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  1. Re:No thanks. on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 1

    Sort of. Gmail sort of kind of barely works with IMAP.

    I admit I can't personally list the things that it doesn't do, but I know there has been discussion on the alpine mailing list many times in the past about how Gmail improperly (and purposely, from their end) follows the IMAP protocol.

  2. Re:Pine on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 1

    Why do you "miss" anything?

    Alpine's running in the Terminal window next to this one (along with Mail). I use it all the time.

  3. Re:Still try to do proprietary email? on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 1

    Most of my work mailing lists would work FAR better as Usenet groups.

  4. Re:No Fuckign Thanks on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 1

    Use alpine, and you can (usually) read the rich/html part still in your terminal program. You can have it default to the plain text part, but use A on an individual message to view the rich part if necessary.. No need to pipe it through lynx. Plus, alpine does Unicode too, which can sometimes be useful (at least it's not showing up as gibberish..)

    (Pine/alpine long ago was able to view the plain-text-ified rich parts, but I made the suggestion long ago for the A toggle, and it was added.)

  5. Re:PARC monument on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 2

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

    Jobs and several Apple employees, including Jef Raskin, visited Xerox PARC in December 1979 to see the Xerox Alto. Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 shares (800,000 split-adjusted shares) of Apple at the pre-IPO price of $10 a share.[39]

  6. Re:My favorite Alto application: Mazewar on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 1

    So basically, Wizardry I, Death Maze 5000 kind of movement/wireframes.. (to list some personal computer games with that look).

  7. Re: How many really make $140k ? on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    Since you feel that way, great, stay away..

  8. Re: How many really make $140k ? on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    Quality of life tends to be higher?

    Wait, those other places have *weather* and I can't wear shorts all year round.. That's supposed to be higher?

  9. Re:google is a search engine on Google Changes 'To Fight Piracy' By Highlighting Legal Sites · · Score: 1

    Who gets to decide what is "better for society"?

    Society does. Society makes laws, and people are expected to follow those laws, whether or not they believe in them personally, or face the consequences. If they disagree, they should get the laws changed, and not simply break them.

  10. Re:"Always on" may be a lie on Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? · · Score: 2

    If you're on iOS, you do realize you can turn OFF automatic app updates, right? (I don't remember for sure if the default is on or off.. Settings->General->Background App Refresh. There's a global on/off, plus you can turn on/off each app.)

  11. Re: Parts Count drives Failure Rate on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    If Tesla really wants to be a good automaker, they need a good resale value.

    http://www.teslamotors.com/for...

  12. Re:Too many discrite components on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    Does that mean all we have to do is make the next music player out of a million discrete 74xx IC and we will get a write up saying how good our product is?

    You'll probably sell a ton to the bozos buying vinyl, tube amps, and expensive cables, because they think they're better.

  13. I'd say that's actually WORSE for the consumer, since now I'm sort of subsidizing the premium model, and not getting the benefit.

    I'd expect the lower cost models to cost significantly less to make!

  14. Re:All jokes aside on Chemists Grow Soil Fungus On Cheerios, Discover New Antifungal Compounds · · Score: 1

    A mushroom walks into a bar.

    The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here."

    The mushrooms says "Why not, I'm a fungi."

  15. OK, who thought of this song first upon reading the summary?

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

    (I have no idea which of the versions listed I've heard.. maybe the Muppet show.. but it's one of those songs where I definitely haven't seen the _original_, or at least not in its entirety, but still know the song.)

  16. Re:You're reinventing the wheel there hoss on Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode · · Score: 1

    If, however, you're gullible enough to buy a cordless electrical device with a non-user-replaceable battery, when you know perfectly well that the battery will almost certainly be the first thing to fail, well then that's *your* problem.

    Many electric razors have a regular consumer rechargeable battery (e.g. AA) *soldered in*. Sigh.

  17. PETA vs Greenpeace, FIGHT! on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    Let them fight it out.

  18. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    Tesla is out to prove that EV's are a viable alternative to ICE cars. Which thus far every other auto maker has failed miserably to do.

    Absolutely false. I am using an electric car as my car. I do _own_ another car, but the only times I have driven it are a couple of times to make sure it keeps running. I should sell it now that I realize I don't have "range anxiety" like everyone fears.

  19. Re:Awesome on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    We need electric cars for the masses not the classes.

    They already exist. Nissan Leaf. Smart electric. Fiat 500e. Chevy Spark. Probably a zillion more I haven't mentioned. I own one of the 2nd one I listed.

  20. Re:Autonomy on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    Transporters. Just the standing on the spot and the transporter engineer guy pushing the lever takes a couple of seconds.

  21. Re:Your assumptions are stupid on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 1

    Solar is already possible, wind is already possible, electric cars already exist... etc..

    Just because they're not the majority of energy production/usage today doesn't mean it's not possible to use a lot more of them in the future.

    (BTW, I'm probably far more "right wing" than you are in many areas.)

  22. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 2

    temporarily increasing your bandwidth

    So that's different from what they actually advertise, speeding up the first X megabytes or whatever? (I _think_ that's what Xfinity Blast is, but I can't actually find a description on their site at the moment.)

  23. Re:Suspension of Disbelief on A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to suspend disbelief for a good show. Scorpion is not a good show. It's impossible to suspend that much disbelief for the junk they threw at us.

    The first episode was AWFUL. I think it has gotten better since then, though. It is absolutely not "great", but is a somewhat enjoyable "dumb action show".. I think "Person of Interest" is a better show, but both are completely ridiculous technologically, but they're both enjoyable "dumb action shows".

  24. Re:Inter-species communication on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's speculation on your part. Because WE don't understand it, it doesn't mean it's mimicry. Since dolphins do indeed seem to have language, names and definitely can understand sentence structures (as we do), it's more likely your speculation is wrong.

    But that doesn't mean that a dolphin can understand the _language_ and _sentence structures_ of whales.. (this story was actually about the reverse, whales mimicing dolphins.. but the hypothesis goes both ways.)

    Even if it can mimic the sounds of the other species, it doesn't mean it understands it and can have a two way conversation. If further proof happens that this is possible, that would be awesome.

  25. Re:You don't purchase back leased cars on Tesla Is Starting a Certified Preowned Program · · Score: 1

    That is why a car can be repossessed in 5 minutes, a house can take 60 days to a year to take away from you. (among other reasons)

    I know you were talking about leasing, but it's been in the news recently about people with cars that were shut off remotely for late payment of car loans have been threatening to sue due to laws in some states about a loan not being delinquent for 30 days, yet the car would be remotely turned off within a few days of the "due date" on the monthly payment.