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  1. Re:The average Slashdotter . . . on Google Reportedly Making a Smartwatch, Too · · Score: 1

    Maybe you are entirely uninformed but the Sony product referenced above _did_ display notifications from a smart phone.

    I bought one for $20 on one of the one day deal sites. While it had some bugs it did work. However after using it for a week, I forgot about it on it's charger for a month and then decided the whole thing was dumb.

    I came to the conclusion that I don't really need notifications on my wist, I don't like a watch that has to be charged frequently, and I don't like non-waterproof watches.
    Further, these days I see a watch as a man's jewelry. I wear a Seiko automatic most days. It's a little old fashioned and "Accurate enough". Maybe someday I'll get the Ball Engineer or vintage Omega Speedmaster Moon I'd like to have.

  2. Re: backward compatability on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    If you had any familiarity with current ebooks, you would know already that the vast majority of what you called for is implemented. The only thing missing is your waste of perfectly good space idea for "Pages". There is no need for pages when you have hyperlinks and a back button. But you would know that if you had used a kindle.

  3. Re:Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin on The F-35 Story · · Score: 1

    We've been in two wars for most of the last ten years. If we didn't need them then it's not too likely we will need them anytime soon.

  4. Re:A pox on the Nokia E70 on Nokia Unveils Its First Windows 7 Phone · · Score: 1

    But this one runs Windows!

  5. A little late on Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this had been posted YESTERDAY some of us might have gotten up early to see those Aurorae

  6. Re:When they Ask, Where were you. on NASA Charters Flights Aboard Virgin's SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the space shuttle was built by Rockwell.

  7. Re:Huh? What's "mango"? on Microsoft Pays $44 Million To Samsung and Nokia For Mango Marketing · · Score: 1

    I had a windows mobile 6.5 phone, a Samsung intrepid. Ungodly piece of shit it was. Yeah, it worked pretty cool when I got it but the lack of updates, fixes, new bugs introduced in the one update it ever got, and utter lack of ease of use made it a huge loser for me. Using that thing was like trying to use a laptop for a phone. No ease of use, no polish, no intuitiveness anywhere.
    My Evo 3d is about a thousand times better, if not more.
      I will never, never, never, but a windows phone again.

  8. Re:Proxy wars on HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents · · Score: 1

    One gun per person isn't a huge hoard of weapons. This was in Texas. And if the government was trying to arrest David Koresh they would have arrested him while he was jogging that morning. This was a huge government cockup and you are repeating falsehoods that protect the guilty.

  9. Energy effeciency anyone? on Can Google Fix the Cable Box? · · Score: 1

    Some cable set top boxes use as much energy as your refrigerator. I would dearly love for google to fix this issue.

  10. Re:Why? on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    What has zero gravity research brought us? What have we learned that made a real impact on our lives? I just haven't seen any actual dividends from this research that has been going on quite awhile in the shuttle and ISS. I would really like to be enlightened if I'm way off base.
    I really can't think of a thing.

  11. How long will this setup last? on GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection · · Score: 1

    I just see a lot of equipment that will break, become obsolete, and have to be maintained more than the previous projector that lasted 40 years.
    It sounds cool, but try to replace a video board when one burns out twenty years from now. I'd rather have the Zeiss.

  12. Theme Park attractions? on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    What about the Incredible Hulk Coaster at Universal Orlando? OR the other themed rides there?
    This is making for soem very strange bedfellows!

  13. Re:Blimps on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    You are thinking about air raid balloons.

    The blimps referred to were large, untethered, powered and manned. They were the direct progenitors of the Goodyear blimp and were in fact made by Goodyear.

  14. lots of options out there! on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My drill press makes for a very effective drive killer.

    Use what you got!

  15. price of TV GUIDE on DAM Pops Energy Star's Bubble · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can get a subscription to TV Guide for eleven dollars ans a quarter?
    are you sure that' snot an introductory rate?
    that's at my local average of 8.55 cents per kilowatt hour.

  16. Re:Should be quite easy to do on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 1

    In North Florida the ground temperature is around 72 degrees. Add in that the gas was driven around in a metal tank for some period of time, it's impossible that the gas would be at 60F.

  17. Re:Since when is linking a crime? on UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What? Who was in danger, where are these liquid bombs?
    I haven't seen one. Nobody tried to do anything.
    There MIGHT have been a conspiracy to undertake the action of blowing up several airplanes. There is a critical distinction there.

  18. Re:Sue 'em if you can't compete! on NPR Finds XM's Achilles Heel · · Score: 1

    This American life is on Public Radio International, not NPR. While your local station might buy the programming, it's a critical distinction because PRI just left Sirius and I can't get my This American Life anymore!!!!!!!
    Fortunately Sirius has lots of other great programming

  19. Re:"pwned"? on Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling · · Score: 1

    Christ, I didn't realise registration numbers went that high!

  20. Re:Where's the source? on Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last · · Score: 1

    I feel like I'm in a timewarp to six years ago.

    The only difference is that this time it's all peope with UIDs over six hundred thousand arguing stuff that people with UIDs under sixty thousand once argued. Are these tha children of the first wave? Maybe they read the books the first wave wrote?

    Mod me down if you like but this is amusing.

  21. Re:The Iraq Kidnappings on Star Wars Minutiae · · Score: 1

    If your country was invaded by china would you just move on? I doubt many americans would.
    rice

  22. Lying? on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    I think it's more like you testifying you ate all the leftover birthday cake. however the cross examination reveals that when a police forensic team scoured your house they found a tiny crumb. Obviously you're a liar and none of your testimony should be considered.

  23. Mostly users now? on Worst Explanation From Tech Support? · · Score: 1

    Ther ewas a time this kind of discussion on slashdot would have tons of Admins talking about how stupid their users are. I'm shocked about how many users are on here talking about how bad tech suppourt is. It really makes clear the changes in the slashdot user base in the last few years.

    Rice

  24. Re: Lets hope someone takes a wise decision on Could Broadband Over Power Lines be Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    do you really htink that Eric S Raymond has a UID over 700,000? This is a troll, and even worse, he copied the comment from another user.

  25. Canon A-1 on Best 35mm SLR Camera for Beginners? · · Score: 1

    I had a Canon A-1. great camera and because they changed lens mounts some great pro glass is out there at reasonable prices.
    It's very tough, has a really amazing meter(I was usually wrong when I second guessed it) and has a huge number of accessories and lenses available.
    It has both aberature and shutter priority modes, tells you what it chooses, and will also if you go full manual.
    It is a great camera and reasonably easy to find.

    Good luck!