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  1. Re:Tesla on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    you mean the old top gear
    what is commonly understood as a top gear season now is a season of the new top gear which started in 2003.

    The old show was just a car reviews show staring, AFAIK, Tiffany Dell (or however he want's to be pronounced this week) and Clarkson. The new show, while starting in the same format as the old show, eventually evolved into a comic multi million production in between series 3 and 8...

  2. Re:BBNX on Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about BBQ?

    I'll bring the coal!

  3. Re:Poor Libraries on Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program · · Score: 1

    ;lt&/rant>

    Haha..
    HTML: fail!!!

  4. Re:Poor Libraries on Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program · · Score: 1

    The point is not about the information in the sense of the book's content but in the sense of the file you buy. The file you get when paying for an ebook from amazon is one that tries to self regulate its distribution, which if you are here you understand is plain wrong.

    The only thing you get when buying an ebook from a commercial vendor is lock in and a receipt for the rights you just lost (eg: the right to treat as you wish, the objects you own). ;lt&/rant>

  5. Re:Poor Libraries on Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program · · Score: 1

    As I said, why would you need to move them cross country? Anyway, I believe in pushing the book you won't need again back into the stream, may it be a library, school, flee market or just plain acquaintances.

  6. Re:Poor Libraries on Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program · · Score: 0

    You really are missing the point. I won't blame You though since You don't seem to be blaming yourself...

  7. Re:Search on MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Balmer:'Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers
    google:'My index is bigger than your index'
    Hammer:"Can't search this!
    Na NaNaNa.
    NaNa.
    NaNa."

  8. Re:Poor Libraries on Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program · · Score: 1

    I get the logistics issue but just barely. I don't think that books would be a trouble when moving, no matter how many of them you have or how far you go (planet outbound excluded). Usually when you move far away the one time extra k you will pay for extra container space won't matter, and if you aren't moving enough to be in the >1000$ range of shipping costs then you obviously aren't moving enough or are moving only for a small period of time (lets say less 10 years). In the last case you obviously can do away with 95% of your literature and keep only the relevant ones. Also moving away indefinitely is a good opportunity to gift books, that way people get a prolonged parting gift experience (granted they actually read the book you gave them).

    On the ebook thing...
    I buy a lot of books, I have tried going digital a couple of times and it sucks in so many levels I don't even want to get started. The show stopper, whatsoever, remains one thing: When you buy digital you end up with a copy of nothing (yeah that still is pretty much nothing).

    Digital books will only work (from my perspective at least) only when retailers go the indie vinyl route where the digital copy is just an addon to the physical purchase.

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    </rant>
    </old_fart>

  9. Re:Fuck you Italy on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    France lost in WWII. France had huge losses due to battling the Germans for {pick_time_period} while being bombed by allied forces for the rest of the war.

  10. Re:And who's gonna pay for that? on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    OK, that sounds easy.
    But as I noted on the other comment, wouldn't that infrastructure just get saturated by torrenting and p2p?

    I know some people say that those things are against the law anyway but I don't subscribe to that theory much and it isn't my point either.

  11. Re:And who's gonna pay for that? on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    ohh.... well that sucks.

    Could we overload their system with torrent and streaming porn traffic?

  12. Re:And who's gonna pay for that? on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 0

    OK, look:
    I didn't read TFA because I immediately understood it was just a joke to make my day.

    Anyway, so You suggest it will be doing network device monitoring and Internet packet assembly and dispatch on all network adapters (very doable) and content screening/decomposition/analysis on hardware logic (???)? Really? will next years netbook also come with a sun attached to it? Because that is what you need to drive such a big chip.

  13. Re:Cheap? on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    You are right. Especialy about this part:

    Ballmer is a bulbous fool.

    But I think he has a point in there somewhere. I have found Android to be cluttered to from time to time. Granted the main reason I have dropped Android is that I couldn't get it to behave as I wished and therefore was just degraded into consuming the stupid data it wanted me to have. iOS does media consumption way better than Android. Which points back to the wp project wich has a really nice UI to just notice stuff. There of course the wp functionality ends (AFAIK) but hey the idiot sheep that make windows desktop so popular and pay my outrageous bills don't want to do anything else ;-)

  14. Re:Cheap? on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    The numbers just prove that android is the most popular phone, not the best.
    Just like windows is the most popular desktop OS while Linux/BSD are the best tools to actually do stuff on a computer.

    Unfortunately there is no Linux or BSD alternative in the smartphone market. I actually am pondering the idea of going back to dumbphone and connecting to the web with my netbook (that has an antenna in it).

  15. Re:And who's gonna pay for that? on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    What, me? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

    Anyway, I'm not scared. Chances are the thing won't have drivers for linux anyway. So it will just take up space in the frame. Which space will be reclaimed and used for some other chipset first chance.

  16. Re:Fuck you Italy on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: -1

    Yeah and it definitely hurt the losers Germany, Japan and France so much that they now are world superpowers...

  17. Re:Bulky on CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere · · Score: 1

    It is a Proof of Concept.

    I thought it was the Shoulder Cannon of the Predator

  18. Re:Bad Decisions? on Final Fantasy XIV Subscriptions Returning, PS3 Version In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I read that article on kotaku that visualized the timeline in which the game will change into it's version 2, it aims for 2013.. You say that the changes are already in the public game?

  19. Re:Numbered Final Fantasies as MMOs on Final Fantasy XIV Subscriptions Returning, PS3 Version In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Well, it's simpler than calculating inverses of matrices, while cutting your foot of, while making love to a woman, while singing at Woodstock, while defusing an H-bomb, while reading tensor calculus, while defecting north korea.

    But I think Sqeenix's problem could be solved if they named their MMORPGs "Final Grind" {int}.. After all that's what they really boil down to right?

  20. Re:I'm more worried abut the USA losing control... on Continuing the Distributed DNS System · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I haven't tried namecoin yet, is it responsive enough to host real web applications on it?

    One other thing google didn't answer, in bitcoin, minters are supposed to also get money off of transactions facilitating a means to keep up with minting costs once all block are generated. Isn't that (minting costs + DNS resolution/hosting costs) going to be disproportionate when dns traffic (lookup requests) get very high if namecoin succeeds?

  21. Re:ICANN? No you can't, buddy. on Continuing the Distributed DNS System · · Score: 1

    Didn't Osama say that?

  22. Re:If Apple and Samsung are fighting it out on Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple seems to have the better lawyers after a few salvo exchanges

    Statistically correct but lets no get too excited. Up until now the only thing the apple Layers had to do was throw their arms in the air and yell "It's the same as ours, you can't even tell the difference!"
    Credit where credit is due, they managed to spell this phrase in 472.986 different ways but still they haven't actually fought anything...

    I hope that the i4S gets banned in the whole world just so apple gets hurt enough to realize that all this is just idiotic. Of course that will never happen. Samsung wont even be able to ban it in Japan (where they have the most brilliant judges in the world) because a patent that can actually (logically) ban something has to be so specific that you would have to be an engineer to make sense of it...

  23. Re:Multi-touch cabinet on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 1

    why oh why, did I have to skip 300 porn/autoeroticism related comments to get to the first sane one?

    Thank you Parent!

  24. Re:Think different on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what you conveniently forget is that, except generic properties, the ipad does not have any design features. So you can't defend the ipad design because it is based on a mathematical model (function->form->minimize), which cannot be trademarked, patented or otherwise claimed.

    So no case. At least that is what people who understand math and logic conclude.

  25. Re:Not allowed to look closely? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    where the hell have you been????

    no, really your spatial perception has to really, really suck if comparing the two doesn't make you notice that "the one is more stretched than the other."

    Also: for someone that is paid to defend one of the two products you should:
      1) know that the tab is created to be used in landscape and the pad is created for portrait mode
      2) the tab doesn't have a physical button on the front (short side)
      3) the pad doesn't write Samsung on one of the longs sides
      4) the pad has it's camera on the short side the tab on the long side
      5) the tab doesn't have an apple on the back
      6) the pad has no design features on the back (the tab has a bar on one long side housing camera and flash)
      825) they have different height to width ratios

    Solution: Samsung, kill all your layers now. Actually, kill all layers. Now! Don't leave anyone alive. Kill all law students also! Kill all Law Academia also! Kill! Kill! KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.....
    </hysteria></rant>