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  1. I want a small power supply, not a good battery. on Asus Budget Ultraportable Notebook Sold Sans OS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't understand why there are no laptops with a small power supply and (barely..) no battery.
    95% of my laptop work is close to a socket and to a wifi internet connection. The trouble is that most laptops i used until now do not have a small power adapter. You still have to lug a considerabele power supply.

    Battery is useful, but i could live without, and it would shave a small amount of the price and weight. And with a modularised design it could just be an other option.

  2. Re:I thought we already had a solution? on Scientists Propose Guaranteed Hypervisor Security · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the evil bit is a bad idea. Because to set it you have to write it. and since all executable memory is write protected there is no way to tell the hypervisor of your bad intentions.

    The only workarround now is that you cannot do evil updates. But evil updates need a reboot..unless....... with HA options you can move a running VM to an other server, update and infect it with an evil update, reboot, and move the VM back, without the VM ever knowing the host was changed.

    Don't you love being evil?

    "chmod +evil hypervisor. "

  3. Re:End of Firefox? on Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox · · Score: 1

    Wait... It gets better. Look up that person and you are bound to find some more drama.

    He, or she is an expert troll (meant as a compliment).

     

  4. The driver matters.... on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    Sorry, this is only because of the drivers in it. First generation of prius saw the same behavior here in the Netherlands. Because the people buying it were the fuel efficient treehuggers. However more recent there are tax deductions for low emission cars and now the prius is popular also for lease. They show that the prius can be quite a fast car if you are not afraid to put the "gas" peddle down and make some engine noise. And because of the CVT and relative high torque of electro car it can accelerate quite efficient. It says you can go from 0 to 100 in 10 secs, but the nice thing is that also a not exprierenced driver can do this by just flooring it and let the E-CVT figure it out instead of stick-shifting it in the exact right second.

  5. Re:HSD in Prius works like this. on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    My thought exactly. The core of his drive is the plantary drive. And as he points out the two levers need to be propelled by 2 other power sources. Coincidentally this is exactly what happens in the CVT of the prius. And the prius has 3 engines:

    1 ICE (traditional Combustian Engine)
    2 Electric engines that can double as a generator. (MG1 , MG2)

    all coupled in a planetary drive. (that toyota named hybrid synergy drive)

    here is a simulator there are more simulator to be found, but a the moment i cannot find them.

  6. No but it does have neon. on Apple A4 Processor Teardown · · Score: 4, Informative

    It does have Neon but no powerpc. Strange that this information did not came from someone with a compiler. Does apple withhold information what code can be generated? Are devs so spooked by the apps license?

  7. already exists on Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking · · Score: 1

    Actually car navigation can get information (dutch) from parkings to find free places. The only problem here is to define a universal format to publish this information.

      Automated parking is existing long time. My prius II (=2006 model) can parallel park automatically and detect the white stripes on the surface. However since i can park it faster myself i do not use it. (the video camera is however a good help)

  8. Re:Good news everybody! on First Non-Latin TLDs Go Online Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes you can slashdot them, but you cannot show a correct text-. Yet...

  9. Disney time.. on Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video? · · Score: 1

    "other big players can/will just as well sell H.264 format videos.".

    Surely, as long as apple is the middle man. And don't forget that Steve Jobs did a lot in Disney (he is in the board of directors). That is a location where video content comes from. (And i gues that the NO porn attitude comes from, if you want to talk about apple /disney interaction).

  10. It is punished with a slashdot whooping now. on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    "The connection has timed out"
    "The server at www.expertreviews.co.uk is taking too long to respond."

    That will teach them to create split pages ;)

  11. Uninformative documents on Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot · · Score: 1

    Actually that faq is as good as a manual that says "click File -> save to save your current document". It does not explain exactly what is changed, what is saved and what files are saved, nor does it explain where it is saved. That is all fine until you actually have a problem that you tried to troubleshoot with other means. You cannot manually do anything with a restore point.

    Example:
    There was a a USB to serial driver installed that caused system instability. The driver was uninstalled, AND a previous restore point was activated. Somehow these 2 actions caused a conflict and the system was bluescreening on logon.

    After a lot of tries the system became stable again, but system restore was not a time saver since it never told what was changed.

    Conclusion:
    -Simple users are able to fix some problems, but are never prevented to make the same mistakes again because lack of feedback what was fixed.
    -Advanced users are not able to tinker with individual setting of a system restore point, and can only make it work without understanding, or making shortcuts. (e.g. only touch the driver system)

    The Bad interaction with antivirus sofware is just one result of this. Since antivirus software is mostly handling individual files, and not the system, bad interactions can occur. Virusses can reside in the restore point, and all a antivirus can do is damage the restore point or not scan it all all ,hoping it will catch the virus(/false positive) if the restore point is applied.

  12. Re:How does this work? Native or links to java? on Firefox Arrives On Android · · Score: 1

    Yes i am aware of its exsistance, however it states:

    "What is the Android NDK?

    The Android NDK is a toolset that lets you embed components that make use of native code in your Android applications.

    Android applications run in the Dalvik virtual machine. The NDK allows you to implement parts of your applications using native-code languages such as C and C++. This can provide benefits to certain classes of applications, in the form of reuse of existing code and in some cases increased speed."

    You loose all the android widgets due to this? So the browser getsa different look/feel?

  13. How does this work? Native or links to java? on Firefox Arrives On Android · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How does this technology work? Since the android gui is written in a java dialect, and firefox is written in C/C++, how does a C++ program run on a java VM? As one big native plugin?

    anyway,having a runnin POC might attact other developers, that cannot be bad for fennec.

  14. Re:Lets talk about overreaction. on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1
  15. Lets talk about overreaction. on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    It was that bad that even gliders (no engines)and balloons were grounded. As well as all other airplane that flew far below the 5km altitude where the cloud was. Yes, that is overreaction.

  16. Put all the porn sites on ipv6. on What Happens When IPv4 Address Space Is Gone · · Score: 1

    If you ever need a motivation to promote ipv6, just move all the porn sites to ipv6.

    Anyway, since migration to ipv6 is far too slow it will go like this:
    -New internet devies wil be natted
    +new devices will get a unnattd ip v6.
    After that:
    Someone will make a killer app for IPv6.
    and ipv6 adaption will rise steeply,

  17. Re:Wrong. Swap often acts as a cache. on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Still not a reason not to optimize.

    And CD is used in livecd environment A LOT, you see that even strange access patterns could use optimizing.

  18. Re:Anology. on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    Notion i never mention burglar, you just came up with that example yourself. Since my credo is "do no evil" i would never steal from you. Just gather information and reaaragen it in a way that would increase the usefulness of that information.

  19. Re:Quick Question on Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC · · Score: 1

    Silly idea. When you are under a parachute you are still flying. It would make far more sense to change his name in mid flight to prevent a legal criminal act.

  20. Anology. on Google Street View Logs Wi-Fi Networks, MAC Addresses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is about privacy.

    I think if i go and sit accross your house and put down the times you enter and leave the house and publish this on my blog (that is ad-sponsored) you would think different. If i make a note also if you locked your door (WEP or WPA2) then you would become a little more suspicious.

    A special note is made

    Then i keep this data for 10 year. Anyone who is interested can buy it or browse it.

    But i have to stop now, google anology police is knocking on my door.

    Is this illegal? That is where privacy starts and passwords stop.

  21. Re:Alternatives? on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 1

    yes, but if they mention "security" it would be acceptable in the EULA ;) ;)

  22. Re:Wrong. Swap often acts as a cache. on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    The important part in your post is "Solaris doesn't cache slow devices (tape, dvd-rom, etc.) either."

    There you can have a big win.
    -Consider the speed of devices in the cachning algoritm.
    -Consider seek times in caching/readahead algoritm (SSD has almost no seek, HDD has ~10ms seek, CD has 200 ms seek, tape has LONG seek)
    -Traditional devices (HD/CD/NFS) have equal write/read times. SSD has considerable slower wite than read. Expelling read-only swap in SDD would be more logical since a dirty write is much more expensive than a re-read of a read-only page.

    But recently (last years) i did all my optimalisations in user land, using a index in a DB has a much larger win than making a 10% faster system by tuning the swap.

  23. Re:Alternatives? on Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Worse: if they decide this the resell value of your ps3 will decrease.

    Let me give sony an other idea: only allow blue rays disk to play if a title has a release in blueray and dvd.
    -Blueray give better screen qulaity.
    -They can sell the titles all over again.
    -DVD "security" is broken. it is not an effective DRM.

  24. Porn will find a way. on Android Ported To iPhone · · Score: 4, Funny

    rule #35. If no porn is found of it, it will ...

  25. Look for virtual appliances... on Good, Portable "Virtual" Linux Distro? · · Score: 0

    vmware virtual applicases(is htat a word?), OS category

    You want vmtools installed for performance reasons. any mainstraim distribution will do i think.

    vmware player is simple (but not redistributable i think), heavier user can use sun virtual box or vmware server.