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  1. Re:I don't understand the hate on NVIDIA Updates SHIELD With Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, Console Mode, New Titles · · Score: 2

    How much are 3DS games vs Android games?

    Angry Birds Star Wars 3DS(20 exclusive levels, new mulitplayer mode): $25
    Angry Birds Star Wars Android: free with ads and in app purchases.
    Final Fantasy IV DS: $19
    Final Fantasy IV Android: $16

  2. Re:I don't understand the hate on NVIDIA Updates SHIELD With Android 4.3 Jelly Bean, Console Mode, New Titles · · Score: 1

    People can already play their existing Android library on their phones.

  3. Mobile Fail on Can Nintendo Survive Gaming's Brave New World? · · Score: 1

    I think articles like these are bigger indicator of problems for Apple and Google. The IPhone was released in 2007 and and 6 years later consumers are still jealous of Nintendo properties. The only reason this article was written is because the author wants to play Pokemon. Meanwhile most IPhone success stories can be played on everything from browsers to the PSP Vita.

  4. we left the age of colonization on F-Secure's Hypponen: The Internet Is a 'US Colony' · · Score: 1

    Just becasue some contries are still doing these things doesn't mean we are still in the age of colonization. Colonization has always been going on. The Age of refers to a period of time where it was happing on a large scale. Such as all of Africa and all of East Asia. There are still kingdoms in Europe but we are no longer in the Age of Monarchy. North Korea is communist but we are not in the Age of Communism.

  5. Re:NWO on NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders · · Score: 1

    Republic of Iowa would be spending all its resources on conqueror territory so it had access to the great lakes.

  6. Re:Is'nt this what the NSA is supposed to do? on NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders · · Score: 2

    Well technically that is what the CIA is for. NSA is just supposed to keep our military secret's secret.

  7. Re:Ugh, not "a software" again. on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    A piece of toast is some fraction of a loaf of bread. So it does make sense.

  8. Re:Ugh, not "a software" again. on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think you can have a "piece" of software. You don't have half of TrueCrypt or a 3rd of it. Should be "TrueCrypt is popular software enabling data protection"

  9. Re:Stop using contractors on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the biggest contractor, CGI Federal, was awarded its $94 million contract in December 2011. But the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring. As late as the last week of September, officials were still changing features of the Web site.

    If there is no specification then your going to get a crap product. If they started in Spring then there is no way they finished in time to do several months of testing, bug fixing, and regeressing testing.

  10. Re:And they hire the best H1B candidates they can on ACA Health Exchange Contractors Have History of Security Failures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is this racist crap modded up. I work with H1Bs and most of them went to better colleges than I did and have better degrees than I do. Were talking about people with 10, 15 years of experiance. Now some outsourcing outfits hire people directly out of college. Quality can be low with these teams because there is alot of turnover and poor communication with an offsite team. But those people tend to work in India for a few years. The compitition for visas is high and people with no experiance don't normally get them.

  11. Halting Problem on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    This states that there is no general way of knowing how an algorithm will finish, other than to run it.

    The above statement is simply false. What Wikipedia has is closer to what I remember from college:

    Given a description of an arbitrary computer program, decide whether the program finishes running or continues to run forever.

    Halting problem has nothing to do with knowing how a specific computer program will work. Or knowing what the program will return. There are plenty of examples of programs we can safely know will stop. I can look at a specific program and deduce its output. With many programs I can do this faster than running the program. But the general idea is kinda of sound. Some calculations take time or additional data. But then the article goes bonkers and has thermostats asking themselves questions. There is also no test listed in the article that is anything like the "Turing Test". The turing test is a real test that you can perform.

  12. Re:It's a plane, not a very good car. on Aeromobil Flying Car Prototype Gets Off the Ground For the First Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My rule of thumb is that a "flying car" is a vehicle that functionally replaces the automobile in the same way the "horseless carriage" replaced the horse and buggy. The idea of a "flying car" is that it would be a family vehilce owned by the middle class. That it would be a day to day vehicle. That it was better than a car because it would travel line of sight instead of on roads. An expensive plane, that can't carry heavy loads, and needs a runway doesn't fit any of these promises.

  13. Re:be sure to mess up SQL Server code as well.... on How To Develop Unmaintainable Software · · Score: 1

    Lotus Notes

  14. Re:Using new technologies on How To Develop Unmaintainable Software · · Score: 1
    I was on a project where architect had read a book on Spring. This was 7 years into the project. We had a screen that needed some new edits. So he had us refactor the old procedural code into tiny classes that were contructed using xml config files. We also used Spring annotations, because he finished the book half way through the update. 6 months later the architect is promoted. 9 months later I training a new developer.

    I have looked for a few days and can't find the code that validates date of birth is before current date?

    Ohh sorry, you see there this xml file that controls how these generic classes are instanciated. These beans are collected as a list and depending on blah blah blah...

  15. Re:Doesn't seem weather-resistant on Team Austria Wins the 2013 Solar Decathlon With Their Net-Zero LISI House · · Score: 1

    I imagine you just put them away. The curtained area is sort of like a deck. So you would treat the curtains the same as deck umbrellas.

  16. Net Zero was my first ISP. Not sure how a NEW home can be environmentally good. You want good for the environment then move back in with your parents.

  17. Re:Definitions on When Does the Universe Compute? · · Score: 1

    Yeah from the article it seems they worked things out by writing a pet definition. There no experiment here. No observation. No math even. This is physics that could be done by lawyers.

  18. nobody is naked under their clothes on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    Your not naked under you clothes. You are clothed under you clothes. You are under your clothes. And if your wearing clothes you are not naked. Also these incidents normally involve picture that were intended as pornograpy. No one is sending nudes to a lover for medical reasons.

  19. Political Scandal on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    This is just going to be used to supress scandals that politicians get in. I expect it will be 90% used by men against women. To hide workplace harrasment, adultry, child abuse, and prostitution.

  20. Re:I think they plan to compete on the premium end on Ask Slashdot: Can Valve's Steam Machines Compete Against the Xbox One and PS4? · · Score: 1

    Nah they are going to be like that Piston machine. $1000 and above. PC makers have no desire to cut their margins.

  21. Re:over before it began on Ask Slashdot: Can Valve's Steam Machines Compete Against the Xbox One and PS4? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like your paying a couple thousand dollars to play $1 games.

  22. Developer Count on Ask Slashdot: Can Valve's Steam Machines Compete Against the Xbox One and PS4? · · Score: 1

    Simply having a console, a platform, and a controller doesn't put you on equal footing with Sony or Microsoft. Sony has 13 first party studios making games for the PS4. Microsoft has about 20 first party studios. These companies are spread out over Asia, North America, and Europe. They have a similer number of second party support. (companies that make exclusive games not owned by Sony and Microsoft) Nintendo is organized a bit differently. They have several groups in 4 divisions that make games. PC gaming has some built in edge with 3rd party developers. I would say Steam has a better chance than Amazon or Apple.

  23. Re:Females? on The Changing Face of Software Development · · Score: 1

    I think the word "female" was used because this was a study. The colder clinical word is more appropriate here because the researcher is detached from the subjects.

  24. Re:Episode 1 on Half-Life 3 Trademark Filed In Europe · · Score: 2

    unless your george lucas

  25. Re:Episode 3 on Half-Life 3 Trademark Filed In Europe · · Score: 1

    Since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in October 2007, there has been very little news from Valve on the next Half-Life game. Half-Life 2: Episode Three, the third and final instalment of the Half-Life 2 episodes, was expected to follow soon after Episode Two, as Valve had stated that they aimed to release a new episode every six to eight months

    You don't call something released 7 years later a new episode.