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  1. What goes around comes around on Bloomberg Reporters Caught Spying On Terminal Users · · Score: 1

    The title says it all.

  2. Re:Because it's valuable, duh. on Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Totally different. Most of the effort here is actually done by people who do not get paid. This includes both the authors and the reviewers.

  3. Re:What's a Nook? on Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble · · Score: 1

    It's a chain of bookstores in the US. They also have a web site where they sell books direct much like Amazon sells books.

  4. Re:Greed on Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous" · · Score: 2

    You can use it after you blend it down. But from what I understand Hanford does not store nuclear weapons warheads. It stores the waste from producing those warheads in the first place. The only way to burn that would be with a fast reactor. Which AFAIK at this moment only Russia, Japan, India and China have prototypes. The US closed is own prototype back when Clinton was President. The French closed their prototype after an enviro-wacko slammed an RPG round in the building.

  5. Re:Yes, on Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a case for rsync if I ever heard one.

  6. Re:How dangerous is this spying? on Pentagon Ups Hacking Accusations Against China · · Score: 1

    There is also the Chinese invasion of Vietnam aka the Sino-Vietnamese War in the late 1970s.

  7. Re:Polite pretense on Pentagon Ups Hacking Accusations Against China · · Score: 1

    When you count manufacturing facilities on foreign soil owned by US corporations as US manufacturing output the numbers get skewed.

  8. Re:Preemptively Posting on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 1

    FWIW I suspect type 2 diabetes basically was not a problem since given the life expectancies at the time the disease was not a significant issue. I suspect the same mutations which cause type 2 diabetes probably constituted some kind of evolutionary advantage at a time when there were significant food shortages.

  9. Re:Preemptively Posting on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 1

    You are ignoring nuts which are loaded with carbohydrates. These would include pine nuts, walnuts, etc. Then there is the "gatherer" part of hunter-gatherer. Many hunter-gatherer societies dig up roots and cook them in order to have a more reliable food supply. Potatoes and carrots are human selected versions of some of these edible roots.

  10. Re:OSX is better anyway on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    OpenCL has the same performance as CUDA. This has been shown in benchmarks done by the HPC folks time and again. If the application itself has poorer performance it just means it was poorly developed or optimized to run on the platform.

  11. Re:OSX is better anyway on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    Mac mini. iPad mini. They also have a business reselling and manufacturing their old devices such as the iPhone 4S.

  12. Re:Apple priced itself out of the market on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    That is only true when you have so many possible clients you cannot hope to service them all given your current corporate structure.

  13. Re:I tried this... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    I guess you never heard about the Berne convention. All artistic creations (including software) are copyrighted by the author by default. You can only create a copy if you have a valid license.

  14. Re:I tried this... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    GIMP has had at least one fork (Cinepaint). The problem is the program is complex enough that forking it is difficult and adding new features is not particularly easy either.

  15. Re:I tried this... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    It can be a problem when your main developers are a bunch of volunteers and you start to mix those with paid help. This can end up alienating the main developers while the paid help goes away after the funding dries up leaving you with a dead project.

  16. Re:I tried this... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    Actually they are working on that as well from what I read in the GIMP blog.

  17. Re:I love it... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    Actually Office 365 is mostly competing with Google Documents. I have witnessed many corporations migrate to Google Documents recently.

  18. Re:I love it... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    If all you want to do is design single page fliers etc even a vector drawing program like Inkscape will do the job. No need for a desktop publishing program.

  19. Re:I love it... on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    I think you are getting confused here. GIMP is a bitmap paint program which is nothing like Illustrator. The equivalent of Illustrator would be something like Inkscape. FWIW I used to be an Illustrator user but have found Inkscape to be a better program for vector drawing for years now.

    GIMP's main issue is their main programmers slowness in integrating new features into the core program. They are still working on getting 16-bit support all across the pipeline and it will probably take them another couple of years for it to be supported. Inkscape in contrast supports things even Illustrator does not support.

  20. Re:Mediocrity on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    Many of those KOTOR guys ended up at Obsidian entertainment. They have had their fair amount of issues turning good games out since the split. The rest did end up doing Mass Effect.

  21. Re:That's the last unit on USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams · · Score: 1

    Actually the Russians during the Soviet Union had a long tradition in developing supersonic cruise missiles. These include the Moskit missile which is ramjet powered and flies at Mach 3. The Chinese have copies of some of these Soviet missiles. The joint Indian/Russian missile he is talking about is probably BrahMos which is another Mach 3 ramjet powered missile. The reason the Russians used to have an interest in these missiles is they intended to use them on saturation attacks against the US Navy in case of a naval invasion of the Soviet Union.

    Granted they are not scramjets but they are still faster than any cruise missile in the current US arsenal.

  22. Re:Goodness me! Was that a Whooosh? on USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams · · Score: 1

    Actually while the Russians did not have effective heavy bombers until they cloned the B-29 they had a relatively large amount of middle sized bombers such as the Pe-2 and the Tu-2. Contrary to what one would think the most cost effective bombers in WWII were the midsized bombers like the British Mosquito. Not the heavy bombers.

  23. Different people have different programming styles on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work? · · Score: 3

    If his code works and his methodology produces consistent results then his methodology is sound. Perhaps you shouldn't be less concerned that other people have different ways of working than your own.

  24. Re:Never happened in Sim City 2000 on Oslo Needs Your Garbage · · Score: 2

    You are supposed to use the waste-to-energy incinerator and place it in the border so half the pollution goes to a neighboring county. Then you accept their trash in return a monthly cash payment, burn the trash to generate electricity, which you then resell to them. Profit.

  25. Re:bets? on $200 Intel Android Laptops Are Coming · · Score: 1

    No, the netbooks got more expensive because Microsoft insisted they had to be bundled with Windows 7. Most of the cost was in licensing fees. The availability of Linux models was much reduced as well. At the same time Intel introduced Atom to replace the initial Celeron sales with less performance at a higher price point. Windows's minimum storage space requirements meant cheap low capacity Flash storage was out of the horizon and they went back to hard disks with all that entails. Minimum memory specs also went up. Then there were the requirements for the Vista Aero UI: much more onerous than any Windows XP had.