Posts by Rob Bruins Slot

Bill Gates chucks cash at climate cooling cloud creator

google "Discovery Project Earth"

They've actually created a prototype of this ship and tested the possibilities. It's a nice program although I'm quite sceptic about the idea of us changing the planets climate. Then again, this could be tested relatively small so any mishaps should not trigger the next ice age.

Crypto snafu grounds 3D Avatar screenings in Germany

Nice one

I always assumed that all copyright protection technologies had 1 flaw, if you can see the stuff, you can copy it, never thought they would fix that one by just not showing the movie.

Linux at 17 - What Windows promised to be

This way both Linux&Windows are going nowhere

As many out there, I'm actually quite happy about the switch to linux. Sure, it was a bit difficult in the beginning. But as I recall Windows XP was also. And the terrible disaster called Millenium. Before that I found Windows 95 frustrating to use after working on 3.11 for so long. And I can't even begin to image how that first time on Dos 3.3 was back in? '87?

But one thing has not changed, every article on every tech website that is stupid enough to either mention Windows or Linux AND accept comments on that article has an inevitable flamewar on their hands. Come on people, I use Linux you use Windows, or Mac OS, or whatever you like to use. Linux is not bad, it runs most games just fine nowadays and I find installation & maintenance of linux systems a delight in comparison to windows. Then again, as a webdesigner I have to test on windows systemes. So the laptop does dualboot. That XP version never crashed as far as I know, it handles all the testing nicely and my gf uses it for just about anything.

The funny thing is,...

The laptop is actually quite close to my workstation most of the day and they share and coexist in perfect harmony.

Stop because,.. bloody well obvious right?

Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle

Isn't this

A really bad idea all over again? If the damn thing does not go really high, way out of reach for shoulder fired missiles. Then it might work.

Paris because she knows how to avoid getting hit

Legal digital music is commercial suicide

@Anonymous Coward 14:59 GMT

Like your view of this matter and I concur, I also downloaded tons of music in the past (I can happily post it since I am from the Netherlands where it is still legal due to a 96 year old law). Broadening my musical flavor quite a bit.

But nowadays I buy almost everything, can't be bothered with looking it up as I can order the CD and have it delivered to me the next day, and a nicely filled rack with cd's and dvd's also looks nice. Although I digitize everything and store it on a fileserver for easy of use.

As you say, I have better things to do with my time.