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  1. Haha on Microsoft Releases Free Edition of OneNote · · Score: 1

    Real writers use tablets...clay tablets.

    In all seriousness, I never found a suitable program to store all my lab notes that I couldn't do better than just text files.

  2. Re:Not so many options on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 1

    What are you taking about?
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

  3. Dr. Boyd is clearly NOT an anthropologist on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    The idea of everybody going to one site is just weird. Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space."

    Apparently Dr. Boyd has never heard of the local pub in villages.

    Or the Thing in Scandinavian communities.

    I could grant that no social space in history has ever been on the scale of Facebook. But then, Facebook is not exactly a social space. It's like a convention, an aggregate of millions of tiny little local social spaces. An past research has shown that these social spaces are in fact , the same scale as those seen in real life - the the monkeysphere

  4. Not so many options on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 0

    I am using Firefox for lack of a better option. I

    IE is out of the question because it is too clunky, and Chrome has Google intruding into extension use and so on. I had to ditch it the day I discovered that they can remotely disable locally installed extensions. Firefox and Mozilla in general seem hell bent of making everything they make as horrible and cartoony looking as possible (Austalis(-hit)) .

    It is sad that for all importance browsers have today, there are basically only 2-3 options to choose from.

  5. Probably not. on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 0

    A presidential vehicle needs to be a getaway vehicle if it is required to be. This means it must have great range and this range needs to be available reliable.

    Energy density of Diesel : 9700 W/L
    Energy denisty of Li-Ion : ~500 W/L

    So no. Not going to happen. In fact, I can see in the future when all cars are electric, kids being told the awe-inspiring fact "The President is so important that his car has 6 inch armor and even a backup diesel engine!"

  6. Re:Stop the emotion, use logic next time. on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    What exactly is the law being broken by providing a service for your own employees? Serious question. Is that law reasonable?

  7. Another pseudo-equality whine on Is Google Making the Digital Divide Worse? · · Score: 1

    Another case of the unintended consequences of good intentions?

    No, another case of natural consequences of the distribution of a limited resource in a naturally un-equal world.

  8. History on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    Programming started out as lists of commands sent to computers often on punch cards. This was considered infinitely easier than actually sending out voltages to a myriad vacuum tubes. That textual origin has lasted us 50 years.

    The only visual programming packages that I know to be relatively commonly used are Labview and Simulink packages from MATLAB.

    I think the problem is programming requires precise detail and to provide a complete visual interface you'd have to provide a visual representation of essentially every function available in the language, as well as a 'custom' function visual element. At this point , text is infinitely more efficient for modifying than a flowchart. This is why algorithms are often explained using flowcharts, but executed as textual programs.

    That said, I suppose all WYSIWYG web, 3D animation or Flash-animation tools like Dreamweaver/Blender/Adobe Flash Builder could be thought of as visual programming.

  9. Re:The ignoramuswho wrote the headline of the summ on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: 1

    It's pretty clear you are not a scientist. I, on the other hand, make my living with science. Models are not evidence of reality. Data provides evidence FOR a model. And as some wise person said, all models are wrong to varying degrees and some are useful. But certainly , models fitting data, especially disparate models fitting are evidence that we do not understand the reality of the situation.

  10. Re:simple solution? on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: 2

    Erm. The architecture of the D-wave core chip is sufficiently well known. . What is not know is if quantum effects are playing a role in the functioning. It is designed to encourage and at least allow quantum effects based on the Ising model. The question is of course, does the quantum magic actually occur?, and if it does, does it help?.

    Or was that IC thing supposed to be funny?

  11. The ignoramuswho wrote the headline of the summary on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: 1

    should consider him/herself informed that models fitting data are do not constitute evidence of anything.

    Especially when two supposedly incompatible (debatable) models fit the data, it just means that you don't have a clue about what is really going on. A polynomial equation of sufficient order will fit an elephant. It does not mean you have explained what an elephant is. It is not evidence of the non-parabolic-ness of an elephant.

  12. Re:No loss on Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support For the Opera Browser · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Firefox has a problem. Single-thread. Those UI freezes keep getting worse and as web pages become more complex. And this problem has been acknowledged by Firefox devs on Mozillazine multiple times. Solving this is no easy task and will require a complete rewrite of the XUL rendering engine, potentially breaking everything. The days of Firefox as it currently is are numbered.

    Here is Bill McCloskey's blog post about the efforts from Mozilla to rescue the situation.

  13. Re:Prior Art on Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass · · Score: 1

    Unless your bathroom fan is creating hurricane level winds in your home, it is unlikely that it is functional as an acoustic circulator. More likely , it's too noisy.

  14. Re:No such thing as one-way glass* on Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass · · Score: 1

    You sure know how to make a fool of yourself. Why do you have to go talking about what you don't know/understand?

    Begin here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
    Then here:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1148
    http://www.physics.utoronto.ca...
    http://www.opticsinfobase.org/...

  15. Re:This doesn't make any sense on Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass · · Score: 1

    RTFA. You are assuming transmission occurs longitudinally through the tube of CPU fans. Actually, they are sending the sounds waves transverse to the tube. This means the air is spinning either along or against the direction of compression/rarefaction. Along works, against doesn't. Hence , one way transmission.

  16. Does Opera still matter? on Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support For the Opera Browser · · Score: 1

    I cannot think of a single reason to use Opera browser over Chrome or Firefox. Their email client is a minimalistic joy to use though.

  17. Re:*Sure* it is. on Ask Slashdot: Is Linux Set To Be PC Gaming's Number Two Platform? · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. There are still more games + gamers on the Mac.

  18. Ubuntu on Android on Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? · · Score: 1

    If you are ready to live on the edge (you must be since you brought the first mass-produced Maemo phone), buy a Nexus phone and try Ubuntu for Android.

    Since Google makes no money on sale of Android phones, not using the Android part would mean you are not supporting Google/Android (whatever reasons you have for it).

  19. Strategy? on Microsoft Reports Record Revenue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That billion dollar write-off on the Surface tablets doesn't seem so bad now does it...

  20. Re:Um... on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the analogy of the rubber sheet, the earth's gravitational acceleration is the passage of time.

  21. But how exactly? on Syrian Electronic Army Defaces Skype's Facebook Page, Twitter Account, and Blog · · Score: 1

    Should we take this to mean that Facebook, and Twitter have vulnerabilities that allow a third-party to usurp control of an account?

    I thought modern authentication procedures were solid enough that you couldn't just get access to the account typing a few commands. There had to be more.

  22. But how exactly? on Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR · · Score: 0

    Should we take this to mean that Facebook, and Twitter have vulnerabilities that allow a third-party to usurp control of an account?

    I thought modern authentication procedures were solid enough that you couldn't just get access to the account typing a few commands. There had to be more.

  23. Re:In other news, the Dutch warn about tulip mania on India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies · · Score: 1

    Sure, they did, in the 1970s currencies were measured against the Gold Standard. Not anymore.

    At one time, bank notes in used to actually have a silver strip, and were "exchangeable in gold" from the reserve banks. Coins actually contained silver equivalent to their value. Now it's all just 'legal tender'. The Indian Rupee note, says 'I promise to pay the bearer the sum of X rupees". Notice, value is ascribed by legal declaration, not by weight in gold.

  24. Re:Explain something for me. on India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies · · Score: 1

    In this case, the warning in the letter is a follow-up forward of a warning issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

    Since the RBI is the currency managing bank for the India, and the bank of the Govt. of India, has legitimacy and privileges awarded by the Constitution of India etc. it might be quite all right to take it as the official stand of the Indian financial authorities.

  25. Re:C:\$App on Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation · · Score: 1

    All programs can be written to work without using the concept of a registry.