Comment Re:Still kinda messy. (Score 1) 409
That's an option for people with a brain cloud.
Never mod points when I need them!
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Comment Re:Of course not (Score 1) 433
I think the reason that Google isn't releasing Android 3 source is that they don't want it installed on every crappy phone and tablet coming out of China, and giving it a bad name.
This sounds a lot like the argument Apple fanboys use for not allowing other OSes on iShinies.
I never had any trouble from Apple with installing Linux on my G3.
I never had any trouble from Apple with installing Linux, Windows, or FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro.
I'm pretty sure people have installed alternate OSes on iPods and maybe iPhones as well.
So where's Apple stopping people from putting other OSes on Apple devices? They take exception to putting Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, but that's the opposite of what you're complaining about.
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Comment Re:The relevant piece of so-called "IP" (Score 4, Interesting) 314
I came across this yesterday and found it interesting (comparisons of what Samsung's tablets looked like before and after the iPad came out):
It seems like it's not quite as silly as it's usually been presented. (Don't get me wrong, I do think it's silly.)
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Comment Re:Urbana Ill (Score 1) 70
I've never seen "font" misspelled as "browser" and "OS" before...</pedant>
Comment Re:Love my Sunrise clock (Score 1) 107
Link?
Comment Re:move to GUI was step backwards (Score 1) 567
Now - type something, move right (or left) hand to the mouse - highlight - move mouse to menu - select - press mouse button - find "home" row again and start typing.
While that's certainly one way to do it, I've never seen anyone actually do it that pessimally.
'Cmd-B' to start the bolding (or 'Cmd-I' for italics), type whatever you need, and then 'Cmd-B' again to end the bolding. Hands never leave the keyboard. Or if you need to italicize something that's already there, select the text (keyboard is usually faster if it's just a few words away, mouse is often faster if the target text is far from the text-cursor location), and hit 'Cmd-I' (though if your hand is already on the mouse because you used it to select distant text, then it might be faster to pick from the menu).
Short version: TMTOWTDI; the "right" one might depend on the context.
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Comment Re:I use a Mac you insensitive clod! (Score 1) 567
At least you have a good reason not to use the feature, since Command (and even Ctrl) are in very impractical places on Apple keyboards.
I'll grant you Ctrl (but the keyboard that came with my old Apple
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Comment Re:Dark side? (Score 1) 196
Profession, Isaac Asimov, July 1957
Full text (But the design of the site... the googles do nothing!)
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Comment Re:Damn, this feels like Firefox. (Score 2) 209
... Honestly the only thing holding me to linux at this point is a lack of desire to have to repartition my disks using bsd slices,
Don't let that stop you - FreeBSD at least has supported GPT partitioning for some time, so you don't have to mess around with slices if you don't want to.
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Comment Re:You wouldn't (Score 2) 335
... if you need a microkernel and some POSIX, well there's FreeBSD.
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The FreeBSD kernel is not a microkernel - it's a modular monolithic kernel, not unlike the Linux kernel.
Comment Re:A question born of ignorance ... (Score 1) 129
It's called "NVM Express", and they're working on it.
Submission + - Doctors Are Creating Too Many Patients 2
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "H. Gilbert Welch writes in the LA Times that the threshold for diagnosis has fallen too low with physicians making diagnoses in individuals who wouldn't have been considered sick in the past, raising healthcare costs for everyone. Welch, a a practicing physician and professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, says that part of the explanation is technological: diagnostic tests able to detect biochemical and anatomic abnormalities that were undetectable in the past. "But part of the explanation is behavioral: We look harder for things to be wrong. We test more often, we are more likely to test people who have no symptoms, and we have changed the rules about what degree of abnormality constitutes disease (a fasting blood sugar of 130 was not considered to be diabetes before 1997; now it is)." Welch says that the problem is that low thresholds have a way of leading to treatments that are worse than the disease and while clinicians are sued for failure to diagnose or failure to treat, there are few corresponding penalties for overdiagnosis or overtreatment so doctors view low thresholds as the safest strategy to avoid a courtroom appearance. "We are trained to focus on the few we might be able to help, even if it's only 1 out of 100 (the benefit of lowering cholesterol in those with normal cholesterol but elevated C-reactive protein) or 1 out of 1,000 (the benefit of breast and prostate cancer screening)," writes Welch. "But it's time for everyone to start caring about what happens to the other 999.""
Submission + - Eclipse Foundation has much to lose in the Hudson (infoworld.com)
GMGruman writes: "InfoWorld columnist Savio Rodrigues notes that Oracle's hand-off — or perhaps dumping — of the open source Hudson project could be bad for the Eclipse Foundation by making Eclipse appear to be merely a dumping ground for unwanted open source projects, rather than as the central location for vibrant open source activities."
Submission + - Last major US record label is sold (google.com) 1
jmanforever writes: "Several sites are reporting that Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik has agreed to buy Warner Music Group for $3.3 billion. The deal means that every one of the big four record label groups will be foreign owned.
Can the RIAA explain again why it is in the best interest of the United States to collect performance royalties from American radio stations and internet streaming sites, then send the money to Tokyo, Paris, London and now Moscow?"
Can the RIAA explain again why it is in the best interest of the United States to collect performance royalties from American radio stations and internet streaming sites, then send the money to Tokyo, Paris, London and now Moscow?"
Submission + - Is Sugar Toxic? (nytimes.com)
a_hanso writes: From the NY Times: On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minute discussion of the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology.
