Comment The Old Reader (Score 1) 50
I tried a few different apps (Feedly, Vienna, RSS Feed Reader, Slick RSS) to replace Google Reader but didn't like any of them.
A couple of weeks ago I switched to The Old Reader [ http://theoldreader.com/ ] and I've been perfectly happy with it since.
Comment Maybe it's a good job they couldn't get it going. (Score 1) 612
At least it saved it getting stuck on the kerb/curb later.
Comment Better still... (Score 1) 155
Personally I'd like to have _all_ activity (audio, network, CPU, everything) stopped on every tab except the active one. If I want to be annoyed I can pop the tab into it's own window (or if someone cares to implement it - you could have per-tab controls).
Comment Re:To much selling me shit. (Score 4, Informative) 295
Then go to the Parental Controls Preferences and disable the iTunes Store.
Wasn't too hard, was it?
Comment Re:Tau instead of Pi... Wait a few months (Score 1) 341
But then the volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' wouldn't be 'pi z z a' it would be 'tau z z a / 2'.
Comment Re:OS X Compile? (Score 1) 147
And FWIW compiling with:
g++-fsf-4.4 smallpt.cpp -o smallpt -O3 -fopenmp -ffast-math -m64 -march=native -ftree-parallelize-loops=8 -funroll-all-loops
gives a runtime for smallpt 100 of 2m31s for my MacBook ("Early 2008" model).
Comment Re:OS X Compile? (Score 1) 147
One of the comments on the smallpt page recommends adding the following line:
if (depth > 100) return obj.e;
after line 55 in the code to prevent a stack overflow.
It seems to do the trick for me.
Comment Re:This is all too familiar (Score 1) 878
I am pretty sure I heard such a speech 10 years ago, before Java came out.
The first release of Java was in 1995.
Comment Re:Kayaking to Japan (Score 1) 699
And it's nice they way they expect you to carry your canoe across one of the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of your journey.
Comment Re:What was that sound? (Score 1) 804
That was so not what I was hoping for when I followed a link labelled "Jamie Oliver's forehead hitting the nearest wall, over and over again".
Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 759
... Apple doesn't provide service updates for anything older than 10.5 (2007)...
Check out: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
Apple released a security update for OS X 10.4 just 5 days ago.
OS X 10.4 was released in 2005.
James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 703
Hugh Pickens writes "News Corporation's James Murdoch says that a 'dominant' BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it 'incredibly difficult' for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news. 'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch. 'The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision.' In common with the public broadcasting organizations of many other European countries, the BBC is funded by a television license fee charged to all households owning a television capable of receiving broadcasts. Murdoch's News Corporation, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers and pay TV provider BSkyB in the UK and the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News TV in the US." Note that James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch.
Comment Re:Let's see them be consistant. (Score 1) 711
Actually a 4GB MacBook Pro does show up as having 3.75GB of memory (in Activity Monitor) after being upgraded to Snow Leopard. Although I'm not really sure why.
Comment Microsoft's Poland? (Score 1) 964
... Microsoft's Poland
...
Wait. Microsoft have invaded Poland? I've got a bad feeling about this.
