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  1. Re:wainting for 1920x1080p on Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet · · Score: 1

    Halfway decent graphics systems

    You all those ones that don't actually exist?

  2. Re:Already removed on Charlie Miller Circumvents Code Signing For iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    He hasn't.

  3. Re:Translation on Charlie Miller Circumvents Code Signing For iOS Apps · · Score: 2

    All memory allocated by user apps is NX. Your code is not going to execute no matter how many buffers you stuff it in.

  4. Re:Find: Bob Smith on Google+ Opens To Businesses With 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    Yes, just like all other Google products, where you can never find anything useful because of all the spam!

  5. Re:What is the point of this list? on A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes · · Score: 1

    Which is about as useful as a list of airplanes that have failed, which includes airplane crashes and airplanes that have been taken out of use due to old age. What are we supposed to actually do with this information?

  6. Sounds familiar on Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS · · Score: 1

    So... Basically, the same as the original iPhone, then?

  7. Re:The legal system at it's finest. on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 2
  8. Re:What is the point of this list? on A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes · · Score: 1

    That pricing has long since changed. And the list contains other events too without any pricing complications.

  9. What is the point of this list? on A Brief History of Failed Digital Rights Management Schemes · · Score: 1

    The list shows gravestone icons both for those cases where companies stopped using DRM and left their users out in the cold, and for those cases where they stopped using DRM and let users get DRM-free tracks instead.

    One is loss for the users, one is a win. Why are both presented as the same thing?

  10. Re:Recycling! on Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia · · Score: 2

    The earth's crust is about 28% silicon. We're not going to need to recycle that any time soon.

  11. Re:worst nuclear disaster on Blow-By-Blow Account of the Fukushima Accident · · Score: 1

    You are suggesting we lie?

  12. Re:Or just maybe... on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    Shuttleworth is talking shit. Unity is a GUI designed from the START for tablets.

    Or maybe it is just a GUI mostly copying OS X. There are very few things in it that are particularly tablet-centric.

  13. Re:"Homegrown"? on China Builds 1-Petaflop Homegrown Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    I was a little bit surprised that China had to reverse engineer a chip to make this computer,

    I was more surprised that they managed to create a MIPS architecture by reverse-engineering an Alpha chip.

  14. Re:But Apple on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    The idea is that MOST things reflected will be too weak to be seen in normal use, thus increasing contrast. However, bright areas will still be visible, so care has to be taken to position the screen so that those are not reflected.

    A screen will certainly not reflect "the entire world". It is flat, not spherical. It reflects a very narrow view, mostly behind yourself. Avoiding having bright lights in this small area will avoid the glare. If this is impossible to arrange, a matte screen might work better, but it will have worse contrast.

  15. Re:But Apple on 'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems · · Score: 1

    Matte displays will reflect more ambient light, and thus have worse contrast. An anti-reflective screen will definitely have better contrast than a matte screen.

  16. Re:Too real on Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs · · Score: 1

    There is a way to do it right if you assume nobody will take your chips apart.

    This is bad assumption, though.

  17. Re:Meanwhile on PC... on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Oh my! You said "You sir"! What ever shall I do! I am crushed by your witty retort!

  18. Re:Meanwhile on PC... on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    I was not aware that we were talking about "history". It sure sounded to me like we were bragging about the latest and greatest.

  19. Re:I can't figure out Slashdot . . . on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    It must be fun arguing with this me who lives inside your head. He sounds like quite the horrible person, and you seem to have spent quite some effort making up things he's supposed to have said.

    I'll just leave you alone to yell at him now.

  20. Re:Meanwhile on PC... on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    Except in having games that are actually fun.

  21. Re:3 series on Linux 3.1 Released With Support for the OpenRISC CPU · · Score: 1

    Which means the version number becomes completely meaningless.

    Unlike "2.6", which was incredibly meaningful.

    Really, for the last decade, the only part of the version number that has had any meaning was the last number. They got rid of one out of two meaningless numbers. They might as well have gotten rid of the first number too.

  22. Re:I can't figure out Slashdot . . . on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    Did I miss anything?

    Yes, how to take part in an honest disucssion. Perhaps one day you will learn how to do so, rather than treating every discussion you are in as a battle against enemies to be defeated, and then people might actually start listening to you.

  23. Re:Ron Paul should give away his money on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 2

    Because the government wants an educated populace to carry the country's economy.

  24. Re:Too real on Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs · · Score: 1

    Those exist, and have been broken already.

  25. Re:I can't figure out Slashdot . . . on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 1

    You seem to think I have any interest in talking to you about anything.