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  1. I learned my alpabet from a commodore64 on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 2, Informative

    starting age 2½, it was an expensive machine when I was young, but under supervision. What matters most is spending time with your child ad teach him/her LOVE, and yes, he should learn the meaning of "no", it's important, you know better than him/her, electronics (tv, computers) can wait a couple of years.

  2. Re:Thank you, Well Known Hero. on Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients · · Score: 1

    Truth is not always funny to hear... but doublespeak is now the political norm.

  3. Duke Nukem FOREVER... on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    ...in the limbo of development. Chances are we will see the second coming of the Christ before it's released.

  4. UN protects the sovereignty of NATIONS not citizen on UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing · · Score: 1

    This is sad, but the rights of a dictator governing his country prevails to the rights of his citizens under UN laws. FUCK YOU UN.

  5. Re:Governmental Fail on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    Where I live (Quebec, Canada) we have a dedicated fiber network running on high voltage lines (735KV) to remote admin the dams and power stations, if that would fail a network of microwave towers can be used as backup.

    Oh yeah, it's state operated and cheap too.

  6. Re:LOLWUT? on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    Corporations in general used to be about bettering society by offering services. It became a vehicle to funnel money to their greedy executives. 30 years ago CEOs gained about 25 more than their average employees, it is now over a 1000 time more than their employees. News has become an industry and is part of entertainment. Journalism may be a vocation, but higher power censor/bend the news for their corporate overlord.

  7. I knew on Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally · · Score: 1

    something funny was going on in the USPTO.

  8. Re:Hardware support is still weak on Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ever tried to install Ubuntu with only Wifi access? Yep, impossible, that is why one of my friend is still on Windows as his only connection available is a community wireless in his building. You need the net to download the wireless network drivers first. That because of political preference of Cannonical. This is the biggest flaw so far.

  9. Re:So you start drinking .. on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    No, you get a friend to blow in the machine for you...

  10. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    I agree 100% with you. It's like interests groups yelling about a fucking TV show name. You don't like it, don't watch/play it, you are free. Deciding for other people the way they should live their life is crossing the line of freedom and is the way to fundamentalism and tyranny.

  11. Are those parents using cordless phones? on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    If so the hypocrisy would be monumental. Maybe dressing their kids in tin foil would alleviate their concerns.

  12. USB drive running mission critical WAFS on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was employed in a 50 employees publicity company. They have a couple of offices across the country and need to share a filesystem through WAFS. The main repository for the WAFS was running off a USB drive, connected to the server using a wire too short. I pointed the problem multiple times to my IT boss (no IT background what so ever) without success, tried to talk the issue to the owner of the company, without success, and one day tyhe worst happenned. The USB controller of the drive fried and we lost the last day of work. Thw windows server system went AWOL. It took an external consultant 3½ days to rebuild the main server, which was running the AD, WAFS, Exchange and our enterprise database. It costed us an account worth 12 MILLIONS $. The big boss then hired consultants and gave them over a thousand box to get her told the exact same thing I pointed to 3 months earlier when I audited the IT infrastructure. Two months later she comes top me and ask me how much it would cost to have a bullet-proof infrastructure. I told her to invest arounbd 80K in virtualisation solution with scripts to move VM around when workload changes and go with a consolidated storage with live backups and replication. It was too expensive. Another three months pass, she hire some consultants, gave them another thousands $ to get told basically the same thing I told her 3 months earlier... Than is where i quitted.

  13. I bought a pricey box set on Lucas Promises Star Wars on Blu-Ray in 2011 · · Score: 1

    on VHS around 1998 when it was advertised limited edition, LAST CHANCE TO BUY THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS. I am pissed off for the forth time. They remastered, then added scenes, then DVD release, then THIS! What is the worst thing, a (was) friend of mine managed to lose my copies. Not that I have a VHS anymore but...

  14. Make the best of your remaining time with her on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 1

    Make sure you all have good memories of the good old time and make the best of your remaining time. You may regret to have spent so much time in documenting her instead of travelling, etc. The best memories are in our head, not on a blog, a video or extensive picture book.

  15. I have an HTC Hero on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    I removed my SIM card since I disliked the service provided by the locked network I bought it from. The GPS function was working great when connected to the cell network. I tested the GPS function in the country and was unable to get a GPS signal at all... even from outside my car. I would not advise using that kind of setup and will buy a seperate dedicated GPS unit for my "offroad" backcountry hicking. It makes a great SIP phone and I use it to listen Coast to Coast AM.

  16. I would take a SD movie of a real cute girl on Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push · · Score: 1

    over a granny filmed in HD 3D.

  17. Re:This is just stupid on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How much is the subsidies vs the incredible profit of oil industry?

  18. QT-AVIdemux on Encoding Video For Mobile Devices? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am under Ubuntu and uses QT-AVIdemux and uses MENU: Auto-> Apple-> Apple Ipod

    Works everytime.

    DO NOT USE THE GTK VERSION as the auto facilities are not included.

  19. My phone is no superhero on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    HTC hero, stock from Telus (canadian carriers with sucky accounting) is under 2 MFlops. It aint no supercomputer...

  20. Re:How do raids perform? on Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development? · · Score: 1

    There is many factors to consider when building performance storage, especially raid.

    Basically, it all boils down to the usage. I have had a couple of experiences with raids. I am a multimedia worker, my biggest workload is video editing. That workload is not picky on the seek time, because it usually strams datat continously in huge chunks. Your programming workload is completely different and relies more on seek time.

    For that reason I suggest using ssd technology, in doubt you need more performance, buy four small ones, and plug them in raid 0. Be sure to use a good reliable hardware raid controller, as you shound achieve something around 600mb/s data transfers.

    Avoid pci controllers, the bus is not fast enough, consider using pci-e x8 cards for optimal performance.

    If reliabality is an issue, use RAID 5 instead. It "wear levels" the checksum information of blocks data and will survive failure of one drive.

    Have fun !

  21. Novels on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    There is a collection of Isaac Asimov's Robot themed Novels. I think they are very creative imaginative and will develop their critical and technical thinking skills. I have one edition in French that ends with a small roman, Caves of steel. Something like that would be my best bet.

  22. Anyone remember Clippy? on Nissan Adds Robot Helper To Its Concept Car · · Score: 1

    From a certain office software...

  23. Re:first post on Lessons To Learn From The OLPC Project · · Score: 1

    Well, there IS a jargon file. Maybe slashdot can have a jargon DB, queryingable and all...
    add bells and all's

  24. Re:Made in China on The New Moon Race · · Score: 1

    I happen to know someone working in china, the pace of development is incredible, their market is huge, etc...

    Plus, one of my provider of equipment started to travel to china to buy directly from the manufacture. Did you know that China have a campus of aroud 45 000 studenmts in electronic engineering. It will be very difficult to keep up with China in a couple of years, mark my words!

    H.A.N.D.!

  25. I didn't RTFA on Is Good Scientific Journalism Possible? · · Score: 1

    Quick answer to the question :

    I don't know if it's possible, but I prefer good vulgarisation to any journalist. My favorite one is Hubert Reeves. Take a look at it's writings, it's worth the look.