Slashdot Mirror


User: InsightIn140Bytes

InsightIn140Bytes's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
285
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 285

  1. Re:North Korean State television Says... on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, it's not that far either. Quite modest and honest report actually. I doubt it would be easy for you to run North Korea either, while rest of the world is breathing on your back.

  2. Re:It's a big deal on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because some like traveling and seeing different cultures and places completely different from your own. This is why I always wanted to go to North Korea too. It would had been a great experience. Well, maybe I'll still go next year.

  3. Re:It's a big deal on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: -1, Troll

    What was so wrong with him? He tried to improve his country and sometimes did so too. If you have had a closer look at North Korea you'd know that they aren't technologically so much behind. They even have a huge intranet in the country. He maintained good relations to China and Russia. You just hate him because you're from US.

    He wasn't even leading the country for that long, and it was in poor state before his leadership.

  4. Re:It's a big deal on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: -1, Troll

    In every country the king/leader/president lives a luxury life. What his life cost wouldn't had changed anything on that scale. I suggest you try running such a poor country and end starving. You can go start from Africa, Cambodia, Burma or countless of other countries.

  5. Re:Meh on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: -1, Troll

    What makes him an asshole? He was in a really difficult position. He played lots of mind games with US, South Korea and rest of the world because he had to. This whole thing predates his leadership.

  6. Re:And now the danger begins on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder what it will mean for Burma/Myanmar also. They're both trade embargoed by US countries that have done a lot of business together. It's rumored that there's been North Korean engineers working in Burma and building huge underground bases for nuclear weapon testing.

  7. Re:It's a big deal on North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il Dead at 70 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think he was really cool guy too. Too bad because I was planning on visiting North Korea and now these news kinda ruin my trip. Interesting to see what happens next year there tho, maybe it's still worth the trip.

  8. Re:Thanks for posting this.. on MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data · · Score: 2

    You don't need to pay for accessing it, but you still need to pay for the processing power, storage and RAM in your EC2. Of course you can start by only accessing specific day like in the video so you don't need so much processing power for it, and hence pay less. But then you also won't be able to process 99.9% of the crawl data.

  9. Re:Thanks for posting this.. on MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then you probably want to use it with some local data so you don't rack up huge bill. One Hadoop job on the whole dataset costs at least like $200, and that's for simple stuff.

  10. Re:Advantage of homebrew? on Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow · · Score: 0

    What have they lied about? Sure, you're maybe upset how they removed OtherOS from PS3 after hackers started abusing it, but that doesn't make them liars. You might want to stick to truth if you have some point to make.

  11. Re:Advantage of homebrew? on Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's the advantage of running homebrew on a PSVita over running homebrew on an Android device such as an Xperia Play or a Galaxy Player (called Galaxy S Wi-Fi in some markets)?

    That you don't need to run Android, a product made by the largest advertising and datamining house on planet?

  12. Re:Who's fault is it? on Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is Google's fault. They just don't want to responsibility (ie., don't spy on kids activity) that comes with it, but they're still advertising such use. They just bury that fact in terms of service not to get in trouble.

  13. Re:General usability should be one of the choices on Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So if they want something premade, why would they choose Linux instead of OSX or Windows? What else than customization, tweakability and programming the system does Linux offer over those two? It's a good question to ask, especially for Gnome/KDE/Ubuntu/Linux developers if they want Linux to become mainstream.

  14. Re:From the website that looks like this on Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE · · Score: 0

    I think their site is actually quite usable. Text area is not too wide, there's related news easily displayed and it shows other content from the site too. The inner pages are quite long and putting that everything on one page would be ridiculous.

    You yourself maybe want to read print version only, but most users don't. It's also not user friendly for web format.

  15. Re:General usability should be one of the choices on Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Linux is open. Fork it and do it yourself! Given the ability, pffft.

  16. Re:LOL on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 1

    What the hell showering with gays has to do with anything? You think they're going to rape you or something, regardless of if they're interested in you or even think you look nice? It doesn't work like that. Or could you not control yourself if you were showering with women? Because if that's the case, you have a serious problem.

  17. Re:LOL on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Frankly, I view abortion, separation of church and state and gay (and shemale) rights as more important than copyright stuff. So no, even if I were US citizen, I would not vote for him.

  18. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Same goes for Opera, which is extremely popular in Russia and CIS countries and actually beats any other browser. It has like 50% market share in some countries. http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2009/03/16/a-look-at-desktop-market-share-cis-edition

  19. Re:I could care less: Opera64's out 4 Windows! on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: -1

    But you still cannot block adware and spyware in Opera. There is not easy way to block specific domains or urls.

  20. Re:All versions of IE combined still beat everyone on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, they are. It even says so in the article, but someone just dedicated to copypaste one really specific sentence from it to Slashdot. IE still has 50% market share, while Chrome has 25%.

  21. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's just stupid comparison. Chrome automatically updates all old versions to their newest one while IE doesn't. This compares two exact versions, Chrome 15 and IE8. If you compare just browsers, IE is still easily number one at 50%, while Chrome has 25%.

  22. Re:Asia goes up! on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 0

    As will the Asian investors and companies while they reap more profits and will soon dominate the world.

  23. Asia goes up! on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    US is now officially destination country for cheap outsourcing.

  24. Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 0

    The GPL lets me ensure payment in some form. Either I get source, or I can possibly get money in exchange for a different license.

    Has Google done either one of these to you while they fork your code to their servers and never give out said code?

  25. Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 0

    So how does Google hosted services "pay forward" to their users the same way with the GPL code that they received? Yep, they don't.