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  1. Re:This is getting interesting on A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z · · Score: 1

    Why not just write android apps? Why wait?

  2. Re:Samsing sucks on A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z · · Score: 1

    If you'd use both, you'd see that they are really not as similar as you'd think at first glance.

  3. Re:A lot of bits on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    He said possible, not likely or known...

  4. Re:Ugg the diversity brigade strikes again on Facebook Refuses To Share Employee Race and Gender Data · · Score: 1

    I currently interview for engeering positions. We get *very* few older applicants. I'm not sure i believe all of these

    older engineers who are out of work

    exist. At the very least, I haven't seen their resumes.

    In my experience, competent engineers tend to have jobs.

  5. Re:Ugg the diversity brigade strikes again on Facebook Refuses To Share Employee Race and Gender Data · · Score: 1

    The excuse for the H1-B visa is that you can't find anyone to do that work.

    This is not entirely untrue -- Where I live, it's really hard to find competent engineers. Many people graduating college are simply not qualified to do many of these jobs that foreigners are imported for.

  6. Re:The CA should not revoke the certificates, on Private Keys Stolen Within Hours From Heartbleed OpenSSL Site · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OK, then they should invalidate ALL certificates, test customers for the patch, give patched customers new certs, and refuse to give new certs to unpatched customers. It's their business to maintain a 'web of trust'.

  7. Re:Some context from a hardware perspective. on Shuttleworth Wants To Get Rid of Proprietary Firmware · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  8. Re:This could be good news... on Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...

    There is an x server for the ipad...

  9. Re:Donald Knuth on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 1

    It's not laziness. It's to fit each line of code in an 80 column display.

  10. Re:Developers are not going to make games for free on PC Game Prices — Valve Starts the Race To Zero · · Score: 1

    It's not about helping valve out, it's about the market forcing prices to be low. it's capitalism working. The games will cost what they have to, and not more (this is the idea anyway)

    The fear is that the presence of free games will cause an overall drop in quality; mobile gaming is used as evidence of this.

  11. Re:Ouya just isn't compelling on Ouya CEO Talks Console's Tough First Year, and Ambitious "Ouya Everywhere" Plan · · Score: 1

    I know...

    Everything is coming up Millhouse!

  12. Where have i seen this before? on Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.

  13. Not an os on An OS You'll Love? AI Experts Weigh In On Her · · Score: 1

    Does it bother any of my fellow pedantic Slashdot that the software depicted in the movie "Her" isn't really an OS, and doesn't perform the functionality of an OS (such as scheduling and memory management), but rather a novel user-interface layer, and would likely be implemented as some user space package?

    i guess what i'm trying to ask is...is Siri an OS now? is sphynx?

  14. Re:C object inheritance on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 1

    yes, but in C you can use it as both. if you type-pun a pointer-to-struct-pixel to a pointer-to-struct-coord, the addresses work out the same. add a few function-pointers, and you can get some pretty good polymorphism going.

  15. Re:They are as common as unicorns on The Mystery/Myth of the $3 Million Google Engineer · · Score: 2

    Sales pay structure is different. They are paid by the sale, not by the year. Therefore, their pay is dependent on how much work they do. Best deal you can hope for in IT is by-the-hour -- because by-the-issue would raise all kinds of new problems.

    As a software developer, your only hope for such astronomical pay is either by stock-options, or by selling a product on your own.

  16. Re:i heard it's UNIX on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    All I was saying is that any latency that the user experiences has very little to do with kernel design, and much more to do with the UI layer.

  17. Re:i heard it's UNIX on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Technically, one of the problems with micro-kernel design is MORE latency then a monolithic kernel, not less. Not that it matters with today's computers. It's just a little apparent that you don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you should go back and finish that degree, eh Billy Gates?

  18. Re:39" display for workstations? on 4K Is For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Reply to undo erroneous mod. sorry.

  19. Re:wouldn't it be better if the industry agreed on on Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display · · Score: 1

    So now we should go back to 4:3 so our 16:9 content can have a 'tool window' below it? sounds like an infinite loop we've got ourselves in, huh?

  20. Re:For that price on Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 · · Score: 1

    Technically, milling is not the same as printing, but yes, good point.

  21. Re:Custom bullets ? on Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 · · Score: 1

    I think the 3d printing of ammunition is much more dangerous than some 11000$ kalashnikov knockoff replica.

    Why? casting bullets from lead and stuffing them into (used) shell casings is insanely cheap and easy. it will be a LONG time before 3d printing can improve on a process we've been using for a century to create ammunition.

    You can make bullets really cheap, at home, right now. It's marginally dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but no more so then printing ammunition would be.

    Here's some links to get you started! good luck!
    http://www.midwayusa.com/find?dimensionids=5671
    http://www.buffaloarms.com/products.aspx?CAT=3764
    http://www.wideners.com/itemview.cfm?dir=210%7C212%7C235

  22. Re:Never again on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, there are the Ringo Starr solo albums...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr_discography

  23. Re:why an uprising? on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    But what about the Moon Nazis?

  24. Re:Nope. People will deny that they are robots. on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Unless you count the train itself as a robot

    I think that's exactly what he's getting at; and he's not far off (by our current definition of robotics)

  25. Re:Level of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Here's the thing: We don't actually want them to think for themselves. We want machines that can interpret higher and higher level instructions -- "drive me to work", not "steer right 30 degrees, accelerate at 1 m/s**2, steer left 15 degrees"