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  1. Re: Slippery slope? They are deep in the mud pool on Google Memo On Cost Cuts Sparks Heated Debate Inside Company (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google search has been pissing me off for a while now, specifically its insistence on presenting results that don't have one or more of my keywords. Yes, i know I can put quotes around required words, but I shouldn't have to enquote every word in a query. /Maybe theres a global setting, too lazy to look.

  2. Brings to Mind... on The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Hypercard. Wiki says the last release was in 1998. I've never been an Apple/Mac guy, but I have fond memories of using it in some sort of a summer computer camp in 1994.

  3. Microsoft Natural 4K on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    I swear by the Microsoft Natural 4K.
    Served me well for almost 13 years.
    https://www.microsoft.com/acce...

  4. No Love for Windows Mobile/Pocket PC? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Still have fond memories of my iPaq 6315 rocking the Windows Mobile 2003 OS.

    It could (natively) create office documents, do mapping, take pictures, had push email, etc. a few years before the iPhone and Android were a glimmer in the publics' eye. Any apps created for the .NET compact framework could be run without modification on desktop windows.

    Them and the Treos were ahead of their time.

  5. Sony tablet S (Android Kitkat) that I bought about 4 years ago or so. It had an emulator app and a PSN store-style app to purchase both original games and classics.

    The tablet came with vouchers for two games from the store, and I choose Crash Bandicoot and Jet-Moto.

    So yeah, I've already (legally) played PSX games on a tablet. Not sure why this is news again.

  6. Another One... on Star Trek: Renegades Working On Episodes 2 and 3 (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 2
    Star Trek: Axenar.

    It's about the final battle in the war with the Klingons, set just before TOS.

    They have a documentary-style leadup to it, called Prelude to Axenar. It's got decent production values, some good and logical story telling, and shows promise for what they want to do. Also some Trek alumni - Tony Todd, John Hertzler and Gary Graham, reprising his Enterprise role Ambassador Soval.

  7. Re: The Homer! (FP?) on Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car · · Score: 1
    not to mention International roaming rates

    Wouldn't have mattered anyway. You can't get to Pandora from Canadian IP addresses.

  8. And? on Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free · · Score: 1

    I was creating Word and Excel documents, for free as they were included in the OS, more than a decade ago on my trusty iPaq 6315.

    Why is this news?

  9. Re:Peak 3d printer on MakerBot Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Employees · · Score: 1

    We (the IT department of a regional government org) just got one, a Makerbot, incidentally. It was pretty pricy, about $8,000.

    It's currently printing a model of the Willis Tower.

    *facepalm*

  10. Re:Document Management System on Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers? · · Score: 1

    I'll second a document management. We use Opentext Content Server.

    Works well for us - plugins provide seemless use from MS Office.

  11. Term... on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 3, Funny

    V-enema: The Act of rapidly going through your voice mail just to get rid of the icon/flashing light.

  12. Re:XBMC Finally? on $35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O · · Score: 1

    If you're still reading this:

    I think that rsize is way too high. Someone on the XBMC forums scripted copying a large amount of data from mounts with various options. He found the best rsize was 32768.

  13. Re:XBMC Finally? on $35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O · · Score: 1

    I've also found if you offload pretty much everything to other devices (thumbnail storage, media database) and run it from USB storage, it can be fairly snappy.

    If you're playing high bitrate videos, it's also recommended to use NFS mounts with udp

  14. The CRTC... on What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    ...has done some decent things for Canada.

    Unfortunately some strikes against them are not forcing the cable companies to support BYOD (CableCard) and the mandating of playing a Justin Bieber and/or Drake song every 17 minutes on Canadian pop-music stations.

  15. Re:No cable, no problem on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    The Major Sports Leagues offer streaming services, but most of them black out local IPs for both teams, and essentially the whole country for national broadcasts (latter at least on NHL Gamecenter Live)

    They even expressly forbid bypassing the blackouts (ie, VPN, proxies, etc) in their TOS.

  16. Luckily... on Smart Meters and New IoT Devices Cause Serious Concern · · Score: 1

    ...it's still my network. I can control what devices can connect, and to who and how they can talk to the outside.

    Admittedly though, 99.9% of consumers can't do this, and it may be hard to separate the wanted and unwanted traffic.

  17. Re:Well.... on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Cash for clunkers removed about 700,000 cars from the road. There are about 250,000,0000 vehicles in the US.

  18. Re:Where should I apply? on Developers, IT Still Racking Up (Mostly) High Salaries · · Score: 1

    I work at a regional government (analogous to county) in western Canada, not a programmer, but in IT. Our programmers start off at about $68,000 per year. The municipal governments are similar (a gentleman's agreement to avoid poaching/hopping ship)

  19. Re:I must be missing something on Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) · · Score: 1

    I combined an HDHomeRun, a PS3, PS3 Mediaserver, some "public" listings data, and some coding to make a poor man's TV guide, with channels that are switchable using the DLNA Video options on the PS3.

    Making the PS3 the centre of the media system made cord-cutting pass the wife-acceptance-factor.

  20. Re:What? on Google Acquires Curated Music Service Songza · · Score: 1

    I'll add, of the three: Pandora, Spotify and Songza, only Songza is [easily] available in Canada.

  21. Re:Wrong decision on Supreme Court Rules Against Aereo Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    Consider my setup:

    HDHomeRun UDP unicast -> HTTP Stream from a Raspberry PI, which is then available over my (open) Wi-Fi and wired network to all other devices.

    Am I broadcasting?

  22. Available on PSX on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 2

    A buddy and I had the game on our playstations, and it was one of the few the supported the Link cable on that system.

    Two CRTs placed near each other, two PSXs , two copies of the game and the link cable made for awesome afternoons.

    Played and controlled well enough, especially since the dual[analog|shock] hadn't been released yet.

  23. Re:What Level 3 can do on Internet Transit Provider Claims ISPs Deliberately Allow Port Congestion · · Score: 1

    Perhaps someone knowledgeable will see this and answer:

    With all the peered Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai, AWS and OpenConnect, how much subscriber traffic actually leaves an ISPs own network?

  24. Really? on Amazon Launches Android-Powered 'Fire TV' For Streaming and Gaming · · Score: 1

    Fire TV? Coming from the Fire Box perhaps?

    Sigh. Almost as bad as XBone.

  25. Re:Perfect on Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint · · Score: 1

    I couldn't really live without Outlook. It pretty much manages my life.