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  1. Re:100% Agree on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Personally, I disagree.
    I seldom need only one document open at a time, and landscape works much better for viewing multiple documents, especially when they have "standard" 8-1/2"x11" pages.
    In addition, most of the documents I work on are in landscape mode already (typically 17"x11", 36"x24", 42"x30", or bigger), so why try to squeeze them into portrait mode?

  2. Re:More examples? on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    I find the exact opposite for the spreadsheets I typically work on. Much more useful to show more of the the columns than to show more of the rows.

  3. Re:two is better than one on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    That may be what you need, but what I need is two large monitors in portrait mode arranged top to bottom.
    Most of what I work on (construction drawings, spreadsheets, photos, etc.) is in landscape mode. Documents in portrait mode work great side-by-side on a single monitor.
    Unfortunately, all I have is a medium sized monitor and a laptop screen.

  4. Re:Here come the certificate flaw deniers....... on New Destover Malware Signed By Stolen Sony Certificate · · Score: 1

    No matter how hard you try to fail-safe the use of software made by someone other than yourself, the entire thing boils down to trust of the user in the vendor, anyway.
    The problem exists that this entire chain depends on trust in each and every one of the links, and if any one of them becomes compromised, (or even compromise themselves on purpose - NSA?), it becomes a trusted attack vector.

  5. What that subscription will get you on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    The question is, what will subscription get you.

    From the COO's talk to investors:

    But, we're able to have coopetition, a new word that we're continuing to learn the exactly what it means and how we are able to create swim lane clarity around.

    Zero-royalty on nine-inch and below devices . . . You're seeing $99 Windows tablets, embracing and extending the ecosystem by lighting up some of these new business model scenarios, allowing us to monetize the lifetime of that customer through services and different add-ons that we're able to be able to incorporate with that solution.

    Office and .NET going cross-platform, very important for us, again, to embrace and extend and I'm excited about those changes, being able to run on iOS and Android, as well as our own platform.

    So, what you'll get is the "Embrace & Extend" treatment.
    Extinguish is on hold for now, I guess, until they see how Embrace & Extend goes.

  6. Re:practical-based certs hold their value on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1

    What does "old codger" have to do with that mentality?

  7. Really?
    Why would they need to give Mexico back to South Americans?

  8. Re:Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 2

    Worse than that, there's a value in not having that capped connection, as any significant length of dead-end pipe full of water will eventually grow microbes that can potentially contaminate the potable water you drink.

  9. Re:Why Pluto matters most? on Why Pluto Still Matters · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of a T-shirt my son has with hundreds of identical stick-figure people drawn on it and a caption that says:
    I'm Unique
    just like everybody else

  10. Re:I am Pluto? on Why Pluto Still Matters · · Score: 1

    That is hilarious.

  11. Re:The Ribbon is a better cut on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 2

    only you are complaining about ribbon.

    No, I'm complaining about the ribbon, too, even though I've gotten used to it.

  12. Re:Another feature replaced with tracking on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 1

    Get out of Draft View and go to Print Layout view.

  13. Re:The law is valid on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    Actually, TFS is misleading, as the law has been modified several times since originally written.

  14. Re:(Mg,Fe)SiO3 on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 2

    You might know what atoms make it up (no actual samples from the deep, yet) but you don't know how they combine and interact unless you create the high temperatures and tremendous pressures of the lower mantle.

  15. Re:Wait till they see water! on Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth · · Score: 1

    . . . water is about 0.02% of the total earths' mass.

    Does that include the water recently found in ringwoodite?

  16. Re:The problem is relational databases. on Black Friday '14: E-commerce Pages Far Slower Than They Were in 2013 · · Score: 1

    Isn't the index used to access the array a key value?

  17. Re:Speed on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    The problem won't be the people going 85. The problem will be the people going 65mph.

    No, the problem will be the people going 105 mph.

  18. Re:IL tollway needs to be 70 or more on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    It is 70, once you get to the outer suburbs.

    Well, I guess maybe if you consider DeKalb and Rockford suburbs of Chicago.
    The speed limit on all the Interstate highways near Chicago is 55 mph, though the average actual speed of cars is closer to 80 mph. Other interstate speed limits in Illinois just went from 65 mph to 70 mph this year, but you have to go outside the metropolitan area before you get to those speed limits. The speed limit in downtown Chicago is 45 mph, but no one goes that slow, except in rush hour, when you're more likely to be going 15 mph.

  19. Re:Can Iowa handle a circus that large? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Jeb Bush & Scott Walker will be taken seriously.
    The others, not so much.

  20. Re:8X cost increase up front on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    If you're using a ditch witch (like they did to bury the line from my house to my garage) you are not burying the power company's grid, you a burying a low-voltage line to the end-user.

  21. Re:Shyeah, right. on Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Commercially printed Read Only optical disc data can be OK, but the Read-Write consumer discs rely on dyes that will degrade & lose data over time.

  22. Re:LMFTFY on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Part of what the googlers are saying is that price parity won't cause existing fossil-fuel plants to be closed, so the changeover would be much slower than necessary unless renewables are way cheaper - cheap enough to abandon existing capital investments.

  23. Re:We need a *social* change on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I thought that was the whole idea of employment. Keep the people busy in their jobs so they have no time to get into trouble thinking about their capitalist overloads.

  24. Re:Riiiight. on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1
    I would mod you up, but I've already posted.
    From your link:

    The atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) record displays a prominent seasonal cycle that arises mainly from changes in vegetation growth and the corresponding CO2 uptake during the boreal spring and summer growing seasons and CO2 release during the autumn and winter seasons

    Using a terrestrial carbon cycle model that takes into account high-yield cultivars, fertilizer use and irrigation, we find that the long-term increase in CO2 seasonal amplitude arises from two major regions: the mid-latitude cropland between 25 N and 60 N and the high-latitude natural vegetation between 50 N and 70 N. The long-term trend of seasonal amplitude increase is 0.311 ± 0.027 per cent per year, of which sensitivity experiments attribute 45, 29 and 26 per cent to land-use change, climate variability and change, and increased productivity due to CO2 fertilization, respectively.

    Why TFS didn't link to that, and why TFA didn't include that information, will remain a mystery in sloppy reporting.

  25. Re:Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the movie Avatar? If we all lived like the blue people, the world would be a better place.

    One word: "Unobtainium"