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  1. Re:The best part? on New Data Center Will Heat Homes In London · · Score: 1

    watt is joules per second. It's a unit of energy. Heat is energy.

  2. Re:bugged on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are you talking about? 5 digit UID was easy.

    Oh wait...

  3. Re:KVM (disambiguation)? on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you want to include a Mac in the mix, you have to do the latter, as the forme rdoesn't support Mac OS X as a host or guest.

    I wish someone had told me that before I started running Windows Server 2003 inside VMWare Fusion on my OS X. I take it that the Fusion VM running OS X Server is also a figment of my imagination?

  4. Who cares? on Stallman Unsure Whether Firefox Is Truly Free · · Score: 1

    Richard Stallman has had his stay in the limelight. The world moved on.

  5. Oh great.. on MGM First To Post Full-Length Features To YouTube · · Score: 1

    More of "This video is not available to you".

  6. Re:Cold fusion on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    "Lisa, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics".

  7. Re:Too bad on CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident · · Score: 1

    How many billions of Euros have been spent on this project already?

    About 0.03% of the total EU GDP. In 2007 the EU seen as one nation had a GDP of 12.143 trillion Euro. The LHC costs a mere 4.4 billion Euro.

  8. Re:I know why... on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Firefox skin"? You do realize that Chrome comes with a Javascript engine written completely from scratch? And that Chrome is based on WebKit?

  9. Re:Payloads... on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 1

    been reading Dawking have we?

    No but he might have been reading Dawkins...

  10. Re:Got it wrong on Was Standardizing On JavaScript a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    PS. I can't wait for IE6 to die. I think it will only be a matter of 6 - 8 months and we'll be able to stop supporting it. A lot of these problems will go away in the next year, just hang in there.

    I'm sorry but it will be a lot longer before IE6 is finally dead. A lot of big corporations are still on IE6 because they have a lot of business critical software written for IE6 that will break if used in any other browser. Sad but true.

  11. Re:Got it wrong on Was Standardizing On JavaScript a Mistake? · · Score: 1

    - A real way to include other javascript files.

    Agreed. Injecting a script-tag just doesn't cut it. We want real includes dammit!

    - A well defined way to say "The page is loaded, all your variables and objects are loaded, Time to execute!"

    Isn't this more of a browser-issue? A consensus is needed as when to fire "onload".

    Anyway you can get close by using e.g prototype's document.observe("dom:loaded", ...) in Prototype 1.6+

  12. Re:Got it wrong on Was Standardizing On JavaScript a Mistake? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Leaving the language itself aside, the big problem I see when reading javascript is all these tests to check on what browser it is running

    In modern Javascript usage you leave that to a framework library such as Prototype, mooTools, jQuery, Dojo etc.

  13. Re:Get your affairs in order, people on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 1

    Just to point out... acceleration itself doesn't hurt. What hurts is if your feet are accelerated faster/slower than your head.

    Also known as spaghettification.

    Coolest word in astrophysics. :-)

  14. Re:Contamination? on NASA's Mars News Is Not Life, But Perchlorate · · Score: 1

    In fact it's the ONLY way to be sure..

  15. At max capacity already? on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.

    You do that..

    I didn't like the interface anyway.

  16. Re:Well duh? on Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It · · Score: 1

    DRM could cause an entire generations music to be lost.

    With the quality (or lack thereof) of most of the music produced today maybe this is a good thing?

  17. Re:How is this measured on Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is an OS older than Ubuntu or Firefox being tested? And I mean 4 years older then Ubuntu - even with SP2 it would still be older then Ubuntu or Firefox.

    It could be that there is a lot of pre-SP2 install-disks out there. In the likely event of needing a reinstall you are faced with having to put a pre-SP2 XP on the net to retrieve SP2.

  18. Re:Viacom's reasoning for this information on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 2, Informative

    Viacom also requested YouTube's source code, the code for identifying repeat copyright infringement uploads, copies of all videos marked private, and Google's advertising database schema.

    What the fuck does Viacom think? And why is the judge agreeing with them?

    Actually the judge rightfully denied these three requests.

  19. Re:Tagged "fuckviacom" on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is just as much reason to avoid Google, or any company that keeps any kind of logs of your behavior.

    And yet you are posting on Slashdot...

  20. Re:I think this is a good thing on ASIMO to Conduct Symphony Orchestra · · Score: 2

    A machine may be able to conduct, or play a piano, but a cello or guitar, for example, would be beyond a machine's abilities. At least that's what I hope is and remains the case.
    *coughs*

    You have GOT to be kidding me. That sounds like a 6 year old who just got finished with the first few lessons. The sound of every note is totally flat. It lacks any kind of touch. Mechanical and insulting to music.

  21. Re:Dearohdearohdear on ASIMO to Conduct Symphony Orchestra · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It sounds like you've never sat in an orchestra. The conductor is more than basic timekeeping at all times. If this was not the case, why aren't all orchestras just using a metronome at their concerts?

    My prediction is that this performance will be under par for the orchestra. It will sound mechanical.

  22. Re:Exellent tool but, but not for web developers on Debugging CSS, AJAX and DOM with Firebug · · Score: 1

    Surely you are kidding or trolling - maybe both?

    FireBug with its plethora of functions is indispensable for any web developer. In my mind it's clear that you never even looked at it.

    FireBug is not for ajax only. And as another poster noted not everyone has the freedom or willingness to use 3rd party ajax-frameworks.

  23. Re:Video brokenness on David Pogue Takes On Vista · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could read the article and find out, that the link is prominently displayed in the lefthand side. But then again.. This is Slashdot... ;-)

  24. Re:Memory leaks on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    I'm aware of the article.. :-) IMO they should spend more time fixing the problem than writing about it.. ;-)

  25. Re:Old exploit on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1
    But I thought IE7 was a brand new browser that didn't use and of the buggy old IE6 code.

    IE7 is NOT a rewrite. The only thing coming close to a rewrite is the CSS part of the browser.

    MS has neglected several areas, one being the whole JavaScript area where IE still leaks memory like a sieve. The attitude at MS is that this is unfixable because it requires a complete rewrite of the browser.