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  1. Re:Only Phones Matter on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Systems need code, which is written on "supported, intentionally rooted" devices, currently Desktops & Notebooks. The ARM Netbook paradigm may also get developers, but there will always be a system to develop code on. Android doesn't have it for first-class apps, yet. Although their scripting tools can be done right on the phone. MeeGo (Nokia's outrageously expensive phone) can be developed on.. using common Linux tools.

  2. Re:Uhhh... Well... Ya on Should Being Competitive With Windows Matter For Linux? · · Score: 1

    OpenOffice has File-->Export to PDF. Don't know what output you wanted a PDF though, so just guessing.
    Zeitgeist is the big file search tool that's going in to Gnome 3 and others. I'd give that a try
    Edit config files? I haven't done that on my desktop Ubuntu machines in years
    It's unfortunate Wine stopped working with your program. Did you file a bug report when that happened? You may have gotten a quick response if it was just regressed.
    The only software I've had fail in Virtualbox was hardware-tied or DRM limited.

    In the end, the big virtue of Open Source is the community. Just ask & search; that's how I learn.

  3. Re:fucking city-living hipsters on Tesla Signs $60 Million Contract With Toyota · · Score: 1

    10/12 of the year it's > 100f heat index.
    - Groceries: 14 mi (for good quality)
    - Work: 12 mi (most job growth county)
    - Relatives: 105mi (expect weekend visits)

    My suburb's "in town". Cars are indispensable for billions of people.

  4. 1960s on Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Instead of the 1960s steel desk & chair, particle board & plastic took those over & we went on.
    We will do with scarcity until someone gets rich with a solution. Someone recently found a dirt-cheap replacement 90% of our use for Platinum. Fluorescent lights skirted the extreme Tungsten scarcity so well that most people didn't even know. Future articles should list unsolved problems so sharp minds can get started.

  5. Re:Games on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    The web overtook the casual & social games markets. HTML5, WebGL, & canvas are a platform for realtime, networked games. They're taking shape now while the standard is pushed to browsers. And all Linuxes will play them.

  6. Re:Not equal on StarCraft AI Competition Results · · Score: 1

    I've found that strategy in SC2 also. A few early invisible guys slip to the back of their base and kill off the workers, then it's over. They don't often realize it happened, they attack with their remaining army, and they freeze.
    On the other hand, the SC2 AI is great if it should always on the offensive. My team has been hit with coordinated attacks that prevent us helping each other, especially when they run away.

  7. Re:Radio on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like our best bet. Yet we've broadcasted TV since the 60s. Any chance the SNR made it there? If so, we can already conclude nothing there cares for '80s MTV.

  8. apad $139 on OLPC Gets $5.6M Grant To Develop Tablet With Marvell · · Score: 1

    Looking at the product, it's available for $139.

  9. Re:The bigger question is: on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    Agreed with the size issue. I think Rsync would be preferable since Linux packages don't change much with security updates and may transfer less than the tracker. Apt already caches the packages, so retaining the latest version is no big deal.

  10. Re:The bigger question is: on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    apt-p2p replaced it.

  11. Mesh+Power solves spectrum? on FCC Set To Finalize Rules For Next-Gen Wireless · · Score: 1

    Mesh + multi-antenna directional + minimum hop power + (DTV & Wifi correction codes) should keep this as resilient as 2.4Ghz (phones & 802.11b/g) today, right?

  12. Water is rising on AMD One-Ups Intel With Cheap Desktop Chips · · Score: 1
    ARM, the "low water mark", has the A15 (not yet in production):
    • 4MB L2
    • Quad 2.5ghz
    • hardware virtualization support

    Power/heat wins causing mass-production for servers could reduce price. Plus licensees price compete.
    A Windows port would only need slow x86 emulation for non-.NET apps and could gain perf by using multiple CPUs during emulation, JIT, and mapping calls to native libs for performance.

  13. Re:not long for his job on Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' · · Score: 1

    Agreed! For a steel industry job years ago I wrote & open-sourced a PHP script that produced printable barcodes: barcode.php?b=any_text
    Many years later a bookstore on the other side of the planet had some questions & a fix request, so I did those for nostalgia reasons. It changed twice in 8 years and I imagine is well-used as a piece (or example implementation) in other things by now since it's considerably simpler than most implementations before it.

    As it was, the steel industry project was abandoned for an insanely expensive replacement that failed and was replaced again, mostly because management wanted shrink-wrap. The steel company went bankrupt because of mismanagement (of other business areas).

  14. Re:Weve seen that argument before on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    ...because any corp. who profits from "distribution" in the Internet age is living a dream.

  15. Acer returns Windows. on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    Twice I've bought an Acer laptops, drove to the service center (mailing works too), and returned Windows. I got a $65 check each time. When mailing, the price is almost a wash, but it sends a message.
    Do not open the box at all when you buy the laptop or this doesn't work.
    It worked for XP and Vista. I haven't bought a Windows 7 laptop yet. One needed a Webcam driver packaged, so "make && sudo make install" after kernel updates (in driver source) solved it until the next Ubuntu packaged it.
    I'm not affiliated with Acer.

  16. Re:Is India trying to *stab* its economy? on India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype · · Score: 1

    Wait, the nation of India wants to battle IBM lawyers?
    And if they win, that tells IT companies to send outsourcing elsewhere.
    I sure hope they run with this. It will help the American economy greatly.

  17. Re:Pfah. on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 1

    SQL can turn frameworks into mere reporting applications. If all logic, constraints, triggers, etc are in the SQL structure, there's nothing left to do but show & decorate a report, and dumb input that pushes to a smart SQL backend.

    This also multi-processes for programmers and is easier to audit when the saves and logic are together.

  18. Re:Already used in the UK on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    About time someone said that.
    "Who watches the guards?" - Socrates

  19. Re:America... on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    How? With all the censorship plus life-ruining events when teens just asking other teens for a photo, children are paranoid. This case is about finally helping Americans have the tools to let this fear/obsession go.

  20. Re:Forget the FCC on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    Interesting when blame is psychologically equivalent to giving away your ability to make change. So a citizenry without responsibility also is disinterested to change out-of-control government entities.

  21. Re:Windows has great anti-malware tech on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 1

    For simplicity, go with a live CD, no hard drive, and plenty of RAM. Ubuntu does this. I've even seen a Windows Live CD run. The only pain here is boot-up. You can even setup everything caching to RAM (Puppy Linux does this but that distro has safety issues).
    For bonus points, make the Ubuntu Live CD auto-login to the free 2GB of Ubuntu-One cloud storage to save Firefox bookmarks there, sticky notes, etc. Auto-login for the chat programs and Skype (installed & autostart).
    FREE BUSINESS IDEA: Someone make a website that spits out a custom Ubuntu Live CD/DVD given a list of programs, auto-logins,ubuntu-one, integrated bookmark saving to the cloud, etc.

  22. Re:Shitty Story on Net Neutrality — Threat Or Menace? · · Score: 1

    Windows wouldn't risk throttling Lotus Notes/Domino as many of those who recently got a PC with email are now trading in their PC for Macs and even iPads for checking their Notes/Domino email. PC users go for webmail as well. But Oracle wanted to own their software stack. Companies are actively avoiding a risk of traps by Operating Systems. With enough competition & openness in communications systems, the same could be true.

  23. Re:Hardware support is still weak on Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10 · · Score: 1

    I'm running SC2 with no hacks. An honest thanks to Blizzard here.
    Follow the few changes to Wine to get Warcraft 3 FT, WoW, Starcraft running.
    I haven't tried the older ones.
    Have you investigated Valve on Wine? In any case they're coming to Linux "soon".

  24. Re:A small business owner's viewpoint on Linux Wall Warts Small On Size, Big On Possibilities · · Score: 1

    This allows multiple servers better than the proxies (RAID, Dual Power Supplies) act like mainframes. Now anyone can have multiple physical servers for redundancy & load balancing, just like large companies do. Yet few software stacks expand to multiple physical nodes well.

  25. Re:Already? on Why Wave Failed · · Score: 1

    Agreed! New communication tools must either:
    - Allow everyone
    - Augment an existing communication protocol such that it includes the former userbase.