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  1. Re:Forget the Universal Format crap on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 1

    Why, Apache Solr understands various type of office documents via Apache POI. No need to get "standard" libraries, whatever you mean by that.

  2. Re:Hurr durr I'ma sheep?? on Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons · · Score: 1

    Actually Ubuntu versions are YY.MM. The adjective and animal name are (mostly) hidden. On Ubuntu's download page I cannot see any mention of Utopic Unicorn, but just 14.10.

  3. Re:Git Rid of the Java EE Stack and Go Node. on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 1

    It seems like you're still stuck in the old Spring FUD that JavaEE is complex. Since JavaEE 6 (2009), it is actually the other way around.

  4. How is this news for nerds ? on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As per $SUBJECT. If Slashdot wants to run these stories they should be hidden by default.

  5. Re:"Elegant jails" on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Camera flash, which was introduced only in the iPhone 4

  6. Re:What a good little slave you are on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    Oh please, the US is just offloading their economic fragility on everybody else because they can: so you may not be in recession technically, but the fact that you are printing dollars on demand and dumping your crappy "financial inventions" on the rest of the world is hiding the fact that you are in fact far over the edge of a default.

  7. Re:FireFox - the browser for people who want less. on Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now · · Score: 1, Troll

    I still think Firefox is one of the browsers to have: of all the browsers developers, they really care about freedom on the web.
    Temporarily abandoning the 64bit Windows builds is more of a lack of resources than poor development.
    Please also note that Chrome is not available for 64 bit Windows either...

  8. Re:Grin on FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM · · Score: 1

    Because he's free from Free

  9. Re:Fine as long as you're using an US keyboard on Surface RT vs. iPad: a Comparison · · Score: 1

    But Android does provide support for pluggable IMEs which iOS does not (look at all the additional keyboards such as Swype).

  10. OS X logo ? on Humble Indie Bundle V Released · · Score: 2

    Slashdot should have used the joystick image...

  11. Re:CMYK on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    No, I don't think GIMP's font rendering is inadequate, I just said that even if it had CMYK you'd find something else to complain about. So keep using Photoshop, nothing wrong with that.

  12. Re:CMYK on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 1

    That's what I find absurd: people gripe about the GIMP about not being useful for professionals. Professionals make enough money to buy themselves the best tool for the job (Photoshop or other tools). Otherwise it is a hate-fest.

  13. Re:CMYK on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if GIMP supported CMYK, you'd still complain about it not being useful for professional work for some other reason (e.g. font rendering). GIMP is quite good for screen graphics, and that's what most people do.

  14. Re:The Name on Gimp 2.8 Finally Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just too bad there is no real Linux equivalent for it.



    You stand corrected sir: http://pinta-project.com/
  15. Re:I've noticed one big difference on Is GPL Licensing In Decline? · · Score: 1


    Apache licenses are favoured by projects which have corporate sponsorship and funding.
    </p><p>
    GPL licenses are favoured by "grass roots" efforts which have no funding.
    </p><p>
    The question is the funding a cause or an effect of the choice of license?</p></quote>
    Yes, like the first $1 billion open source company in the world... not! All of Red Hat's stuff is LGPL.

  16. Re:Xerox - "damn, why didnt we think of that" on Apple Planning To Build Private Restaurant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And that it is derived from the earlier Hyper Search algorithm developed by Massimo Marchiori at the Università di Padova.

  17. Re:oh ffs on Browser Emulation of 1975 Computer Runs First 16-Bit Home Game · · Score: 1

    java != javascript

    when will people ever learn

  18. Re:Will Apple file a lawsuit? on Google Unifies Media, Apps Into Google Play · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, the "cloud" experience on Android was there long before Apple. Buy an Android phone, insert your google account, and a few moments later you have all your contacts, calendars and apps.

  19. Re:14 years?? on UK Green Lights HS2 High Speed Rail Line · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Premise: I'm half-Brit half-Italian.
    A while ago an Italian newspaper compared the time it took to build the Channel Tunnel compared to the Milan Bypass Railway (6 vs 24 years) poking much fun at our (Italian) slowness. Now that Italy has a full high-speed rail link between Turin-Milan-Rome-Naples (which included digging new tunnels in the Appenini mountains) built in less than 20 years (nearly 1000 Km), someone should write a similar article.
    Obviously these times and distances are laughable compared to France and Japan anyway.

  20. Re:The more important point here on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    Then why do they have a bazillion iapps ?

  21. Re:Probably a wise choice on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Same as Apple, then.

  22. Re:Peter Wayner on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    > * the media player on Unix-like systems

    This is being replaced with GStreamer: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-use-gstreamer-multimedia

  23. Re:On the other hand... on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 1



    Less than four ?

    </smugmode>

  24. Re:"decent gains"? on Intel Launches Next-Gen Atom N450 Processor · · Score: 1

    I have built an atom-based htpc with a zotac ion motherboard and it does exactly what I want: fanless h264 decoding. A bit more than a cash register can do.

  25. Re:Seriously on Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame · · Score: 0

    You are all youngsters :)

    Until today I hadn't realized I had such a low user id...

    I have been reading Slashdot for far too long.