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  1. Err, what about Minitel? on The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh ye of ignoramus stance, the Minitel network was popular already in the mid 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Simple problem with a simple solution on GPS Always Overestimates Distances (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a sailor who use GPS alongside traditional navigation: stop using devices that poll and insert a new leg on your route every 5 seconds. If you lower the polling frequency to f.e. every 1 or 2 minutes this problem goes away. I realize that this doesn't work for people who insist on taking their morning run zig-zagging through city blocks.

  3. Like Tesla, he mean? on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    They popped out of nowhere without prior experience, and last I checked people waxed lyrical about their cars.

  4. mencoder on Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? · · Score: 4, Informative

    mencoder will do exactly what you need, muxing separate video and audio tracks into one container file of your choice, with tunable offsets for each track.

  5. (pronounced soo-cool-klag-en) on Munich Planning Highway System For Cyclists · · Score: 1

    Ugh. So wrong and such a lousy transliteration it made me shiver.

  6. I think the real problem is... on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    ...that it was Google+, not that something was promoted through an interstice. The topic should be revisited when there's data on something else as well.

  7. Googling this guy on Meet OpenDaylight Project Executive Director Neela Jacques (Video) · · Score: 1

    Turns up nothing older than 2014. He sprung out of nowhere. Never heard about him until this post showed up. Who is he?

  8. They should just skip ahead to MANT on Marvel Tweaks Their Superhero Film Formula With Ant-Man · · Score: 1

    HALF MAN, HALF ANT.

  9. Relevant: homemade memristor on Black Phosphorus Could Spur the Next Wave of Tiny Transistors · · Score: 1
  10. Not really unusual, but... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recently modified a simple doorway alarm, using an ATtiny85 microcontroller, to monitor two windows and two doors instead of the single door the original device was watching over. The alarm was powered by 4.5 volts which was perfect for the ATtiny, and it used a form of PWM signal for the piezo tweeter which allowed me to let the ATtiny produce different alarms to alert which of the four sensors was tripped.

  11. Re:Apple To The Rescue ... Sort Of on Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV · · Score: 1

    They put mDNSResponder back in temporarily, not permanently, until fixing the problems with discoveryd.

  12. Re:Exactly what I was thinking on Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV · · Score: 1

    The PS4 devkit doesn't offer a decent OpenGL API; it's just not what developers use.

  13. Re:Why release it? on Square Enix Pulls, Apologizes For Mac Version of Final Fantasy XIV · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've programmed portable OpenGL-based applications for many years for the three dominant desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, OS X - and I have no idea which million issues on OS X and its implementation of OpenGL it is you refer to.

  14. Re:People still use Safari? on Is Safari the New Internet Explorer? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes.

  15. Already covered over at Hacker News on Is Safari the New Internet Explorer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The unisonous response is "no". The author is trying to balance the needle on its tip.

  16. Re:OSX too on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 2

    User error, really, though I'm puzzled as to how this is doable with an OS X installation, since the OS doesn't suffer many of the architectural flaws that puts Windows in these situations. I've been running (and maintaining for others) OS X for 10 years and Windows for 15 years, and with OS X installations I've never seen this occur. For what the anecdot is worth my own Windows installations have always stayed healthy (and just noticably sluggish) even after years of use.

  17. Inevitable, but doesn't really have to be bad on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 3

    There's no way around the sludge that is the Windows registry, or f.e. Windows' tendency to regularly enter a heart-stopping "drive frenzy" for no apparent good reason, but it doesn't all have to end up with the familiar ugly crawl we all know friends' and family's Windows boxes come to just months after freshly installed. Next to me is a Win 7/64 machine whose current installation is close to 5 years old, and has seen thorough use (as with all my Windows machines during the 15 years I've used it on personal level) but it's still quite snappy and acceptably fluent even if slightly more sluggish than when the installation was new. The only difference is that I take care of my personal computing, and avoid the pitfalls that "computer illiterates" so often fall for.

  18. Re:A poor workman... on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a Perl programmer of 10 years and a PHP programmer of 15 years: this equally swings both ways.

  19. Cue non-programmers linking "A fractal of bad desi on PHP At 20: From Pet Project To Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    Go on, we know you want to.

  20. Re:Then buy a used PC on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    I don't buy that you do either. I spent 6 years of my life programming 6502 assembly when writing games and "demos" on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, and I spent another 4 years programming ARM assembly when doing games and "demos" for the GameBoy Advance. Thumb/ARM is not complicated, not hard to learn, but it is nowhere near so defining of simplicity and straight-forwardness as the 6502 is.

  21. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you insist that 4 USB ports and an array of GPIO pins are the main selling features, then let me present to you the Odroid C1: http://www.hardkernel.com/main...

    It's everything the Pi and Pi 2 is, and everything the Pi and Pi 2 never will be, for the same $35.

  22. Re:Too late, but not entirely too little on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    The Android sticks run Linux, too. I have an RK3188-based stick that cost me $45 (shipping included), and I run a modified version of Ubuntu on it. Compared to the Pi the experience is wonderful, across the board.

  23. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1, Troll

    Uff, how can you talk about ".crapNET" bloatware when your name indicates you are a Ruby fanboy? :D

    The problem with the Pi isn't whether you want to run X on it or not.

  24. Double-edged sword on Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed · · Score: 2

    He has a point, but if encryption is made breakable, everyone will break it, not just the "watchers".

  25. "...with your permission..." on Eric Schmidt: Our Perception of the Internet Will Fade · · Score: 1

    Good one, Google.