Comment Re:there's your GNU/Car (Score 1) 445
You should get an AUTObuntu then. They've done all that work for you. You just get in it and go. The GNU/car is more for people who *LIKE* doing all that tinkering.
Comment Re:Sure. (Score 5, Informative) 520
Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.
Boo-freakin-hoo! Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 2, Interesting) 579
Actually, printing to the iPad is already dead simple (at least if you're on a Mac). Just drop an alias of the iTunes application in your ~/Library/PDF Services folder and name it "Print PDF to iPad". Then in the print dialog box, the PDF dropdown will have an entry to print to the iPad. It automatically creates the PDF and imports it to iTunes, ready to upload to your iPad the next time you sync.
Comment Re:It's illegal, for one ... (Score 1) 230
All very good points, and more than likely those same laws apply to most states/countries. This is also why you actually should do more research before filing a patent, which apparently this guy did, which I'm pretty certain is not a trivial or cheap task.
Did you actually read the patent? IANAPL but it is very enlightening.
Comment Re:use fixed point instead (Score 1) 158
instead of using floating point for representing decimal numbers, one can of coarse easily use fixed point... for currency computations, just store every value multiplied by 100 and use some fancy printing routine to put the decimal point at the right position.
and if you're afraid that you might mix up floating point and fixed point numbers, just define a special type for the fixed-point numbers, and define corresponding overloaded operators... oh wait
Do you work for these guys?
Comment Re:One way to get more registered voters (Score 1) 1088
Depends on the state. About half of the states legally require the electors to vote for whom the state tells them to.
Even in those states, the electors can still vote for whomever they wish. It's just that they potentially face state criminal charges after the fact for doing so.
Comment Even worse is... (Score 1) 315
The marketing department didn't get the memo about what file types aren't allowed to be shared. In the description on their own website it says:
Use This Product When You Want To... Listen to the music on your My Book World Edition drive while you're on vacation.
I guess if your music isn't WMA, MP3, or AAC you're good to go. They say they block OOG too. I guess that means that you can share your OGG music.
Submission + - Second Life, Nazis, And Exploding Pigs.
wetelectric writes: The first night I arrived at the protest against the Second Life headquarters of Front National, the far right French political party of Jean-Marie Le Pen, it was ringed on all sides by protesters with signs to wave and statements to distribute. By the second night I came (this was late last week), the conflict had become more literal, for many Residents had armed themselves. Multi-colored explosions and constant gunfire shredded the air of Porcupine, a shopping island which FN had inexplicably picked for the site of their virtual world HQ, in December.
— Second life makes jeebus cry.
— Second life makes jeebus cry.
