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  1. Re:Why IE9 did well on Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because each IE tab is it's own instance(like Chrome). Each FF tab is under the parent process.

  2. Maybe I'm being pedantic.. on Book Review: Head First Python · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Veteran computer programmers — adept with languages such as PHP, Perl, and JavaScript

    Wouldn't those be veteran scripters, not veteran programmers? Or maybe veteran web developers?

  3. Re:The google's way ? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, they're not selling the program. They're using the program as a means to make money. There is nothing wrong with that.

  4. Re:The google's way ? on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're not selling it, they're just using it. No one bitches when Random Dude modifies code on his end for his own purposes, why does it matter if it's Random Corp instead?

  5. Re:Voting with wallet on Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion · · Score: 1

    It's not the router, it's the interface, and most of them are different. Personally, I've avoided Linksys ever since they fubar'd wifi on their consumer routers/APs

  6. Re:Who made that question? on What's To Love About C? · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Wall Street's web platforms rely on ms and ns to beat others for trades. They sure as hell aren't handling this in PHP and ASP

  7. Re:Good habits on What's To Love About C? · · Score: 1

    Which is to say that C will notify you that you are terrible at programming, rather than let you get away with being terrible because the language(and/or compiler) is more forgiving like Java or VB

  8. Re:My Internet Sucks on Sony To Acquire Cloud Gaming Company Gaikai for $380 Million · · Score: 1

    And because it's the Bay Area, it's probably NIMBYs. "I don't want my street torn up so you can install fiber, my property value might temporarily decrease". Either way, with bandwidth caps the new rage, this type of service is a risky investment.

  9. Re:The price of business in China. on Apple To Pay $60 Million Over iPad Trademark Dispute · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Certain bribes are generally not illegal, such as facilitation payments

  10. Re:Just what they want Linux to become ? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would say from the release of Windows 95 to the release of Office 2007, they were pretty much within their own standard style guidelines for GUI more or less across the board. That would be 12 years, which is a fairly significant amount of time in the computing world.

  11. Re:Just what they want Linux to become ? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair, Microsoft is doing the same shit these days. Consistent Windows User Experience Guidelines? No, fuck you, you get ribbons and no start menu you douche, so pay me already.

  12. Re:Largest non-hurricane related power outage ever on More Uptime Problems For Amazon Cloud · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the point of routing the way we do? It's self-healing, of a sort, as long as another path exists.

  13. Re:Pair on Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship? · · Score: 1

    r/g/gh

    done

  14. Re:Mysid on The 'Everyone Gets the Source Code, Donations Get You Binaries' Software Model · · Score: 4, Funny

    And if you don't own a computer, you can't even get the source code. How unfair.

  15. Re:The rest of the world does not care on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 1

    They exist outside of the market. Any market that includes non-governmental enterprise may conceivably have a patent system regardless of what economic system that entity uses. It's a control on the economic system, but not part of it.

  16. Re:The rest of the world does not care on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 1

    It's probably clearest to say that capitalism is meant to be market darwinism, and whether or not you call it "free" is up to you, since "freedom" is relative.

  17. Re:The rest of the world does not care on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 2, Informative

    Err, patents aren't "capitalism".

  18. okay...? on MemSQL Makers Say They've Created the Fastest Database On the Planet · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I think of fast databases to compare to, the first thing I think of is MySQL.

    /Actually, I'd rather see a comparison to Pick or other lightning fast MV dbs

  19. Re:Of course on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 2

    I take it you hate gaming for Linux, since Intel is worse than Matrox for gaming.

  20. Re:Ugh, this makes me mad. on Nvidia Engineer Asks How the Company Can Improve Linux Support · · Score: 1

    And GPL isn't the only license out there

  21. Re:Movies on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 2

    At least they didn't base their policy on Threads

  22. Re:Invalid or valid argument? on RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And if you wanted to download the video of some guy making his cat do tricks?

  23. Re:hard drive prices/GB are also dropping on SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 · · Score: 1

    Indeed. PAE completely blows up Intel Dialogic cards as well.

  24. They should on Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think a reference model is a good way to go. Works for many hardware vendors that also license their technology out(notably video card vendors, of course), works for showing what Android can do for Google, etc. No frills, no contract, just a piece of hardware that shines at showing what the base software can do without having all that other crap(Beats Audio, Dolby Surround, ginormous screen, etc) tacked on.

  25. We ain't seen nothin... on Missing Matter, Parallel Universes? · · Score: 0

    EVER.