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  1. Re:Dune on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    A great movie.

  2. Re:Bladerunner... on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    YES. I like the VO. It suits the style of the film perfectly.
    "She walked through my door like a tigress walks into a Burmese orphanage — strawberry blonde and legs for hours. No dame her age could afford a coat like that, and the kinda makeup she had on gave me a good idea how she got it. She had bad news written on her like October of '29."

  3. Re:CA$3 to CA$5 per ride? on Canadian Town Picks Uber For Public Transit (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In Brisbane, Australia, bus trips would be around the A$5 mark. However, the fares are only about of the running cost of the service, and don't even come close to covering the capital costs. The subsidies come from the city council and the state government. Well, ultimately the ratepayers but you know what I mean.

  4. Re:M$ phone? You gotta be kidding! on Microsoft To Sell Customized Edition of Samsung Galaxy S8 Android Smartphones (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    You can be guaranteed that with MS involved, it will be much more difficult than that. Probably involve an original install disc somehow.

  5. Re:I can't get that idiot Siri to place a call on Boy, 4, Uses Siri To Help Save Mum's Life (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. I've been a Mac user for longer than I care to admit, but Siri is just atrocious. Maybe it's my Aussie accent. Mate.

  6. Re:Faster, cheaper iPad Air 1 you mean on Apple iPad is a Faster, Cheaper iPad Air 2 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    IMO, Schools. That's all. Students use cheap headphones/headsets, not bluetooth doodads. We discussed BT headphones with our kids, but what killed it for me was having yet another device that needed to be power managed or it wouldn't work. So wires it is.

  7. "Magic Mouse horizontal scroll without SHIFT key"
    It's nice to see a suggestion taken on board and implemented. I use FCP X all day so side scrolling the timeline with the Magic Mouse is very important. When I used Audacity, I noticed it couldn't do that, which slowed my editing down significantly. I reported it, some communication happened, a screen recording was sent, then ... silence ... and now this. Thanks Audacity team. Happy. :-)

  8. She explicitly said they had the option to get a "male" jacket. I don't know off the top of my head what makes a leather jacket feminine vs. masculine

    More chest room would be my guess.

  9. That's absolutely shocking. I'm going to try and save this link somewhere for future reference.

  10. Re:What do you know the invisible hand acts on Utilities Vote To Close Largest Coal Plant In Western US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The liability would have destroyed the oil companies.

    How would that have worked?

  11. Don't worry, Tim is on to it! on Apple Suspends Sales of LG's UltraFine 5K Monitor Over Hardware Issues (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Tim Cook has announced a new Mac Pro, Mac Book Pros will come with a 99 watt-hour battery and the Mac Mini will be updated. Oh, wait, no he didn't. He's doing something much more important.

  12. Re:He's making it up as he goes along! on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No idea if Trump made a deal. That's kind of my point. The twitterer is a journalist so he could at least use some of his journalistic superpowers to find a bit more out. Turns out this is a recycled deal that Intel has trotted out before. Would take a real journalist seconds to check this.

  13. I know. The AC above said "b) There aren't billions of banks... there are really five big ones. " I was curious who the new player was. Maybe he just got excited and counted someone twice.

  14. Which one is the fifth. CommBank, ANZ, Westpac, National and ...

  15. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, no, he TWITTERED THEM. He attacked them with Twitter. Say it ain't so! Quick, get out while you can!

  16. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I clearly remember Bushitler, so Trump must be Hitler 3.0.

  17. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You heard something about someone, so from that you extrapolate that the Intel chief is scared of Trump and so will commit $7 billion to avoid Trump saying something mean about him on Twitter.

    Dumbest thing I've read today, but it's early.

  18. He's making it up as he goes along! on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "As far as I can tell" = I have know information, no source and don't know anything about the industry, but I'll make something up anyway.

  19. What's the problem. We all have fax modems don't we?

  20. Now that they've identified the part of the brain that causes this irrational response, doctors can simply cauterise it so the rest of us can carry on munching, crunching and slurping like normal humans. After all, no-one was going to make allowances for Albert J. Pfister

  21. Re:Orders to move on on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The great Googly Moogly says this:
    -----
    marching orders
    noun
    plural noun: marching orders
    orders for troops to depart.
    "soldiers got their marching orders for 24 hours at the weekend"
    informal
    a dismissal or sending-off.
    "the ref called me over and gave me my marching orders"
    -----
    Since MS isn't the army, I took it as meaning #2. I have only ever heard it in the context of someone being sacked.

  22. Re:Doctor Who on First Human-Pig 'Chimera' Created in Milestone Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There were other experiments in the field.

  23. Re: But why? on Apple Cuts Tim Cook's Pay After 2016 Performance Falls Short (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Jobs had a vision. ... Was he a douche? ... Was he a manipulative son of a bitch?

    Because he was the first one, he could come across as the other two. When you have a vision and the drive to do it, then it's "get on the bus or get out of the way".

    Tim Cook has a second-hand vision.

  24. Re:use cases? on HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    If I pop a commercial DVD in my DVD drive, Handbrake won't decode it automatically. It relies on a third-party library, libdvdcss_1.4.0, to do that. Handbrake doesn't include decryption libraries to avoid hassles from The Man so they used to tell you to install VLC. Now VLC libraries don't decrypt anymore so you need to get the old decryption library.

  25. Re:use cases? on HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    What a PITA that was. I have it sorted now. I have Handbrake 1.0.1, VLC 2.2.4 and I replaced libdvdcss_2.x.x with libdvdcss_1.4.0

    I was able to rip an encrypted Get Smart episode to h.264 and also to h.265 using Handbrake, and VLC could play them both back. Handbrake can also decode ProRes movs. Success!