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  1. Re:Wave on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 1

    With 2 year cell phone contracts, 1/24 or so would be eligible at random. However, the iPhone 4 was released in June 2010 so there are 3 months worth of early buyers that are freshly off contract.

  2. Re:$50 is way too much. on Are App.net's Crowdfunders Being Taken For a Ride? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Keep in mind their target member is an elite hispter doofus that is mad twitter sold out (aka got popular) and is willing to spend $50 a year so they can buy $200 worth of twitter clients for their $2,000 phone so they can tell @world they just took a #shit.

  3. Re:Suuuuuurvey says... "No"! on Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad? · · Score: 1, Troll

    I bet you also wonder why anyone would want to stick his penis into a vagina, too.

  4. Re:Ironic note at end of article on Pinch-to-Zoom and Rounded Rectangles: What the Jury Didn't Say · · Score: 1

    did somebody patent your spell checker? :)

  5. Re:Did the jurors talk to Bill Buxton? on Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict · · Score: 2

    Apple does not have the patent on pinch to zoom, they have a patent on a specific enhancement to pinch to zoom. (lifting your fingers to reposition them without canceling the pinch to zoom in progress). Do you understand that?

  6. Re:Did the jurors talk to Bill Buxton? on Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict · · Score: 2

    915 (that's 7,844,915 for anyone who wants to spend 5 minutes verifying the facts) is overbounce scrolling. Apple's patent for pinch to zoom (7,812,826, filed a month before the overbounce one) isn't actually a patent on general-purpose pinch to zoom, it's a patent on repositioning your fingers while pinch to zooming.

  7. Re:Did the jurors talk to Bill Buxton? on Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict · · Score: 0

    Pinch to zoom wasn't one of the patents in the trial.

  8. Re:G-7 is a chord not a note on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 1
    Or he may have been thinking of Gdim7 (G degree-symbol-that-slashdot-won't-display 7) -- G - Bb - Db - Fb.

    Either way, he's a total failfuck.

  9. Re:G-7 is a chord not a note on Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's scientific pitch notation. C4 is Middle C is (the 4th C on an 88-key piano). G-7 is 8 octaves below the lowest G (G1) on a standard piano.

  10. Re:First Post on Google Distances Android From Samsung Patent Verdict · · Score: 1

    They offered to license the patents to Samsung for the $30-$50 figure. Additionally, they license them to Microsoft (for less but they have a "don't blatently copy us" clause).

  11. Re:The same way you become a professional at anyth on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Become a Linux Professional? · · Score: 1

    They know how to get paid more than you.

  12. Re:What's always confused me... on Ask Slashdot: To AdBlock Or Not To AdBlock? · · Score: 1

    It depends on the ad content network. Some are per-view, some are per-click (hence, click fraud). There may be some that are per action (not just clicking hte ad but also signing up for a newsletter or buying something).

  13. "Green Party Releases International Joint" on Green Party Releases International Joint Statement Criticizing the TPP · · Score: 1

    Gentlemen, start your bongs!

  14. Re:Another reason... on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking · · Score: 0

    APK, Inc.

  15. Re:Is this a genuine case? on MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Sandboxing is only a requirement for applications sold through the app store.

  16. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    You can file a suit in small claims court for $10-$100 (depending on the state/county you live in). And I'd guess many of their customers are aspie types that would file a small claims suit against them.

  17. Re:Why not make several applications? on Twitter Restricts Client Developers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Twitter has to approve third party applications and can revoke your access at any time.

  18. Re: Fareed Zakaria? on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Yep, him and Jayson Blair.

  19. Time for a boycott! on Twitter Restricts Client Developers · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    unfortunately, I don't use twitter, so I can't stop using twitter.

    Will slashdot get rid of all the "tweet this" icons?

  20. Re:Deal with M$ and you're screwed on Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services, For Programmers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Amazon will sell you the lube.

  21. Re:bad_alloc on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    std::operator new() will repeatedly call the new handler (std::set_new_handler()) if there's one installed (std::get_new_handler()) before throwing an exception (or returning NULL if exceptions are disabled or it was called with std::nothrow).

  22. Re:bad_alloc on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    If you use -fno-exceptions, throwing an exception will just call abort(). Which is exactly what will happen if he has exceptions enabled but doesn't catch it, but without the extra overhead.

  23. Re:too bad GCC is not relevant anymore thanks to L on GCC Switches From C to C++ · · Score: 1

    Apple was contributing to gcc development under the GPL v2 -- ppc optimizations, objective c optimizations, bug fixes, etc.

  24. Re:Playboy on Color Printing Reaches Its Ultimate Resolution · · Score: 1

    goatse.

  25. Re:Who the heck is this guy... on A Conversation with Rob Malda - Part Two of Three (Video) · · Score: 1

    this explains everything.