Slashdot Mirror


User: Rix

Rix's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,263
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,263

  1. If you really need a 4:3 monitor... on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure there's a way for you to just not use the sides of a 16:9 panel.

    If a 16:9 panel costs less than the 4:3 that would fit inside it, what does it matter?

  2. And when people reject Windows 8... on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    What then happens to Microsoft?

  3. Re:Again, why? on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    If your solution for delivering mail is to run a remote client, you're really doing it wrong.

  4. Re:Why? on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    These are all things that would be better done with a local app, perhaps via a ssh tunnel.

  5. Again, why? on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    What can you accomplish with X11 that you can't do better with ssh?

    If you want to run a full desktop linux stack on an android device, that's another thing (and it's been done), but why would I want to remote manage a machine over X?

  6. Why? on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 2

    What can you do with X that you can't do with ssh?

  7. It wasn't a choice on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    They didn't have the funds to both continue investing in development and run their own fabs.

    Would you really argue that the right decision would be to keep the fabs and have nothing worthwhile for them to produce?

  8. Revenue on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    They didn't do that because they thought fabs were boring, they did it because they're expensive and they didn't have the revenue to support them. In part because of Intel's anti-competitive behaviour.

  9. Money on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Intel has enough of it that it can, without much trouble, rebound from a stumble. When AMD stumbles, their revenue stream suffers, which impacts their ability to produce the next generation of products, which causes their revenue stream to suffer...

  10. I have a better design on Making a Better Solar Cooker · · Score: 1

    We direct solar power at a large body of water, and collect the precipitation runoff in a basin (natural or otherwise). When needed, we allow the collected water to flow down through turbines to generate electricity, which we distribute and run through a resistor below the cooking surface.

  11. Implementation is a part of the process on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 2

    If it isn't implemented safely, then it isn't safe.

    Communism works great in theory.

  12. "Just like the rest of the federal government" on NASA To Drastically Cut Mars Mission Funding · · Score: 1

    Except the military, who gets to spend as much as they like making the world a more dangerous and exploded place.

  13. Why don't we address the source of the problem on Symantec Identifies Android Trojans That Mutate With Every Download · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has anyone, anywhere ever intentionally used a "premium" SMS service?

    Telecoms obviously need a regulatory smackdown requiring them not to act as payment processors.

  14. Put up or shut up on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are as Anonymous as anyone else. If you think Anonymous should do something, then do it.

  15. Re:You've rather proven my point on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    By opposing nuclear energy, you're promoting the use of coal. The risk from the latter is clearly and demonstrably exponentially worse than the latter.

    By opposing GM crops, you hamper famine relief efforts. Starving populations have to choose between accepting donated GM grains and incurring your superstitious wrath, or refusing them and starving. You, personally, are responsible for the deaths of real, living people.

  16. You've rather proven my point on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    Nothing that you've mentioned in has in any way to do with GM technology. It's not surprising that you prefer coal to nuclear as well.

    You're making arguments from ignorance and superstition. Stop it or stay out of the political process.

  17. Re:No on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    That is exactly my argument.

    If the public considers this important, that there will be a commercial advantage to labelling food. If it does not, the only way to get food labelled would be legislation.

    You have an objection to GMO food that is not based on data, but on your irrational fears. Don't project that on anyone else.

  18. Re:Anti-Science Europeans Chase Business to Americ on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    So then it is acceptable, unless you're arguing against agriculture itself.

  19. Re:Anti-Science Europeans Chase Business to Americ on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    I would be most amused to see someone sue a wild field.

  20. Re:No on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    When we're talking about food safety, sure. When we're talking about superstitious dietary regulations, no, there's no public interest in tracking it.

  21. Re:Anti-Science Europeans Chase Business to Americ on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    That has nothing to do with whether they're transgenic or not.

  22. You can on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    If you want to filter your food purchases, buy from dealers who will supply the information you want. There is no possible way we could demand information on every possible superstition.

  23. Re:Anti-Science Europeans Chase Business to Americ on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    If crop cultivars were going to do that, they already would be.

  24. Re:Anti-Science Europeans Chase Business to Americ on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 1

    If it is able to out-compete indigenous species, then there is by definition nothing wrong with it.

  25. No on BASF Moves GM Plant Research From Europe To US · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Capitalism at work would be allowing food to be labelled, not forcing it to be. There's nothing stopping you from asking for your superstitions to be pandered to, whether it be kosher, halal, veganism or this.