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  1. Really? on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How are people not aware of DSLReports and their speed tests? And how could this possibly make /.?

    Also, your wi-fi sucks. Get a cable if you want to know what your real speed is.

  2. Yeah, advice that leads to 90MBps is BAD on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? · · Score: 1

    If you spent more money, buy way more expensive gear, buy a real rack, throw in a patch panel, do the crossover thing on it, patch it all in you can get 91MBps! The fools!

    I wouldn't do more than this for a house - why would you?

  3. Re:Here's another perspective on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do a masters at a better school - you can do one in a year and it will hide your weak undergrad. I have an associates, a horrific undergrad upgrade to bachelors and a big buck masters, and it definitely opened doors for me. Just having access to a careers center at a top graduate school - they know so many people, who know people, etc. When I get hired, it's the skills learned at the Associate level that people find most valuable....

  4. Creative types don't need college... on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 2

    Those with less than perfect grades might go on to dream up blockbuster films like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg or become entrepreneurs like Steve Job"

    If the C students are that creative, they'll find a way w/o college anyway, so why admit them?

    The college application process is not meant to find a needle in haystack. Statistically speaking, your C student is more likely to be delivering pizza than founding Pixar.

  5. Re: Here's the solution on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    So all windows software is garbage...including the makers of this suite called "Office". Would you be so kind as to call Microsoft for me? I am busy calling every other developer on the world

  6. Re:Limited coding isn't everyone's goal on Building Apps In Swift With Storyboards · · Score: 2

    Building complex apps without coding doesn't seem like a useful goal. At some point you have to express the program logic and coding has always proven to be the best way.

    The dividing line between graphical tool and actual code seems to have been a shifting one over the years. So when you go to a new environment or language where there's a substantial GUI component to building an app, the desire to see it all in code is strong. What actually happens when you add that button? I expect to be able to do it either through code of GUI and if they can't tell me what the GUI did in code, then I'm left clueless as to the underpinnings and so it becomes hard to think through the implications of design decisions.

    I tried Swift recently. Swift was easy enough. But Swift+Xcode was impenetrable.

    My micro processor prof insisted that C was an abomination and that code was easier to follow in native assembly. (Mostly Motorola, some TI)

    There is a big chunk of people who have no desire to see the assembler, or the massively abstract C++ code that created it. Anyone who uses Access for example. I had a tool Palm Toolbox that made simple apps for PalmOS way back when. It was limiting, because I know better, but you could do a lot without ever looking at the real code.

    Be prepared for multiple variations of the Fart Machine!

  7. Absolute nonsense. Moodle is for managing content and it happens to have an optional plug in to monitor viewers ('students') progress.

    But as others have noted, it is not the platform that is the problem, it is getting and keeping fresh content that matters. Any platform with good content would work.

  8. Review are actually quite positive.... on BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...thanks for cherry picking the worst part of every review. Most reviews seem to like it, appreciate it, but are on the fence about the size and form factor.

  9. Re:Not as much as it used to... on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Similar experience here. You are now a service provider for your family. Reliability, ease of use are more important than bragging rights. I am down to a single xeon server, serviio, 24g, 8tb. PS3 as media player and servio handles the transcoding for phones and tablets. Kids can watch their movies, we can listen to music, watch movies.

  10. Re:Sensationalism? for BIOS updates? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    If updating your BIOS is the *most* important feature of a motherboard, sorry.

    I've never had a problem with MSI, Gigabyte or Asus . And the one time in a blue moon I had to update a bios, I simply booted off a USB HDD with windows on it.

    Your deciding which car to buy based on how hard it is to adjust the cam shaft timing.

  11. Axis and Allies Board game on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection? · · Score: 1

    let the all nighters begin.

  12. Re:Where would we flee to? on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 1

    Start with peaceful sit ins...

  13. Where would we flee to? on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Required comment: the big corps have won. Deal with it.

  14. Settle for 1M. No harm done on Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo · · Score: 1

    They settle out of court for 1M, he'll get to keep the car named condo and nothing will come of it. The city needs the revenue too badly to take the cameras down. Remember kids, white collar crime *does* pay!

  15. Doesn't scale anyway on Is Remote Instruction the Future of College? · · Score: 1

    One of the major drivers of online was for scalability/cost. Do the bulk stuff asynchronously online with some minimal in person or synchronous work. If this is an instructor led , real time course they might as well be 'in the building' anyway. How would 200 people take a course like this? All you need is 23 professors, easy right?

  16. How did micorsoft 'solve' this problem? on Apple's App Store Needs a Radical Revamp; How Would You Go About It? · · Score: 1

    For 20 years we had nothing but Microsoft (DOS, Windows) on PC's and somehow we survived. Now we need someone to curate the app store? Why not submit your app for review, like in the olden days? The reviewing, rating and recommending of apps should be a separate function than publishing...

  17. hard to hate this guy... on Interviews: James Cameron and John Bruno Answer Your Questions · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of hate for his movie success - just 8 films to date, virtually all of them massively successful - but man he sounds cool in this interview!

  18. IE11=IE6 all over again on Microsoft To Drop Support For Older Versions of Internet Explorer · · Score: 2

    Sure, all we have to do is rewrite the internet to work with IE11 and we'll be fine. I propose Microsoft should start with Sharepoint, Project server, CRM Dynamics etc that currently don't work well with IE11...

    Firefox 3.6 has better overall compatibility than IE11!

  19. Re:Uh...try again on Barry Shein Founded the First Dialup ISP (Video) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Think again. AOL, prodigy, compuserve were all proprietary, isolated systems. They did not provide internet access. It wasn't until 89/90 that there email services could even talk to each other (via the internet).

    Source: old enough to have listed compuserve "forums" and AOL "keywords" on my business cards...

  20. Re:Seriously? Nope! on Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? · · Score: 1

    What he really wanted was for someone to actually read his request. I guess it wasn't you.

  21. Re:Fire(wall) and forget on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 1

    No that is Windows Server Security 101. Network security is different. If you had network security you don't need firewalls on every single server in your enterprise because that traffic is already caught and logged elsewhere. By the time they are at your server, and you haven't detected it, it is too late.

  22. Re:Fire(wall) and forget on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 2

    Stop being rational. Just, stop it. You never need a business case for awesomely complex, double reverse DMZ firewall setups here on /. !

  23. Re:Out of the public domain? on Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government · · Score: 1

    If one can ride by on their bicycle and take a picture of "secret installations", they have a security leak. It's not an American concept.

  24. You weren't asked to be creative... on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 1

    "Software development has become a mostly operational activity, rather than a creative one." And this is a bad thing?

  25. Re: Too long on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Worse than that: They were the #1 dial up ISP (behind AOL) were the #1 DSL ISP (with MSN premium, bundled with verizon, bell etc.). they had the #1 travel site, #1 encyclopedia site, and #1 chat tool all at the same time circa 2000.

    The only thing they didn't do was sell ads...