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  1. Re:what if on New App Mixes New Drinks With What You Have · · Score: 1

    "Pretty women make us buy beer. ugly women make us drink beer."

    I'm not saying I agree.

    I drink beer because I would had wanted to meet the pretty women. The ugly I don't need, with or without beer.

  2. Re:Can't get there from here on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    May I add these two to since they support other platforms and the later one seem very current (and the former one cool for east-to-make demos? =P)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Basic
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureBasic

  3. Re:what? on Skype For iPhone Now Makes Video Calls · · Score: 2

    Seriously it is.

    Lots of people use it. So ..

    But what I wonder is:
    WHERE THE FUCK IS VIDEO OVER JABBER?!

    And implemented everywhere.

    And/or together with SIP.

    End eventually with similar functionality as Skypes when it comes to passing firewalls or what not + encryption (I know there exist encryption for it, and yeah, "somewhat" video to. But it doesn't help if it doesn't work =P)

    Oh, and voice over jabber to of course, unless there are SIP as well. I don't care _what_ is used as long as it work and the standard is open and well implemented among a bunch of applications, or the web.

  4. Re:Can't get there from here on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 2

    Basic on steroids (?): :D
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOS_(programming_language)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC

    Written in Blitz Basic:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lSihEAxvTs

    Seems like the first Worms (Total wormage) was written in AMOS.

    Best Amiga racing game:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiRQ0bzGds

  5. Re:Microcomputers grew up with us. on Why Teach Programming With BASIC? · · Score: 1

    I think not. Why should they begin with something which isn't current any longer?

    You can still give simple replies or draw/put up whatever simple graphics, even if you do it through some API which uses windows and what not. For basic system understanding does it really help much if you know how to put out graphics in assembler on an Amiga when you will most likely do it through DirectX or something such nowadays?

    Maybe I'm wrong. Also 4 GB / one million = 4 kB. Did the C64 put everything in RAM and then executed it? Leaving some RAM for data / overwriting things which would later be unnecessary? I had a SVI-728 but i didn't knew much about it and I don't know how much data a few laps of a cassette tape can hold =P. Compared to the 880kB DD disks of the Amiga one million feels like an exaggeration :)

    99% of the RAM is wasted on unimportant stuff anyway ;)

  6. Re:Cloud on Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery · · Score: 1

    You can upload to anything you want using iWeb, whether it is just to a directory or using FTP to a remote Web server anywhere.

    The flashy iPhoto album stuff to?

    I don't understand why you would do this. What is the benefit over using services not posing as Apple's service?

    Free of charge? Experience? Unlimited storage? Better bandwidth? Even more so at times when you had the possibility to host it at a university or something such and didn't had to pay for electricity. (and got even better bandwidth =P)

    What?

    For instance the remote desktop thingy, I can't see many reasons for why it shouldn't be possible by IP alone (except firewalls?)

    Other examples would be Timemachine backups to whatever wireless router with an NTFS/FAT32 USB HDD. It's possible but may not be enabled by default and you may eventually have to create a HFS+ image file on the shared HDD. Has nothing to do with MobileMe but still with inconvenient solutions from Apple just so they can sell more of their gear. I'd rather choose options which benefits _me_.

  7. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    Meeh, both where lame :(

    The Dracula castle in Romania:
    http://www.wayfaring.info/images/castel_bran_aka_dracula_castle.jpg

    Malbork castle in Poland:
    http://pictures.polandforall.com/images/malbork-castle-bridge-towers-dansker-high-castle.jpg

    Bastille, France:
    http://www.napoleonguide.com/images/pixs_bastille.jpg

    Svartsjö slott here in Sweden, was wasted being used as a prison :(
    http://www.ekero.se/imagemod/AvanEvents/16f73101-570f-4eb5-a4de-084ce249efa2/svartsjo_____resize_s_460_230.gif
    http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/17_2.jpg

    The castle here in my home town, Örebro:
    http://www.paranormal.nu/orebro-01-high.jpg
    http://www.lst.se/NR/rdonlyres/FDD91C98-E374-485B-BBBD-EB1100972407/0/slottet3RogerLundberg.jpg
    http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1971731f-90fc-4780-aa67-8f13a6dc24e4.jpg
    http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1163049.jpg
    http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/photos/d/415-4/IMG_2550.jpg
    http://www.remains.se/gallery/photo458dba988b2e5.jpg

    Kalmar slott, also Sweden:
    http://www.svd.se/multimedia/dynamic/00280/kalmarslott_280791b.jpg
    http://www.malinken.com/wedding/bilder/kalmarslott.jpg
    http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1563728-KALMAR_SLOTT_KALMAR-Kalmar.jpg
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Kalmar_slott.jpg

    The city wall of Visby, also Sweden:
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZARBRqLx-r4/SKmM6KTCgTI/AAAAAAAAC3g/gPpbJrmhVxs/s400/Stadsmuren+i+Visby+på+Gotland.jpg
    http://www.hagen.web.surftown.se/Visby%20torn%20med%20fanan.jpg
    http://www.topcastles.com/images/large/visby.jpg
    All: http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/163_4.jpg
    http://www.guteinfo.com/scripts/bilder/info/1248.jpg

    Not that Scottish tribe shit ;)

    Castles are cool :)

    Helsingborg:
    http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2110709-Travel_Picture-Helsingborg.jpg

  8. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    I like the one at the cliff edge in Lord of the rings (the third movie, whatever it's called, sorry for not being enough of a fantasy nerd :D)

    Also the dark one with greenish light is obviously nice as well. And anything fit for a vampire, think stone walls and Viva la Bam interior :D

    Well check up the designs ;D

  9. Re:Cloud on Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery · · Score: 1

    Or I could had got the option to upload my pictures with javascript and all (and eventually database if needed but I doubt it is) to any web server I want (I think you can upload from iWeb to anything? Not necessary MobileMe?), and they could had let me connect to someone else desktop remotely by IP. And so on.

    I don't know how "bad" it is, and some things may have improved. I have never had MobileMe or whatever it was called before (.mac?) and only have a somewhat older version of iLife.

    I know there was a guide for how to set up a FreeBSD server as a .mac account but I don't think it has been updated for long. Would much rather had run something such myself with e-mail, jabber, web-hosting, backup, whatever. Eventually for others to and eventually for free (not with backup.)

    IMHO 99 dollars was expensive. And considering how much Apple machines cost + what iLife cost I think they could had offered it for free as an "Apple advantage", like "Hey, I've got a mac and you get this free account where you can host your pictures, web pages and so on with it!" instead of charging what IMHO is an over-price making it much less of an advantage and rather a disadvantage because it's _NEEDED_ for some things it shouldn't be needed for.

    Others opinions may vary.

    Macs with free MobileMe would had made macs something more than just regular computers.

  10. Re:Cloud on Apple's $1 Billion Data Center Mystery · · Score: 1

    What I wanted to say to. Well, the cloud stuff, haven't RTFP ;)

    If MobileMe or whatever it's called has tough us anything it's that Apples cloud stuff suck. If it's going to be expensive and locked in just for the sake of locking in I'm not going. Though I wouldn't buy the freaking Apple device to begin with..

    May I assume that a Google tablet cloud service would be free of charge? ..

  11. Re:Goes both ways... on Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    But he is.

  12. Re:Speaking of greed... on Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    They still port all sorts of crap onto all the consoles, even portables and PC.

    Guess they may have some libraries/environments which help with dumping it all everywhere.

    Anyhow, I'd rather had things written for especially for the platform because it's the best platform anyway ;)

    I mean, why do we need say Need for speed 12 for all platforms if it run best on say PS3?

    Profits? Because everyone don't have a PS3? Meh..

    Maybe if things worked that way people would think before they picked platform and it would be less of an issue.

    Anyway, code for Amiga (non-3D), be done, though there are no profit step :)
    For 3D I guess it would had been the same but with DOS/Windows ;)

  13. Re:12 years ? on Open Source After 12 Years · · Score: 1

    12 years ago there was linux

    There also where Linux 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 years ago ..

  14. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    Personally I just want my castle down here on earth. Just need someone to build it with. What is the cost and how much can you do alone? Are there any nice cliffs somewhere where I could build it? =P

    Yeah. off-topic for sure. But if we're to be dreaming why not :)

    Much more likely than large scale space travel. Where should we go in the first place? =P

  15. Re:It is still different HW on AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 · · Score: 1

    The 6870 ran more units and at a higher clock rate so not that weird that it will consume more energy.

  16. Re:Are you guys really loosing it in the U.S? on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Personally I think this case is a good thing. Her account, her cell phone, her diary..

    Why should you give up all personal integrity just because you're in a relationship?

  17. Re:It is still different HW on AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 · · Score: 1

    Perfect sample?

    Working when not pushed too hard vs working even under evil conditions?

    Or in the case of somewhat broken GPU actual non-functioning parts but disabled so you won't notice (or you enforce usage of them and eventually notice.)

  18. Re:It is still different HW on AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 · · Score: 1

    Except in this case it looks like either there is the same quality hardware (at least as far as chips goes) where all of them are 100% working but one is slightly disabled and sold for less.

    Or there is a differences in over-clocking ability/stability but in _THEIR_ cases not enough to make a difference at stock speed, or some chips may be slightly faulty and they just got lucky with theirs.

  19. Re:Quoting Homer on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of recycling the material?

  20. Re:Adkeeper on A New Idea, For People Who Want To See More Banner Ads · · Score: 1

    You're stupid.

  21. Re:No More Deregulation on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 1

    I've seen the opposite mentioned before here in /.

    Anyhow, this is Swedish electricity spot cost:
    http://www.kundkraft.se/?fto=content/prices&name=prices_spot

    January is usually worst.
    1997-2005: 14.3-26.3 öre / kwh except for 2003 with 64.3.
    2006-2009: 37.3-67.1 öre / kwh except for 2007 with 24.9.

    I don't really know why, don't remember when the market was deregulated. The biggest player Vattenfall is still ran by the government I think.

    Our electricity sources are close to 50/50 percent hydroelectric/nuclear.

    Back in 1980 there was an election regarding nuclear power in the country, all the three alternatives where variation of 'no' though ;)

    Anyhow, it was supposed to be stopped so our reactors are old and they have been turned off quite often lately, not all of them are running and some has been turned of completely. The set date for when to stop use nuclear power has been removed though and they have opened up for building new reactors but AFAIK not more than we have now, so just as replacements.

    Anyway, more expensive? Yes.

    They have also increased taxes, the EU is bitching about the price of our electricity (and how it should be in line with the rest of the EU I assume) and for instance how people in the south get much cheaper electricity than people in Denmark so now they have made a split if four of Sweden so the two regions down south will get raised electricity costs than the two ones up north.

    That's regulation for you ;)

    We could build more hydroelectric power and we have lots of Uranium but people probably don't want it mined in their backyard. Instead the retards build wind power where they subsidize the companies (by putting more cost on the rest of the electricity(?) - in that way you won't really notice the actual cost of the environmental friendly electricity and everyone will have to pay more for the choices and ideology of others) which when have to sell the electricity for cheap once it starts to blow because they are all producing more electricity and got no way to store it.

    Or something such, what's written as "facts" may not actually be any but rather opinions of others which I've read. So there may be lots of errors :)
    Don't know how much of the raised cost is thanks to EU and wind power.

  22. Re:Terrible, terrible and juvenile summary. on New IE Zero Day · · Score: 1

    It was submitted in a better form, and I gave that one + and this one -.

    Bad:
    http://slashdot.org/submission/1426606/MS-warns-over-zero-day-IE-bug

    This one:
    http://slashdot.org/submission/1426648/New-IE-Zero-Day

    The other one:
    Can't be found, probably because it was submitted later? Or something, was better though, dunno why they have removed it from firehose? Same URL and this one got submitted = fail?

  23. Re:Meh on Top 10 Things You CAN'T Have For Christmas · · Score: 1

    Hence (-) in Firehose.

    Old gadgets we've seen before, and who gives a rats ass about a freaking TV screen?

    Show some large cruisers or something like that ..

  24. Re:WRONG on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    Should had been the government. Anyway, I reminded myself that (I thought) some browsers offered this functionality of their own to. And if you trust your government to hold your keys why not your browser vendor?

    http://lastpass.com/

    Maybe Opera wasn't stupid enough to do it online:
    http://www.opera.com/link/
    Maybe Apple Safari with MobileMe doesn't either.
    Chrome?

    Oh well, atleast there was a solution for people who really want to.

  25. Re:WRONG on Passwords Are the Weakest Link In Online Security · · Score: 1

    If only there was some government sponsored secure key system for passwords, enabling the average user to have a secure key with one strong password to access all their others

    Yeah, because I want to government to be in control of my keys to ...

    OR AM I HIDING SOMETHING DAMN PEDOPHILE TERRORIST?!

    http://agilewebsolutions.com/downloads
    http://keepass.info/