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lovely story snippets... a must read!

Awesome! Who says geeks don't have a sense of humor!

Oh! And while we are at it, jquery also makes my breakfast every morning.

A sad day indeed, at least for me. I inevitably end up running some flavor of linux on almost all my computers sooner or later. ATI's support for linux, compared to nVidia, has been piss-poor to say the least (certainly in my experience). I have always recommended and bought nVidia cards for this one reason. In fact, we recently went with nVidia's QuadroFX 4800 cards for 5 new workstations (requiring stereo vision on linux/macOS). Want to guess the biggest factor why no one on the team even dared think ATI ? ... The (almost always) nightmarish experiences with ATI's low-end 'consumer cards' on their personal linux machines led to a lack of faith in any ATI product.

Please note, as far as linux support goes, I am talking about the "official ATI closed source drivers".

It is not going to take long for one or more fake-auth servers to spring up... much like those Windows7 validation-servers-run-locally.

As a corollary to this, I am also curious about vitamin D levels in people using UV tanning beds.

Assuming equal carcinogenic potential from sun exposure and from such beds (which is most likely an incorrect assumption), the results should be insightful.

More truth than hype in this case. The modern indoor lifestyle and diet are not very conducive to maintaining the requisite levels.

Vitamin D comes in many forms -- and not all are equal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholecalciferol

Now Apple just needs to incorporate this into the "iPad Keyboard Dock" and I'll be more than happy to buy!

Sure. OSS is great and I am a big fan. But which major OS is f.lux not available for, again?

Your argument in the present context is exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned RMS!

Also, f.lux does work as advertised on the OSs that it is available for.

:-)

f.lux works as advertised. Love it. Use it. Highly recommend it. More so, now that is has nice GUI and all.

The fact that it is closed source should not be a problem unless you are RMS!

Upvoted.

Seems like a positive way make dent on the incumbent censor-happy morons.

Good luck Australia!

The only relevant reply, unfortunately, was not even in reply to my OP !!!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543020

What a troll you are! Oh! Yes! You are!

I think you will understand how analogy works by watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fI3KEgy6c

edited to add: Beware, for history repeats itself. Just because heinous crimes were documented in the past is no guarantee that they will not be repeated by spineless authoritarians.

What about riak ? How does that compare ?

Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland.

Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets signed into law.

Aussies have gone soft, in the balls (they were already soft in the head -- which was the only good thing keeping democracy alive in Australia until now).

edit: an attempt at preventing godwin's law invocation and a visit from the anti-defamation league. ;-)

As an aside, why do advertisers on 'geek' sites (by devs, for devs) even bother putting up advertisements is beyond understanding for me. Given the demographic that visits these sites (tech savvy power users), would the majority not be using ad-scrubbing-measures 99% of the time anyway?

I understand that these sites need to generate revenue and advertisements are one way of doing that, but given the eye-gouging (flash-gif-html5) ads designed by most advertisers my sympathy lies with the readers who visit these sites for reading content.

The day is not far that Patent Troll Inc.s and their brethren will be thrown under the democracy bus. It is a matter of when, not if.

And it won't need a revolution, just enough in-fighting, a bit more alienation of the masses; which will be reaching critical mass soon enough given the number of entrepreneurs and small businesses paying licensing fees a.k.a. "Troll Tax" to these IP warehouses (whorehouses?).

I eagerly wait for the day this blows up in IV and friend's faces.

But can it tile windows yet? :-)

I know, I should use a "real" window manager if I need my windows to be tiled, but I feel that tiling is a real feature with a legitimate need that should be built into Gnome.

Nice job, but the headline is somewhat misleading... it is _not_ a 100k foot balloon, but a balloon that reached 100k feet.

My first impression was of a really long balloon tube. :)

it is the OS that makes the device... a super-responsive touch screen also helps. of the the many touch devices i have come across, nothing compares to the responsiveness of an iPad or iPhone/iPodTouch.

time for someone who is a lawyer to weigh in ... calling grellas !!

all right, point taken. and dare i say, lesson learned.

however, it does represent, at least to me, a flaw in the whole HN voting system; given that user privileges are tied to karma points, i feel that upvotes should be allowed as they are now, but downvotes __must__ require some form of response from the downvoter(s) as to why they are downvoting anything ( a la /. ). you don't need to write a paragraph explaining why you downvoted anything, but you should be required to pick at least __one__ response tag that classifies your reason for downvoting (wrong, inflammatory, trollish or whatever).

anyways, sorry for taking up screen real estate with all this unneeded c.r.a.p. i better get back to "real life"[TM] and soon!

not complaining. just asking "why" ?

i hope that is considered fair. if not, then god help HN the day i get downvoting privileges.

edit:

being downvoted for a comment like this i understand and agree to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1504855

but being downvoted without a reply for what i wrote to this thread's parent... simply makes no sense!

will the anonymous downvoter please stand up and show some gumption?

... and why is that bad? or rather, who is it bad for?

... and in other news, pigs have grown wings and are flying!

seriously, why QE? is base stacking plus some electron cloud sharing not a good enough explanation for dsDNA?

haters gonna hate! srsly?

Fascinating!!

Yet scary how many folks confuse odd numbers with primes on the original blog's comments.

Best paragraph:

''' Imagine the reaction when a company like Apple suddenly comes with devices like iPhones and iPads that don’t feel like computers, don’t require nearly as much maintenance & ‘Just work’. Or at least work enough. Imagine the reaction: “Hey, tech doesn’t need to be difficult. Those nerds have been fooling us all along. Screw them.”

'''

That one hits home! Ouch!!

... and had the longest most awesome RAVE evar!!!! </ sarcasm>