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Comment: Re:Fork Slashdot? (Score 2) 188




Preliminary Wants:
1) Threaded commenting.
2) Limited modding

Comment: Re:Fork Slashdot? (Score 3, Interesting) 188






Comment: Re:how many products? (Score 1) 298



Amazon Web Services.


Myself and my employer are _very_ happy AWS customers.

Comment: Re:No horns? (Score 1) 267




Comment: Re:No real surprise (Score 1) 313




Comment: Re:Isn't just the keyboards (Score 1) 459

by dotancohen (#46003515) Attached to: Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse

But unless it's IPS, rotating an LCD will shift colors because the viewing angles aren't the same for horizontal vs vertical. It also messes up font smoothing since the order of sub-pixels isn't the same (unless the OS is aware of that)

Still won't work for a laptop

It's really not so bad. I'm reading slashdot on my landscape monitor, but VIM is always open in the landscape LCD non-IPS monitor (23" LG) and it's fine. With a dark background and light fonts, there is no discernable issue of font smoothing, and the viewing angles are limited but more than adequate. When I do open an application that has a light background and dark fonts (such as a PDF) one can detect font-antialiasing issues but it really isn't a bother.

Comment: Re:tool? (Score 1) 124

by dotancohen (#45976805) Attached to: BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX

From the first lines of the first file on Github:

def x(m1, m2):
                assert type(m1) is bytes
                assert type(m2) is bytes
                return (int.from_bytes(m1, 'big') ^ int.from_bytes(m2, 'big')).to_bytes(len(m1), 'big')

assert x(x(b'abc', b'def'), b'def') == b'abc'

Maybe that was added after you posted. Note that it ostensibly has a 'test' (assert) but with functions named h(), x(), I find the code very unfriendly indeed.

Comment: Re:the root of the problem (Score 1) 1009

by dotancohen (#45948483) Attached to: Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes.

Honestly, I think this argument can be put to rest. The sales figures do not lie.

While It's nice for you that you are happy with Metro, the interface is not moving computers off the shelves. There are a lot of people who will risk staying with XP, and the security risks that go along with it, rather than switching to Metro.

The same could be said of any Linux-based OS. The sad truth is that people prefer "familiar" over "good" and so are stuck thinking that they like Windows XP.

I don't understand how these people ever by a new car, especially if the wiper control or headlamp switch is in a different place.
