slumberer - Slashdot User

Comment Re:DRM, restrictions, outcry (Score 1) 610

by slumberer on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @09:33AM (#32251940) Attached to: iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone

Nothing that I could do, or figure out how to do, would trigger the 'capture text for copying' function that I've inadvertently triggered in the past.

You're making a valid point here, I've had similar issues with it not quite working as I'd expected.

It's good that you've stepped forward to be the spokesperson for 'the fanboys' Baselbrush... but this is developers.slashdot.org not your usual apple.slashdot.org. Don't you feel kinda out of place here??

But you've turned into a troll by the end.

Comment Re:Surprised? I'm not.. (Score 1) 789

by slumberer on Sunday April 11, 2010 @04:41PM (#31810984) Attached to: Adobe Evangelist Lashes Out Over Apple's "Original Language" Policy

"But with all this, it is not surprising that Apple doesn't want flash anywhere near their new products even if this kills their former ally."

You haven't even touched on the reasons for this. It's not about lack of loyalty, business infidelity, or product bugginess, it's about Jobs's need to control all software that runs on the platform. With flash, applications can be downloaded and run on demand inside a browser. Apple can't have that.

Given that most of the functionality offered by flash can be duplicated in HTML5 which Apple supports your argument there seems a bit hollow. Sure Apple is trying to push the tech that they prefer but for good reason given the bugginess and performance issues with Flash. Fact is there are already a lot of "applications" out there that will run in the browser without Apples approval; just look at the offerings from google.

Comment Re:Darn... no Mac Mini update (Score 1) 1079

by slumberer on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @10:25AM (#26357189) Attached to: Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes

Sounds like you might find this monitor useful.

Comment Re:30BHP and only 54MPG? (Score 1) 625

by slumberer on Thursday January 10, 2008 @10:32AM (#21983328) Attached to: $2500 Tata Nano Car Unveiled in India

Yeah well the Fiat costs a lot more as well. Remember that these are aimed the Indian market where price is a lot more importatnt.

Submission + - A plan for (comment) spam

Submitted by

Sun

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:02AM

Sun writes: "I have just published a suggestion for a comment mechanism that will, I think, advance us an important step toward stopping comment spam in blogs. Non-spam comments welcome.

In a nutshell, commenters are asked to have their computer solve a cryptographic riddle, thus increasing the cost of posting spam to blogs as comments. The idea is not new, as such. I have seen similar suggestions for email. Unlike email, however, I believe it is feasible for blog comments."

Submission + - Microsoft Posts Open Letter on Open XML & ODF

Submitted by on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:01AM

An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday, Microsoft posted an open letter entitled 'Interoperability, Choice and Open XML'. Although I could write a book as a reply to the letter, I think that there are /. members who are better qualified for this task. Among the contents of the letter are accusations of IBM for 'smoke and mirrors' as well as 'ODF being tied to OpenOffice' (but Open XML, at the same time, is apparently not tied to MS Office). The term 'customer' is also mentioned ten times, revealing the true root of their Open XML intentions: to keep everyone as a *paying* customer.

Submission + - Aussie executive dumps on iPhone

Submitted by

Mister Inbetween

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @10:00AM

Mister Inbetween writes: "The second-in-charge at Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications company, has launched a withering attack on Apple's new iPhone. "Stick to your knitting," he tells Apple. "Apple is not a mobile phone manufacturer, that's not their knitting." He says "people overreacted to it", there was "not a lot of tremendously new stuff" to it, they bungled the trademark issue and the battery replacement issue sucks."

Submission + - Canada ready to fight over Kyoto

Submitted by

mdsolar

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @09:53AM

mdsolar writes: "A friend let me know about this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6363677.stm saying that the canadian parliament has voted to force the government to meet its obligations under Kyoto http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html. Acording to the article "The bill gives the government 60 days to table a detailed plan for getting in line with the Kyoto targets."

For the US, a 20% reduction in emissions is needed from current levels. This could be accomplished through efficiency efforts alone if the information presented yesterday at the Great Energy Efficiency Day IV http://www.ase.org/content/article/detail/3531 are correct http://www.ase.org/uploaded_files/geed_2007/wooley _efoundation.pdf"

Submission + - Radar love--through the Zune

Submitted by

wile_e_wonka

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @08:49AM

wile_e_wonka writes: "Searching for nearby Zunes... None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes... None found.
Searching for nearby Zunes... "Lola" found.

Sending "Hello" by Lionel Richie

Receiving "Hi There" by Killdozer

Sending "Do You Come Here Often?" by The Tornados Ridin' the Wind

Receiving "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys

Sending "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns 'N' Roses
Sending "What Brings You Here?" by Sandra Knight . . ."

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