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  1. Detach attachments and put files in Dropbox on Dropbox Acquires Mailbox · · Score: 1

    Feature request: Automatically detach email attachments. Put files in Dropbox and create link to file in message.

  2. Re:I used to block ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    No, you're wrong. It's not a pay per view model. It's a "everyone pays whether they view or not" model. For example, I don't watch professional baseball but I absolutely pay for the players' salaries.

  3. Re:I used to block ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ads is a very expensive way to pay for content. Your cost of living is 9% to 12% higher because of Marketing. I think that if we took the money spent on ads and gave it to content creators instead, we would have more and better quality content. As an added bonus, no annoying ads that slow everything down.

  4. Re:They're afraid of going after downloaders. on Pirate Bay Shifts Connections From Sweden To Ease Heat on Pirate Party · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about, giving the users the ability to donate to the content creators?

  5. Re:Speaking of "Smear Campaigns"... on MS Targets Google With Another Smear Campaign · · Score: 1

    We pay for all the ads from all the companies whether we see them or not. I didn't watch the Super Bowl but I paid for the ads. Just because you don't use GMail, don't think you're not paying for those ads. Advertising is a 25% hidden sales tax on everything and it's mostly unnecessary in this modern era of mass connectivity. I hope to see it extinct soon and live 25% wealthier.

  6. Re:Another failure in the making. on The Human Brain Project Receives Up To $1.34 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yes, I agree. Cats behave roughly the same regardless of their surroundings and culture (if there is such a thing for cats). They attack, defend and groom without being taught. It's built in their ROM. We're not born empty. We are born programmed and very few are ever able to change this internal programming. The question is, where does this programming come from and how is it stored in our DNA?

    What they should to instead is create a translator from DNA to C, Python or Haskell. If we succeed in doing that, the possibilities are endless.

  7. Re:Don't see the difference on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    You must be running Windows. It's a different story on Linux.

  8. Re:Happens on Alan Cox Exits Intel, Linux Development · · Score: 5, Informative
  9. Re:That's why I don't exercise on The Mathematics of the Lifespan of Species · · Score: 1

    You're resting HR is probably higher if you don't exercies. I would guess somewhere between 70 and 90 BPM depending on your body composition. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your resting HR is 70BPM. Which is about 100,800 beats per day.

    I exercise and because of that, my resting HR is between 45 and 55 BPM. If I exercise for 1 hour per day and my HR during that hour is about 140BPM, my total daily beats are 69,000 (23 hours) + 8,400 (1 hour) = 77,400 beats.

    Exercise and you're going to live more than 20% longer with some awesome side effects like better health and probably a better life.

  10. Re:What happens when everyone is a programmer. on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 1

    Damn. I was hoping no one would make me go through that code. I'll make you deal. If you get voted up a couple of points, I'll re-implement it and show you how it's done.

  11. Re:What happens when everyone is a programmer. on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 1
  12. What happens when everyone is a programmer. on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 1

    This is unedited code that I discovered yesterday while reviewing a client's app. This little gem was written in 2012.

    function myfunction(order_date)
    { //Find here Lunch days.......
    var launch_day = new Date(order_date*1000);

    var dd = launch_day.getDate();

    var mm = launch_day.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!

    var yyyy = launch_day.getFullYear(); // will display time in 10:30:23 format
    var lunchdate = yyyy+'-'+mm+'-'+dd;

    var weekday=new Array(7);
    weekday[0]="Sunday";
    weekday[1]="Monday";
    weekday[2]="Tuesday";
    weekday[3]="Wednesday";
    weekday[4]="Thursday";
    weekday[5]="Friday";
    weekday[6]="Saturday";
    var compare_lunchdate = weekday[launch_day.getDay()]; //this is lunch days // Find here Current day..............
    var current_day = new Date();

    var current_weekday=new Array(7);
    current_weekday[0]="Sunday";
    current_weekday[1]="Monday";
    current_weekday[2]="Tuesday";
    current_weekday[3]="Wednesday";
    current_weekday[4]="Thursday";
    current_weekday[5]="Friday";
    current_weekday[6]="Saturday";
    var compare_current_day = current_weekday[current_day.getDay()]; //this is Current days //alert(compare_current_day=="Saturday")
    if(compare_current_day=="Saturday")
    {
                var today = new Date();
                var adddays=Date.parse(today.setDate(today.getDate()+ 2));
                var dd = adddays.getDate();

    var mm = adddays.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!

    var yyyy = adddays.getFullYear(); // will display time in 10:30:23 format
    var checkdays = yyyy+'-'+mm+'-'+dd;

                if((Date.parse(checkdays))

  13. lol on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 1

    lol

  14. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    We have become used to a 4-5% GDP growth figure that is unsustainable.

    There's your problem. You're depending on growth.

  15. Re:It's about seeing bugs. on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's what I was referring to in my previous comment. The soNineties.p - "nostra" vs. "nostra," was intentional.

  16. Re:It's about seeing bugs. on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    The missing comma in soNineties.p was intentional. I'm trying to show that some errors are easier to catch by just using a different style. By putting the delimiter distinctly in front and away from the strings, you create a wider separation between code and content. It is this visual separation that helps spot errors quicker, whether it is in the code or the content.

  17. It's about seeing bugs. on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    Coding style is about seeing and avoiding bugs.

    There are a few errors in these blocks of code. In which are they easier to find?

    var inStyle = {
              j: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
            , k: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
            , l: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
              m: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
            , n: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
            , o: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit'
            , p: 'taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra,'
            , q: 'Aenean non purus et dolor adipiscing blandit at sed tellus.'
    }


    var soNineties = {
            j: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit',
            k: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit',
            l: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit',
            m: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit',
            n: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit',
            o: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit',
            p: 'taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra'.
            q: 'Aenean non purus et dolor adipiscing blandit at sed tellus.',
    }

    The compiler/interpreter will catch them for you but that just slows you down.

  18. Re:A glorious day on Qt 5.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Far better than HTML5/Javascript.

    I doubt it. Qt is nice but depending on what's being developed, HTML5/JavaScript can be the superior solution.

    Besides, HTML5/JavaScript has so much momentum and is moving so fast that I'm afraid Qt will be irrelevant in a few years.

    Check out this app.
    https://moqups.com/
    A native Qt app would have made the experience clumsy.

    There are so many great JavaScript libraries in development that it's hard to pick one. Here are a few that you should keep your eye on though.
    http://www.meteor.com/
    http://angularjs.org/
    http://emberjs.com/
    http://dojotoolkit.org/
    http://backbonejs.org/
    http://jquery.com/

  19. Re:What about LibreOffice on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I have difficulty believing your story. The only MS Word documents that 3.6.3 has may have difficulty with is 2010 but you're saying that you have an ancient laptop to open these files? So you have an ancient laptop running Word 2010? Right... Damn trolls.

  20. Re:What about LibreOffice on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 2

    You must be running Windows. From the release notes.

    Windows users that rely on accessibility tools are recommended to stay with LibreOffice 3.5 versions for the while, due to bug 53474. This bug has been resolved in the upcoming release of LibreOffice 3.6.4.

    If that bug doesn't affect you, install 3.6. It's definitely worth the upgrade

    On Linux distros, the package manager does the updates and assures that dependencies are met so a manual install Windows Style(TM) is not recommended unless you know what you're doing.

  21. Re:What about LibreOffice on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 2

    LibreOffice 3.6.2 has mostly fixed the MS Office 2010 compatibility issues.

  22. Re:User ID vs year joined? on Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later? · · Score: 1

    I'm still around but barely. The content has become too mainstream, stuff that I can find anywhere so I've subscribed other more specialized sites.

    I only frequent this site when I procrastinate now.

  23. Re:Which is why I find it doubly funny on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 1

    That just sounds like a really bad design. Hasn't anyone been able to reduce the complexity while maintaining performance and features? Can't the hardware be abstracted in that same way that software is?

  24. Re:Better link on Linaro Tweaks Speed Up Android, By Up To 100 Percent · · Score: 1

    No it's not. Look at the video. They run a benchmark that the Linaro version completes a few minutes before the stock version.

  25. Re:What would you do with it? on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing, I didn't know this monitor existed. The contrast ratio doesn't seem that great though from the specs, would you care to comment on that. ... damn AC, I guess I'll never know unless he/she is still reading the thread.