Comment Re:Stalking (Score 1) 70
Hmm its 6 o'clock, I wonder what Natalie Portman would like to watch?
Something involving statues and hot grits, I would guess...
Hmm its 6 o'clock, I wonder what Natalie Portman would like to watch?
Something involving statues and hot grits, I would guess...
While we love to rag on the editors here, they are still part of the
So I'm guessing the use of "Slashdot Staff" in the byline is their small act of protest against this sort of advertising being posted as a story.
Pre-Dice I recall we had one Ask Slashdot story that was sponsored by Sourceforge. We complained and it never happened again. I'd like to think complaints will still have an effect today, but I'm not as hopeful this time...
Would you do the same hand-waving if you were getting short changed via misleading advertising when pumping gas into your car or withdrawing money from your bank account?
We have standards for measures in other forms of business, I see no reason why computers should be different.
On my KDE Linux most programs are very good about making this distinction. You can even choose which option you want system-wide.
Only one other commenter mentioned the minimum wage in AUS, which is $15/hour. That is compared to $7.25/hour in the US.
I have no idea how the taxes compare and affect the actual "in your pocket" amount after all is said and done, but clearly having a job in AUS would seem to assure you of an income many Americans can only dream of.
High income/high cost people also get to enjoy more mobility than low income/low cost people with regards to traveling and vacations.
You can deal with super cookies by using an add-on like FF's BetterPrivacy.
Even more basically, you can make Flash's hidden
Your comment made be curious, so I looked into it and Chrome is indeed using the PPAPI plugin (which other programs can't make use of) on all platforms as of Chrome 23.
Good to know.
You can solve the video playing problem quite easily with something like FF's Video Download Helper add-on or JDownloader. These tools can examine a URL and allow you to download any videos they find for local playback.
And for a shot at starting a "my license is freer than your license flame war":
BSD/MIT
Fixed for completion's sake.
Yep, one for the wife and one for the mistress.
Funny thing is, if you look at Amazon for used first gen hardware-BC PS3s, you see they currently command more than their original MSRPs...
The original hardware turned out to be better that everything that followed in every way other than power consumption/fan noise.
As a matter of fact, I just reconfigured an old P4 box for my niece. And the distro I installed on it was Xubuntu.>
Just as an aside, I'd recommend Lubuntu for most P4s, especially those with less than 768MB. Xubuntu these days isn't so much a light version of mainline Ubuntu as an alternate full version (like Kubuntu is ).
and when touch typing, the index finger on opposite hands is used for both letters (and the movement is rotationally symmetrical)
I touch type with Dvorak, you insensitive clod!
The continued dominance of the illogical QWERTY keyboard smells like a conspiracy to me!
That depends on whether you are a gamer or a donkey.
... and what if your gamertag is ElBurro187?
At this point, zsnes belongs in the "classic emulator memory lane", not alongside snes9x or bsnes.
Go look at their forums and realize that people are still asking, 6 years later, why Super Mario RPG doesn't work...
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
