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  1. Re: Here's the solution on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You should be able to install 1000 programs, uninstall them all, and your system should be identical to what it was before. Anything else is a failure.

    The very existence of the registry is wrong. Operating systems like Unix, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, etc. don't have a registry, and don't have any significant "OS Decay".

  2. Re:Transformative Platforms! on Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles · · Score: 1

    List of transformative, disruptive, game-changing, paradigm-shifting technologies that have changed education forever:

    9) Eight-Track Tape Recorders

    I hesitate to ask what sort of an education you got that involved eight track tapes..... did it also involve the back seat of a 1970 Camaro?

  3. Re:why? on Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why does the classroom of the future need to be VR?

    So that your teacher can be a smokin' hot babe? In every single class?

  4. Sharing channel == worse picture quality on L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So two stations that were previously using 6 MHz bandwidth each, will now share one channel, presumably using 3 MHz each.... and so each will have a 50% drop in picture quality. How is this a good thing for the consumer?

  5. Re:None? on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 2

    I don't want yet another device to carry around.

    Isn't the whole idea of a watch-like product the fact that you don't need to carry it? It's attached to your wrist, no need to carry it, or put it in a pocket.

  6. Even if Comcast doesn't have any malicious intent

    Of course they have malicious intent; they are inserting ads where previously there were none. Isn't that malicious enough for you?

  7. Re:Requires a very high speed camera on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 2, Insightful

    reconstruct from standard 30 fps video

    Dear sir: what you are asking is impossible.

    Sincerely yours,

    Harry Nyquist

  8. Re:I'd much rather have the option ... on New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids · · Score: 1

    Buy a limousine. Loads of room for the kids in the back, and this cool screen that can totally isolate the driver from the passengers.

    Just make sure the minibar is empty before heading off to school.

  9. Going Public on Barnes & Noble To Spin Off Nook Media, Will Take It Public · · Score: 1

    Isn't the aim of going public to get investors? Is there anyone on the planet who is going to invest in the failure that is Nook?

  10. Re:Damaged reputation? on Intel Wants To Computerize Your Car · · Score: 1

    Several reviews of Ford and Cadillac models I've read, particularly models with older versions of SYNC/QUE, have been overwhelmingly positive with the exception of the infotainment system.

    Every review of BMW models is overwhelmingly positive.... except for the *bleep* infotainment system.

    All car owners want entertainment along the journey. Some get their entertainment from music, maps, and the like. The others get their entertainment by hitting the cloverleaf at 90 MPH. Intel can help the first group; Intel can do nothing but frustrate the second group.

  11. Re:Scotland? on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 3, Funny

    They have cell phone shops too. She should buy herself a cell phone in Scotland.

    On her first day in a strange country, she's supposed to negotiate a complicated, expensive purchase in a foreign language?

  12. Re:Cinema-like on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 3, Funny

    makes your floor sticky from years of dumped soda.

    At least, you hope that's soda.....

  13. Re:Cinema-like on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Samsung and LG claim that the curve provides a cinema-like experience

    Then why are the screens in a real-life cinema flat?

    The answer, of course is that the camera (either film or digital) uses a flat sensor. Taking a picture with a flat sensor, and then displaying it on a curved screen, is just distorting the image. So the consumer thinks they're cool - but in reality they are watching an inferior picture.

  14. Re:What could go wrong with the Vomit Comet? on Swiss Space Systems Announces Plan To Offer World's Cheapest Zero-G Flights · · Score: 1

    I have seen bathrooms like that in Japan

    In Japan you wash yourself - soap down and rinse - *outside* the tub. You only get into the tub after you're clean. So yes, the entire room *is* a shower stall.

    That's why the toilet is in a completely different room from the tub.

  15. Re:"OpenSSL C dialect" on 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL · · Score: 1

    OpenSSL has basically wrote their own version of libc

    The language you use and the libraries you use are different concepts.

    C - especially in the (most excellent) Whitesmiths compilers done by completely separated the compiler itself from the libraries; the ones they supplied were completely and totally different from what is now called libc, but everything worked.

    This model has been (sadly) broken by things like c99 and c++.

  16. "OpenSSL C dialect" on 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL · · Score: 1

    What is this "C dialect" of which you speak? Last I checked, they are using standard compilers for the various platforms.

    Writing cross-platform code is tricky, and you need to avoid using some things that appear fine, but work differently on different platforms. That will make your code look a tad peculiar to the regular single-platform programmer; but I'd hardly call it a "dialect".

  17. Re:Lease? on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 1

    The lease on my summer car is at 0.003% (yes, really). So the numbers are fairly close to reality.

    Also, there is a tax advantage to leasing. You pay tax on each month's payment; for a purchase you pay tax on the entire value of the car. So, if you turn in the car at the end of the lease, you've saved paying sales tax on $25K.

  18. Re:Seriously? on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 1

    Yes, you *can* do that here in the USA. I've done precisely that with the last 5 phones I've bought.

  19. Re:Lease? on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 2

    I don't do car leases because at the end of the lease, I don't get to keep the car.

    At the end of a car lease, you can keep the car - if you want to. You just purchase it for it's agreed upon value. It's pretty much a win/win situation. You have a much lower payment over the length of the lease; and then you can buy and keep the car if you like it, or return it if you don't.

    In essence - say you are interested in a $50K car. For a purchase, you make payments on a $50K loan. For a lease, you make payments on a $25K loan, and at then end you either buy the car for $25K, or return it.

  20. Apple on Why Does Amazon Want To Sell Its Own Smartphone, Anyway · · Score: 2

    Didn't people ask the same thing when Apple, a computer company, started selling portable music players? And then again when they started selling phones?

  21. We hear you have a station in space, with air pressure, but zero gravity. Do you have a few minutes to settle an argument?

  22. Re:And on many bands.. on Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet · · Score: 1
  23. Re:And on many bands.. on Anonymous' Airchat Aim: Communication Without Need For Phone Or Internet · · Score: 1

    Encryption is explicitly excluded in the regs.

    Unless your name is Icom. Then it's okay.

  24. Hackers? on The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given the negative connotations of the word "hackers" - how about "dedicated engineers" instead?

  25. Re:Not sure how I feel about this one on Aereo To SCOTUS: Shut Us Down and You Shut Down Cloud Storage · · Score: 1

    This is how 'cablevision' used to work. They'd put up a big antenna that could pull down signals you couldn't

    There is a huge difference: Cablevision put up *one* antenna and used that signal for thousands of users. Hence, public performance.

    Aereo rents each individual user their own, private antenna. (Yes, if they have 10,000 subscribers, they have 10,000 antennas). Hence this is NOT a public performance; you are only watching what your own, private, rented equipment is receiving.