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  1. Re:If Amazon is smart... on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    Apple. And they're thoroughly pissed about that: yeah, they're making more money than ever before but that's not what this is about

    Are you a complete idiot? How can you possibly not know that music industry revenue and profits have PLUMMETED in recent years?

    http://j-walk.com/images/MusicRevenueChart_8E6C/MusicIndustry.jpg

  2. Re:Live? on News From Apple's iPhone Event · · Score: 1

    Which of course is totally retarded because using an on-screen zoom bar is horrible for proper tactile control and makes the screen wobble like fuck. Another Apple win.

  3. Re:Less Wrong on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Learn About Game Theory and AI? · · Score: 1

    Surely wins the Slashdot TinFoil Hat Post of the Year Award 2011?

  4. Re:Why is it so difficult for people to understand on Adobe's New HTML5 Design Tool No Threat To Flash · · Score: 2

    Here's a few off the top of my head:

    No touch interface support (full API in Flash, very early stages of development with HTML5)
    No alpha channel support on top of video
    No dynamic objects (captions / titles etc) or navigational items on top of video
    Can't interact (e.g. record from) a webcam
    Can't record audio from your microphone
    Can't create desktop applications with HTML5
    Very limited set of codecs (audio and video) in HTML5
    No built in color correction
    Can't handle binary data
    No peer to peer support
    No binary network sockets
    No progressive streaming support (i.e. you can't jump into the middle of a video without downloading everything to that point)
    No DRM support
    No accessibility support
    No Full Screen mode

    In addition for most Flash games of any level of sophistication, recreating them in JS + HTML5 will be an incredibly painful experience for developers. AS3 has evolved into a robust, full featured language that well supports the needs of developers.

  5. Re:Linux on Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50% · · Score: 1

    Hurrah! Year of the Linux Desktop predicted to occur in AD5311.

  6. Re:That's nice... on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The most common source of waves is due to wind action on the water, not the interaction of the earth and the moon (although this does have some effect).

  7. Re:Delete it on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    Wow, no kidding. I haven't seen a web page like that since the glory days of webpagesthatsuck.com

  8. Re:Kinect. on Apple vs. Microsoft, By the Numbers · · Score: 1

    Shame it cost them an estimated $6 billion to develop the XBox and it's successor. At the current rate of progress they will pay down this debt in a mere 35 years.

  9. Re:Daniel Jubb's Mustache on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    That's all I could think of whilst he was speaking. A better image can be found here: http://thechap.net/content/section_news/?p=20

    "Daniel now designs rockets for the U.S. Military under the aegis of his Falcon Project. He still operates the business out of his parents’ garage, which he has converted into a space station. He claims to have had a moustache since he was 12. Indeed, a photograph exists of him, aged 13, on a missile-test platform at Otterburn Army Training Estate, Cumbria, with a hairy top lip. Tragedy nearly struck, however, when he was 15. A small explosion during an experiment burnt off half his moustache. His mother made him shave off the other half, but since then it has blossomed into a fine example of a British Handlebar."

  10. Re:This is way over the top on Why Nokia Is Toast · · Score: 2

    No. This is the NA perspective. Understand this: only in NA are phones subsidised as a norm.

    Not true. In the UK (and I suspect most of the EU) phones are subsidised as the norm on 12-24 month contract plans. e.g. http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/iPhone-finder If you sign up to a 24 month contract you get an iPhone for free.

  11. Re:One controller port on Failed Controller-Free Gaming Devices of the Past · · Score: 1

    I have never seen a laptop with only one USB port.

    Yup, epic fail here as noted by others. Check out the Dell E4200 which is a *current* model and note the single USB port. Unfortunately I own one of these suckers and it is as insanely annoying as you might imagine: http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/business/Dell-Laptops/laptop_latitude_e4200/pd.aspx?refid=laptop_latitude_e4200&cs=ukbsdt1&s=bsd

  12. Re:companies on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two words: Group Policy. Neither Firefox nor Chrome have officially supported ADM files and without them corporates can't manage (i.e. lock down) large numbers of users effectively. Without this critical component neither will achieve widespread corporate adoption.