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  1. Nokia 770 on Nokia Had a Production-Ready Web Tablet 13 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Here's the tablet they ended up releasing. Let us know which parts Steve Jobs stole.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Liberal arts professors' worst nightmare on College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    How did you arrive at the conclusion that there's a strong correlation between SAT scores and graduation rates? I mean, we're even commenting in an article about the correlation being so low that they're changing the test...

  3. Re:You have to admit on The Tech Industry Is Getting Ridiculous · · Score: 1

    Your personal tests disagree with everyone else's experience, as well as the change log for their code. The bug was introduced a few months ago. https://gotofail.com/

  4. Re:LLVM was offered for GCC-Next on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 4, Informative

    Holy moly, I thought you were joking about that:
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004...
    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007...

    Are we really supposed to be rooting for the people who will only share if they get something in return, and will intentionally make things difficult to try to get their way? That's hardly the noble cause they make it out to be. And then when LLVM tries to be as easy to use as possible and doesn't ask for anything in return, they belittle it.

  5. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    No, juries are sequestered so they can't be swayed by popular opinion.

  6. Re:Well that explains why the killed google Reader on Google Chrome 28 Is Out: Rich Notifications For Apps, Extensions · · Score: 1

    Notifications is a new API being added to the HTML5 spec, since every operating system seems to use a global notification system now.

  7. Re:Open Source... on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everyone assumes someone is already out there testing all open-source software, which is why it never seems to get done.

    Also, deliberate bugs and backdoors simply wouldn't be checked back in.

  8. Re:Would a yard-sign help? on Bug Sends Lost-Phone Seekers To Same Wrong Address · · Score: 1

    In that case, people who really don't have the phone can put up another sign explaining that the first sign isn't there to trick them, because they really seriously don't have their phone. Problem solved.

  9. Re:Diversity is good on Should Microsoft Switch To WebKit? · · Score: 1

    More different browser engines is a good thing.

    How so?

    Monoculture has bad consequences.

    Such as?

    Seriously, do people tell themselves that Chrome and Safari aren't competing with each other or something? Are we just supposed to ignore the fact that innovation and competition have been fierce and that web development has never been easier, out of irrational fears of "monocultures"?

  10. Automator and AppleScript on Better Tools For Programming Literacy · · Score: 1

    No setup and handles everyday tasks? Sounds like Automator and AppleScript.

  11. Re:What is the relation... on Change the ThinkPad and It Will Die · · Score: 1

    There is no relation here in the real world, but there has always been a sizable group of people who imagine form is the exact opposite of function. Fortunately, until that changes there's no harm in letting them have their own choice in hardware.

  12. Re:Platform == racketeering on Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean like Windows 8? You can't release Metro apps outside of the Windows Store.

  13. Re:Not really on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more along the lines of repairing houses or helping keep kids away from gangs (why do people always think soup?), but there is this one guy who finished contributing to the gene pool, worked in community service, and will be remembered because he leveraged that experience to become President.

    Sounds like that road has better odds and less work, and you don't even have to die!

  14. Re:one condition on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    That's why you open 100 tabs and read one while the other 99 are in various states of reaching Earth. Pipelining, baby.

  15. Re:Not really on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    There's more to life than having kids, wasting resources, and traveling to Mars. Maybe they could try community service or something.

  16. Re:Short answer: on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not about clicking the ads, it's about the impressions. Oftentimes the ads are about increasing awareness of a brand's existence.

  17. Re:Bye bye Nintendo on Just In Time for the Holidays, Nintendo Wii U Gets Its US Release · · Score: 1

    Reality is, there are many great titles for the Wii, just none worth mentioning for COD fans.

    Which is ironic since the Wii has quite a few Call of Duty games.

  18. Re:Death with Dignity. on Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies · · Score: 1

    Terminally-ill patients who wish to die are a drain on society. You're conflating two separate issues.

  19. Re:Skeuomorphic design is useless and stupid on Shake-up at Apple: Forstall Out; iOS Executive Fired For Maps Debacle? · · Score: 1

    ok, anti skeuomophic people, answer me a few simple questions.

    what do you propose to use to replace the following (when text is not an option)

    the 'save icon'

    How can you have such a strong opinion on something you clearly know nothing about? Apple's products have never featured save icons, and that isn't what we mean by skeuomorphic...

  20. Re:Community Relations on Researchers Beat Google's Bouncer · · Score: 2

    He was kicked out for knowingly creating and releasing malware that downloaded malicious code to take control of the user's device, not because he discovered a flaw in iOS. Just sayin'.

  21. Re:I guess you don't understand languages either on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 2

    I wish C would get namespaces, so I don't have to write FileClass_ prefix so it won't collide with the C standard libraries.

    #define CLASS_MEMBER(return_type, p...) CLASS_MEMBER2(CLASS_NAME, return_type, p)
    #define CLASS_MEMBER2(class_name, return_type, p...) CLASS_MEMBER3(class_name, return_type, p)
    #define CLASS_MEMBER3(class_name, return_type, member_name, params...) return_type class_name##_##member_name(class_name *this, ##params)

    #undef CLASS_NAME
    #define CLASS_NAME FileClass

    CLASS_NAME(int, open, char* fileName);
    CLASS_NAME(int, close);
    CLASS_NAME(int, read, void* in, size_t size, size_t* actualSize);
    CLASS_NAME(int, write, void* out, size_t size, size_t* actualSize);

    I'll leave it to you to figure out how to use this pattern to #define namespaces. Also, there's a *lot* more you can do with the preprocessor if you really push it.

    Note: ', ##' might be a GCC-only extension.

  22. Re:And... on Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs · · Score: 1

    The people you listed acted like narcissists, not sociopaths. There's a huge difference between the two.

  23. Re:Awesome! on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like you despise the fact that the app doesn't have undo/redo support or auto-versioning.

  24. Utter nonsense on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 1

    You can pick who is on your football team, but you can't pick who is in your society. And cooperation stems from empathy, not handedness.

  25. Re:Summary is very misleading on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    Standardized tests aren't designed to fail students, they're designed to figure out who is naturally-gifted. If the tests were designed so that the average person could ace them, how would we know who was above-average?

    We need both smart hard-working people and incredibly-gifted loose cannons for the betterment of society. That's why colleges will accept straight-C students who ace the standardized tests and straight-A students who perform poorly on them. The system works.