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Comment Re:Apple? (Score 1) 552

yeah. and i changed it the minute my macbook booted. But it's still a sign they are changing the desktop-environment to match the mobile-feel.
And no, it's not a consistent feel across devices. On my phone, it feel natural to pull my fingers up to scroll, on my trackpad it doesn't.

Comment Just stay (Score 5, Insightful) 287

Why not stay with Symfony 1.4? It's a mature and well-supported framework. We have been playing with Symfony2 ourselves at my current job, but decided to keep using 1.4 until the formgenerators of Symfony2 are a bit more mature.
Of all the php-frameworks i've worked with, Symfony 1.4 still makes me most productive.

Comment Re:Just another offload. (Score 5, Insightful) 158

and why shouldn't they? If they already decided that they wouldn't support the product anymore, then it makes sense to donate it to the community. Maybe some enterprising people can make it work for them. Just look at what it did for web-browser technology when Netscape opensourced their - at that time 'almost end-of-line' - product to the opensource community...

Censorship

Submission + - Belgian ISPS ordered to block The Pirate Bay (vrritti.com)

cjpa writes: They have been ordered by a Belgian judge to implement a DNS blocking regime in relation to 11 links leading to The Pirate Bay and they will have 14 days to do so, or they will be risking a fine.

The case had been initiated by the Belgian Anti-Piracy Federation (BAF). The parties involved have not yet commented on the verdict.

Comment Re:Do Belgian radio stations pay? (Score 1) 337

yes, the radio stations here also pay SABAM. This 2nd tax is part of a broad agreement between SABAM and the employers-organisations, which in essence states that when you're playing copyrighted material in the workspace, you have to pay a fee (just like organizers of parties have to pay a fee, etc). Since a truck is indeed some subclass of workspace, they will have to pay too.

Another lame rule for instance: Hairdressers and other shops have to pay SABAM when they have a radio that's hearable in an area that the customer can enter. So, even when you have a radio somewhere back in the storage area - but it can be heared in the shop if you put the volume really loud, you have to pay for publicly broadcasting copyrighted material. A few years back, they were focussing on hairdressers and hotels and restaurants. Seems that source has dried out and they're looking for fresh water to quench their thirst

There's multiple exceptions though, 1 of them: Companies who host less than 9 employees in total, are exempt.

Space

Astronomers Discover 33 Pairs of Waltzing Black Holes 101

Astronomers from UC Berkeley have identified 33 pairs of waltzing black holes, closing the gap somewhat between the observed population of super-massive black hole pairs and what had been predicted by theory. "Astronomical observations have shown that 1) nearly every galaxy has a central super-massive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and 2) galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies. As a consequence of these two observations, a merger between two galaxies should bring two super-massive black holes to the new, more massive galaxy formed from the merger. The two black holes gradually in-spiral toward the center of this galaxy, engaging in a gravitational tug-of-war with the surrounding stars. The result is a black hole dance, choreographed by Newton himself. Such a dance is expected to occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy in about 3 billion years, when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy."
Software

(Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? 702

haroldag writes "I thoroughly enjoyed the recent post about Unix tricks, so I ask Slashdot vim users, what's out there? :Sex, :b#, marks, ctags. Any tricks worth sharing?"

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