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  1. Re:Aren't they all doing that sort of thing? on Finding Fault With the Low, Low Price of Android · · Score: 1

    More importantly, Microsoft is using revenue from Windows and Office to fund Bing.

  2. Re:And her name is...? on Review: Cowboys & Aliens · · Score: 1

    Frankly, Olivia Wilde deserves better than this shiat review.

    No, she really doesn't. Her character was completely useless to the movie, and only relevant to the plot at the very end. Her presence on screen added nothing to her character or any of the others.

    And it doesn't speak well for her as an actress if this is what she she chooses to appear in. It should have been obvious that the script was weak, so either she has poor judgement, or this is the only work she can get.

  3. Re:Didn't we hear the same about the Shuttle? on Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US · · Score: 1

    There are so many jobs tied up with the Shuttle, we have to keep it in service - no matter how little they actually do for society or how much it costs.

    So, I guess what we need is a solar-powered shuttle.

  4. Re:Ethernet was over-specced on The History of Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Actually, the number is closer to 800MB, but computers can only store 650MB due to a second layer of protection.

    Actually actually, the raw number is almost 2GB, but to make that useable, they had to include several layers of encoding and one layer of protection, leaving 800MB of space for audio.

  5. The Vulcan business plan on Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD · · Score: 1

    1. Live long.
    2. ???
    3. Prosper!

  6. Re:Build a mouse brain first. on A Million Node Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    As a government employee, I resent that. I don't just sit around, I also post to Slashdot.

  7. Re:ARM processors? on A Million Node Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    With that many processors, they should call it ARMY.

  8. Re:And that is where it ends too . on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    And suing Apple is a third thing. Suing Samsung would be .. what are we up to? .. four things. I'm pretty sure Microsoft can handle four things at once. Probably even more.

  9. Re:Anyone else? on New Technique To Help Develop MMORPG Content? · · Score: 1

    No, not stupid at all. Remember, when they say "content," they mean advertising and premium paid content. A MMORPG is about making money, so once a player has joined, the question becomes where to put the toll gates to maximize income and minimize player loss.

  10. I. The camera is not a physical object. on PC Gaming's 10 Commandments · · Score: 1

    One of my top complaints is how the camera is treated as a physical object in third-person games, and is constantly getting pushed around by objects and walls near the character. Frequently I find my character can see into areas that *I* cannot.

    Cameras must be allowed to pass through *everything*, and every polygon between the camera and the character should highly transparent, if not invisible.

  11. Re:Let's hope for another radical GUI change! on 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    Settle down, it's still new to four of us.

  12. Re:Vital Stats on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    How?? I can't paste text into the shell, and there's no network interface available either.

  13. Re:Ouch on Boot Linux In Your Browser · · Score: 1

    Your browser does not support the W3C Typed Arrays and this version of JS/Linux needs them.

    So, nothing to be afraid of here.

  14. Re:yay on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    No, that's a terrible idea. Since he's already dead, that would just result in a zombie process.

  15. Re:Mission Accomplished on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    ... Congress no longer has .. faith in our justice system ...

    That's pretty much the definition of a corrupt government, isn't it?

  16. Re:Meh. on NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space · · Score: 2

    This is what I hate about most "traditional" news sites -- they tell you the image exists, but they don't say where. NASA makes much of its imagery available on the web, so there should always be a link. To be fair, IBI (as well as the above link) appears to have published the highest resolution available. But for completeness, here is NASA's original:

    USA7 Subsets Day 118: 04/28/11
    Page for Aqua 250m True Color
    Direct link to image (8MB)

  17. Re:The Space Shuttle on If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It · · Score: 1

    But I don't wanna hafta buy a Concorde from Boing, I wanna build my own. I'll print the titanium parts on my RepRap and use a few Arduinos for control systems, but I need software to make it flyable. PID loops aren't easy.

  18. Re:WebM player vs flash on YouTube Now Transcoding All New Uploads To WebM · · Score: 1

    Well then let me answer it right here. It's not a policy, it's a setting. If you turn it off, it won't happen any more.

    Log in, click your name in the upper right corner, click Account. On the left, click Playback Setup, then select "I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video." Save changes, and you're golden.

    Here's a video to test on.

  19. Physical shop is the wrong model for music on Today Is Record Store Day 2011 · · Score: 1

    I never liked music shops of any sort, because I could never figure what CDs to buy from the purty pictures on the covers. Only a few places ever bothered to put up a music sampling station, but none of them had a fast-forward button, so it took an excessive amount of time to sample the music. (It's surprising how many songs have a long prelude they tells you nothing about the music that's to come. And without fast-forward, you can't skip the prelude.)

    Radio and Pandora are pretty much the best way to discover music, and iTunes-like places are the best way to buy it.

  20. Re:Book review summary table screwed up on Book Review: Android User Interface Development · · Score: 1

    The review is a shill if there's a great deal of info on the contents of the book, but nothing on the quality of those contents. Did the reviewer actually follow any of the instructions? Do the programs work or have bugs? Does the book make the issues clearer or more confusing? And when it comes time to build a real solution to a complex problem, how well did the book prepare you?

  21. Re:Just where do or preferences come from? on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    No no, you've completely lost the chain of the argument here. "Finding" people attractive is *my* point; your point is that people *choose* to find them attractive. You admit to loving art and construction, which is exactly my point -- you didn't *choose* to love those things, you *discovered* that you loved them. And while you may have started studying engineering because of your father, you took it up as a job because of your natural talent and enjoyment of the field.

    You didn't *choose* any of these things, they were chosen for you before you were ever born.

  22. Re:Just where do or preferences come from? on Apple's App Store Accepts 'Gay Cure' App · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen an ugly woman? Did you choose to regard her as ugly? What if you found all women to be ugly, and only men could be "pretty"? Then you'd be gay, and not by choice.

    By the way, you didn't chose to be an engineer, you discovered it. You could take up the paintbrush and become a picture painter, but you don't want to -- you want to be an engineer. Choice is not involved.

  23. Still missing the point on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 2

    So now we have a title bar which is completely blank, a menu bar which is mostly blank, and a button bar which is also mostly blank. I'm going to need another monitor just to hold all the blank space.

  24. Re:Has slashdot been taken over by The Onion? on GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons · · Score: 2

    On Windows, my task bar is on the left. It leaves me the full height of the screen for windows, plus gives me a single huge column for the task buttons. Only once have I gotten close to filling the thing. It's set to auto hide if I have one monitor, but not if I have two.

    I'd like to do the same thing in Gnome, but the panel widgets don't behave correctly when the panel is vertical.

  25. Re:Finally! on Google Brings Design-By-Contract To Java · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, annotations are entirely functional, not decorative. Annotations cannot be in comments; while the code would compile, it wouldn't run correctly (if at all) since the behaviors requested by the annotations would be missing. Look into JAXB and EJB for how annotations can be used well.