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  1. Re:No big deal on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 1

    The iPad has between 16 and 128 GB of storage; and 1 GB of memory. An ultrabook can be bought with 4 to 8GB of RAM and a 128 GB SSD.

  2. Re:Mentats on DARPA Seeks To Secure Data With Electronics That Dissolve On Command · · Score: 1

    Please. Juice of Sappho.
    As David Lynch wrote:
    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

  3. Re:And not a single on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 2

    So, if I wanted to, I could install Android on my ipad3? Or Linux?

    People buy iPads because they want to run iOS. If they wated to run Android, they would look to Apple's competitors, perhaps even Samsung.

  4. Re:No big deal on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 1

    memory? please, this is slashdot. your ultra book probably has eight times the RAM. This is merely storage.

  5. Re:Just more wanna-be "mommy" behavior on Apple Has a New Porn Problem · · Score: 1

    you know a vast majority of your clientele are middle-class soccer mom types who would frown on such a thing. what do you do? take it down, or leave it up?

    That's called "denial".

  6. Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics Co. on Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor · · Score: 1

    That's got to be a mistranslation.

  7. Re:at the most they can shed light.. on Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission · · Score: 4, Informative

    States? States have nothing to do with this. Believe it or not, states are not some all powerful entity bravely feuding with the federal government over peculiar institutions.

    The US Sentencing Commission was intended to standardize federal prison sentences, so that persons who committed similar federal crimes ended serving similar sentences, regardless of which district judge or parole board they appeared before.

    Stith, Kate and Koh, Steve Y., "The Politics of Sentencing Reform: The Legislative History of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines" (1993). Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 1273.

    it's fair in that it's consistent, but it's unfair in that it may not be wise. Like most Bureacracies, it's a triumph of mediocrity over the capriciousness of individual persons.

  8. Re:You only have to look at... on The Mobile App Design Tail Wags the Desktop Software Design Dog · · Score: 1

    I've got a 20 inch screen and a 24 inch screen connected to my imac.I tell myself I like to spread out, but I really use it for watching hidef video while programming or whatnot. The key is that I'm doing two things at once, even if one of those things is largely passive.

    Apple's "Full Screen mode" turns off one of my screens (and decorates it with some sort of neutral pattern). It's very annoying. Yesterday I was in the library, consulting a bevy of books and annotating them for future reference. It would have been nice to be able to split my ipad's screen into a panel for notes, and a panel for the libraries catalog, but alas, no.

  9. Re:Honestly.... on The Mobile App Design Tail Wags the Desktop Software Design Dog · · Score: 1

    I had one of those Thunderscans as a kid. We used it with our ImageWriter 1 and our Apple IIGS.

  10. Re:OK, 35 years, then... on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 1

    I am no longer associated with any institution, but I occasionally use academic research libraries--reading journals, books, inside the library. Many such libraries subscribe to JSTOR in lieu of maintaining subscriptions to hundreds of journals. MIT's decision on routing JSTOR through a special portal("Your current MIT status will be verified as you are passed through to the JSTOR site.") makes the library a lot less useful to outside visitors. But yes, I should have checked the date; those restrictions may not be in force at present.

  11. Re:What is this crap? on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 1

    Why don't you read each of the 15,000 journals on JSTOR, and come back with a report?. Given that 1711 of those journals cover language and literature, you might well be surprised.

  12. Re:OK, 35 years, then... on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 1

    Apparently, MIT has decided to cut off guest access to jstor

  13. Re:OK, 35 years, then... on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 1

    Nothing in the Daily Mail should be treated as a general statement of anything. They're special

  14. Re:What is this crap? on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you're doing orange or black pekoe, just just give it up, and brew some coffee.

    What about finest tippy golden flowery orange pekoe?

  15. Re:We're looking at this backwards. on Former FCC Boss: Data Caps Not About Network Congestion · · Score: 1

    Netflix wouldn't have survived 15 years ago when the last mile for 99% of the public was a 33Kilobit/second modem, and downloading a 50 megabyte short film took about 4 hours. That's the main reason why it didn't exist back then.

    2013-15=1998.

    quoth the wikipedia

    Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, who previously had worked together at Pure Software, along with Mitch Lowe. Hastings was inspired to start the company after being charged late fees for returning a rented copy of Apollo 13 after the due date. The Netflix website launched in April 1998 with an online version of a more traditional pay-per-rental model (US $4 per rental plus US $2 in postage; late fees applied). Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, then dropped the single-rental model in early 2000. Since that time the company has built its reputation on the business model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping or handling fees, or per title rental fees.

  16. Re:Where on Bushfire Threatens Major Telescope · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the best way to teach geography is "sink or swim."

  17. Re:terrorism on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1

    That's because war demands slogans, not deep introspection about man's purpose in the world, the meaning of life, the concept of an ideal society, the consequences of the impossibility of ideality, higher culture, and other bullshit people tend to thing about when seduced by the luxury of comparative safety.

  18. Re:Why not have a petition for something USEFUL? on Nuclear Rocket Petition On White House Website · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One step at a time. It's more useful than a Death Star.

  19. Re:I want Gravis Ultrasound To Work in My Computer on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    analog joystick, perhaps? but that's pretty much any old school sound card.

  20. Only a spiral on Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy Discovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    The largest known elliptical galaxy IC 1101 has a diameter of 6 million light years.

  21. Re:What's at 37.416561,-116.860135 ? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    A rather large map of the the Nevada TTR places the airfield in section 76.

    And the wikipedia entry for Juterbog Airfield, a former soviet military base in East Germany, states

    Experts suggest that the airfield has been copied by the United States Air Force, as part of its Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range (TPECR), in the western part of the Nevada Test and Training Range.[1]
    Located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of the TPECR is an airfield target (N3722 W11650), designated "Eastman Airfield Target", "Target 76-14", or the "Korean Airfield". However, it has a northeastern taxiway loop which is characteristical for Jüterbog, and three ramps in front of hangars on the western side of the loop. The other taxiways have a similar layout, although the runway is about 400 metres (1,300 ft) shorter. There are two accompanying SAM sites, one 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) northwest of the airfield, and one 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) northwest just like the original.[1]

    So it's a rather elaborate bombing target.

  22. Re:What's at 37.416561,-116.860135 ? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    Ah, now I understand "Troll". Sigh. I thought I had checked that link.

  23. What's at 37.416561,-116.860135 ? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 0

    I spotted this American collection of roads to nowhere and its been puzzling me. I thought it might be a collection of bombing practice targets, but I really don't know.

  24. Re:Quad Tuner TVs on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 1

    Surround sound. Each channel gets a channel. The Subwoofer is shared.

  25. Re:cable and sat don't have the bandwidth for it on The Trouble With 4K TV · · Score: 2

    Lowpass filters are often used in MPEG encoders. I'm not taking about a signal glitch. I'm talking about a conscious effort by the stations to limit the video bandwidth of any one subchannel. As a result, it never seems as if the video can really make use of the full frame resolution. You should be able to see more, but you can't.