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Comment Re:Cultural Arrogance (Score 1) 353

by vmartell on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:55PM (#59432274) Attached to: Watchmen Creator Alan Moore: Modern Superhero Culture is Embarrassing

<quote><p>The Ring Opera (Der Ring des Nibelungen), by Wagner has Gods as characters, as well as super heroic mortals. Granted, Thor does not show up, but his father "Wotan" aka "Odin" does.</p></quote>

Just a little nitpick - Thor does show up - first opera, Rheingold - his name is Donner

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Comment Text Rendering yeah! (Score 1) 757

by vmartell on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:08PM (#54344649) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products?

Text rendering is one the biggest differences imho - amazingly (to me) is that the order from best to worst text rendering is

1)Mac OS X
2) Linux

100) Windows

Yes, Windows a distant third! - the ubuntu gnome laptop fonts I am using right now to type this looks WAY WAY better than Windows and not much worse that a Mac - is amazing, I would never have thought it. Switching to Windows for apps that require it is visually painful

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Comment Re:BSD != Linux (Score 1) 191

by vmartell on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:58PM (#54229597) Attached to: Dozens Of Canonical Employees Resign As Ubuntu Switches To GNOME, Shuttleworth Returns As CEO

Yes, mac osx is not linux - is in the post! I called it a *unix* desktop... the mention of it as linux desktop was *sarcastic* - again the *BROADER* point is that seeing pretty much every linux developer (at least in my company) sporting a mac, made me see the forest - I think that the linux desktop battle became pointless - and none of the combatants won ! someone else did ! :D

Comment Re:Project lacks focus. (Score 1) 191

by vmartell on Thursday April 13, 2017 @03:20AM (#54227031) Attached to: Dozens Of Canonical Employees Resign As Ubuntu Switches To GNOME, Shuttleworth Returns As CEO

Right! but the point is that ( at least in my experience ) Mac OSX is the defacto desktop for all those linux developers and engineers - the broader point is that imho that situation makes the desktop linux war a bit pointless - and I think Ubuntu/Shuttleworth recognized that... not to mention the phone thing...

thnx!

Comment Re:Project lacks focus. (Score 1) 191

by vmartell on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:13PM (#54225781) Attached to: Dozens Of Canonical Employees Resign As Ubuntu Switches To GNOME, Shuttleworth Returns As CEO

Pls friends, don't take this a troll - but to me it looks like the wining linux desktop was Mac OSX!

I work in an all linux shop - in the server - I am one of very few linux laptop (and desktop) users - every meeting is the same, the lone Dell in a sea of lighted apples...

And indeed, it is a unix desktop! Just wish the machines were a little better - I bet Mac OSX would be great on my Dell Precision 7710...

Thnx!

v

Comment Re:not surprised (Score 1) 240

by vmartell on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:17PM (#54171047) Attached to: The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over

Indeed - in fact, last time I checked the i7 Mac Mini was not available to buy - which is exactly what I wanted... v

Comment Re:Vintage? (Score 1) 240

by vmartell on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:05PM (#54170931) Attached to: The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over

Vintage is in the age of the beholder...

Comment Re:I wonder... liar, liar, pants on fire? (Score 1) 127

by vmartell on Saturday October 29, 2011 @12:53AM (#37876772) Attached to: HP Officially Out of TouchPads

Did anyone else besides this blogger of unknown repute receive this alleged e-mail notice? I didn't. I requested the same e-mail updates as he allegedly did, yet I've received nothing at all. The only explanation I can conjecture is that HP's SMTP servers are dragging the process out for who knows how many hours or days.

Got it too... Announcement is legit.... Sorry.... V

Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts 428

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @02:58PM from the check-your-family-status dept.

Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.

Comment M-Audio or Behringer (Score 1) 411

by vmartell on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @02:32AM (#31580050) Attached to: Is the Line-in Jack On the Verge of Extinction?

After +200 replies, my post will probably be redundant, I will add my vote to the probably many coming for getting a budget pro-audio card. M-Audio, from the Audiophile to some other Firewire/USB products they have should do... if you are really on a budget, try Behringer... word to the wise, ***performance*** wise, they cannot be beat for the price; however, they are ***built*** kind of cheaply...

IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? 193

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @03:30PM from the one-keybinding-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am currently looking to move from text editing with vim to a full fledged IDE with gdb integration, integrated command line, etc. Extending VIM with these capabilities is a mortal sin, so I am looking for a linux based GUI IDE. I do not want to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM though. How do I have my cake and eat it too?"

Comment Re:Inauthentic? (Score 1) 437

by vmartell on Saturday February 07, 2009 @11:59AM (#26764173) Attached to: The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune

It's poetry with a beat behind it! And guns! They're like beatniks with automatic weapons.

I rarely comment on Slashdot this comment it's beauty - I should turn it into a sig... V

Comment Re:Women's grandmaster? (Score 1) 183

by vmartell on Friday October 03, 2008 @01:08PM (#25248097) Attached to: 16th World Computer Chess Championship In Progress

I submitted the story, apologies if it sounded trollish... it was merely a quote from the original article... no more... V

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