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  1. Re:Upgrade to 6.1? on iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users · · Score: 1

    LTE really sucked on my Galaxy Nexus when the phone was first released. It would drop the signal entirely every 5-20 minutes even though I live in an area with really good coverage. Verizon said they knew about the problem but it took them months to release a fix. Luckily, the update was leaked online very early on so I was able to get the phone in a working state.

  2. This isn't about social networking on Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is about which networks you use. The employees were encouraged to promote Google+, not just use any old social network. I imagine that Vic's tweet was only bad because it sent views to another site. If you are the head of any project, you really shouldn't be using the competition publicly.

  3. Re:so what's the barrier to entry on this? on Inside the World's Biggest Consumer 3D Printing Factory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a bit more going on. I don't know how easily you could jump into the market at this point. Shapeways benefited from being one of the first to offer a 3D printing service, so they didn't have too much competition. There was also a bit of an overlap with their early community and the community around Blender, so the userbase was able to grow quickly. They had some growing pains early on with delays in printing although it appears that they have worked through most of the issues at this point. It wouldn't be impossible to have similar success, but being the new guy in the market isn't always the easiest. The best bet of course is to not just join the market but expand it.

  4. Re:Whoops on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 1

    Does it scale faster than the increase in global population?

  5. Re:Whoops on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe, but I still think the more likely scenario is that nobody but those who are already using them will ever use them. They will be held onto with people talking about their potential value as everyone else goes on with their day-to-day business.

  6. Re:Does it really need to be packaged at all? on Valve's Steam License Causes Linux Packaging Concerns · · Score: 1

    They can if they aren't owned by root.

  7. Does it really need to be packaged at all? on Valve's Steam License Causes Linux Packaging Concerns · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Steam client auto-updates on Windows. I would imagine it would do the same on Linux. Now, I understand that Windows doesn't have a packaging system like Linux but I really don't see why Valve would need to use one. There are several pieces of software that I use that I get from a tar.gz over a rpm or a deb. Why wouldn't Steam do the same?

  8. Re:Facetime? on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 3, Informative

    I read it as something only available between two BBM users, so it is basically Factime or Google Talk. In that case, RIM's two main rivals have had very good solutions in place for quite a while.

  9. Re:Next Valve Game on Gabe Newell Confirms Source 2 Engine · · Score: 1

    It depends, will they release a new port of the game using the newer Source 2 engine? If so, the new name is a logical way of differentiating between the two.

  10. Patch will soon be here on Critical Vulnerabilities In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    On Tuesday the patch for MW3 will be released. Some know it as Black Ops II but it will practically ensure that nobody is left playing MW3.

  11. Re:Meet the new boss on Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs · · Score: 2

    You can unlock all of the newer nexus devices with the "fastboot oem unlock" command. You can also easily add root access (not that I have ever encountered a time when I needed it). Factory images are provided at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. I've set up and built my own OS for my Nexus 7 in an evening. This weekend I easily installed the current test image for Ubuntu on it too. And when I was done I switched back to android by using the aforementioned factory image. The only issue I've had was waiting on updates for my Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and that was easily fixed by easily unlocking and flashing a new image built from the source that Google released. I don't see what your problem is.

  12. Re:hacked?! on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Deals are never broken. That would break the universe. (which is bad (the breaking part, not the universe (can't tell how bright you are)))

  13. Re:As reliable as the network on At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks · · Score: 1

    I foresee a lot of downtime in the classroom each time there is a glitch in the the school's wifi or network.

    Which, from what I have seen, would happen if they were using standard laptops from Dell. You'd be surprised how much a non-cloud device still relies on a working network.

  14. Re:My guess on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 1

    It is already digital (QAM). That is not what this about. They are now going to encrypt those digital broadcasts.

  15. Re:Not sure I follow... on BitCoin Gets a Futures Market · · Score: 1

    I can actually spend my USD so it makes sense to try to generate more.

  16. Re:And the fundies say... on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 1

    If you are going to go from a biblical standpoint then you should know that all of creation ate only vegetables until the fall of man. If you being critical you should at least know what you are poking fun at.

  17. New from InGen, Inc. on Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Need to keep your genetically engineered amusement park attractions under control? There is an app for that!

  18. Re:Bullshit bullshit bullshit on Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore? · · Score: 2

    I graduated in 2010 and had absolutely no problems getting a job. In fact, I started a semester before I officially graduated. What really helped me is that I had been working with some form of programming since I was in middle school. In high school I really started to focus on it, so that by the time I got to college I was far ahead of most of the other students. I continued to do work outside of what was assigned while others did not.

    I believe a formal education is important but you really need to go beyond that to get a good job. Otherwise you do end up doing IT work because you haven't set yourself apart. So many of the students I knew in college chose their major by how much money they were told they would make. They didn't put in any effort and did the bare minimum required. Others did well but never thought about things outside of textbook examples. Employers use a degree as a filter and look for projects and effort outside of school. For a student, this type of work not only shows some initiative but it can count as a form of experience.

  19. Re:OMAP 4470 can't do shit on Amazon Debuts Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire HD In 2 Sizes · · Score: 2

    You're forgetting the SGX554, clock for clock it's twice as powerful as the GeForce ULP.

    THIS. In mobile, the GPU tends to be a bit more important than raw CPU power. This is because we are doing a lot of pixel pushing to render the final UI. On something like the Tegra 2, the UI could be slow because the fill-rate on Tegra 2 was comparatively low. A SOC with a better GPU but worse CPU would feel much smoother when navigating the UI. It is not often that you are maxing out a core, let alone four of them.

  20. Re:Hmmm ... on Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent · · Score: 1

    That commercial was in fact for an Android phone, the Galaxy Nexus. It was showing off a feature that was added in version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Allowing for multiple users seems like the next logical step, especially for devices that are more likely to be shared by families, such as tablets.

  21. Re:He's right on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    We don't believe in thought control. We have mastered it and are using it to make you paranoid. So much fun to watch.

  22. Can we stop posting Betteridge's Law everywhere? on Does Recent Goodwill Undo Years of Patent Trolling For Intellectual Ventures? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. Ha! I just broke it, too!

  23. Re:Hide? Why? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your 'I've Got To Disappear' Plan Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Bradley Manning didn't just see something happen. He actively took sensitive data and released it knowing full well what the consequences could be.

  24. Re:XKCD? on How Google+ Punk'd The Oatmeal · · Score: 0

    It's the most childish comic directed at a high school reading level I've ever found.

    Pssh, I know. It hardly ever talks about Mondays.

    Lots of people are PhDs or have excellent grades - this certainly applies to everyone in my team.

    The question is how you select from within that group.

    Certainly you wouldn't want them to "fit" into your existing team.

  25. If you are going to get your panties in a twist about their licensing terms, you wouldn't be able to play most games through the service anyway since they all have fairly restrictive EULAs.