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  1. Re:TV ain't broken? on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 1

    well made engaging documentaries of ancient peoples engineering achievements are missing from the internet.

  2. Re:TV ain't broken? on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 1

    depends on how one defines "reality show"? What seems to be on a lot when I don't have the remote is "do the thing and then have the judges kick someone off after spending 15 minutes watching the judges debate about who did the thing the worst". examples of "thing"; bake cupcakes, bake a cake, cook a meal, decorate a purse, decorate some shoes, make a necklace with bird poo that was collected at the beach earlier in the show while the contestants had one are tied behind their backs. Are those reality shows?

  3. Re:Class action lawsuit please on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 2

    As long as it enables time travel and mows lawns i don't care wtf it is.

  4. Re:No, the desktop is irrelevant basically now on Europe Accuses Google of Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    right, I'll poiint you to 99% of industral parts vendors that do not have selection software for my phone (HTC blahblahblah running CM7). Also have you ever tried to do anything in cad on a 4 inch screen? heck my 23" 1900x1050 dual screens at work are too small.

    I'll give you that generally for home use that the phone + tablet will work, but good luck if you want to create and maintain a list of addresses and print them out on envelopes every Christmas (my grandmother is doing that). Want to edit that video you shot and burn it to dvd to send out with the christmas card? yep desktop again.

    Hulu on your TV? Rip a CD/DVD? store more than 10GB of music/vidoes? Better have a computer.

    Anyways, I expect to see a rise of low powered home servers, with optical drives in them as more people start dumping traditional computers... I should get into that market, but I bet the margins are very low.

  5. Re:No better CAS topology experts? on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 1

    I'd bet every conference room in the building has an account. You invite to you meeting and it auto accepts if it doesn't have a conflict. Anyone that should be able to schedule meetings can also view the details of the rooms "events".

    Want to go to lunch? send out a meeting invite. To be honest the thing that has always seemed to get the most real use is the calender system.

    Know of a host-able calendar that integrates with LDAP, allows "bot" type accounts, has an easy to use(at close to OWA as it can be) web interface, allows users to have multiple calendars, and manage sharing on each both on a per calendar basis, and on an event basis? Can you delegate to other users with it, so the secretary can add the VP to events or send out invites on his/her behalf?

  6. Re:This is what you get with golf course deals on Apple, Android Devices Swamp NYC Schools' ActiveSync Server · · Score: 1

    wait, what i read of that was OT for IT workers salaried with a base rate over X.

    What kind of salaried workers get OT... That is part of the deal with being salary. The flip side of that is that you don't usually have a punch card, or "we see you were 5 minutes 3 times last month, here is your box"

    Now if it is hourly employees I'm right there with you, but with a salary all you get to do when you work OT is increase the base hours and lower your $/Hour you get paid.

  7. Re:Jedi? on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    Scarlett seems to always be a blond, so that means it is really a 2 horse race.

    Natalie has more curves than Keira, so Natalie wins.

  8. Re:also needed for houses on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    I would think the load of a fridge while running the compressor would be about the same all the time. It turns on, runs at 100% cooling, and turns off again.

    Changing the speed of the compressor motor adds all sorts of extra hardware to the refrigeration circuit. I'm willing to bet the single speed fridge has a fixed port expansion device. Swapping to the variable speed setup would at least add a "thermal expansion valve", if not an "Electronic expansion valve" and the EEV controller board, and probably a receiver in the high side as well. It may not actually cool the plate evaporator evenly (meaning freezing food in one part, and warm food in the other.

    anyways, just my $0.02 and an HVAC guy, not a refrigeration guy.

  9. Re:also needed for houses on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    I'll give you it is different... buut you can get a 80% efficient switch mode dc-dc converter on a chip for a few bucks (including the few extra bits you need to run it) in single lots. Imagine what GE can get price wise in their 10,000,000 part order? Heck i have a a dc-dc switch-mode PSU in my cigarette lighter to USB power thing in the car. It costed me $1 including the shipping.

    seeing as the AC->DC wall worts seem to be getting much better and smaller i'm not really sure which is better any more.

  10. Re:I think the generally accepted solution on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    THIS! 100 times THIS!

  11. Re:let's see DRM, high cost of HDD's get in the wa on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    does AnyDVD-HD have a linux port yet? around 2 years ago I looked and it seemed to be windows only.

  12. Re:let's see DRM, high cost of HDD's get in the wa on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    mplayer as well.

  13. Re:I like the enhancements... BUT on Linux Mint 12 Released Today · · Score: 1

    time to move to XFCE...

  14. Re:Why o why?! on Linux Mint 12 Released Today · · Score: 1

    why not apt-get xfce4-desktop or whatever XFCE is called by apt.

  15. Re:Interesting, but on Linux Mint 12 Released Today · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since you seem to like switching distros rather than window managers/desk top environments, try Xubuntu. All the "goodness" of ubuntu, with all the goodness of XFCE (kindda like Gnome2 but not on life support and without all the crap baked in).

  16. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yes, heaven forbid the code monkey would work better in gvim/emacs and a shell than whatever god awful gui is company policy....

    or the CAD monkey would like to install the drivers for the 3d input device, instead of making do with a keyboard and mouse.

  17. Re:Good news on AT&T Stops T-Mobile Merger Bid With the FCC · · Score: 1

    weren't there documents that came out that it would cost around 3x less to simply build out instead of buy T-Mo? anyways....

  18. Re:Pointless on US Gov't Seizes 130+ More Domains In Crackdown · · Score: 1

    maybe not the content of the movie itself, but around the convenience of watching it, or the kids toys (look at how much cars made from the sale of movies, vs the sale of other "hard" goods). To be honest I hardly pirate anything, just a few motor-sports events(you know the ones where they have to turn in both directions, and change speed) that i just can't seem to find with decent coverage here in the states. If someone where to offer me a better option than bittorrent that would allow me to watch when i have time to over say 2-3 weeks from the time of the event, with at least the same quality as the 720P bit streams of the commercial free BBC coverage I get now I'd likely pay for it.

    Anyways, thinking the content is the valuable part is the wrong way to look at it. Movies sell popcorn and Halloween costumes, not the movie itself.

  19. Re:It'll find a use. on $350 Hardware Cracks HDMI Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    do you have a better idea of what to do with it?

  20. Re:expensive cupcakes on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    $125, back in march and I'll have little reason to upgrade next year as well.. The whole build was less than a grand including the new case, PSU, monitor, 1055T X6, and 8GB ram only things I didn't replace were the keyboard and mouse. So about $80 a month so far, and it will probably be down around $40 when I upgrade again.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125341

  21. Re:Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! on The Many Names of Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    is that like knife or banana?

    http://youtu.be/ih63kbrzU3E?t=43s

  22. Re:I'll pass. on 'Arrested Development' Comes Exclusively To Netflix · · Score: 1

    it would now be 9-12 years after the events in serenity.... considering the info that was leaked it could be a radically different place.

  23. Re:but but but... Apple on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    Don't Sprint and Verizon use the same bands? how about (for the most part) T-Mobile and ATT?

  24. Re:but but but... Apple on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    it is still 2 for the iPhone as it is not produced in house but sent to foxconn to be manufactured.

  25. Re:Doesn't Matter on CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    the second thing you did, was realize that you suck at packaging android and installed cyanogenMod.