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  1. Re:Obnoxiously... on Apple Releases Basic iPod Touch, Possibly Foreshadowing iPhone Strategy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) on a Sansa Fuze, day after Thanksgiving sale for $49. Expandable memory via microSD card slot; also picks up radio, has microphone, plays AAC, OGG, FLAC, etc., etc., etc. Comes with a number of games etc. Not ridiculously high resolution display, but I really don't see the point of that or random apps so hey. Oh, plus you can skin it. Can an iPod do that? No?

    Unfortunately this was a few years ago when they still made them with physical wheels. Now they're making them with capacitance thingies like iPods :P

  2. Re:Not good enough on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 2

    A) Standby still uses watts.
    B) Shutting down your computer regularly can help you notice an impending hard drive failure before it completely dies instead of rebooting one day, for the first time in 2 years, and your drive is bricked.

  3. The Problem on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 1

    with TFS is that they assume a round trip right off the bat. How bad is it if we send people one-way?

  4. Re:Hitch a ride: on Mars Explorers Face Huge Radiation Problem · · Score: 1

    I took the point of his post to be that sitting inside a rocky/iron asteroid, you'd be significantly more shielded from ambient radiation.

  5. Re:But will we be forced into it? on Opera Releases Its First Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    New features isn't the only reason you stay on an active project...especially important for web browsers due to their ubiquity, you need continuing bug fixes.

    I clung on to Firefox 3.6 for awhile, but eventually you have to give up and continue forward or you're exposing yourself to security holes.

  6. Re:Sad legitimate researchers on A Cold Look at Cold Fusion Claims: Why E-Cat Looks Like a Hoax · · Score: 1

    If cold fusion were invented tomorrow, I fully expect somebody would patent the hell out of it and it would be another 100 years before we get to use it properly.

  7. Re:That's great news! on Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver · · Score: 1

    s/depreciated/deprecated/g

    Muphry's Law in action...

  8. Re:HP Printer Driver Developers Take Note on Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes · · Score: 1

    Why?

  9. Re:OMFG !! on Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes · · Score: 1

    For those of us under 40 years old, there is quite a lot more to be said. I have no idea what half of what you said even stands for.

    Page 0
    1540/1
    MC reset = Master Control?
    Phonome-based

  10. Re: Conservative Sell Out on Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill · · Score: 1

    So the only way you find out that someone doesn't have the right to work is if somebody else finds out and snitches on them, because you can't ask? So basically, Schrödinger's work authorization...

  11. Re:every time i see "Ender's Game" on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Not if the "life + 70 years" copyright twats have anything to say about it....

    So, what year are we on now? 67? 68? Oh look, more legislation coming up...

  12. Re:every time i see "Ender's Game" on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    You're comparing a book with another one published 23 years later? Unfavorably? *twitch*

  13. Re:It's like deja vu all over again on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    We eventually become numb to the pain. And besides, it's not like there's anything we can do to prevent them rolling out the even more sucky version++.

  14. Re:Not Guilty on Ex-Employee Busted For Tampering With ERP System · · Score: 1

    What, you can't even change his password?

  15. Re:Deleting account after death on Facebook "Trusted Contacts" Lets You Pester Friends To Recover Account Access · · Score: 1

    They don't have some sort of semi-automatic system for that? Hell, one person I knew, they practically had her profile down before I found out she was dead mere days later.

  16. Sadness on Mozilla Launches Firefox OS 3.0 Simulator · · Score: 1

    And here I thought for a second that Mozilla was offering a download of a simulator for their 3.0 version of Firefox.

    I believe 3.5 was the last version that added a feature I actually wanted...and that was just the new tab button on the tab bar, which I've since stopped using anyway.

  17. Re:Fascinating ... on RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    By definition, before digital, yeah...

  18. Re:Happy with XFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    -1 Not Sure If Sarcasm

    I like Reese's but you appear to be claiming this is a bad thing...

  19. Re:Read their website on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    ext4 was released (added to the Linux kernel) earlier in the same year as btrfs came out! This seems rather at odds with your "100% trustworthy" viewpoint.

  20. Re:What do you get big butt fetish? on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 1

    Whoa whoa whoa! That last clause actually makes perfect sense! I think what you meant was:

    because Slashdot downhill going has 15 past these years.

  21. Re:The obvious solution: on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Because none of us have heard of Godwin's Law before...

  22. Re:Facebook knows on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    When the hell did this happen and how can I opt out of any random group admin skullfucking my account?

  23. Re:Live Syntax checking. on Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming · · Score: 1

    There's a few limitations. I'm not sure if you can add a whole class while it's running, but you can definitely fix all those little off-by-one errors and continue running the program.

    E.g. you can't add/edit/delete function prototypes or the contents of try-catches. In C#/C++, anyway. Which makes a lot of sense.

  24. Re:Paradox on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 1

    If we're the only intelligent life in the universe, why the hell not? Granted I would hope we would become more efficient at using stuff and not "suck it dry", but otherwise it's just going to waste.

  25. Re:Why use GR for FTL? on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    For those of us who aren't theoretical physicists, what does "GR" stand for? General Relativity?

    It's rude to use an acronym without defining what it is you're talking about.