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  1. Re:Can it run apps from the Google app store? on Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside · · Score: 1

    Not all ARMs are the same. Overall yes, but each version of the processor has it's own various extended instruction sets and such. So Google could compile it for every possible chip and instruction combination, or just farm that job out to the phones themselves to make the best decision locally.

  2. Re:Can it run apps from the Google app store? on Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside · · Score: 1

    But this article and the original comment are about the ZenFone 2, which is specifically running Lollipop. So it has the ART runtime, and JIT is not happening on it, and the OP was asking about things being compiled for this non-ARM architecture.

    Notwithstanding all that, I have a Dell Venue 7 that's also got an x86 chip in it, it gets very reasonable battery life, and performs perfectly fine. I don't think I've found a single app that hasn't worked with it, either, including many games and such. I've got a Zenfone 2 on order to replace my aging HTC One M7, I'm reasonably certain that it'll behave quite well.

  3. Re:Can it run apps from the Google app store? on Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside · · Score: 2

    Not with Lollipop. It uses the ART runtime as the default, and precompiles all apps for the local architecture.

    https://source.android.com/dev...

  4. Re:Typing on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. It took me 10 well-spent minutes to type this out without errors, hunting down each letter with a single finger, pressing it, and then validating that the computer actually did what I intended and put the letter into the little text box.

  5. Re:Nope... on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 1

    And yet newer cars with all their complexity are both more powerful and more efficient. The 1960's Mustangs had a base 3.3L engine that put out 120HP. The 2013 Corolla has a 1.8L engine that puts out 132HP. Or if you talk upgrades, the 4.7L big-ass engine put out 271HP. The current 5.0L Mustang engine can put out 435HP. And all of the new engines get better mileage.

  6. Re:More than a stretch on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 2

    True. But then again, my car will kill me if it malfunctions, whereas my phone or computer will merely inconvenience me in general.

    I'm a fan of tight regulations on devices that are one of the leading causes of death and injury in this country, if not the leading cause.

  7. Re:So, we're going to get Toyota clones? on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 1

    Your Arduino isn't keeping tabs on battery condition and charge, road conditions, climate control, entertainment system, etc. Even a non-electric vehicle has hundreds of thousands of lines of code with all the ECU's and such that communicate error conditions in various components.

  8. Re:Oh please on The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry · · Score: 1

    You can't do that already? I mean, it may take some knowledge and elbow grease, or paying someone else to do it, but it's very easy to replace most vehicle's infotainment systems, and even preserve the existing capabilities while extending them. $400 or so later and my 2005 Yukon now has a touch-screen with a backup camera, and it still uses the steering wheel controls that were stock with the car.

  9. Re:So like Japan? on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Smaller families, more invested in each child, less social interaction because of the child-abducting boogeymen (even though they are statistically insignificant and getting more so with each year). We've got a generation of kids that are growing up inside and not learning how to interact with people in non-sterile environments. When forced to deal with people that they can't just hit block on or ignore, they freeze up. Socialization is very much downplayed in our current culture, and it's apparently sorely needed by many.

    Don't take this as me saying they have to like everyone they meet. But you do have to learn some basic "get along with each other" skills that I'm finding many kids lack any more.

  10. Re:One word: Cloud on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 1

    The problem is the "could". We have a system that's set up to railroad people into the system with those "coulds". "You COULD get 7 years, or plead guilty and get off after 3 months, but it's an adult charge", but then you've got a jail and your strikes started. For what is generally just a stupid juvenile mistake.

    Prosecutorial discretion is not often used in a very discretionary manner.

  11. Re:One word: Cloud on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone was trying to get him out of punishment. I think the chorus here is calling to not treat him as an adult, as our system is wont to do. The "years in prison" line in the news blurb is what set all this off, and that is completely inappropriate given his age and his crime. It shouldn't even be an option to an overzealous prosecutor.

  12. Re:One word: Cloud on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 1

    Even if you didn't get through to him specifically, there are quite possibly other people more on the fence that don't use stupid acronyms like "SJW" as if it's somehow a pejorative, and they may be influenced by your comments to look deeper into it. We don't need everyone to admit that we've got a problem to start solving it, just enough people to achieve critical mass.

  13. Re:Didja ever have butter on a pop tart? on Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz · · Score: 1

    That's one of the reasons that I like T-Mobile. I can go over my data allotment, and all they do is throttle me.

  14. Re:Copper and alcohol on Thousand-Year-Old Eye Salve Kills MRSA · · Score: 1

    So you prefer PVC for your water pipes? That tends to grow nasty stuff in it, and not be great at dealing with temperature shifts. Or cast iron, which rusts? Steel?

    Copper is used in MANY systems, and almost universally in plumbing, the world over. US, UK, Mexico and Canada all use it as their primary potable water piping solution, and even the EU uses it commonly: https://books.google.com/books... water pipe european union&f=false

  15. Re:Easy as 1-2-3 on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 1

    Really? I had to get a new battery for it, but my 2010 HP Envy 15 Macbook competitor is still running fine, and has a faster GPU than they ever had. And I've even been able to upgrade the RAM and replace the hard drive in it, hauled it with me on an airplane twice a week for over a year, and generally used the hell out of it.

  16. Re:Journalists being stonewalled by Apple? on Developers and the Fear of Apple · · Score: 1

    Pipes have gotten bigger. It's harder to unintentionally DDoS a site any more, unless it's running out of someone's basement. And even then, I've got like 5Mbps upload on DSL... that's enough for a decent load. The market and commodity hardware wasn't that way when I first joined and sites got slashdotted semi-regularly.

  17. Re:A truly smart person ... on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes. Confidence combined with deference and recognition of that which you don't know is a different sort of confidence than brazen overconfidence like this "Scorpion" guy. If you can admit what you don't know easily, I'm more likely to believe you when you say you actually do know something. But it takes confidence to know the difference.

  18. Re:!(Prisoner's Dilemma) on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    There's a 5th Amendment in France? Who knew.

  19. Re:Regardless - the science is fascinating on New Theory About the Source of Pioneer Space Probe Deceleration · · Score: 4, Informative

    It'll last longer than 88 years. The half life is 88 years... that means it's only halfway done after 88 years. All it's going to do is lose efficiency over the next thousand years or so.

  20. Re: Cheap on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 2

    He's actually correct. The problem is that we don't have meaningful competition in many sectors of our economy, we have industries tied up in regulatory capture (patents, copyrights, etc. overreaching, no-bid contracts, regulatory rules that benefit incumbents, etc.).

    The other issue is that "true" capitalism requires complete, perfect information and zero transport costs for the consumer. I can choose from any supplier with no cost of switching, and I know the full differences between all of them. Given that that is impossible, it's impossible to have proper invisible hand capitalism here in the real world.

    What we need to strive for is making sure the regulations are in place to protect the consumer against information "warfare" from the producers while simultaneously preventing corporations from abusing those regulations for their own benefit. Given the money that flows through government and corporations right now, I'm not holding out high hopes of that changing meaningfully any time soon...

  21. Re:I am having a vision of the future... on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is that CFL's do color banding, whereas incandescent is full spectrum. So even if the color profile is tuned to a reasonable value, it's still lacking output in fairly large color bands. Which, incidentally, is probably why your wife doesn't like it... women are more likely to have better color sensitivity than the average male, especially in the red/green bands

  22. Re:I am having a vision of the future... on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    You should try some different bulbs... I live in the Denver area, and I have a CFL on my porchlight that lights up instantly every time, no matter how cold it is. Different brands can make a lot more difference than they should.

  23. Re:I just can't live without a ZIF socket. on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    Did you have a choice of which CPU to match with which motherboard? Would you miss that choice if it were taken away from you?

  24. Re:Congratulations on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 1

    I'm reasonably certain that "liberal" and telling people what to do are a bit at loggerheads...

  25. Re:That's one way to interpret it on U.S. Students Struggle With Reasoning Skills · · Score: 2

    So... if I go get some food and my expectation is that I get the right thing, and they give me the wrong thing, it's entirely possible that my expectations are just off, and I'm expecting too much?

    They showed that the kids were all very good at getting answers when given a structured set of data and tests, but not when asked to design an experiment. That means that design skills are lacking relative to analysis skills. There's no running study needed.