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Comment Re:no windows? (Score 1) 521

Power is alive thank you very much for inquiring. It is used in more or less critical systems you probably don't want to hear about, because if you do that would probably mean something wrong happened, with various bad consequences. Also used in the Wii, PS3 and XBox 360 (the last running a NT kernel derivative IIRC)

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 782

One of ethical foundation of Free Software is that anybody is able to help his neighbor with it. By selling the binary $2 on Apple dictatorially regulated market, I think (but i'm not 100% sure, because the iPhone being based on Dictatorial Software, I've no real interest in it) they prevents other from helping those of their neighbors that have an iPhone because they restrict others from distributing binaries to third parties. This is CLEARLY against the spirit of not only the GPL, but even Free Software at large. Free Software is fundamentally incompatible with Dictatorial Platforms.
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Human Sperm Produced In the Laboratory 368

duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The BBC is carrying a report from a team of researchers at Newcastle University who claim to have developed a the first 'artificial' human sperm from stem cells. The research, reported in the journal Stem Cells and Development, involved selecting meristematic germ cells from a human embryonic stem cell culture and inducing meiosis, thus producing a haploid gamete. The authors claim that the resulting sperm are fully formed, mature, human sperm cells but the announcement has been greeted with mixed reaction from colleagues who claim the procedure is ethically questionable and that the gametes produced are of inferior levels of maturation."

Comment Re:Not only that (Score 1) 674

Except that, unless this has changed, you can't use style on something that is smaller than a paragraph (like just a single word inside it). Which means you are owned : you have no choice but overriding the paragraph style for that word, and if later you want to change the style of every specific words of the same namespace, well, you just... can't! (or you change them one by one, which takes ages, and which makes you wonder why you are using a computer if it is for doing stupid laborious work)

Comment stopped reading at point 0 (Score 1) 1365

0. Premise: proprietary software will stay indefinitely. Full stop. You may argue eternally, but complicated software like games, 3D applications, databases, CADs(Computer-aided Design), etc. which cost millions of dollars and years of man-hours to develop will never be open sourced. Software patents are about to stay forever.

Fuck! I didn't know Linux is a proprietary software.
Fuck! ID Software never freed the engines of Doom, Quake, Quake II, etc
And so over.

Comment tab drag and drop missing, rest is fine (Score 1) 554

What the problem with opening multiple windows and using multiple tabs inside each window? Hm, I just found the (little) pb, and the solution: pb: you can't drag and drop a tab from one window to another (this has a stupid effect) solution: add a feature so you can - detach a tab - drag and drop a tab to move it from one window to another.

Comment Re:Solution... (Score 1) 517

This is already written in EULA (at least the beginning), and this won't work anymore is there is a law to properly protect the consumer. I usually hate the pointless IANAL thing, but this time I'll make an exception and state that YAONALAMTTYEKNALAYSSTFUIOWPC

Comment Re:Licensing and Accredidation (Score 2, Informative) 517

You are confusing lot of things and so completely missing the point. Qualification of safety critical software already exists and already is done by qualified people, and this is probably the case all over the world. And the EU is already doing fine for qualification of safety critical software, thank you very much. Few casual consumer products with low safety risks need licensed engineers to be created. There are other mechanisms to protect the consumer in case of defects. Finally, about responsibility, regardless of the domain, the people who are responsible are not very often the only people doing all the work.

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