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  1. Re:What are the odds on Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS · · Score: 0

    I wish that were the case.

    No, you don't. You love feeling superior to the sheep. That is why you made them up.

  2. Re:Someone gets it on Patch For The Witcher 2 Removes DRM Shortly After Release · · Score: 1

    So when those dinosaurs who make games and expect people to actually pay money for them finally do go out of business, then... What exactly are you going to be copying?

  3. Re:Really? That's important ? on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 1

    You... took that seriously.

  4. Re:Really? That's important ? on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 4, Informative

    He is Finnish, but his first language is Swedish.

    (PS. This is why you should not choose the language for your web site based on a geographical lookup of the IP address.)

  5. Re:Why not link to the original video? on Time Lapse Video of the VLT In Chile · · Score: 2

    With a wide-angle view like that, stars wouldn't visibly streak until you got up to several tens of seconds of shutter time. That is enough time to turn night into day, really.

  6. Re:Alternative Headline on Alaska Airlines Jettisons Paper Manuals For iPads · · Score: 1

    It is so alternative that it is completely untrue. Nice job, there.

  7. Re:Quicktime? on Best Optical Illusion of the Year Contest · · Score: 1

    I've never found fault with Quicktime on OS X for watching anything, at least as long as Perian is installed.

    VLC, on the other hand, is horrid.

  8. Re:Why? on Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It · · Score: 1

    Because no matter what they claim, wavelets aren't actually all that good. People have tried to use them for compression for a long time, and it just doesn't work all that well in practice.

  9. Re:Why? on Mozilla Rejects WebP Image Format, Google Adds It · · Score: 1

    Because JPEG is twenty years old.

    In those twenty years, we have learned a lot about lossy image compression. We can do much, much better than JPEG today.

  10. Re:Of course on Fable III Dev: Used Game Sales More Costly Than Piracy · · Score: 2

    Except when it gets them a sale because the person buying knows he can recoup some of the cost by selling the game second hand.

  11. Re:Google and open source on Google's Honeycomb Source Code Release Is On Ice · · Score: 1

    Where do they claim that?

  12. Re:Irony on Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool · · Score: 1

    It's definitely not an FSF project, but it does run on various platforms, including Linux.

  13. Re:Irony on Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool · · Score: 1

    The command-line version runs on Linux, OS X and Windows. Probably on BSDs too, but I have not been able to test this.

  14. Re:There are already "free" unrar apps on Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool · · Score: 1

    It would be fairly easy to write that. Getting it to be as efficient as the original rar archiver might be tricky, but basic compression is about as easy as it is for zlib's Deflate.

  15. Re:Well, they screwed up with 11 on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    those who are great fans of what Ubuntu has been in the past

    A half-hearted attempt to make a usable Linux, forever held back because they are not really in control of the software they ship, and those who are don't seem to have much of a vision for making it better?

  16. Re:Free as in BSD on 2 RMS Books Hit Version 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Again in English?

  17. Re:Free as in BSD on 2 RMS Books Hit Version 2.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, that could just be because people who use the GPL can freely use any BSD code they want, but people who want to use the BSD license are blocked from using GPL code.

  18. Re:I've got a name for it on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Ok on Sony: 10 Million Credit Cards May Have Been Exposed · · Score: 1

    Yes, nobody ever plans ahead.

  20. Re:Opera on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Do not use SRWare Iron. It is created by an author mostly interested in driving ad revenue on his site, and he's not beyond exaggerating or lying about privacy issues to drum up interest in his browser.

    Use Chromium instead. It has the same amount of privacy, but you don't need to trust some dodgy guy to build it for you.

  21. Re:swype sucks on On-Screen Keyboard Maliit Demoed With Gnome 3 · · Score: 1

    What happens when you type something in manually and get it wrong?

  22. Re:Apple apologist on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 1

    If they have the points to calculate triangulation, they have the triangulated points.

    That's not how triangulation works.

  23. Re:Kinda figures. on iPhone 3G and iOS4 Lack Chemistry · · Score: 1

    They already don't allow you to install it. They don't need to spend any effort to intentionally "deliver a sub-par experience".

  24. Re:Apple apologist on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 1

    Which part of keeping a cache of nearby tower locations to speed up location lookups is "shenanigans", again?

  25. Re:Apple apologist on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 1

    But it is the tower locations. It is a cache of the database of tower locations, used to triangulate your position when you need it.