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  1. Re:If you have the right pants on Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet · · Score: 1

    When wearing my army acu's my cargo pockets just hold my nook color (7" tablet). Your pants seem well beyond average to me. Anything larger would require a laptop case for me. That's not even counting the less storage space in my everyday civilian clothes.

  2. Re:ergh on Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet · · Score: 2

    It's an older inexpensive large display technology with great battery life but a slow redraw rate. In addition all my students say my graphics look like stick figures.

  3. Re:ergh on Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet · · Score: 2

    Reading and posting off of my Nook Color (7" tablet) in landscape. Works fine and is legible to me. I like that I can be reading off of a pdf textbook in one hand and write on a chalk/white board with my free hand when teaching a class. At $250 it was a good value for my uses.

  4. Re:ergh on Dell Reveals Specs For the Looking Glass Tablet · · Score: 2

    Ubuntu 10.10 has touch support. Much of the latest netbook edition seems like it would do well on a tablet.

  5. Re:Not so, rewatched and thought it was decent on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    Wargames and The Last Starfighter are available on Netflix via DVD. Go and put them in your queue now...
    IMHO Tron was better and has held up better over time visually.

  6. Re:Datacenters in hightaxland? I don't get it. on Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center · · Score: 1

    Well they have one planned for Salt Lake City, Utah which seems to be an area catering to the tech market recently. The article stated there was no response on if that location was still on schedule. The exact location for Sacramento seems unclear to me. It sounds like they may be taking advantage of readily built space.

  7. Re:Why should it? on Does the End of KOffice Mean the End of KDE? · · Score: 2

    I've been using Google Checkout for my own needs with handling transactions for donations and payments. It's done the job well and has rates comparable to Paypal.

  8. Re:Suspecious on Underwear Invention Protects Privacy At Airport · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The people participating in the opt-out day could still do that. That would be the icing on the cake.

  9. Re:This is an Android App Security Story on Major Security Holes Found In Mobile Bank Apps · · Score: 1

    Well there were other apps listed for iphone just not huge vulnerabilities IMHO. The worst seemed to be the Wells Fargo Android App.

  10. Obviously... on 5 Years of Linux Kernel Releases Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Obviously... they forgot the bloat feature.

  11. Re:Crazy... on Nintendo Entertainment System Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    Released on the Famicon first.

  12. Recent friend had a misidentify issue on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm in the Libertarian Party and one of my County Libertarian Party Officers had an issue with work checking his Facebook. He is a "fan" of several pages that are pro-decriminalisation of drugs. His co-workers then assumed he was a user of drugs. It took some a large amount of clarification for them to realise that a person could be pro-freedom and yet not desiring to exercise those freedoms in certain areas. I could really see this service misidentify individuals under similar circumstances.

    After clearing this up he took my advise of removing all work friends from his account and making his profile more private.

  13. Re:Duo on Dell's 'Dual Personality' Laptop · · Score: 3, Informative

    This video says it has a dual core atom processor and Windows 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_JU0sYCpRs

  14. Re:A Sysadmin's Lamentation... on DoD Takes Criticism From Security Experts On Cyberwar Incident · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    I was there in 2005/2006. So far you have given the best informed description of the situation that lead to the bad practices.

    I still lament over the loss of being able to use a thumb drive. The things were darn useful when used IAW Thumb Drive policy and IMHO could still be used if policies were enforced. Now I often use my personal laptop as opposed a NIPPER and keep large documents such as FM's and TM's there.

  15. Re:I don't follow on Steam Not Coming To Linux · · Score: 1

    There were also other sources confirming this such as: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7715209/Steam-for-Mac-goes-live.html

    I wonder who their sources were?

    In addition it's odd that it was possible to get a partially working client from the code available and not finish that off.

  16. Re:Valve... on Steam Prompts OS X Graphics Update · · Score: 1

    As an example Google just released Gmail Video Chat for Linux today. The primary supported distro is "Ubuntu and other Debian based systems" and later RPM based distros.

    Article: http://club-ubuntu.org/blogs/basotl/gmail-video-chat-now-available-on-ubuntu

    You don't need to support every distro out of the box. Just a standard set. So I would agree with epiphani and some commercial software makers that supporting specific distros is a way to go.

  17. Re:Valve... on Steam Prompts OS X Graphics Update · · Score: 1

    Valve confirmed in May that they were going to bring Steam and the Source engine to Linux. I think that will make them the defacto commercial gaming platform for Linux at that time IMHO. In addition there is speculation that it will support native play of ID's games.

    I don't have any Valve games currently but will purchase them when it comes to Linux.

    Link to an article on it: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1
    The article also cites several news sources on the topic. Unfortunately, there is no release date. It's a "when it's done project."

  18. Re:Good job Mark, you've overcomplicated it ... on Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10 · · Score: 1

    Find me one company that makes money 'selling GPL' software.

    http://www.codeweavers.com/ They also contribute nicely back to Wine.

  19. Re:silent, or totally invisible on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    If a user wants to be notified they can set it to do so. The silent updates will be for the masses who don't care about that sort of thing.

  20. Re:OMG! on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    Read the last line of the summary.

  21. Re:This is problematic and I hope it can be disabl on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    From the summary:
    "Unlike Google, Mozilla will let users change the default silent service to the more traditional mode, where the browser asks permission before downloading and installing any update."

  22. Re:More evidence GIMP needs a name change on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    They wanted a simple photo manager that takes less space. The GIMP is a little more advanced than what most users need installed by default.

  23. Re:For a day? on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    There is the option to use the single window interface in Gimp 2.6.6 and above. I still prefer the default window interface but that seems to be the default interface I see on most Macs I have used Photoshop on.

  24. Re:I'm sure... on GIMP Resynth vs. Photoshop Content Aware · · Score: 1

    I use Ubuntu so I just..
    1. Opened my package manager.
    2. Typed "resynthesizer" in the quick search.
    3. Checked box to select the plugin and clicked apply.
    4. Opened up the Gimp to edit a picture.
    5. Lassoed selected an object.
    6. Selected Filter > Enhance > Smart Remove Selection
    7. Clicked ok on the dialog... and it was gone.

    It seemed to work well enough and seemed simple to install and use for me.

  25. Re:Par for the course? on Sony Update Bricks Playstations · · Score: 1

    So that then makes it okay to commit fraud against an unrelated party (retailer) in your book?