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  1. Re:And this one pays for itself... on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    They aren't paying that much to save gas money.
    They're paying that much to feel better about themselves for "helping" the environment.

  2. Re:And for those older machines? on KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing · · Score: 1

    Will the software implementations of OpenGL 3 be any slower than the version they're using now?

  3. Re:And here I thought I must have been drunk. on Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies · · Score: 1

    Well, if you still don't get it:
    He used "grill" to mean "teeth". I chose to not interpret it that way.

  4. Re:Debates are almost worthless on ASCAP Refuses To Debate Lessig · · Score: 1

    Hmm. It appears that Slashtdot's mod menus are sensitive to key presses. Need to be more careful at navigating by hotkey when I have mod points.

  5. Re:"Presumption of innocence"? on Tennessee Town Releases Red Light Camera Stats · · Score: 1

    Yet grasp it they do not. Apparently it's a large problem at stop signs.

  6. Re:ironic on GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March 2011 · · Score: 1

    That interface recedes auto-hide style from your active window. The real estate wasting view is for switching between apps or opening a new one.

  7. Re:And here I thought I must have been drunk. on Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies · · Score: 1

    Did you read the AC's post?

  8. Re:And here I thought I must have been drunk. on Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies · · Score: 5, Funny

    What kind of fetish involves raping a man's barbecue?

  9. Re:College on Your Online Education Experience? · · Score: 1

    AC is UID 666.

  10. Re:There are always more axes of improvement... on Why SSDs Won't Replace Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Or we could go to the 3.5" drive equivalent of 2U/3U/4U servers.

  11. Re:Not my experience on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    Another thing which bothers me a bit: many taps (not all) are designed so people need to use their hands to turn the knobs. So after they wash their hands, they then contaminate their hands when they turn off the taps.

    Use your wrist or the back of your hand to turn it on. Or paper towel if available.

  12. Re:Why? on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    Ah. Doesn't work, for those who are curious. Firefox shows up as a program that can be updated by Google Updater, but Chromium didn't.

  13. Re:One good purpose on Glass Invisibility Cloak Shields Infrared · · Score: 1

    A totally cold spot makes no sense in almost any house.

    It wouldn't appear "totally cold". It would seem empty (of heat sources), which is not the same thing.

  14. Re:Why? on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    So... Google Updater handles Chromium, I take it? Interesting.

    I don't have Updater. It isn't bundled with the only Chromium builds I could find, and until your post I haven't had a reason to try it.

  15. Re:Cheap Building can be quite demanding on Building a $200 Linux PC · · Score: 1

    PSU with IDE-style connectors

    I think the term you're looking for is "molex" connector.

  16. Re:What about atom? on Building a $200 Linux PC · · Score: 1

    An atom is 32 bit only IIRC, so there is no upgrading beyond 4GB ram at most (Windows 32 it's 3GB, not sure how Linux handles it on 32 bit systems).

    Not that it matters much, this being a budget PC and all.

  17. Re:Definitively, on Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal · · Score: 1

    Around here, that 0.3% would get pulled over for obstructing the flow of traffic.

  18. Re:Release Early & often..... on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1
    To quote Wikipedia:

    All of Blender's ".blend" files are forward, backward, and cross-platform compatible with other versions of blender.

    If the old versions of Blender were working fine for you, why upgrade? Your rendering shouldn't be affected.

  19. Re:Firefox 3.6.8 just released - Chemspill on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    And? These are bugfixes. You aren't getting much in the way of new features in the 0.0.x releases. What Google's doing is tossing everything that's "ready" into a new version number every few weeks. Not entirely unlike a sped-up version of Debian's new release cycle, actually...

  20. Re:Why? on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Chrome had an update button in the About Chrome page (and had Google Updater), but Chromium lacked that button. My Debian unstable's package (chromium-browser) is getting updated through the repos, but how do the Windows builds of Chromium update (besides reinstalling)?

  21. Re:Same hardware cost as iPad on India's $35 Tablet Computer · · Score: 1

    Well, when flash drives alone can cost more than $35...

  22. Re:Egos don't scale on The Scalability of Linus · · Score: 1

    Wait, he does all the committing to the kernel himself?

    Kinda, yeah. Every single kernel developer (that uses git) forks from someone else, and they choose what changes from the other branches they want to merge with their own. Almost everyone pulls from Linus' branch, so everything he accepts becomes "official".

  23. Re:Already done? on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 1

    This one doesn't use salt, but we have had one very similar built here back in 2008. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/07/areva-boosts-solar-supersteam-parameters-in-bakersfield

    Huh. I don't live all that far from Bakersfield, and I've always wondered what that gangly thing was...

  24. Re:Perch? on Micro Plane That Perches On Power Lines · · Score: 1

    OK, think "helicopter". I'm pretty sure he means the propeller can provide enough thrust to lift the plane straight up (allowing it to free the hook and maybe even get some altitude before going to horizontal flight).

  25. Re:That's just as wrong as mono on Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released · · Score: 1

    Package management systems take away control from software makers, and give it to users.

    In what way?