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  1. Re:BTRFS experiences? on Linux 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Enabling compression actually was what made better performance for me. Of-course to do it right you need to remount the partition at the OS install phase, or copy the files afterward (as it's compress-on-New-file-write).

  2. Re:Sounds like Windows' IIS on Linux 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    The difference being this is a previously-unimplemented feature of a standard approved a decade ago, so lots of eyes have already considered it.

  3. Re:One has to wonder... on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 1

    I've got kids, I don't wonder. They put everything in their mouths. The 4-year-old's leather shoes are a favorite teething toy for my younger one. Heck in the 1800s people were chewing straw for fun. Things were probably going good, but for one kid, things were doing much better. It would make an interesting story though.

  4. Re:is it a mutation? on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 2

    One mutated birth who gets to eat vastly better than the rest of the tribe (as-in not dumb skin & bones) equals likely diffusion. Breeding with the strong, smart (brain nutrients from article), well-fed-looking one becomes very likely.

  5. Re:Faster is fine - do we need thinner? on iPhone 5 GeekBench Results · · Score: 1

    Well, F = M * A, so smaller does help the same strength materials be less fragile.

  6. Re:Opposite of my experiences on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 handles a never-before-seen "new" non-generic mouse with the new hardware dialog which is hidden by a game.
    Thanks for re-iterating my point that not all tuners work in Linux.
    What TV Tuner software do you use?

  7. Opposite of my experiences on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A friend of mine uses Ubuntu & his wife has a Windows machine (just married). She bought an all-in-one for its scanner. After hours of both of them fighting Windows drivers, they were out of time so the plugged it into Ubuntu, opened "Simple Scan" and hit scan. It worked of-course.
    Plug-in a new mouse while you're in a game on Windows 7? It won't work. Works fine in Linux (for any game ran in any way).
    WinTV card? I have my choice of apps to use it with in Linux that cut commercials, reencode, etc. In Windows it's WinTV.exe (worthless) or nothing. (and most of those cards work despite being obscure hardware).

  8. Re:Linux should work for me because ... on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    So if your phone is Android:
    - Amazon MP3
    - Google Calendar
    Done for phone sync & it's automatic & wireless.
    IF, I don't know about that, but most MUDs have no problem being written in Linux. The others are easy. Check out osalt.com

  9. Read it all on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Here are some more ideas:
    From Android's side:
    Android has great apps, but suffers from an OS problem (limited hardware, OSS compatability, Dalvik-only ecosystem) that others (Ubuntu) cover. Make Android work on Wayland & use a good sound server that offers ALSA APIs (at-least), V4L2, standardize other hardware APIs similarly. Upgrade Ubuntu notifications to full Android notifications. Result: Ubuntu runs Android's apps. Android runs Ubuntu's apps.

    To HW Vendors:
    - Go Pre-installs! Microsoft's picking winners in the Laptop vendor front with Windows 8. Lets sell them on freedom from being left out.
    - Hardware will soon lock-out Linux entirely if they've never heard of us. Send brochures around introducing ourselves: kernel code compatibility written helps work out bugs, Linux as fallback to Microsoft lock-in. Encourage Linux verification to get a Linux sticker on their box.

    Unify: (you have not read this one elsewhere)
    - Easy way to jump in: Give me 2-3 steps to get a good IDE running with the latest code. Give me a 1-button way to suggest my code changes to the author via his preferred method (git, cvs, bazaar, email list), and an IRC client to the team that informs me of their typical schedule. This means standards & development, but make it public because Apple & Microsoft can't follow this one!
    - It's hard to make an RPM or DEB, but easy to make an APK. Lets get IDEs that spit out RPMs & DEBs. Use Android's strengths too.
    - Lets get a common, easy, unified filesystem: 1 bin folder, 1 lib folder. Metadata to present it as your menu & link it to man pages
    - More Weston developments that connect it with above new standards.
    - LXC to switch between Ubuntu, Android, and more today

    Image:
    Linux is the Apple alternative for the safety-minded, the price-conscious, freedom enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those browsing software (repos). It excels in Android compatibility and built-in free, safe apps. It excels in the web. For Windows software, some works. Like a library OSS is a public resource. It's what you make of it, so hit the button to jump into the IRC for some app & have true freedom to improve.

  10. Re:I drive that road regularly on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 1

    you'd think we were driving under 60mph. (Less-than sign ate my post).

  11. I drive that road regularly on Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been to the North-East US and understand that most roads in Europe look the same, so here's what's to know about this road:
    - This road is where there is a lot of flat land. Even at 85 you can see where you will be in a few minutes (and virtually not take a turn until you get there). You can also see any animals that may enter this road, but it's mostly a bridge anyway which avoids that.
    - There's nothing to see on this road. No billboards or distractions. No gas stations, restaurants, few farm houses. Few exits.
    - The road has heavy steel guard rails that would stop most anything driving along it. These rails are after over a car lane of margin. A few places don't where it's just flatland for 1000s of feet.
    - The state-standard noisy edge-of-the-road keeps drivers from hitting the road's guard rails.
    - If I drove you on it blindfolded (in a car whose engine noise doesn't give away the speed like mine does), you'd think we were driving - Very light traffic. No old cars
    - The biggest risk was just getting bored, & speed helps this.

  12. Re:No. No. Fuck no. on Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher · · Score: 1

    I could see this happening in terms of gifts willed. It could also take the form of a death tax, but there are legal ways around that (and always will be). Much like Linux involves big companies yet the greatest collaboration is free (same for robotics libraries). We even have non-for-profit manufacturing (Raspberry Pi). If that organization could produce for 5% of what they charge now, they would sell it for that. Perhaps that is what the migration (or final result) would look like: non-for-profit companies making everything for very little money until the cost itself doesn't matter to be recovered by the owner (like some websites).

  13. Same transparent aluminum thought on Wood Pulp Extract Stronger Than Carbon Fiber Or Kevlar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Transparent aluminum is ballistics-resistant so much so that it doesn't even scratch. It's also much more expensive.

  14. Re:Does Windows 8 have an opt-out feature? on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 5, Informative

    I took my shiny, still-wrapped laptop box to an Acer service center to return Windows 7. They swapped my hard drive for a blank one & I was mailed $65. Not bad for a laptop I bought $300.

  15. Re:Reminds me of TradeWars 2002... on This Is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like · · Score: 1
    history fragment:
    • They got better & easier for everyday people to use.
    • The sophistication became such that you were playing a different game than the original (bot manipulation in GUI).
    • Eventually people became real programmers from the effort and went on to do something worthwhile in there lives when it was clear that there was no resources left to loot in TW2002.

    Am I now a SciFi writer?

  16. Re:Why Wayland? on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    DirectFB has severe limitations that can't be "fixed", and even X11 provides more than it offers: Input handling, multi-monitor, hardware acceleration. Wayland allows zero-copy handoffs of a buffer to the server (through video card memory) which can then use harware acceleration to compose into a final multi-window image. Many toolkits already render buffers on the video card, so keeping the data there results in fewer copies. Even cell-phones have hardware acceleration now, so keeping images in video ram is just logical.

  17. Still works on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 1

    Support arrows go the other way. Wayland uses X11's direct rendering which is works great for ATI in 2.6.38 & for Nouveau (open-source NVidia driver). NVidia's the "worst-supported", but it still runs, just at slightly slower than it should.

  18. Re:Ubuntu to developers: "pound sand" on Ubuntu Still Aims For Wayland in Quantal Quetzal · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sure. X11 needs replacing because its hardware acceleration is worse than Wayland. X11 is actually many programs acting like layers: window mgr, compositor, greeter, locker, etc will be only 1 under Wayland. And still the design is simpler than any one. It's not that the code is being added, but that a no-longer-useful X11-style abstraction is being let-go.

  19. Re:So much for the model of .. on Is the Google Nexus Q Subtraction by Subtraction? · · Score: 1

    I want those! I like these mini-computers, but their biggest problem is finding a box for the combination of ideas you have for them. If everything followed the "lego-usb" (no infrigement there) standard, then hobbyist stick PCs would be easier to build/package/sell.

  20. If a single boot program needs >4gb then it's a problem. If a mobile app needs > 4GB and that's not obvious at design-time, then it's a problem. Process-in-a-tab browsers should be safe. Anything higher-end is intended to be X64. For future design, this is yet another reason to keep programs of limited size & using multi-processing (using message passing) where such a choice can be made.

  21. Re:Speed versus complexity on Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM · · Score: 1

    Enough backward compatibility is a big reason why they're in tablets: because upgrading C-side Android software from the smart phone is a recompile with virtually no gotchas. Phones are always about the battery life and ARM is an order of magnitude better here while being fast enough to eek by.

  22. Re:What? on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    That's a reality. Use a tiny OS shim and all the above features once added are instantly available in the nightlies for all platforms. It's been this way for decades.

  23. Teach kid respect on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    I got my 2-year-6-month-old a 8" cheap-o Coby Android tablet and a leather-like A-frame case. I tell her to leave it on the table. Sure she touches it too much, but we clean off the fingerprints. If she closes what she wanted, she learns quickly not to do it again (no punishment needed). She's used it for 8 months now and it's just as good as (a useless $80 android tablet) can be.
    The Tango video-chat app is your friend in this place, and is easier to administer from afar to grandparents since it's just a smartphone app (or a desktop app if you want the torture). Add some edu-tainment videos & moboPlayer (mobo-team) for even better results. All free apps. Then use Seal ($3) if you accidentily added purchase-capable app-stores (or just don't add those stores).

  24. Re:Not far enough on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 1

    Thank You! Thousands of major accidents yearly would be solved by roundabouts in Texas.

  25. Re:This is the biggest challenge facing football on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Only the desperate? Over half of American adults are jobless. Good parenting's not enough to tame that pool.