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  1. Re:YES! just not the ones they making. on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    100% agree, at this stage there's no way they beat the effort vs reward break point. i'll probably buy in before they get as good as what you've described but it will probably be 10 years before they get good enough to be interesting to me.

  2. Re:Depends on Microsoft on Will Google's Dart Language Replace Javascript? (Video) · · Score: 2

    i wish that were true, IE still has enough marketshare to make it a pain in the arse for anyone developing web apps for businesses, hell i was pretty pumped when we stopped supporting IE7 *this year*

  3. Re:It would need to be submitted to a standards bo on Will Google's Dart Language Replace Javascript? (Video) · · Score: 1

    the problem is that the standards body for ecmascript is so fucking slow and actually getting browsers to support the next version is even slower.
    this causes people to think that maybe they can create their own ecosystem and bypass all the bullshit, what really needs to happen is someone forces everyone to stop fucking around and do it one way, not that i have any hope or belief that this is even possible.

  4. Re:Simple answer is on Will Google's Dart Language Replace Javascript? (Video) · · Score: 1

    he was providing an example of something that didn't end up as "a pile of turds smothered in 3 year old rotten turdonnaise, on a turdseed bun". not that i can talk, i tried knockout.js and decided this style of programming wasn't for me in the short term so i haven't tried angular.

  5. Re:You want IE to be relevant? on Microsoft Releases Early IE12 Preview As Part of Its New Developer Channel · · Score: 1

    you misunderstand me i think, i don't care in the slightest if people upgrade windows as the only part of that that effects me is the browser version. I still have to support ie8 at work and while that's a massive step up from the old ie6 days it still pisses me off.

    my other point was that they're not doing themselves any favours by not allowing older windows versions install newer versions of ie as they're just pissing off users into switching away from ie since it's free to do so, not pissing them off into upgrading windows. eroding one very important market share for marginal at best gains in another if you will.

  6. You want IE to be relevant? on Microsoft Releases Early IE12 Preview As Part of Its New Developer Channel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    start by removing the OS restrictions, maybe you think limiting late versions of IE to windows 8 is a selling point for windows, but it just makes people download a browser that supports their operating system and makes web devs pissed off at having to support 3 different versions of IE, 2 of which suck donkey cock.

  7. what the hell is going on here? on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    australia has just committed to buying 12 billion bucks worth of em as well, they much have some fucking slick sales guys

  8. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    it's about a 30% cost of living increase to a 100% increase in minimum wage (depending on state ofc, but most of the US minimum wage bumps have been quite recent). the US already has a much higher youth unemployment so i'm not sure what you're going for there.

  9. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    no serious economist? at *worst* economists are 50/50 on the subject, so you can shove that BS right back where it came from.

  10. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 2

    is it? that's about australia's minimum wage and the sun seems to be still shining over here.

  11. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is what makes me angry about people bitching about minimum wage increases. there are *so* many countries with much higher minimum wages that you could quite easily look at to see the result of said changes.

    here's a hint, the worse off are much less so.

  12. Re:Behind the curve on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 2

    people who drop prices to compete with walmart are idiots, as if they could compete on price, better to compete on quality, service or image, which are all actually easily achievable in comparison to walmart.

  13. Re:Windows Phone and RT do not require C# on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    my guess is (yes it is a guess, as if anyone can do more) is that RT will die and some metro support will be required if you want to be a first class citizen on windows tablets, which people seem to like so it might be worth it if the market continues to grow.

  14. Re:i applaud the effort on YouTube Releases the Google Video Quality Report · · Score: 1

    i have youtube dl set up but it pushes the effort vs reward barrier pretty hard

  15. i applaud the effort on YouTube Releases the Google Video Quality Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but i find this less tool a lot less useful than if they'd just let videos buffer to the end

  16. Re:But, what is a singularity? on The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative · · Score: 1

    you can fuck a sexbot now, it's just expensive and (i'm assuming here) shit

  17. Re:Surface: the only Hope on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    i don't really know where you're getting that info from, most of the businesses i've had experience with are lining up windows 9 as their possible next desktop upgrade, admittedly one is a bank so they just flat out skipped from xp to 7

  18. Re:Throwing out all compatibility hooks makes it e on 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL · · Score: 3, Informative

    they're mostly throwing out really old multi-platform stuff, like dos, vms, ebcdic, win16 etc.

  19. Re:so on The Next Unreal Tournament: Totally Free, Developed By Public · · Score: 1

    the code availability has exactly zero to do with how it's licensed

  20. there are also a shitload more f2p games that did on PC Gaming Alive and Dominant · · Score: 1

    the fact that you're not aware of them kind of makes your point seem uneducated.

  21. Re:Burning Chrome on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    i'm pretty sure they understand their users, they just don't give a shit about pissing off power users.

  22. Re:I guess I'm geezering.. on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 2

    it's GPL, how's that not open source? the flash code? that's not open source anywhere.

  23. Re:Chrome on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    that's pretty cool, how can i force it to go to sites it doesn't think are urls (ie my local network is all computername.l) without having to type in http:/// and hope it works

  24. Re:Chrome on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    it shits me to tears, if i put a url in the search box i want to search for the URL not go to the URL. at least it's open source, i smell a real fork coming in the next 6 months.

  25. Re:Google Plus on Ask Slashdot: Local Sync Options For Android Mobile To PC? · · Score: 1

    while it's probably useless information to you at this point you can turn off auto-awesome here