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  1. Re:We need Linux applications not a virtual deskto on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 1

    Be it commercial games like Worlds of Warcraft, or the business applications that they need to run their business. Wow, can you pick a worse example or what? World Of Warcraft runs on Linux.

  2. Re:Yet another Slashdot stalker on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 1

    You're the only one who thinks it is a troll.. I think you're just upset that it is +5 and you disagree.

    BTW - there is one VM that does virtualization of 3d hardware.. VMWare Fusion. Back when I worked for VMWare they were talking about doing it, but it was always pushed off to the next release. It's for the Mac so I haven't used it, so I don't know how great it is, and there's probably good reasons why it can't be done on Windows or Linux hosts.

    Also, the Cygwin/X server (that Ulteo uses) currently uses the Mesa 3d library for OpenGL support, which is completely software with no 3d acceleration. This is the easiest route to add OpenGL extensions to Cygwin/X and is better than nothing, but I imagine that eventually someone will start calling the Windows OpenGL implementation instead and then Ulteo will be massively better.

    I don't know who you are, but you seem to have an axe to grind and I think if you just stop and be a little reasonable you'll see that I'm not "trolling" or whatever - I just have different opinions to you. Wouldn't the world be boring if we all automatically agreed?

  3. Yet another Slashdot stalker on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck off and die already.

  4. No 3d acceleration on A Virtualized Linux System For Windows · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, unfortunately the video output is as snappy as VNC or VMWare. Virtualize the 3d graphics driver already.

  5. Re:Comment from story on Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now · · Score: 1

    Is that you sektie?

    </joke_no_one_will_get>

  6. don't forget political power on World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online · · Score: 1

    How many jewels do you need to get that?!

  7. Re:Bring on the baseball hat wearing disses on A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And it's because of fools like you that used cars salesmen will continue to wear business suits.

  8. Re:Doesn't read your mind. on A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's a *baseball* hat.. detecting when someone is falling asleep is a useful application.

  9. Bring on the baseball hat wearing disses on A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to wear a baseball hat.. for a while I even wore it sideways, or backwards. It was only after I stopped wearing it all together that I noticed how much people were treating me like an idiot. A few years later I discovered I was shorted sighted and got glasses and discovered another way to get people to instantly treat you differently. I hear that if you hold documents at arms length to read them people think you are older and treat you with more respect, haven't tried that one myself.

    So yeah, although you might have some magic baseball hat that makes you smarter, it's not going to matter much, people are still going to treat you like an invalid.

  10. Re:Why I'm excited about Android on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 1

    Dude, the entire Android stack is (or is going to be) Open Source.. in the capitalized meaning of that word.. that means you can take any part which has poor support for what you want to do and change it to do what you want, and then put it back on your phone, provide patches for others, contribute it back to the project, etc, etc. That's what I'm talking about.

    As for using point-to-point data to do voice over bluetooth, yes, you can do that, if you want to re-invent the wheel, just don't expect any sane operating support to do it because Symbian supports voice over bluetooth to headsets only, not to other handsets. Or at least it did when I was a Symbian developer, they might have add support since then.

  11. Re:Why I'm excited about Android on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 1

    Cause its a proprietary platform.. you're required to talk to the hardware via opaque layers of software. If there isn't an API for what you want to do you are simply shit out of luck.

  12. Re:PDF of full decision on Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete · · Score: 1

    The IAAF did not show that there was enhancement (and even so, his best 400m time of 46.56s is over a second off the Olympic qualifying time of 45.55s). Wow, so by that logic I could enter on a moped and, so long as I don't hammer the throttle during qualifying, that would be ok.

  13. Re:Why I'm excited about Android on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 1

    Shya, like you can do *anything* remotely cool with bluetooth on Symbian.

  14. Why I'm excited about Android on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A friend and I were trying to have a conversation with an old friend via loudspeaker on a Symbian based phone. If you've ever tried this, you know how difficult it is to hear the each other. What's especially annoying is that we had more than one phone on hand, but setting up a three way call is painfully difficult and expensive, but more importantly, it's completely unnecessary. There's no reason why any number of handsets can not be linked via bluetooth and only one make the call to the third party.

    This is one example of the creative ways communications problems can be solved.. but only if you have an open platform.

  15. Re:Little legal question on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    This is all because it is assumed that a person cannot be a sound mind and body, yet still want to top themselves. Insanity is defined by the majority.

  16. Or she had the best intentions.. on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps she thought that young girls should not invest their emotions in people they meet over instant messenger or on social networking sites and wanted to teach her a lesson. Maybe she was afraid that a predator was going to get this young girl and thought it better to drive her away from this dangerous activity before she got seriously hurt. Clearly her parents were absent from the equation and maybe this woman wanted to teach *them* a lesson.

    Maybe if this generation of kids were not such cry-baby emos she would have taken her lumps and learn from the experience instead of offing herself over something so trivial as an internet boyfriend.

  17. Re:Scary on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not just you, I've seen hundreds of mis-replies since the threading rendering was fucked up.

  18. Re:That's EASY... on Streamlining and Testing RFID Technology · · Score: 1

    You're not one of these freaks who think that technology should be suppressed because some people come up with not very nice ways to use it are you?

  19. Re:That's EASY... on Streamlining and Testing RFID Technology · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not if they are implanted.

    And are programmed to explode if removed.

  20. Re:That's the last nail on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    sounds like vista.

  21. That's the last nail on Microsoft and OLPC Agree To Put XP On the XO Laptop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    congratulations, it's dead. Can OLPC be saved from Negroponte?

  22. Re:Australia is lucky on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 2, Informative

    The law was against having them with no legitimate use.. if you have a legitimate use then there's no law against having them. You'd know this if you had read anything about the law in question and you would have read something about it if you cared, so clearly you don't.

  23. Re:Australia is lucky on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 1

    I mean mud slinging.

  24. Re:Australia is lucky on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the American form of arguing.

  25. Re:Australia is lucky on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is nothing lucky about competition in the Australian broadband market. We forced the monopolist to open their network and we enforced the laws to keep the competition healthy. The fact that the USA is incapable of doing this is proof that they have lost control of their political system and they're the first to admit it.