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  1. Re:HTML5 video on Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube · · Score: 4, Insightful

    tbf do you want an inferior standard
    or do you want an open standard that you need to pay royalties to implement?

    It's not a simple problem (well IMO it is), but there is clearly a need for politics here, if you want to hate anything hate software patents.

  2. Re:Banning illegal aliens is shortsighted on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    The USA runs on oil, and though it *could* be reworked to run on coal, solar, hydro and other sources it would take way too long.

    What about nuclear, you never hear about state wide blackouts in France. Sure you'll need a non-retarded grid to get that power everywhere but it seams like your grid is in need of a rework anyway (do you really have DC power lines in places?).

    What do you do with cities that have no jobs within, and nearest jobs are 50-100 miles away?

    Mass transit and railways can't replace everything but they can reduce the need for and use of cars.

  3. Re:Banning illegal aliens is shortsighted on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Yeah because there are no alternatives to oil and there is nothing like mass transit that largely could reduce the need for oil.

  4. Re:I think I can I think I can on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    Surely, even a selfish cunt like yourself can see that having a healthy nation is economically beneficial for companies because they lose less man hours to illness.

  5. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are bills so big and all encompassing?

    Somebody should demand they be split up and be resubmitted as individual patches!

  6. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    >No, the main problem of our health care system is that government interference (bought and paid for by the biggest vendors in the field) drives the costs up and prohibits competition.

    Funny cuz that doesn't happen outside the US.

  7. Re:Banning illegal aliens is shortsighted on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    The bone-headed reflexive anti-immigrant nonsense that passes for debate in the US just saddens me. We really need to upgrade our educational system.

    It's cool the rest of us are catching up, At least people aren't spouting crap like "America is full", yet.

  8. Re:Great on Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It depends on the website. I'm no expert and you need an account to view the actual site but the lack of alt texts on the images and using images as titles, here, does not bode well for screen readers.

  9. Re:Having no dedicated servers is a bad idea on John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage · · Score: 1

    American internet sucks? I suppose living in the UK is why i avoid playing on servers that ping more than 50 (avg). The physical distance is dwarfed by c, so how come it takes 200ms to get a signal from one cost to the other?

  10. Re:Glad to see he's not charging forward on John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage · · Score: 2, Funny

    screenshot of doom4(uses raytracing)

  11. Re:A remnant? on John Carmack Says No Dedicated Servers For Rage · · Score: 1

    >I think it is just more proof that they are doing their best to kill the communities and mods

    They can't be that stupid? Valve make a shit-load of money of Counter-strike(:source) and Day of Defeat:source, which all started out as mods (I was only an avid video gamer for a while so I'm sure there are lots more examples). Additionaly many people only buy thier latest game for the mods and to play with the community that has moved to them (i only got hl2, to play dod:s, to play dod with the clans i knew)

  12. Re:Impossible to operate? on LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird · · Score: 1

    They are rushing to get it up and running instead of fixing problems with the design, they said as much when they announced they would get it up and running so quickly. IMO some heads need to roll and somebody who wants to do it right needs to be put in charge otherwise every couple of years it will run for a couple of days then crash ($WINDOWS_JOKE) and we will never get much meaningful data

  13. Re:Kind of broken by design on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    Did you manage to read the first 6 words of my post, the part that said?

    The user shouldn't worry you should

    To a users machine the desktop menus will be configured correctly (they will have the same configuration as the server will mount the relevant folders at the system level.

  14. Re:Structure should be at the filesystem level on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    For third party apps there is /opt where programs can do exactly what you describe, but for system programs they want to share icons and libs.

    >the user can download and have it work without needing to sudo an installer/uninstaller to write files to tons of protected folders.

    Hell, no! Users shouldn't be able to install programs, that is the administrators job. I do agree they shouldn't write files to a ton of protected folders, but again that is what opt is for.

  15. Apache v2.0 on Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seams silly to mention that it's open source without giving the license. Btw It's not copyleft, allows linking from other licenses and is GPLv3 compatible

  16. Re:You know what I want to see now? on Epic Releases Free Version of Unreal Engine · · Score: 1

    Actually they didn't iD gave you the code, this is just a free license for Indies, nice but not really in hte same league

  17. Re:"That's a stupid idea" vs. "You are stupid" on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    Links or it never happened!

  18. Re:Structure should be at the filesystem level on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    The solution to what? Making your system behave like OS X?

  19. Re:Kind of broken by design on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    The user shouldn't worry you should, separate /usr/bin and /usr/lib is all you need, FatELF won't even save you much space.

  20. Re:Isn't someone going to ask ... on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    FatELF doesn't magically recompile binaries to be multi-arch, it's just a fancy way of packaging multiple binaries together, and for some reason people want to keep the binaries as a big package instead of just picking the correct one at install time.

  21. Re:Isn't someone going to ask ... on Ryan Gordon Ends FatELF Universal Binary Effort · · Score: 1

    OMG how do they ship two different binaries without a universal binary for mac & windows, oh that's right you have to pick the right one, hell on linux you could have a shell script do that for you. The problem is that FatELF doesn't solve anything a shell script and binary compression format can't, yet it needs kernel level tricks.

  22. Re:Love to use it, but... on Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost · · Score: 1

    demand? won't most of these features get ported to safari anyway?

  23. Re:60% faster loss of privacy on Google Betas Chrome 4, Touts 30% Speed Boost · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if only you could look at the source* to see that they are not doing that...wait what?

    *and if you don't trust them compile your own

  24. Re:US vs UK... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Is the use of right-angles from the wire to the socket standardised or just a result of the standard design? I find it prevents people pulling plugs out which is also good for safety (this is compared to the fairly beefy but straight plugs they use in Spain)

  25. Re:Depends on your criteria on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    There is no earth.