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  1. Re:Microsoft Office on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    This is true. OpenOffice screwing up documents is one of my pet peeves, but there seems to be similar problems when exchanging documents between Office 2003 and 2010, too.

  2. Re:Just in time on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    Agreed, sometimes we are full of crap, too.

  3. Re:Just in time on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    In various message boards it seems also to be popular to have some short video clip in as your avatar picture. Usually of a celebrity doing some expression over and over. In every freaking message. To complete the experience you should have the specs of your computer in your signature, down to the RAM timings, in a huge font.

  4. Re:wasn't this GIFF on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    You are possibly thinking about TIFF.

  5. Re:Idiot on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Maybe the TFA is wrong and your recollection was correct.

  6. Re:Yep. on New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even when Microsoft makes something bulletproof, these tech assholes have to blame a Google problem on Microsoft.

    No.

    It uses a vulnerability in RTF and Word documents to get into the system.

    It only uses Google Docs as a fancy way to phone home.

  7. Re:No sale on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, I admit that it is a tricky situation.

  8. Re:PETA agrees! on Indian School Textbook Says Meat-Eaters Lie and Commit Sex Crimes · · Score: 1

    I have never really understood this continuous labeling of people as shills in Slashdot.

  9. Re:No sale on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    To reiterate, i will only pay for and/or put up with commercials on DRM-free media, if the content is encumbered with DRM i will either acquire a pirate copy where the DRM has been removed (and the commercials too as an f-you) or do without the content at all so you will never make any money from me so long as you try to force evils like DRM on me.

    If you buy DRM-free media, that's a good idea. But if you pirate the DRM'ed ones, you're probably just provoking them to add more DRM to fight piracy.

  10. Re:Not good enough, dammit, not good enough! on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    It's rather peculiar considering there's a Netflix app for Android.

    We can assume that he meant desktop Linux.

  11. Re:Let's see if Netflix moves to block this on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    Is there a reason to block it?

  12. Re:Apple's pace of innovation is slowing down on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 1

    That is also my theory.

  13. Re:Please sell me what I want! on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 1

    So what you are actually saying is, you would love to have Mac with the specs you listed?

  14. Re:Really? Woz? on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 1

    You cannot fully judge Windows 8's innovativeness before you have actually used the system. Try to get around the installation glitch somehow first.

  15. Re:Woz's unbiased reviews on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 2

    This.

    I'm still using an Android 2.3 phone, and it feels brand new, well, because it actually is only a couple of years old.

  16. Re:Privacy on Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design · · Score: 1

    They only have to add some feature that stores your scans in the cloud.

  17. Re:eth0? on Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer · · Score: 1

    the pi has ethernet going over usb. its not baked in. ethernet is still an add-on.

    How it is implemented in the Pi is another discussion. I was only saying that possibly the A13 SoC has Ethernet but it's not implemented on this board.

  18. Re:What for email? on Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer · · Score: 1

    The Raspberry Pi is cheaper and it comes with Ethernet. So maybe that. Either way, running a simple mail server does not require anything fancy, so both should be OK.

  19. Re:eth0? on Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer · · Score: 1

    It's indeed odd that they didn't include Ethernet. Probably the SoC has the functionality baked in, so it wouldn't have been much more than adding a RJ45 connector onboard. CMIIW.

  20. Re:3D printer ready? on Fully Open A13-OLinuXino Single-Board Linux Computer · · Score: 1

    Of all the "in the future..." technologies such as immortality or teleportation, I'd actually first put my bets on a 3D electronics printer. Really hard, but not necessarily impossible to do. PCBs and microchips are synthetically-made already, and 3D printing probably yet has to see many advancements.

  21. Re:That is cheap on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 2

    You should always keep master copies of the photos.

  22. Re:Dubstep exists.... on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    And jazz.

  23. Re:Sounds great, would prefer ActionScript / Flex on The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project · · Score: 1

    Yes, but your real media player probably still outputs to a YUV overlay on the GPU, saving a great amount of CPU time. Flash does the colorspace conversion on CPU.

  24. Re:Why do you need that transition effect? on Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you want to exit? Any unsaved progress will be lost.

  25. Re:Oh, boy! on The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project · · Score: 1

    I won't get to know.

    I block flash and I block javascript. I only whitelist js for certain sites but mostly, its all blocked.

    (and nothing of value was lost...)

    I can't understand how you can get by. The modern web is too painful to use with JS blocked by default.