Comment Good stuff. (Score 1) 2254
Its awesome. Clean, simple, and usable.
Comment True Geeks at Heart (Score 5, Funny) 95
", which the company set at $3,133.70 last month"
Great, Easter eggs beyond the code.
Comment So I think... (Score 1) 930
This is the first time I think I've heard of hardware acceleration as an error.
Comment Time Vampire (Score 1) 981
Well this thread burned an otherwise boring hour and a half at work for me. Thanks everybody.
Comment Re:So you know they're there (Score 1) 192
Touché.
Comment Re:So you know they're there (Score 1) 192
...and you've purchased a copy of Windows in your life? You know its far from a fail-proof OS. How about some other software, like Adobe's CS? or MS Office? Then again, why keep the conversation to just software? Got an iPhone? or an Xbox? Shit man, any car you buy has a "manipulative" twist here and there... In all cases, you just have to know where to find them. Finding the right product is not about finding the perfect one, its about finding the one that pisses you off the least. If a verbal alert is your breaking point, I guess thats just too bad.
Comment Re:So you know they're there (Score 3, Insightful) 192
So you're refusing to like a product because of it's default settings?
Good luck in life being the guy that won't buy a car because he doesn't know (or care to know) how to adjust the seat.
Comment Re:It never should have sold one in the first plac (Score 2, Funny) 196
I give them credit for trying to have their cake and eat it too... but as we all know, the cake is a lie.
Comment Re:pot and kettles (Score 1) 545
Exactly what I was thinking. Is there some kind of "affirmative action" for the government's digital/handheld "distractions"?
Comment Meet in the middle? (Score 1) 731
Why don't they just find a middle ground... create a mobile version of flash, that tailors to all of the shit that Jobs has to complain about? Adobe gets to release a new product (probably going to charge an arm and a leg for it) while Apple makes everyone happy with "Mobile Flash" and continues to boast about something new they are able to do after its been around on other platforms/devices for years?
Other than the continuous bitching by both companies, I see nothing that could stop this road from being traveled.
Comment Re:Title error (Score 5, Funny) 72
I second the grammar nazi.
Comment 47 years later... (Score 1) 3
I shotgun the rights for "The Parent Trap 2: Midlife Crisis".
Submission + - KDE 4.0 Opens to Mac and Windows (computerworld.com.au)
Bergkamp10 writes: The next generation of KDE's open source project, version 4.0, expected to be released today, will sport a major under the hood tune-up that will bring KDE to a much broader audience.
"It's quite a big rewrite architecturally speaking. The major thing that started this off was the release of Qt4, the toolkit which KDE is based on," said Australian KDE developer Hamish Rodda.
Rodda said Qt4 brings a lot of features and API improvements to version 4.0, as well as significant enhancements in the way memory is used.
"So it ends up making KDE less resource intensive than KDE 3, which is quite an improvement," he said.
KDE 4.0 boasts a modern architecture that Rodda says is more "future-proof" and designed to last for many years, "whereas some of our other technologies were dependent on certain programs, like the aRts program for audio which unfortunately became a bit of a burden on previous KDE releases."
According to Rodda, despite not being matured just yet there are developers working on the porting of KDE 4.0 to both Mac and Windows.
Submission + - Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered
Active Seti writes: "Scientists have proposed a wide range of explanations for the origin of antimatter, which is exceedingly rare in the cosmos. For years, many theories centered around radioactive elements produced in supernovae. Now four years of observations from the European Space Agency's Integral satellite may have cleared up one of the most vexing mysteries in our Milky Way: the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center. Integral found that the cloud extends farther on the western side of the galactic center than it does on the eastern side. This imbalance matches the distribution of a population of binary star systems that contain black holes or neutron stars, strongly suggesting that these binaries are churning out at least half of the antimatter, and perhaps all of it. The antimatter is probably produced in a region near the neutron stars and black holes, where powerful magnetic fields launch jets of particles that rip through space at near-light speed. "We expected something unexpected, but we did not expect this," says Gerry Skinner, co-investigator for Integral's Spectrometer which made the discovery."
Submission + - Sony announces DRM-free at Amazon
sehlat writes: An article at The New York Times begins:
Sony BMG announced Thursday that it would become the fourth and final major music label to sell digital music on Amazon.com, offering its entire catalog in the MP3 format by the end of the month.
The Rebel Alliance has won.
