Comment Re:yes (Score 1) 349
Virtualization also benefits from more recent CPUs instruction set extensions which old hardware is unlikely to have.
Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome 558
Attorneys for Dominica Juliano claim that she was burned and developed psychological problems after a store clerk aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face. Store attorneys say their scanners uses a harmless LED light and that the girl had serious health problems before she was scanned. From the article: "Dominica Juliano was 12 when she and her grandmother entered the Country Fair store in Erie in June 2004. A clerk allegedly called the girl 'grumpy' before flashing his hand-held bar code scanner over her face and telling her to smile. Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome."
Comment Re:Why do you need one? (Score 3, Informative) 411
However the signal to noise ratio will be horrible because of all the unnecessary gain of the Mic amp stage.
Comment Re:Firefox not playing h264 is a political decisio (Score 1) 473
You don't get it. If Firefox had h.264 support, it could not be redistributed. Period. Everyone would have to download the 'offical' version from Mozilla. No Linux distro could include it. No one could change the code and distribute it. It would cripple Firefox. Why the hell doesn't anyone understand this?
Because I would be violating the "cognition" patents if I tried.
Comment Re:Honestly (Score 1) 391
Agreed! And I don't care how much faster Flash is on Windows. I don't use Windows and Flash is the _only_ video playing app that can't play full-screen video smoothly. VLC can do it, mplayer can do it. So I don't buy the GPU argument, even if using the GPU helps. Even if Firefox or Chrome can't do it yet at least it is in our hands to do something about it instead of waiting forever in vain for Adobe to take other platforms seriously.
Comment Why classical? (Score 1) 721
Why not blast gansta rap at the poor, hapless souls during detention, with the lyrics changed to reflect what da Head "T" will do to them if they continue to question the value of his bling.
Then, out of protest, we will get Mozart blasted out of tinny little mobile phones on the bus-ride home.
Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380
the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma."
One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."
Comment Re:H.264 is ISO/IEC 14496-10, not a de facto stand (Score 1) 400
Now, the video is all in ISO MPEG-4 containers, with ISO H.264 video and ISO AAC audio and is playable on Linux in FlashPlayer and WebKit browsers and other players, and the complaining continues. It is disheartening.
The complaining continues because Linux users still cannot play video using FOSS solutions, due to licensing fees associated with implementation of H.264. Given the overall Linux philosophy, it's a perfectly valid complaint.
On top of which, the Linux Flash implementation is very poor. It's impossible to play full-screen video without a lot of frame dropping. This is not a limitation of Linux since other video players on Linux have no such problem.
Comment Re:Video for Everyone code hack is the solution (Score 1) 400
Mozilla CAN'T support h264, at least not in countries with broken patent law (US, Germany, UK, Japan).
US, Germany and Japan I've heard about. I didn't realise patents had been enabled in the UK more than other EU countries. AFAIK in EU software patents are unenforceable but still granted in the hope that they will one day be enforceable.
Comment Re:Other distros? (Score 1) 220
The greatest thing about these laptops is, if they're as good as the article claims, the fact that they're ARM processors means that there won't be a version of Windows out for them for ages/ever.
Comment Re:We are Anonymous. (Score 1) 354
(Still, jail seems kind of disproportionate. Scientology has engaged in worse online censorship-fraud without even being fined.)
From my limited understanding of law, what the other side has done is probably outside the scope of the judgement. If the other side has broken the law then that's a separate case for a separate judge.
Comment Re:0% Sugar Content (Score 2, Informative) 232
Chrome Zero, your first sugar free OS.
Good grief! I hope not
Comment Re:How does it compare to Ubuntu? (Score 1) 267
Oops, I forgot to mention: they also have a version named "Free", that includes absolutely no proprietary apps or drivers.
Don't forget, adding non-free codecs and apps is as simple as adding the PLF repository from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org./
Comment Re:first post (Score 1) 113
I didn't get the first post because pulseaudio crashed my system
It isn't PA that's crashing your system. It's the drivers, and PA just exposes defects that were already in the drivers.
It's no good he can't hear you. No Sound. His PA has just fallen out with his drivers. They felt "picked on".
Comment How much voltage/current? (Score 4, Informative) 444
Just curious. I had a quick look at the University website but couldn't find anything. This article gives a bit more info on it, http://engineering.missouri.edu/news/stories/2009/nuclear-battery-outstanding-at-conference/index.php.
