Comment Re:Memeory Leaks (Score 1) 145
Quite true. I love FF on Windows, but on my Linux box at work I have to reboot it fairly often due to its memory consumption being > 1GB
Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 152
If it prevents you from putting certain other things in that spot, it may very well be even worse than a charger plug.
Comment Re:Staples (Score 1) 504
I wish I had some mod points for you. If this is fraud (which it probably isn't) then the correct action is to take Best Buy to court. If it is just a bad deal, then educate yourself and your family/friends and don't buy it. Simple as that.
In fact, the best (meaning fastest, easiest, and most efficient) way to motivate people to do/learn something is by having it impact their wallet.
Comment Re:Fedora 11 and Flash works here... (Score 1) 223
Didn't Ubuntu 9.10 ship with a but that causes AAAA queries to be sent even if you don't have any IPv6 addresses? I believe the workaround of disabling IPv6 in Firefox was much simpler than disabling IPv6 system wide. F11 might have a similar issue. Cut the guy a little slack.
Comment Re:"Contributing" is impossible (Score 0) 332
You are so wrong that I think you might be a Troll, but I'll bite anyway.
where of course you assume that the person who had the money in the first place really deserved to have it.
Whether or not the person deserved the money, the government forcibly takes the money away. Whether or not the person deserved the money is up to the person who gave him the money, not to the government or you (thank god).
but a lot of persons today earn money without doing any useful work (e.g. they work for advertisment - creating artificial needs)
It's useful to the people paying them. Advertising can also inform people of solutions to their "real" needs. I'm not quite sure what an "artificial" need is.
or by doing harmful work (creating weapons, destroying the environment, etc...) or doing no work at all (just cashing in on their portfolio).
Weapons for self defense, no one runs a "destroy the environment" business, investing provides capital for people who produce things. These are terrible examples and are what make me think you're a troll.
the reason why some can earn a lot of money for nothing is in our system of society. this is an artificial system of laws and rules and it allows some to take the money from other persons without giving them anything useful in return.
Actually, the government is pretty much the only group that can force you to give them something without getting anything useful in return. You don't have to pay money to advertisers, weapon makers, or any other individual business unless you choose to.
so taking the money from people that have that money because of some artificial rules by an other rule (the tax system) is just one way to try to compensate the many faults of the capitalist system.....
You are implying that a fault of the capitalist system is that it is "artificial". That is silly. There are many faults of the capitalist (or at least the pure free market) system, but the fact that it is "artificial" is not one of them.
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Your name is attached to your post. You don't need to add it again.
Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398
plasmacutter writes "The Video Lan dev team has recently come forward with a notice that the number of active developers for the project's MacOS X releases has dropped to zero, prompting a halt in the release schedule. There is now a disturbing possibility that support for Mac will be dropped as of 1.1.0. As the most versatile and user-friendly solution for bridging the video compatibility gap between OS X and windows, this will be a terrible loss for the Mac community. There is still hope, however, if the right volunteers come forward."
Pirates as a Marketplace 214
John Riccitiello, the CEO of Electronic Arts, made some revealing comments in an interview with Kotaku about how the company's attitudes are shifting with regard to software piracy. Quoting:
"Some of the people buying this DLC are not people who bought the game in a new shrink-wrapped box. That could be seen as a dark cloud, a mass of gamers who play a game without contributing a penny to EA. But around that cloud Riccitiello identified a silver lining: 'There's a sizable pirate market and a sizable second sale market and we want to try to generate revenue in that marketplace,' he said, pointing to DLC as a way to do it. The EA boss would prefer people bought their games, of course. 'I don't think anybody should pirate anything,' he said. 'I believe in the artistry of the people who build [the games industry.] I profoundly believe that. And when you steal from us, you steal from them. Having said that, there's a lot of people who do.' So encourage those pirates to pay for something, he figures. Riccitiello explained that EA's download services aren't perfect at distinguishing between used copies of games and pirated copies. As a result, he suggested, EA sells DLC to both communities of gamers. And that's how a pirate can turn into a paying customer."
DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo 201
MojoKid writes "The PC demo for Codemasters' upcoming DirectX 11 racing title, Dirt 2, has just hit the web and is available for download. Dirt 2 is a highly-anticipated racing sim that also happens to feature leading-edge graphic effects. In addition to a DirectX 9 code path, Dirt 2 also utilizes a number of DirectX 11 features, like hardware-tessellated dynamic water, an animated crowd and dynamic cloth effects, in addition to DirectCompute 11-accelerated high-definition ambient occlusion (HADO), full floating-point high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, and full-screen resolution post processing. Performance-wise, DX11 didn't take its toll as much as you'd expect this early on in its adoption cycle."
Bit-tech also took a look at the graphical differences, arriving at this conclusion: "You'd need a seriously keen eye and brown paper envelope full of cash from one of the creators of Dirt 2 to notice any real difference between textures in the two versions of DirectX."
Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 619
If you want people to use less electricity charge more for it and use the tax to fund something good like the huge budget deficit
Fixed that for you. You can't spend your way out of a deficit.
Comment Re:TRIM (Score 1) 112
Hmmm, I've lived on the West Coast (California) my whole life and have never heard "trim" used that way.
Comment Re:Clever? (Score 1) 105
Does it sting?
Comment Re:Why do corporations have to be people? (Score 1) 371
Come on. At least be honest. They'll listen to any lobbyist with bags of money. They don't have to be corporate.
Comment Re:This is easy to fix. (Score 1) 464
The first company to actually do what you suggest would be the first to go out of business.
Comment Re:fixed the quote (Score 1) 325
Fear campaigns is what the RIAA and their kin have been running, and it has done little to nothing to change hearts and minds. At least not in their favor.
Comment Re:it's called evolution... (Score 1) 582
It always amazes me how many people think the way you do, but there are several things wrong with this kind of reasoning.
First of all, it completely ignores past work. The rich don't become rich overnight. Their hard work starts in high school if not earlier. Even if they have rich parents to help them pay for the best schools they still have to get good grades, and then spend another 4+ years in college. There is a small minority who have parents powerful enough to push them through those things with poor grades, but it is not as if every kid with well off parents becomes well off themselves.
Second, you have to look at the skill involved in what they do. Anyone can hammer nails into a house, or use a leaf blower on the streets. It takes a lot more knowledge to successfully make something out of a business. Not only does it require a large amount of technical knowledge, it requires critical thinking, and people skills as well.
Third, you may think you see the upper management doing nothing but yakking and golfing but that is far from the truth about how much they actually work. When the roof builder goes home, he leaves his work completely. The management types never leave work. When they go home their work follows them. It even follows them on vacation.
Now, don't take this to mean that I don't think there are CEOs and management out there that are bad at their jobs and are vastly overpaid. There are. But for most of the successful people, "being in the right place at the right time" is a matter of always being there, so that when an opportunity comes they have the chance and skill to take it.
