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Probably those experiments over at Black Mesa. By the way, the portrayal of New Mexico in Half-Life always amused me, with the cartoonish Looney Tunes cliffs and plateaus. With the exception of the northern area of the state, it's mostly just weeds as far as the eye can see, littered with the occasional beer can. We have good Mexican food, though.

Well, if you were building a secret lab to run probably illegal experiments into inter-dimensional travel with the potential to bring vicious invaders to earth, which part of New Mexico would you pick.

Um...the weather widget looks a little familiar, doesn't it?

How long someone uses a an earlier, similar comment by an AC as 'proof' that you are using sockpuppets and are a paid account?

Um...the weather widget looks a little familiar, doesn't it?

The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?

Never change, Samsung.

The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?

Never change, Samsung.

Everything Sony did so far was stolen ideas.

As long as Nintendo does nothing else than Games, Sony will have to wait.

There actually is a Black Mesa, New Mexico, though I don't know if the in-game location has any relation (I imagine there are probably several Black Mesas in the deserts of America.

But the effect in continental interiors -- on states not near the edge of those plates -- was a new one, the scientists said. Whether an upwelling in the gooey mantle that lies beneath the crust or a sag in the plates themselves, what exactly drives the growth remains a mystery.

Probably those experiments over at Black Mesa. By the way, the portrayal of New Mexico in Half-Life always amused me, with the cartoonish Looney Tunes cliffs and plateaus. With the exception of the northern area of the state, it's mostly just weeds as far as the eye can see, littered with the occasional beer can. We have good Mexican food, though.

You forgot the most blatant example!

Warning--side effects may occur.

I find it endlessly hilarious that you think these are for growing dope.

That look like cannabis to you?

How about that?

How about that one?

Anything in there look like dope to you?

The ignorance is quite astounding.

I find it endlessly hilarious that you think these are for growing dope.

That look like cannabis to you?

How about that?

How about that one?

Anything in there look like dope to you?

The ignorance is quite astounding.

I find it endlessly hilarious that you think these are for growing dope.

That look like cannabis to you?

How about that?

How about that one?

Anything in there look like dope to you?

The ignorance is quite astounding.

I don't know who that is, but I'm happy to have such an impact on you. A Slashdot employee recently told me that my comments generate more moderations than any he's ever seen. If my opinions cause that much discussion, than I'm doing more than the usual "me too" posters, and I'll take nothing but terrible karma if it means my posts are making people think and react. And with the downmods I receive, I often do have terrible karma, and that's fine with me (said Slashdot employee also said he didn't consider me a troll). I'm a subscriber and see articles about half an hour before you do, and I will keep contributing regardless.

As for Apple, this place was much more Apple-friendly before Android came out and turned this community into a Google cheerleading squad. Today, you can't praise Apple for anything. If you mention that the prototypical design for nearly every Android smartphone and tablet came from Jonathan Ive's iPhone design from 2007--even though it's completely obvious to anyone outside of Slashdot--you will get modbombed into oblivion around here. For crying out loud, look at these Toshiba phones and tablets from CES--it's practically a pile of iPads and iPhones.

There's an emotional attachment to Android around here because it's based on Linux and comes from Google. Since it competes with Apple, that means Apple is now considered one of the bad guys and isn't allowed to be credited for anything. I've never slandered anyone, and my comments are not only based on facts but are also often full of links to various sources. I've always felt that I brought up rational arguments and facts, and people are welcome to respond and disagree. Unfortunately, people are extremely closed-minded and often just mod down instead of replying and explaining why they think I'm wrong. It's reached such a comical degree that I'm regularly accused of being different people or being paid by Microsoft or Apple. I grin every time I see those comments; it motivates me to keep posting.

If you think I'm the worst on the site, than at least I'm standing out and stirring the nest. I actually consider my posts pretty obvious and non-controversial, so the huge reactions often surprise me. In a good way.

Absurd. Android's fragmentation looks like this. It's not reduced at all, nor do you explain how it's reduced. To the contrary, the business model for many of these companies is not to support a model of phone with updates but instead make you buy a new model six months later. That's why top-selling Samsung phones that are only months old won't get Android 4.0.

You state that Google "actually removes fragmentation" because they give away a free OS, but you don't explain how that is true. We're not seeing what you are claiming should be happening--what we're seeing is that each company is doing exactly what Schmidt is describing, customizing the OS with their own software and selling phones with large differences in hardware capability. That is the fragmentation.

And yet I just published an app last night that works on all versions of Android all the way back to 1.5, this covers 99.97% of people who use the Market to get their apps.

There is no fragmentation problem with Android. It's always been something that Apple fanbois have used to attack Android for being less homogenous.

Is that so? Then maybe you can explain to the Galaxy S and Tab buyers why they won't be getting Ice Cream Sandwich.

The fact though is that Google provides the tools for developers to handle the variations in screen size and such and in practice developers don't seem to be having too much trouble with the fragmentation issue.

Third-party developer support for Android declined by a third in 2011.

True early on some features wouldn't be supported on older versions of Android, but the same is true with iOS, Apple adds new features and doesn't necessarily port them to old iPhones.

While not every feature gets back ported, the 2.5-year-old iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS. The problem is that carriers aren't interested in doing support; they want to sell new phone models every six months.

Absurd. Android's fragmentation looks like this. It's not reduced at all, nor do you explain how it's reduced. To the contrary, the business model for many of these companies is not to support a model of phone with updates but instead make you buy a new model six months later. That's why top-selling Samsung phones that are only months old won't get Android 4.0.

You state that Google "actually removes fragmentation" because they give away a free OS, but you don't explain how that is true. We're not seeing what you are claiming should be happening--what we're seeing is that each company is doing exactly what Schmidt is describing, customizing the OS with their own software and selling phones with large differences in hardware capability. That is the fragmentation.

Your premise is based on the idea that everybody is selling stock Android phones. Motorola Mobility's CEO explained at CES that carriers don't want stock Android phones because they don't make a profit. He said, "Verizon and AT&T don't want seven stock ICS devices on their shelves...The vast majority of the changes we make to the OS are to meet the requirements that carriers have."

There is no reduction in fragmentation; the exact opposite is true.

Cross post for a pic from reddit.com

There's always a reason why people still prefer using Google. The only reason why I can see people using Bing or Yahoo is because that's the default engine on their web browser or something like that.

Android phones originally looked like this. Jobs-era Apple spent its existence putting out products that do things in ways others didn't do before. It doesn't really matter if some cross-armed haters don't want to admit that. The history of the last 15 years speaks for itself.

Try this, not a dump but some more info http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/have-rim-nokia-apple-provided-indian-military-with-backdoor-access-to-cellular-comm/838

That's not more info, it's just the "Indian blogger from ZDNet" referred to, and linked to, by the posting. The original documents are under the "posted on the Net" link in the posting.

How is this is just like this except for "it's a keyboard and it's thin"?

> Who else?

Ask the author of the original document, he's the "Android fanboy" you're looking for.

... allowing the stay of mobile device manufacturers: RIM, NOKIA, APPLE etc., (RINOA) ...

Quote: "signed an agreement with all major device vendors" - So you are saying that Android phones are not made by any major device vendor.

If you really think that the only thing that makes it similar-looking to Apple products is "rounded rectangles," then you're intentionally being obtuse for whatever reason. There comes a point where it's obvious that other companies are liberally borrowing from Jonathan Ive's design shop at Apple.

Vizio's PC concept looks like this. The keyboard looks just like Apple's flat keyboard introduced a few years ago, the trackpad is a clone of the Apple Trackpad, and though it's less of a copy than the others, the screen is certainly reminiscent of an iMac, especially taken as a whole with the rest of the components.

I'm not surprised at all that, with all the design work Apple puts into its products, it is going to try to protect that work from knockoffs. Not only is this taking advantage of design work done at Apple, but if the products turn out to be low-quality or problematic, their resemblance to existing Apple products ends up damaging Apple's brand as well. I realize Slashdot comments tend to have an Apple slant (to put it mildly), but come on, this is completely obvious "inspiration" from Apple.

I think what really goes on here is that some people just don't want to give Apple credit for anything, and they hate when people do credit them, so when comparisons between designs are pointed out, it pisses them off and they make snarky remarks about "rounded rectangles."

If you really think that the only thing that makes it similar-looking to Apple products is "rounded rectangles," then you're intentionally being obtuse for whatever reason. There comes a point where it's obvious that other companies are liberally borrowing from Jonathan Ive's design shop at Apple.

Vizio's PC concept looks like this. The keyboard looks just like Apple's flat keyboard introduced a few years ago, the trackpad is a clone of the Apple Trackpad, and though it's less of a copy than the others, the screen is certainly reminiscent of an iMac, especially taken as a whole with the rest of the components.

I'm not surprised at all that, with all the design work Apple puts into its products, it is going to try to protect that work from knockoffs. Not only is this taking advantage of design work done at Apple, but if the products turn out to be low-quality or problematic, their resemblance to existing Apple products ends up damaging Apple's brand as well. I realize Slashdot comments tend to have an Apple slant (to put it mildly), but come on, this is completely obvious "inspiration" from Apple.

I think what really goes on here is that some people just don't want to give Apple credit for anything, and they hate when people do credit them, so when comparisons between designs are pointed out, it pisses them off and they make snarky remarks about "rounded rectangles."

> Who else?

Ask the author of the original document, he's the "Android fanboy" you're looking for.

... allowing the stay of mobile device manufacturers: RIM, NOKIA, APPLE etc., (RINOA) ...

Android is worse than Windows Phone about updates. And Microsoft doesn't even have a "Corporate Monopoly" on phones. With all due respect, your post is a bit of a karma whore.

Exactly.

This, and TSA appearing at bus terminals to pat down children is just the current administration's way of slowly inuring you to the "your papers please" gestapo tactics they seek to impose on the american public.

With congress rolling over and approving every dime in the TSA budget there seems no likelihood this will stop any time soon.

With this being their eventual goal (please forgive my atrocious Latin).

Ants rule. This is the coolest article Slashdot has published all week. Just look at these things. They're oversized, phallic monsters of doom with giant fuck-off heads. Unfortunately, it's hard to find out more about this ancient caste of ant because all the Google results right now are about this story, and there's no "History of ants" article on Wikipedia. But check out Martialis heureka, a newly discovered species in the Amazon that may represent the oldest living lineage of ants today.

http://i.imgur.com/rqEoA.jpg

This doesn't appear to address fragmentation at all. To the contrary, fragmentation will be even easier, according to the article:

To be clear, this doesn't mean the death of phone makers' user interface customizations, such as HTC's Sense or Samsung's TouchWiz. Far from it: Google is also making it easier for developers to accommodate these custom interfaces, with a bit of code that adopts whatever theme the device is using by default. Essentially, app developers will be able to choose whether their apps will look more like stock Android 4.0, or like the phone maker's customized interface.

Recall that TouchWiz is the reason the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab won't get Ice Cream Sandwich despite being only months old. Just look at this chart of the completely broken upgrade cycle for Android smartphones--and note the 2 1/2 year old iPhone 3GS can run the latest version of iOS. The problem is that the carrier's business model is to sell you a new phone every six months. It's not in their best interests to provide upgrades and support. As far as they're concerned, interaction with the customer is over the moment you purchase the phone, so they don't give a crap about trying to provide a cohesive platform that interoperates with competing Android phones.

Seamless experiences win out in the long term. We saw this when gaming moved from PCs to consoles in the 2000s, and it's happening now in the transition to the post-PC era. The previous mobile web OS usage article raised a lot of eyebrows, because despite the fact Android has greater volume, it's turns out that it's actually #3 in web use behind Java ME and iOS, which means the majority of Android users are not using their phones like smartphones, for whatever reason. On top of that, developer support for Android dropped by one-third over the course of 2011 despite an increase in activations.

The fragmentation issue is something Google desperately needs to solve if it wants to avoid the same fate that desktop Linux did. Throwing something out there, calling it open, and letting "choice" steer the ship isn't going to do it. Requiring support for a theme is a step in the right direction, but all it means is that there is a default theme, not a standardized one.

Relevant graphic

too few is not "relative" it's a deterministic requirement straight out of the ADA. the law is the same everywherein the US, and a business would have to be run by knuckleheads to get caught with their pants down on it.

ADA PARKING CHART for lots between 501 and 1000 you must have 2% accessible, and so guy #11 could only sue if there were 550 or more spots in the lot

The brightest shop light you linked to is 300 lumens. A 75-watt incandescent bulb produces 1200 lumens.

As for your arguments, (a) is false, (b) is debatable depending on how you define rugged and what failure modes you're considering, for this purpose I'll concede that you're right, and (c) isn't something I care about in most instances.

Notice that nowhere have I complained about the cost of alternatives, merely their performance characteristics. You're right, I can most certainly afford a $30 flashlight, but what I want is a shop light. My criteria for performance are volumetric density, total light output, ruggedness, consequences of failure, and probability of failure. Incandescent bulbs are an excellent fit for the application.

For what it's worth, the LED bulbs work just great in my kitchen.

Does anyone have a QR code to a Rick Roll?

Here you go, sir!/A?

https://imgur.com/gallery/qXY9f

http://i.imgur.com/SrFE0.gif

Really? You probably just haven't noticed. When I type imgur in my browser bar the following come up:

A picture of a really early version of Android - Typically posted in every Slashdot story about Android by some Apple public opinion correctional officer.
A screen cap of a twitter comment between IGN and Oceanic Marketing - Got that from the Slashdot story only yesterday about Oceanic Marketing's braindead customer service.
And about a million photos of various lolcats.

Imgur is the defacto standard service for linking some stupid image to someone.

Really? You probably just haven't noticed. When I type imgur in my browser bar the following come up:

A picture of a really early version of Android - Typically posted in every Slashdot story about Android by some Apple public opinion correctional officer.
A screen cap of a twitter comment between IGN and Oceanic Marketing - Got that from the Slashdot story only yesterday about Oceanic Marketing's braindead customer service.
And about a million photos of various lolcats.

Imgur is the defacto standard service for linking some stupid image to someone.

http://i.imgur.com/ekIs3.png paul was losing his shit on twitter as well

UPDATE:

This person also has a history of bad mouthing customers (link).

According to www.examiner.com, Paul Christoforo has apologized to the customer and to Penny Arcade, and also asks them to please tell people to stop sending hate male and calling him on the phone. BUT, this guy continues to badmouth Penny Arcade on Twitter, and Reddit and people who play video games.

Some of the latest posts from his twitter account:

OK ENOUGH! Just fuck off already u god damn fucking gaming cunts. Boo Hoo I yelled at a customer big deal. Ge over it

...

I don't need a degree I'm just naturally smart.

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Domestic violence no, it's called a fucking hug

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Look at all these gamers. Bunch of fucking losers, everyone in the biz makes fun of you fucks. All the sites you like laugh at yuo.

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Penny Arcade is for autsitic preteens that can handle good entertianment. I'm suprised you can even read at all.

And the fun continues...

Yes, Charlie Sheen is much better at this sort of stuff.

References:
https://twitter.com/oceanstretagy
https://imgur.com/t1iiM
https://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocean-marketing-gaming-pr-rep-to-avoid-at-all-cost

Here is what it looks like with logarithmic GDP/Capita axis

Could this be any more biased? Why is Slashdot posting this crap?

The article claims that "Apple fan sites celebrate Apple patents," but all he does is link to one site, Patently Apple. That site exists to track Apple patent applications "in search of future features and secrets," as the site puts it. It's not celebrating patents; it's just reporting on them in hopes of predicting upcoming product plans.

It also repeats the old troll meme about PARC, claiming that "Apple disregards the notion of fair competition, which takes a lot of nerve for a company that built itself on knockoffs (e.g. Xerox PARC)." Overlapping windows and pulldown menus did come from PARC, but Apple is the one who invented the File-Edit-View-Window-Help standard menu layout, the phrase "cut-and-paste," and several other common GUI paradigms that are taken for granted today. Not to mention that many of those Xerox PARC employees went on to work on the Macintosh project at Apple!

If we're throwing around knock-off accusations, Android used to look like this until the iPhone came out, and then Android suddenly started looking and behaving a lot more like iOS, right down to the pinch-zoom gestures that originated with the iPhone. For crying out loud, Samsung outright stole Apple's icon artwork and used it in their stores. TechRights, of course, ignores all this. It's no surprise at all that Apple is going to try to hinder competitors' efforts to ride the coattails of its design work. It went through this before with Windows in the 1980s and only lost its court case against Microsoft because of a previous licensing agreement.

Obnoxious Android fanboyism has reached a fever pitch. Android fanboys are now officially more annoying than Apple fanboys. They've adopted this idea that they are freedom fighters and that their tribe is under threat from evil. It's embarrassing and is a resurrection of the worst elements of the desktop Linux movement from 10 years ago.

Exploring the rest of the site, it calls itself "a progressive site which supports software freedom and advocates digital diversity through standardisation." Most of its stories are anti-Microsoft, pro-Linux, and present a one-sided view of tech news that's intended to rile up its readers (not unlike Slashdot, to be honest). It also claims to be against monopolies but says nothing about Google's monopoly in web advertising nor the fact it's using its monopoly revenues to pump a new market with a free product (Android), just like Microsoft did with Windows and Internet Explorer in the 1990s. For some reason, Android advocates

For crying out loud, Techrights' Twitter account is called @boycottnovell. Boycott Novell is associated with Roy Schestowitz, an infamous Usenet troll who spams the advocacy newsgroups with pro-Linux news links and used to astroturf Slashdot with multiple accounts.

If nerds on Tech Rights and Slashdot want to boycott Apple, go ahead. None of them were using Apple products anyway--they are Linux advocacy sites. Apple wouldn't even notice.

Can we get some actual tech news? Or is Slashdot forever lost to its current role of flamboyant baiting for ad views? Ugh.

Yes, E-Learning a Viable Option.
Check it out.

No problemo

just dig through mom & dad's old halloween junk for one of these http://i.imgur.com/YnqsJ.jpg

http://imgur.com/iVG2Z

Check em out

It's for devices with hardware security to enforce a ~5 attempt max and self-destruct the encryption keys. So any phone/tablet pretty much fits the bill. It's not intended for traditional desktop machines. Here's my current background image: http://i.imgur.com/eJqQF.jpg. I'm pretty sure I can spot more than 6 points of interest.

TubeCat disagrees with everything about what you just said.

Fluxbox, just like Openbox, Blackbox and Afterstep has a dock/wharf/slit. Back in the day. Taking 68 pixles away from the right hand side of the screen was expensive on a 640x480 or 1024x768. However with the modern 16:9 aspect ratio 1366x768 can easily afford to give up 68 pixels for the slit region. My ideal setup is image

• Panel moved to the top
• Panel resized to about 90% width of screen. Even with windows maximized there is always a clear spot in the top left and right hand corer to get a menu or scroll to a different desktop
• Slit on the right top side of the screen. With wmbutton (launching apps) wmmsg (to know when text messages come in), wmix (to adjust volume), wmclockmon, wmkeyboard, (clock), pywmradio.py (Internet Streaming Radio App), wmwesther+, wmbiff (to track incoming email) and wmauda (multimedia control app).
• Below that wmbar running vertically.
• Conky in the top right corner for system status

  Lightweight and fast.