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  1. Re:Mod parent up on Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somebody yells "patents" and everybody agrees even if no information is given, at least it's a nice sound byte to buy karma. What patents might that be? Are there any?... and how would they be used? ... aw forget it because that might lead to constructive or clear points. It's unfortunate so many people are willing to jump on a bandwagon because that's where the party is. Hey Microsoft sucks YAY!

  2. Re:cross platform oncre and for all time on Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market · · Score: 1

    People think Microsoft can pull any stunt at any time to tie in users. That's not the reality of the world we live in no matter how much Microsoft is disliked. It's also pure speculation which is not a solid foundation on which to discard products. Serious companies wouldn't put up with behaviour.

  3. cross platform oncre and for all time on Microsoft Moves in on the Graphics Market · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Adobe's CEO, calling Microsoft a '$50 billion monopolist,' has questioned whether Silverlight will be compatible with non-Windows operating systems,


    Silverlight has been cross-platform since launch. The Adobe CEO questioned whether this would persist. Microsoft didn't invest on porting a subset of the .NET framework to Mac only to deprecate it. No, Silverlight will continue to be cross-platform for long while ... especially if the marketplace stays competitive. Whether or not its optimized well enough for the other platforms, well that's another story.

  4. Google news will take more time on Google News Allowing Story Participants To Comment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All of a sudden everybody involved in a news article is responsible for controlling their own public face through comments on the article. Some of the more newsworthy Tom Dick and Harrys will be vehemently defending themselves online all day. And I thought Facebook was bad.

  5. Re:Excellent! on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    Then I suggest adding an "intention" attribute to div/span and standardize on a few commonly-used names like: etc. The developer can also create other non-standard names for proprietary use.

  6. Re:kids on Coping Strategies for Women in IT · · Score: 1

    I guess women are just nicer to me. ;)

  7. Halloween on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 1
    Microsoft's strategy was to drive a wedge into the open-source community and unsettle the marketplace

    OMG! OH NO! Watch out!!!! BOO !!!!!!!!!!!

    Hey, everybody needs an enemy to justify the cause ...

  8. kids on Coping Strategies for Women in IT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a man, have worked in the IT industry as a programmer/analyst and taught courses around the technologies I've used. In my experience women tend to cope better than men in the field. Women are often more level-headed, more organized, methodical and devoted to the cause.
    I prefer to have women bosses and administrators.
    The largest problem I've seen for women is having families because they are stuck with bearing the kids -- that's when women get taken out of the loop. There are always exceptions but often the women -- having born the kids -- often become comparatively more family-oriented than the man who will keep pushing through the industry and stay on top of things. The IT business moves fast. Having a kid can cause you to effectively be taken out of the race. No matter how much it sucks I've seen it happen a lot.
    The biological clock factor doesn't help either because you have a limited time, often which could be peak career time, to have kids.

  9. The license as a sword for an opponent on Lawyer Thinks Microsoft Can Evade GPL 3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It sounds like some people are intending to use the GPL3 to target Microsoft. As soon as the GPL becomes a tactic rather than a license you're playing a stupid game. Then you have to start writing into it piece to try to blunt everything else every other company comes up with that is not desirable. It's a losing game because it's never ending.

  10. repetitive, laborious work on Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online · · Score: 1
    that NASA and Arizona State University have teamed up to offer all of NASA's Apollo lunar films online


    Interpreted as: There's a lot of cheap labor at ASU. So graduate, do you want to scan NASA films or work at McDonalds?

  11. nostalgia is always fun but not always realistic on Mitsubishi Breaks Up Famous Computer Science Lab · · Score: 1

    Nothing stays in its "original glory", otherwise we couldn't use those words now to describe it. People like to have a sense of nostalgia and this is no different. We tend to remember the good, not the bad. Right now there are other labs making history except no one knows or thinks of them fondly because nothing has fallen apart yet and there's nothing to reflect upon. It's all part of the technology ecosystem: produce great things, then break up the group and spread the love around, and mix it up a bit to produce new stuff the lab would have never considered, now that it's becoming a dinosaur. If every team stuck together companies would be full of satisfied employees not producing much except memories of the good old days.

  12. Re:Slashdot... oh slashdot... on A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful
    because you'll now need a bi-lingual developer to re-code the device-tree scanning and parsing code


    You won't need a bilingual developer. You'll need a developer with access to a translator.

  13. Re:Water on New Carbon-based Paper Stronger Than Nanotubes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shit,everybody was caught offguard. Ahem .. well ... Personally I'm skipping to the next thread.

  14. Thank goodness for marketing on Top Ten Discoveries of the Mars Rovers · · Score: 1

    Possibly as its last assignment, Opportunity provides tantalizing glimpse of Victoria crater:
    Has holes in the ground.

    Evidence of volcanic origin for Gusev crater:
    Has a rock.

    First meteorite identified on another planet:
    Has a foreign rock.

    Discover of sulfur suggests Mars stink:
    Maybe Has some kind of smell.

    Helps scientists determine that Mars had three distinct geological eras:
    Has rocks.

    Martian dust devils captured on film:
    Has atmosphere.

    First shot of Earth from distant planet:
    Earth is still here.

    Photographs Earth-like clouds on Mars:
    It has atmosphere.

    Helps scientists create first atmospheric temperature profile of Mars:
    It has atmosphere.

    First definitive evidence that water flowed on mars, including blueberries, hematite, and silica:
    Didn't find any water yet. ... the marketing people are having the spin the hell outta' this one. They're doing a good job of it. In fact I've seen /. posters who want to GO to Mars !!!

  15. Chivalry has not died on Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash · · Score: 2, Funny

    All of a sudden chivalry makes a comeback as men everywhere offer their mother-in-laws the more comfortable front seats of the plane.

  16. Something to look foward to on Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars · · Score: 1

    And if you're the first people to make the landing (not saying you were the first to try) then you find out Mars is boring as hell and there's nothing to do. If you slowly go crazy turn to page 128. If you kill the rest of the crew members turn to page 301.

  17. algae on Boeing Helping to Develop Algae-Powered Jet · · Score: 1

    It's definitely more environmentally friendly should the plane crash into the sea.

  18. "schmancy"? well la-di-da on Linux MPX Multi-touch Alternative to MS Surface · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It may not be as fancy-schmancy as Microsoft Surface

    I love how the community words stuff, sounds like a child being envious of big brother syndrome. I don't consider Microsoft offerings superior to others, just pointing out the wording and what is sounds like. I hear that kind of stuff way too often. Linux should be comfortable in what it is and not feel the need to compare.

  19. Re:Is it worth it? on Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan · · Score: 1
    There may be one or three people on the entire Slashdot, who know, what can and can not be done with this waste...

    Okay so we've got me and you and who's the 3rd?

  20. Re:Nature Vs Lab on New and Improved Deadly Snail Venom · · Score: 1
    but I imagine that side effects with naturally created drugs are minimized compared to those synthesized in a lab.

    But where does the knowledge come from for the synthesis in the lab? I expect the knowledge is just circulating in smaller pharmaceutical circles now instead of in the general public. The general public no longer needs the knowledge if it's all available off the shelf and more potent.

  21. Re:Sonofa... on Microsoft .NET Patch May Make PCs Go "Haywire" · · Score: 3, Funny

    My refridgerator has been leaking and not catching water in the drip pan ... is it related? How can I find out what its doing? Should I just install Gentoo again!?!

  22. Re:Quick guide to doing graphic work in Java: on Computer Graphics With Java · · Score: 1

    C# is available on other platforms such as Linux through the Mono project, for example this article titled C# and .NET Without Microsoft. Also since the introduction of Silverlight Microsoft can allow other OS' to run a subset of .NET code -- maybe even coded in C# -- through a browser plug-in. You've fallen into the trap of thinking C# = Windows which is not true. Do some reading of these links and you'll be amazed what C# really is. Also as an EMCA specification it's not likely to be tied to a platform any more than any other international standard.

  23. Re:USA laws don't apply there on Second Life Lawsuit Heads to Federal Court · · Score: 1
    What really irks me is people who try and make the case that the internet is its own reality.


    Actually the Internet is its own unreality like science fiction writing. Things are not tangible, maybe visible in the case of SL but not tangible. The laws of the tangible world do not translate to the virtual world in most cases. When one gains an understanding of the differences then it's obvious new laws need to be applied to the virtual world, not from the real world. It's where these world cross that problems arise but that doesn't mean we should immediately accept real-world law.

  24. Re:NOT a matter transporter on Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Even without considering the concrete wall or degeneration of copies, every time a person is transported/duplicated correctly into an "empty space" that space is not really empty because there are always particles floating in the air which would get embedded into the person each time. That would be enough to very soon destroy a person's health and well-being.

  25. Re:They have the infrastructure in place on Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law · · Score: 3, Funny

    And now that they're retaining Internet usage records and can trace your Slashdot comment back to you, you will receive a knock at your door to register the remainder of the equipment.