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  1. Re:You idiots on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 1

    News to me. Surely, thats only from the Google Play store, right? At least nothing forces a developer to sell their software there or a customer from buying it there

  2. Re:You idiots on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 0

    See my reply to Githaron

  3. Re:You idiots on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 1

    I should add that more apps, even MOST apps, are free. I just found that the apps that do cost money seemed to cost more.

  4. Re:You idiots on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 1

    (First of all, all prices are Canadian, if it matters)

    All over the place, really. The only thing I actually paid for in the Play store so far is Need For Speed: Most Wanted. It's a pretty awesome game, and $7. I just checked and it's the same in the App Store. That might be a reasonable price but don't developers get 100% of that on Android, unlike iOS apps where they only get 70%? You'd think they would make it a buck cheaper on Android to encourage people to make a switch to the platform with a higher profit margin.

    I don't have any specific apps off the top of my head, but I was looking for something to control iTunes with and couldn't find anything under $5

  5. Re:Uh, nice try on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    Zinc can have some pretty powerful healing effects. I just started taking ZMA after hearing Victor Conte rave about it on the on Joe Rogan Experience

  6. Re:You idiots on Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know, I'd always heard that too. I've been an iOS user since the iPhone 3G so I've bought my share of apps there and have a good feel for mobile app pricing. I was pretty surprised by the prices in the Google Play store when I bought a Nexus 7 last week. Often things I'd expect to pay $.99-$1.99 for in the App Store are $5-7.

    I wonder if this is a new trend? Are they compensating for lower sales, or has the Android market changed recently?

  7. Re:Less noise? on FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season · · Score: 1

    Spoken like someone who doesn't know a thing about F1, and clearly didn't see the end of the 2012 season

  8. You could store all sorts of things on the old TI-83, TI-89, etc.

    My math teachers would personally clear off your calculator before a test if you wanted to use a fancy one.

  9. Re:Let me be the first to say... on In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad · · Score: 1

    I doubt anyone would let you bring your android tablet into an exam. Otherwise, absolutely.

  10. Re:so why not induction charging? on A Piezoelectric Pacemaker That Is Powered By Your Heartbeat · · Score: 1

    My 93-year-old grandpa can hardly remember his name and address, let's not put him in charge of the pacemaker.

    That and he doesn't have a cell phone you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:Took you long enough, Slashdot on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 1

    I live in BC, and I suppose you are right, most dams do look and work like that.

    Last year, though, I visited the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. They put on a laser show every Sunday night at 10:00 pm that's projected onto the spillway, which seems to be a giant overflow gate near the top of the damn. The result is a 1650ft-wide wall of water that's pretty amazing to watch fall down the dam as they open each gate one by one.

    This is the only image I could find of the water before it all hit the bottom, but go to youtube for a clip of the laser show (or better yet go visit!)
    http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/62017815.jpg

  12. Re:Took you long enough, Slashdot on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 1

    That's when you open the spillway

  13. Re:Mobile bandwidth on The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Not even close

  14. Re:Mobile bandwidth on The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap · · Score: 2

    I'm almost positive drunkennewfiemidget was talking about home (cable) internet. Rogers dominates most telecommunications here

  15. Re:Oh those wacky Canadians... on Canadian Space Agency Shows Off Prototype Rovers · · Score: 1

    I don't understand your comment... but if the US has 300 million people and Canada has 30 million, the US spends $59 per person and Canada spends $10

  16. Re:who will get the most use out of this? on Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map · · Score: 1

    From the FAQ (Click the ? in top left):
    "What is going on in Aachen?!

    Most of the time, you will see attacks targeted against Aachen. This is because our honeypot at RWTH Aachen University is very active and captures attacks against hundreds of target IP addresses. This does not mean that Aachen is attacked more often than the rest of the world!"

  17. Re:65 years minus 1 day on Chuck Yeager Re-Enacts the Historic Flight That Broke the Sound Barrier · · Score: 1

    At 833MPH or 1.24 Mach, the parachuter is actually much faster

  18. Re:Either way... on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 1

    Upgrade, the OS is way better. Then go to maps.google.com and save it to your homescreen

  19. Re:Haven't touched one or an Arduino but.. on Raspberry Pi Hits 1GHz With Official 'Turbo Mode' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    XBMC is the biggest use that comes to mind.... one of these on every TV in your house = one hell of a media center for CHEAP

  20. Re:iOS? on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    Device-native tethering isn't good enough for you?

  21. Re:The video is of aeroshell's decent, not Curiost on Smooth, High Definition Video of Curiosity's Landing On Mars · · Score: 4, Informative

    You've got it completely backwards. This video is from the bottom of Curiosity. The heat shield falls away at the start, before that the camera couldn't see anything.

  22. Re:remember when slashdot was good?! on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 0

    I get the joke but come on.....

    Every iPhone I've ever had has AirPlay support to stream HD video to a display/ AppleTV

  23. Re:What about hospitals? on FAA To Reevaluate Inflight Electronic Device Use · · Score: 2

    That's not true. The hospitals in my area (Fraser Valley, BC) only ask you to turn phones off near the Radiology lab. 15 years ago it was the whole hospital, though.

  24. Re:I'd like Win 7 a bit more .. on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Nevermind, I'm way off

  25. Re:I'd like Win 7 a bit more .. on Windows 7 Is the Next Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Right click on taskbar > Properties

    Uncheck 'Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop' at the bottom