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  1. Re: Web Workers on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work, Flash can still take down Firefox pretty regularly

  2. Screen resolution for laptops? on PC Plus Packs Windows and Android Into Same Machine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1366x768 just doesn't cut it, no matter how many OSes you stick on it.

  3. Re: ATI drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 0

    A reinstall seemed to fix what was broken by changing the graphics card. Whatever hardware detection is done on startup is far better than what I could do afterwards.

  4. Re: ATI drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 1

    LOL I'm not paid to figure out how to configure xconf, but I did give it a shot though. It would crash everything randomly. A reinstall was quicker and therefore cheaper.

  5. Re:ATI drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 1

    Does that include the tool you have to download and run in order to download the installer?

  6. Re:ATI drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 1

    Don't want .Net for your drivers? Try Linux.

    Don't like wasting 90MB? Well, maybe if they didn't have drastically less resources than their competition, they could spare someone to optimize for size. For now, perhaps you can spare the 0.01$ of hard drive space. Sure, I agree 90MB is horribly bloated, but its not anywhere bad enough to care about when compared to actual driver bugs, or the price difference in GPUs.

    I use Linux in work, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I had to reinstall it when I changed graphics card because it kept crashing (kernel too). I'm afraid to plug a second monitor in in case it causes the same thing to happen. I seriously considered installing Win7 on the machine and running Linux under VMWare. That's what I do on my laptop.

  7. Re:ATI drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 2

    148MB for the latest Nvidia driver.

    *sigh*

  8. ATI drivers on AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · · Score: 5, Informative

    I installed fresh ATI graphics drivers today. 90MB for a driver. .Net 4.5 needed to be installed. GTFO.

  9. Re:That's obvious on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    Here, here. The artful side of programming is never talked about, it's up there with architecture if you ask me.

  10. Forcing them to learn is bad on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    If there's anything that'll kill any interest in a subject its having to adhere to a Government approved curriculum. They're kids, let them play in the sun/puddles and fall out of trees for a few years before allowing them to sit in front of a computer all day.

  11. Re: Ken Thompson, Anyone? on Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks? · · Score: 2

    So C/C++ are a government conspiracy of the 60's so they could intercept data from the Internet, which hadn't been invented (or at least only used within military circles) at the time? You're too stupid to be a C/C++ programmer. Stop doing it.

  12. Expletive deleted on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1
  13. Re:PC companies missed their chance. on Why PC Sales Are Declining · · Score: 1

    Unlocked prices are high because phones are actually expensive to manufacture and test. They're far more complex than any PC or laptop

  14. Re:Buy the Mozilla bods a book on computer science on Mozilla and Samsung Collaborating to Bring New Browser Engine to Android · · Score: 1

    Posted from Firefox?

  15. Re: Woohoo! yet another language on Mozilla and Samsung Collaborating to Bring New Browser Engine to Android · · Score: 1

    But Firefox is already always running but not responding!

  16. Woohoo! yet another language on Mozilla and Samsung Collaborating to Bring New Browser Engine to Android · · Score: 2

    Rust. Why?

  17. Get the laptop out of the way on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    My laptop is fairly powerful in all aspects except for the utterly useless for programming 1366x768 screen. I got a 27" monitor that supports up to 2560x1440, 'borrowed' and old USB keyboard and mouse from work, put the laptop on a chair next to where the montior sits (I don't have room for a desk). That's it, make sure the air ducts of the laptop aren't blocked and the only time you'll need to touch it is to turn it on. Put the laptop screen onto the lowest power setting too!

  18. Re:tvcatchup.com on Ask Slashdot: IPTV Service In the UK? · · Score: 1

    Tvcatchup is great but sometimes you can only get 360p quality

  19. Re:Slow mo video on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 1

    Liveleak has one of the most racist communites on the publically available internet

  20. Re:27" Korean's on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 1

    I recently bought this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-003-DG No idea if it's Korean or not but it's awesome, no dead pixels, HD input. No USB though and the speakers are pants but hey.

  21. Don't they use Perforce internally? on Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools · · Score: 1

    It's a pity there's no Open Source version of Perforce (yes, yes not everyone needs DVCS). They really panicked with the 2012 version though. I believe Google also use Perforce.

  22. Re:well, good. on Intel Gets Go-Ahead For $4 Billion Chip Plant In Ireland · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone who graduation from an Irish University with a CS Degree and MSc, degrees are what you make them.

  23. Re:Sorry to see Symbian go on Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line · · Score: 1

    Symbian weren't allowed break APIs. With C++ it's actually quite easy to do, so newer APIs were added. series60, which has nothing to do with SymbianOS, may be another matter. Phone manufacturers were also free to choose which functionality they supported.

  24. 'Ground up plastic' on Geothermal Power Advances · · Score: 1

    So what exactly happens to this? Makes its way up to the surface eventually and generally fucks shit up I assume.

  25. Exercises on Book Review: The Nature of Code · · Score: 1

    I really hate buying books about a topic and then it having exercises for me to figure stuff out I bought the book for. Not everybody is a student. At least Knuth gives the answers in his books.