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  1. Re:Open Standards, Not stupid plugins. on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it's up to the browser devs to properly implement the standards regardless, or the feature use won't ever be there to begin with. You can't expect people to start using all these unreliable features in blind hope that they improve compliance in the future.

  2. Re:Value on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    A lot of players still see this as cheating. Embracing cheating may, at the very least, control it so that Blizzard gets the profits instead, but at the cost of legitimizing it and making it mainstream; this is something that may leave a lot of players with a bad taste in their mouth.

  3. Re:Value on Blizzard To Sell Level 90 WoW Characters For $60 · · Score: 1

    This is actually one reason why I stopped playing the game. Guild Wars 2 fails to make you feel like your really progressing anywhere. After a week of playing the game I sat and thought, "what's the point?".

  4. Re:Guild Wars 1 on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    I'm still bummed how how disappointing Guild Wars 2 is. It's nothing at all like Guild Wars 1. I spent thousands of hours in GW1 and loved that game to death. It's a little depressing logging on every now and then to a mostly empty district. :(

  5. Re:they exist but do not have titles? on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    I've found that the issue isn't always whether they understand what they manage, but that you have a person trained as an engineer that is now in a position to manage, something that requires management/social skills. That requires a whole different skill set (a good manager doesn't even always need to be technically minded, as long as he can provide his workers with the resources and motivation needed to be productive).

  6. Free Speech on ICANN's Cozy Relationship With the US Must End, Says EU · · Score: 2

    The only reason why it's acceptable to allow ICANN to be controlled by the U.S. is because they have the strongest free speech laws. I simply don't trust other countries as much as the U.S. in that regard.

  7. Re:Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but as someone with over 200 website tabs open you are so far from the normal user that your issues are yours alone. You are the exception and that saying, "I have issues running this alongside 200 other web tabs" is not a good reason to change an entire website.

  8. Wasted Publicity on John Carmack Left id Software Because He Couldn't Do VR Work There · · Score: 1

    All that attention and hype for idSoftware's new game all wasted down the drain. Zenimax, why?

  9. Automated driving on Government To Require Vehicle-to-vehicle Communication · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the context of automated driving this pairs beautifully. The future is very much having computers drive us, it simply is more efficient and much safer. Giving them extra tools to enhance safety is great considering we aren't concerned about being liable for what the computer decides to do (since that is the liability of the manufacturer).

  10. Never thought of it that way on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 1

    As a forgetful introvert this technology would help me socially in so many ways.

  11. Re:Would D-Wave Take That Risk? on First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All · · Score: 2

    A better question is if they don't mind the risk if they already got their money.

  12. Only if we need to on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    If enough Engineers are already studying regardless of this proposed incentive, then it is not necessary. It'd be nice to give free money to all kinds of students, but to pick and choose when they don't need it to sustain employment to begin with is the wrong approach.

  13. Re:What about me? on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 2

    Hiring older folk is awesome because you know they aint ever leaving because who else would hire their old ass? (in all seriousness, older folk do tend to stay with the company longer, which is an enormous benefit)

  14. Re:so what about all my old devices? on Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says · · Score: 1

    Then keep your older router or buy a compatible one. Hell, they still sell 56k modems if you need them. This is just about new hardware.

  15. Re:It sounds cooler than it is... on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 1

    Mind you that a real starship battle would be done with lasers and thousands of miles between players, people would try to maximize distance between each other. Eve is more of a glorified star wars than anything else.

  16. Re:Amp hours per kilogram on Powering Phones, PCs Using Sugar · · Score: 1

    No, unless we somehow also know the voltage of the battery. Assuming it's 1.3V like a phone battery, then it tells us the energy density.

  17. Re:Wow. on Microsoft Reports Record Revenue · · Score: 1

    Considering they are doing great on their XBox, Office, and enterprise lines and at least trying some innovative moves (while still profiting quite well off Windows 7) I'd say they are doing a damn fine job for the most part.

  18. Re:Who would sign on? on Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" · · Score: 1

    A likely scenario would be a compromise in that a lot of the investor types would shift over BTC to Amazoncoin while others would always have a small amount in Amazoncoin when they want to make purchases. Furthermore, there would be a huge exchange market for this since people would be constantly selling off small BTC amounts to make Amazon purchases.

  19. Re:Dogecoin is performance art on Google Says It Has "No Current Plans Regarding Bitcoin" · · Score: 2

    Dogecoin has a huge community driving it. On reddit it /r/dogecoin has 40,000 subscribers versus /r/litecoin's 17,000 subscribers (/r/bitcoin has 98,000 subscribers). On top of that, they tip and donate like crazy. As of now hype and popularity are *everything* to the price and adoption of a cryptocoin. You'd be foolish not to recognize that Dogecoin is, at the very least, successful thus far.

  20. Incentive to shop on Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? · · Score: 1

    It'd be interesting to see if a company like Target or Costco offered people a free self-driven van to pick up and drop them back off for shopping trips. Perhaps make it free if spending over $100. A great way to draw in business at the cost of maybe $3-5 per trip to the company.

  21. Re:Brilliant Response on Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise · · Score: 2

    I dunno, it sounds a bit childish. The fact that they took this so seriously and devoted resources to this also shows they have a strong concern about losing users, as if that is a real possibility.

  22. Re:a pittance in ayn rands america. on Facebook's Biggest Bounty Yet To Hacker Who Found "Keys To the Kingdom" · · Score: 1

    Bounties are important because you distribute risk substantially. Instead of relying on your employees to catch every single bug (which is near impossible to be perfect), you make the entire world a potential employee with a reward for anyone who comes across the flaw.

  23. Re:Hello World. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Hello World is probably the most universally ported program.

  24. Re:Bios code? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    The clock on a micro is typically 20MHz. On top of that, a startup sequence only needs to be ran a limited number of times. We're talking 1 core @ 20MHz versus 1500 cores @ 1GHz on a modern GPU.

  25. Re:Marked as forfeited? on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if the coins you get are dirty, as long as there is a point where the ownership of the specific coin becomes unknown. A tumbler mixes your dirty coins with everyone else's and randomly gives them to new anonymous accounts. The connection between the new anonymous account and another account is destroyed.