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Comment Re:"Let me just take care of that for you." (Score 2, Interesting) 303

by dmt0 (#43853493) Attached to: Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign

You got it. It's designer-driven change for change's sake. The same problem as Gnome with Gnome3 and the same problem that MS have with Windows 8. Changes that nobody wants or needs - except bored designers.

Change for change's sake? I don't think Google is as mindless as that.

A list of emails that a person gets only says so much about the person. You don't quite control what other people are sending you - they do. On the other hand the way that you interact with your email and how you categorize and prioritize it (did you find that "mark as important" feature useful?) tells so much more about you.

Of course that feature is there only to alleviate the stress from you and stop the inbox from being your master, nothing more.

Comment Re:They are trying for fame and fortune! (Score 4, Insightful) 24

by dmt0 (#43764755) Attached to: Syrian Electronic Army Hits Financial Times Sites, Feeds
"Syrian Electronic Army Was Here"

Is that all they've got? I mean last time a twitter account of Associated Press was hacked, just one post from it caused a flash crash on the markets with HUGE amounts of money changing hands:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-23/twitter-hack-compete-evaporation-all-market-liquidity-one-chart

And these guys are posting "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here"??

Comment Re:Yeesh (Score 4, Interesting) 118

by dmt0 (#43643715) Attached to: The Body's "Fountain of Youth" Could Lie In the Brain
In yogic tradition the location of hypothalamus coincides with what is known as bindu visarga. From that point emanates amrita, which is roughly translated as the nectar of immortality. It is considered that it flows downward from that point and gets consumed by the digestive system. Certain techniques, usually involving inverted body position, reverse the flow of amrita, which can than get assimilated by the body.

http://www.satyananda.net/articles/introduction-to-kriya-yoga

Submission + - Has Lego Sold Out?

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Matt Richtel and Jesse McKinley write in the NY Times that for generations of American children, Legos were the ultimate do-it-yourself plaything. Little plastic bricks, with scant instructions, just add imagination. But today’s construction sets are often tied to billion-dollar franchises like “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings” and invite users to follow detailed directions, not construct their own creations from whole brick. It’s less open-ended, some parents and researchers say, and more like paint-by-numbers. “When I was a kid, you got a big box of bricks and that was it,” says Tracy Bagatelle-Black. “What stinks about Lego sets now is that they’re not imaginative at all.” Lego loyalists are quick to defend the company. Josh Wedin, the managing editor of the Brothers Brick, a Lego blog, called complaints that they are less creative “simply ridiculous,” adding that Legos always included some instructions, though he says he misses the alternative designs that used to be on the back of the box. But Clifford Nass, a sociology professor at Stanford University who studies how people relate to the physical world versus the virtual world, says some essential qualities were lost when Lego became more like other toys. “The genius of Lego was, you had to do the work.” Learning about frustration, Nass says, “is a hugely important thing.”"

Comment Re:Wait for Haswell (Score 1) 260

by dmt0 (#42223515) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support?

If you can wait awhile longer before buying, Intel's upcoming Haswell processor is reported to have significantly improvied graphics performance, and Intel GPUs are well-supported with free drivers in Linux and Xorg. They're less-powerful than NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, but should be fine unless you need to play high-end games on high quality settings.

Yes, and than wait another year or so until they get the drivers to work properly, which they still didn't with Sandy Bridge.

Comment Re:Not sad at all (Score 4, Interesting) 260

by dmt0 (#42223479) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support?

The "Sandy Bridge" and "Ivy Bridge" stuff is nice.

I have an Ivy Bridge laptop. What's so nice about it? How much time has passed since the hardware release? I still have tearing artifacts around every title bar on KDE, all because of bugs in drivers - both with Ubuntu's default driver and the one from PPA.

It's all great that their drivers are open and free, but quality-wise they have always been a mess.

At this point, if you want a great out-of-the-box support, all you can do is wait. Either when Intel will improve their quality, or when nvidia fixes their optimus stuff. Don't know much about the AMD side of things.

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