jac89 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:From what I've discovered... (Score 1) 579

by jac89 on Monday October 19, 2009 @08:00AM (#29792273) Attached to: Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?

Perhaps some Savants would come under this label

Comment Re:Stay classy (Score 1) 290

by jac89 on Thursday August 27, 2009 @08:11PM (#29225291) Attached to: Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync

I have been running Windows 7 on my MacBook and I hardly boot into OSX anymore. The HFS drivers coming in snow leopard will be welcome even though it is read only (supposedly to prevent the mac partition from being messed up by viruses.

Comment Re:A Waste? (Score 1) 309

by jac89 on Thursday August 27, 2009 @06:22AM (#29214211) Attached to: China Admits Use of Death-Row Organs

Well if they are making a profit from each person they kill then they have more incentive to kill more people.

Comment Re:Don't use bootcamp, but I use Fusion (Score 1) 396

by jac89 on Thursday August 06, 2009 @01:06PM (#28974815) Attached to: Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame?

Nope this is just the 13inch Macbook. Remember that battery benchmarks are flawed.

Comment Re:Don't use bootcamp, but I use Fusion (Score 2, Informative) 396

by jac89 on Thursday August 06, 2009 @10:00AM (#28971467) Attached to: Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame?

I use the windows 7 RC on my macbook via bootcamp and have found the battery life almost the same as osx. Especially if you actually use the power saving menu and switch to low performance.

Comment Re:I'll deploy Win7 (Score 1) 429

by jac89 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:24PM (#28694911) Attached to: Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey

That's more to do with providing a cheap version of windows than the actual problems of netbooks running the OS. Also even if XP runs slightly better all of the other benefits of Windows 7 outweigh the performance gain.

Comment Re:I'll deploy Win7 (Score 4, Informative) 429

by jac89 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @10:53AM (#28691137) Attached to: Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey

Okay first of all windows 7 works on PCs that are relatively underpowered (netbooks), and if you have a computer less than 3 years old it should be able to run vista.

Comment Re:I love it! (Score 1) 114

by jac89 on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @06:08AM (#28450575) Attached to: UK Gets Europe's First 3G Femtocell

Well i only pay 30 pounds a month for unlimited data and Â£140 of equivalent pay as you go credit, the mobile markets in the uk are not tooo bad.

Comment Re:That's lousy (Score 1) 450

by jac89 on Saturday October 25, 2008 @09:08AM (#25508987) Attached to: Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth?

Now however I am on o2 broadband which is 10 pounds a month for a 16 meg connection (unlimited).

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