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  1. Touch on Apple iPad Reviewed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally, I find that I am slowly developing an RSI type problem wrt touchpads and touchscreens, preventing extensive use. Anyone else?

  2. Re:Yes I Do Want on Solar-Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses · · Score: 1

    Just wait until the DRM activates the 'Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses' mode.

  3. Re:Near Anagram for Duracell on Energizer USB Battery Charger Software Infects PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Duracell(r)

  4. Re:Whitespace on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    My problem with both go and javascript is the problem called 'implicit semicolon insertion'.

  5. Re:Whitespace on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    For me, the acceptable solution to Python is to make the 'pass' keyword mandatory at the end of block.

    Emacs can auto indent based on this:

        if True:
            a
            b
            pass
        c

     

  6. Whitespace on Google Go Capturing Developer Interest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Too bad they added significant whitespace. I'd support a semicolon-less syntax, but not at the cost of significant whitespace.
    Perhaps an alternate function call syntax or using {}instead of () in expressions would work.

  7. Re:Ayn Rand had a lot to say about this on Valve's Battle Against Cheaters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IMO every Quake Instagib server should have a (callvote) option for insta_weapon 1 (great fun, but
    aimbot cheaters usually get bored very soon)

  8. Re:Another JVM on Swiss Firm Claims Boost In Android App Performance · · Score: 1

    IME, GC can only be faster if you can afford to 2x the RAM (physical, because virtual more or less doesn't work for GC, unlike malloc/free) and you have problems with fragmentation in malloc/free program (but going to 2x RAM will more or less solve it there too).

    Please don't say that GC allocation is fast without accounting for freeing too, otherwise you are just moving the bottleneck where it cannot be easily accounted for.

  9. Re:Google Fail..... on Google To Challenge Facebook Again · · Score: 1

    There are two reasons for not using wave:
    1. it's slow (even firefox 3.6).
    2. no "standalone server" yet, that I could install at work, or for my _private_ stuff

  10. Re:Why only with tabs? on GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI · · Score: 1

    Because thats 1000 times worse than 2 or more toplevel windows.

  11. Re:Argh. on GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI · · Score: 1

    Click to focus makes sense to users that mostly use the keyboard (also for switching focus). Especially since mouse focus is/was often incorrectly implemented as "focus window under mouse".

    If you use only the mouse, you don't need focus anyway.

  12. Re:Good on New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try it with a horse.

  13. Re:Drive By Wire not really the problem on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    >There is still no excuse for Toyota not coding the ECU to cut throttle when it senses that the driver has BOTH the throttle and the brakes on simultaneously. All drive by wire VW/Audis are setup this way.

    I really hope this happens only partially and under hard braking.

  14. Re:Blame piracy on Future Ubisoft Games To Require Constant Internet Access · · Score: 1

    QFT

  15. Re:Oh great, another subdized vehicle... on Chevrolet Volt In a Gasoline-Only Scenario · · Score: 1

    If Volt had electric 4 wheel drive, it would be much more interesting for the price.

  16. Star Trek on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    Just reboot back to the ST:TMP.

  17. Re:Big Plus! on G-WAN, Another Free Web Server · · Score: 1

    It's not too bad if it's a per-request fork()ing server. But under Windows... :(

  18. Re:Depends on your criteria on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    You don't want Schuko then. It will pull sockets out of the wall or the cords out of plugs/appliances.

  19. Re:How hard is it? on EU Wants To Redefine "Closed" As "Nearly Open" · · Score: 1

    It's NOT independant of viewing device. My A4 viewing device will not work properly with Letter formatted document.

  20. Re:Put the damn thing in neutral! on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    Try first braking without neutral (it should stop the engine).
    Otherwise, the engine could be ruined if it can't be stopped.

  21. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Toyotas, but I've notices some cars with electronic power steering have much poorer feedback than my car which has hydraulic power steering.

  22. Re:That's nothing on Kindle Finally Ready For Global Distribution · · Score: 1

    Actually, if they have DRM, they are not "books", but more like a service.

  23. Re:You didn't expect this? Really want to help? on Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16 · · Score: 1

    You are confused. Perhaps you mean authentication != certification?

    Certification is something that CA's should do (that's what you trust them to do). Some don't. That's why the broken idea of EV certificates came about.

  24. Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    They can. The future version that will have separate threads for content pages and UI will be much better than the current system, if done properly.

  25. Re:Summary of /. Reaction to Proposal on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    I never used the toolbar for anything except most obvious things.

    I hate the ribbon for the same reason. 75% of the stuff could be
    easily removed from it.