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Comment In short.. (Score 1) 369

Is a file the (a)original data or (b) the original data + annotations data in other databases. What does a user expect when he/she creates a "copy" of a file. I have never seen a discussion like: "I downloaded a picture from facebook and now all the likes and comments are missing!" Suppose it will pop-up in the near future..

Comment Re:With Microsoft being the biggest contributor to (Score 2) 181

why? Microsoft mostly worked on improving earlier microsoft hyper-v code, it was below standards and needed a lot of work to be of acceptable quality. you could also state you will be upgrading immideately so earlier bad microsoft code will be replaced by acceptable quality ASAP! whatever you prefer either bad or good code from microsoft on your machine.

Comment Re:This "safety net problem" - grownups (Score 1) 493

The negative effects are also observed in adult behaviour. people with cars with all safety features (airbags, crumple zones, abs, esp, a computer that detects weird behaviour and adjusts seats/seatbelts just before impact) drive less carefull than others with old "unsafe" cars. When sane grownup behaviour becomes worse with the safe features, i would not be surprised children becoming challenged to try to find a little danger no matter what. 'Hey running acros the street gets mu hartrate up with all the horns!'

Comment Microsoft already commented on this (Score 4, Informative) 381

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-intel-executive-was-wrong-about-windows-8 Long story short, this statement from intel is incorrect. But guess what: intel is a chip manufacturer that sells x86 cpu's and has sold its arm devision a few years back, how much more biased do you want a source of information. In reality it will most likely be an ugly vm running your old non recompilable software slowly.

Comment releasing something for nerds...set up to fail (Score 1) 2254

Wow look at al those comments... too much whitespace/ cannot turn of ajax/ warnings on validation/ yada yada... Slashdot is news for nerds, all nerds know how best to design a website and whatever will be released 80% will start bitching about function x and looks of part y. In other words it can never be good. I think it is, it looks fresh, it seems to perform smooth enough. Let me be part of the the 20% that sais: Good job slashdot, nice result of some hard work

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