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  1. Keeping 7 in a VM on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If I upgrade to Windows 10, may I legally install Windows 7 on a VM running on the same machine? What would be the situation for a. Systems that were originally sold with 7 b. I purchased my own an OEM license c. I purchased a non-OEM (boxed) Windows 7? Any ideas?

  2. Re:Convenience stores have better video coverage on SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released · · Score: 1

    Some low or mid end high speed cameras would be great. With DC lighting during landing. We could see lots of details. I mean, they could.

  3. Porting to Android is trivial (is it?) on Ask Slashdot: Swift Or Objective-C As New iOS Developer's 1st Language? · · Score: 1

    Apportable lets you compile Objective-C to native ARM and x86, making porting trivial. I heard many success stories but did not actually use it myself. But having one code base is too good an opportunity to miss. I would like to hear downsides as well. Any developers using apportable to do Android ports, reading this, please share your experiences.

  4. Re:iPod touch + feature phone on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    They are buying iPad minis, from what I see.

  5. Re:Not a watch on What Apple's iWatch Can Learn From Pebble · · Score: 1

    ... Apple is likely not even working on a watch ...

    Their job listings and recent hirings suggest the opposite.

    Also, recent patents.

  6. Re:Not a watch on What Apple's iWatch Can Learn From Pebble · · Score: 1

    ... Apple is likely not even working on a watch ...

    Their job listings and recent hirings suggest the opposite.

  7. Why don't they on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    drop very small, cheap, floating beacons off planes if everything else goes wrong? They can place these things through out everywhere in the plane. They can even record data with these until the very last minute. One can even construct something like this with less than 100 bucks with rPi or similar stuff.

  8. apples to apples please on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    How can one compare a routine work like wall construction to a creative work like programming? One has proven technology used since maybe thousands of years now, while the other has unique problems which involve problem solving, trial and error, interfacing, compatibility... etc. Be sane for God's sake.

  9. In other news on How To Take Control of a Car's Electronics, Cheap · · Score: 1

    Hackers hacked into home networks using off-the-shelf cheap ethernet cables, by plugging those into ethernet ports of home routers.

  10. You can keep hating on EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole · · Score: 1

    walled gardens of others

  11. Identity? on Facebook Estimates Around 10% of Accounts Are Fake · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My wife's account with her real name closed arbitrarily by facebook together with her somewhat popular pages and groups. Reason: fake account. She scanned and sent her id and everything. Only response from facebook says this decision is final and cannot be reversed. So I am saying, fuck your policies Mark.

  12. Re:Government waste on Boston Dynamics Wildcat Can Gallop — No Strings Attached · · Score: 1

    Why not just use a horse? Costs less, more reliable, powered by renewable resources ... the horse.

    Because you cannot install a radio & a gps to a horse, and send it to battle field without a human rider.

  13. RIP Slashdot on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 1

    Goodbye old friend.

  14. Re:This could be huge. on Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing · · Score: 1

    Safari Users. We could be talking as many as 2 dozen people here.

    Around 400 million iOS users are slightly more than 2 dozen.

  15. Re:No matter what the outcome actually is.... on Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    No, Apple's "objective" is to sue every other smart phone maker out of business so they can be the only player left in the market. Once Samsung is out of the way, they'll move on to HTC or some other Android based phone manufacturer.

    Why? Because their legal department can't multitask?

  16. Re:Info library for the ages stored in organisms? on Artificial DNA Replicates and 'Evolves' · · Score: 1

    Producing genetic material by copying and/or modifying existing material isn't creating from scratch. It's like forking the Linux kernel, and claiming to have written it from scratch.

  17. Re:Cool, but... on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    Are you new here? A slashdot user has to hate Apple. It is the most popular way to look smart. We can't be like those Apple fanboys, can we?

  18. What's wrong with Siri? on Georgia Tech iPhone App Could Help Blind Users Text · · Score: 1

    I thought dictation was the way to go. Of course, Apple must add support for more languages.
    Oh sorry, this is slashdot, I posted a pro-Apple comment. Shoot me.

  19. Incremental, cheaper upgrades please on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    The price tag of course. If new releases of Windows were $30 upgrades like OSX, and upgrades were just like installing a new program from the web, I would upgrade every year. That's my excuse. However my observation is that many people hated Vista, and chose to skip that version, and when Windows 7 was out their hardware was too old to install an expensive upgrade.

  20. Re:Compete with Apple? on Speculating On What a Microsoft Superphone Might Mean · · Score: 1

    I love comments like this one, which clearly proves love & hate can make you blind.

  21. Re:Apple would still patent whatever he had invent on What If Babbage Had Succeeded? · · Score: 1

    The point is, we could be using tablets for a century by now, such patent wars would be a part of tech history, all related patents would be expired, of course. Also, DiffAppStore, or DAppStore, could be cool.

  22. Great Scott! on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 1

    - [running out of the room] 126 GeV? 126 GeV? Great Scott!
    - [following] What-what the hell is a GeV?

  23. Re:As Usual on After 6 Years, Aptera Motors Is No More · · Score: 1

    "Real artists ship." Love him or hate him, he knew the very basics.

  24. next step in this study on Quantum Entanglement of Macroscopic Diamonds · · Score: 4, Funny

    should be an experiment with a cat & some poison

  25. Re:Not new on Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack · · Score: 1

    So when you read "smart phone or iPod touch", what you understand is "Apple device". Wow.