Comment How about Linux support ? (Score 1) 325
The only thing I'm interested in, is how about the linux support ? AMD has been quite good lately, Dell has been so-so. With Dell buying AMD, I'm fearing linux support will go down.
Comment Re:Sell sell sell (Score 1) 479
People seem to follow your advice :)
I've been watching the stock plummet since this morning. Now it's at -13%, steadily going down. http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NOA3.DE
Comment Re:Time to switch I guess (Score 1) 479
I think I'll stay with my N900 for a while yet. It works very well for my uses, it starts getting community updates. Maybe I'll try NITDroid when it's working a bit more.
Afterwards, well ... how about a GTA04 ? Or some kind of android phone if one appears to be open enough.
Comment Re:Blood wars (Score 1) 119
You should definitely enter this contest.
Comment Re:Stupid Floating Headers (Score 1) 2254
This !
I want a mode with *only* content on the page.
Comment Re:Stupid fixed-position crap (Score 1) 2254
Not that practical to do on my phone.
Please oh please can I have a close button on that stupid sidebar ? Thanks you.
Comment Re:BluRay? Why? (Score 1) 419
Go to your friend's Bluray Player and click "zoom" on the picture. It brings-up details in the movie you can't see on DVD or Upconverting DVD. (Zooming on dvd just shows a blur of MPEG2 artifacts.)
Oh yes ! Because I like very much stopping and zooming on movies. In fact I always do that each 5mn, so I can watch details, *that* is really much more entertaining - even if my GF disagrees.
Thanks you for proving it's bullshit.
Comment Speak their language (Score 1) 312
However you prove the need for a test suite, express it on a shiny powerpoint.
That way, even if the people to whom you'll show it are techs, they'll be able to pass it to their PHB and have him understand just what's needed: allocated time slots for tests.
Comment Re:Funny... (Score 1) 239
Whereas you can be sure no one at Microsoft or Apple is coding backdoors for a TLA ?
Comment Caps-Lock IS useful, to me. (Score 1) 968
At least on a Linux French keyboard, the capslock key is the only way to get upperase accentuated letters, like ÉÈÇÀ.
I hope there will be an alternative way of entering them.
Comment Re:Someone's gonna get in trouble... (Score 1) 680
[...] he'll be marked as a terrorist and in the cross hairs of watch-list databases for the next decade.
Don't screw with the cops man, at best it's a College frat gone bad. However technically right you may be this is playing with fire while surrounded by dynamite.
Mmmh
Comment Re:Ready, fire, aim! (Score 1) 686
Yeah sure. And the browser "war" was over when Netscape Navigator lost and Internet Explorer won. What a brillant analysis man.
Comment Stupid (Score 1) 278
This kind of study really annoys me. From the article:
>The researchers think the learning problems result from the drop in after-school actives with educational value.
In other words, it isn't actually video games that are the problem, but the kids doing less "after-school actives with educational value" - i.e. this is an issue for the parents.
I let my six year old son play his Playstation for some hours at the weekend, on the condition that every night he reads to me. Learning to read is hard work, using the Playstation to motivate him actually works really well. My son is learning to read much quicker than many of his classmates, thanks to the Playstation...
European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA 307
An anonymous reader writes "The European Parliament is preparing to take on ACTA. A joint resolution (DOC) has been tabled by the major EP parties that threatens to go to court unless things change. The EP is calling for public access to negotiation texts and rules out further confidential negotiations. Moreover, the EP wants a ban on imposing a three-strikes model, assurances that ACTA will not result in personal searches at the border, and an ACTA impact assessment on fundamental rights and data protection."
US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card 619
schwit1 sends this quote from the Wall Street Journal:
"Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal US workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker. ... A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all workers, including teenagers, but would be phased in, with current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next changed jobs, the person said. The card requirement also would be phased in among employers, beginning with industries that typically rely on illegal-immigrant labor."
