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  1. Here's the thing.. on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? · · Score: 1

    bubbles exist when there's no real money involved. When it's all about making money in the future and throwing now money at it.

    There is no "app bubble". People are paying real money for it, and there's no reason to believe they will stop. Perhaps the investments in companies that make them will pop, but there will never be less money being spent on apps than there is now.

  2. Re:In all fairness with this economy. on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1

    Amazon.com is looking to hire thousands of people, right now. Not saying that that makes a dent, but there are companies with very strong growth right now.

  3. What do you do if... on Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone? · · Score: 1

    you need 100 of them?

    You can't exactly go out and buy 100 cell phones -- at least not at the same price point as the raspberry pi's.

  4. I hate to break it to you, but... on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    you probably didn't crash it copying some unimportant files. Linux doesn't play that game.

    The best way to learn is to fix what you've broken. That's how I learned linux.

  5. Re:I wonder how much longer on 9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 1

    Hate not being able to edit...

    https://www.google.com/search?q=the+hobbit+torretn&aq=f&oq=the+hobbit+torretn&aqs=chrome.0.57j0l2j64l3.2086&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&q=the+hobbit+torrent&spell=1&sa=X&ei=80tOUdTFBcHgiwKExYDIAg&ved=0CDIQvwUoAA&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.44158598,d.cGE&fp=d76eed8efe782f95&biw=1440&bih=779

    In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.

  6. Re:I wonder how much longer on 9th Circuit Affirms IsoHunt Decision; No DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wait. You see exactly this. At the bottom it will say "not showing 5 results Click here to show the DMCA takedown notices at chillingeffects.org"

    Also, the takedown notices include the URL to be taken down, so it's still available.

  7. Good cameras don't use SD... on Is It Worth Paying Extra For Fast SD Cards? · · Score: 1

    Don't all the high-end cameras still use CF? So much easier to work with. All my camears use CF.

  8. Re:yes on Is It Worth Paying Extra For Fast SD Cards? · · Score: 0

    Serious video work is done at 24fps, though. So cut off 20%

  9. Re:Of course it protects the small investor on Do Patent Laws Really Protect Small Inventors? · · Score: 2

    Yes. You get what you patent. It needs to be as general as possible without being so general that you can find prior art.

    Also, this is why there are independent and dependent claims in a patent. Basically you can have part of the claim be rejected but not other parts, as long as you properly draw the line when you're writing the patent.

  10. How is this different than copyright? on EFF Proposes a Working Code Requirement For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Doesn't copyright already protect working code?

    Or is this "You can have the idea if you've actually provided a concrete example"? Just raising the bar for getting the patent.

  11. You shouldn't be in a 4-year university program.. on Ask Slashdot: Best Alternative To the Canonical Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    if you just want to be a web-monkey. Go start consulting on your own or something.

    Later, if you decide you need to do something that requires a 4-year degree, go get one.

  12. Re:This can copyright malarkey can be fixed overni on Facebook Sued By Rembrandt IP For Two Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    You don't remember what happened to myspace very well, do you?

  13. Re:Kid's artwork? on School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works · · Score: 1

    The government doesn't require attendance of public schools. It requires schooling.

  14. Re:Does it matter? on The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you've used an apple device then an android device, you realize how slow android is. It's not terrible, but it greatly diminishes the user experience because the screen isn't glued to your finger.

  15. I like them on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I just saw one of the new thinkpads and I thought it was actually a step in the right direction. Nice keyboard, nicer lines.

    I think you can have a good build quality and not make it look like crap. Apple makes the best operating and best looking hardware in the same packages.. so why can't someone else?

  16. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    That's a very simplistic conservative little world you live in, isn't it?

    We're in a period of economic recovery and spending is needed (go look up tons of examples of how austerity fails) to get us out.

    Republicans are responsible for almost all the debt and recession, so the rest of us have to balance everything to get us out.

    Remember when we had a balanced budget? Yeah, then Bush got elected.

  17. Re:Strange that the company should comp for educat on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree While Working Full Time? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're just a shitty employee then. Where I work that's not true.

  18. crap televisions, anyhow on Mitsubishi Drops Bulky DLP TVs: End of an Era · · Score: 2

    Many of mitsubishi's TVs had horrible electronics. I knew about a year after I bought my modle 52525 that it wasn't going to last more than about 3. Sure enough, within 3 years it was broken and mitsubishi wasn't being proactive about fixing the bad control boards.

    Why companies need to save a few bucks on capacitors on a $2000 television will never make sense to me.

  19. Re:Nowhere fast on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 2

    Too bad you can't file abn anti-SLAPP lawsuit against the FBI. That seems to be what they're doing. The resources of the US against some dude in NZ.

     

  20. Re:Over private property? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    And you may well be arrested for it.

  21. Re:This is actually dead end... on Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand · · Score: 2

    likely he''ll do it from NZ.. chances are probably a little better there?

  22. Re:Buy Amazon Prime. on Amazon Charges Sales Tax On "Shipping and Handling" · · Score: 1

    Huh? Not sure what you're talking about.

  23. I want to see the world burn! on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's get to the point where no one can make a phone anymore. That seems to be the only way we'll see the patent system get reformed.

  24. Re:I'm Optimistic on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 2

    There aren't any officially sanctioned original DVDs. The best you can get are the laserdiscs or LD rips of the standard definition version.

  25. Re:Hybrid... on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    as well as combustion engine weight