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  1. Re:Isn't it all about options? on Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell · · Score: 1

    LLVM's cross-platform interpreter & compiler may overshadow GCC, CLR, coding software on video cards, and maybe Java.

  2. Re:Interpret it correctly on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    AI interprets human language with certain base definitions that map undeniably to physical entities or transformations. This is how everything learns language and what lawyer-speak misses.

  3. Re:Interpret it correctly on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    Exactly! That's intentional. It's dividing up rights. No restrictions = no restrictions for place. All other regulation falls to the States, like how to regulate militia. As for what constitutes arms, is that a debate?

  4. Re:The next chinese will be robots on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    It helps jobs in:
    - Import / Export jobs
    - Suppliers (whose goods will be inspected to not be laced with Cadmium, lead, etc)
    - Programmers (hey!)
    - robotics jobs (growing a small industry in America)
    - robotics management (assembly lines still have workers feeding material, etc. I.E.: i-love-lucy).

  5. Re:In another hell-hole of a country? on Where Will Your Next Gadget Be Made? · · Score: 1

    As a greedy industrialist, you need more than cheap labor to make outsourcing work. At the minimum, you need
    - safety of your goods & supplies,
    - a cheap way to move a large amount of supplies & finished product
    - Electricity, water (as necessary for whatever manufacturing)
    - The ability to have mass people in a small area with necessary sustenance
    - Peace-loving people who will not fight when in close proximity

    In lacking areas, you need to bring your own infrastructure & (in some places) government (or takeovers). This is costly.

  6. Re:Actually it usually does on Mysterious Radio Station UVB-76 Goes Offline · · Score: 1

    Agreed, the apathy does no one any good. Where's the investigative branch of this governmental system, since complete stories are required for Democracy to work? I'm not seeing it from NewsCorp and no one trusts (or follows up) on bloggers.

  7. Re:This is sad really on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    Computers have caused much of the high unemployment of high-currency-value countries by making management processing automatic, but I think automation will return manufacturing from the low-currency-value countries for quality reasons.

    Computers are the cost for using the Internet, which is important. It's ending control-by-secrecy cultures and sharing those cultures of interest. Its set to take down unjustified culture-based rules. As the first anyone to anyone medium, this is changing humanity in positive ways.

  8. Re:Security? on Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims · · Score: 1

    Distro design: Unlike Windows, Ubuntu by default...
    - has no open ports.
    - doesn't auto-connect to open Wireless networks.
    - patches old libs instead of antiviirus reliance.
    - limits administrative actions to a recent retype of the password.
    - never comes with high-risk software like IE.
    - doesn't run closed-source binaries of unknown origin (hacker for the cheapest price) as root.
    - runs software sandboxed to the user and unable to make system modifications

    Hope that gets you a starting point.

  9. Re:Some Helpful Advise on Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims · · Score: 1

    No one runs that because upgrades are free & easy with Linux.
    Ubuntu Linux installs and runs with no open ports by default (and has for years). So a 10 year old Ubuntu online has no vulnerabilities you can use to remotely attack it (until Firefox or other software runs).

  10. Re:More efficient?? on Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting to see how it does on Facebook games.

  11. Re:You don't on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    Gaming: Manipulating a virtual world via its logic, using a computer (or similar).
    closely resembles:
    Game Programming: Crafting & adjusting a virtual world and its logic using a general-purpose computer.

    It's far closer than car driver ==> mechanic.
    Especially anyone with creativity, after enough game exposure they may want to see how a different scenario would play.

  12. Re:Python would be my first choice. on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 1

    I've had a lot of luck taking bat files and simplifying them into Python scripts so much that I think in Python now instead of batch files for batch-like processing.

    That said, there are great testing frameworks you can extend with your own tests. They work with a limited language sets (C++) but you can call a batch file from there.

  13. Re:No candidates, please on Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa Synaptic, third party, add:
    ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

    And it's for all 9 Ubuntu releases.

  14. Re:But Windows 7 Is So Schweet! on Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    Add either of the 7zip command-line utilities and File Roller will "just know" how to use it.

  15. Re:But Windows 7 Is So Schweet! on Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    Good to know, because I'm desperately looking for a link to a strategy game as intricate as Warcraft 3 or even Starcraft that runs natively in Linux. Do you have that link?
    My company can't move either until a mult/nest program is available too.

  16. Re:The Wrong Way on Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    W32 viruses in Wine are mere amusements. Viruses don't use APIs "right" or else the would all need to call W32_create_virus() :). Most attack Outlook or try to take over irq handlers that don't exist. Even the "don't look at task manager" bugs are pointless. The worst is if they tried to delete Z: or other holes outside the "sandbox".

  17. No other way. on Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA · · Score: 1

    I can buy a steel plate that has 10-billion holes per square inch (used for an industrial centrifuge). I'm sure there's a patent on how they made it. Just looking at it, I've got no idea how they did it. It must have taken research effort. Many of today's patents take no research effort (obvious), so they're unavoidable.

  18. Re:No love got the G1 on Google Outlines Feature Set For Android 2.2 · · Score: 1

    Actually a good reason to care about 2.2 is that apps can now fit on the SD memory, so G1's tiny OS partition is usable now.

  19. Re:Where the money goes on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 1

    Courts currently require this profit-hungry attitude. If instead they measured adherence to a mission statement (corporate contract) then peer pressure would come in to play. Who wants to be on the Fortune 500 list of most evil mission statements?

  20. Re:Gee, didn't someone get lynched for saying that on Wii 2 Delay Is Hurting Nintendo · · Score: 1

    Or they could somehow target a new audience with a new game as that's how they got such sales in the first place.

  21. 1 key: car on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 1

    I only have a car key. The car has my mailbox key in it. My car also has a garage door opener. When I bike the neighborhood I don't take keys since I have a button box for the garage. Wife lives here, no roof access, and the house door has both locks locked.
    If someone stole my car, they wouldn't know what house to use the opener (and I can wipe its access since it's a Sears opener). They could only steal my mail (a federal offense) if they could ever figure out which unmarked box among hundreds is mine.
    Other keys (for the safe) are hidden in the house.

  22. Re:This should drive the i7 price down on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 1

    Then why did MS do a Get The Facts campaign?

  23. Re:Isn't Oil? on Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet" · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's just as green in that sense
    **Looks at other tab with Gulf Oil Spill**
    But it's an environmental atrocity, if it's not pouring over animals it's ruining ozone, acid raid, air pollution, etc. Then, it's not renewable.
    Business-wise, all the keys are held by a rich few

  24. Re:Yeeeeeehaw! on Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet" · · Score: 1

    That's why Texas has aggressive Eminent Domain practices and offer few grandfather clauses for new laws.
    It's more of a wait-and-see government.

  25. Re:What are we to do with these? on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    They are now releasing dual and quad ARM chips at those speeds, which gets them around the midrange desktops.