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  1. Re:You can't make this shit up. on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 2

    Men's rights activitsts

    Why don't they call themselves masculists?

  2. Re:Kickstarter on Oculus Rift Hardware Requirements Revealed, Linux and OS X Development Halted · · Score: 1

    Because Facebook.

  3. Re:XHTML5 exists on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Open Document Format? · · Score: 1

    But HTML5 treats XHTML syntax as a resented stepchild because WHATWG hates XML so much. All the sloppy markup that the rest of the spec advocates should be treated that way instead.

  4. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: What's the Future of Desktop Applications? · · Score: 1

    Corrollary: There are two ways a computer is used: As a tool, and as an appliance.

  5. Re:Windows 9^H 10 on Future Holds Large Updates Instead of Stand-Alone Windows Releases · · Score: 1

    That would also infer that Win10 is built on a BSD-like kernel.

    Um.... Half-Life 3 confirmed?

  6. Re:Firefox on Future Holds Large Updates Instead of Stand-Alone Windows Releases · · Score: 1

    I think you've figured out why they're doing this.

    While IE (and now Edge) "aren't" part of the OS, they are tightly integrated. A Windows rolling release is the only way they could think of to make browser releases more often than annually and closer to every 5ms like everyone else.

    FF on my laptop is still on 29 because every time I upgrade it another theme or add-on I rely on breaks.

  7. Re:Enterprise Turnover? on Future Holds Large Updates Instead of Stand-Alone Windows Releases · · Score: 1

    And in true MS fashion, they're convinced they can milk the app store cash cow whether or not there are any apps in it.

  8. Re:Maybe C developers are more honest on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    Just WordPress developers. No, I take that back... WP devs are so shit that they wouldn't recognize any hack.

  9. MS giving up on mobile development on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I'm reading is that MS has all but given up on Windows as a mobile development platform for the sake of being able to run Android/iOS apps.

    It also serves as a tacit acknowledgment that MS isn't connecting with mobile developers, and that mobile apps drive mobile platforms.

  10. Re:ESPN can go eff themselves. on ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles · · Score: 2

    ESPN is by far the most expensive channel block... every subscriber pays about $5/month for ESPN, whether or not they watch any sports.

    Bundling is what keeps most channels alive, via bundling subsidy. Anything that even remotely represents a la carte will be fought by the content providers.

  11. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    I don't necessarily want notifications on my wrist.... all I want is a customizable color digital screen on my wrist.

  12. Re:Cripple Linux? on Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Makes me wonder about the economics of producing these things. Apparently something related to the OS choices makes it worth Intel's while to develop separate models and the infrastructure to build each one, rather than just building the higher spec model and slapping either OS onto it.

    It's things like this that hearken back to the glory days of the Evil Empire, and why people find it difficult to trust MS now.

  13. Re:Antitrust on Cyanogen Partners With Microsoft To Replace Google Apps · · Score: 1

    What you describe is not too dissimilar to what MS makes PC OEMs agree to regarding preinstalled Windows. It wouldn't be impossible to get this to backfire all over Redmond.

  14. Still vapor on The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    That article is all about the miniaturization process they went through. Wake me up when the hardware specs are available: CPU speed, amount of RAM, wireless connectivity and range, etc.

    I have serious doubts that these things will become popular anytime soon (if ever), especially if their per-unit cost is more than a few cents. Their size, coupled with the "if you lose sight of it, consider it lost forever" joke (read: warning), makes them seem impractical.

    They should scale it back up to the size of that quarter.

  15. Re:Graffiti? on Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype · · Score: 1

    The 5 row hardware QWERTY keyboard is the reason why I still have my 4 year old Epic 4G (Galaxy 1) and refuse to upgrade it, because there is no new phone I want. The last Android phone with a hardware keyboard came out in 2012.

    Apparently Sprint is desperate to sell me a new phone... they've started sending me upgrade offers via FedEx.

  16. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the corporations, in all their greedy shortsightedness, can hire the replacement workers cheaper, with the side effect of gaining the illusion of ethnic diversity in their workforce.

    .

  17. Re:this is really a story about.. on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Exactly, BitKeeper committed suicide by throwing a fit over their licensing for open source projects, the terms of which stipulated that copies of all commit messages must be sent to BitKeeper, and one of the kernel devs figured out (basically, IIRC) a way to circumvent that.

    At the time of the fiasco that caused git to be created, the top two OSS projects (by lines of code) using BK were the Kernel and MySQL (the third was a PHP CMS that I was part of at the time). There used to be a OSS projects page with stats and other info, but that seems to be gone.

  18. Is no one blaming Lucas? on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 2

    Star Wars is his brainchild. A half-formed, empty, vegetative brainchild. He conceived it, wrote it, and insisted on directing (the one of the six he didn't direct was by far the the best film of the lot).

    The prequels were complete and utter garbage in every way. If any actual director afterward didn't think Natalie Portman could act, then that speaks to the colossal failure of directing by Lucas.

    The real test will be if the Disney+Abrams films live up to the originals, but the prequels have probably cast their immutable shadow over the entire franchise.

  19. Re:Christian Theocracy on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These laws won't last long after one brave business in each of these states puts up a simple sign: "No Christians."

  20. Comcast, and all the other big ISPs for that matter, are indeed horrible, but statements like these are hyperbolic given the existence of companies like Monsanto, Halliburton, and Blackwater.

  21. Re:Hmmm .... on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 0

    Mod parent Insightful.

  22. GenCon belongs in Milwaukee on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 2

    Having been to GenCon 7 times in Milwaukee and twice in Indy, Milwaukee is the better place for it. Cooler weather, cleaner city, Giordano's pizza, and The Side Door. One year in Milwaukee I was headed back to the hotel at 2am, and all of downtown was filled with the deafening roar of 250+ bikes starting their ride to Sturgis... probably can't get that anywhere else.

    I hope there is some vague "business environment" clause in the contract between GenCon and the Convention Center that could be invoked to move GenCon elsewhere sooner than 2020. The economic impact will be welcome anywhere it goes, and bigotry like this shouldn't be rewarded. I wouldn't be surprised if the bill was partly aimed at GenCon attendees anyway.

  23. OEMs should prepare for rage on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    Secure Boot is clearly a clumsy means to lock out alternative OSs, and this announcement is the next step toward the untlimate in vendor lock-in.

    Any OEM who doesn't implement the secure boot option (even on a single model) will face a wall of rage. I'm sure MS is offering the OEMs some type of poisoned candy to not implement it, though.

  24. Why wouldn't they? on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 2

    At this point the IE brand is so tainted that it's basically an albatross around MS' neck.

    Because Spartan is a long-overdue pruning of the Trident codebase (which has been gathering ugly cruft for 17 years) rather than a clean sheet rewrite, it'll still carry a slight IE odor no matter how much they cut out. Even the name Spartan is ripe for jokes about it's feature implementation.

  25. Re:New name? on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 1

    How about Bang, as in developers' heads against their desks?