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  1. Re:Obviously. on Pirate Party Invited To, Then Banned From Gaming Exhibition · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lol, what?

    and they support the decriminalization of non-commercial file sharing

    On second thought, your just wrong...

    http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-pirate-party-fails-to-enter-parliament-100919/

    P.S. p2p isn't criminal, I'd just love to hear your response to this post rofl. or are you just trolling?

  2. Re:Obviously. on Pirate Party Invited To, Then Banned From Gaming Exhibition · · Score: 1

    To belittle them?

  3. Re:More importantly on Google+ Opens To Businesses With 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    Good find!

    Breaks 100% of web standards. It's tough to be in google's shoes though.. do you copy facebook 90% 80% or 70%, facebook dues urls in type a, do we use type a or type b. Myself, I've never gone facebook.com/pepsi, nor do i plan to, nor will i go +pepsi, --> google "pepsi facebook" is good enough for me without needing to remember useless corporate shit. Then again I drink pepsi, I don't see a reason to go to their website for anything, unless my computer gets a soda dispenser that mixes formulas for me. You can nitpick google all you want for doing things different ways, but it's all apples and oranges in the end...

    Back to why they broke the web standard, they should have implemented both, how is plus.google.com/##### efficient? Nobody will even try to remember this, where it the front facing documentation on +[company name]? Why not implement both? It's not easier to use google's approach if you don't know about it, but what's funny is neither one helps if you can't spell the company name, which most of tend to not mimic letter for letter.

  4. Re:Find: Bob Smith on Google+ Opens To Businesses With 'Pages' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd imagine the same as facebook?

    They don't really bother anybody, it's just another store front so to speak.

  5. Re:What are the range of failures? on Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware · · Score: 1

    Ya but u can do more on any build of android than any ios build so the comparison isn't really that fair. Also apple makes one version of the upgrade for ALL phones, android makers have to make one per phone model. The real art starts coming into play with the unofficial ROMS such as myUI, etc...

  6. Re:What are the range of failures? on Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware · · Score: 0

    rtfa

    2.6% of all technical support calls related to Android in the study were for hardware failures related to the touchscreen, buttons, speakers, microphones and battery performance. Just 9.3% of Windows Phone, 8% of iOS calls and 5.5% of BlackBerry calls were related to hardware failures. Read on for more.

  7. Re:Right, but.. on Mobile App Search: So Broken AltaVista Could Do It · · Score: 1

    Amazingly enough you can "google" off your pc find the app name and then enter it EXACTLY into the search engine on your phone and walla. I am totally behind this is not how it should be at all, but is it worth bitching about? No.

    Might help keep the nasty apps off your phone too as there's user reviews and such out there.

  8. Re:Nope on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    The tools are not kernel specific rofl, but vmware specific, upgrading the vmware upgrades the tools... see what I mean, when you don't know what your doing with an experienced tech over you, vmware is kind of a pitfall for misinformation and bad practice.

  9. Re:Nope on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    The kernel sits so far back, usually on a segregated network, one can argue there's no need to patch it, but between admins who don't know wtf they're doing, and the overall risk of running legacy anything when it comes to googling exploits, I feel your pain.

  10. Re:Virtualbox was always my favorite on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    In this case it means 1 feature you really want and 9 you don't per 10 features kind of mix.

    Any idea what middleware or abstraction layers actually are OP???

  11. Re:Virtualbox was always my favorite on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    It's safe to assume OP can't afford enterprise either way, the tag starts at $xxxxx , so it's price point limits it to the consumer market. Then again there's not a whole lot wrong with esxi.... but on a stand alone exsi server, zen server might surpase it, on a vcenter environment (the enterprise class), the tables quickly being to turn with features such as vmotion working CORRECTLY, and such.

    On that note knowing what I know about computers, I would recommend it to clients, but never for any venture I ever undertake lol, the licensing is too nasty.

  12. Corporate IT culture on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1

    What I've noticed with corporate IT is that they look into many options and kind of keep a tab on them, so a larger team would be looking into vmware alternatives as they await .net 5 & server 2012 or something. It's good business practice to weigh your options, but say a decision is made to look into a migration path, at that point licensing, man hours, and risk factor are weighed in and often times the project is shown unfeasible and never takes off the ground. Thereby a survey is not the best way to gauge who will be switching from what to what, an analysis of features tied to business logic is, ex. what can x feature do for us that costs x money, in the case of migrating hypervizors that's a tough one to answer, the x feature is lower cost of licensing, but what's the trade off? Saving 10k a year isn't worth the man hours to migrate a large IT network onto another hypervizor. Downtime and hardware need to be taken into consideration too, and don't forget compatibility issues... It gets kind of hairy real quick, so while I believe that the results in the article are exactly as the survey suggests, that's where the accuracy ends and the real world begins.

  13. Re:I'm more interested... on Pancake Flipping Is Hard — NP Hard · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the coffee apparatus from the lab in breaking bad tv series :)

  14. Re:Bust on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 1

    Name one

  15. Re:Things you can't do on Windows or Linux on Apple To Require Sandboxing For Mac App Store Apps · · Score: 1

    Exactly, except you always want a mix, during the vista year (s), the linux market grew, and look at windows 7, arguably their best product to date. The competition is necessary for both iphone and android markets to have good apps period. If your only coding just to make money, that's like playing football just to make money, and look where that's landed the nfl, nhl, and now nba. Money doesn't spin the world round like some people think it does, it's just a part of life, it isn't the whole thing. Most android devs make a free app and then add features and make it a paid app, so if you like my software, buy it.

    As a developer, your skills can be applied towards people who will use them to make money thus every single IT position in the world pretty much falls under this umbrella, but did you learn to code to make money or because you liked it is the real question? If you answer the former please gtfo this thread, and go ask your boss for some OT.

  16. Link inside the article on NASA Plans App Store For Scientists · · Score: 2

    Has some interesting information

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/231901731?itc=edit_in_body_cross

    Turns out Nasa isn't the only one looking to go to cloud computing: main implication: all systems are penetrable and now all the data will be in one place rather than scattered across agencies. They'll prolly invent cyber m16s soon though to guard it and stuff, so it's ok right?

  17. Re:Excellent post! on NASA Plans App Store For Scientists · · Score: 1

    still waiting for that space shuttle...

  18. Re:Things you can't do on Windows or Linux on Apple To Require Sandboxing For Mac App Store Apps · · Score: 0

    Let me tell u a story boy...

    I have an atrix, released w froyo, long before Motorola released gingerbread, I had gingerblur, long before anybody had gingerbread on most of anybody's phones.

    Your ijunk is not quite so nice is it?

    Your going to call me a fanboy? Let your balls drop first, I know more about android AND iphone than you can hope to including the dev side. I'm going to tell you exactly why android is better.

    I'm also familiar with the IOS dev side, and it's a joke compared to android, it's all $ based and there is no community unless you count soccer moms who don't know dev means developer. We are talking closed vs open source here. Regardless of success Android needs to stay alive for this purpose alone, apps ON THE IOS market won't be $x dollars but rather $xx dollars if there was no android, android apps are still for the most part $0 rofl.

    Besides the irony and ignorance of you referring to geeks on a site that says "news for nerds" in it's head tag, there are A LOT of people with at least minimal technical backgrounds (android does have a market share or something) that can take advantage of androids features and it never hurts to ask a friend if you can't figure it out... right? I bet you got an android, broke it and got an iphone since you were still well within your 30 days when you did so.

    If you want my prediction: there are two possible solutions, apple wins and android goes gnu based back to its linux roots and phone manufacturers have a choice of what to put on their phones, or apple loses and nothing happens to android and the choice remains. Either way based on your post your a tool, so it shouldn't matter to you, keep your nose out of the tech world and we won't miss you.

  19. Re:Bust on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 1, Informative

    the HP Slate 500 was meant for a target market for uses such as myself who need to be able to use stuff like cisco vpn that is not supported on android and use windows apps that are not available on apple. Considering nobody I've ever heard of has an apple based server environment, and vpn is the only way into the network, that leaves a shocking realization... if you can't see the benefits of win 7 on a tablet, then its not for you! It's for the IT crowd who are too cool for laptops, or in my case corporate bought it, why would I say no?

    Now why would I ever use my single core tablet over my m15x? Portability, but I don't own say the m11, where that would make it a tough choice for me on what to carry. Personally I wouldn't even consider it, professionally it makes a lot of sense. And even though win 7 is lame on a touchscreen, the whole concept / idea is pretty cool and you can always connect a bluetooth keyboard and mouse into it. It does everything ipad and android based tablets do, in some cases not as good, but it DOES stuff neither one of the aforementioned does, such as run mmc, if you don't know what mmc is, refer to first paragraph.

  20. outdated? on HP Slate 2: Brilliant or Bust? · · Score: 1

    However, by creating a lackluster product in the Slate 2 that runs on a soon-to-be-outdated operating system

    http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/HP-Slate-2-Tablet-PC-Offers-Windows-at-a-Touch-676841/

    it'll run windows 8...

    That's what submitter gets for reading an article about HP on IBM's website. P.S. they're competitors.

  21. Re:Things you can't do on Windows or Linux on Apple To Require Sandboxing For Mac App Store Apps · · Score: 2

    Would develop* the death of android would not prompt an exodus to apple but to wp7, most people who own an android specifically chose not to go apple cause of apple bs, and while microsoft has their share, it's not nearly as bad.

    Then again the death of android is only speculative by people who are not even close to being qualified to make that judgement (slashdotters), so I'll be enjoying my android for a long time to come I'm sure.

  22. Re:Word document?! on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: 1

    Lol, my bad I wanted to find an article of viruses that do more shit than this one from attachments, didn't read it too closely, oh well still too lazy to find another one.

  23. Re:Oh Lord. on Multi-Target Photo-Radar System To Make Speeding Riskier · · Score: 1

    Ever spend 2-3 minutes at a red light waiting for it to turn when there is no cross traffic? Roundabouts are specifically designed to alleviate that, the rules are as simple as knowing wtf yield actually means in Webster terms. In this case it is not a command for the dog.

    I like them, but on major intersections... they can get a little bit crazy, except i live in the states so they don't have them at major intersections, only back ways and such. Ironically (they are more an international thing), I can always find a few around the military bases here in the state, seems to suite the army just fine.

  24. Re:Word document?! on Duqu Installer Exploits Windows Kernel Zero Day · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Worse things exist in opening attachments from remote senders than malware, http://www.pcworld.com/article/103992/the_worlds_worst_viruses.html

    On that note, people need to stop telling others to not open attachments from unknown senders, let natural selection separate the users who know how to use computers (aka maintain their machine in a working state) and those who do not, it's just not fair to have to fix some dumbshit's machine cause s/he is too dumb to apply common sense.

  25. Re:using light? on NASA Wants To Make Tractor Beams a Reality · · Score: 1

    Well I'm still waiting for that space shuttle from them...