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  1. Re:No surprise. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    Sorry, yes, they were originally all web apps. I can remember going to appopia.com and mockdock.com to "install" them by dragging a shortcut to the home screen.

  2. Re:No surprise. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    Ah, you are right. They were all web apps.

  3. Re:No surprise. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    Your right. I could have sworn otherwise though. I did get my iPhone late into the cycle, must have been close to the iPhone 3 release. Guess I just forgot just how close it actually was.

  4. Re:No surprise. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 0

    As an owner of an original iPhone, I can assure you that you are mistaken. I was downloading and installing apps on it when I first got it, and the iPhone 3G wasn't out yet when I got mine, or I would have gotten that instead.

  5. Re:No surprise. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 2

    Except the development of the iPhone started nearly 3 years before LG announced the Prada, and the iPhone was announced less than a month after the Prada.

    If the iPhone was truly copied from the Prada, you can bet that LG would have filed a lawsuit and be rolling in the money. Even they realize that it wasn't, and they have a lot more to lose than a poster on /.

  6. Re:Strange move by Assange on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 2

    That would be incorrect. You can detain and arrest people in diplomatic cars. You just can't detain those with diplomatic immunity. Ecuador would have to grant him that, and it would be difficult to do knowing that he is already wanted for questioning in a criminal investigation. Not impossible I suppose, but, it is twisting the intention of diplomatic immunity status. It's meant for diplomats, not for transporting criminals out of countries.

  7. Re:Hopefully... on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is apparent that you haven't actually read the charges or the complaint. He started in both cases with things that most civilized countries consider rape or some other crime. Unless you think it's appropriate that I walk up to your sister/wife/mother and hold them down, use my legs to forcefully spread theirs and then start pressing my penis against them. In what country is that legal? As the UK judges said, the fact that later they agreed to have consentual sex with a condom does not make the first act legal. In some countries saying you are going to use a condom, but then don't is illegal (apparently not in the UK). And again, in most countries, if the man purposely breaks the condom and the woman says stop, and he does not, that is illegal (again, apparently not in the UK). And waking a sleeping woman you has already said she doesn't want to have sex with you by initiating sex before they are fully awake, and not stopping when she says so, is illegal in almost every civilized country, including the UK.

  8. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    Reading isn't your thing, is it?

  9. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    Same way you do in Windows 7... Right click it on the taskbar.

  10. Re:Only Two Questions: on New Manufacturing Technology Enables Vertical 3D Transistors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would think this tech will come sooner, and while expensive, it should also increase performance while increasing density. Shorter traces = faster signals and less problems trying to coordinate synchronization between multiple paths since the difference between longest and shortest traces is reduced.

  11. Re:secure boot uefi on EU Court Upholds Microsoft Antitrust Fines · · Score: 4, Interesting

    UEFI isn't a Microsoft technology, but feel free to try and prove that an open consortium has a monopoly and abused it somehow.

  12. Re:VPNs on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    You must be new to this world. Registered owners of cars get to pay parking fines and speeding tickets no matter who was driving at the time. Driving offenses aren't criminal usually, don't require the same burden of proof, and the owner is responsible for the actions of those they loan their car to. In SOME cases, you can get an exception. For example, your car was stolen, but the burden of proof is on YOU. Usually a police report stating your car was stolen is enough, but it is your burden to prove.

    Now secondly, after your outburst of irrelevant know-it-all-ism, no where in the summary, or the linked article, or the original text does the words IP, convict, guilty, or even fine appear. So while the bulk of what you said is true, it has nothing to do with the subject. You might as well have posted that it's not right to instantly administer capital punishment for anyone using the letter P over the Internet just because pirating happens to begin with that letter. While also true, it applies just as much as your post.

  13. Re:Mixed feelings on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 1

    Braille

  14. Re:VPNs on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    And that has what exactly with anything at all? They are disconnecting the line and sending the information of the registered owner to whomever. It doesn't say squat about filing criminal charges against the registered owner. You must be new to the english language and reading.

  15. Re:VPNs on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    Actually, from what I've read, this actually sounds like a fair plan. Getting caught 3 months in 12? Really, if you didn't learn after the first letter, or the second one, and yet you still continue, you deserve what you get.

  16. Re:DDoS is Hacking on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 1

    Yes. It works quite well actually.

  17. Re:MySQL cluster on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10286

  18. Re:MySQL cluster on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    I've also seen MySQL silently, and undetectably corrupt it's data tables, returning bad results from queries until I manually kicked off a table repair process. I've NEVER seen that happen in MSSQL, and I've been using MSSQL since 6.5 (20ish years give or take a couple). Worst I've seen in MSSQL is queries running slow, and needing an index rebuilt. Far difference from slow to giving completely wrong answers with no hint of a problem.

  19. Re:MySQL cluster on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes. If you treat MSSQL as a dumb record manager with a couple indexes, the performance difference is a toss up. Complex queries tend to do better on MSSQL, where simple queries tend to do better under MySQL, especially if you make the choice that you don't want ACID compliance. And MySQL has a LOT of drawbacks to it, but if you know about them up front, you can often work around them in the application code.
    Bad choices for MySQL would be heavy geospacial workloads (mobile apps with "what's near me", business intelligence apps aggregating large amounts of data, data warehouses, and reporting databases). There are many features the MSSQL has that has no equivalent in MySQL, like BI, ACID & foreign keys at the same time, materialized views (absolutely necessary for enterprise apps with large amounts of aggregated data), geological indexes. I've yet to see anyone even using stored procedures and triggers beyond the moronically simple in MySQL.
    But like I said, if all you need/want is a simple record manager with a few indexes, which a lot of simple business apps want/need, then MySQL works extremely well. However, trying to say that it's a solid and mature database is silly. I've gone down that road, found bugs that were ridiculously simple (like backing up a small database with a hundred columns causes the backup to become corrupt, AND cause a buffer overflow -- yes the exploitable kind). I had to wait for a fix from MySQL, but it showed me just how immature the database was, when it couldn't even reliably backup or dump a table with a hundred columns in it. Really? Noone had ever done that before? Really opened my eyes.

  20. Re:why not SQL on the POS? on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    You realize there is nothing keeping that nifty windows based POS from using the cloud and if down, switching to a local copy of SQL Server to use as a cache until the cloud comes back up, right? Or always using the local, and having it replicate changes to the cloud as possible.

  21. Re:MySQL cluster on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    In all fairness, all decent .NET programmers can easily switch to using MySQL, Oracle, DB2, or Postgress. They all have .NET connectors that pretty much make switching between them fairly trivial. Even more trivial if you know this might be required beforehand.

  22. Re:Amazon RDL on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    It isn't difficult in most places to get a router capable of switching between two different internet connections, failing over from the primary to the secondary in a matter of a minute or so. Use cable & dsl, or cable & dial-up, or dsl & dish, or even cable & 4G.

  23. Re:Easy enough on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Doing backups while online (still running) work just fine, and will run as fast as your little hard disk can write.

  24. Re:Pedant alert! on MemSQL Makers Say They've Created the Fastest Database On the Planet · · Score: 1

    That's the second fastest database. My database has no tables, no records, and no fields. Every request responds back with NULL. It doesn't even have to parse the request, so it doesn't even attempt to read it.

  25. Re:How much of the 'operating system' needs to sig on Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 1

    Well the nice thing about doing it with Windows 7 is that you don't have all the left over legacy crap from doing an upgrade from Windows XP. All the defunct registry settings, outdated .dll's etc aren't still there when you are done. The second install is also much quicker since it doesn't have to do a full upgrade.