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  1. Re:LOGO for children on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    + 1

    emulator and logo, your little turtle will be drawing stars and solving puzzles in no time

  2. Re:Software development may be compared to.. on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    its more like getting a charity box of lincon logs, lego's, stickle bricks, and parts to an erector set and getting it all to work together on you 2011 pressure-washer to preform something useful on your "WTF are you thinking" platform

  3. Re:why research? on Portable Microscope Uses Holograms Instead of Lens · · Score: 1

    1) not fucking really we functioned with sunlight and mirrors, I see no mention of the exact specifications you bring, and with high powered LED arrays its not a magic trick to power blinding bright light via battery, and noone ever defined battery, you think a 400 amp car battery can fire up a led matrix?

    2) Its not that hard we live in 2011 we figured out digital RPM control 2 generations ago, a child with an arduino and a proper motor could do it

    3) probably with the same computers that control the temperature of more fragile things than a baby for the last few decades...

    do you have any clue of what control we have over things as simplistic as current, RPM and heat? Its not magic to apply control over analog devices, we have been doing it since before computers and electronics with a high degree of success.

  4. Re:XKCD on Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" · · Score: 1

    gee that totally wasn't the fourth post in the thread!

  5. Re:Just gotta say on Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" · · Score: 0

    Okay... what was our return other than stuffing our databases full of data on a planet we cant get to? Great we are learning about mars, knowing is half the battle, but son this is America, and we are a Free! and Capitalist society! It aint worth a fuck unless I make a buck, and a couple crappy fuzzy pictures that an Amstrad could fake is not cutting it.

    Shit in one hand wish in the other, see which fills up faster. Problem is WE HAVE A HANDFUL OF SHIT! Mars is not going to fix that, and neither is pork going to states for producing unwanted widgets for a TV dream factory.

    NASA was great (when my dad was a teen), that time has passed, get with the program.

  6. Re:XKCD Spirit on Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" · · Score: 1

    wow there is a sad 30+ year old dream of AI in there.

  7. why research? on Portable Microscope Uses Holograms Instead of Lens · · Score: 1

    everything you described in the summary has already been done. fucking look it up and save a ton in researching the no shit

    really? a battery operated surgical lamp, how would that ever be done (high amp battery meet bulb) and no shit when you spin things it acts as a centrifuge. Wax wow it can be melted to a liquid and retains heat for a while never fucking noticed that before

    tell me when we invent researchers who are not too lazy to go dumpster diving in a library once in a while please.

  8. Re:startx? dm? on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    I dunno, you could technically do that with windows. This just says instead of 1 wm (explorer.exe) its now going to have 2...

  9. Re:Trust Microsoft on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    what good free alternatives? If there were any they would have dominated by now.

  10. Re:Finally on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    why? its great we can fuss with it as a module but shit we havent for 30 years

  11. if you have 21 bil to waste on Domino's Plans Pizza On the Moon · · Score: 1

    why not make your pizza better than a fozen one, you would think for 3x the price you could beat a fucking tombstone ... but nope and it takes you an hour to boot

  12. its not cracability on Is Tablet Success Bound To Their Crackability? · · Score: 1

    its price, gee we cant sell these tablets for 500$ mark them down to 99$ so we can forget we even wasted our time

    holy fuck we sold out in a matter of hours it must have been that crackability that wont come for a week

    stupid article

  13. Re:Longing for the old days on Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK · · Score: 1

    so you liked it better when you could only be sexually harassed by men in the workplace.

    good to know

  14. I bought my first HMD on Sony To Sell 3D Head-Mounted Display · · Score: 1

    in 1996. it only cost 100 bucks, had head tracking and was 1/3 the size sticking out front.

    but this is sony so yea keep making 700$ headsets that the people in "the lawnmower man" would snark at, see if we give a fuck if you disappear a little quicker

  15. What? on European Firms Assisted Gaddafi's Internet Monitoring Regime · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly expect a society that runs on pure greed to do a moral background check on its customers before cashing in?

  16. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK · · Score: 1

    yea ME that wasn't a decade ago and is still funny! I wanna know where the xkcd is for MSDOS 4 that would be a fucking barrel roll

  17. Wasnt that the point? on Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution · · Score: 1

    I mean you can crash your Xbox360 in many different ways, including unintentional ones. But the entire point of presenting an exploit is the fact that it is useful in some way, even if minor?

    During the PSP race.... I used to think OH wow that's a good trick. Check it! the PSP plopped up a hello world, and thus proof that, and no shit, it runs custom code !!OMG!!

    Wait a month or 2 and that 360 will be running a Neo-Geo emulator full speed and reasonable sound with chrome in the background on a Debian PPC custom build.

    Thanks for the news Captain Obvious.

  18. Re:Pity the US Can't Do This on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure we can mine mostly ice with out resorting to lassoing a asteroid

  19. Re:No I don't on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    no you claimed I was dumb for not owning a smarphone

    and yes you did strike a nerve, did you have a fucking point or are you a retarded child getting LOLZ over a statement that doesnt even make fucking since

    GTFO Trollboy

    oh I see your a mac fan, no fucking wonder. you are retarded to pay 3x market value for a pc in a pretty box

  20. Isnt todays technology on Large Improvement in Graphene Photosensitivity Realized · · Score: 1

    already much faster than that. I mean yea its not been consumerized but neither has this.

  21. ya know what on Panda Poo Yields Key To Cheaper Biofuels · · Score: 1

    Decomposing shit makes gas, we dont need a fucking story every time someone discovers that bear shit rots just like everything else.

    I about said it yesterday over the amazing "compost makes gas" story but they had to go an use some exotic bacteria so it was at least somewhat new

  22. Re:No I don't on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    ok why am I dumb for not wanting to pay 80+ dollars a fucking month for a smartphone I would never user you fucking dickless, pointless troll?

  23. Re:quit saying the cloud on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    first of there is no "the cloud" theres google's cloud apples cloud amazon's cloud ubuntu's cloud the cloud is meaningless

  24. Re:He Didn't Sell Out Had Great Ideas And Was Luck on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    I would love to hear steve job's ideas. so far all he has left us was work from his talented pool of engineers

  25. Re:He Didn't Sell Out Had Great Ideas And Was Luck on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Going forward with iCloud, you almost never even have to use iTunes...

    you cant even turn on your phone or tablet without being strongarmed into an iTunes account. I dont want to pay 600$+ for a toy and instantly be forced into signing up for a service I will never use