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  1. Re:Copy & Paste on Full Review of the iPhone 2 On Launch Day · · Score: 1

    That's weird. My HTC Apache (originally running WM5, now running a custom WM6 rom) has cut&paste. I'm guessing that's because it has a touchscreen. Sounds like WM5 without touchscreen doesn't have cut&paste.

  2. Re:Copy & Paste on Full Review of the iPhone 2 On Launch Day · · Score: 1

    I thought it was funny that Windows Mobile doesn't have C&P either.

    What? Of course it has cut/copy/paste.

  3. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    You need to go look up what circumstantial evidence is. If they found the body in his basement, and the murder weapon in his closet those would both be considered circumstantial.

  4. Re:Kudos to Netflix on Netflix Changes Its Mind, Will Keep Profiles Feature · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No they didn't. They tried to remove profiles because it was making upgrades to the frontend more difficult and only 3% of their users actually used the feature.

    So by removing a feature that fairly few people used, they could speed up development. That's how it benefits us, and they told us this up front.

  5. Re:Better Application Features... on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    1. Standardized Vector Graphics

    We really do have that already. The canvas tag is supported through all the major browsers (ok, for IE you need to include a special JS file).

  6. Re:a rich-text editing standard on What Do You Want On Future Browsers? · · Score: 1

    one of the 4 major browsers, up until the latest version, couldnt even create hyperlinks!

    Don't protect them behind a mask of anonymity. He's talking about Safari, people.

  7. Re:Apple on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was more a bash at the MS antitrust suit than anything.

    MS doesn't have a monopoly. I can switch to OSX any time I want. I've been running Linux since 1995.

  8. Re:Quite literally ripping off? on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    It's still appropriate. Are you sure you know what the phrase "ripped off" means?

  9. Re:Perceived Value on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    They are perceived as premium products by the price alone.

    Yup. Just like Bose and Monster.

    Although Monster cables have had a backlash, I predict one is coming for Bose, and Apple will be close behind.

  10. Re:Apple on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're not seriously arguing that Apple has no competition?

    During MS's antitrust case, the judge ruled that Apple wasn't considered competition because Macs and PCs are two different markets.

    Using that logic, Apple doesn't have any competition at all in the "mac marketplace".

  11. Re:Darwin on Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    they'll shut up when you suddenly yell "holy shit!"

  12. Re:What's the point ... on Students Evaluate Ray Tracing From Developers' Side · · Score: 1

    raytracing is also really good at curved surfaces. No need to tesselate everything.. you can use real nurbs.

  13. Re:Great on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like the awesomebar. So now mozilla gets to choose between supporting me, or supporting you. Sucks to be you.

  14. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    Have any *recent* counter examples? The way the public views MS today is not the same as how they viewed MS in the 80s and early 90s.

  15. Re:Why alarm bells? on Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost · · Score: 1

    I'm using ff3 on a ppc (dual g5).. and I'm not having any crashing problems.

    I'd say it was a misbehaving plugin or a corrupt profile.

  16. Re:"Java never mattered"? on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Java suffers from it's history of being ridiculously memory hungry and currently suffers for it's confusing varients.

    There's J2SE, J2EE, J2ME, MIDP, MIDP2, CDC, CLDC, JSP, EJB, J2WTF

    We're a far cry from "write once, run everywhere". Try running a midlet on OSX.

  17. Re:Java never mattered on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    reddit broke a few months ago because someone uncommented code and put it at the wrong indentation level.

    Plus without curlies, you can't use % in vim to jump from the beginning to the end of a block.

  18. Re:Bullshit on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Here's the example I always use:


    if blah:
          do_stuff()
          if more_blah:
                do_something()
                do_something_else()
          else:
                do_another_thing
    # do_colour_thing #uncomment if you're british

    You have no way of knowing what level that do_colour_thing is supposed to be at.

    Even funnier, I have 4 spaces between the pound and the code, but slashdot collapses the spacing because spacing is only important at the beginning of the line.

  19. Re:Browsers and Vector Graphics on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Try drag and dropping an SVG file onto a Firefox 3 window. Browsers STILL don't support vector graphics.

    Works for me.

    http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/butterfly/butterfly.svg

    renders just fine in mozilla. Saving it to my desktop and dragging it back into firefox works too.

  20. Re:(Troll) I hate java, why does /. love it? on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Javascript has a better object model?

    Javascript has a more consistent object model.

    Quick, how do you get the length of an array in java? Now how do you get the length of a string?

    array.getLength() and string.length()

    Compare to javascript:

    array.length and string.length

    If I were to say what the #1 problem with java programmers (programmers mind you, not the language) it's their irrational fear of variables. Every damn thing is a method. Can't have a variable without do-nothing getter/setter methods wrapped around it.

  21. Re:Java never really mattered, Taco? Ouch on Does an Open Java Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    I think the movie was closer to a ripoff of Pink Floyd's The Wall than it was to the book.

  22. Re:in many ways, this is good on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    I've got news for you. DNS is already flat. If you don't have a .com, you don't exist.

  23. Re:No one said they were any smarter. on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    certainly make it easier for us (er.. I mean people. sick sick people) to find thai porn...

  24. Re:The end of ctrl+enter days? on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    so click the little star next to urls you visit a lot. I used to rarely bookmark sites because I didn't want to bother with organizing them. With the awesomebar, I bookmark a lot more (by starring them) since typing in the awesomebar searches my bookmarks.

  25. Re:The end of ctrl+enter days? on ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs · · Score: 1

    why would they have 2 sub domains?

    Their frontpage would literally be .google