djfreestyler - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hardly a surprise... (Score 1) 619

by djfreestyler on Thursday March 15, 2012 @12:18PM (#39365531) Attached to: Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police

The Dutch police doesn't even enter an house when there are two of them and they literally hear someone get tortured to death. I'm not making this up; this actually happened. The officers in front of the house could hear screams and moans and did absolutely nothing.

Yes because clearly, screams and moans can mean nothing other than someone being tortured to death. Here in Holland it is pretty reasonable not to assume the worst when you hear sounds like that, considering cases like those happen rarely enough. And would you honestly want the police to come knocking on your door whenever you're playing a movie just a little too loud?

On the positive side. If you manage to speed a little on the Dutch highways (you know, reckless driving where you dare to drive 85 - 86 km/hr instead of the allowed 80 km/hr) then chances are very high that you will get a speeding ticket. That's where the Dutch police truly excels.

So quite frankly, within this context this can hardly come as a surprise.

That is not really the fault of the police though, but the fault of those who say to them "you need to have X amount of tickets otherwise you don't get a bonus." Since catching a real criminal doesn't bring in any money but rather costs money, someone decided it is a far better idea to have the police fine you for speeding rather than catching that drug dealer living downtown. Not that I am happy with that, I think the entire idea of a minimum amount of fines is ridiculous.

Comment Re:Validity? (Score 1) 370

by djfreestyler on Thursday March 08, 2012 @11:49AM (#39288537) Attached to: For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu

The windows 7 start menu is much more sensible: and alphabetical list with clickable folders. It scales well, it doesn't require any dexterity to manipulate it. Just pin your most used applications and you're set. What is so difficult about that?

No it does not scale well. You know why? One simple reason: It has a fixed size. The Windows XP application list certainly had its issues, but at least it had one big advantage: It was able to use all your screen space. I have a 24" monitor and on Windows 7, this means the Start menu fill about 1/8th part of the screen. Which means that as soon as you want to find something, you end up needing to do unnecessary clicking and scrolling just to get to your application. ( Assuming you don't know the name of the application of course. ) If it could be resized, I could simply scale it to a size that I am comfortable with ( three quarters of the screen or so ) and avoid all the unnecessary scrolling. The addition of searching was pretty useful, I just don't know why they had to break the "classic" use case of the Start Menu for that. For the rest there really is little difference between the two versions of the Start menu.

Comment Re:So what is your suggestion then? (Score 4, Insightful) 412

by djfreestyler on Thursday February 23, 2012 @08:00PM (#39142303) Attached to: Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire

I don't understand why people get so upset when content makers try to control their content. If you don't like it, just don't partake of their content, but it's not worth getting all upset about it. If you think things should be different, then only support those companies that believe what you do. But surely you should never be watching any mainstream movie, because then you are buying into their beliefs

So by that same logic, if I sell you my car, you have no problems with me controlling where you drive with that car? And you also do not have any problems with me pushing technologies that allows me to remotely control that car? Or me pushing technologies that allow me to remote control your car even when you did not buy your car from me?

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