FrankieBaby1986 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Stop fiddling with the GUI (Score 1) 426

by FrankieBaby1986 on Saturday May 19, @04:44PM (#40053281) Attached to: Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8

Try this:

010- Photos
020- My Pics
030-DL
040-Wallpaper

This way you can sort by alpha-num and it will be in the order you want. The extra zeroes make it easy to insert some other folders later. But honestly, does it really matter?

Comment: Re:This is an April Fool joke (Score 1) 378

by FrankieBaby1986 on Sunday April 15, @10:32AM (#39692967) Attached to: The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws

fined me anyhow for "anything you might have done in my county".

I hope you got that in writing, that could prove to be an invaluable defence later.
Also, it would have been great to be able to send a copy to the local news, you might have been able to cost him his position.

Comment: Re:Just turn off the car? (Score 1) 911

by FrankieBaby1986 on Friday April 13, @12:20PM (#39674947) Attached to: Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars

Sounds like poor design to me. The airbags should deploy if the car experiences appropriate impact. Period.

Comment: Re:Just turn off the car? (Score 2) 911

by FrankieBaby1986 on Friday April 13, @12:19PM (#39674927) Attached to: Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars

If you don't know how your car works, you shouldn't driving. Any time you are operating heavy machinery, you should know how to turn it off. If this isn't in the driver's license test, it should be.

Comment: Re:Why not just license it? (Score 1) 268

by FrankieBaby1986 on Friday March 30, @01:24PM (#39524703) Attached to: CBS Uses Copyright To Scuttle Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II Episode

Because, no matter how they try, they aren't one of the original writers, living in the same timeframe, experiencing the same world that the writer was. This script presumably in some way is influenced by the era in which it was written. This is the work that I would want to see performed, as it would be more like the Original Series. While I've enjoyed the New Voyages episodes, this would have been a great opportunity to see something that CBS will simply let rot until it is forgotten and too late.

Comment: Re:Why not just license it? (Score 1) 268

by FrankieBaby1986 on Friday March 30, @01:20PM (#39524657) Attached to: CBS Uses Copyright To Scuttle Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II Episode

I like that idea better, but the tricky part is what counts as using it? Or efforts to use it? This may become difficult to enforce and create additional court cases arguing over proof of efforts. Far more effective to just set much shorter terms.

Comment: Why not just license it? (Score 5, Interesting) 268

by FrankieBaby1986 on Friday March 30, @12:50PM (#39524223) Attached to: CBS Uses Copyright To Scuttle Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II Episode

Why can't CBS just license it for a dollar? Copyright is enforced, license is legit, fans get something that CBS must know they're never going to do anything with. How many unproduced scripts can they have? Would they really ever re-make the series using the old scripts and use this one? Greed, pure and simple. "If we can't use it, nobody can"

We seriously need copyright reform. Copyright terms should be 14 years again. I think as a society, the we (the US) should just ignore copyrights after that time.

Comment: Re:Which is why I buy subsidy free.... (Score 2) 355

by FrankieBaby1986 on Saturday March 10, @12:27PM (#39312031) Attached to: T-Mobile Exec Calls For End To Cell Phone Subsidies

Unlimited data (up to 5GB at 4G)

Run that by me again?

Comment: Re:Rushing?! For What?! (Score 1) 446

by FrankieBaby1986 on Sunday March 04, @09:10PM (#39243323) Attached to: Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks

I had to buy a textbook twice, as the classes were structured to use one half one semester, and the other the next. The next year, they changed which version we were using. I compared the books. The two most notable differences, page after page where this: 1) The homework problems were all SLIGHTLY different (some numbers tweaked, or sometimes just in a different order) 2) All blue graphs were now red and all red graphs were now blue. WTF???

I am sure there were some other fixes and such, but why change all the problems? Answer: because then wouldn't actually need to buy the new version. They wish to kill the used market.

Comment: Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? (Score 1) 477

by FrankieBaby1986 on Tuesday February 21, @02:48PM (#39114217) Attached to: A Rant Against Splash Screens

An application should not ask you whether "you really want to quit" you already told it that - instead it should make sure that when you quit nothing bad happens. If you were working on a document but didn't save that yet - then just keep the working copy when the program is closed. Don't overwrite what's in the saved copy and don't throw it away - just restore it when the application is opened again, and suddenly quitting word processor is no longer dangerous. When quitting a music or video player it should remember what you were playing and come back to that when the application is started again. A video player should keep the position basically for every movie it has been playing, so if you come back to it later you can continue to watch from the same position, even if you have watched something else in between.

This will just add further bloat.You want applications to start instantly, but you want them to load even more information at startup and save even more at every shutdown. Just ask the user if they want to continue later, or remind them that they need to save. Should my media player really need to automatically remember that I closed every episode of my favorite tv show just before the credits began?