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  1. Re:Son, I am dissapoint. on New 360-Degree Video Capture Method Unveiled · · Score: 2

    If it ain't broke, you just patent the same solution again

  2. Re:On Debian that's allready done. on Plan 9 From Bell Labs Operating System Now Available Under GPLv2 · · Score: 2

    Err, sorry, but Debian people don't say things like that.

    It has indeed be decided. If you don't like it, you do apt-get install sysvinit yourself.

  3. Re:Technical question about electricity transmissi on Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected · · Score: 2

    The electrons are always moving, and fast, very fast, on all directions, with a zero average speed. Electrical current appears when their average velocity goes slightly above zero.

    It's not one electron bouncing in another that causes the movement, all electrons are equaly pushed by a potential. Bouncing is one of the causes of resistivity. What this istudy did was reducing bouncing to the point it become negligible, with the expected impact on resistivity.

    I hope that answers. It's like none of your options.

  4. Re:I don't get it. on IBM Looking To Sell Its Semiconductor Business · · Score: 1

    It doesn't make sense -- outsourcing something is never cheaper than doing it yourself.

    That's not the case for IBM hardware, but there are plenty of benefits that come with scale that you may not be able to get if you do the task yourself.

  5. Re:What's left? on IBM Looking To Sell Its Semiconductor Business · · Score: 2

    Oh, we know it. That's exactly why we active ignore IBM software.

  6. Re:What's left? on IBM Looking To Sell Its Semiconductor Business · · Score: 1

    Personaly, I want them to say "we wont force the new site on you before we have an acceptable redesign, and we want your opinion on what's acceptable".

    I parse what they said as "we see you are complaining, we'll try to polish it a bit if it's easy, and only then throw classic away", what's only milimeters from a plain "fuck you, you'll get it wanting or not". I'm wiling to not go away or troll the comments for a small while waiting for them to rectify that message. But it's clear that they just don't get it, so I'll be surprised if they actualy do the right thing.

  7. Re:What's left? on IBM Looking To Sell Its Semiconductor Business · · Score: 1

    That. That's about the image that got on my head.

    Except that they claim to be healty.

    Beta addendum: I'm waiting for an anouncement that classic won't go away, if it does not come, count me back into the complaining crowd.

  8. Re:Credit where credit is due on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    In nowhere they said they are not going to push everybody into the current beta. I don't see anybody applying the brakes, to tell you the truth.

  9. Re:Hey theres a new beta slashdot? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    6 or earlier

    And don't forget to enable DirectX.

  10. Re:And that's exactly what I asked for. on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    "I don't care how it looks as long as it has feature parity and works, everywhere."

    I hate to do that, but I had to FIFY.

  11. Re:Comment view on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    This computer I'm currently on can't even FETCH the comments.

  12. Re:And that's exactly what I asked for. on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Maybe, to put it in a shorter verion, we don't even RTFA, and that's so common that we have an acronym to signal when one should.

  13. Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    This time you won't be competing with Slashdot, and will certainly have quite a bit of publicity here. But I'd also wait untill after the decision is made, and people are suffering. If they somehow fix the site, you won't have an audience to take for granted.

    Personaly, I like the javascript, it makes it easier to follow conversations and to reply. But it's not that important, the old technocrat interface will do fine.

  14. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Yet, they don't indicate that they'll take any action (like not forcing us into the new site) based on what they hear.

  15. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Add to that the fact that nowhere on TFS they wrote "we are cancelling deployment untill we fix the current complaints".

    They don't care to understand where their money come from. We are throwing it on their face, and they still won't see it.

  16. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Whatever is the supported list, my current machine isn't on it. Firefox 19, on Windows 7, no ad-block, and I already tried enabling all the scripts it fetches. Except for the firefox that older than last week, quite mainstream, and I can't fetch the comments.

    I've had better luck with other configurations.

  17. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    The fact that they made that thing public fully settles the point - they just don't understand or care about our opinion. That makes it certain that they won't react to private feedback.

  18. Re:READY OR NOT IS NOT THE ISSUE!!! on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    That.

    They can change anything they want. Just don't force us to adopt it. If the new version is better, we'll move, by ourself, like we did with the ajax interface. By the way, that was not the only rewrite of /., it was just the only sucessful one, I remember at least one other (besides the pink).

    I fully understant that giving us that option costs more. Too bad, they already showed that they aren't competent enough to take the cheap route, so it's the expensive one or irrelevance for them.

  19. Re:In before the Fuck Beta Burst on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 1

    Not really complaining, more threatening: if that abomination goes live, I'm out.

    I can't threaten the governemnt the same way.

  20. Re:Its own weight? on New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, yes. They appear and disappear all the time.

    Slashdot, for its turn can only go poof once, and it trying very hard to do exactly that...

  21. Re:Kill Beta! on Military Electronics That Shatter Into Dust On Command · · Score: 1

    WTF is that?!? If I didn't look at the domain, I'd just swear it was a parody. The comments are quite entretaining...

    Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments.
    Try again... na-nu, na-nu!

    Is this the same for everybody?

  22. Re:Hmm - this seems the wrong way around on Asus Announces Small Form Factor 'Chromebox' PCs · · Score: 1

    TV manufacturers can either:

    1 - Put a real PC on your TVs, something that'll run the software that I want it to run; or
    2 - Sell dumb displays, bonus points if there are hooks where I can fix a computer.

    There is no other option. I (and I'm quite typical in that) will refuse to buy smart TVs unless they fit into #1 there, as I (and I was quite typical by the time) refused to buy smart phones before they fit that too.

  23. Re:Non-Drm'd? on Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July · · Score: 1

    Stigmatized by who exactly?

    I don't see it happening at all, but in case it's happening, I see one party with plenty of reasons to act like that.

  24. Re:Short answer: Run. on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Do If You're Given a Broken Project? · · Score: 1

    At the long run (after you run away into a safe place), develop a better feeling of what's right or wrong.

  25. Re:Are we gonna compare every service pack to vist on Windows 8.1 Passes Windows Vista In Market Share · · Score: 1

    If you ignore the Metro interface, and the desktop, and the apps, Windows 7 and 8 are the same thing.

    Hey, can I also ignore the API, and put Linux on the list too?