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  1. Re:I can kiss my Newton Messagepad goodbye? on Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android · · Score: 1

    Patents on digitizer technology. It wasn't until tablets took off enough that other companies were willing to challenge the market leader.

    Thus the cost of the handwriting tech was prohibitively expensive.

  2. Re:Valve needs to use their clout on NVIDIA's New GPUs Are Very Open-Source Unfriendly · · Score: 5, Funny

    "or we'll release Half Life 3 as AMD only and spam AMD all over Steam"

    That exactly.

  3. Evolving is unimportant. on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    We have sentience now. Human science will quickly eclipse any and all forms of random evolution.

    It's disconcerting to see people treat evolution as if it's some sort of holy imperative decreed by Gaea.

  4. Re:Don't!!!! on Arkansas Is Now the First State To Require That High Schools Teach Coding · · Score: 1

    Even the first line of the summary says "offer classes". Nobody is being forced.

  5. Re: Who cares what RMS wants? on RMS Objects To Support For LLVM's Debugger In GNU Emacs's Gud.el · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I agree that it was sensible. As you point out it didn't solve anything. It seems like yet another example of RMS letting fanaticism run wild. He had the foresight to see the problem but he alienated everyone on the issue.

    Finding a good open source alternative to Tivo is easy now thanks to cheap ass hardware. I suspect the same will happen with cell phones.

  6. Re:Not a good week... on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What nonsense. Someone somewhere is designing a leafblower right now and learned something that leads to cheaper access to space. Some scientist studying bug locomotion learned something that leads to cheaper access to space.

    That is how progress works. Technological "breakthroughs" are always a culmination of extremely small leaps.

  7. Don't get your hopes up if you're in an apt. on Google Fiber To Launch In Austin, Texas In December · · Score: 0

    I live in KC and it's a real pita to find a place with google fiber. Google will only wire up an entire complex at once and they charge the owners a lot of money for it.

  8. Re:metric you insensitive clod! on Fuel Efficiency Numbers Overstate MPG More For Cars With Small Engines · · Score: 1

    This must be a euro thing. It doesn't make any sense in the US. In the US all we care about is "how often do I have to fill this damn tank".

  9. That won't end well. on Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway) · · Score: 1

    Personally I would avoid robbing people who have kinetic weapons of mass destruction hanging in orbit. That's just me though.

  10. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to disagree that he's a quack. Bringing up "highly-active" runners is just as bad though.

    Whatever we recommend on a national level should be purely based on people who get very little exercise.

  11. Why is scripting better than an amalgation of CSS? on New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One · · Score: 1

    I really don't understand this. Almost every site I go to does the same damn crap with Javascript and all of it could be done with other technologies.

  12. Why does keyboard only have to equal crappy GUI? on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why this war continues. Emacs and Vim unequivocally have a GUI. Status bars, split window, auto complete drop downs. Yet if you even talk about improving them the pitchforks come out.

    It seems like they're so firmly wedded to the idea GUI=mouse that they can't even think straight.

  13. Sometimes tools are just better though. on Getting Back To Coding · · Score: 1

    I was with him until he said use Subversion if it does what you need. I can't agree with that. Cheap forking is so superior that you have to learn it at some point.

  14. Re:There is a simple solution on Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? · · Score: 1

    Your idea falls apart when ALL the games have in-game purchasing.

  15. Bit too small still. on 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 1

    At that res I really want at least a 32~37 inch screen.

  16. Question is way too premature. on Kids With Wheels: Should the Unlicensed Be Allowed To 'Drive' Autonomous Cars? · · Score: 1

    We're a long long long ways away from a totally autonomous car. The first self driving cars will definitely require a driver.

  17. Re:market force: Let customers decide. on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    We're not in a situation of light regulation though. Who can lay down lines is heavily regulated at the local level.

    So simply telling the FCC "hands off" is foolish. That just hands the problem to city politicians that can't possibly oppose the huge cable companies.

  18. Re:I Read TFA... on Places Where the Silicon Valley Bubble Could Pop · · Score: 1

    Half the posters don't even read their own reply.

  19. This is surprising? on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    The entire trick to religion has always been peace of mind. You don't have to think about the hard stuff. Of course the flip side of that is being a bad person.

    I'd rather have morals with depression personally.

  20. Look up code visualization. on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    The best way to understand is to turn the question around. Look at the methods people use to visualize code. There's no one method that's really good. You have to use several different ones.

    We might see some new tricks with VR though. Stuff like call graphs would work far better in full 3d.

  21. Re:In otherwards on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    Libertarians only care about freedom on public property. Once you're on their land it's their way or the highway.

  22. Re:Kinda Suprised...but I guess I shouldn't be... on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    Any language can do that. You're just impressed that javascript has come so far.

    The only reason to "get used to it" is that web browsers still aren't supporting other languages.

  23. Microsoft is mostly to blame. on The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Open and mature client technologies have always been a threat to MS's core business.

  24. Re:Dreaming of code? on The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer · · Score: 1

    That's only true for the miniscule amounts they'd actually consider. Companies exist to pay employees less than they're actually worth.

    Corruption at the top has made meaningful salaries impossible. So yes most people would rather enjoy their job. Start talking real extra money and they'll quickly change their tune.

  25. Inc CIA operatives on Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Baboom users can install a little plugin that replaces the ads you'd normally see on the internet with ones that we control through our ad network. Just as advertisers go to AdWords to buy ads from Google for certain search terms, they'll be able to come to us and buy these ads at half the price and still have ads shown against the same keywords.

    When the corporate masters hear about this it's going to get dicey.