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  1. Re:Problems with projectors on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    We have a "fake" ceiling - similar to an office environment. honestly if your building a finished basement I highly recommend it, gives you a ton of flexibility. What I lose out to in quality that only a video-phile would notice, I gain in an 8 foot screen. Can't actually buy a TV that big as far as I know, at least not unless your Elon Musk level rich.

    I'm sorry you don't like projectors, and they don't suit you - but to blow them off completely is a bad way of going about it. It's all about being the right tool for the right job.

  2. Re:Depends on the oversight/fallback systems on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 1

    Will they? I actually haven't read that they will be doing that, or are we just assuming that "it's AI, it'll take care of it all" Reminds me of managers talking about the Cloud

  3. Re:Depends on the oversight/fallback systems on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 1

    And yet those issues won't go away with an AI driving your car. IN fact, it may be yet one more thing that has to be added to the regular maintenance list that people like to ignore.

  4. Re:Why can't this shit happen to North Korea? on Japan Marks 3rd Anniversary of Tsunami Disaster · · Score: 0

    Unlike the rest of WW2 where no civilians died?

    You also realize that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were part of the war machine in Japan, right? Hate to say it but bombing cities was a common tactic by all sides back then. War has never been fair. If we ever found ourselves in a situation similar to WW2, I dare say it would happen again, too, by every side.

    War... war never changes.

  5. Re:Compared to 4TB? on Sony & Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Glad you weren't making the decision back when floppy disks were 1.44M and my Hard Drive was 250M...

    Without knowing the specifics, this could be a great form of backup, which judging by the name, is exactly what this is for.

  6. Re: LED on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    It appears I was wrong, I did further digging and it seems to support what your saying. Which is odd because I swear I've read first hand accounts where there is a light. Maybe there's different versions?

    Regardless a light should be installed if there isn't one. Just crazy if there isn't.

  7. Re:LED on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 0

    It already does...

  8. Re:It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Generally I never give my CC over the phone. The only example I can think of where you would is ordering in food, and they have hand held debit/credit card machines - I enter the PIN on that when they get to my door. Safer then speaking it through a phone line.

  9. Re: These guys should try playing the stock market on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dunno, for me if the stock market involved space battles I'd be a lot more interested.

  10. Re:Cloud on Microsoft Joins Open Compute Project, Will Share Server Designs · · Score: 1

    Yup, but when I tried out OwnCloud I had some issues with file corruption. When I investigated a few months back it was a bit of a known thing, and a lot of comments were make sure your making backups, it's not fully ready yet, etc. Shame as it was really what I wanted. Might be better now.

  11. Local Library does this on Public Libraries Tinker With Offering Makerspaces · · Score: 1

    I think it's great - 3d Printers, hands on "toys" for kids that help them learn electronics, computers to learn programming, 3d modeling, and other skills. Its really bringing people back into the libraries.

  12. Talk to these guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Reimagine a Library? · · Score: 1

    Not associated other then I live in the city - Haven't step foot in a library in over a decade, but with their Makerspace (3d printers, book printer, kid friendly toys to learn how circuits work, music making devices, etc), ebooks, etc I've become pretty impressed. Very forward thinking and friendly staff.

    Edmonton Public Library http://www.epl.ca/

  13. Re: Tunnels of Doom on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    Nothing like listening to the computer ask "did you mean to do that?" in Alpiner... just rediscovered http://www.harmlesslion.com/cgi-bin/showprog.cgi?search=Classic99 - ahh good times! :)

  14. Re: Tunnels of Doom on Doom Is Twenty Years Old · · Score: 1

    Commenting because holy crap someone else that played that epic game. I still remember eating dinner while waiting for the game to load. Whole family played a character each. So many good memories...

  15. Re:Unsolved challenges? on Volvo Plans To Have Self-Driving Cars In Swedish City of Gothenburg By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Just curious - assuming the car can determine who is a traffic cop - as you seem to imply by your response to the GP - how do you stop a teenager on the side of the road from holding his hand out like a traffic cop - something any driver would ignore, but how would the car? Are we installing some wireless signal in all cop uniforms? Can that be hacked? What if a cop doesn't have his special uniform on does the car just ignore him? Do we also replace all traffic cops with robots?

    I'm tired of this whole "cars will be safer once machines drive because they never make mistakes" argument that seems to be common here. For many months a year where I drive the road is covered by snow and ice, and you basically have to "best guess" where the lanes are. How will cars handle that? Whats the safety order - do we dodge to avoid the kid, but force ourselves into an oncoming semi, or does the car weigh hitting the kid as an acceptable loss?

    Maybe someones solved all of this and has brought the cost down so everyone can afford one - but I've seen minimal evidence so far. Just that R"obot Cars are the future and I should embrace them and stop asking questions..."

  16. Final Fantasy XIV 2.0 on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    I don't play as hard-core as most, and at most a couple hours every other day. But I find there's enough content to do something whenever I'm on, and with the dungeon finder it helps finding someone to do whatever your looking for.

    But whatever game you play of this type it comes down to the community. Having a core group for friends to play with can turn any game into fun.

  17. Re:Looking forward to 1st August on Android Update Lets Malware Bypass Digital Signature Check · · Score: 1

    there's a bigger difference betweent iOS and Android then just Sideloading. Change the default apps for email, maps, etc to whatever you want. Skin the UI. Make the choice and run a rooted custom version of Android. Different selection of handset sizes. Etc.

    If anything, Sideloading is pretty useless for the majority of users. Its the other things that people use generally that makes Android different.

  18. Re:Where is the INFO! on Sony's PS4 To Have Less Stringent DRM Than Microsoft's Xbox One · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh the info was in the presentation. On giant slides. And in the words that were spoken. Not sure how much more clear you want it. Sony specifically said "does not need to check in every 24 hours" "you can play offline" "eye camera is $59" The details are there clear as day check any gaming news site. Want examples of those? Joystiq and Kotaku are two big ones.

  19. Re:So what? on Retro Gaming With Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    My impression from RTFA is that this is more on the hardware side of things. Which I found very interesting.

  20. Re:Silverlight greatness on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Well Silverlight doesn't crash my computer either. Granted thats because the only site I've ever seen that uses Silverlight is Netflix. I imagine if Flash was never used it wouldn't slow my computer down to a crawl, either.

  21. Re:So what on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    As a fellow Canadian I think we're getting off topic here, but I think you mean Eastern Canada. Here in the west it's pretty decent. I'm a pretty cheap guy, so only have the 50 Meg service Shaw offers (I think its like $60, so cheap being relative), but for $10 I can double it to 100 Meg. My cap is like 400 Gigs too. 100 Meg.. no idea what that cap is. If Shaw ever packed up and I had to use the other guys, Telus, I'd probably cry, but so far I'm quite happy with Shaw. Not Google Fiber (or Sony?!?) speeds but still pretty happy.

  22. Re:quid pro quo on WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code · · Score: 1

    Wow. A comment like that from a UID much lower then mine.

    Fascinating.

    A major user of WebKit had submitted code for WebKit. News at 11.

  23. Re:Fanboy attack on Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision · · Score: 1

    So nothing for say C or it's variants?

  24. Re:Fanboy attack on Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can code on the iPad? This is news. Whats the environment you use? Not talking about scripts or a text editor with basic syntax highlighting tho. I'm talking about being able to code a full project, with all necessary files, and preferably being able to compile it too - but that can be worked around.

    I tried this with the Asus Transformer when it came out. Was... KIND OF... doable, but in the end it was a LOT easier to just use a 13" laptop and code on that. No sacrifices were required, completely compatabile with my revision controls, etc.

    Also, this is the second time I heard you could write and release iOS apps for free - can you share how this is doable? I admit I don't follow iOS much anymore since I didn't want to spend $100 a year just to write hobby level code, so this change is quite exciting. Unless this post is a day late, then Fool on me...

  25. Re:I don't understand all the anger over Google on Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted · · Score: 2