots of the video at set times.

  13. Re:Enough with this "plot" nonsense on Extrapolating the Near Future of Gaming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While i prefer something with non-linear levels* that and a non-rigid plot, i think there is a place for final fantasy, halo, et al. An good plot can definatly defiantly a positive, but i do hope that games based that don't really care much for a plot and are just about the game stick around too. There is a balance somewhere between HL(1) and FF

    *these seam to be disappearing because it takes so long to develop levels that studios don't want to waste development time on stuff that will never be seen.

  14. Re:Why does everyone hate Ribbon? It's great! on Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked · · Score: 1

    The old way is broken, menubars and static toolbars do not scale well to all the fancy functionality wanted in a modern office suite!

  15. Re:Chicken and the Egg problem... on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the strongest argument here is that more, or more enforced, regulation regarding reporting of News (or more specifically misleading or liying in News) is taking place in Britain, and other European countries, and that therefore it is slightly harder for Media in those countries to post pure bullshit (though they can still mislead or write ignorant stupid articles).

    What about the sun, the mail and the express? Most of the 'news'papers in this country are full of pure bullshit. I think its the fact that the BBC provides a consistent quality that forces some media outlets to up their game (channel4, telegraph, guardian, etc).

  16. Re:Chicken and the Egg problem... on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    promotion of police power

    Really? their on the day coverage of the G20 protests was the least biased IMO! I think it was the guardian that broke the police abuse stuff first, but the BBC was the least full of anti-protester BS that i saw on the day.

  17. Re:Pretty rich coming from the Guardian on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    The guardian mostly cheerlead for the lib dems, the reason they are fairly is most likely that their demographic (mostly young intelligent people) are the first ones to drop a hard copy newspaper in favor of various internet sites. The newspapers that sell well are the ones for the lower class, who can't browse the internet on breaks (sun & mail) and the old who don't want to(telegraph?). Its also a broadsheet meaning it has a harder time competing due to cost (the sun is 20p (tbh you cant get toilet paper that cheep anymore)).

  18. Re:Well... on Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space · · Score: 1

    screw cloning, I'm having my consciousness transferred into a computer (a set of bash scripts to be precised), that way they only need to shield the ram & ssd enclosure!

  19. Re:Obvious on DIY Google Street View Project? · · Score: 1

    And: To answer the original question of, "Can I do this?" No. No, you can't. Don't bother. Give up.

    Hand over the geek card, the correct answer as always is, "yes but its just fucking hard, you could"
    1)list of options that don't entirely fit the needs, but would provide a close match
    or
    2)instructions on how to which opensource software to patch together to provide exactly what is needed (presumably patching is done in a series of bash/perl/python scripts)

    Just because your too lazy to mess around with technology doesn't mean everybody on slashdot is, he was hoping for some pointers/software to use and AFAICT that's what hes got!

  20. Re:tell me again... on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 3, Insightful

    BitLocker + a TPM means that a laptop theft basically becomes "just" a hardware theft, as opposed to hardware + data on it.

    BitLocker To Go = those tons of USB flash drives are at least protected with some type of password that users write to (assuming the policy to require it before writing is allowed is set.)

    But companies that need this have been doing it on xp for years, companies that don't still wont bother because of the additional overhead.

    And while i do agree that windows7/vista are significantly more secure, I'm under the impression that companies have been able to lock down xp pretty well and migrating means having to lock down a whole new system that admins are less familiar with

    The activation issue is, in my personal experience, the second biggest reason why businesses stay with XP, the first being the issue of legacy drivers that don't work under Vista..

    I think the biggest reason is that it requires a significant effort, and for a properly secured system there is little benefit.

  21. Re:color me unimpressed on IBM Patents Changing Color of E-Mail Text · · Score: 1

    Thats the problem, its in the last 20minutes that somebody would have pointed out, "HEY, you guys realize i was just kidding right", but because of they cut of the last 20min the boss never realizes!

  22. 6 months! on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Windows 7 may be better than vista, but surely your going to wait for SP1*, meaning it will be at least a year before its good to go.

    *Hell i even wait for 'sp1' before trusting a new ubuntu release (Obviously as a geek i start using it at beta 1)

  23. Re:tell me again... on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Home users - Security, UAC stops stuff running as admin.
    Business - erm,well,err...?

  24. Re:Oh this is gonna be fun :) on Scientists Discover Common Ancestor of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans · · Score: 1

    Scientists looked at the available evidence and came up with the a theory.
    Scientists find additional evidence to support the theory.

    Or to paraphrase Science, it works, bitches!!

  25. Re:If roles were reversed? on Danger Mouse Releases Blank CD-R To Spite EMI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Creativity gives you just that, aslong as your not hurting sales of the other material ( nobody is going to buy the Grey album instead of the white album), then it should be fair use (and AFAIK is)!