Comment Re:Stupid fixed-position crap (Score 2) 2254
Thanks. This is much better. The fixed bars are extremely annoying.
Thanks. This is much better. The fixed bars are extremely annoying.
Am I the only one who has no idea what this poll is about?
Time travel, and it runs in Emacs now.
Even in a seemingly anti-apple place like this, I don't think there's much negativity towards OS X. It started with the iPod and continued with the iPhone/iPad because they're not open enough.
I dislike the iPortables because without modding I can't open a terminal and browse the filesystem, install arbitrary software, and look at the source. I suspect a lot of geeks want something that 'Just Works' AND is open. The anger comes from the thought that IF only Apple opened the iDevices then geeks could finally have this.
IMO the n810 which I am typing on now (and similarly the n900) is pretty damn close if only more developer efforts were directed towards it. Sadly few people care about open source so right now devices like the n810 show promise and the fade away into obscurity.
Hopefully Nokia with MeeGo will come a bit closer.
How are porn and strip clubs unethical?
This thing doesn't look at your surfing habits, and it's not available to those who download more than 30GB/month, which probably excludes many Slashdotters.
Please tell me you don't think Tor is secure in the manner you suggest?! It's not meant to be. Tor is for anonymity, not security for your information.
To put it more concretely, you want to use Tor if you don't want someone to know _you're_ doing something, which is not necessarily bad I should add. For instance, if you want to blog about what you saw last night in the alley. Tor isn't for sending information you don't want _anyone_ to read.
Anonymity protects you, not your data. So, you should use Tor for complaining about the government, and not to broadcast the location of your buried treasure!
Well, 640 light years ought to be far enough for anyone!
28 is a perfect number. It is the sum of all of its proper divisors. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.
How about just not visiting Slashdot for a day? The fact that you're so annoyed means that you'd probably benefit from less internet for a day. The internet doesn't matter that much. Who cares? It's just silliness.
This isn't as cheap as I'd like: http://www.pocketbookreader.com/PocketBook_360.html, but at $240 it does run Linux and supports DJVU along with many other formats. You can even download a terminal emulator for it. I've been looking around for e-readers and I'm thinking of getting this one. I would like to test it first but unfortunately it's not sold in stores around here.
A few years ago I was at a museum listening to the Goldberg Variations on these headphones attached to the wall. The displayed CD cover had Glenn Gould on it. Immediately when I started listening I knew it wasn't Gould; I turned the CD around and it turns out it was just a virtual recording, produced by technicians studying the record and trying to implement Gould's style. It wasn't anything like Gould. I mean, sure on the surface it was similar but it lacked that little bit that makes Gould so special, and that separated him from the rest. There will always be a place for real music.
Except that you can watch YouTube on the iPhone.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.