Comment: Re: Halt! (Score 1) 51
Ach! Mein Leben!
It always sounded to me like the guy was screaming, "Ach, my navel!"
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Comment: Re:Blackberry (Score 1) 347
Only if your buggy whip has a battery that lasts for over a day.
Comment: What? (Score 5, Insightful) 231
No removable battery, no SD card. The best things about Samsung phones have been removed from this version.
+ - A step closer to explaining high-temperature superconductivity?->
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sciencehabit (1205606) writes "For years some physicists have been hoping to crack the mystery of high-temperature superconductivity—the ability of some complex materials to carry electricity without resistance at temperatures high above absolute zero—by simulating crystals with patterns of laser light and individual atoms. Now, a team has taken—almost—the next-to-last step in such "optical lattice" simulation by reproducing the pattern of magnetism seen in high-temperature superconductors from which the resistance-free flow of electricity emerges."
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+ - Xfce 4.12 Released
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jones_supa (887896) writes "The Xfce team is pleased to announce the release of the Xfce 4.12, a new stable version of the fast and optimized desktop environment that supersedes Xfce 4.10, which was released 2 years and 10 months ago. While the version number looks like a small jump, there is a big amount of improvements and fixes all around. Most notable things that have seen changes are: the panel, power management, multi-monitor support, task manager, file manager, optical disc burning (Blu-Ray support), Alt-Tab popup, keyboard shortcuts, and wallpaper selector. An online tour of the changes in the new version is available. Looking into the future, the plan to upgrade from GTK2 to GTK3 is probably the hottest topic in the roadmap."
Comment: Re:Absolute stupidity (Score 1) 412
I don't see colors, I see the electro-magnetic spectrum in the range of 380nm-740nm.
Colors are for artists.
Comment: Absolute stupidity (Score 1, Insightful) 412
Shitty potatophone camera fucks up picture, the internet loses its fucking mind over colors.
Comment: Someone hand out some Pink Sombreros! (Score 2) 90
Yay Beta is gone, but did you guys have to push to a live production server with these bugs?
Where's your pink sombrero supply?
And you still have a ton of whitespace.
Comment: Re:Good indeed, for open source (Score 1) 270
" You clearly haven't worked in proprietary software development teams and seen the incompetent vomit that goes into products."
Bullshit, I do controller programming all day for massive hydroponic farms - I know what bullshit people can write. Part of my job is fixing said bullshit.
You're not apparently reading my words the proper way.
"in closed software there is no possibility of the community finding the faulty code and reporting it,"
Yea, that sure worked out well for Superfish, which is closed-csource. Less than 12 hours after it was broken there was a tool out to track and log anyone infected with Superfish released on GitHub.
"Maybe you should think a little about what it means before posting a nonsense conclusion."
Maybe you should do a bit more critical thinking, as very recent events have proven you utterly wrong.
Comment: Re:Not surprised (Score 1) 309
" Nobody would use the site if they opened up the floodgates."
Explain 4chan and 8chan, then.
Comment: Re:Their Loss (Score 1) 309
4ch? That's a weird way to abbreviate inches.
Ah well, since we're comparing sizes, I'm 8ch!
Comment: Reddit's a corrupt piece of shit anyways (Score -1, Flamebait) 309
Admins threatening to frame a subreddit mod for child pornography, GamerGate censorship, unfaithful fucking CEOs with a running history of being unfaithful, pandering to the SJW crowd, shutting down subreddits that broke ZERO rules just to please Anti-GamerGate assholes.
Fuck Reddit, fuck its admins, and fuck the default subredit moderators for rolling over and taking this shit instead of burning the fucking site to the ground.
Comment: Re:Good indeed, for open source (Score 0) 270
"While open source is not a 100% panacea for security, it is so VASTLY less likely to be compromised than closed proprietary code that it's no contest whatsoever."
And yet a simple google search for 0-days and such in OSS software shows that you are just dead fucking wrong.
Comment: Re:Wrong! (Score 1) 367
"In the southern US, solar may not be as usable since it won't run an A/C"
Uhh, yea, about that. You most certainly can run an A/C system on solar. We've got AC systems with 400% efficiency (For every one watt of power used, 4 watts of heat get removed from a system) and even typical 3-ton AC units are coming down in power usage to where you can run one off 120V 20A.
Comment: Re:Whah? (Score 1) 367
"So it's NOT the rich deploying distributed solar."
Yea, sure, that money just magically appeared in someone's hands and said "Hey, spend me on solar and put me on other people's roofs and charge them to use me!"
