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  1. Re:I Guess I'll be the first to say... on Dell's Haswell-Powered Alienware X51 R2 SFF, a PC Gamer's Console Alternative · · Score: 1

    that config as $700 would be a steal and many would buy it. Unfortunately, its quite a bit more.

  2. Re:Awesome on AMD Making a 5 GHz 8-Core Processor At 220 Watts · · Score: 1

    Man yeah, thats sad :(

  3. Older sony vaio with sheet on Sony Touts 25 Hour Battery Life For Haswell-Equipped Vaio Pro · · Score: 4, Informative

    For example the old sony vaio z with a battery sheet offered 16H of battery time. Just to get some idea of what the 25h from the advertisement linked up top means ;-)

  4. And some more random crap, misleading title, stats on Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns · · Score: 1

    Some Americans own 3-D printers, which can make a variety of plastic objects. Do you think Americans should or should not be allowed to use this technology in their own homes?

            Should 62%
            Should not 29%

    Soooo 62% of the 1000 americans think you SHOULD be ABLE to print ANY 3D object.. Yeah right. Then it goes with the gun question.
    The first one is obviously flawed, thus I place no faith in the second one.
    Morever.. the gun question has 44% "SHOULD BE ABLE TO", which means, nope.. its not "most" at all.

  5. Re:Why? on KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making · · Score: 5, Informative

    Razor QT is a light, QT based DE.
    KDE is also using QT, but is an entirely different DE. Razor is not KDE. You can't start plasma widgets on Razor. You don't have the KDE libs either.

    KlyDE is actually compatible with large parts of KDE, specifically, plasma.

  6. Re:Did it make a sound? on Meteor Streaks Over American East Coast · · Score: 1

    i had of the kind, at night, where it actually lights the place around up quite a bit. we all looked at ourselves and all thought "ok, so, that's whats the end of the world is like". then it fell in the ocean somewhere, sufficiently far enough away. Biggest i've ever seen.. and hopefully i'll ever see. we were all grown ups, yet all scared :P

  7. Re:"Nascent"? on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    To be honest I like my current watch (which is your average $500 quartz watch - actually a seiko sportura from the early 2000s)

    1) It looks pretty. Prettier than any smartwatch can look (as subjective as looks are, I believe a screen is not pretty)

    2) its battery lasts forever. i change it every 5-8 years. not every 24h (even every week would probably be annoying. i'd want a month!). In fact I changed the battery once so far, after 7 years.

    3) it's waterproof. really waterproof.

    4) it's durable. extremely durable. i'll probably still wear it in 25 years, if i'm still around. the glass doesn't scratch. it's really scratch proof. it went through hell - not a single scratch. as good as new.

    5) it's accurate. the time is very accurate. it doesn't need ntp. the drift is about a minute every 5 years. no surprises. no software bugs - its mechanical.

  8. Re:Unnecessary. on AirBNB Opensources Chronos, a Cron Replacement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is exactly why its not a cron replacement. Anybody who think this == cron had NO clue of what they were doing when they were using cron, and still doesn't.

  9. Re:Why do they have comments on news sites? on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 2

    Generally they allow comments and often they moderate them (by unilaterally deleting anything THEY disagree with, not just "trolls").
    Also, by TFA's logic, sites that have crowd managed comment sections should also have the trollish comments on top. Well that may be true for reddit and many others, but I don't see this happening on slashdot. In all seriousness slashdot comment system has solved this a long time ago. It's probably the best comment system out there.

    Heck I feel like it could be sarcastic, as i('s far from perfect, but I actually think this is true:

  10. Re:Anchor effect is well known on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 1

    then again, as you pointed out, i'll take 90 over $150 any day :P it's not that it's two digits.. it's that it's much lower than 150. It's 40% cheaper. 40%!

    so while i sort of get your point, the example is pretty bad.

  11. Re:Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4... on Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4 · · Score: 1

    I'd say keep your S2.
    It's light, square, and fast enough for all android apps.
    I went from S2 to S3 and the S2 was a better phone. Not only that, but the S2 actually *feels* faster. Yes, seriously. The NAND of the S2 is fast, the NAND Of the S3 is pretty damn slow, and in Android, I/O actually does matter.. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same on the S4 - because it's not in the specs, so nobody really notices. Til you start using it.

  12. Re:Windows 7 on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    also; you can just turn off the dialog, anyway.

  13. Re:Energy Comparison on ARM Based Server Cluster Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    that.
    puts them in my "trash press" list.

  14. Re:Was just thinking this on NASA Wants New Space Net To Sustain Big Data Dumps; Moon and Mars Trips · · Score: 1

    Time to overcome laws of physics?

  15. Re:OS that doesn't do anything isn't cracked.. on Chrome OS Remains Undefeated At Pwnium 3 · · Score: 1

    You do realize that they all have large teams of people working on this for a YEAR before the competition come right? Not exactly "fast".

  16. Re:OS that doesn't do anything isn't cracked.. on Chrome OS Remains Undefeated At Pwnium 3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think what's important to note is that "nobody" uses ChromeOS. This means "nobody" researches bugs for it very hard (even thus its relatively well secured, actually).
    All that too say, "nobody pwned haiku either"

  17. Re:Richard Stallman is a shitheel on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    The goods don't always erase the bads.

  18. Re:Excuses... on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    Actually, to use OSX as efficiently as Linux and others, you need to install some package manager like brew, which compiles and installs packages, and don't work nearly as well as the Linux or even FreeBSD counterparts, mostly because there isn't as much support. So yeah. Not like if Miguel was known to make sense anyway. He just likes to post stuff that'll hit tech news sites.

  19. Re:de Icaza on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    I don't really think GNOME "built" linux. GNU yes, undeniably. GNOME, is just one of the DEs. Most linux systems don't run any DE.

  20. Re:In this case... on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 1

    Wish I had some mod points :)

  21. Re:Is there any reason on How Competing Companies Are Jointly Building WebKit · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I don't find webkit much better than gecko as a user. I mean, seriously, if you remove all the "webkit-only" websites, I don't see anything faster in chrome than in firefox. Sometimes I bench webgl out of curiosity (mainly because the other pages are all instant on both browsers), and some webgl demos are 2fps faster on one or the other.
    When I'm on Android, Firefox is actually noticeably faster than Chrome, for some reason (memory footprint maybe?).

    Thus, I'm not sure what the gain would be with webkit (minus being able to load webkit-only sites). Easier multiprocessing, yes, but it doesn't seem to be that much of a big deal. Firefox has as much or as little security issues as Chrome, and it crashes as rarely (if not more rarely in fact.. i'm pretty sure my chrome crashes/freezes/what not more often, since Firefox virtually never does).

  22. Re:Assuming you will always type the same way. on RSA: An Unusual Approach to User Authentication: Behavorial Biometrics (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " Hopefully, there would be alternate authentication methods built in"

    And then, I would question the security improvement of behavioral authentication. If I'm going to login and I'm an attacker, I'll just use the alternate authentication then.

    Reminds me of https://wellsoffice.wellsfargo.com/ceoportal/signon/loader.jsp

  23. Re:APT on Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says · · Score: 1

    To be honest, it's a cool new word to say you've been massively rootkited by humans :P

  24. Re:Flash is the reason on A Few Improvements for Firefox's Android UI · · Score: 2

    I think Firefox Sync has been fixed. I had similar issues but those are gone now.
    I use Firefox Beta instead of nightly (nightly seems to regularly kill Sync in various ways, that make the browser either slow, or eat battery).
    Had been using it with Sync for 2 month now, zero issue. And it starts faster than nightly (i guess its due to something like debug code being shipped with nightly, although, I didn't check)

  25. Re:Slow news day? on A Few Improvements for Firefox's Android UI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've found Chrome offers no benefits over the latest versions of Firefox. At all. In fact, Firefox feels noticeably faster, more responsive, more extensible, and doesn't feel like a skeleton still waiting to be filled. It also feels like it's moving more quickly, somehow.

    I think it's really down to perception more than anything. I've heard a lot of people badmouth Firefox lately simply because it's Firefox, and praise Chrome simply because it's Chrome.

    Sounds about right to me. Generally, people still want Google to annihilate any competition because thats their browser of choice and again, generally, people want to validate their choice as correct by making it look like at the only proper choice. /me generalizes a lot, but really, that's how it is.