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  1. Re:Die flash die! on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 1

    You can develop these games with the open source flex framework. You write actionscript code and get all the resources (images etc...), and compile it all into one swf file that works everywhere.

    There are paid developers behind Adobe Flex too, no matter how open source it was.

  2. Re:Good riddance. on Adobe Officially Kills New Flash Installations On Android · · Score: 1

    I've still yet to see a HTML5 video player that works nearly as fast as a native video player. There's also silly bugs, like using volume keys in full screen bumps it back to window.

  3. Re:Stuff that matters? Really? on Thoughts On the iPad Mini · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how much more non-newsworthy can it get?

    Your serving, sir.

  4. Program name on Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload · · Score: 2

    Notice how in the article it says that the code wants to find a program name with the first letter being over 0x007A (Unicode ‘z’). What possibilities could there be?

  5. Re:Already in place in Sweden? on Electronic Retailers In Europe Now Required To Take Back Old Goods · · Score: 2

    Yes, I believe something like this has been place in Finland for quite a while. Many big computer stores do also receive and recycle electronics without cost already.

  6. Re:Linux is free on Creating a School Computer Lab With Ubuntu For $0 · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 will run much faster than stock Ubuntu on a netbook.
    However Ubuntu will use much less HDD space.

  7. Re:Free hardware? on Creating a School Computer Lab With Ubuntu For $0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    He patiently negotiated various donations.

  8. Re:Uh... on Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? · · Score: 1

    There's also a possibility that doing random access will physically stretch parts of the tape. Even in normal use, that is also why it is recommended for all tape formats every now and then to FF a tape to the end and RWD it back to start, to remove tension. In UNIX there's the "mt retension" command.

  9. Re:Surprise on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 2

    Maybe I'm old school, but in my books spamming means posting unwanted advertisements. By my definition, he possibly was sending an offtopic message.

  10. Re:Showing ads to thieves on uTorrent Adds "Featured Torrents" Ads — With No Opt Out (Yet) · · Score: 1

    That's not the only example of how downloading pirated content has started to show various perverted business models. When first TPB blocks were put into action here in Finland, many people started paying for a cheap VPN to circumvent the block, thus paying again for the pirated material.

  11. Motivation on Ask Slashdot: How To Run a Small Business With Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to support the OS community and hope that this is a way to do it.

    Why?

  12. Re:Distance from the power supply on $50 Sound Cards Impress Versus Integrated Audio · · Score: 1

    I think the number one issue with modern onboard solutions is impedance mismatch between the output op amps and whatever they're driving. Many people mistakenly plug headphones into these thinking they have the current to drive them. This varies depending on the impedance of the phones, which vary greatly from model to model, but most of these onboard solutions were never designed to do this, resulting in terrible sound. In addition, many of those that have dedicated headphone outputs often suffer from the same cheap-as-possible philosophy.

    This is correct. Even those basic Realtek chips are not your grandpa's noisy Sound Blaster anymore. Just get a separate headphone amplifier (it does not even have to cost much) and you'll experience the best sound improvement.

  13. Re:Did the grownups prevail this time? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1, Funny

    The usual Ubuntu practice is to jam incomplete, beta quality changes (grub2, upstart, plymouth, unity, etc.) into release and fix them them in subsequent releases.

    Usually desktop Linux distros are so buggy that they would count as alpha quality by commercial software standards. In that bunch Ubuntu+Unity is actually quite solid.

  14. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    Here's a method by which something similar might work in Wayland.

  15. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1, Informative

    But what about native Wayland aps? (Is there such a thing?) Will I be able to run those across the network?

    No.

  16. Re:Readiness on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, the Linux software stack changes very rapidly, so I presume it won't take forever to have the proper structures around Wayland too.

  17. Re:Anyone on /. Actually Use Ubuntu? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought this was a hardcore tech site, but Ubuntu is a pile of crap, and anyone who has tried other distros (crap like CentOS doesn't count) usually likes the other distros better. Debian, Archlinux, Gentoo - these are distros that don't suck, don't go into dependency hell every upgrade, and don't make a gui for everything, with ads and daemons and useless crapp tossed in.

    I don't see choosing some particular distro that important. They all carry mostly the same software and have somewhat similar mechanisms for package management and maintaining the system.

  18. Re:iTunes is great on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 1

    On Linux you have things like Rhythmbox and Amarok which are equally bloated software.

  19. Re:Yeah, yeah, and "XP had a Fisher-Price UI" on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 1

    I remember all the bitching when XP came out. "It has a Fisher-Price UI!" "I'll never use XP!" They used it anyway. Ten years from now, people will be bitching when MS changes the UI again.

    It's a giant fugly start menu. BFD. /. is filled with supposedly intelligent adults; adapt to it like you're always telling other people to do.

    Don't worry, for example here's already one happy user of the new Windows 8 UI.

  20. Re:Don't like it? on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 2

    This is again one of the reasons why Microsoft should have a believable commercial competitor. Well, there is Apple, but it makes the OS only for its own premium products.

  21. Re:No. on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Whoever or however you ended up looking at USB for this was wrong/wrong way.

    Wrong/wrong? You could have written "wrong/{wrong way}" to make clear which words are part of the two options.

  22. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if it's not practical for someone to backup a huge amount of data at all, housing it in a RAID at least increases the reliability a bit.

  23. Re:It's about damn time on TextMate 2 Released As Open Source · · Score: 1

    When I moved to a Mac last year, one thing that was missing was a good text editor. I looked at the options and decided that gedit (there is a Mac port of this Linux program) was better than any of the native Mac programs... FOSS also!

    Gedit is great Notepad replacement on Windows too.

  24. Re:Read that book you opened... on For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply · · Score: 2

    You may have history, but I have logic and evidence.
    If people are everywhere,
    They are drinking water everywhere
    if everywhere cant support the people
    Nowhere will.

    Is that supposed to be read with a crunchy, dynamic-range compressed, bass-extended male voice, with a pause after every line?

  25. Re:Very little, frankly. on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    Most of my life centers around multiply nested loops peppered with if-then statements plus regular expressions.

    Makes me wonder if exactly some of that stuff could be replaced with some clever math.