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  1. Re:"Online" classes on Buzzwords Are Stifling Innovation In College Teaching · · Score: 1

    The term 'online class' used in at least two Ontario schools (a college and a university) have been fairly consistent. It is a class where all material is online - no specific meeting times. Material is also submitted through a website.

    The only point of difference is the exam - the university I attend has exams in person for online classes.

    I believe given the list you have, if the class meets in a traditional manner - it is not an online class in the way most would understand it.

  2. We are stupid on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 2

    After all this time, and something so blatant - does Xerox really think this isn't obvious to everyone what they are doing? They have to lie to us to justify it?

    They do not have a monopoly, we can just go to a different brand that has some respect for their customers.

  3. Profiting on the Backs of Others on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oracle (then Sun) could have created an operating system for mobile phones based around Java. But since Google did, they want to profit off of it? They should go to hell.

  4. Re:Disappointed on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 1

    The size of such a chip and the heat dissipation requirements would mean you would only want to use it for the higher end applications.

  5. Re:What Voltage? on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 1

    > Higher voltage would work better, but call into question safety issues you don't have with AC due to it passing through zero volts 100-120 times a second.

    AC running from hand to hand will likely kill you, causing your heart to try beating to it.

  6. Re:Handy article on the Globe and Mail on Uber Faces $410 Million Canadian Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    How would one fairly transition from one system to the other? (i.e. not screw over the taxi cabs, without caring about 'investors', and bring uber under reasonable control)

  7. Re:Some precedent in the claimed wrongdoing on FTC Officials Looking Into Apple's Streaming Business Model, Say Sources · · Score: 1

    Tell Tesla that.

  8. Fuck Science Reporters on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 1

    The original paper mentions nothing of a mini-ice age or anything of the sort you fucking science reporters.

  9. Re:prior art on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    nope.

  10. Re:Airplane Mode on Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? · · Score: 1

    On the accuracy point, my iPhone says '30' and my provider's app says '40'. I reset the statistics on the same day the usage period rolled over.

  11. Re:Phase out fossil-fueled power plants by midcent on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    Something Something thorium something

  12. Re:FFS RTFA It's a TRIAL on In 6 Months, Australia Bans More Than 240 Games · · Score: 1

    I find it troubling that they feel the need to censor at all.

  13. Re:Congrats Mark Zuckerberg on How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market · · Score: 1

    I can't say I really know — I know there are some tech places, we are trying to get more here as a city. But mostly I am nearer to the University. We have Amazon right under the tunnel — I know of a guy that lives in 'South Windsor' (think good area) and goes to work within 20 minutes including border. Windsor is affected by the shutdown of a lot of auto stuff too. I expect it to be just part of a change of what kinds of businesses are here. Because Detroit still has a large population and its location is still the biggest trading area with Canada.

  14. Re:Congrats Mark Zuckerberg on How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market · · Score: 1

    I am over in Windsor across the border. There are a few places setting up shop in Detroit.

  15. Cry me a river. on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Most people don't care. Specifically: Most people just want to be able to get work done, they don't care about your moral highchair.

  16. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    I have worked with some people working on that exact problem. Mood is a sort of emotion, and we are doing agent based simulations right now involving it (look up the OCC model). Everything that you have listed here is possible to detect with instrumentation now — the missing pieces are getting a reasonable emotional model worked out and these as inputs into it.

  17. Re:Windows Me Part 2 on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 1

    I definitely have used it. I had to stop and start using windows 7 (this is all in a virtual machine on a newer mac) due to work a few weeks ago. I believe Windows 10 will be great — and I may even switch to it. However, I felt that it is not quite ready yet — and it is my experience that software as complex as this never quite reaches stability in two or three months. If I am wrong, I will be pleasantly surprised. It is my intention to upgrade my mother's Windows 7 machine to Windows 10 once I am satisfied with its stability —a month after release would likely give me reasonable feedback.

  18. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 2

    I don't mind such a robotic system as long as it can be double checked by the pharmacy. Trust — but verify.

  19. Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is incredibly simplistic, like all kinds of analyses like this. Anything that really requires a mind rather than a simple result of calculation or mechanical action will likely not be replaced without some big advance. More likely, we will just have better tools for certain jobs making them more higher level — it can let them get stuff done easier - so they can do more.

  20. Windows Me Part 2 on Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this prerelease set goes "to market" within the next six months, it will be Windows Me all over again. A performance worst than Windows 8, they might just go down a little more.

  21. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 1

    Which crimes does the death penalty actually provide a deterrent for? I don't think any. People still commit the crimes, as much as some governors love flipping the switch.

  22. Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 1

    They are due for being disbarred.

  23. Re:It's not even that convenient on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 1

    Come on, its a civet, not a weasel. I admit they look similar but they belong to different families. Mind you, I personally just drink the stuff in a plastic container using a No. 2 filter on top of a cup.

  24. Re:Lawsuit incoming? on How To Set Up a Pirate EBook Store In Google Play Books · · Score: 1

    also it's not googles job to play police

    (IANAL) — Is this really true? Consider a bunch of books uploaded, and DMCA takedown notices being received, and it forms a pattern where in multitudes of cases where a book of the same name but differing authors or maybe not even changing the author keeps getting taken down again and again. This pattern might be enough for a basis to a lawsuit of negligence or some other fancy legal term.

  25. Re:IE 6 on JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery? · · Score: 1

    OR -- detect the client in the case of old IE versions and serve a page for them, and keep making $32,200 instead of $16,200.