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  1. Re:Any movement away from Microsoft is good. on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1

    And it is under constant thread from Microsoft for lawsuits.

    Really?

    http://xamarin.com/pr/xamarin-microsoft-partner

  2. Re:Outrageous. on France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook · · Score: 1

    They don't need to block the site at all. They just need to move the ad sales transactions out of France.

  3. Re:Imagine a prolonged sigh in place of this subje on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    Ok then. What defines a music instrument. Is a wooden block a musical instrument? How about a snare drum?

  4. Re:Can Digital Music Replace Most Musicians? on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i think you're missing the point. digital musicians aren't attempting to reproduce what's been done before. they're creating new stuff - called music - digitally.

  5. Re:Imagine a prolonged sigh in place of this subje on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    wait, so these guys aren't playing instruments?

    manipulating objects that make sounds. hmmm. looks like it to me.

  6. Re:Imagine a prolonged sigh in place of this subje on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    You can get a crowd moving with a Macintosh

    You can get a crowd moving with a SNES!

  7. Re:Kids these days.... on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    rockit was the 1st 7" i ever bought.

    i still have it somewhere...

  8. Re:Shaping notes on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    but why would you bother trying to emulate the sounds of an orchestra or of any real instrument?

    why, when those sounds are so limited in their expressiveness? the electronic music producer has a far wider tableau to play with than wobbling tubes and strings.

  9. Re:No dancing? on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    mass-produced? deadmau5 and daft punk? you do realize that those three are pretty much the sole performers, engineers, producers, marketers & distributors of their music? they make their own music on their own in their own studios that they built. they own their own record labels. they perform on stage alone. (sure, they collaborate...)

    or do you mean mass-produced like they print a bunch of CDs?

  10. Re:Automatons vs performers. on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i have yet to meet a piano that can sound like a violin.

    yet, it's still a musical instrument.

    just because one machine can't make the same sound as another machine, doesn't mean that it's not an instrument.

    no, you're a luddite snob.

    that is all.

  11. Re:This is really pointless on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    Pointless? What is the sole purpose of plastic guns?

  12. Re: Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    Wow take a heart pill, dude.

  13. Re: Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're called appropriations bills and they're freely available online.

  14. Re:Just one tool on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? · · Score: 1

    I have a towel.

  15. Re:Sorry, still not getting one. on Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark · · Score: 2

    do you own a car, a microwave oven, a radio, a watch, a TV? do you ride the bus/train, do you vote?

    get. the. fuck. over yourself.

  16. Re:ActiveX was such a good idea after all.... on Google Chrome 31 Is Out: Web Payments, Portable Native Client · · Score: 1

    yeah, 'cos having everyone download a native application just to provide a decent type-ahead drop-down would improve security on the web a ton.

    no, you'd need some way to sign the code to ensure that what you downloaded was what you expected. you'd need some kind of sandboxing to ensure that the native code didn't steal all your secrets. you'd need some kind of UI/communications framework that worked well on every operating system, so companies didn't have to develop 5 different versions of their application. it would be nice to have a unified language that was easy to learn and suited just for the task, in fact, why not just compile it on the client then you don't need to store different versions of the binary.

    oh look... a browser!

    fool.

  17. Re: Get some facts first, or wait til dust settles on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 1

    This is not an isolated instance. Forced nationalization has been going on there like this for years.

  18. Re: All in favor of Elop getting the job? on Stephen Elop Would Pull a Nokia On Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Scottgu. My vote...

  19. Re: Easy one... on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 2

    Yeah. Windows has timer coalescing too. But apps have to be explicitly marked as supporting it - for back compat.

  20. Re: Easy one... on Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? · · Score: 1

    Huh? Rundll32 takes command-line parameters that you can view with task manager (view columns). And svchost hosts multiple services in a single process - they're listed in task manager's services tab (sort by pid). Or you can use tasklist and sc...

  21. it has wheel on Two-Laser Boron Fusion Lights the Way To Radiation-Free Energy · · Score: 1

    where we're going we don't need roads.

  22. Re:zero maintenance on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please mod parent up.

    Tomatousb is brilliant. Hardware compatibility is a little less broad than some of the others, but once you get t installed the usability is like butter.

  23. Re:Kind of on topic on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 2

    Yeah. And maybe YouTube could handle showing fullscreen portrait video properly on a portrait-oriented device. *facepalm*

  24. Foosball on The Other Pong · · Score: 1

    We had a foosball table, too. It got much more use than the ping pong table - it's much easier for beginners to join in games with more experienced players.

  25. Re:Where were the professionals. on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    The Russians tried exactly this. Well, it was a remote-controlled digger, but all the same - the gamma radiation liked it. So they sent in the army to shovel the pieces of core off the roof.