StrongAxe - Slashdot User

Comment Re:No wonder Apple wants to stop Psystar (Score 1) 615

by StrongAxe on Thursday April 17, 2008 @05:32AM (#23101718) Attached to: Psystar Offers $399 "OpenMac" Computer

If I buy a computer from Dell instead of IBM, is it a PC? Is an artificial gem with the same chemical properties and structure as diamond a diamond? If the thing's identical in all meaningful ways to an Apple branded Mac, shouldn't it also be considered a Mac?

Because intellectual property laws don't correspond to the laws of physics. A Mac clone might be physically identical to a Mac, but legally, it's not identical to a Mac(TM), since nobody but Apple (and possibly their licencees) are legally allowed to use Apple's trademark names.

Submission + - How to copy files to a drive physically sorted?

Submitted by pookie13 on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:36PM

pookie13 writes: I'm having a annoying problem with my car radio. I bought a Blaupunkt Hamburg MP57 car receiver this week and it as many others has an annoying feature: It plays MP3 files sorted as they are physically stored on your media. For example if I drag a folder full of MP3's to my USB-drive Windows will not write them there alphabetically. It is really annoying that the songs are not in order.

I know that I could copy files one at the time to USB-drive but that is unbelievably slow and frustrating. How is it not possible that the makers of car receivers aren't able to put a simple sort function to their products? Another question is that where I find a Windows software or shell extension to be able to copy files in alphabetical order.

Submission + - Self-healing plastic skin developed

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on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:30PM

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have developed a form of 'plastic skin' that can heal itself when it becomes damaged. The material relies on an underlying network of vessels — similar to blood capillaries — that carry a healing agent to areas on the material's surface that become damaged. Unlike previous self-healing systems that relied on capsules of agent buried in the polymer and which became depleted after one use, the new system can respond to damage at the same point many times over.

Submission + - First impressions of Safari for Windows (fosfor.se)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11, 2007 @05:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Here's a nice mini-review of the recently launched beta version of Safari 3.0 for Windows. Even though it has some rendering problems, it looks like it's worth a download.

http://gadgets.fosfor.se/safari-for-windows-first- impressions/

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