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  1. Re:Wouldn't call it a standard... on Why iTunes Radio Could Take Down Pandora · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's probably 'standard' in the same sort of sense that the 'World Series' Baseball championship means nothing to anyone outside the 100-mile Fourth Amendment Exclusion Perimeter

  2. unmanaged side-effects on Have eBooks Peaked? · · Score: 1

    Quite interesting that some comments on here relate to _your_ ability to profit from someone else's work (ie to resell with no profit share, or to reduce your tax liability, disguised as charitable donating). These were unmanaged side-effects of traditional publishing, due to a book's physical nature, but something which they'd have to reinvent as a managed competency, to keep you happy, in the digital realm.

  3. So, now it's official: on British Prime Minister Promises Default On Porn Blocking · · Score: 1

    Images of abuse are as bad as sharing movies and tunes.

  4. Flash? on Curiosity Rover On Standby As NASA Addresses Computer Glitch · · Score: 1

    Didn't Apple just disable Flash again? Coincidence? Knew they should have turned off remote updating on the Rover's Mac Mini.

  5. Want to scratch? Get an itch first... on Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? · · Score: 1

    A desire to solve problems is a must, and there might be safer waters to try before you get to all the stumbling blocks and white space sensitivity that certain text editor programming languages will gleefully hurl in the way. There must be other means of analysing and describing attractive problems first, and to drive a thirst for solution-finding, before selecting a tool to go further on the journey.
    I'd want to go at it from the angle of kindling a need to build or fix something, rather than assuming that learning a particular paradigm, at any age, will be of much intrinsic value. I'd like more creators and inventors than career programmers ;-)

  6. Re:My god!!! on Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun · · Score: 1

    Or their "too"s

  7. Is it patents all the way down? on Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week · · Score: 1

    Shudder to think what will become of this hulk when the masses move on to the next thing and the investors look a little silly. Will its red giant / downward spiral business strategy be based on firing patent suits at anyone who ever thought of adding social concepts to their projects?

  8. Obligatory on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 1

    Just goes to show you shouldn't have bet the farm on Zynga stock

  9. Numerology on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    I kid you not, when I opened /. this story read:

    "Read the 666 comments"

    An omen?

  10. A berm? on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 2

    Do you know what kind of berm it was?

  11. Re:Wrong move. on MPEG Continues With Royalty-free MPEG Video Codec Plans · · Score: 1

    To be more correct, the "Motion Picture Expert's Group" (or whatever the current acronym means at the moment...

    Movie Patents Eat Google's-Lying Ass

  12. Re:What's interesting about Android on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    Traditional handset manufacturers have that old mindset that it's better for them if they keep you in the "shiny new handset and contract term" cycle, because that's how they make money and compete with each other. Combined with the idea that the destiny of the OS isnt directly in their hands from a trade competition point of view, so matching device R&D up with whatever Google do next is probably no mean feat. Given the strides taken in the OS in terms of performance requirements, manufacturers surely would have had to invest in a handset platform with such latent capabilities that the costs, if planning hardware takes at least a year or two, would have had too much risk associated with them within their traditional product development cycles. So one result has been that some manufacturers are guilty of squeezing old Android versions on stuff out of the parts bin, and if you buy that you're stuck.

  13. Knock-offs shouldn't have long term impact on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    Many of these tablets are just those MID-based far east iPad knock-offs; they're in abundance in the UK from electrical outlets like Maplin. They're not a serious competitor to anything, in the way that knock-off Bentleys aren't. Some of these are just so laughably poor that a decent Honeycomb implementation shouldn't have to worry about a paternal suit.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Peter Jackson Hospitalized w/ Stomach Ulcer · · Score: 1

    He's apparently hoarded 30 of the latest RED cameras down there on the bottom of the planet http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/peter-jackson-nabs-thirty-red-epic-cameras-to-film-the-hobbit-t/ So fear the worst...

  15. Seating arrangements on Ballmer Says 90% of Chinese Users Pirate Software · · Score: 1

    Hu 'chaired' the meeting? Was it Ballmer?

  16. Re:Two for the price of one! on New Red Dwarf Series Threatened By the Twitter Era · · Score: 1

    I suppose the difference is that a gig is the "finished product" and therefore by posting your phone's footage you are kind-of ruining it to some extent for certain audience groups (although most probably go to see good bands for the live experience itself). With a TV show recording, at least with how they usually record them in the UK, the audience experience is often very disconnected to the finished product, with things out of sequence, stopping and starting, seating view rather than camera view and of course the finessing / effects added later. With a comedy it can be an entertaining experience in itself, but I don't think it's close enough to the aired show to spoil that too much as a whole?

  17. Re:Apple getting desperate? on Apple Bans Android Magazine App From App Store · · Score: 0

    Quicktime? I've been boycotting them since they ripped off WIMP from PARC! Now get off my iLawn(R)!

  18. Re:"Ubuntu's Apt"? on Beware the Garden of Steven · · Score: 0

    Recall from days of yore that Ubuntu is African for "I can't install Debian"

  19. Re:wow on Apple's Haves and Have Nots, Around the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    slapForehead();

    Surely you mean

    Forehead *myForehead = [[Forehead alloc] init];
    [myForehead isSlapped:YES with:@"Hand"];
    [myForehead release];

  20. Need to ween people on to it on The Nuts and Bolts of PlayStation 3D · · Score: 0

    Any chance they might implement a colour anaglyphic option for the 100% of PS3 owners who won't be owning 3DTVs for some time? At least then we can get a feel for the extra value path to 3DTV.

  21. Re:Most important: restriction on app development on iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps · · Score: 0

    I guess those peeps who were looking at Ruby, Lua, etc. as alternatives to ObjC will have to wait to see whether Adobe's legalistas can turn this around. While I don't want to see ported Flash apps particularly this is definitely the closing of a freedom of choice on the platform.

  22. TSA? on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I never realised that the Tourette Syndrome Association had such power. Who the f*** gave them that? ********!

  23. Re:outsourcing and unemployment on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    Have they outsourced Slashdot development to HCL?