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  1. Re:104Mb on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why would I want to use either on a phone or smaller tablet?

    That's really the point here. Full-pop word processors are not only going to take up huge amounts of limited flash storage and RAM, but they aren't even necessary.

    I use Google's document, spreadsheet and slideshow offerings on my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7. They don't render every aspect of an Office document, though they are getting a lot better (Excel charts display pretty well in Sheets), but I'm really just looking for "good enough", in this case mainly reading, and maybe a very small amount of notation or editing. I'll go to my PC or notebook if I actually want to full blown spreadsheet work or composition. Even with a fully functional version of Word available for my smart devices, I wouldn't pay for the functionality because I'm not a masochist.

  2. Re:104Mb on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank God! Can you imagine how big the binary would have to be with all those statically linked .NET libraries?

  3. Re:Free? on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or Office for that matter.

  4. Re:Wow ... on Samsung Cripples Windows Update To Prevent Incompatible Drivers · · Score: 1

    I have an Asus laptop that the harddrive crapped out on. I had the displeasure of having to try to find the SATA drivers for the machine, since the generic IDE drivers were just hideous performance wise. The official download site did not have SATA drivers, or even chipset drivers (where storage drivers can often be found). In the end I did find some x64 Vista drivers from the weirdo Korean manufacturer (that was a fun website to navigate), though I still felt the performance wasn't what it had been, despite having put a faster replacement HD in.

    There's some really weird hardware out there, and it can be an absolute nightmare to try to find drivers for it.

  5. Re: Run out the Clock on Swedish Investigators Attempt Assange Interview; Wikileaks Makes Major Release · · Score: 1

    There have been in absentia convictions in the US as well, Ira Einhorn's being a notable instance. He was retried, however, as part of an extradition deal between prosecutors and the French government.

  6. Re:Apples to Jupiter comparison on Swedish Investigators Attempt Assange Interview; Wikileaks Makes Major Release · · Score: 2

    Are you saying you think objecting to an adult having sexual relations with a 13 year old girl is puritanical?

  7. Re:The Fuck? on MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's almost as if the writer doesn't understand what a relational database is.

  8. Re:Run out the Clock on Swedish Investigators Attempt Assange Interview; Wikileaks Makes Major Release · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The statute of limitations, so far as I understand it, is a limitation on how long prosecutors can wait to press charges. Maybe that's different in Sweden, but in general, I don't think it has anything to do with sentencing. Once you've been sentenced, even in absentia, there is no limit on the amount of time that the jurisdiction that convicted can take in trying to get you to carry out your sentence (ie. there are only two ways Roman Polanski can no longer be at least theoretically held to account; either he serves his sentence, or he dies).

    It's absurd to say there's a statute of limitations on how long it takes to bring somebody into court. If that were the case, then someone charged with a crime who flees would be able to return to the jurisdiction that originally charged him when the limitation was up.

  9. Re:Lots of great features and no kdbus on Linux 4.1 Kernel Released With EXT4 Encryption, Performance Improvements · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's certainly useful when you're moving equipment or storage devices. Your complaint would apply to any encrypted storage system that mounted an encrypted file system; Bitlocker, Truecrypt, dmcrypt, etc.

    I work for a company that does a lot of government contract work, and we are contractually bound in almost all cases to story certain kinds of confidential data on encrypted media. When using Linux servers, we usually use dmcrypt, but EXT4 encryption would be a nice option as well.

  10. Re:Who really listens to a silly man like Bergogli on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 1

    The world is filled with religious people. You had better learn to live with them, and perhaps not put so much energy producing ever more hyperbolic strawmen, or perhaps you should flee society.

  11. Re:the takeaway: on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 1

    The Space Pope?

    Frankly, I think we need the Hypnotoad.

  12. Re:the Pope and his Mythical Sky-God on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 1

    And what you think matters because?

  13. Re:Reconciling faith with science on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 2

    The "faith" is that the universe behaves in predictably. If that isn't so, every world view in the world is rendered moot.

    But really, calling science faith is like calling two column accounting faith.

  14. Re:By your logic the Nazis were pro Communist on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 0

    You are aware, I trust, that you are describing a very small group of men that made up some of the Nazi leadership. The overwhelming majority of Nazis were Catholics and Lutherans.

  15. Re:the Pope and his Mythical Sky-God on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well if one mass delusion is what it takes to counter another mass delusion, then so be it. It wouls be nice to think people would accept the science on its own merits, but I guess we are still fundamentally a superstitious race.

    Won't make much difference to most of the Koch legion, who are Catholic hating uber protestants.

  16. Re: maybe the musicians will realize on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 1

    I'd be more interested to find out if he had a soul.

    I'm sitting here humming Beethoven's Fifth and pondering the notion that there is a human being out there somewhere who thinks it's mere patterns of sound waves.

  17. Re:Apple Should Pay - It's Advertising on Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing' · · Score: 1

    It all comes down to money. Apple wants more money and thinks that they can get away with not paying the singers

    So Apple is like every major record label in the last sixty years.

  18. Re:Dice, please suck my dick. on Ask Slashdot: Best API Management System? · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, you will have a share link available so you can share pictures of your shortened penis with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google+

  19. Obviously on Ask Slashdot: Best API Management System? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, obviously any API management system needs a "share" button at the bottom of each screen so you can share your favorite API methods with your friends on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

  20. Re:This is Slashdot's first article on the topic.. on SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring · · Score: 2

    I know! We can build something and host the source on Sourceforge!

  21. Re:Good job Dice on SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring · · Score: 0

    Yes, like rectal suppositories and anal lube. It's all very exciting, so I'm going to click on the Share link and tell all my imaginary friends in the Twitterverse and on Facepalmbook!

  22. Re:Custom built data centers on Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Is "pulling back the veil" some sort of sodomy euphemism?

  23. Re:They want more money on Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers · · Score: 2

    In other words, mindless rubes and hipsters. Soon they'll rename Slashdot iDot or iSlash, of iTwitfuckhamshitprick. It's going to get so bad even APK is going to walk, and then where will I get my hosts file from?

  24. Re:Screw this layout change on Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers · · Score: 2

    Sooner or later Dice is going to render this site unusable. What a pack of fucking retards.

  25. Re:New low for Slashdot on Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem On the Decline? · · Score: 1

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