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Comment The 3 things that hurt it. (Score 1) 505

1. Drivers (Music and Video mostly)
2. Drivers (Music and Video mostly)
3. Drivers (Music and Video mostly)

And this quote

"Linus, despite being a low-level kernel guy, set the tone for our community years ago when he dismissed binary compatibility for device drivers. The kernel people might have some valid reasons for it, and might have forced the industry to play by their rules, but the Desktop people did not have the power that the kernel people did. But we did keep the attitude."

Comment Universal Turing Machines (Score 2) 24

There is a reason there are 50 different definitions of computable function - they are not hard to come by. As a professional mathematician/theoretical computer scientist I find it totally unsurprising to find one in the Penrose tiles. If it is useful for something, that's different. But you build almost any sufficiently rich mathematical structure and you can interpret a subset of them as Turing machines.

Comment Re:Can we have some real content, Slashdot? (Score 3) 99

True, but your post is a classic "slashdot is has gone to the dogs." I am sure you can find a many posts from 2002 saying something like "I can't believe slashdot posted another stupid article about Theo and all the dumbass BSD flaming politics. Can we get on with the real news, or do I just need to go over to Ars for good?"

Comment Re:I had this issue (Score 2) 415

Actually the display aspect of a pdf on the kindle was wonderful for pdfs. They wrote a good pdf converter a few years ago and it's awesome. I love the unlit background. But the killer is that it is hard to navigate through a document. The kindle controls are terrible. And the ability to flip pages by tapping the screen on the iPad is crucial for me. Also, I thought about the pre-retina ipad last year, but decided the resolution wasn't good enough. The retina display really is better, and I can tell because of reading the pdfs.

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