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  1. Re:Bad enough I pay for microtransactions in MMO's on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or you could just get a free player like VLC or mplayer instead of over reacting. You know, you could do that even before MS starts charging money, since WMP can't properly handle anything.

  2. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 3, Informative

    Touching the 12Vdc @ 500A copper bar bus will kill off some of the new guard too.

    How? Are you trying to tell me that those 500A will run inside a person's body when you apply 12V of potential diference on it? You mean a person's body has 24m Ohm of total resistance?

    The 48V bus would kill much more people, even if less current flowed through it. A person only needs a few mA to die.

  3. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Further, why 12Vdc?

    Because that is what the current servers actualy use. Why put a 48V bus on the rack if you'll still need to convert it to 12V?

  4. Re:metric? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you should reprogram your system to deliver the value in F. If you already have settings for a multiplier and an offset, why not add measurement unit?

  5. Re:Clouseau: The case is solv-ed on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    If I understood that correctly, it is not only a matter of putting the power suply outside, but also of making your heat dissipators wider, and space things better inside the servers.

  6. Re:Hypocrisy on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    It is perfectly legal when the access is authorized.

  7. Re:Populist security sense? on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    You know, by Sheakespeare's time capitalists were marginalized. They were talked down by both the elite and the poor, they were only accepted because people wanted the stuff they brought to the cities. In France even their name (bourgeois) made it explicity they didn't belong to society.

  8. Re:Interesting. on EU Court Rules APIs, Programming Languages Not Copyrightable · · Score: 1

    With any luck, when that court examine an API specification, they'll find that it is copyrightable.

    What is different from the API itself being copytightable...

  9. Re:Time for a new "Ask Slashdot" post on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    You can mount SMB shares like any other kind of network shares, using mount (they aren't dependent of AD). You'll probably use CIFS, as last time I looked, SMBFS was deprecated. There is a FUSE drive for that, so you can mount as a normal user (as always, KDE will mount it for you if you are using it).

    Well, I have no idea how to replace NIS with AD, as I never had to do that. Samba 4 may help you, or not.

  10. Re:The British are proud of their Pound on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's the nicest thing about Google's business model. They don't have to raise their prices, as the prices are "automaticaly" set by their clients on bids.

  11. Re:Chip on Shoulder on Sigrok: An Open Source Logic Analyzer · · Score: 1

    The first things that comes to my mind when I read the specs of a hardware like a logical analizer, and it says it requires Windows are that it won't interoperate with other tools, it isn't programmable, and it won't export data the way I want it to. Then, I remember that it will only work for 3 years, since nobody will care to port whatever driver it uses to make something like that work on Windows.

    It is not that all Windows software is crappy, it is that the people/organizations that create Windows only code have a specific mindset, and that mindset isn't compatible with making good tools for that domain.

  12. Re:Google has lowered itself to patent proxy wars on German Court Grants Motorola Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban · · Score: 1

    patent fees from Andriod makers are only .02% according to Ars Technica

    You know, that phrase almost means something.

  13. Re:The judge hasn't decided anything yet. on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    The actual legal issue is about "sequence, structure, and organization" of the of the source files

    Here you are confused by lawer-speak. By that they mean things like sqrt(double) being packaged as java.lang.math.sqrt(double) or java.science.sqrt(double), or other kind of structure. (And yep, sqrt is one of the examples used on court.)

  14. Re:The judge hasn't decided anything yet. on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    No. Oracle claimed that Google copied some code, that Google showed that was some code that they contributed to Java. Oracle also claimed that the APIs themselves are copyrighted, and that is what is being resolved now.

  15. Re:What's good for the goose... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Oracle thought about anything (besides maybe unicorns!) after aquiring Sun. I've never seen any so ruthless campaing for alienating a customer base before.

    There was nothing positive Oracle could get from this lawsuit (except for migrating people out of Java, yes that'd be good) and the best possible outcome for them is losing on all fronts.

  16. Re:Mr. Wall, please sit down... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about chinese steel or brazilian/german one?

    Because if it is about brazilian/german, well, steel was sold here and there (and everywhere) for the same price it was exported to the US. How's that for dumping? If it is about chinese, well, US industry was already dying when it appeared on the horizon.

    What killed US steel industry was a mix of bad regulation and low investiment on R&D. Both caused mainly by the US government.

  17. Re:Not just analytic... on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Thus, we are credulous beings that belive in everything everybody says... Except for Microsoft, because we actualy read the dialogs Windows displays.

  18. Re:Whoever is responsible for this article on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Atheists experience spontaneous remission of serious medical problems at a rate that is statistically indistinguishable from that of religious individuals.

    I'll bet that you can't support that with facts (I can even remember a few studies that discovered that it is false). There is such thing as placebo effect.

  19. Re:bad idea on China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture · · Score: 1

    is our surveillance any less than theirs?

    Yes, your surveilance is less than theirs. Any other hyperbolic question with an obvious answer?

  20. Re:bad idea on China Plans National, Unified CPU Architecture · · Score: 1

    Yep, the way itis stated, it just don't make any sense.

    They are probably doing that because of either: dumb nationalism (our way is the true way), protectionism, or making life better for their tech users (this architecture is better, use it - or, in other words, being honest).

    All that, with the obvious side effect that China will be imune to foreign malware, and the world will be imune to China's malware.

  21. Re:Don't Get It on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    It's from Star Trek - The Next Generation.

  22. Re:They have the problem ass backwards. on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    I"d venture a guess that nothing in mathematics in intuitive, except for bare pattern seeking.

  23. Re:Anyone who has ever taught math knows this on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    That's perfectly correct, and useless. Are you a matematician?

    We don't just want our kids to be able to manipulate symbols (at least, I don't want). Any computer can do that. The most important concept of math is how to use it to solve real problems, AKA, how to choose the best map to represent some kind of terrain.

  24. Re:Anyone who has ever taught math knows this on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    No. Human babies have to learn how to feed themselves.

    Some learn fast, a few take some hours.

  25. Re:Of course. on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    If there was a group of people dead-set on destroying the United States, that's where they should start.

    I doubt it. They'd be much more sucessfull if they started draining the money in the finantial markets...