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  1. Re:Concurrency on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Is it really the language's job to bake that in? Akka should run on Ceylon without much issue, unless they've really changed things since I last looked at it.

  2. Re:Our zeitgeist on NRA Launches Pro-Lead Website · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure that if a bullet is interacting with your brain, long term development is going to be low on the list of things you have to worry about.

  3. IE Version Code Breakdown? on jQuery 2.0 Will Drop Support For IE 6, 7, 8 · · Score: 2

    Does anyone here have enough knowledge of the JQuery codebase to say how the IE-specific cruft breaks down by version?

    IE6 is a monstrosity; that's pretty much a given, and IE7 isn't great either. I could see dropping support for both of those being a big win in terms of cleaning up the codebase. That said, how much do they gain by dropping IE8 as well? It was only released 3 years ago.

  4. Re:Oracle and Java on Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire · · Score: 1

    90% of the time you're right, but there are a few bugs in the JVM with regard to Windows vs Linux filesystems that will bite you the first time you see them.

    I've also run into issues with Windows-only memory leaks in the JAI libraries when using JPEG-compressed TIFFs.

    You're right that it's generally fine.

  5. Re:Oracle and Java on Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't touch the filesystem or try to do anything with graphics I've found this to be true as well.

  6. Player? on Adobe To Donate Flex SDK To Open Source Community · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will this include player components? As it stands, the span of usefulness for the SDK is going to be limited if there isn't a player to run the output.

  7. Will be cancelling, any competitors? on Netflix Announces Streaming Only Plans and Higher Prices for DVDs · · Score: 1

    I'll be cancelling my subscription this Fall.

    Between the horrible UI rewrite, the shrinking streaming selection, and now a price hike, Netflix no longer offers enough value to be worth the money.

    Anybody know of competitors? Amazon's streaming service looks kind of interesting.

  8. Re:Newpapers? on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to deflate your rage-boner, but the "or" clause in that language means that either of those criteria can cause a ban.

    Given that "encourage and enable" is overly broad, and could, in fact, relate to any source of information, the original question still stands.

  9. Newpapers? on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    Most DUI checkpoints are published in newspapers ahead of time.

    Will Apple also be banning newspaper apps?

  10. Muddy Line on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    If I'm reading this right, it would be a breach of your rights if your car was in an enclosed garage, or if you had a fence around your yard.

    What about a carport?

    What about a keep out sign?

    Where do you draw the line on this one, if not using the traditionally assumed legal boundary of the property line?

  11. VtM:B on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines was another game that killed the company. There's even an interview about it somewhere here on Slashdot.

    Apparently it went way over budget, was laden with game breaking bugs, and had copy protection problems.

    It's a shame, really, because the last 5 years of fan patching have made it kind of enjoyable.

  12. DNS Problems on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    Coming in late to the conversation, but what the hey.

    The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that DNS lookup in the default install is CRAZY slow for me. I've read some posts about blacklisting the ip6 module or changing the name resolving order, but I'd rather not use a temporary workaround that's incompatible with whatever fix they eventually choose to implement. The bug is here, by the way: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/417757

    Other than that, I've noticed instability in Flash, some general UI unresponsiveness, and a (now fixed) bug in the update manager that would throw up a kernel oops message.

    It sure is pretty, though.

  13. Tagging the story? on Robotic Mold · · Score: 1

    How do you put a "Shoggoth" tag onto a story? This sounds like something straight out of "At the Mountains of Madness".

  14. Wisdom on 10 Business Lessons I Learned From Playing D&D · · Score: 2, Funny

    What other wisdom have you gained from your time sequestered with various RPGs?

    No matter how clever the idea sounds, livestock never fixes anything.

  15. Re:smaller code size without copy& paste on The Incredible Shrinking Genome · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are we seeing the same tendency in other warm blooded creatures, such as birds?

  16. Re:Helios Blog Entry Is Crap! on Teachers Need an Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    It's actually a 4th declension mass noun. Therefore the the plural is emphatically *not* viri.

  17. Re:strange.... on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    It's a bad idea to split your products in most cases. If you segment your product line artificially, the you will be competing against yourself as well as your competitors.

    However, if you have a monopoly, you don't have any real competitors, so you don't have to worry about that.

  18. Re:People don't mind paying on Software Piracy Seen as Normal · · Score: 1

    I averaged $21 a week when I was living in New Jersey last year. An average grocery list looked like this:

    Pasta ($0.49 -$0.99 a pound)
    Pasta sauce
    Some sort of meat purchased in bulk (~$1.50 ~$1.99 a pound)
    Milk (was $1.69 a gallon at the time)
    Yogurt
    Oatmeal
    Vegetables, lots of vegetables

    It's bland, but it's cheap

  19. Re:Third party apps on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday · · Score: 1

    Athlon 64 3500+
    1 Gb RAM
    Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
    Serial ATA hard Drive

    It started out as a gaming rig, but apparently it's enough to run Ubuntu, too.

  20. Re:Third party apps on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday · · Score: 1

    I looked into that, you need to set up a chroot environment in order to make it work. I don't need the flash plugin that badly.

  21. Third party apps on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been messing around with Ubuntu for x86-64 lately and while it is pretty snappy, I miss things a lot of the little things (like the flash plugin) that were never compiled for a 64 bit system.

    Is Microsoft going to have a similar problem, in that it has a nice OS, but few apps to run on it?

  22. Re:Because... on True Visual Programming · · Score: 1

    What is this app that makes "workflows?"

  23. Screenshot on Firefox In Print · · Score: 1

    You can find a screenshot here:

    http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/b/dbs172/unt it led.png

    (Yeah, I'm lazy)

  24. Not the First Time on Take-Two to Publish Next Civilization Game · · Score: 3, Informative

    This isn't the first time that Python has shown up in a major commercial game. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines uses python 2.2 (could be wrong on the minor revision number) to handle almost all of its in-game actions. It's interesting to read the scripts and see how the game works, even if it can spoil things a bit.

  25. Re:Why is this exactly newsworthy again? on Half Life 2 Stuttering Bug Official · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Yawn. Every Linux distro gets released bug-free, right?
    Every Linux distro comes with a $50 price tag and no way to legally download it from somehwere else, right?