Comment Re:low ram only 512 in base and max out at 2GB? (Score 1) 197
What are you planning on doing that you need that much RAM?
Comment Re:Am I the only one who wants what I want? (Score 1) 197
how about you start your own business and find out?
Comment Too little, too late (Score 2, Insightful) 37
No one uses WebM. Google dropped the ball. Now even Mozilla is allowing their browser to use the underlying OS to support H.264 playback. This ship has sailed. Better luck next time.
Comment Easy solution (Score 1) 271
Just email everyone about the problem!
Comment the game i can't live without (Score 1) 951
rosenkreuzstilette freudenstachel
Comment Re:F/OSS will lose (Score 1) 150
i meant no sarcasm - even though this is slashdot - i simply did a double take there and was curious.
Comment Re:F/OSS will lose (Score 1) 150
Richard.
took me a second to realize you meant rms. do you know him personally?
Comment Re:Um Linux? (Score 1) 107
tried qt?
Comment Re:Still relevant? (Score 1) 510
to jeff i say: i'll see your anecdote and raise you my own - i've never had an ssd fail.
Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651
i'm sorry - i just modded you down on accident - meant to select 'insightful'. this is the quickest way i know of to cancel it.
Comment Re:Should have listed to jwz (Score 1) 236
he was fired, though.
Comment Re:Windows RT + Office (Score 1) 365
learn something new every day!
Submission + - Pirate Bay Founder Suspected of Cracking (torrentfreak.com) 1
Techmeology writes: "Having been arrested in and now deported from Cambodia, Gottfrid Svartholm is being detained in Sweden under suspicion of gaining access to computer systems belonging to Logica that are connected with Sweden's tax system. Nacka District Court has ruled that Svartholm, who denies the charges, may be detained for a further two weeks pending an investigation into the incident."
Comment Re:And this is why I don't have Java Installed (Score 1) 154
Simply put, I have absolutely no apps that depend on JAVA and this is exactly why. As someone else said, the best solution is to removed JAVA entirely and never let it near your system again. Friends don't let friends install Java and we don't do windows
awesome grammar nazi troll. i was getting all excited and then it was suddenly as though you realized java isn't an acronym right before the end of your post.
Comment Re:Er... (Score 1) 265
You'd think they'd know better as they can often quote all sorts of statistical sort or database traversal, O(log n), big-o little-o, etc, but when you get them with a common sense thing about code performance issue, they appear to get some sort of temporary lobotomy.
... thus leading to premature optimization, "the root of all evil in programming" - knuth
