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  1. Re:Very cool. on Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested · · Score: 1

    Not quite 15", but the HP stream is a $230 14" laptop with a 32 GB ssd. Windows, office, and the various bundled apps take up about 15 gigs of that. I have the 12" version and speed is fine, you just can't use it for games, and if you want to keep a large collection of music or pictures (or whatever) you need an external drive or SD card.

  2. What the fuck? on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 1

    What would these fired workers possibly say, that these theoretical severance packages don't allow?' "I had a job, and then I lost it," or something to that effect? Big deal, that wouldn't make it to the front page of the Times or even Slashdot. And isn't there some kind of communication tool out there, which allows people to anonymously relate something that happened to them, and then have it widely distributed by computer?

    Sure, losing a job to an H1B worker is no fun. This post is imagining something sinister is being hidden in severance packages, but leaves the sinister happening so vague as to meaningless. Either say what it is or shut up.

  3. Re:A felon with misdemeanor convictions on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: -1

    Being a felon means he committed a serious crime. It's kind of like saying "I killed a guy and got a couple of parking tickets."

  4. A felon with misdemeanor convictions on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 2

    I'm a little confused by the phrasing. Being a felon is a roadblock to a career. Having misdemeanor convictions probably isn't. If you're a felon, why even bother mentioning that you've had misdemeanor convictions?

  5. Re:Surely, that's no pun on Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns · · Score: 2

    Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den is from the early 1910s, meaning it pre-dates pinyin by 50 years. It does look especially stupid in pinyin, but the joke works just as well for theoretical Chinese people who aren't aware of roman characters at all - making puns of words with different tones is very, very common.

    I'd need to see a little more background than this article gives, because (as the article does state), puns are just a basic part of Chinese culture. This is probably just an over-interpretation of some vague proclamation given by some no-name politician, aimed at stopping Internet users from posting pictures of crabs wearing wristwatches.

  6. Re:Not unexpected. on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: 1

    Of course it's anecdotal. It was posted in response to a +5 past where some guy asked about people's experiences. Was I expected to break out a pie chart? Now I see that my honest, on-topic responses have been nodded as troll. Maybe nobody hears about Mac users with problems because of willful ignorance?

    The articles you link to are hardly scientific. People who install boot camps are a different subset of users than people running a cheap PC. They're going to be more knowledgeable about computers than the average pc or Mac user, for one.

  7. Re:Not unexpected. on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ultimately, I value my time enough that I will generally not purchase things I think will break and require fixing or taking to a repair shop. I'll spend extra on a dependable product. Apple computers have shown to not be dependable, despite being more expensive, and despite not having an OS that revolutionizes how effective you are with your computer or whatever Mac OS is supposed to do for you.

    Even a warranty isn't a real solution, because obviously there's time required to deal with Mac and find out what the issue is, and then get the computer replaced. They don't send a technician to your house while you're away at work. Personally, a friend of mine had a Macbook refuse to respond after a standard OS upgrade. Eventually, after speaking to customer service and driving to the genius bar a couple times, he was given a new computer. My friend charges by the hour (not a hooker lol), and with the amount of time he put into it he could have charged several hundred dollars. At the prices involved, it makes more economic sense just to buy a mid-priced non-Apple laptop and throw it away every time anything goes wrong.

  8. Re:Not unexpected. on Apple DRM Lawsuit Might Be Dismissed: Plaintiffs Didn't Own Affected iPods · · Score: -1, Troll

    Personally I own a Mac where the DVD superdrive drive broke right away. My wife's Macbook has a dying battery (after just a year or two), an audio-out that insists on outputting to S/PDIF (which has never actually been used), and had a hard drive that died. After I replaced the hard drive with one that worked, I found out that Mac disables TRIM support in non-Apple SSD drives and performance will steadily decline.

    Is that what I pay the extra money to Apple for? Shouldn't I be getting better hardware, not worse? I use Linux and Windows as well, and honestly the only hardware problem I've ever had has been laptop batteries slowly degrading. And who gives a fuck about the OS. On any of them, I just load the program and it works. Windows has more games, but the difference between Mac and Linux for me is the color of the icons.

  9. Re:I know, let's ask an actual female programmer.. on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    But is that really an answer to "How do I get my 4 year old girl to be a programmer?" It was one woman's quick take on feminism, and not a central idea to her rambles.

  10. Re:I know, let's ask an actual female programmer.. on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Well, that was certainly a collection of one woman's anecdotes, with no central idea, research, or sense of perspective.

  11. Re:Sure, why not? on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 2

    Holy shit! It was all a lie! Thank you, Internet atheist who posts to a technology website!

  12. Re:God no... on Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1

    Lance Armstrong used almost the exact same argument.

  13. Re:Why, oh, why on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1

    Because they talk with their friends on Facebook, and totally impersonal conversation would be a little weird?

  14. Same problem on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 2

    I had the same problem, I clicked the wrong button and Facebook loaded up all these photos of my ex-girlfriends! Hopefully if I show this article to my wife she will take me back.

  15. Re:Calories in/out, but nobody measures OUT on Doubling Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Increase It In Blood · · Score: 1

    Your body is extremely efficient at digesting calories. Do you look down at your shit and see undigested pieces of hot dog? If not, congratulations, your body has digested the food you ate (and supposedly competitive eaters get that after 9000 calories or so). Micronutrients are different than macronutrients. Iron, like you mention, or many vitamins are only fat soluble. However, they have basically no calories to them and should not have been brought up.

    If there's any efficiency, it's in using calories to digest calories. Your body has to supply your stomach with calories, after all!

  16. Re:In an unrelated news item... on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 1

    I'm a little confused how your answer is a response to "Europe disappeared from the worldwide web." What you're replying to is a joke that google would get rid of all Europe links in retaliation, not a nationalistic claim that Google should abandon all business in EU nations. It's like you're deeply offended by something nobody is actually saying.

  17. Re:Mods anyone? on Three-Way Comparison Shows PCs Slaying Consoles In Dragon Age Inquisition · · Score: 1

    There was some game where a girl went to an abandoned house and it turns out her sister was a lesbian. It was like reading a young adult novel.
    Kastle Krashers was OK for 10 minutes but the gameplay didn't have much depth.
    Papers Please was an interesting gimmick where the gameplay got old fast.
    Ilomilo (actually, on the XBox store) is a fun puzzle game, but something I just pick up every once in a while.
    And probably a few others I can't think of right now.

    Just in general, what I've seen hasn't convinced me there's a whole new world of great games I'm missing out on. Also, it seems like a lot of them can be played on even a really old non-gaming PC.

    No interest in mods, really.

  18. Re:Consoles should just go away on Three-Way Comparison Shows PCs Slaying Consoles In Dragon Age Inquisition · · Score: 2

    Gaming PCs already exist. Everybody knows about them. A lot of people choose not to buy them. What's to be gained by taking away options from consumers?

    Personally I enjoy my XBox very much, and have about zero interest in getting a gaming PC. If I was into MMORPGs or was a hard-core FPS player that would probably be different.

  19. "Swedish Video Game." on Sweden Considers Adding "Sexism" Ratings To Video Games · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well it's about time...the vast cultural influence of Swedish video games here in the United States has just been too much. My brother got hooked on "Lutefisk Avenger," like he just can't stop playing it. I thought it was a bad sign when he re-designed his kitchen to look more like an IKEA showroom. Then he put mayonnaise in a toothpaste tube! If he starts becoming a computer hacker who fights Nazis I am going to have to take away his Super Nintendo.

  20. Re:makes no sense on Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History · · Score: 1

    Because if they ever starred in some kind of sordid sex act, and the act ever found its way onto the internet, the court knows it's probably in your internet history.

  21. Re:makes no sense on Australian Courts Will Be Able To See Your Browsing History · · Score: 2

    Because if the defendant ever starred in some kind of sordid sex act and it ever found its way to the internet, they know it's probably in your internet history.

  22. THings I've learned from Slashdot on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    But she was making the hobby of video games look bad, she deserved it!

    That may sound insane but it's what I've learned from reading Slashdot.

  23. Good news. on Nearly 700 Genetic Factors Found To Influence Human Adult Height · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hopefully in the future mankind can weed "manlets" from the gene pool. Even women are often six feet tall nowadays, if you're a man under six feet tall you're pathetic.

  24. Re:How can you on Apple Sapphire Glass Supplier GT Advanced Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2

    They realized they wouldn't be able to deliver on the contract?

    It's not like free money.

  25. Re:It amazes me on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    Because who the heck needs a 3D scanner? Only a small percentage of people have a 3D printer and only a small percentage of those people would want a hacked 3D scanner.