Comment Re:prosumer? (Score 1) 120
IOW, the AC was correct?
Comment Re:Maybe Microsoft Should by them (Score 1) 120
The word you're maybe looking for is trifecta.
Comment Re:Bigger news (Score 1) 120
Those of us who were at Sun during the end times there can now feel a tiny bit better about ourselves, I suppose.
Comment Re:Not really surprised (Score 1) 120
s/AirDroid/AirDroid/ in previous, sorry about that.
Comment Re:Not really surprised (Score 1) 120
Why are you even wasting time looking for a USB cable?
Next, on Amazing Discoveries... Wifi-enabled devices can share files using existing network protocols!
On my home network I use SharesFinder and AirDroid. (If anyone cares to recommend better and/or more secure alternatives for either or both of these, feel free to do so!)
I never had a single problem that I can recall with the GMail app freezing up on any of my 3 Android devices but I suppose MMMV.
Comment Re:It'll be news once they do it (Score 0) 104
Hmmm... Wikipedia appears to agree with my memory. What have you got?
Comment Re:Look over here, look over here! (Score 1) 479
"See look at all that ice, global warming is a communist lie to make us give up our livers!!!!"
You really shouldn't give away lines like that for free. You'll never know how close that came to being appropriated for my new sig.
Look at all that ice--global warming is a capitalist lie to make us give up our livers!
--Thoughts from Chairman Mao
Comment Re:Here's a contract for you (Score 1) 95
A very big difference between "making a stand" and "posturing" there is--something really you learn should, young Jedi.
Comment Re:Here's a contract for you (Score 3, Insightful) 95
To which the only sane response is, "Good luck with that, Ace".
Comment Re:It'll be news once they do it (Score 0) 104
The only reason ReiserFS was dropped as the default was because he was convicted of murder. There was no technical reason.
Bzzzzzzzzzzt--wrong.
SUSE switched its default away from reiserfs in 2006, which was about 2 years before Hans even got charged with anything, much less convicted.
(Longtime OpenSUSE user here. I switched to ext3 because SUSE works exactly as icebike says in this regard, so when they changed the default, I tried ext3 as well as jfs, and found that reiserfs sucked balls compared to both. For this reason, I've not used reiserfs in years, and it isn't popular anymore because there are many better alternatives now available, and because it's not been actively developed for at least 5 years.)
Comment Re:Word (Score 1) 3
I got the belly-laugh this time round.
Comment Can you say, "Confirmation bias"? (Score 1) 2
Thanks for the link.
I've downloaded the PDF, will copy to my phone for the morning commute.
Comment Re:Why Use a Cloud? (Score 1) 177
Everything was so cloaked in marketing speak that it was impossible to tease out how to do anything normal and straightforward. They couldn't even manage to say words like "VPN" or "ssh." Simply ridiculous. Who has the time to learn a whole new nomenclature for the same old tasks we've all been doing for decades, just to satisfy a bunch of marketing droids whose only interest is in being the least helpful they can possibly be, and sucking as much cash out of you as they possibly can.
Spot on.
Comment DocBook FTW (Score 1) 116
I will never go back to anything containing "TeX" in the name.
Poor US Infrastructure Threatens the Cloud 177
snydeq writes "Thanks to state-sponsored cable/phone duopolies, U.S. broadband stays slow and expensive — and will probably impede cloud adoption, writes Andrew C. Oliver. 'As a patriotic American, I find the current political atmosphere where telecom lobbyists set the agenda to be a nightmare. All over the world, high-end fiber is being deployed while powerful monopolies in the United States work to prevent it from coming here,' Oliver writes. 'I expect that cloud adoption will closely match broadband speed, cost, and availability curves. Those companies living in countries where the broadband monopoly is protected will adopt the cloud at a slower rate than those with competitive markets and municipal fiber. There's a good chance U.S. firms will fall into that group.'"
