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  1. Re:I don't really see the point. on Apple A8X IPad Air 2 Processor Packs Triple-Core CPU, Hefty Graphics Punch · · Score: 1

    Cubasis with a number of software synthesizers and some filters on recorded tracks is heavy number crunching, and something the tablet format is excellent for. More computing power means more filters and synthesizers, meaning less limitations on what can be done right away.

    Many synthesizers and trackers can be used for realtime performances, and there the limiting factor is raw CPU power. This move is excellent news for those using iPads to perform.

  2. Re:it solves some unicode issues on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    And how many of those binaries can you replace with previously existing alternatives to do the same thing? Can you unplug journald and instead run a previous logging daemon? Remove 20-30 of those binaries and instead use the older solutions for the same problems?

    Unless you can, it's monolithic.

  3. Re:Every new employee on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Mainly because it was touted as an intuitive interface, but it wasn't. It made use of non-obvious gestures and key presses to do everyday tasks. This made it a power user interface, excellent for people who love spending time in the OS instead of in their applications.

    Unfortunately that is hardly any people at all. And therefore hardly any people at all liked it.

  4. Re:Locking USB... on Hacking USB Firmware · · Score: 2

    You can lock the flash memory as much as you like. The PRAM on the Phison chip is unaffected.

    What is being reprogrammed is the Phison control chip. There is no write enable pin on the Phison chip. It has a pin to control the write lock of the flash memory, but that has no effect on the Phison PRAM where the firmware resides.

  5. Re:Fine! on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 1

    You learn the meaning of the columns by the teacher saying "this is the 1s column, this is the 10s column" etc.. The whole thing with boxes is a run-around, not getting to the point but doing something else.

    Or are you saying you don't think kids can understand that? They need it dumbed down to grok it? You're selling humanity way short, if so.

  6. Re:No, no. Let's not go there. Please. on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    That is not more accurate; it is incorrect. The stance of the agnostic is that we CAN NOT know. We also DO NOT know, of course, because we can not.

    There is no contradiction. The agnostic believes it is impossible to KNOW, but the agnostic can still BELIEVE.

    You are equating belief and knowledge, a common misconception. They are not the same. I can believe I can not know, yet still believe, or I can believe I can not know and not believe. No contradiction.

  7. Re:Debian GNOME needs some attention on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    I am not speaking for the OC, but I have need of software which will not run on the glibc in stable. For example Scrivener, which still has no viable competitor.

  8. Re:Me too. on Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple · · Score: 1

    Except they are not "copying". The Braun designs are different in shape and size, and only look similar from specific angles or when cutting out parts of a photo.

    They're about as similar as any two brands of sports cars. If you search for just the right angle you'll be able to dupe people who do not know better than sports car manufacturers only copy each other, but anyone actually seeing them next to each other would wonder what the heck you're on about. The same goes for Braun's products and Apple products.

  9. Re:Science vs Faith on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    Proof is not in the domain of science. You will only find proof in formal systems. Therefore your whole post contains no meaning, and you put nothing at stake even though you clearly feel that you do.

    Reality is that which exists whether you believe in it or not. Man is an animal. Life has only the value we place on it. And this life is all you get, then it ends. Belief is a coping mechanism, nothing more.

  10. Re:In lost the will to live ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    And in the US most of them hold belief in god, so that is no incentive to not do it either.

  11. Re:In lost the will to live ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    Causing pain to others is bad because the response I get is likely to cause me discomfort. And because just doing it causes me discomfort. It's called "empathy" and is fairly common in humans, even if it's not as common as one might want it to be.

  12. Re:There are numerous other obvious flaws on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    Please, provide a few of those "bizarre factors". Your own listing, and not a link to a time cube site, please. It would be interesting to see what it takes to convince you.

  13. Re:sort of like Amazon Prime Music on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    The vast difference compared to Prime Music is that if you do not listen to music, Prime Music does not shove songs onto your phone using your data plan.

    By default, Apple does. No clicking on the cloud required. If you have not changed a single setting since you bought your phone, it will download the U2 album for you.

  14. Re:Great idea! Let's alienate Science even more! on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Living in a country where the majority of the population are atheists I find your statement rather incredulous. Sure, there is faith around, but it's on a completely different level than in, say, the US or Syria.

    I suspect this has a lot to do with an education system which does not focus on teaching trust in authority, but instead tries (even if it isn't working even near perfectly) to induce critical thinking.

  15. Re:Fallacy on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Calculus is not true. It can not be true. GÃdel has shown that to be impossible.

    Reality is what exists whether you believe in it or not. If you need faith for something to be true, it does not exist.

  16. Re:No, no. Let's not go there. Please. on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Agnostic means "without knowledge". It is the stance that we can not know whether god exists or not. You can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist.

    An agnostic atheists holds that we can not know whether or not god exists, and lacks belief in god.

    An agnostic theist holds that we can not know whether or not god exists, and holds a belief in god.

  17. Re:More Forks! on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    Actually, what we'd have is a pwned Linux monoculture. The diversity serves as a vast advantage, providing a heterogenous attack surface.

    What we need is more forks and more diversity at a fundamental level, allowing for competition and progress. The last thing we need is nearly everyone placing a vast, monocultural attack surface at the centre of their Linux distributions.

  18. Re:A Betteridge No. on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the issue that brought systemd into existence was Poettering not enjoying high pid's.

    "A good metric for measuring shell script infestation of the boot process is the PID number of the first process you can start after the system is fully booted up."
    -- Lennart Poettering

  19. Re:/etc/inittab on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Gnome for one. And many software packages are now delivered with a hard dependency on parts of systemd, meaning I'd need to compile them myself if I do not want to use systemd.

    It's a cancer, eating away at the very core of Linux - choice and diversity. Yes, Poettering wants a monoculture, and any sane computer user should run as far away from that concept as possible. Any vulnerability will reach every system in a monoculture. Only the way the developers at the top deign to consider will get included in the choices available.

    If that is the future you want, you can have it. I'll have no part in it. And yes, I will say "told you so" when the systemd infested infrastructure gets pwnd.

  20. Re:/etc/inittab on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 2

    I don't. And that means a whole range of software does not run on my system.

    Which is the opposite of any UNIX way ever.

  21. Re:Ye Gods! on GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Most of all, and most seriously and utterly broken, you can't replace journald. Ever. And you can't replaced udev. Or logind, if you wish to run Gnome.

    In fact, apart from networkd which isn't finished, I don't know of any part of systemd which you can replace with an alternative yet have systemd work with it as if systemd was actually a piece of UNIXy software.

    Mostly because systemd is not a piece of UNIXy software.

  22. Re:I, and most other consumers, have already made on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 0

    Congratulations on your complimentary Cool Aid. But did you have to drink it all in one go?

    If you want to get shafted, be my guest. Just don't expect me to thank you, because when you ask for a shafting you reduce *my* freedom by making it that much harder to get rid of DRM.

  23. Re:Stallman's record does speak for itself. on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 0

    "Freedom" to watch DRM'ed content?

    You're asking for the freedom to be shafted.

    RMS is asking you to reconsider.

    The choice is yours.

  24. Re:Where to draw the line on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    He does, however, hold 14 honorary doctorates, several from schools which do not mind him using Dr.

  25. Re:how I prepare a presentation on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    I know how to do this, as it is part of my job. I prepare and speak, and people listen and (as apparent from their actions afterwards) understand.

    Does that mean I could do so on any subject to any audience? No, not at all. I can do it in subjects I know well, when presenting them to a motivated audience. And I can do it without choked powerpoints or flashy graphs.

    I find it astounding that not all high tech professionals can do this, but I have experienced so many truly horrid presentations that it appears to be a rare skill.