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  1. Re:This is a toy for geeks having nerdgasms on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a better product that already does all of this without requiring a link through Google's servers? Amusingly, an Android device available at the Apple Store?

    http://www.oakley.com/airwave

    As far as I can tell, the Oakley HUD is a pretty good example of what companies should be doing with these head mounted computers (in spite of a fairly niche market). Glass is both too limited and too ambitious.

  2. Re:Sign of the times on Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' · · Score: 1

    I can't speak to the obfuscation, but indexing the files provided a huge performance increase compared to other DAPs when the iPod was released. The responsive, intuitive click-wheel interface is definitely the key to the iPod's success and it wouldn't have been possible using a traditional FS based system.

  3. Re:What?? on With Euro Zone Problems, Bitcoin Experiencing Boost In Legitimacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A beowulf cluster being held by Natalie Portman covered in grits.

  4. Re:rsync on Hacked Bitcoin Financial Site Had No Backups · · Score: 1

    You don't really think that's a word, do you?

  5. Re:I suspect there are more to meet the eyes on Apple and Samsung Ordered Talks Fail - Trial Date Set · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Samsung has a lot to lose by alienating Apple. Apple is a huge customer, very few organizations buy in the volumes that Apple works with. Losing a big account would suck, but Apple pouring billions of dollars into Samsung's competitors to improve their manufacturing technology will make a large impact on Samsung's ability to compete.

    Also consider that Apple's order volume enables Samsung to run their factories at higher capacity, reducing overall operating costs by reducing or eliminating downtime. In some cases this could mean that a factory would not be able to operate profitably. Could Samsung's US fab maintain their price points and sustain their infrastructure development plans without Apple as a customer? I have no idea but it doesn't seem like an obvious answer.

  6. Re:I fucked up !! on Axis, Yahoo's New Browser · · Score: 2

    Click the wrench icon on your toolbar, navigate through the Tools sub-menu and select "Extensions." You can disable or delete Chrome add-ons from there.

  7. Re:they're not untraceable on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    That's the point of money laundering and it works fine with real money too.

  8. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 1

    The majority are from flash and java and javascript exploits by driveby downloads from infected servers or ads.

    I don't think that excludes shitty porn sites. I chose porn because ~70% of malware infestations I've encountered on customer computers appeared to have come from porn-related trojans.

  9. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 2

    Because reputable pornography vendors don't distribute malware.

  10. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd wager the majority of the Windows malware "infections" are trojan exes from shitty porn sites.

  11. Re:Ads included? on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 0

    Samsung manufactures a couple advanced components of the iPhone to spec. They don't make the iPhone, practically or otherwise. I think the only component sole sourced from Samsung is the processor, which Apple designed and owns.

  12. Re:My personal opinion on Why Microsoft's Keeping the Next Xbox Under Wraps · · Score: 1

    The red ring of death issue was majorly overestimated, and you know why?

    Because the only way to avoid it was to never use your Xbox?

  13. Re:Or, you know, maybe on Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most · · Score: -1, Troll

    Android just sucks.

  14. Re:Time-of-day restriction on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release · · Score: 1

    But then how will the pastor watch porn on his iPad?

  15. Re:What happened to qwerty devices? on CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S · · Score: 1

    My iPhone has four buttons and a switch. Maybe yours is defective.

  16. Re:How many times do I have to say it? on Microsoft's Looming 'Single Windows Ecosystem' · · Score: 1

    I don't have a newish Mac but doesn't Rosetta translate PPC instructions to Intel/x64? I'm not so sure it's really so impossible (though I do think it's unlikely).

  17. Re:Its about damned time... on US House Rejects Telecom Amnesty · · Score: 1

    The man has been coddled by Saudi Arabian royalty. I bet he knows a shit ton more about the region than you give him credit for. It's just that he doesn't care. He has a goal, and that is protecting American and Saudi business interests. I haven't met a Zionist Neoconservative yet who doesn't think Bush has done the best job possible.

    Bush said he'd be a CEO president. There are a lot of CEOs out their who have very little operational knowledge, preferring to feel like they make the big choices, and their subordinates are the machine that enacts their will. I think George might follow this management style.

  18. Re:Technological Progress on Pact Not to Use Image Constraint Token Until 2010? · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, Apple was not an enthusiastic adopter of DRM. That's not to say that they won't totally embrace it in the future (on the contrary, sleep with dogs and you'll wake up with fleas). The iPod didn't support DRM and originally allowed you to move songs back and forth from computer to iPod. Once they signed on with the labels to open their store they were forced to adopt DRM. It's worth noting that at the time they had some of the least restrictive DRM in the music industry.

    But yeah, DRM sucks balls.

  19. Re:Sick of Sue-Happiness on Apple Sues Creative · · Score: 1

    The iPod's biggest innovation wasn't being "cool" or anything superficial like that -- though excellent industrial design played a huge role in its success. The iPod was simply the first MP3 player that was a pleasure to use. I had a first gen iPod (read: pre cool factor) and while it wasn't capacious enough to hold my music collection, the scroll wheel (a huge innovation that's probably taken for granted nowadays) made the iPod an unobtrusive, easy to use, practical device.

  20. Re:New Apple User on Working With Tiger Technologies · · Score: 3, Informative

    They date back to the original development of the Macintosh. That is, they predate everything outside of Xerox PARC.

  21. Re:Ummm ... AppleTalk? on Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet · · Score: 1

    The parent's not really insightful. Macs weren't just "able to" network -- they provided the easiest, most idiot proof technology for small networks before the rise of the internet. The problem was that AppleTalk didn't scale up or integrate with other technologies well.

    Since the era of AppleTalk, both the users and the networking technologies have become more advanced. That doesn't mean AppleTalk didn't kick ass at what it was designed to do.

  22. Re:Glimpse of N5 on Nintendo Patents Online Console Gaming · · Score: 1

    Don't be an idiot. The patent is for the 64DD.

  23. Re:Pre-emptive?? on What A Portable Media Center Might Look Like · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure pre-emptive in this context means that the kernel is capable of pre-empting certain tasks in order to maintain the proper performance level for more important commands.

  24. Re:A nice feature to have on Apple Releases iTunes 4.6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I recommend Synergy.

    It works very well and is cool looking to boot

  25. Re:Problems? on Rovers May Survive Martian Winter · · Score: 3, Funny

    IT FUCKING FLEW THROUGH MILLIONS OF MILES OF SPACE.

    They're NASA, you're just some chump behind a computer.