Comment Re:sorry, but Ubuntu failed hard this release (Score 1) 319
10.04 user since the whereabouts of alpha 4. No regressions here. Just sayin'. :)
Comment Re:Another article on SJ (Score 1) 686
Well, you probably need to be a licensee to sell licenses, right?
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=244
Instead of shrugging off stuff they can't bundle with Ubuntu ("it's not free so you're on your own boyo"), they offer a way to get it legally for those who wish to do so. In the meantime, Ubuntu still ships with H.264-hating Firefox, choosing it over Chrome/-ium. Oh so evil of them.
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=244
Instead of shrugging off stuff they can't bundle with Ubuntu ("it's not free so you're on your own boyo"), they offer a way to get it legally for those who wish to do so. In the meantime, Ubuntu still ships with H.264-hating Firefox, choosing it over Chrome/-ium. Oh so evil of them.
Comment Bad analogy guy, is that you? (Score 1) 789
How about banning bad and lazy applications then?
How about restructuring the store so that it presents good and fast apps before the cruft?
If the app store doesn't scale well with popularity, maybe it's the store that needs fixing, not the developers.
Oh, and while we are at it, do game consoles official SDKs also tie me to owning a Mac/Windows/specific flavour of Linux before I can even begin to consider starting any development? Do game consoles forbid you to use frameworks that build upon "the official SDK"? Are game consoles artificially limited to the makers' store? Have people have had any trouble of not-just-working-ess with the XBox because of this? Can I publish a puzzle game for the Wii, or am I forbidden because it partially overlaps with Nintendo's Brain Training? If I want to write a PS3 game in brainfuck, is there any EULA getting in my way?
How about restructuring the store so that it presents good and fast apps before the cruft?
If the app store doesn't scale well with popularity, maybe it's the store that needs fixing, not the developers.
Oh, and while we are at it, do game consoles official SDKs also tie me to owning a Mac/Windows/specific flavour of Linux before I can even begin to consider starting any development? Do game consoles forbid you to use frameworks that build upon "the official SDK"? Are game consoles artificially limited to the makers' store? Have people have had any trouble of not-just-working-ess with the XBox because of this? Can I publish a puzzle game for the Wii, or am I forbidden because it partially overlaps with Nintendo's Brain Training? If I want to write a PS3 game in brainfuck, is there any EULA getting in my way?
Comment Re:Dammit! (Score 1) 293
Welcome to Slashdot. You must be new here.
Comment Dammit! (Score 1) 293
Just when I thought I had managed in the impossible feat to make a /. submission where nobody complains about the summary... :(
Submission + - MS's CoApp to help OSS devolpment, deployment (msdn.com) 1
badpazzword writes: "Microsoft employee Garrett Serack announces he has received the green light to work full time on CoApp, an .msi-based package management system aiming to bring a wholly native toolchain for OSS development and deployment. This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will conversely bring OSS more users, testers and developers. Serack is following the comments at Ars Technica, so he might also follow them here. The launchpad project is already up."
Submission + - PS3 Owner Refunded for Missing OtherOS (blogspot.com)
Toxicgonzo writes: Amazon has given a PS3 owner a 20% refund for removal of the PS3's OtherOS feature. The owner cited European law Directive 1999/44/EC — which states that goods must:
* comply with the description given by the seller and posses the same qualities and characteristics as other similar goods
* be fit for the purpose which the consumer requires them and which was made known to the seller at the time of purchase
How many other European PS3 owners will follow suit? If Amazon foots the bill to Sony, how will Sony respond?
* comply with the description given by the seller and posses the same qualities and characteristics as other similar goods
* be fit for the purpose which the consumer requires them and which was made known to the seller at the time of purchase
How many other European PS3 owners will follow suit? If Amazon foots the bill to Sony, how will Sony respond?
Submission + - Inkjet-like device prints cells on burns (yahoo.com)
TigerWolf2 writes: Inspired by a standard office inkjet printer, U.S. researchers have rigged up a device that can spray skin cells directly onto burn victims, quickly protecting and healing their wounds as an alternative to skin grafts.
Tests on mice showed the spray system, called bioprinting, could heal wounds quickly and safely, the researchers reported at the Translational Regenerative Medicine Forumb.
Tests on mice showed the spray system, called bioprinting, could heal wounds quickly and safely, the researchers reported at the Translational Regenerative Medicine Forumb.
Comment Re:Good move (Score 1) 984
US billion or UK billion?
Comment Re:And yet they're still the only cards... (Score 1) 412
Are you telling me other card makers have even worse solutions than Xinerama for multi screen setups?
Comment Chrome OS (Score 1) 462
Sounds like what they really want is Chrome OS, then. (When it'll be out, that is.)
Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 308
That would be accurate if you could choose to not have a password.
Comment Re:Works here (Score 2, Insightful) 152
Considered that "Service Unavailable" is one of today's "tending topics" on Twitter, I'd say that's a bit more than one CDN node.
Comment Re:Choice?! (Score 1) 325
Car analogy fail. Windows isn't offering download links for Mac OS X or Linux. Try again.
Comment Re:Ubuntu needs two things added. (Score 1) 244
I didn't say it pops up at the first boot. Actually it didn't for me when I installed Ubuntu 9.10.
