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  1. Work on Flash for OS X then we'll talk. on Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ · · Score: 1

    If you really <3 Apple, how about working on flash for OS X first? If I can bog down a 2core machine with 4GB of RAM with 1 flash game and 1 Youtube video open, I don't even want to think about how flash will run on the iPhone.

    Apple has the hooks for hardware acceleration. You could even do something with GrandCentral if you wanted.

    Adobe has bitten Apple numerous times in the past (It's the reason Final Cut Pro exists). Extend the olive branch and show that you're even capable of making flash run decent on the Mac, then the iPhone may follow.

  2. Re:Python for Scientific use on Matplotlib For Python Developers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wake me when there is something even close to replace Simulink. Matlab is cool and all, but the real power of the program is Simulink.

  3. Re:It's not a pointing stick... on Pointing Stick Keyboard Roundup · · Score: 1

    G-spot on the clit? Well that's your problem.

  4. Re:It's not a pointing stick... on Pointing Stick Keyboard Roundup · · Score: 1

    Except it's not. My problem with the trackpoint (vs either a clit OR a regular track pad) is that you need rather fine motor control.

    I play quite a few sports and have decent hand eye coordination but the track point only has an operating range of less than 1/8" (give or take). I always seem to overshoot my position. The trackpad (or even a mouse) I have a bit finer control. Apple's trackpad (vs my Dell's) seems to be the optimal size for fine control and large movements.

  5. Re:Social networks on Creating a Better Facebook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All are one or two syllable words that are easily phonetically spelled.

    goo gle
    ya hoo
    bing

    Not just that they're easy to remember if you see it once.

    Right off the bat, without the dictionary, I'm not sure if it's Dee-a or Die-a. Then depending on accent it could be -spur-a or -spore-a. FaceBook (although it did used to be myfacebook), myspace, everything is freaking easy to remember, type and say. Imagine yelling 'diaspora' over a crowded bar.

  6. Re:Social networks on Creating a Better Facebook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't "convince them" you tell them that's where they can find the latest photos of last weekend, their wedding, their grandkids, you, etc. If they want to see them, they get an account.

    Not saying they haven't already thought of it, but if they were smart they'd add a google calendar/evite type 'event' planner where all you need is an e-mail account, not a Diaspora account.

    The thing they need most is a name that's not "diaspora" the streak of horribly named open source projects continued.

  7. Re:Optimize Google Firefox Extension on Scroogle Has Been Blocked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point isn't that Google or Scroogle can see what you're searching for, with SSL no one in between can see.

    Say you search for "How to kill your wife and hide the body". With Google, every ISP that transfers packets between you and them has a record of it. With Scroogle only Scroogle knows what you searched for. (Not sure if they keep logs to subpoena).

  8. Re:worth upgrading? on MythTV 0.23 Released · · Score: 1

    False. They're adding backend support in the latest SVN which has been in the process of merging for a while.

    I use the distributed backend methodology. I let someone else on the internet record it for me, and then I get it from them.

  9. Re:It may be hippie bullshit, but it's TRUE on Defense Chief Urges Big Cuts In Military Spending · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's little-known home boy from back in the day that said the same things too. Here, you should check him out.

  10. Re:Re-encoding? on Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification · · Score: 1

    Quicktime is a container, just like AVI. Not a 'format'.

    iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes movies are just h264.

  11. Re:What's an "industry-recognized standard"? on Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is GSM a "standard"? This country didn't take a stand in GSM vs CDMA. (Go Capitalism!) However Europe DID, and made GSM a standard.

    If it 'worked' or was better, that's up to debate.

  12. Re:Monsanto v. Schmeiser on First Superbugs, Now Superweeds · · Score: 1

    Monsanto can even sue you just for enabling people to save seed.

    It's like being able to sue for copyright infringement for having internet access.

    This is also the company that wants to make 'one time use' seeds. Meaning you HAVE to buy seeds the next year because the ones you grew genetically don't work. Imagine the famine if that didn't work as expected. They're trying to undo 5000+ years of human agriculture.

  13. Re:i dont wonder...... on Diskless Booting For the Modern Age · · Score: 1

    http://www.netboot.me/ + PXE = ultimate network config.

    After setting up my own PXE setup, I put the settings in my DD-WRT. After completely hosing the only computer in my house (I left my laptop at work). I would have been SOL (no floppies, no CD's) Not so with Netboot.Me. Fired up a Debian recovery disk. The have recovery disks, minimal install disks, partition disks, FreeBSD, Linux.

  14. Re:Good for consumers? on In AU, Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or counted as theft.

  15. Re:I have a dream on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 1

    I would avoid talking in Memphis, Tennessee to any under represented software developers.

  16. Re:Whatever it taks! on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. Which is why you're never going to sell a million of anything you make in your life.

    Slashdot slams Apple every single chance they get.
    "Locked to no Apps, no one is going to buy that"
    "No way to change a battery! No one is going to buy that"
    "No flash, no one is going to buy that".

    Please, someone stand up and accept the fact that you have no idea what drives the general public and that as much as you rant and rave, stuff sells.

    Remember, Less Space than a Nomad. No Wireless. Has Lamely become synonymous with an MP3 player. Apple is the 400 lb gorilla when it comes to online audio sales.

    There are a few Apple threads that I remember being some of the largest slashdot has ever had. It's like being turned down for a first date, you hate something so much because you refuse to accept the fact that maybe you're not the target demographic that you rant and rave about it and STILL miss the point.

  17. Zetta = Peta * 1,000,000 on New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System · · Score: 1

    I think I'll stick with ZFS. It's a million times better, give or take.

  18. Rainbow Tables? on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    I've cracked passwords in a few minutes using rainbow tables. Granted you need the weeks/months before hand to generate said tables, but if you have a few hundred gig laying around, no reason not to.

  19. Re:Mistaking dramatic license for technical error. on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 4, Funny

    It let the other guy step in and say 'I see where you're going, but let me stop you there...'. It opened up opportunities for dramatic timing and deliberate use of backspacing for comedic effect.

    Kanye?

  20. Re:ENHANCE on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Ubuntu 6 month cycle on Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick · · Score: 1

    I update Debian Sid weekly.

    apt-get update.
    apt-get upgrade.

    Tada!

  22. Re:Should have aimed for 10/10/10 on Next Ubuntu Linux To Be a Maverick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if she's 5'3".

  23. More crazy US laws. on Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is currently illegal to resell electricity that you generate using 'waste'.

    So say you run a heat-treat process. You don't have much incentive to install a way to reprocess that heat. I wish I could remember the TLC/Discovery/History channel special that they had about it...

    By becoming an 'energy trader' I'm wondering if Google can skirt these laws and make their data centers more efficient or even energy negative.

  24. Re:This is not an important security article. on Anyone Can Play Big Brother With BitTorrent · · Score: 5, Funny

    I download something from Napster
      And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
      I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
      "getting my song back fucker"

    - bash

  25. Re:EXCUSE ME SIR! on Fake Antivirus Peddlers Outpacing Real AV Firms · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pardon me sir, but this herb root extract can lower your blood pressure. Meaning that you can live a long and healthy life. It's not FDA approved but it's certified by these doctors.

    It works just as well in meat space too.