Slashdot Mirror


User: Richy_T

Richy_T's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,801
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,801

  1. Re:I like Ubuntu's idea better on Dual-Booting PengPod Tablet Can Run Linux/Android · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

    It may not be everything needed but it'd go quite a ways.

  2. Re:Thus spoke the sage on the stage... on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    But at a slower rate.

  3. Re:How cool is it though... on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    You are free to hit the power button just as you do with Windows.

  4. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    I am already bitching about that. So STFU yourself. Ironically, doing useful things like removing idiotic requirements of the post office and shutting down Guantanamo would have been things I would have understood and/or been supportive of. I guess there were other priorities like mandating payments to large insurance companies to get done.

    Still, the idiots put him back in (can hardly blame them with Romney as the alternative but still)... So just hanging on for the ride now.

  5. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Whut?

    No one is obligated to send food anywhere. Do you understand how trade works at all? Goods & services for money ring a bell?

  6. Re:It's time to end the monopoly... on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Gentrification always occurs in cities. It's part of the cycle otherwise they would be nothing but slums.

  7. Re:The next time on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Yes. This is why there has been no legislation passed in the last four years, particularly not any that might reasonably be expected to attract some measure of bipartisan support.

  8. Re:The next time on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    If only we could have had a Democratic controlled House. And Senate. And president. With two years to do something about it in.

  9. Re:It's time to end the monopoly... on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    That old chestnut. You might end up with two sets of pipes but more likely some kind of licensing arrangement would be worked out. No licensing arrangement is likely if only one set of pipes is mandated by law.

  10. Re:It's time to end the monopoly... on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    There's no poor people in the cities...

  11. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    no way they can ever do this profitably

    Costs + x% => profit.

  12. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing the words "opportunity cost" in this thread either.

  13. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Easy. If you want to live in BFE, you accept reduced delivery, pay for to-destination delivery or pick up at a central processing point. It's not other peoples obligation to fund your lifestyle choices.

  14. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    I could send it by pterodactyl for free.

  15. Re:Cuts on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    And yet Obama was in for two years with a Democrat controlled house and senate. Just saying.

  16. Re:Just send them a Raptor! on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Would it have to go by air mail?

  17. Re:Mass Mail on USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help · · Score: 1

    Transferring a document across country for less than a dollar could be considered part of the waste of which you speak.

  18. Re:How cool is it though... on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    No command line? Do you only use Windows to launch Minesweeper?

    And I consider all the shitty dangerous registry edits as pseudo-command-line in themselves.

  19. Re:Suck it! on Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market · · Score: 1

    If the battery is an issue for you, I'm can stretch about 3 days from my Droid Maxx typically. I probably would have gone with an SII or SIII but the company is paying.

  20. Re:Thus spoke the sage on the stage... on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    Not at all. If you can swap one of your tasty children for a couple of gristly neighbor kids, more of your genes survive.

  21. Re:Try paying AT&T your $35 in YOUR dollars on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    +1. Anyone I deal with who operates in the free market, if you're late with a bill, they'll gently remind you that payment is due several times before cutting you off and there's never a late fee. The government-granted-monopoly utilities, one day late and it's a 10% late fee. Heck, I was $1 short one month due to some nonsense and they tried to get away with charging me 10% on the entire several hundred dollar bill.

  22. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 1

    Flight fuel requirements are calculated in pounds so it probably just makes sense to stay in the same units.

  23. Re:Downsides outweigh Upsides on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    Seems like most of the stewardesses out there must have started work in the 70s.

  24. Re:Hyperoptimistically, on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    The ones where the plane went down because the pilot wasn't able to handle a situation that a computer would have been able to by adjusting trim and flight parameters don't make such good stories.

  25. Re:Must be nice on Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal · · Score: 1

    The perils of living at 123 Somewhere Lane...