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  1. Video Conferencing on Bill Gates Patents 'Virtual Entertainment' · · Score: 2

    How is this different from an application of video conferencing?

  2. Re:Oh fuck off. on Google To Shut Down 10 Products · · Score: 1

    ohk..

    Since you hadnt mentioned applying labels to them, or using the "move to inbox" function, I guessed you hadnt tried those

  3. Re:Oh fuck off. on Google To Shut Down 10 Products · · Score: 1

    Create a filter to apply a label to all in:chats

    then export using IMAP

  4. Re:Chinese or Hindi on Ask Slashdot: Best Second Major For a Mechanical Engineer? · · Score: 2

    Even in India, most of the official communication is in English.

    You wont find many good Indian programmers very comfortable with written Hindi

    Even spoken Hindi is more of a mixture of Hindi+Indian English

  5. Re:Dear Pakistan on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    Just FYI, Blackberry still hasnt been blocked or the encryption removed in India..

    Pakistan doing this may prompt India to ban encryption of all kinds though -- they have already been trying to do so

  6. Re:Alternately... on Google and OpenDNS Work On Global Internet Speedup · · Score: 1

    When your ISP DNS randomly redirects you to a webpage advertising their products, or typing www.google.com in the address bar leads to an ISP page with ad's and a small link to www.google.com , 8.8.8.8 does save you a lot of hassle

  7. News is spam (maybe) on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 4, Informative

    From one of the comments on the linked site:

    On the video it says "Actually the one that we looked at on display was only 16GB but the technology behind that particular 16GB stick is capable of scaling to 2 Terabytes." In other words they'll have to wait years for smaller manufacturing processes to occur before a 2 TB drive is made.

    I cannot watch the video to verify it.. but if true, then the news is as good as spam

  8. Re:HELP I BURNED MY GIRLFRIENDS COOTER on Deus Ex Eyeborg Documentary Shows Today's Cyborgs · · Score: 0

    What makes you think the account is hijacked?

  9. Re:Teracopy on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Teracopy crashing is better than explorer crashing while copying your files

    Also, when moving since it does the deletes only after ALL the files are copied successfully, in case of a crash, just delete the destination and redo the operation.. you dont end up with half the files in source and half in destination

  10. Re:Teracopy on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    oh.. never knew that

    Maximum I had ever done was moving about 700GB between 4 drives on ( 3 USB, 1 internal)
    The queuing and skipping of uncopyable files let me go and have dinner while it was going on

  11. Re:Experience? on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    there will be a special "professional" edition for people like you, and others who want to work with their computer.

    Ofc.. since it will be "professional" it will cost 2-3x the normal editions

  12. Teracopy on Estimated Transfer Time Is No More In Windows 8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps they should just buy teracopy

  13. Re:Why is it that you guys pay for incoming texts? on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, how many independant operators do you have in most areas?

    Depending on the area, India has between 5-10 operators in a circle(1-2 CDMA, rest GSM) .. Is the competition there less or more?

  14. Fix the leaks perhaps?? on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    "The JavaScript garbage collector works more frequently to free up memory and improve performance when you have many tabs open or keep Firefox running for a long time."

    Shouldnt the leaks be fixed, rather than having a garbage collector cleaning them up?

    Isnt it like putting a bigger engine on a car with square wheels instead of making the wheels round?

  15. Why is it that you guys pay for incoming texts? on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Atleast in India, though Mobile tech is somewhat behind US tech, all we pay for sending a SMS is either Rs 50/month for 500msgs/day , or Rs 6 per month, with unlimited messages @ Rs 0.01/msg

    Rs 45 is approx $1

    How come rates arent cheaper there (considering that a higher no. of people would be using the phones anyways)

  16. Re:For learning on C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code · · Score: 1

    To get into java you need a good understanding of OOP concepts and alteast basics of exception handling

    You can dive into C/C++ knowing maybe just the absolute basics of OOP, and learn as you progress

    Similarly, C++ gives you the opportunity to learn about memory management, overflows, errors you can encounter when not careful with types. Java handles all that for you

  17. For learning on C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code · · Score: 1

    For learning purposes, I find C++ to be a very good language.

    Its confusing enough that most people not up to it will leave once you cover the basics of pointers, yet not so difficult or complicated that it would take too long to learn.

    For instance, Java takes forever to understand as compared to C++, and no playing around with pointers either

  18. Portal on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    Isnt Portal the best example of such a method?

  19. Re:One by one? on Fired Techie Created Virtual Chaos At Pharma Co. · · Score: 1

    Even in that case, the damage would be limited to a single system, probably covered by warranty.( Like Dell's completecover -- I guess something like that would be there for enterprises)

    What he did was much more damaging -- Deleting all the company's servers is well, damaging

  20. Re:One by one? on Fired Techie Created Virtual Chaos At Pharma Co. · · Score: 1

    Wouldnt it just fry the NIC it is plugged into, or the motherboard at max?

  21. Re:Sandy Bridge on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1

    AFAIK the c2d series and the i3/5/7 xxx series came w/o multiplier locks

    I dont really know anything before that

  22. Re:Can't access the article... on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 2

    From one of the above comments, it seems to be a BIOS flag or something similar

  23. Re:Overclocking is bad, unless you pay us more fir on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1

    Except that you probably cannot overclock them yourself as it wont be a K series processor

  24. Sandy Bridge on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 2

    With them making Sandy Bridge non overclockable unless you pay extra, this was very likely to happen

  25. Re:Pay for overclocking? on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1

    Its more of the original chip is underclocked than the software overclocking it