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  1. Re:Shame Google dumped Motorola on Why Cheap Smartphones Are Going To Upset the Industry · · Score: 1

    I got sick of random breakage from hardware/carrier cruft and bought a moto g. (play edition, on t-mobile)

    For the first time ever my phone actually works. (even maps, and voice, and usb device mode, and my favorite stupid game) Plus it's super smooth.

    I might try to return and downgrade to the moto e, depending on how I feel about the motorola additions.

  2. Still? on Crowd Funding For Crank Physics · · Score: 1

    This guy almost got me to tie up $1 on kickstarter, but plenty of other people covered the comments.

  3. Support is the wrong word on Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? · · Score: 1
    The moment you say "support" in an IT department, there's all this baggage of helpdesk time, and documentation, and bending over backwards.

    I believe the question you wanted to ask was more along the lines of compatibility or openness. Leave that nasty S-word out of it, and you'd likely have gotten much less laughter.

  4. Nice ideas. on Improving Productivity (With Science) · · Score: 1

    I would hazard a guess this article was written without the consultation of someone with facility management experience. Medium socket bulbs aren't often used for primary lighting in a work environment. HVAC has many ramifications and complications besides possible productivity effects. Nice views and indoor green spaces have all sorts of costs and considerations that may or may not work out.

  5. Re:More allergenic? on Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects · · Score: 1

    Lactic acid is in your muscles right now. Acetic acid is vinegar minus some nutrients. Peroxyacetic acid breaks down into acetic acid and hydrogen peroxide.

    Doesn't sound like dangerous chemicals to me. Heck, rinsing with plain old vinegar would be at least twice as acidic. (plus whatever else is in vinegar besides acetic acid.)

    I'm with grandparent wondering about what these terrible chemicals are. If the issue is that chemicals have to be used at all, industrialized food production isn't going to disappear, and does have things to recommend it. (in the way of safety and scalability, which is important as populations will continue to rise in the foreseeable future)

    I would much rather have meat I'll eat sprayed with some vinegar to kill off bacteria than go through a night of dehydration and vomiting with an IV in my arm at the hospital. (never order chicken strips first thing in the morning at a fast food restaurant.)

  6. facebook? on Will Facebook Become the Net's SSO? · · Score: 1

    I thought that's what Google was already going for. They practically own search, and my email, most of my video consumption, and my cloudified docs. If someone ever releases a google tablet, I'll probably wind up worse than those rabid Apple fans.

  7. Re:nonsense on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup. Being active might make you healthier, but I wish everyone would stop equating exercise with weight loss. I wouldn't focus entirely on corn, (though it's a big stupid problem here in the US,) regardless of content people simply eat too much for the kind of lifestyle we live. (lumberjacks have an excuse. I don't.)

  8. Re:Why do we want this? on The Mouse Vanishes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tapping on a desk with with a fingernail seems tactile enough to me. I just wonder if it can detect motion finely enough to let me "click" without having to "stage-mouse".

  9. Re:puzzle? on "Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Many of the "pixels" are a solid shade, but quite a few of them are various (still monochrome) gradients at variety of angles. By rotating the gradients and putting them next to certain shades or other gradient tiles, all sorts of interesting (if blurry) features can be (re)created.

  10. Re:Where is the CLI version? on Google Wave Backstage · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know it is all supposed to be open source and everything but there is no Client-server protocol because it is assumed to be a web application so for a long time all we will have is Google's bloated JavaShit-filled and presumably ad-laden perpetual beta web interface.

    uh... http://www.waveprotocol.org/

  11. Re:This will lead to bad verdicts ... on Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is basically my fear. I have no issue with someone pulling out a phone to text while stopped at an intersection. The only way to be safe from these harsh penalties is to leave a window of at least 30 minutes before/after texting. I doubt a court is going to ask for a narrow time slice when checking phone records to prove your guilt.

    And what about delayed-send messages? What if your reception at [place] is horrible, and you sent a text before getting in the car?

  12. Re:What is it? on Google Wave Preview Opens Up On Sept 30th · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll try to give a real answer:

    The goal was to replace email. The result is a cross between email, threaded discussion, wiki, and instant messaging. (no, really. Live concurrent collaborative editing, along with a rewind feature so you can review the chronology in a more logical fashion) One can make gadgets that show up in a wave and allow you to interact in ways besides just typing, and there are also bots that interact with waves much like a normal user. Instead of adding some spell check the way you might normally think of it, they have a spell check bot that uses the wave collaborative editing features to highlight and potentially change your spelling. (which means someone else in the conversation could finish up doing the editing the spell check highlighted in a sentence earlier in your paragraph)

    It works somewhat like email, as in once things settle down whoever can run their own wave server. And it could be integrated with, say, a blog where the comment section of a post would be a wave. (and have all that functionality, and stuff)

  13. Re:And nothing for the 360 on Team Fortress 2 SDK Update Includes Source Files For 10 Maps · · Score: 1

    Also, they had already pretty much filled up the 512MB of ram, and were having issues working on some way to squeeze in more content in the form of all the new weapons. I'd link the blog post, but I'm still in my pajamas.

  14. don't forget spelunky on A History of Rogue · · Score: 1

    It's the 2d platformer of roguelikes. Here's a video of gameplay. Just google the rest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJPIFKSkuT8

  15. As long as... on New Type of 3D Game Controller Harnesses MEMS Gyro · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...a tap against a thigh hits farther than an enthusiastic swing, motion will continue to be overrated.

  16. Re:Wii got it right on Microsoft Knew About Xbox 360 Damaging Discs · · Score: 1

    A black matte CD label sounds like something that would leave ink/toner/whatever on your rollers, not necessarily clean them.

  17. Re:civilisation on Examining the Beginnings of the RTS Genre · · Score: 1

    If the game has finally settled on a combat system, (it's been overhauled twice,) and if you can ignore some of the community or play with friends, Savage 2 is a very fun game.

  18. Re:Yep, This Is Nothing More Than A Hardware Patch on Nintendo Unveils Wii MotionPlus · · Score: 1

    Check the settings in Twilight Princess. Compare them to the system's settings. Notice how incomplete said "sensitivity settings" are. (mod up GP)

  19. Re:Two Questions: on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1
    ftfa

    "The researchers hope to power the whole system using a combination of radio-frequency power and solar cells placed on the lens"

  20. Or people could just.. on It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up · · Score: 1

    ...host their own site, and link to their friend's sites. Social networking sites are just a no-effort way to have interactive cross-linked web sites. Things like xml feeds and "link this" buttons are already making things fairly open. So does this all tie into persistant online identities? (instead of logging into a social site) Except when it's an open standard, anyone can host their own identity server, so then who do you trust to post to your social pages? Certain identity providers? Isn't that the same problem we had in the first place?

  21. just like a sci-fi story on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Proof of citizenship? on Washington State To Try RFID Drivers Licenses · · Score: 1

    Please try reading about this proposed alternative license again. Thank you.

  23. Re:An idea for Nintendo... on New PS3, Wii, 360 Downloadables Announced · · Score: 1

    Too bad the VC games are tied to your specific console. If it were to give up, you would have permanently lost your collection.

  24. as long as I can on Interplay Developing $75 Million Fallout MMOG · · Score: 1

    as long as I can make a character that's all ST and no IN and have my in-game text mangled to at least 1st-grade level, I'll be happy.

  25. of course on 'Killer' Network Card Actually Reduces Latency · · Score: 1

    If you're comparing it to an onboard that shares main cpu it can't help but be better.