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  1. Like with every solution with HoloLens this will make you look like a douche.

    Normal video conferencing: two or more groups of people seeing each other over a remote distance.
    Video conferencing with a partner using HoloLens: Cool 3D for a single individual, but all the others see a douche wearing a HoloLens.
    Video conferencing where all partners use HoloLens: All douches see the other douches wearing their HoloLens.

  2. Isn't R GPL? on In-Database R Coming To SQL Server 2016 · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't Microsoft need to release SQL Server under GPL by including R?

  3. Re:Stack Overflow reputation on The World's Best Living Programmers · · Score: 1

    I recently stumbled over this interesting blog post regarding the subject.

  4. Square monitor on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    I still want a monitor with a 1:1 aspect ratio.

  5. Re:Launched? Unveiled? on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 2

    Too bad even Microsoft cannot keep the colors in sync on their own homepage.

    Of the four logos on the first page, plus the "official print" (in jpeg, mind you) logo, each of them used different colors. The green was most apparent (of course) and it is easy to see the difference between the images, but even the other colors differ.

  6. IPv6 on World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year · · Score: 1

    Even if each byte of these 9.57 zettabytes were assigned it's own IPv6 address the address space would suffice for additionally 35 Petayears.

  7. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Must it be easy? Just define the kilogram as the mass of exactly (6.0221415*10^23/0.012) unbound carbon-12 atoms at rest and in their ground state [1] and at zero K, and let the future worry about the rest.

  8. Re:KGB it! on 5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually the last digit of PI is 1 in binary.

    As 0.1b is the same as 0.10b

  9. Re:Unix epoch? on Raise a Glass — Time(2) Turns 40 Tonight · · Score: 1

    Isn't the sign bit only used to indicate error? ((time_t)-1) isn't a valid time but perhaps some other negative values are.

  10. Re:Magneto on Magento Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Magneto Beginner's Guide

    1. Be born with the X-Gene
    2. Kill all humans
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

  11. Re:So this means on Researchers Discover "Magnetic Current" · · Score: 1

    Download some more movies and you will, unfortunately the copter includes a MAFIAA harassment team...

  12. Re:I don't understand the obsession... on New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second · · Score: 1

    $ uptime
    15:49:49 up 292 days, 5:54, 7 users, load average: 5.03, 4.68, 3.50

    $

  13. Mr Balls want to watch your kids on UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · · Score: 1

    All I can say is: Poor Mrs Balls...

  14. Re:Unusable microsoft software as usual. on Moonlight 1.0 Brings Silverlight Content To Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is probably due to the Silverlight initialization Javascript which only works on Windows for IE, Firefox, and on OS-X for Safari. Unless the Silverlight initialization Javascript is updated on the webserver which hosts the Silverlight application, which I doubt Microsoft will do, there is almost no way that this will work in Moonlight.

  15. Portal? on iGoogle Users Irate About Portal's Changes · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo: The cake is a lie.

  16. Re:At the risk of being arrested... on CCTVs Don't Work in the UK · · Score: 1

    "We can do it better!" - The other countries in the EU.

  17. Re:Well, piracy hurts real people. on EMI Says Online File Storage Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Home sewing is killing fashion! Ban home sewing machines now!

  18. Cross-platform, or not? on Little Demand Yet For Silverlight Developers · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm still a bit concerned about the supposed cross-platform-ness. Is the Javascript file Silverlight.js still used to initialize the Silverlight object in Silverlight 2? If that is the case it will never be truly cross-platform.

    If you aren't running one of the platforms supported by Microsoft (Windows (IE, Firefox) and Mac OS X (Firefox, Safari)) you will get redirected to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=92800 (or similar), regardless if you have a Silverlight compatible plugin installed. Using the Silverlight.js file is the defacto standard way of initializing Silverlight, at least in previous releases.

    It will be the responsibility to each web-developer to update their copy of Silverlight.js in order to get Silverlight to run on other platforms than the ones directly supported by Microsoft. This will never happen, except perhaps for a small portion that are Moonlight enthusiasts.

  19. Re:Phraselator? on Star Trek-like 'Phraselator' Helps Police · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do they really have their own dead Jim?

  20. Re:oh I dunno on 500-fold Increase in Data Flow from SETI Telescope · · Score: 1

    I think he is eating too little, and thus going to sleep during procreation due to lack of energy.

  21. Re:Facebook shows it's face on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    it => is, me loose face. 1984, Eric Arthur Blair, bla bla, lame lame.

  22. Facebook shows it's face on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    So this it the real purpose of Facebook?

  23. Re:"behavior-detection officers" on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    The cake is a lie.

  24. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 1

    Well, actually I made a grammatical error whilst making fun of someone else's spelling error, isn't that ironic.

  25. Re:useful arts on Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who are these Right's brothers you mention? If they where right extremists I think it was the right decision to violate their patents rights right away.