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  1. Re:We saw what it did to Miracle Day on Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film · · Score: 1

    I liked the helicopter chase :(.

    The last half of Miracle day did drag on though, and honestly, it was on Starz, they don't really benefit on 10 vs 5 episodes. Either the series makes people want to subscribe, or it doesn't, I doubt the five extra episodes is the difference.

    I really don't think they butchered the show, so much as didn't have as good a series. If anything, I'd say the first two seasons butchered the show.

  2. Re:Summary on Google Makes Its Search System Slightly More Transparent · · Score: 1

    Search is about finding and returning high-quality results. I don't want my first page to be polluted with confusing and hard to read results.

    I'm skeptical that there is a good enough algorithm to determine translation quality, or even accuracy. I don't care the original language, I care about the quality, and if a search engine is giving me machine translated quality results, I will find a different search engine.

  3. Re:Summary on Google Makes Its Search System Slightly More Transparent · · Score: 2

    No, but it's hard to believe that a machine generated translation should be high (or even included) in the results, for languages where there is very little content though, it kind-of does.

  4. Re:Entrenched Interests on Secret BBC Documents Reveal Flimsy Case For DRM · · Score: 1

    But the fact that people have more disposable income, and it's easier to travel means you can keep performing, as you, and that has value.

    Cover bands are legal, and the licensing is cheap, and paid by the venue anyway, yet the original performers continue to sell-out stadiums. This would happen with or without copyright, though the writers could be hurt (as they are who get royalties in covers).

  5. Re:bad for amd? on The Transistor Wars · · Score: 1

    I like the concept of Bulldozer, but I thought their modular design came at a transistor cost (but also made design easier). If increased transistor count becomes a larger liability than it currently is when shrinking things down (by making tactics to limit power usage of unused portions of the chip less effective) it could make the ability to clock it up harder than expected.

  6. bad for amd? on The Transistor Wars · · Score: 0

    Didn't amd bet on extra transistors for bulldozer?

    Or is it next Gen architecture when it matters?

  7. Re:What about all the set-top boxes and whatnot? on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 1

    I subscribe to both Netflix, and Usenet, I definitely prefer Netflix for ease, even with an HTPC.

    The download is a better product, but so-what, Netflix is convenient and good enough.

  8. Re:If it's IKG and therefore no use to the restaur on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    On my car if I start it while holding down the trip reset button, I can get a digital MPH display on my tripometer.

    It always read a few MPH slower than my needle, so I suspect that is true.

    Also, there's an Android app Speed View that uses GPS, and can be set to a mirror image to project an HUD onto your windshield at night (my dash uses a glowing background, and it's dead, It'd be very expensive to fix, but I can read the digital readout, as it's a separate back-lite, and the HUD works fine too). Also, I can see 3000 RPM, and know what speed that is for each gear.

  9. Re:Clashes with data retention directive? on Upcoming EU Data Law Will Make Europe Tricky For Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Especially as only old people use email. Sitemail becomes an end-run around those laws, wrt email anyway (if that's supposed to be retained).

  10. Re:If it's IKG and therefore no use to the restaur on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 1

    Probably, but it's not as easy as it used to be.

    At least according to my friend who leases cars, and recently got stuck being unable to game/cheat the system.

  11. Re:Netflix on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 1

    Honestly, on a platform that is supported (98 % of all desktops) is the download really easier?

    Though it is a better product (FF and RR working and all).

    No, they don't think that's the most common way, they think they fixed everything with DRM, and nobody casually copies.

  12. Re:Speaking for myself here on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    Why does everybody say Unity is touch friendly?

    Doesn't the damned launch bar dock thingy auto-hide with so option for otherwise? Not touch friendly at all.

  13. Re:Don't ask me now! on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    I predict this will be KDE and QT.

    Plasma is all about that, and I'm pretty content with the netbook workspace on my HTPC, and the traditional one on my laptop (the netbook one has a few annoyances though).

    I believe that Nokia put a lot of effort into making it easy to develop applications for mobile, and desktop at the same time when they were in charge of QT, and even now, KDE4 people appear to want similar.

  14. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately they may :(

    I hate the way things have been breaking lately. I mean, my phone doesn't count as effects? my email not as papers?

    It'd be like saying an apartment wouldn't count as a house.

  15. Re:BLOOAATT on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD · · Score: 2

    Last time I installed Debian from disc, it was many CDs that I had purchased, it was a long time ago though.

  16. Re:Coming to a town near you on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    In fact they're rolling in with things that we (as a group) want.

  17. Re:Tough guys on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Aggregate I/O performance on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    So the solution of

    BAH, why? build a metric buttload of ram on it and have it simply make snapshots of the ramdisks to rotating media when changes are made using a coprocessor letting the main process scream along.

    is not particularly effective until prototypes that will be released in 2014?

  19. Re:Aggregate I/O performance on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    How well does arm break the 4gb ram wall?

  20. Re:Keys to the kingdom on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 1

    It's a joke, but I do have mutual pacts with couple friends to make me look more upstanding in the general sense if I die unexpectedly.

    When my girlfriend died her cousin called me in a panic to make sure I could handle it, as she couldn't make it into town before Tue parents.

    If you looker up the term you didn't know on the internet you'd get it (doesn't mean you'd think it was funny though).

  21. Re:Tough guys on Anonymous Cancels Drug-Ring Attack · · Score: 1

    Still not as bad as picking up busloads of random people, arming them with small blades, forcing them to fight to the death, then sending the winner on a suicide mission.

    Yes, CIA is bad, but Zeta is worse.

  22. Re:Keys to the kingdom on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Hide it with your sex toys.

    Your porn-buddy will then find it, and give it to the appropriate person.

  23. Re:Repeat after me: on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu one won't protect you from stupidity though, as it syncs in fairly real time.

    And, if for some reason they foul up and delete your stuff, all your local copies are gone, you are adding a potential stupid user to the loss of all your data.

    (note, I say this as a happy Ubuntu One user (both music and files, actually paying even), but it is NOT a backup).

  24. Re:This just in on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's got a lot of RAM relative to that P4 (or most of them).

  25. Re:Yeah creationist ? on Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge · · Score: 2

    Most creationists I know don't believe in speciation, but do believe individual species change and adapt.

    They also believe in animals having sex to spread genes and adapt. It's simply an argument about the source of Bio diversity.