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  1. And you wonder why... on Mozilla Plans To Build Virtual Reality APIs Into Firefox By the End of 2015 · · Score: 1

    ... they can never deliver anything meaningful, like the Electrolysis project.

  2. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    Isn't he saying that a bunch of laws were inherited from the UK.

    There are still many connections with the old country: look at how various commonwealth nations immediately amended their laws to match the UK when the British Parliament recently changed the laws of succession for the monarchy.

  3. Re: Um...210k? And 3 months? on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    I felt lucky to be able to afford 670 sq. ft. Including a second bedroom for me and my wife, and only be 50 mins from the office. This is London. Your life sounds so bloody easy and spoilt. Sympathy for you = 0.

  4. Re:Should've closed in 2013? on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    If France had American-style bankruptcy laws they could've filed for chapter 11 and reorganized, jettisoning the debt owed to former employees or at worst, making them accept stock in the "new" company instead of cash.

    That sounds horrendous. Why should the ex-employees get shafted like that? Is the business more important than the people?

  5. Re:Blocking access on Leaked Document Shows Europe Would Fight UK Plans To Block Porn · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the definition of pornography. Does William Adolphe Bouguereau's A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros qualify? How about the work of Spencer Tunick? How about Tennis Girl by Martin Elliott?

    Instead of speculating, why don't you look at the British statute books? Wouldn't you expect the same law(s) for print, film and television for instance to apply or at least be a starting point?

  6. Re:Platform differences on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy if Apple would just expose the Intel QuickSync functionality. I can't even use this with Windows on my MBP.

  7. Office 365 on Ask Slashdot: What's the Future of Desktop Applications? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Office 365 is a poor example. The web interface has definitely come a long way, but any serious work falls over. Maybe they'll get there, but for now, local apps integrated with the cloud backend seem to work better.

    Write now I definitely wouldn't want to try working with RAW photos from a DSLR or edit high bitrate 4K video using a web app. Maybe in ten years, but then again, those digital formats will probably have moved on to another level by then too.

    Oh and email: there's still definitely a need for offline access. Be it a tradition MUA or when on a mobile phone. Online isn't online enough even for this.

  8. Re:Apple goes to the other extreme on Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer · · Score: 1

    BS. I have XCode 3.2.3 running on Yosemite.

  9. Re:Finally! on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    Do you have a time machine?

  10. Re:Get out of Dodge on Twitter Moves Non-US Accounts To Ireland, and Away From the NSA · · Score: 1

    Indeed. How is the internet in Ireland connected to the rest of the world? Through the UK? A country known for it's GCHQ agency, monitoring international all communications and working the NSA.

  11. Re:Will probably be used for VR applications. on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 0

    Yes, utterly pointless. Can't even Chromecast it to a 4K TV. I think the only application for it is to drain the battery and consume 4G bandwidth.

  12. Re:= paracetamol on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 5, Informative

    Growing up in the UK, I'd never heard of Tylenol until I moved to Canada as an adult. You occasionally hear it on American TV shows these days, but unless you know what the characters are referring to, it will just pass most people by. Even "acetaminophen" is an unknown term in the UK, it's always just "paracetamol"

    Tylenol is most definitely a N. American thing that nobody else knows about. Panadol seems to be the generic antipodean headache drug - I know this because my wife is Aussie and after six years in London she's still confusing people by saying "panadol" instead of "paracetamol" :)

  13. Re:Give "the cloud" a chance on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 1

    I've found TrueCrypt to be unreliable and slow, and totally fails if you have large files (e.g. I have some 70+ GB video files). Then again, cloud storage isn't practical/cost effective for a personal user when you're dealing TBs or even hundreds of GB of data.

  14. Re: Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 1

    Apple's graphics pipeline is notoriously 8-bit. This is most noticeable for me in Lighroom in photos of glorious blue skies, with a smooth gradient from the horizon.

    I am referring to MacBook Pros and can't speak for other devices. Disappointing that the "Pro" part of the name isn't very pro.

  15. Re: Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 2

    I'd rather have Apple implement 10- or even 12-bit displays first. It's kind of annoying seeing banding where none actually exists in the underlying RAW photo.

  16. Re: Too many pixels = slooooooow on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 4, Informative

    Surely it depends on screen size and viewing distance?

  17. Casa Particulars on As Trade Restrictions Crumble, Airbnb Offers Rooms In Cuba · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cuba is easy to travel around. Reserve a room in a casa particular in Havana before you arrive, or just turn up. After that, the owners will just call ahead where ever you want to go and help you out. Or take your chances and just turn up and see what you find.

    I loved Cuba, but accessing Internet wasn't much fun (my mobile phone company charged through the nose, and the equiv of USD$10/hr at one of the rare internet cafes that barely worked wasn't worth it. Go to Cuba and enjoy the music, interacting with people and being generally unplugged.

  18. ignore-the-next-group-of-stories-if-you-hate-fun on California Has Become the First State To Get Over 5% of Its Power From Solar · · Score: 1

    Or just stay away altogether because more than 15 years of evidence points to a lack of story writing talent making April Fool's Day less than fun on /.

  19. Re:Old is new again on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    Having owned or driven a few German cars, and I can tell you that speed limiters are no good if you don't live in Germany. My VW for instance was governed to 220 kph (the rating of the stock tyres) and had tyre pressure instructions inside the rim of the car door for speeds above/below 170 kph - I lived in Toronto at the time, where the speed limit on the fastest roads is 100 kph!

    BTW, it seems fairly common in some cars, e.g. Audis, to have a speed warning buzzer. Maybe that's because they can go so damn fast without your realising.

  20. Re: A turd by any other name on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 1

    As I remember, IE6 was actually the first decent version. Unfortunately it stuck around for years, without being updated, and under the eye of hindsight it appears pretty poor. The Netsape products from back then were equally as rubbish, but they were superseded more quickly. Firefox has technically stagnated more than IE ... that team still can't deliver the Electrolysis project, and is now definitely the weakest of the major browsers.

  21. Re:Simple solution... on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Microphone For Stand-up Meetings? · · Score: 1

    Two hours for a one-way commute? That doesn't sound like a very good life balance. I think if that was our teams that we'd end up doing a mixed online/f2f meeting as if some of the team were remote.

  22. Re:The coping mechanism is to fix the room on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Microphone For Stand-up Meetings? · · Score: 1

    Yep, you can improve acoustics a little with soft furnishings and plants for instance. Bonus is a better environment.

    Polycom isn't necessary. I work with two remote scrum teams who both try standing around a shared desktop in their rooms for their stand-ups via Lync. One of them has great audio, the other doesn't. Both are in large echoey rooms. The only difference in systems is their mic and room decoration.

    The team in the room we can't hear clearly have resolved the issue by doing all meetings from their desks using headsets. They also now have long drawn out stand-ups. Hmmm, proves the point about standing up.

  23. Re:Objective C on Ask Slashdot: Which Classic OOP Compiled Language: Objective-C Or C++? · · Score: 1

    Never tried SmallTalk?

  24. Re: Best defense is not to care on Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most BD players do have storage. BD-Live depends upon it for instance.

  25. Re: I should think so! on Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs · · Score: 1

    Any BD-J apps will need to be signed with a private key that matches the public key in the cert pressed to the disc, won't they?