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Comment OSX Lion (Score 1) 1040

My experiences with Snow Leopard vs Lion

Dropped:

  • 2D array of spaces, replaced with 1D. Like remembering exactly how many screens away your work is when using multiple screens?
  • Tiling all windows in one screen so you can easily pick out the app window you want to access, replaced with ability to see all windows of one app at a time. Like working with only one app?
  • Ability to easily reorganise windows with one guesture, then a single click per window, replaced with a three step process per window. Say I have 10 windows I want to move, first move to the screen with the app window I want to move, then open mission control, then drag the app window to the screen you want it in.

Seriously, why Apple?

Submission + - Steve Jobs dead at 56 (theage.com.au)

skirmish666 writes: Apple's board of directors today released a statement confirming Mr Jobs's death:
"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/steve-jobs-dead-apple-confirms-former-ceo-loses-fight-20111006-1lag8.html#ixzz1ZxGguPVt

Submission + - Court rules Against Studios in Piracy Case (theage.com.au) 1

skirmish666 writes: The giants of the film industry have lost their appeal in a lawsuit against ISP iiNet in a landmark judgment handed down in the Federal Court today.
The appeal dismissed today had the potential to impact internet users and the internet industry profoundly as it sets a legal precedent surrounding how much ISPs are required to do to prevent customers from downloading movies and other content illegally.

Comment Re:Better go after those pirates (Score 1) 160

They're stealing potential profit! It's almost as bad as competition between businesses, or a consumer informing other consumers about a bad company/poorly made product. In all three cases, potential profit is being stolen.

We must stop these people from hurting our businesses. Also, this clearly wouldn't have happened if there had been super powerful DRM installed with the game!

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the business which is going to be suffering the most impact from this leak Bungie? AFAIK Bungie isn't doing anything more than running their own business, not hurting others.

Sony

Submission + - PS3 Finally Modded

skirmish666 writes: If it works as advertised, a USB dongle could soon break the PlayStation 3'(TM)s seemingly hackproof seal.

An obscure group called PS Jailbreak is selling a USB dongle that will supposedly modify the PS3 so users can dump backed up (aka pirated) games onto the system’s hard drive to play them just like legitimate copies.

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/ps3-dongle/#ixzz0x683hJcu

Comment Re:Bizzz.... WRONG! (Score 1) 341

+1 to your line of argument.

My 2c: it depends on your definition of "egg". The way I'd put it the egg as in anything that could be defined as an egg in the biological sense predated the chicken by hundreds of millions of years. The first egg would have dated from around the time of the first life defined as animal. The egg came before the chicken.

On the other hand: an egg as in a chicken egg, ie. something produced by a chicken would have to be produced by the first chicken which had evolved from something that is not quite a chicken. The chicken egg came after the chicken.

Science

Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses 211

sciencehabit writes "Thanks to an anlaysis of fecal samples from four sets of Missouri-born female identical twins and their mothers, researchers have concluded that human guts harbor viruses as unique as the people they inhabit; the viral lineup differs even between identical twins. Even more surprising? These viruses may be doing good work inside of us."
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Internet 92

MMBK writes "Our friends at JESS3 have unveiled The Ex-Blocker. It's a Firefox and Chrome plugin that erases all name and likeness of your ex from the Internet, even if they become a meme, or the president. You'll no longer have to threaten to delete your Facebook account or concoct an elaborate e-hoax to assuage the reality-shattering complications that are born from break-ups. Simply construct an Internet that omits bad vibes all together."

Comment Re:A couple of things (Score 1) 117

From the article:

The state first started using the machines in a limited trial during the last state election in 2006. It appears as if the machines were used for voting for the vision-impaired, as well as for military personnel.

Yeah, I'm in Victoria too and I've never seen an electronic voting machine. Maybe next election...

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