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  1. This should only concern Job's heirs on Italian Clothing Company Defeats Apple, Wins the Right To Use Steve Jobs' Name (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple has nothing to say.

  2. Mark Hamill is right on Ask Slashdot: Thoughts On Star Wars: The Last Jedi One Week Later? [Spoilers] (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Luke is totally fine out of character. They shouldn't have used the characters of the original trilogy to do this shit.

    have read reviews that say how great it is because how original it's. I disagree: the old Expanded Universe had more originality.

    And those who criticize hardcore fans don't get it. The fans could accept that Luke&Co are no longer the main characters. The problem is that this movie doesn't offer closure. It desecrates the characters. It's what I call "genius complex".

  3. What are those 800 applications? I work in a Public Administration in Spain and most of the people I know use Office+Outlook+web apps+Java for digital signing. I dont see many "Windows specific applications that dont work in Linux". I am sure that there are some (well in the past I worked with one but that could be trivialy ported) but for 80-90% of the people this wouldnt be an issue.

    Well, now we are in the process of replacing Microsoft Office with Libreoffice.

  4. Because they didnt develop them in the open on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Even if Red Hat is the main contributor or hire the main developers of some open source projects there are many "external" contributions. Canonical didnt take advantage of this because they wanted to control everything. Those projects didnt have to be a money sink.

    Red Hat know how to benefit from the community the most. Thats the biggest difference between them.

  5. I have a cheaper solution on Bill Gates Tries A(nother) Billion-Dollar Plan To Reform Education (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    1) Build a rocket 2) Send 99% of the so-called experts in education to deep space. The damage made by these people in the last 30 years is inconmensurable.

  6. I use the headphones a lot and I buy almost the cheapest ones because sometimes I wear them in a pocket in my pants and I can lose them or break them. Bluetooth is more expensive with less sound quality in most cases and I can use my headphone jacket with various devices so to me its a loss.

  7. Re:Why Java? on IBM Open Sources Their Own JVM/JDK As Eclipse OpenJ9 (eclipse.org) · · Score: 1

    You can write 90% of the applications with only the standard libraries. In most other languages you would need to use various third party ones to accomplish the same.

  8. There aren't enough pirates on What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    That's all.

  9. The R of reality is failing on Google Unveils ARCore, Its Answer To Apple's ARKit (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    AR will be interesting the day it's used with something like Google glasses, Hololens or some type of contact lenses and you don't have to look at a screen. Or at most a very headset with cameras.

  10. You have to eat your own shit on Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation (eclipse.org) · · Score: 2

    What did Red Hat use Ceylon for? As far as I know nothing. I thought they developed it to use it in JBoss (among other things). You cant pretend people to adopt something you dont even use. At least Mozilla is using Rust in Firefox.

  11. Who cares about Swift? on Google Hires Former Star Apple Engineer Chris Lattner For Its AI Team (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    He is the man behind LLVM. I'm more worried about that.

  12. I would die from boredom on One Man's Two-Year Quest Not to Finish Final Fantasy VII (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, it's hard to me to grind my character in some games.

  13. I understand you on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Someone created accounts in Battle.net and PLAN using addresses I own and I couldn't erase them. Other times I received confirmation emails to other services. I think it should be legally required to confirm your email address when you register in a service.

  14. I think it's because of historical reasons on Say Goodbye To Spain's Glorious Three-Hour Lunch Break (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't say for sure because I haven't delved into it but I think it's related to the siesta and climate in most of Spain. Try to practice agriculture (or other jobs like construction) at noon in Andalusia during the summer and you'll experience hell.

  15. Human languages are too irregular. Use Lojban on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should train the bits to talk in Lojban

  16. Exactly. The future of AR are things like Google glasses, hololens or the VR headset. The only VR game I tried that it improved playability is Invisimals. In the rest it was a bother.

  17. Have they planned fo this? I dont think so on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Full electric is very nice but have they thought what needs to be done? -There will be a need to increase the production of electricity. Also its most likely that people will charge their cars at night or in the afernoon. That leaves solar power out of the equation. -When traveling you can fill your car depot in 5 minutes. With electric cars you will need at least 30-45 minutes. You will have to increase fuel stations surface x6. Etc, etc, etc.

  18. Re:I wonder what's going to happen to the mid east on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a teacher in material science that said that burning petroleum was stupid and that it should be used for petrochemistry.

  19. Siesta made sense in the past on Spanish Siesta Culture Lets Entrepreneur Turn Naps Into Gold (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In the center-south of Spain with temperatures that can reach 40C in the summer it would be tough for farmers to work in the field during the hotest hours.

  20. Re:What is their issue? on Green Party Leaders Don't Want Windows In Munich (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    She mentions computers taking twenty minutes to start in the beginning of the day, they have 2'000 different applications in the city for specific tasks, some of them working only on a single versions of a web browsers. Their Linux clients exists in a variety of configurations, some with LibreOffice, others with OpenOffice..

    The first one is bullshit. I use Windows at work and. The instructions are to turn off the computer at the end of the workday but nobody does that because we I use the computers to check in and out and sometimes the computer take a lot of time to boot up, and if Windows decides to update even more. Number 2 has nothing to do with Linux, its incopetent programming and I dont see how it would be better with Windows. Number 3 is a problem with the systems administrators and it is not Linuxs fault. I dont understand why they dont put Libreoffice in all their computers.

    But the younger people these days neither care too much about Windows or Linux; they are much more interested (and knowledgeable) in coding Android apps.

    So they dont know desktop and are interested in Android but they know Windows desktop and not Linux desktop. A very fair response. Evenmore, if they know Android (and not Windows Phone) thats a reason to use Linux because of synergy.

  21. Not surprising at all on DNA From Ancient Egyptian Mummies Reveals Their Ancestry (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a ton of archeological evidence. Well, this will change nothing. The defenders of the "black Egypt theory" had mostly questionable arguments.

  22. Was it worth the risk? on Ex-IBM Employee Guilty of Stealing Secrets For China (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "Part of the sting involved Xu demonstrating the stolen software, which speeds computer performance by distributing works across multiple servers, on a sample network. " This has been done for years.

  23. Physical keys

  24. Re: Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You now, there are studies that prove that pedophilia is not bigger in the Catholic Church than in the Evangelical ones. http://shoebat.com/2014/05/06/...

  25. Also if you only use the code internally you don't have to distribute your changes. You only have to give away your changes if you let others to use your modified program.