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  1. (My guess is Infor. They have a terrible UI)

    Your UI need to keep up with the competition, but make sure that you consider accessibility. If done right a new UI can be more compliant, but it is easy for UX geeks to push flashy new features without regards to 508/WCAG. This can present all kinds of legal and contractual issues, especially if you sell to the Feds.

  2. Re: How much can bones tell ? on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 1

    Interesting question, but I am afraid that the variation in size of dogs is due strictly to human intervention, to thousands of years of selective breeding. I cannot think of another species with such variance.

  3. Re:My iPod has a great battery life on SpaceX Pressure Hammers Stuck Valves; Dragon's ISS Mission Back On Track · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this will work for your wife, but a single-handed right-click is easy from theIr touchpad: "... you can right-click with two fingers or configure a right-click area on the trackpad." http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features/ http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

  4. Re:Get a Bachelor's Degree... In Anything. on Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? · · Score: 1

    If you want to learn try www.udacity.com. If you want a degree get a degree.

  5. Get a Bachelor's Degree... In Anything. on Ask Slashdot: Is Going To a Technical College Worth It? · · Score: 2

    Check the box. Pick an easy major and get it done. Take as many CLEP tests as you can. Ten years from now no one will care what you got your degree in, and unless you go to a top school no one will care where you went. Skip the for-profit schools and find a nice affordable state school.

  6. Re:Data security on Harris Exits Cloud Hosting, Citing Fed Server Hugging · · Score: 1
  7. Re: AWS GovCloud (US) would indicate otherwise on Harris Exits Cloud Hosting, Citing Fed Server Hugging · · Score: 1

    Some companies know how to do Cloud. Old school GSIs don't.

  8. Re:This is painfully obvious. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    You need to move a few miles west. In Loudoun County we have a higher household incomes and a lower cost of living.

  9. Re:The originals really are something else on Homebrew Cray-1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For those of you in/visiting the DC area you can check out a couple of old Crays @ the National Cryptologic Museum on the outskirts of Ft Meade. http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/virtual_tour/index.shtml

    On exhibit in the museum are two Cray supercomputers. The XMP-24 on display is the upgrade to the original XMP-22 that was the first supercomputer Cray ever delivered to a customer site. It was in operation from 1983 to 1993 and was arguably the most powerful computer in the world when it was delivered. It used serial processing to conduct 420 million operations per second.

    The second generation Cray, the YMP, replaced the older version in 1993. It had a 32 gigabyte (32 billion bytes) memory capacity. In 1993 most personal computers held only 16 million bytes. The YMP used vector processing, a very powerful form of overlapping, parallel processing to conduct 2.67 billion operations per second. The YMP was decommissioned and went on display at the museum in 2000.

    The museum is lots of fun and definitely worth a visit.

  10. You might as well just burn it. on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 1

    It would need to be one heck of a safe.

    The pressure at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is over 8 tons per square inch. http://www.marianatrench.com/mariana_trench-oceanography.htm

    The first rule of security is not to destroy what you are trying to protect. You might as well just burn it.

  11. domestic surveillance on Micro Plane That Perches On Power Lines · · Score: 1
    A quarter of the population of the earth does not have access to electricity. http://www.iea.org/work/2005/poverty/blurb.pdf It stands to follow that much of the planet is not covered with power lines.

    Clearly this technology is meant for a future war, but where are we planning to fight our next war?

  12. Speaking of plumage.... on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 2, Funny

    My vote is for Beautiful Plumage.
    Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
    Mr. Praline: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

  13. Re:Not to be a naysayer, but can people afford thi on Disposable Toilet To Change the World · · Score: 1

    I am not sure about poop, but surely some of these people can't afford a pot to pee in.

  14. GPUs not just for gaming anymore on NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use my GPU as a 715+ GFLOP SETI cruncher.

  15. They get paid to find security holes on Over Half of Software Fails First Security Tests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will a security firm ever certify that a solution is perfect on the first pass? Not if they want to be invited back for a second.

  16. Re:SPOT! on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1
    They have a cool feature called SPOTcasting.

    You can track your kid on the Web. Build your own mashup. Imagine the possibilities.

  17. SPOT on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    My wife got me a SPOT for Christmas. I like to think she worries when I go on long solo hikes.

  18. You can wear a shirt for many months. on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 1
    Stay away from synthetics.

    You can wear a wool garment for months .

  19. Keep your head down / Go into Sales on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Like it or not you are in school mode. Stay in school, wait out the economy. Once you are in the job market, life will present too many distractions. Get the degree while you can.

    I got my MBA straight out of school, went into pre-sales and now make more than most engineers.

    Sales Engineering is challenging, a lot of fun, and can be very lucrative.

  20. Hybrid humans vs. genetically modified politicians on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Years ago Bruce Sterling pointed out that Louisiana would make a perfect latter day primordial swamp for genetic experimentation.

    I for one would love to see Selacamps swimming through the bayou.

    Only hybrid humans can save us from this fate and defeat genetically modified politicians.

    So it is written.

  21. Re:Lets keep us needlessly behind the time. on Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget which age group is more likely to vote.

    If more young people voted politicians (and the country as a whole) might not be held hostage by the AARP.

    Every year I pay $6324 into our Social Security system. I don't have much confidence that I will ever see a cent of that money back.

    And don't even get me started on Medicare...

  22. Re:Eh? on Dolphin Inspired Mini-sub · · Score: 1

    BOAT stands for Break Out Another Thousand.

  23. Lack of multiple queues means lousy sample data on Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms · · Score: 1

    As a long time NetFlix user I suppose I have contributed to the sample. I order movies for myself, my wife, and my five year old daughter. Good luck trying to profile my buying activity.

  24. A one-way mission would be easier to fake. on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they could call it Capricorn II. Even a big budget movie costs less than a space shot, and the script could be changed to suit the whims of politicians. Want to kill our hero off like Ana Lucia on Lost? No problem. Heck, if they pretend to send up an Adam and Eve we could have a fake family and eventually a fake civilization. We could trash our planet trusting there is a viable alternative. Or better yet we could send old people there then their palms start to glow. Or we can send lottery winners or latter day gladiators there. Maybe I should turn the idiot box off.....

  25. Re:this is happening on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 1

    A few years ago my wife and I flew Lufthansa to Europe. While waiting for our flight, I and noticed that while we were sitting next to each other, we were in different boarding zones. In a nice, orderly, Germanic fashon, they boarded windows first, then middles seats, and finally asiles.