Arrawa - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I would buy it... (Score 2, Insightful) 197

by Arrawa on Thursday December 18, 2008 @08:14AM (#26158423) Attached to: Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now

I can't understand how they could be so keen on throwing $500 billion at failed banks and mortgage deadbeats, yet they have no problem cutting NASA's $30 billion budget. And then there's Obama's national health insurance which is bound to cost a few hundred billion, if not a trillion or two when it's up and running.

NASA isn't crucial for running the country nor for saving lives (directly).

Comment Re:Flash or Silverlight (Score 1) 475

by Arrawa on Friday November 21, 2008 @09:31AM (#25844447) Attached to: Silverlight On the Way To Linux

AFAIK the public broadcaster NOS didn't get paid by Microsoft. They took the technology because it was better for the user experience then Flash (back then, Flash 9). If Flash 10 is better for a next project, I'm sure they will choose that. I think sports are the best for those tools: the events are scheduled before and are basically images/video combined with stats and facts. Right now there isn't a huge event.

Submission + - Is the RIAA back to it's torrent-crushing tactics? (tgohome.com) 1

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Tom

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @06:39PM

Tom writes: "During a download from The Pirate Bay, I saw 11 similar IP addresses (via. the 'Peers' tab) on the .available.above.net server. This is really odd, because the chance of this happening is something close to 11 in 26 billion. Also, uTorrent constantly was complaining about pieces failing hash checks..."

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