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  1. Not quite on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 1

    Alto was the inspiration for Mac. Mac was the inspiration for Windows.

  2. Re: Legality on AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads · · Score: 1

    By hardware I meant the SIM itself.

  3. Legality on AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is this even legal? It's not their SIM, it's yours. Surely they can't legally lock you out of your own hardware.

  4. Public access on Boeing To Take Space Tourists On Its CST-100 Spacecraft To the ISS · · Score: 2

    Don't Americans pay for NASA? Maybe the seats should be given out in a lottery rather than to oligarchs.

  5. iPhone 5S is already 8th fastest on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 1

    (source note 1-7 and the next 22 are all double the clock speed and quad core)

    so indeed, few will care about whatever speed increase the 6 brings.

  6. Re:Top of what? on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 2

    Actually, the next 22 slower phones are all double the clock speed and quad core as well!

  7. Re:Top of what? on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 1

    That's not what I see. Hit All for Basemark OS II and the iPhone 5S is number 7.

    But you're right, one through six are all double the clock speed and quad core.

  8. Re:power consumption? on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 1

    That's what's happening today -- latest apps don't work on iphone two generations behind.

    iOS apps will run on any device supported by the OS they run on. For iOS 7 and 8 that's three generations.

  9. Re: Don't do evil on Google Fit To Curate Steps, Calories, Heart Rate, Other Biometric Data · · Score: 1

    What's the adoption rate on that?

  10. Re:Security considerations and other-than-Linux? on Docker 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The quality of comments on are are further proof of how far downhill /. has fallen. It's just depressing.

    Seriously.

    "zomg it sounds kinda sorta like something I've heard of before, it must suck! Thousands of devs who actually know something about it, including Google, are all wrong!!!!!1!!one"

  11. Docker description on Docker 1.0 Released · · Score: 2
    From the Docker site:

    Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.

    I think of it as something like a version controlled Make or Grunt script with the output being a jail. Setting up your cloud stack as a series of Docker containers makes it much easier to create, upgrade, scale and relocate your services such as web servers, databases, caches, app servers etc.

  12. He was joking. on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Apparently no one here actually watched the keynote. He was clearly joking about people buying Androids by mistake.

  13. Re: Facebook already destroyed it on Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets · · Score: 1

    If that's true then they're actually doing it right.

  14. Re:It.. can't be true! on Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets · · Score: 1

    I think that's the problem we're seeing in this thread - there are people who see the value in creating a new market by integrating and iterating on existing technologies, and those who don't. Some see the iPod, iPhone, iPad, OR etc. as game changers and others merely as inevitable integrations.

    Rather than labels I prefer to focus on the outcome. The iPhone DID drastically change the industry, for example, and even though bits of VR tech have been around for decades, I'm pretty sure OR will do the same.

  15. Re:Copiers on Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets · · Score: 1

    It's just a joke, lighten up :)

  16. In the original-ish article here they go into a bit more detail but the "conventional scheme" they're comparing against appears to be just straight mapping. It would be interesting to see how this stacks up against some of the more advanced schemes employed in today's SSDs.

  17. Copiers on Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets · · Score: 0

    South Korea, start your photocopiers!

  18. Re:Timothy McVeigh on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    I assure you I am the furthest thing from religious.

    In suicide they usually have the perception that life is an insurmountable obstacle, that ending it is much easier than carrying on. Whatever the cause of that perception (mental illness, deep depression etc) it's not a matter of having balls.

  19. Re:Timothy McVeigh on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1
    There is no worship involved.

    From Wikipedia:

    A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) refers to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice

    Sounds about right. Again I'm leaving aside the suicide part so even if you look at his inevitably being busted as self-sacrifice (and certainly adversity) the shoe fits pretty well.

    I'm not condoning what he did you but you have to admire his conviction.

  20. Re:Timothy McVeigh on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    He shot himself in the head. That doesn't hurt.

  21. Re:Intelligence eclipsed by hate on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    And neither does this guy. hmmm maybe there's some kind of connection there?

  22. Re:Timothy McVeigh on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 2

    I would have considered him a hero if he hadn't offed himself, which is certainly a cowardly act. That aside, the rampage itself was as American as you get.

  23. Re:Cost of a reload on WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer · · Score: 1

    That's true. Ideally the sites themselves should take care of that if they're apps that are likely to be long running or offline, but presumably the ones you're using don't do that, pity. It's certainly annoying that /. doesn't!

  24. Re:Just a decade ago. on WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer · · Score: 1

    As before, people will still write screeds on how it's really as fast as C++ this time, honest.

    And just as many, if not more, will go on and on about exactly why it's not and how in some specialized use case where it would never be used it might actually matter.

  25. Re:Speed space trade-off on WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer · · Score: 1

    Just set FF to "Show my windows and tabs from last time" on startup then you don't need to worry about losing your place when you close.