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  1. Re:Are they Sequels? on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    And remind me who the figures of hate in the original trilogy were? Or indeed are.

  2. Re:Reminds me of this book on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    You're not allowed to use a cart if you're playing in a competition, iirc. You have to walk the course.

  3. Re:How relevant is the PC, still? on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    That was pretty much going to be my response. I rather like having two 24" monitors and a decent amount of processing power.

  4. Re:How relevant is the PC, still? on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't enjoy writing software on a tablet very much. For, yes. On, no.

  5. Re:Shrug... on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't mind fading in to a business which made $16 billion profit last year and still employs over half-a-million people.

  6. Re:Wrong. on Kobo CEO Says Not Selling Washing Machines Key To Overtaking Amazon · · Score: 1

    It depends on the publisher. All of Tor's e-books are sensibly priced and DRM free as a matter of policy.

  7. Re: My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 1

    Yes, but we also have respect for growing up.

  8. Re:anyone even using GCC anymore? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    I realize I'm feeding the troll, however I will note Microsoft don't make a C compiler, only a C++ one with historical C support: it only supports C as specified in C89, not C99 or C11. This can and does cause problems for people who try to use it to compile modern C source code.

  9. Re:Yessssss! on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    -g?

  10. Re:How to boot up civilization on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    That depends how competently you want it operated - I was taught to use one at school (both metal lathes and wood turning lathes). I was never that good it, of course.

  11. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 1

    And there's a distinct shortage of people who even know how to make charcoal.

  12. Re:military life on Blog Reveals a Chinese Military Hacker's Life Is One of Boredom and Bitterness · · Score: 3, Interesting

    China technically has universal military conscription, it's entirely possible he's not doing it by choice.

  13. Re:Amazon has it covered, making ISBN less relevan on U.S. ISBN Monopoly Denies Threat From Digital Self-Publishing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because ISBN numbers are also a unique identifier; they fulfil bibliographic and cataloguing functions. With an ISBN number you not only know what book is being referenced, but also which edition of that book, and what format that book was in (a book published as an eBook and as a paper book will have different ISBN number for both).

  14. ARINC664 on Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight · · Score: 1

    After talking to a friend in the biz, he's most likely talking about a mutated version of ARINC664 with a downlink thrown in. Which is different to Airbus's mutated version of ARINC664.

    (Probably anyway; I deal with ships. We have things like IEC 61162 instead.)

  15. Re:Like Most Companies? on Can Valve's 'Bossless' Company Model Work Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    There are businesses that do, but even they state it only works with companies that employ fewer than 30 people (possibly even fewer). After that it becomes too large to function correctly.

  16. Re:wow on Minix 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    "It cost $100" was a historic reference, i.e. that's how much it cost back in the late 80s when he originally wrote and published the book. Back then it wasn't released under a free licence, it was released under a propriety one. It switched to the BSD licence (I think) sometime in the 90s.

  17. Re:wow on Minix 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I believe it cost less than $100 and included the book that Tanenbaum wrote to go with it.

  18. Re:Police Jurisdiction on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Schengen Area agreement also contains rules concerning police crossing international borders when in pursuit of someone; I believe they keep going, but hand over to local police on the fly.

  19. Re:The logs don't lie on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 3, Informative

    Top Gear hasn't been journalism for years, it's entertainment pure and simple - the shows are entirely scripted.

  20. Re:Can't Go Backwards on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 2

    A lot of the time, buried away inside that 100MB archive, there is just a small little drive file and its attendant meta data. It just they like giving you a thousand pieces of crap on top of it that you don't really need.

  21. Because, at least in my experience... on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 1

    Because generally speaking the estimated time to completion is based on knowing two things: how much "stuff" you've got to do and how long the average time to do a unit of "stuff" takes.

    When the process starts out you don't have enough data to actually come up with a sensible average, so the time will bounce around; as it progresses it should settle down a bit, assuming that each unit is actually approximately the same in complexity, which is an assumption that isn't always true. If you run in to a unit which takes an inordinate amount of time compared to other units your estimate goes out of the window. Compounding this is you probably don't update your ETA until after each unit has been processed.

    Also the more time you spend worrying about your ETA is more time you spend not actually doing "work", so you potentially increase the amount of time it takes to complete the real task - you might not notice this on small batches, but it can become more noticeable on larger ones.

  22. Re:Can't Go Backwards on Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? · · Score: 2

    Last time I did that at work I got told to reduce it back to one.

  23. Re:Existing non-electronic variant on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 1

    ShockWatch make a specific product, DropSpot, that have serial numbers printed on them. They explicitly designed for attached to transported items.

  24. Re:Took me a second to see the logic... on UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy · · Score: 1

    It can apply to private property as well: trespass at any premise licensed for the storage of explosives automatically becomes criminal trespass as well. I've yet to work out if that includes the homes of people who hold explosives certificates (which I used to), because that could be amusing.

    I suspect you get in to a whole new arena of fun when it's a List X site.

  25. Re:and the hits just keep on comin' on UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't have far to go; we (the British) used to sarcastically refer to the UK as the USS Great Britain for a reason...