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  1. Of course it died... on App.net is Shutting Down (app.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In May of 2014, App.net entered maintenance mode. At that time we made the difficult decision to put App.net into autopilot mode in an effort to preserve funds and to give it ample time to bake.

    This sounds like the real reason the platform died. They already effectively signaled they were dying 2.5 years ago. Why would any third party waste time investing in a platform when its creators aren't investing in it?

  2. They did replace the batteries with ones from a completely different company. Those were the second-wave of Note 7s that were supposedly safe until even they caught fire.

  3. Why would Swift need a separate UI library? Just create language bindings for an existing UI toolkit as is done for plenty of other languages.

  4. Re: Not to rain on the parade, but... on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars: http://cta.ornl.gov/data/tedb3...

    Yes, a list of "averages" that are likely heavily skewed by a few very expensive models at the time. On the other hand, there were plenty of options that were far less than that average. The Model T being one such car. So your original claim was highly misleading. People had options for cars that weren't nearly as skewed compared to their income as your original claim makes it seem.

    Income: http://visualizingeconomics.co...

    I'll give you this one. Different methodologies depending on who does the numbers give varying figures.

  5. Re: Not to rain on the parade, but... on Next-Gen Samsung EV Battery Gets 300+ Miles of Range From 20-Minute Charge (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    In 1913 the average income was about $15,000 and a car cost about $30,000, in today's dollars.

    Not even remotely true. A Model T cost $525 in 1913 which is only $13000 in 2016 dollars. Also the average income was $800 or approximately $19700 in 2016 dollars.

  6. Re:How do you cope with CentOS? on Interviews: Ask Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst A Question (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    OpenStack not RHEV? That doesn't even make sense. Do you mean KVM not RHEV? How exactly is OpenStack a replacement for RHEV?

  7. Re: Except it doesn't work properly on Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Every language with a standard library has a runtime library. Are you a moron? I'll give you one guess what the RT in MSVCRT means.

  8. Re: when you need to take ALL OF YOUR PORN on Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT 2TB Is World's Largest Capacity Flash Drive (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    This story is about a thumb drive not an external disk drive.

  9. Re:Well, not "new" on Scientists Identify New Organ In Humans (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    It hasn't been overlooked. The difference is classifying it as one structure.

  10. Re:All well and good on Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 835 Processor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    But also they're talking about a CPU

    No, this is about a SoC.

  11. Re:Pi on Qualcomm Details Snapdragon 835 Processor (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    So out of nowhere you wanted to let everybody know that you're waiting for something that has neither been announced or exists? Riiiight.

  12. Re:Huh? on Lucasfilm Creates A 4K Ultra-HD Restoration of the Original 'Star Wars' (4k.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The 70mm was just a 35mm blowup.

  13. Re:Been that way since the 1980s on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? (soldnersecretwars.de) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say they had an early review copy of that specific game.

  14. Re:There's no games journalism on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? (soldnersecretwars.de) · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much the posterboy article for "ethics in games journalism". But there seems to be little ethics, and more importantly, not really any games journalism.

    Only in bizarro world. The game was simply buggy and had lots of server problems when launched. That's why it got bad reviews. There was no game review conspiracy.

  15. Re: Corruption in gaming magazines? No never. on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? (soldnersecretwars.de) · · Score: 1

    And the Nazis built a UFO base in the Antarctica! The whole world finally makes sense!

  16. Re:Been that way since the 1980s on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? (soldnersecretwars.de) · · Score: 1

    Ars Technica has posted numerous pannings of games (one of the most recent being NonMans Sky) and yet still gets early review copies all the time. Seems your conspiracy theory is flawed.

  17. No, it got bad reviews because was a buggy piece of shit when launched. No amount of whinging and invented conspiracies will change that.

  18. Or the game was simply buggy and had server problems at launch. Nope, it's clearly got to be a journalistic conspiracy against the game. *rolls eyes*

  19. Re:privacy is overblown on Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the guy hiding their own identity.

  20. It's long past the freezing stage. Unidentified Frozen Object!

  21. That's an area, not a volume.

    No it's not.

  22. How many hogshead of cider would fit in that space?

  23. With plenty of massive objects to be seen.

  24. And not even to the good part of the Sun...

  25. Political articles have been posted on Slashdot for more than a decade and a half. You must be new here if you think it's only a recent phenomenon.