Fab774 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:6 millions.. (Score 0) 550

by Fab774 on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:52AM (#44325815) Attached to: Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets

why !

Comment Re:Bury (Score 1) 550

by Fab774 on Friday July 19, 2013 @05:07AM (#44325665) Attached to: Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets

What exactly would be illegal ?

Comment Re:DMCA (Score 0) 203

by Fab774 on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:07AM (#44325165) Attached to: VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced

Why?

Submission + - Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes (winehq.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18, 2013 @01:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: Wine 1.6 has been released for running Windows applications on Linux and OS X. Wine 1.6 ships with 10,000 changes in the past year and has many new user features like a Mac graphics driver, Direct3D improvements, and 64-bit ARM support.

Comment Year of Linux on the desktop (Score -1, Troll) 138

by Fab774 on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @05:59AM (#44306717) Attached to: Direct3D 9 Comes To Linux, Implemented Over Mesa/Gallium3D

Then 2014 may be the year of Linux on the desktop, right?

Comment Re: Oh dear. (Score 1) 107

by Fab774 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @01:25PM (#44300169) Attached to: Book Review: Eloquent JavaScript: a Modern Introduction To Programming

The number of systems with Java enabled in the browser is rapidly declining.

This is sad. I guess I'll have to port to HTML5 my super cool Java boids applets from 1998.

Comment Re:Boom (Score 1) 814

by Fab774 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:57PM (#44299747) Attached to: Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns'

2007's called. They want their signature back.

Comment Chris Sevier (Score 1) 364

by Fab774 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:26PM (#44299193) Attached to: HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player

They should definitely contact Chris Sevier for legal advice. He's a lawyer, currently unemployed, and knows a few things about the internet.

Comment Re:gender/class/ comfort (Score 1) 156

by Fab774 on Monday July 15, 2013 @06:10AM (#44282693) Attached to: The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders

Source for 99.% ?

Comment Re:Yeah, well.... (Score 1) 156

by Fab774 on Monday July 15, 2013 @03:59AM (#44282377) Attached to: The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders

Do you even know what and where France is ?

Comment Re:chair jokes (Score 1) 387

by Fab774 on Friday July 12, 2013 @03:55AM (#44259321) Attached to: Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft

1998 called.. They want their joke back.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 98

by Fab774 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:25PM (#44240993) Attached to: French Parliament Votes To Give Priority To Free Software

This is an instance of the classical: "I like X, and I think children should be taught X at a young age". I am personally not interested in knitting and glassblowing, but I can certainly find people who are passionate about this and possibly pay them to do something for me. My sister has been using the 7th layer of the OSI model for 18 years. Does she really need that piece of information ?

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 2) 98

by Fab774 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:58AM (#44234973) Attached to: French Parliament Votes To Give Priority To Free Software

This is valid only for computer science students. Apart from them, who is going to read the source code of the software they're using ?

Comment Re:REALLY?? (Score 1) 205

by Fab774 on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:12AM (#44225027) Attached to: iOS 7 Beta 3 Now Available For iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Gold Master? Seriously that's how they call the final release ?

Comment Re:Unless you have a 1st gen iPad ... (Score 1) 205

by Fab774 on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @06:33AM (#44223831) Attached to: iOS 7 Beta 3 Now Available For iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Source for 99.9% ?

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