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  1. Re:Nice. on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. You can't distribute your apps via the App Store without a $100/year subscription. You can upload them to a large handful of devices ( I think it might be 100?) for free.

  2. Re:Preference != Principle on iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution · · Score: 1

    In my experience, jailbreaking an ios device is a much, much lighter modification than rooting an Android device. It's one click on the computer (plus on tap on the device) to jailbreak, while rooting required an evening of research, the ADK, uploading a recovery bootloader, and all sorts of mucking about.

  3. Re:In perspective on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 1

    I don't see where the GP claims anything is 'self evidently' logical. Instead, it's just plain old, explanation-need logical.

  4. Re:MP3 Players... on Rockbox Developers Talk Open Source Firmware · · Score: 1

    Verbs!

  5. Re:Dropping GPS support? on Transformer Prime To Get ICS On January 12, Boot Unlocker Coming · · Score: 1

    If you read what they wrote, it's pretty obvious they just removed it from the literature.

  6. Re:It's not plain data! on Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    No, I'm quite sure he means 32 and 128. Any idiot knows that ROT26 puts you back where you started.

  7. Re:Progress on NRC Approves New Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    Unlike 'Libraries of Congress' (at least how the 'unit' is usually used), comparing political stability to radioactive half-life is actually relevant.

  8. Re:What a surprise on Many Early Adopters of the Amazon Fire Are Unhappy · · Score: 1

    You're right, the fingerprints, glare, physical button layout, etc will all be fixed in software

  9. Re:Been a problem for a long while on Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos · · Score: 2

    IMO they are stiffing their entire userbase. Reducing the breadth of content devalues it for everyone.

  10. Re:Creative billing on Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case · · Score: 1

    To me, it makes more sense to think of things like a 'three hour job' in terms of an average practitioner. Otherwise, who's to say that there's not another mechanic that can do 4 ball-joints in 45 minutes? Using your logic, the GP would be stretching out an N-minute job (where N is the least number of minutes any mechanic could do the work) into a little over an hour.

  11. Re:But... on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 2

    Looking at polls of the population at large, atheists are among the least trusted groups of people. They are less trusted than Muslims, queers, and dope smokers, but more trusted than pedos, and presumably other 'harder' criminals.

  12. Re:What the hell... on Fake Raspberry Pi Shops Pop Up · · Score: 1

    If you don't know what a product is to begin with (especially one that has had such extensive /. coverage) then why on earth would you care if somebody is selling fake ones?

  13. Re:Antitrust but verify on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    If you look at individual Tea Party protesters, their messages are just as incoherent and jumbled as OWSers. The TP didin't organize *themselves* into a mob with a message, rather, the same interests that always push for less government provided the organization, and the TPers just showed up.

  14. Re:Really ? on Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC · · Score: 1

    You can order Atmega 644s from a number of places, including Digikey and Mouser.

  15. Re:What about the monitor/keyboard/mouse on Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC · · Score: 1

    The Goodwills around you must all suck, mine always seem to have cheap peripherals, including mice/keyboards.

  16. Re:needs a VGA output on Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC · · Score: 1

    Those passive adapters require that the device output a VGA signal, they aren't actually DACs.

  17. Re:Why not... on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    I would be pissed if my work computer was replaced by a 6 year old Mac. Of course, if it were any newer it'd come with a two-button mouse.

  18. NAND is functionally complete on NAND Gate Built From Bacteria · · Score: 2

    Since NAND gates can be combined to make AND, OR, and NOT gates, this means that bacteria could theoretically realize any logic circuit. Cool stuff.

  19. Re:8 bit audio? on Microtouch: 8-bit Open Source Media Device · · Score: 1

    No. He meant to tell MightyMartian that the product he linked does not decode mp3s with 8-mit hardware.

  20. Re:You're so smart! on Anonymous Kills Websites, Cartels Kill Bloggers · · Score: 1

    While I agree with your sentiment, heroin withdrawal can also kill you.

  21. Re:vs Oracle? on PostgreSQL 9.1 Released · · Score: 2

    Imagine if your form did not always include a blank for middle name, though one was added later. People who filled out the form prior to the addition would have a NULL middle name, while those who filled it out later would have it set, if only to "" in some cases.

  22. Re:Slippery slope? on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, just maybe, he wants to let the mall operators know why he won't shop there anymore. Simply walking away with no explanation does no good.

  23. Re:750,000 hours MTBF. on 3TB Hard Drive Round Up · · Score: 1

    However, uploading different torrents to lots of peers can lead to lots of randomish reads from all over the disk. Sounds like heavy usage to me.

  24. Re:Ah wonderful on BMW Working On Laser Headlamps · · Score: 1

    I don't understand this sentiment, at all. Are coward cyclists supposed to limit themselves to right hand turns at night, then?

  25. Re:Mac is a fixed target too on Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support · · Score: 1

    The console is a fixed target

    So is any given generation of iMac.

    Actually, OSX Lion includes a new version of OpenGL (3.2 I think?), which supposedly gives better performance at the cost of backwards-compatibility.