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  1. Re:I doubt it on High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? · · Score: 1

    We need a "like" button on slashdot

  2. Re:The Desktop Mirror on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    What would you base that assessment on? If that were true why would lInux, which had exactly the same combination of possible buyers (techies plus people seeking really budget computers) not have beaten Windows long ago?

    * flamebait mode on *
    Because Linux STILL F* SUCKS! Even tried to use linux for anything desktop remotelly serious? Office suites on it are still a joke (I am lookin' at you Open/LibreOffice), it is still hard to do anything gui-wise, some stuff still lacks any useful gui, while some other don't even had any. Try to configure sound for example. Or try to use any intel graphic card (majority of OEM PC's come with them). I use linux daily, have used from many distros, used gnome, kde, E15, E16, E17, XFCE, black box, you name it, but to say it is as usable as windows or OS X, that's a dream, and most tech users agree with it (even if they don't speak so, but OS usage figures speak wonders for that)

  3. Interaction Difference on Can Relativity Explain Faster Than Light Particles? · · Score: 0

    I wonder if light is being affected by space-time some way and neutrinos aren't. Then they measure the true maximum allowed speed better than light does. Taking that into account, how the theories will look like using c @ neutrino's speed ?

  4. Re:Let me know if I'm wrong... on Google Developing Master API — Web Intents · · Score: 2

    Google seems to be proposing a bit of javascript that anyone can add to their website,
    which will pull my data from any other enabled website I've stored information on?

    Why does this just seem like another entry point for abuse?

    Anything can be abused, give enough time and effort. It's just a matter of figuring if it is still worth giving how much useful it is still is. By the looks of the example it reminds me a lot of a ESB where You have services that do stuff registered in a common place, Google way seems like the REST counterpart of it.

  5. Re:OK, and what is new? on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 1

    Working with people on organizations over here, everyone uses a simple html template with their sig (simple html plus embedded company logo)

  6. Re:Real Reason on Why People Watch StarCraft, Instead of Playing · · Score: 1

    this is a phenomenon unique to starcraft, and absent from more strategic and better designed RTS games where playing the game is much more popular than watching experts

    It is not. I've seen many times in many games. I've done it myself for a variety of reasons. Seeing someone pretty skilled at RTCW:ET was very entertaining to watch in a Saturday afternoon (sometimes with a big cup of coffee on cold days where your fingers could barely move).

  7. Re:Sounds good to me on Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse · · Score: 2

    And while at it, look around for other opensource projects on their hand that they can't handle it themselves and work out the issue BEFORE another fork happens wasting everyone else's time

  8. Re:Great, yet another moronic April Fools Day on SlashTweaks Let YOU Micro-Edit Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Thats not even that old-school, just post-Phanton Menace if my memory even serves me right

  9. Re:Here is what I don't get... on Google Unveils Beta Chrome OS Notebook · · Score: 1

    If you dont parner with the device manufacturers, you ain't going to get any software into their system anytime quick

  10. Re:Need a better measurement comparison on Largest Black Hole Measured · · Score: 1

    And that couldn't be wrong, "42" is THE answer to the univer, life and everything else.

  11. Re:Use the Java Persistence API on Oracle Open Sources TopLink Java ORM · · Score: 1

    Mod points! My DAO's for modpoints! Mod parent way up!

  12. pWn3d on Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM · · Score: 1

    Even with a single copy of the file it can be cracked, just pass it to an equivalent process which remove some more of the file so when they compare they see no perfect match.

  13. Re:The basics. on Software Engineering of GUI Programming? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The MVC pattern is not the be all and end all of GUI design, and there are many cases where the articulation between View and ControllerSee? That's why you dont use these evil MVC-oriented programs, one just ate your post.

  14. Slashdot meets topic modelling on Text-Mining Technique Intelligently Learns Topics · · Score: 1

    Now that what it was missing so /. could get along without the dupes!

  15. Re:Core Duo vs. Core 2 Duo on Intel Launching 'Merom' Notebook Processor · · Score: 1

    Funny? I think I may need some better acid or something. Beyond that, I'm waiting to see AMD cores with equivalent caches being benchmarked againts the new intel chips, iif they survive the new 65nm chips that are expected next year or so.

  16. Re:AMD Vs Intel: Round 8 on Into the Core - Intel's New Core CPU · · Score: 1

    I got the same thing with mine, but it is an Asus motherboard. Try lowering your core voltage 0.5 V and see how it goes.

  17. Re:Newsflash! on Intel Mac Performance Behind Hype · · Score: 1

    Interesting? The pot moderators smoke over there must be amazing

  18. Re:Pivot Tables: Separating the men from the boys on Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Now, how many opensource spreadsheets apps out there support this? I know that openoffice supports it, but sucks badly when there is a huge ammount (eg: from a database query) of data to handle while excel makes it instantaneous. Last time I checked, KSpread didn't have it, neither GNumeric.

  19. Re:Q4 webpage on Quake 4 Linux · · Score: 1

    And they have sound in the page too ffs! The volumn was at maximum, I scared the hell out of my work mate when I opened it.

  20. Cheerleader on Shuttleworth on Ubuntu's Direction and Intent · · Score: 1

    Backgrounder: I'm 32 and counting, South African, living in London. Most of my time is devoted to the Ubuntu project as cheerleader and chief whip.

    So, did you used a mini and pompoms?

  21. Re:FireFox handles all my online bank sites. on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 1

    Eh? I'm the only one seeing your post doubled? geez, what you guy have put in my coffee? Now I noticed you're the only post like that. Maybe I saw a post dejavú? Now thinking you may have made that by mistake/on purpose or that I am crazy, I clicked on the parent link bellow showing that post and it's repplys, now I don't see it anymore. So I am crazy :(

  22. Hummm... on Hack IIS6 Contest · · Score: 1

    What if it gets hacked and the guy don't reveals itself?

  23. Re:Three ENGLISH articles instead of Babelfish on Next Generation X11 · · Score: 1

    Oh, great! Now we should see an editor posting these 3 links in an article and get /. crowd blaming on dupes.

  24. Re:Fonts look nice on GNOME 2.10 Beta 1 Screenshot Demo · · Score: 1

    That is the fourth time I've seen that link posted in this thread (yeah, i browse at +3 :P), but, really, the theme in these screenshots still suck! Someone has real screenshots with a nice looking theme? please?

  25. Re:Pascal isn't safe either on Gosling Claims Huge Security Hole in .NET · · Score: 1
    If you want to mess with pointers, it's really rather easy. Stick 'em in a variant (union) record, do your arithmetic against another named integer, and there you go.
    I can agree that pascal has it's flaws, but this? You will not get any kind of memory problems by using records and variants, unless you are using variant with OLE in some weird combination. Now, if you use the pascal pointes much like you do in C, or you work with arrays with range check turned off, then there you go.