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  1. Gaming platform? on Browsers — the Gaming Platform of the Future? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not going to happen as long as the sound and input APIs completely suck.

  2. 6 cores, unlocked multiplier, ... on Intel's New Core I7-990X Extreme Edition Tested · · Score: 1

    And remind me again, how many unlocked hexacore AMD chips could I own for the price of one of these? Is it still 4?

  3. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've got a Jetway mini-ITX, and its BIOS/ACPI is so FUBAR that they managed to break *all* power management stuff along with access to the temperature sensor and fan speed controls. Y'know, the main reasons for buying a low-speed mini-ITX in the first place.

    And unlike all other mobo manufacturers I've used (Asus is good, and so is Gigabyte), this one seems to never, ever put out updates to fix their broken firmware, let alone add features to it.

  4. Re:God, I Hope They Shoot Him on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Can we shoot all the douchebags on TV too? Maybe then people in america might go do something with their lives instead of televising and satirising themselves into the permanent vegetative bloodlust that got them where they are now.

  5. Good for them on Firefox 4 the Last Big Release From Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Of course they promised a less stagnant release schedule when they were pushing 3.0 out, so I'm not holding my breath for Firefox 5.

  6. Re:Yet Another API on AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API · · Score: 2

    VA-API is the only standard that makes sense to implement, unless you like limiting your apps to nvidia/ati users only, or like writing three times as much code.

  7. Re:A nice call from a FSF lawyer perhaps? on Sony's War On Makers, Hackers, and Innovators · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but Krita wipes its ass with Photoshop and has done for a long time. The only people still using WinRAR are the ones living in a cave who've never heard of 7-Zip.

  8. Re:It's socket-compatible with the older Tukwila p on Intel Unveils Next Gen Itanium Processor · · Score: 1

    If that's the case then you're buying desktop CPUs from the wrong vendor.

  9. IE is a very common disease. on Retro Browser War: IE6 Vs. Netscape In 2011 · · Score: 1

    And like the common cold, it's not going to cause as much damage as say, smallpox - even though there's no cure for it yet.

  10. Re:Who? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a Milgram Experiment, and you are the test subject. You pretty much failed.

  11. Correct title: on Australian Telco Telstra Complies With GPL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Telstra profits off software piracy for half a year without repercussions"

  12. Re:Okay, I like my screen real estate... on Chrome May Drop the URL Bar · · Score: 1

    GTK+ tried to pull the same thing with the file chooser by putting a "bookmarks" dropdown there and hiding the path box behind an undocumented keyboard shortcut. Thankfully the userbase didn't let them live that one down.

  13. Re:Checkmate: Intel on AMD Sale to Dell Rumored · · Score: 1

    And then everyone dumps x86 for the cheaper, more power efficient ARM and Intel dies too. One can dream...

  14. Re:HP and wireless have a special relationship any on Recent HP Laptops Shipped CPU-Choking Wi-Fi Driver · · Score: 1

    Wow, just the other day I found out Lenovo was guilty of doing that too.

  15. Re:$3500 to get black listed by ever IT corp. on Piracy Whistleblowers Paid $57K In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Are you 100% certain that every piece of software in your company is licensed?

    Yes. Most of it's licensed as GPLv2. The windows installs are kept strictly quarantined and accounted for.

  16. Re:Missing the point on Microsoft Offers H.264 Plug-in For Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    So what happened to the looming threat of the MPEG LA suing end users when the current free hit runs out in 2016? Did that just suddenly stop existing because it's convenient to omit it?

  17. Re:Microsoft supporting choice? on Microsoft Offers H.264 Plug-in For Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    Just to be clear, this is the same ISO that allowed the Microsoft "Office Open" XML specification to circumvent the normal standards process, right? You're telling us to pretend they're a credible organisation?

  18. Re:Put money where mouth is on Microsoft Offers H.264 Plug-in For Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that a format that was only open sourced a few months ago is already within 50% of the quality of one with practically infinite resources behind it, and the best encoder they could find at that.

  19. Re:.. Not again on Microsoft Offers H.264 Plug-in For Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    If I'm uploading video to a website this is a no-brainer. I don't have money to burn on video format encoder licenses, so WebM it is.

  20. Re:So.... on TI Plans Minority Report UI Using ARM SoC + Projector · · Score: 1

    And they'll sue people who try to write homebrew apps for it, like they do to owners of their calculators.

  21. Re:I thought AOL on AOL To Buy Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    They did, but they repurposed their account cancellation call centre to handle the chapter 11 filing

  22. Re:Say it isn't so. on Anonymous Isn't Anonymous Anymore · · Score: 0

    George W. Bush is catholic?

  23. Re:Could have been worse. on Designer Tweets Egyptian Riots Due to His New Line Coming Out · · Score: 1

    Wow, how desperate for attention does someone have to be to drag out trivial shit like that for half a year? If you cared about making a positive difference you wouldn't be running a blog devoted to stalking a webcomic artist.

  24. Re:heavy! on Low Budget Air Space Photography · · Score: 1

    It's 2011, and Slashdot apparently still doesn't support anything outside the EBCDIC character set.

    £?

  25. "would soon be overtaken by open platforms" on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    How's DD-WRT working out for your business, Netgear?