Slashdot Mirror


User: syockit

syockit's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
187
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 187

  1. Re:Videos in online courses on No Film At 11: the Case For the Less-Video-Is-More MOOC · · Score: 1

    Unlike classrooms, where the learning sessions are interactive, video is mostly passive. There is no feedback, so what makes it better than textbooks?

  2. Re:yup, this is definitely /. on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 2

    It was a big deal. You probably missed the party.

  3. Re:Still useful research on Beware Headlines Saying Chocolate Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Perchance, you are Mr. Wonka?

  4. Re:Or just leave Windows on it on Ask Slashdot: Linux Distro For Hybrid Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Less funny than dropping a clunky OS for another clunky one. Which one expends more effort?

  5. Re: Entitlement on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    Well, at least they're uninstallable. As for mine, they don't even give the choice, except to update.

  6. Re:Because Apple has no fucks to give about Window on Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors · · Score: 1

    Not if you don't need the market share.

    Even better, Apple could've posted a large disclaimer on the iTunes' download page: "We don't guarantee 100% Windows support"

  7. Indians... on Using Discarded Laptop Batteries To Power Lights · · Score: 1

    Poor people tend to breed more because:

    1. They have less access to education, and as a result, no idea about family planning.
    2. They don't have access to high-tech machineries, meaning they have to employ more labour, including child labour.

    You could sterilise them now, but the slums would still be repopulated in no time if you don't tackle the root causes of poverty.

  8. ISIL not ISIS on Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth · · Score: 2

    They've been just IS for some time now. And if I'm not mistaken, the last S in ISIS stands for Sham, which is Arabic for Levant. And they claim that the Caliphate has been established.

  9. Re:I blame Obama if this fails. on Tesla and Panasonic Have Reached an Agreement On the Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    In electronical systems equipments, something akin to a stroke would be a system failure. A drone stroke is the one you see when drone suddenly coming down crashing to the ocean, with the owner claiming that it was all intentional

  10. Re:Chrome? on Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? · · Score: 2

    My ass was ignorant too, but so was I with regards to Java updater, as I thought it was only the installer that had the checkbox thing. To my dismay, they resorted to bundling it even with security updates!

  11. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Regarding point 1, in a same manner, a jew could claim that the jews are the master race of this world, contrary to what the majority of the jews would think. Would you say there's no distinction between them? What Erdogan said borders as being radical. And most radicals don't consider moderates to be part of Islam.

  12. Re:foolproof on German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks · · Score: 1

    But what has been sent still cannot be retracted.

  13. I thought the system detects and reverts any kind of targeted modding spree?

  14. Re: Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Is it legal to take video of others with first asking for permission? In case it's not, will the video be admissible as evidence in court?

  15. Re:I guess I'm geezering.. on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    That's “non-open open source”, with two opens.

    In other words, it's the Cathedral model.

  16. Re:Fools on Riecoin: A Cryptocurrency With a Scientific Proof of Work · · Score: 1

    We all know that government issued currencies are buggy, hence the attempt to come up with these pseudo currencies. But replicating the bug in their new design means they're doing it wrong.

  17. Re:We are a colony organism on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 0

    Too bad for you, I've already upgraded to systemd!

  18. Re: Why? on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever cared to ask me when they ate my Broccoli friends!

  19. Re:Meh... on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    “Or you could even find somebody who is willing to transport 10 cars at once, for less than it would cost you to go get that car yourself.”

    which the manufacturer can finely handle by itself. The only situation where such middle-men could contribute to lower logistic costs is when the factories of different manufacturers are all in the same spot.

  20. Scope of fame engine? on Godot Game Engine Released Under MIT License · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does a fame engine do anything useful outside SEO? I don't want to be famous on just the internet you know. Sure, the internet has a very large demographics, and it's international, but everything feels so virtual. And being "virtually famous" doesn't make me look good.

  21. rem in CSS3 on These Are the Companies the FAA Has Sent notices To For Using Drones · · Score: 1

    “Some of the comments use font size 0.85rem (never heard of REM before for a font size), and some of them use 1.5em. Can't work out why some are different. Don't care either. ”

    This page explains why you should avoid em, unless you know what you're doing. Most of the time, you want to define the size of a font in terms of the default size, not in relative to parent element.

  22. Re:Well, Heck... No Wonder! on Environmental Report Raises Pressure On Obama To Approve Keystone Pipeline · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder why you think your trolling post warrants an "adult, enlightened" response?

  23. Re:I'm not the poster, but... on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    I hope not. I consider myself a rabid Julia fan, and for the past month I've been doing mostly Julia daily. But I don't want to see the language get dumbed down in order to accomodate general purpose programming, as it's proved to be stellar in what it's made for: numerical/technical computing.

  24. Re:*nix desktops on Ask Slashdot: Are Linux Desktop Users More Pragmatic Now Or Is It Inertia? · · Score: 1

    I don't have a Mac so my opinion probably doesn't weigh much, but don't they have MacPorts for that? Are the offerings not adequate enough for your solutions?

  25. Re:Digress from what? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    I was about to disagree, but I digress.