Comment Re:in few words: (Score 1) 228
Why IS it
It's a play on the pronunciation of the URL. Aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slashdot dot org
Comment Re:Library & Playlist in separate windows (Score 1) 317
Am I the only one around here that noticed winamp just didn't sound very good?
Is that because of the badly encoded 128kb mp3s you pulled from Napster and Gnutella rather than the player?
Comment Re:Clementine Player (Score 1) 317
Depends on which platform (there's an open defect for OSX and I don't know about Windows), but on Linux it's been gapless if compiled from the git repo for maybe six months.
Compiling Clementine from source.
Compiling Clementine from source.
Comment Re:Foobar 2000 (Score 2) 317
Foobar2000. The only piece of software I really miss after moving to Linux.
If you miss Foobar, try deadbeef. It's not as configurable, but it's a solid little player that will look very familiar to you
Comment I much prefer the name... (Score 5, Funny) 309
Comment Re:No (Score 5, Funny) 628
The international version of the Galaxy 3S produces ~6400 BogoMIPS
produces ~6400 BogoMIPS
BogoMIPS
LOL. Bogomips. From Bogus and MIPS. How many millions (or is it billions?) of times per second can the processor do absolutely nothing. Good argument.
Submission + - Android dev wants patent trolls to pay court costs
Tyler Young writes: "An Android developer, faced with the same litigation as the creators of Minecraft, wants the Obama administration to take action against patent trolls. In his plea to sign his petition, X-Plane developer Austin Meyer notes that he will spend about $1.5 million defending this suit, while the patent troll, Uniloc, will likely pay nothing if it loses the suit. Meyer's petition asks that the trolls be forced to "pay all costs associated with their frivolous lawsuits" if their claims are ruled invalid.
Meyer's parting promise: "I will never settle with them.""
Meyer's parting promise: "I will never settle with them.""
Comment Re:Blood is on the NRA Hands (Score 1) 1862
28 gun deaths per day is a steep price for our society's inability to distinguish between anecdotes and statistics.
28 gun deaths per day is a cheap price for our society's continued freedom from government tyranny. That's what the second amendment is about. Not self defense, not hunting, not skeet shooting. Protection from tyranny. It's a recognized right for the people to possess the means to revolt should they choose.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Seriously???
This made sense back in the 18th and 19th centuries. Do you really expect to stand up to the US government with a bunch of hunting rifles, shotguns, pistols and the odd assault rifle? Hell, why aren't the people doing that now, when things like gitmo, DHS overreach and other such stomping of freedoms surely must be considered tyranny? (here's a hint - you'd lose long before martial law was declared).
Enjoy your "freedom".
Comment Re:What is white emiiting? (Score 1) 296
What is white emiiting?
Perhaps it's related an olde English discovery?
Lord Percy Percy: I've done it, my Lord! I've discovered how to turn things into gold! Pure gold!
Blackadder: You have? Show me!
Lord Percy Percy: [takes lid off melting pot, and Baldrick, Percy and Blackadder are bathed in a green glow] Behold!
Blackadder: Percy... it's green.
Lord Percy Percy: Yes, my Lord!
Blackadder: Now, look, Percy, I don't mean to be pedantic or anything, but the color of gold... is gold. That's why it's called gold. What YOU have discovered, if it has a name, is some... Green.
Lord Percy Percy: [removes lump of Green from pot] Oh, Edmund... can it be true? That I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest Green?
Submission + - Microsoft accidentally gifts pirates with a free Windows 8 Pro license key (extremetech.com) 1
MrSeb writes: "In an amusing twist that undoubtedly spells the end of some hapless manager’s career, Microsoft has accidentally gifted pirates with a free, fully-functioning Windows 8 license key. As you have probably surmised, this isn’t intentional — Microsoft hasn’t suddenly decided to give pirates an early Christmas present (though the $40 upgrade deal from Windows 8 Release Preview is something of a pirate amnesty). In fact, it’s probably just a case of poor testing and a rushed release by Microsoft. The bug involves the Key Management Service, which is part of Microsoft's Volume Licensing system. Pirates have already hacked the KMS to activate Windows 8 for 180 days — but this is just a partial activation. Now it turns out that the free Media Center Pack license keys that Microsoft is giving out until January 31 2013 can be used on a KMS-activated copy of Windows 8 to turn it into a fully licensed copy of Windows 8 Pro. The massive irony, of course, is that Microsoft originally intended to strip Media Center from Windows 8 Pro — and then, in the face of consumer backlash, decided to offer it as a free upgrade until January 31 2013. Presumably, instead of taking the time to deliver the upgrade properly, Microsoft pushed it out the door as quickly as possible — and this is the result."
Comment Re:no more donuts for Gabe... (Score 1) 768
Kudos - you know how to use one particular tool but can't figure out how to use another, well done.
I'd hardly say that you're the only one (especially coming from the Windows camp, where everything is done the Windows way, as opposed to the Unix way), but I think you might be exaggerating when you say "just like all the other people...".
The main problem that you - and people like you (and this isn't intended as an insult), have with Linux/Unix is that you expect it to be a free version of Windows - which it isn't.
I'd hardly say that you're the only one (especially coming from the Windows camp, where everything is done the Windows way, as opposed to the Unix way), but I think you might be exaggerating when you say "just like all the other people...".
The main problem that you - and people like you (and this isn't intended as an insult), have with Linux/Unix is that you expect it to be a free version of Windows - which it isn't.
Comment Re:Didn't Do The Research (Score 1) 192
Great. I have a question: Has there ever been a trademark infringement lawsuit, where the defendants had both been using the trademark in the market and had originated it before the plaintiffs, and where the plaintiffs won the case? I sincerely doubt it.
"GAIM" changed their name first to "gaim", then to "Pidgin IM" after pressure from AOL, even though GAIM was named long before AOL Instant Messenger was shortened to AIM. Linky. OK, wasn't trademarked, but still.
Comment Re:US Patents lead to technological backwater (Score 1) 553
why should companies like Samsung, HTC, etc etc actually bother releasing their products in the US when Apple will use the courts to ban them?
The US is one of the largest (the largest?) market in the world. Why would companies not try to cash in on that?
It's amazing how many of the self proclaimed 'freedoms' and 'ethics' have been quietly swept under the carpet in the name of capitalism and the next quarters profit margin.
"The land of the free" has been a joke to everyone outside of the US for decades.
Submission + - Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $22 Million In Annual Sales (forbes.com)
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: Every day or so of the last six months, Carnegie Mellon computer security professor Nicolas Christin has crawled and scraped Silk Road, the Tor- and Bitcoin-based underground online market for illegal drug sales.
Now Christin has released a paper on his findings, which show that the site's business is booming: its number of sellers, who offer everything from cocaine to ecstasy, has jumped from around 300 in February to more than 550. Its total sales now add up to around $1.9 million a month. And its operators generate more than $6,000 a day in commissions for themselves, compared with around $2,500 in February.
Most surprising, perhaps, is that buyers rate the sellers on the site as relatively trustworthy, despite the fact that no real identities are used. Close to 98% of ratings on the site are positive.
Now Christin has released a paper on his findings, which show that the site's business is booming: its number of sellers, who offer everything from cocaine to ecstasy, has jumped from around 300 in February to more than 550. Its total sales now add up to around $1.9 million a month. And its operators generate more than $6,000 a day in commissions for themselves, compared with around $2,500 in February.
Most surprising, perhaps, is that buyers rate the sellers on the site as relatively trustworthy, despite the fact that no real identities are used. Close to 98% of ratings on the site are positive.
Comment Re:Twenty Seconds? (Score 1) 587
If your yearly income is 1 million dollars, that 20 seconds is worth about $600.
Um... it's probably a good idea for you to stop drinking and dividing.
