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  1. Re:Or just do both on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Better yet, drive the screen separately from the other display and use it for Mouse and keyboard only.

  2. Re:Can I run it on my old phone? on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Please name the devices.
    There are many ROMS cyanygenmod is just one.

    If you bought a device with a locked bootloader you will have to blame the man you see in the mirror.

  3. Re:don't get the cart before the horse on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Same ones that sell Nexus?

    Or ones that just let you have a sim card and get out of your way?

  4. Re:Damn Microsoft on Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    In that case you can claim the iPhone is not a walled garden. 99% of the software people want to sideload is not compiled by them. Nor will I pay protection money to be able to run my own code.

    The OS still does not run skype properly because of design decisions, I call that suck.

    I think by ruined Nokia they mean it is going out of business and Elop is why.

  5. Re:Why? on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    I believe that was a different issue than the one spoken about in the stuck accelerator fiasco.

    Not a lot of people are using cruise control in town.

  6. Re:cores?` on Quad-Core Stick PC Runs Ubuntu · · Score: 3

    This is a PC on a stick, there is no display and the input is likely just a USB port. You provide display and input devices yourself, like pretty much all non-laptop computers.

  7. Re:Damn Microsoft on Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When you compare a brand new device vs a years old one it looks like shilling and MS loves to shill. The iPhones have never been near the high end of pixel density. They like to claim that, but it has just never been true. Even an old HTC Rezound beats the iPhone and that Nokia you are talking about.

    How exactly is 60hz amazing? I think that is pretty standard.

    I believe you like your device, I just think you are being a bit unfair comparing it to such old devices. I just don't see myself buying into anyone's Walled Garden much less the MS version.

  8. Re:Car copycats on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    So they copied the grills is what this looks like to me.
    Angle of the car, wheel arches, are still fairly different.
    Not sure I would call that a copycat, I was expecting it to be hard to tell the difference from a casual glance, but I guess it could trip someone up when in motion.

    Kinda sleazy, but Buick did that with a car as well. They made it look like BMW grill.

  9. Re:As an art student... on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    I agree, but I was looking at cars made this century really.

    Cars in my part of the world are pretty rusty by 10 years old and gone by 20 if they are daily drivers. The

  10. Re:Why? on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    I have had the old mechanical ones stick. Flooring it was how I got it unstuck. Since I had 3 pedals I could have always held down the clutch. Which should always mean no power gets to the wheels, of course a slushbox can be shifted into neutral as well, but no one seems to know that.

  11. Re:Damn Microsoft on Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bullshit. It might might have been a nice screen 6 months ago maybe. 1080p is now available.

    The camera might be nice, but we know you are shilling on the later points.

  12. Re:As an art student... on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    Ford Ka and Mazda2 share a platform, Mazda 3 is bigger. Sorry the GP confused me with his nonsense.

  13. Re:As an art student... on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 3, Funny

    That guy really should have made a sports car at some time. We can only dream.

  14. Re:As an art student... on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    BZZT wrong.
    They started collaborating in 1969 with the 914 which used a VW engine.

    By 2002 they were using the same SUV platform. It is used for the VW Toureg, the Audi Q7 and the Porsche Cayenne.

    Since 2005 Porsche owned almost 20 percent of VW. This brought to already close companies further together.

    The companies merged in 2009, but that has nothing to do with what the GP was talking about.

    The VW Caddy and the Kangoo do not look anything alike. The post 2008 models look even more extremely different in windshield angle and overall shape.

    Mondeo aka Fusion is built on the same platform as the Mazda 6.

    The Ka and the 3 are also derived from a similar collaboration.

  15. Re:Why? on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    Toyota accelerator fiasco? Was that not found to be oldsters who can't tell brake from gas?

    Bring back 3 pedals, that would sort this out.

  16. Re:As an art student... on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    I wish you were correct. They only really decent wind tunnel designs I ever see are on either hybrids or supercars which is another wind tunnel design for another purpose.

    Porsche is a VW brand, they share many platforms. Cadillac is the one ripping off BMW. They have been trying to fight the 3 and 5 series for years.

  17. Re:Car copycats on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    Name these cars. I have never seen one and seriously doubt they look that much like a BMW or Mercedes since neither of those look remotely similar.

  18. Re:End the Lockout on Buffalo Bills Going the Moneyball Route With Analytics · · Score: 1

    THIS!!!

  19. Re:Huh?? on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 2

    Most office scanners do that process themselves these days, I think. You scan the image and enter the address into the scanner/printer/fax and it sends it.

  20. Re:Median customer != geek on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 1

    I would recommend an SSD then.

    Steam now has big picture support and linux as well. Only about 41 games so far. I agree with what you said, seeing as I doubt it will play Serious Sam 3 either.

  21. Re:You sign the vendor's non-disclosure agreement on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    That is what I do for the most part.
    Even put an intel nic into my AM3+ build. But that is because I had a nice quad port server nic laying around at work and no use for it. Yes, I had them sell it to me. For $10.

  22. Re:What sales figures for Android controllers? on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 1

    This.

    The average consumer can't even deal with a receiver and a couple devices.

  23. Re:Median customer != geek on Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released · · Score: 1

    They can believe whatever they like. I see no need to convince anyone of something they can see for themselves.

    We shall see if the Ouya survives and I have an HTPC so I know they exist.

  24. Re:It's about components on the board on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You should really be getting intel NICs pretty much no matter what. Dell sells them as an additional cost for a reason. The reason being broadcom sucks.

  25. Re:Hardware to support software? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When vendors don't publish drivers or specs how is that supposed to happen?

    Hardware is dime a dozen these days. If I can't run the OS I want on it, I will not buy it.