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  1. Re:Microsoft, do this: on Windows Phone Market Share Sinks Below 1 Percent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They were building 'bridges' for both iOS and Android.

    The Android one has been abandoned but evolved into the bash/ubuntu subsystem.

    But the iOS bridge might still be in development.

  2. Re:I was around then. VB6 is terrible on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    I did a Java 1.1 programming course alongside a VB expert back in 1998 - he crashed and burned after not comprehending OO at all.

  3. Re:Of two minds on Microsoft Urged to Open Source Classic Visual Basic (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    "extend it and add modern constructs to make this a less painful framework to deal with."

    Like VB 14, included in VS2015? :)

    According to the article runtime support is still available in Win 10 until 2025. Does the IDE itself no longer work in Windows 10, or is it just that developers are pushing for an updated toolchain that emits binaries optimised for armv8 (surface phone) or x86_64?

  4. I think I saw that movie on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 2

    Isn't that the one where Johnny Depp is assassinated and uploads himself?

  5. Re:Of course Paramount and CBS are nervous on Abrams Says Paramount Will Drop Star Trek/Axenar Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kirk makes out with a chick who looks like a zebra, ho hum.

    Trek used to be a show about ethics and the prime directive where they'd solve a mystery of the week, overcome a paradox of time travel or Wesley would be sentenced to death.

    Now it seems all about the explosions and space warfare.

  6. Re:Are we getting more RAM to go with these sucker on ARM Announces Next-Gen 64-Bit Artemis Mobile Chip On 10nm TSMC FinFET Process (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Well there's the Cortex-A32 which provides a 32bit version of ARMv8.

    I'm not sure the jump to 64bit will be instantaneously universal if budget Cortex-A7 phones migrate to the A32.

  7. Re: Truly Epically Dumb to Destroy It on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 1

    debunked as a probable hoax

  8. Re: Truly Epically Dumb to Destroy It on Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? · · Score: 2

    I'm more concerned about the undead apocalypse when someone forgets to pay the electricity bill at the Alcor cryo facility.

    But at least we might find out posthumously from Hal Finney, the age old question, "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?"

  9. Cereal tracker on Google Is A Serial Tracker (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    We're out of corn flakes and don't forget the milk!

  10. Re:Allo - Allo on Don't Use Google Allo (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You prove my point. The world has over 6000 languages and the website you listed supports fewer than 100.

    That nerds working for Microsoft prioritise a language off a TV program doesn't diminish that fact.

  11. Re:Allo - Allo on Don't Use Google Allo (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe this tendency toward machine translation will drive a boom in endangered languages for which no corporation would bother investing the resources into building in support into their translation engine.

  12. Re:What does it all mean? on Nokia Announces Return To Smartphone, Tablet Markets (nokia.com) · · Score: 2

    Just another Android vendor? Pass. They don't even own here maps any more.

  13. Take for example 1994. The year Shawshank Redemption came out. IMDB's top rated movie.

    Most overrated film of all time? No accounting for taste when a film-noir masterpiece like The Last Seduction is rated only the 92nd best movie of the same year.

  14. On regular TV or do you need a smellavision set-top box?

  15. Pen and paper on Iraq Shuts Down Internet In Entire Country To Prevent Exam Cheating (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wouldn't it be simpler just to make the examination hall a technology free zone?

  16. Headaches and motion sickness on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 1

    Jerky low-quality unaccelerated 3D graphics will do that.

  17. What's a "time fly"?

  18. That's quite a stutter. :)

  19. Cheers, I'll give it a try.

  20. Yep, I wondered how long until this slashvertisment for 'helpful' Google products would turn into a discussion about invasiveness.

    "I use an iPhone so I don't get infected by all that Google s--t."

    But yeah, I am finding the notifications on Android lately rather frightening. Maybe it's my paranoia kicking in but even if they don't use my data maliciously I find it scary that they remind me from scanning my email that a bill is due or that if I take this route I'm 26 minutes from 'home'.

    So I think a dose of AOSP/Cyanogenmod and f-droid may cure my anxiety, particularly as an official product, Google aren't bothering to update my 5.1.1 Nexus device to M, let alone N.

  21. Re: Man is getting closer and closer on Atomic Oxygen Detected In Martian Atmosphere (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Klingons circling Uranus?

  22. Re:Begs the question on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it beg the question of whether trolls bait readers by begging the question just to lure the grammar pedants out of the woodwork...

    Come at me, bro. :)

  23. Re:Chinese name on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Cool thanks for the info. I guess Jiangxu is a bit of a mouthful to American ears... But at least 'Sue' is something of an abbreviation.

    Nonetheless, I'd be tempted to vote for a candidate named "graceful river"!

    (Gooch is well-known as the name of an English cricket captain).

  24. Chinese name on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be Googe Sue - Or is Googe her husband's surname?

  25. Re:Saddled with Windows 10 on Sales Of PCs, Laptops, Tablets Continue to Fall, Hit Lowest Point Since 2011 (canalys.com) · · Score: 1

    They are more power efficient by >2x, but most home users don't really care about that. Hell, most have no clue how much power their PC's use (hence the proudly boasted about 1000W supplies for machines that peak out at ~300W).

    People should really check out their electricity bill then. :) Our supplier does daily readings online. Savings in modern machines may be more modest but I am using about $50 a year less by EOLing a Pentium 4.