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  1. Re:welcome to the future on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 1

    Motorola just demo'd a new phone at CES that docks to become the brains of a laptop.

    http://www.technewsdaily.com/ces-2011-motorola-dock-turns-your-android-phone-into-a-laptop-1944/

    So I guess we can talk in a couple of months?

  2. dear slashdot, don't post professional trolls on Dating Site Creates Profiles From Public Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about we not give these clowns free publicity for spouting nonsense ?

    This isn't any different than the ryan airlines CEO make press releases about only needing one pilot.

  3. outdoors on IBM Projects Holographic Phones, Air-Driven Batteries · · Score: 1

    Are holograms visible outside? Because I'd really appreciate a cell phone that was usable in the sun.

  4. its dead on MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    myspace == new geocities.

    I stopped using it because I was sick of all the garish pages people would put together and the automated music playing.

  5. Re:Meat cows? on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    So make them into hamburger.

  6. privacy on Mariposa Botnet Authors Unlikely To See Jail Time · · Score: 1

    There aren't privacy laws that they can nail them with?

  7. Motorola is taking it to china? on Motorola Takes Android To China, With Or Without Google · · Score: 1

    And here I thought it would get there by being open source.

  8. Re:Programmable Graphing Calculator on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 1

    For the ti89/92+/v200 series calculators you can write C programs on a PC and compile with GCC.

  9. Re:This is exactly why I have an iPhone on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Has Mr Jobs managed to stare down ATT into improving their network ?

  10. Re:Spin on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to be a bit of a fanboy, but I got a Moment because it has an OLED screen. I was sick of my previous phone being unusable in sunlight. The slide out keyboard with primary number keys is also nice.

  11. Re:Can any good come of this? on Microsoft, Yahoo Finalize Search Agreement · · Score: 1

    Yahoo doesn't have to put R&D into search development: there is a nice 800 pound gorilla that is going to do it anyway because that is the temperament of Microsoft.

    Microsoft gets some revenue it wasn't going to get because it has such a small market share.

  12. Re:Err.. no. on Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic · · Score: 1

    generally speaking a private company has no obligation to enable your freedom of speech.

    I'll agree with that statement in general, but this situation is a company going out of their way to disable your freedom of speech.

    Also I wonder if this is "materially adverse" enough for someone to get out of a contract without early termination fees.

    p.s. I detest bananas.

  13. Re:Treason on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 1

    this is a slightly bad example because # of objects is dependant on ram size. A better example would be being able to track 100 objects with a constant 50ms update rate. If tracking them takes longer than 50ms then you've failed.

  14. Re:Treason on Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Fake Chips To US Navy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    huh?

    I do embedded real time programming and guess what? lower performance = fail. e.g. if a system is spec'd to be able to track/extrapolate position of 100 moving objects and it only tracks 80 because someone slapped in a lower performing cpu then you are failing to track 20.

  15. Re:Stupid technology on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and hurt the eyeline of the cities they are installed in

    I hope I'm not the only one who thinks giant windmill farms are visually interesting and slightly artistic

  16. Re:Nonsense. on EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    you can already go to TI's site
    download an OS image that TI has digitally signed
    take an emulator.
    and execute that os image and have a working TI calculator on your P.C.

    The fact that it is "signed" cannot prevent this. To prevent this the _entire_ image has to encrypted. This is why the EFF is able to claim that it is not a copyright protection mechanism.

  17. Re:19,856,160 records at 3 seconds per record on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1

    The article isn't clear, but I would assume that there are multiple terminals he could have installed this script on.

  18. Re:$10k? That's nothing. on Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yep, I suspect insulting the moderation system here is one of the easier ways to get modded up. In retrospect I should have requested that people not mod it up.

  19. Re:$10k? That's nothing. on Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I stopped taking the moderation here seriously a long time ago. Its not worth the brain cells.

  20. huh? on Oracle Fined For Benchmark Claims · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm an embedded engineer so could someone tell me: is two digit performance better or worse than 6 million per minute ?

  21. Re:No power transfer.. on Apple Behind Intel's USB Competitor? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nope. I suspect the idea is:
    The user can plug the monitor into any port,
    and then plug the mouse into any port,
    and the keyboard into any port.

    And it all works.

  22. Re:can it be done in software? on Promised Platform-Independent GPU Tech Is Getting Real · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That would require CPU. Rendering a game at 60Hz not only requires a GPU that can render your imagery within 16.7ms, but also requires the software running on the CPU to issue its directx/openGL commands in 16.7ms.

  23. Re:Math on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The ti86 supported assembly out of the box without any need for a hacked backup.

  24. Re:Meh on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 1

    At work I have a computer with 3 displays (each is 1280 by 1024 pixels). The station itself supports 2 dispalys and the 3rd is enabled by a USB => DVI displaylink converter. 3 monitors for one person is reasonable.

    But why stop at 3 when you can be future proof and make hardware that supports 6 ?

    I could put my dual display computer at home close to my TV, then when I want to watch movies stored on my PC on the TV I could easily enable a 3rd monitor without any cable hassles.

  25. Re:its a really simple answer on Why Is It So Difficult To Allow Cross-Platform Play? · · Score: 1

    This +5 funny bums me out. I was enjoying that sonic boom. But some people had to go and mod it up and give it away.