Comment Re:Oh? (Score 1) 4
Ah, thanks.
Comment Oh? (Score 1) 4
[cryptic response]
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 5
Hooray! Congrats!
Comment Never had one burn out (Score 1) 278
I've never had a CFL fail. I've been replacing incandescents with CFLs whenever a bulb burns out. My oldest CFL is 7 years old and my newest is a little under 1 year old.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 5
Many of us are still living! Just a bit dispersed here and there.
Journal Journal: Circular Refuge on reddit 5
It's a happening place. There are upwards of 3, maybe 4 posts a day!
You should join us, if you like.
http://www.reddit.com/r/CircularRefuge
(message mods to join; can't let the riffraff on reddit in! Just our very own special riffraff.)
Comment First Post! (Score 1) 3
Hello there!
Comment Really? (Score 2) 185
Yeah, as long as you ignore "NVidia Optimus". I have a AMD-A6 based desktop, it works fine with the occasional glitches, but the only thing that is truly stable and works for everything is called "Intel". There simply is no contest.
Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 173
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft [Wednesday] announced it is developing at least four new features for the next release of Internet Explorer (IE): Web Audio API, Media Capture and Streams, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2. The company says this is not an exhaustive list of what to expect in the next version, but merely what it is currently confident that it will be able to deliver. For those who don't know, HTTP/2 is a faster protocol for transporting Web content. It is based on Google's SPDY open networking protocol and is currently being standardized by the IETF. Web Audio is a JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in Web applications while Media Capture provides access to the user's local audio and video input/output devices. Promises is meant to help developers write cleaner asynchronous code."
Comment Re:are the people still running XP (Score 1) 322
Have you checked out VueScan? Works with an amazing range of scanners.
Comment Re:You know what I want? (Score 1) 124
Others, because it still works and they have no reason to waste money on a new machine. I know at least two such people. Me? I have WinXP Pro in a Xen DomU, just in case I need something windowsy. It's always on, and I connect to it using RDP over an SSH tunnel. Sure, I rarely use it, but it's there should I need it and it's a better solution than having a XP VM on each of my Linux machines.
At work I have a Win7 VM in VirtualBox, it is horribly, horribly slow. The XP VM on the same VirtualBox host, is snappy and quick.
XP might be dead, but it's makes a rather well preserved zombie.
Comment Re:Repeatable as Fuck (Score 1) 209
You can have all the laws of physics explain how things move etc, but how will they ever explain this consciousness?
May I introduce you to the concept of "argument from ignorance". It might be well that it can be perfectly explained by natural laws, just you and me are not (yet) able to.
I can't even prove beyond all doubt that others experience this phenomenon and are conscious. And I can't prove my consciousness to others. I just have to take it by faith that these "imaginary friends" called "you" and "I" exist.
If you go the solipsism route, nothing is certain any more. Even those physical laws you say explain how things move (etc), become totally uncertain in a solipsistic worldview. After all, it could all be just your mind and nothing truly exists.
Comment Re:Um (Score 1) 2
I suggested that. Cumbersome when working on big machines, apparently.
Journal Journal: Call for ideas 2
Call for ideas
#raspeberrypi #sip
Comment Re:Cutting out the middleman... (Score 1) 6
I'm a Linux person. Doesn't mean I don't keep myself informed about Mac matters and Windows matters. Sure, I openly tell people I will not support them if they are on Windows *any* version. Get OS X or Linux and I'll help you. Otherwise find someone else.
