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  1. Re:I thought not all US carriers use LTE on Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Be fair, over 80% of America is empty. 15% is just small towns with ignorant rednecks that couldn't use a "smart" phone if their pathetic lives depended on it.

  2. Re:Not really surprised on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get a 1 TB HD that lasts for years for $50. No monthly fees required.

    Paying monthly for disk space is foolish, especially when said provider scans and uses your data.

  3. Re:And tripled the spam it sends me! on Amazon Doubles Deliveries in 2016 For Third-Party Sellers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate that spam also.

    What I do is simply rate them 1 star and make a note of the seller and never use them again.

    They wanted a rating, they got it!

  4. Re:So reassuring... on Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What is awesome about Qwickster is that is that their stock price was around $300 when they announced they were splitting off the business that was bringing in the most revenue and had the highest profit margin and it crashed to around $50.

    They haven't recovered much since, yet somehow Hastings never got fired for sheer arrogance and stupidity. This newest round of idiocy dropped their stock over 12% today, yet the moron remains.

  5. Re: pen and paper on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    Why exactly would you need to reference something sketched on a whiteboard years later?

    Notes aren't meant to be a historical record. If it is something that needs to be documented for posterity, there are better things than notepads and whiteboards.

    What do you think project documentation is?

    Hint: it is not notes and not pictures of whiteboards

  6. Re:Should be careful, but consistent with hardwire on Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not about survival, it is a purely money making venture.

    Saving people is a side-effect and they don't give one fuck if it happens or not.

  7. Re:Edge lost at browsing, this is the video player on Microsoft Says Edge Browser Is More Power-Efficient Than Chrome (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    What video streaming service still uses Silverlight as its main streaming option?

    Netflix went to HTML 5 and only uses Silverlight as a fallback, Hulu uses Flash and I don't know what Amazon uses, I doubt it is Silverlight.

    Silverlight is more irrelevant than Flash.

  8. Re: There's only one way to fix Microsoft on EFF Petitioned To Investigate Windows 10 Upgrades (change.org) · · Score: 1

    I just set up a new Dell laptop for a friend.

    It required a ton of work for a new laptop. Sound was miserable and required that I search Dell's website for a proper driver and then mess with settings to get it acceptable.

    Same with graphics drivers to get the screen to auto-rotate in tablet mode.

    Of course, I had to install anti-beacon + anti-virus since it was Windows 10.

    Most Linux distros work without extra effort once the install is done.

    Windows is significantly harder to install and setup, even if an OEM installs it.

  9. Re:Danger Will Robinson! on Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix lost a lot when they lost the contract to all the various discovery channel's stuff.

    They did bring in a lot of BBC stuff like David Attenborough's awesome nature documentaries.

    As for original stuff, adding 2 seasons to The Killing was dumb. The first season of Daredevil was awesome, haven't seen season 2 yet. Jessica Jones had potential but got tedious really quickly. I loved how neither felt like comic book shows.

    They have a great selection of excellent older movies and since it has been at least 15 years since I have seen a movie in the theaters worth watching I don't feel that their lack of newer movies is a negative.

  10. Re:vulnerabilities on WordPress.com Enables HTTPS Encryption For All Websites · · Score: 1

    no

  11. Re: But of course the distributions... on Linux 4.6 Brings NVIDIA GTX 900 Support, OrangeFS, Better Power Management (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    How can they stop you from using it?

  12. Re:The problem is the perception of obesity on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously?

    BMI on athletes and body builders is invalid and applies to a tiny fraction of people. A normal person with 30%+ BMI? The OP was right, but mean about it.

    At one point I was 50 pounds overweight, gained it all in college.

    I lost it all in 4 months by changing my diet to a healthy one( for example oatmeal/eggs in the morning a very healthy smoothy for lunch - berries, pomegranate, acai, beet, kale, lemon and other juices- and chicken/fish beans/brown rice/quinoa and a large salad with good lettuces and lots of different vegetables and fruit with nothing else for desert - I spend less than $100 a week on food for 2 people) and without any exercise. I still had my daily blue Full Throttle as my only vice. I did it during winter and where I live it is too cold and icy to go running.

    I cut out lots of sugar and simple carbs, very little pasta and potatoes and no sodas. Once a month I would have a grilled chicken salad and fries with no soda at Wendy's as my "cheat" meal.

    I kept it up and am maintaining a healthy weight and am out running a few times a week now that it is warmer.

  13. Re:PT Barnum was right on Windows 10 Now Runs On 270 Million Monthly Active Devices · · Score: 1

    The network activity you see with Linux is normal network protocol stuff.

    What you won't see is packets going outside your network unlike MS that sends data to dozens of MS owned IP addresses

    If you can't see the difference, well that is on you.

  14. How long until it becomes racist? on You'll Soon Be Able To 'Holoport' Anywhere In the World With Microsoft VR Tech (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    It will only allow you to view white supremacist meetings.

    Seriously though, where is the need for something like this? Unless you can smack the hologram and the person on the other end can feel it. That might be worth something.

    This doesn't solve any problems at all. Much like everything MS has done since Windows 8. Points for consistency.

  15. Re:Design on Why Learning To Code Won't Save Your Job (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    for vs while is a decision that is made because of the code. Need to iterate N times? for loop.

    Don't know how many times a loop needs to execute? while loop.

    These aren't the sort of decisions that are made by "software designers", nor should they.

    They work at a much higher level.

  16. Intel i7

  17. It is amazing how so many people don't get this.

    It seems to have started with people linking to external JS libraries in HTML files instead of serving them from their server and things rolled downhill from there.

    I use my kiln account to store and manage my dependencies.

  18. According to some posters here it is still "other people's code".

    If you are against other people's code, not even C's standard library is usable since it has bugs and many implementations and versions.

    Using other people's code is a good thing, as long as it is tested and you don't do something stupid like not store it locally.

    What happened in the article only impacts people that pulled the code remotely. If you already had the code before he pulled it, you obviously still have it and it still works.

  19. Re:Anyone know how the voting went? on Supreme Court Rejects Apple eBooks Price-Fixing Appeal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is a given if a justice agrees to hear a case, he/she will vote on the side that is bringing the case to SCOTUS.

  20. Re: Microsoft: Where game companies go to die on Sweeping Changes At Microsoft Studios Kill Lionhead Studios and Fable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they killed it before it even got to beta. You started the game out as a powerful god or something like that, instead of starting out beating on rats with a rusty sword.

    It might have ended up a bad game, but by the PR and screenshots it looked promising.

  21. Let the drone arms race begin on High-Tech 'Bazooka' Fires a Net To Take Down Drones (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Next will be an anti drone-bazooka device.

  22. Re:Microsoft: Where game companies go to die on Sweeping Changes At Microsoft Studios Kill Lionhead Studios and Fable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I couldn't believe they shut down Ensemble. That game studio was great and made a ton of money.

  23. Re:Microsoft: Where game companies go to die on Sweeping Changes At Microsoft Studios Kill Lionhead Studios and Fable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Too be fair, they should never have funded Vanguard and let it rot too long.

    I wasn't surprised when SOE picked them up.

    Vanguard was a guaranteed failure the second that drug addict thought it up and talked MS into funding it.

    That really upset me because MS had an MMO with promise that they killed off for Vanguard. I must be getting old because I can't remember the name of it.

  24. Re:Fable 2 PC on Sweeping Changes At Microsoft Studios Kill Lionhead Studios and Fable (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It sucks that Dredd wasn't the R-rated comic book movie to start that trend.

  25. What? on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    I had to take 2 calculus courses before I could take statistics in college