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  1. Re:Wine is not an emulator on Ask Slashdot: Is Linux Set To Be PC Gaming's Number Two Platform? · · Score: 1

    Wine has to thunk system calls and handle PE/COFF objects so in that respect it isn't quite as native as Qt and GTK+. Win16 code even is more aggressively manipulated to get it running.

  2. Re:The web needs a good layout engine on Google Planning To Remove CSS Regions From Blink · · Score: 2

    With the web finally hitting magazine-quality typography, there's definitely a need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want.

    That's what XSL-FO was created for. Browser vendors should just add rendering support for that rather than tack some poorly thought out hack onto the CSS/HTML stack.

  3. Re:Not what Slashdot drives, but what drives Slash on Slashdot PT Cruiser Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Moreover, I'm sure Dice owns the copyright on the source code so they don't have to comply with the GPL anyway.

  4. Re:Google is keeping all the IP... on Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion · · Score: 1

    But Qualcomm has the key CDMA patents used for all digital phones (both IS-95 and GSM UMTS) and they're newer.

  5. Re:Write once? on Facebook Puts 10,000 Blu-ray Discs In Low-Power Storage System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I started at Kodak in 2000 they were ramping down development on their DOTS product for Digital Optical Tape Storage. It used optical film spooled in a cartridge in an automated mini-lab type machine to process data stored on the film with exposure from LEDs. Each cartridge was 1.2TB and has a 100 year shelf life. For long term, write-once archival storage it is very cost competitive against magnetic tape but they just gave up on it. The cool thing is that it looks like a company acquired the patents and is going to bring it to market after all these years.

  6. Re:Time is money on Journal of Cosmology Contributor Sues NASA To Investigate Mars "Donut" · · Score: 1

    Wrong rover.

  7. E-mail is the key to the castle. on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    The lesson here is to always use a unique, e-mail specific password for each e-mail account because they are a gateway to generate password resets for other, less critical accounts that may share passwords for convenience.

  8. Re:WTF? on Google Launches Cordova Powered Chrome Apps For Android and iOS · · Score: 1

    Wait for someone to run a javascript x86 emulator to host their app. That would be mental.

  9. Re:Can someone please kill the fucker on Quentin Tarantino Vs. Gawker: When Is Linking Illegal For Journalists? · · Score: 1

    It isn't infringement but the sharing of URLs can be construed as contributory infringement.

  10. Re:Why Do We Focus on the Politicians on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    If Congressmen could not change their positions we would end up with even more recalcitrant demagogues than we have now.

  11. Re:Sadly on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    We could debate about when that failure really began, but when the head of a rogue agency is allowed to metaphorically extend his middle finger to the body of elected officials charged with the oversight of him and his agency, that failure is well established.

    We survived McCarthy who was all those things and a Congressman.

  12. Re:Turbo diesel with generators rather than a gear on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    There are already full size electric motorcycles for sale if you can live with the range restrictions. The Empulse has a transmission. The Mission RS is direct drive.

  13. They should really use the non-prosecution of HSBC execs during their sentencing phase to point out that any jail time would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

  14. Re:According to the history page... on Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP · · Score: 1

    That's because the current "HP" company is only the former PC division which doesn't have any heritage before the development of PCs from the original HP, now known as Keysight.

  15. Re:There is an old anecdote on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 1

    The Russian T-50 is less advanced than the Indian version which is getting more sophisticated, Indian-developed avionics. There can't be much if any withholding of technology for export models.

  16. Re:Nobody.... on RNC Calls For Halt To Unconstitutional Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It wasn't that long ago that the Democratic party was on the vanguard of Christian piety and the Republicans were in the business of courting disenfranchised minorities to help win elections.

  17. Re:even a broken clock... on RNC Calls For Halt To Unconstitutional Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately these "libertarian" leaning Repubs also have a penchant for rallying to the CUT TAXES! flag while doing nothing to cut federal spending to compensate. Why again hasn't the defense budget shrunk closer to pre-war levels after effectively exiting Iraq and ramping down Afghanistan?

  18. Re:According to the history page... on Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP · · Score: 1

    The HP 9830A introduced in 1972 was their first programmable desktop computer with a full keyboard. The programmable 9100 calculator from 1968 was technically a computer too but lacked a full alphanumeric keyboard. Thus predating the Apple I by some years.

  19. Re:The firmware remains proprietary on Open Source AMD Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.3 — and It's Getting Faster · · Score: 1

    And yet there was a time then IBM provided full schematics and BIOS listings to their original PC for the modest cost of the paper they were printed on.

  20. Re:10 Year Anniversary on 'Opportunity' Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Roving Mars · · Score: 1

    It's because a 10th anniversary occurs after the passage of 11 years. The first happened at the end of year one. This is the start of the 10th year for Opportunity, its 9th anniversary and 10th year anniversary.

  21. Re:Come stand trial. on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 1

    Whistle-blower protection is really only usable then the bad actor is the contractor and not the government. In that case the government can flex its legal muscle to exact punishment in the name of the public good. When the government is the one sanctioning illegal activity, it has every reason to create an unfair playing field for anyone who dares to point out the nakedness of emperors.

  22. Re:Make him a Russian citizen.... on Russia Plans To Extend Edward Snowden's Asylum · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Depardieu can be made a citizen over a petty tax dispute, surely the Russian government can extend the same courtesy over a more significant issue.

  23. TCP/IP no better on Electric Cybersecurity Regulations Have a Serial Problem · · Score: 1

    TCP/IP doesn't impose any added security unless you explicitly add it. Otherwise there's just the minor added complexity of decoding a well documented, stateful protocol.

  24. Re:You lost me at... on CES 2014: Stefan Lindsay Demonstrates the gTar (Video) · · Score: 1

    The iPhone has only gone through a few iterations so accommodating different case configurations is easier that with the Android phones. That being said, it seems pointless to have a phone mounted on the instrument when you could just as readily design it with a dedicated, embedded Android device.

  25. Re:"post-food consumers" on 20,000 Customers Have Pre-Ordered Over $2,000,000 of Soylent · · Score: 2

    I bet it's full of "chemicals" too. Probably loaded with DHMO.