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  1. Not News on Apple, Google Vying For Mobile Game Exclusivity · · Score: 2

    I hate to break it to you, but this isn't news. This kind of behavior has existed in the games industry and app-store industry pretty much since they've existed.

  2. Re:How is it different? on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 1

    Your closet is a lot closer and quicker to reach.

  3. Re:Infighting: Linux's biggest weakness on Canonical's Troubles With the Free Software Community · · Score: 1

    Actually there ARE apps close to Lightroom. They're only about 50% of the way there, but it's enough for my needs. Check out Darktable, its my preferred one of the bunch.

  4. Re:The launch was smooth on Diablo 3 Expansion Reaper of Souls Launches · · Score: 1

    nevermind, I just realized you were only talking about the expansion

  5. Re:The launch was smooth on Diablo 3 Expansion Reaper of Souls Launches · · Score: 1

    You're kidding right? Did you even play during the first week?

  6. Re:Works for me on Google's Definition of 'Open' · · Score: 2

    That's not an Android issue, its a Verizon issue. It's the main reason that I ditched Verizon. GSM phones are the most open phones.

  7. Loans on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how is this ANY different than student loans? At all? I see zero difference.

  8. Re:Arithmetic denialism on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    You make an assumption in your very first sentence. "Most buildings are tall, not wide." In the USA for example that is only true for a very small portion of the country. Single family houses and office buildings in a non-urban area are the very opposite of what you claim.

  9. Re:Personally? on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 1

    The thing is there have already been tons of Nintendo-only games I want to play on other systems BUT I CAN'T, and therefore they don't get my money. I'm not buying several consoles just to play a few games.

  10. Personally? on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd enable Mario on a smartphone.

  11. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It only takes one person to disprove nobody. Count me in. I like it.

  12. Re:Docker is pretty cool on Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's nice. I still have no idea what it is.

  13. Re:The only fix for vampire draw on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    Mechanical things are more susceptible to mechanical failure. One of the beautiful things about an electric car is how rock-solid reliable it can be. Introducing more mechanical bits is not the way to fix this.

  14. I'm pretty sure he understands. Like he said, it seems to me as though those people have never worked on large projects before.

  15. Re:Apple has JUMPED THE SHARK on Cupertino Approves New Apple Spaceship HQ · · Score: 1

    Are you sure there is curved glass involved? When is a circle's circumference not a circle? When its drawn in 3D on a computer screen is one perfect example. Long and straight lengths of something can be made to look like anything. The same goes for approximating the area under a curve in calculus, it can be done with lines.

  16. Re:problems with multi-monitor support? on Mir Won't Ship Even In Ubuntu 14.04 · · Score: 1

    I've been using multiple monitors since Windows 98 and never had a single problem. Then again I've been using multiple monitors on Linux for a while and never had a problem either. I have no idea what you two are talking about.

  17. Re:News? on High-Gain Patch Antennas Boost Wi-Fi Capacity In Crowded Lecture Halls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I take it you've never actually been to a crowded lecture hall or conference room? There are thousands of these things with administrators that have no clue about this idea. It IS news to many people who are responsible for this exact sort of thing. It may not be news to you, but there have been many times where I was in a crowded area where I would kill for wifi, but it wouldn't work due to crowding.

  18. Re:Lost revenue to the cops on Autonomous Cars Will Save Money and Lives · · Score: 1

    What do you mean they don't get a cut? Who do you think pays for the cops?

  19. Re:Irony. on Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet · · Score: 1

    Hey now! Don't blame the programmers. Blame the marketers, designers, and SEO guys. It's people like them what cause unrest.

  20. IT evolves quickly on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    Let's say you want to create an IT track at a college. Maybe it takes a few years to create an appropriate track of classes and plan out various concepts to be taught. By that time, whatever software you were using is outdated and/or replaced. Processors have sped up quickly. Old previously valid security techniques are easily cracked with more cpu power so you have to learn new techniques. Your professor doesn't have time to learn new techniques or new software or whatever. Then on top of that, your students take 4 years of learning old outdated information in college. At that point its 8 years outdated. OF COURSE a large portion of the IT workers don't have STEM degrees. Don't get me wrong. There are certain programming logic and security concepts which are important to learn and CAN be taught at a university. It's just that at the end of the day you'd be paying many thousands of dollars to learn outdated information other than those core concepts.

  21. Clothes? on A Thermoelectric Bracelet To Maintain a Comfortable Body Temperature · · Score: 2

    Am I missing something? Isn't this the exact same thing as putting on or taking off clothes?

  22. NOT RESPONSIVE ENOUGH on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 2

    Actually, its not responsive enough. I have my window set at ~1040 x 840 px and stuff is flowing off screen.

  23. Re:Not me but friends on Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why you got modded down. If I had mod points today I would definitely mod you up.

  24. Re:Great on Bioengineered Mouse Heart Gets a Beat Using Human Cells · · Score: 1

    You say that, but time is money, and 20 years lost is not a cheap thing. A 20 year setback is also huge in and of its own right.

  25. A post with news for nerds and stuff that matters. Too bad its a video without transcript and that means it might as well not exist.