Interesting Links for 05-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• Windows 8 will not play DVDs
  (tags: windows dvd microsoft )
• The fastest way to board a plane (completely impractical for anyone with children though)
  (tags: airplanes efficiency )
• A cat that has clearly seen Raiders Of The Lost Ark too many times
  (tags: impressive video cat )
• Ten alternatives to Samsung's Galaxy S III
  (tags: iphone android

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Won't people just download VLC Media Player?

It's already better then the player that comes with Windows 7 and is free.

[theweaselking]

Also, physical media is dead - so anyone who wants to use in a computer it is a specialist/collector, who presumably then also wants to use software with more features than WMP *anyway*.

[philmophlegm]

Yeah, let's be honest, that's what people have had to do for the last few versions of Windows anyway because it probably had the codec you needed and Windows didn't.

[channelpenguin]

oooh love the icon!

[bart_calendar]

Also, it took me a minute to find that cat gif.

One of the other gifs was somewhat distracting.

[andrewducker]

Who _hasn't_ wanted to do that with a hot air dryer?

[bart_calendar]

LOL

[skington]

I really wish she wouldn't put multiple animated gifs in one post. Modern graphics cards aren't optimised for animated gifs, it would appear, so that makes my laptop's fan spin up quite dramatically, and they're large enough that it takes quite a while for them all to load in parallel.

[cartesiandaemon]

US Court rules you can be fired for a Facebook "Like".

*headache* I thought I had started to follow US employment law, but apparently not.

As I understand it, you can usually be fired for any form of free speech, with exceptions if you have a decent employment contract, if you're (under some circumstances) discussing working conditions, if it's a matter of discriminating based on a protected class (race, gender, etc). Possibly under some circumstances political views? And some other things?

I think what this case seems to say is that the government is allowed to fire you (or, for that matter, in principle, pass laws criminalising you for) facebook likes

[artkouros]

It's my experience that the greater the energy of the particle accelerator the better the cafeteria food.

[spacelem]

No problems with body hair over here! Actually I wish more people would go natural.