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  1. Re:Really nice looking and interesting phone for 1 on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah, they don't listen to what the user wants they tell the user what to want.

  2. Re:Oh no, my motherboard is caught in the door. on Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn · · Score: 1

    Nice.

  3. Oh no, my motherboard is caught in the door. on Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn · · Score: 2

    What happens if you catch your sleeve on a sharp corner, the shirt starts unravelling and your processor is strung across the room? I guess you go to your IT Tailor specialist.

  4. Re:key logging on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    All I was trying to say was that if you installed some key logging or computer activity monitoring software (software that allows you to replay or analysis a workers usage of computer). Then you will be able to see all the little tricks that the IT manager keeps secret for job security. It is also slightly humorous that the one person usually pushing for this kind of surveillance (so he/she has more power) could be used against them. I'm a little hesitant even writing this reply cause I doubt your ever going to read it mr ac.

  5. key logging on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How but they install all the same monitoring and key logging software they install on the worker bee employees computers onto the it managers computer then they will be able to see exactly what he/she does or doesn't do.

  6. Re:One benchmark on Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak · · Score: 2

    I have no doubt in my mind that intel can beat chips that have been on the market for close to 12 months but the next crop is what they are competing against. For example texas instruments omap 5430 well be coming out a bit after this one sporting 2 X 2 ghz a15 chips, usb 3, sata 2, support for 4gb or ram per core, capable of running 4 screens at 1080p and it's printed on 28nm, that has to give old intel a run for their money. That said 2013 when intel move it down to 22nm trigate architecture and make it multi core its going to be interesting.

  7. Re:And the other reason is... on Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know about you lot, but if Microsoft managed to squeeze a mini kinect and a projector into a Nokia LTE phone with a x86 chip and windows 8, usb, hdmi, maybe WiDi, with the possibility to dual boot to kde plasma then I would buy one in a heartbeat. It also wouldn't hurt to start releasing original xbox games on the phones and tablets.

  8. Re:Learning requires effort. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    just wait till we have learning drugs, matrix style data absorption, and the ability to let robots exercise our genetically enhanced bodies while we watch tv. Jokes aside what you say is very true.

  9. Re:Surely it's already done on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    That's basically what you are saying, isn't it, that its a proverbial or literal crime the patent system is so broken that Apple can take someone elses invention that was already patented, and re-patent it as there own. Wow, what a screwed up world, huh.

    Yes pretty much, i'm sorry that shocks you so much but frankly i think you should only be able to patent technology once, and you should only be able to patent it if you actually invented it your self not just plugged it in to your device or drawn a picture of it plugged into your device. For example a lot of work and money is being spent on ultracapacitors (some with nano particles, some with integrated circuits) at the moment, and some pretty big promises like 500 kWh per kilogram are being made. I think it would be fairly uncompetitive, and dishonest for me to own the patent for using it in laptops and other portable electronic devices; because I haven't done anything at all to help the r&d being done on the capacitors (other than draw a box that has ultracapacitor on it then two wires connecting to a box called motherboard). Just my opinion, however seeing that we are living in your world and it doesn't look like it's going to change. I'm putting myself out there as a contractor, I can come up with patents like this once a week to once a month on average.

  10. Re:Surely it's already done on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    Good point, I didn't even realize I could do anything. Thank you for the link, however I still doubt my email will mean much to the army of apple lawyers.

  11. Re:danger, Will Robinson ! on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    Nice number crunching. Also i completely agree solid state hydrogen storage is the way to go.

  12. Re:That's not how patents work or why they exist on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    So what your saying is patents were invented so that a person could still have a comfortable living for 20 years but the tech wouldn't die with them. Thus in our day and age they are actually being more harmful than the old system; If we were working off the old system then any one else that wants to put a fuel cell on a laptop can they just don't have apples textbook picture of a fuel cell with two lines connected to a textbook picture of a computer, and instead of protecting one man's livelihood it's used to block as many competitors products (for 20 years which in electronics is a millennia) as possible to return enormous revenues and limiting more innovation. We need a new system to fit the new model just like the artisans did.

  13. Re:Surely it's already done on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    For some one that doesn't believe in non-expert opinions you sure have a big one with a lot of assumptions on me. Besides I haven't lied, some one has already invented fuel cells (thank you NASA) and people have already run laptops of them. Apples patent drawing is a textbook image of a fuel cell connected to a textbook image of a laptop if you think that deserves a patent then your an idiot. Finally considering you never answered my question and just filled a reply with insults and ego defences I'll amuse its the whole idea of a fuel cell that baffles you to a point to consider just handing a patent over to apple; It's really quite simple you store hydrogen (or something you can get hydrogen from) and oxygen and you release both gasses on opposite sides of a PEM (proton exchange membrane) plate (which combines the gasses with the catalyst platinum) which creates water (H20) and electricity. This tech has been around for a very long time and people have run all kinds of stuff on it. All I want is all this stupid big business bitchiness to stop so that us the consumers can benefit with a larger selection of innovative and inventive products from the biggest marketplace possible, and also make it easier for me to get into the game one day (just like apple did in old Steve jobs garage).

  14. Re:danger, Will Robinson ! on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    You usually just use the oxygen from the air (although using pure does boost performance), its the hydrogen that is the issue.

  15. Re:Surely it's already done on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Better than that it has already been done http://www.gizmag.com/go/5325/ . Do people at the patent office not know how to Google an idea, cause i'm betting the apple innovation department knows how. Its not something that's even deserving of a patent if they actually invented a new type of fuel cell then sure give them a patent but just putting the word it infront of laptop is the reason the whole patent system is a joke.

  16. defiantly subs on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Submarines and wing in ground effect boats. The trick is to not prepare for the last war, start preparing for the next war.

  17. subs on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    submarines and wing in ground effect boats, stop preparing for the last war and start preparing for the next.

  18. Re:I Hate to Threadjack, But... on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 2

    Maybe this is why corporate america is in finical trouble, because none of the executives know how to do math.

  19. Re:...some days later... on WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study · · Score: 1

    i was talking about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_bombing#FBI_involvement , but yes defiantly cointelpro is another example (probably better example) of our government institutions resorting to extremely illegal practices with little regard for their own country mens lives. So when you look at the grand scheme of things pinning rape on Assange is child's play.

  20. Re:"all the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Gmail users" on WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study · · Score: 1

    Or use a windows phone apparently.

  21. Re:...some days later... on WikiLeaks Launches New Platform, Privacy Study · · Score: 1

    Yes it would be far to difficult and far beyond any of the cia or fbi staff. They can give explosives too terrorist to try and blow up the trade center (pre 911). They can train terrorists to fight wars the US dosn't want to get involved in. However paying two women to claim they were rapped by a man causing America a huge amount of hassle in their killing adventures is far to hard.

  22. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    You have some damn good ideas sir.

  23. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Have you tried turning on and off again. IT department as good as they are, have an issue with assuming every one else knows nothing about computers. Some of us design computers and write software for some of the best tech companies in the world yet IT wont let us plug in our own monitor.

  24. Re:Bootable USB on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 1

    Not if you boot and run from the usb stick (no install) then all you have to do is press f12 or whatever on startup and choose usb. I think mint is easier than ubuntu, but set it up with 4gb of persistent memory so they can install games and what not (from a pretty big easy to use selection in the software manager (all point and click)) . If you are really worried about their tech skills give them the linux mint version with virtual box installed as well, then all they have to do is double click from windows or osx and they can have a virtual linux machine.

  25. Re:One simple question... on Motorola Reinvents the RAZR · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter if it's harder to fix, it's made Kevlar strong and waterproof it's a lot less likely to break. I'm a bit disappointed in /. this is a month old story about a pretty cool phone (if the iphone had those specs we would never hear the end of it), and they don't even report on one of it's biggest strengths, it's really tough.