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  1. market share? on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 2

    If Blackberry and Microsoft with their $Billions can't compete with Google and Apple, how can a tiny project like this?

  2. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? · · Score: 1

    gaffer /gafr/ Noun The chief electrician in a motion-picture or television production unit.

  3. Re:All projects need your help. on Open Source Projects For Beginners · · Score: 1

    a non-programmer cannot write the documentation, because only a programmer can understand what it should say, by reading the code.

    I think the head post was talking about end-user docs not code documentation. You hardly need the original programmer to start the Users' Guide.

  4. Re:Make yourself be part of "the solution" on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? · · Score: 1

    I've found that very little is actually new.

    While this is mostly very true, there is a huge difference between text mode and graphics mode. Reading modern email and web pages on text interfaces, you will most certainly miss important information at least once in a while. You should no longer expect people to mark up with alternate text mode.

  5. Re:It is time on Water Isolated for Over a Billion Years Found Under Ontario · · Score: 1

    Cthulhu cares not for your childish linear 4 dimensional conceptions of biology. And now after more than a billion years trapped in a cyclopean prison of ancient stone he has been RELEASED!

  6. Re:Short yellow lights are a safety hazard on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 1

    The owner of the car (the rental agency) is legally responsible for the fine. When you rent a car, you sign a contract agreeing to pay for all such fines. If you appeal to your credit card company refuting the charge, the rental agency will produce your signed contract with them and the credit card charge will stand. Next time you rent a car, maybe read the fine print.

  7. Re:Short yellow lights are a safety hazard on Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, do pay it. Otherwise the ticket will be charged to the rental agency, who will charge your credit card for the fine and probably a large processing fee as per your rental agreement. Your $50 fine can easily become $250.

  8. Re:Temple in the picture is not Noh mul, it's Lami on Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew · · Score: 1

    Visual impressiveness is rarely an indication of archaeological importance. In fact, something that looks like a pile of rocks is often a structure that hasn't been studied yet. The fantastic pyramids and temples you see are often the result of best-guess reconstruction.

  9. not charity on The Bronies Get Their Own Charity · · Score: 1

    Sarcastically creating a scholarship so students can learn make more soul-crushingly-commercial toy-selling animation hardly qualifies as charity.

  10. Re:Censorship on 17-Year-Old Girl Wins Boston TV API Programming Contest · · Score: 2

    Your 1st amendment right applies to spoilers as long as my 2nd amendment right applies to spoilers.

  11. Re:Performing well in school... on Spoiler Alert: Smart Kids Become Successful Adults · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The really smart ones recognize the high value of successful social interaction and consciously work at developing those skills as well.

  12. Re:Anyone want to buy mine? on Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble · · Score: 1

    I'm in Canada and they don't sell em here and eBay is pretty much the easiest option. So I HOPE a lot of eBay scum snatched them up in volume and try to out-do each other on price!

  13. Re:Anyone want to buy mine? on Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble · · Score: 2

    These going away is a good reason to buy one now. The simple touch is great for rooting giving you a pretty good e-ink android tablet. I've been eyeing them on eBay for a couple weeks now. Time to pull the trigger I think.

  14. Re:Does anyone have a list of the patents? on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 1

    While I agree that there really isn't any realistic alternative yet, Exchange costs are quite a bit more than the cost of a CAL. The overhead costs of redundant/support servers, specialized backup systems, staff knowledgeable enough to to deal with database corruption, etc. etc. add up very quickly.

  15. Re:I don't want on Adobe's Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You More · · Score: 4, Informative

    20GB is about 20 minutes of HD footage. Even for stills that's only a few hundred images if you are working in RAW. Can't imagine Adobe exects anyone to use it other than as a demo.

  16. Re:Somebody in the government... on Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites · · Score: 1

    B) MIcrosoft is like IBM in government, no one gets fired for picking it.

    Security specialists should be.

  17. Apple can't get us to use Final Cut X; maybe Adobe on Adobe Creative Suite Going Subscription-Only · · Score: 1

    I actually like the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe to different cloud suite components as I need them. Should lead to overall savings for many small operators. BUT if you read Adobe's FAQ on the subscription service, you need to have your PC check in with Adobe every 30 days to validate your license even if you prepay a year to Adobe. This is a deal killer to me. I frequently travel to the third world and go for sometimes months without the ability (or inclination due to security concerns) to plug my editing laptop into the Internet. It reminds me of the reincarnation of Napster that allowed you pretty much all you could download for a monthly fee. DRM was compatible with Creative ZEN, etc. You just had to sync your MP3 player with Napster once a month. Problem is, I went to India for 5 weeks and had not tunes to listen to on the flight home. I cancelled immediately.

  18. Re:Worst thing about this on Haswell Integrated Graphics Promise 2-3X Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    er, no. While I agree these chips are great for most uses (I have them in 2 of my 3 primary computers at home), if you want to game at all, you need something more. Even low-requirements WoW is basically unplayable on the latest 4000 series chip on medium settings even if combined with a quad core i7.

  19. Happens in every middle/high school every year on Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers · · Score: 1

    This is normal. School network admins assume kids are hacking the network.

  20. Re:Crack on An Exploration of BlackBerry 10's Programming API · · Score: 1

    A MILLION? Really? With LASERS?!?!

  21. Re:The manager's moto on Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display · · Score: 2

    I'm gonna bet that they already have a spreadsheet worked up to replace it when it dies. People run stuff like this because they LIKE it. Like those of us who still pull out our old 15C calculators and program them to solve a real problem even though excel would be faster. They are lucky that management permits them to have a little fun at work. Fun = productivity.

  22. Great News on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    As someone who wore that damned patch for years at school and paid the social price of being different because of it, I am really happy to hear this. An hour every evening at home in front of a video game would have been so much better in so many ways. Hopefully people will also be able to avoid that surgery that can leave people just as messed up with the eye going the other way.

  23. Re:Time to petition? But this time... on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    I like Bob's Burgers. Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama have all been too tired to watch for at least 2 seasons. Let them die in peace.

  24. How much math? on Terrible Advice From a Great Scientist · · Score: 1

    Even the least math-y science of biology involves rates of change of growth. That means calculus to me. And, of course, you've got piles of data so that means statistics. And you've got structures so that means geometry. A first year course in each will let you understand what you are looking at and give you the ability to look up what you don't understand. Without that training, you may miss a phenomenon entirely, misperceiving it as randomness.

  25. Re:This says it all... on Blackstone Drops Dell Bid, Cites Declining PC Market · · Score: 2

    I don't believe that PCs will really die out in the home or that tablets will somehow take over the entire space. They're different tools for different jobs,

    This is true except that the vast majority of home users are just consumers. Google, Facebook, banking, simple photo editing are all they do. Those PC's are going away to be replaced by tablets. Even if that's only 50% of homes, that's a HUGE loss in sales.