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  1. Yep, happened to me. And the new build didn't work with World of Tanks properly. So I tried to roll it back, which failed, and then soft looped the system. I had to boot from install media to get out of the looping. Thanks loads.

  2. But.. why? I mean, jokes aside, what's the use case here? Are there legitimately apps that cannot run on the Apple platform that people feel they need? I can't think of any other reason. If it was an e-ink display like the Yota, maybe, but why have a wholly separate OS?

  3. Quick Charge on Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? · · Score: 1

    QC works exactly as advertised. I bought a car version on Amazon for ten bucks from Aukey. It literally fills my Turbo approx 1-2% for every minute on the charger. I go over to my girlfriend's, my phone is up 30%; random small trips during the day keep it nicely topped up. It's a game changer.

  4. Wallet required on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My job, and almost all medical jobs require me to carry my physical certifications on my person. The state and other regulatory agencies can demand my cards at any time for inspection. It's about ten small cards that will likely never leave my wallet, no matter what comes down the line.

  5. Re: @CauseBy - Re:Yes on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Pebble with NavMe is excellent as a navigation display while riding my motorcycle , keeping my phone safely in a zippered pocket.

  6. Pebble on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Lasts three days or more on a charge, perfectly readable in any light. It's incredibly valuable since my phone is on my belt in a pouch at work, and I sometimes don't feel the vibrate but I can't have the ringer on all the time. Apps let me respond to text messages with short choices, and control my music. All I want is the price on a Steel to drop a little and I'm there.

  7. Penn too on No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission · · Score: 1

    Just went this week. No glasses, hair out of face including long bangs, and no smiles. Head must be at a certain angle, similar to a sample photo they had posted next to the camera.

  8. Re:timely question on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 2

    http://tk.ms11.net/
    ToddlerKeys. Great free app. Locks the keyboard, power buttons, drive eject buttons, whatever you want.

  9. Netbook + Toddler Keys on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    I have an Asus netbook that works pretty well for this situation. Cheap enough that I don't give a damn about it, really, and it's held up reasonably well to my 2 year old daughter. Install Toddler Keys http://tk.ms11.net/ so that she can bang away on the keys without it doing much of anything, and disable the "close lid = standby or hibernate" feature because that'll cause some hangups. After that, you're pretty much golden, and at least in my case my kid is more interested in the Skype session because she can move the whole computer whereever she wants and sit down to talk to Mommy.

  10. Simple on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thanks. Really. Make sure you have a towel going forwards.

  11. Late Again? on Microsoft TouchStudio Uses Phone To Program Phone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, it appears to be not true programming, but just script manipulation? Wouldn't that be like Tasker for Android?
    http://tasker.dinglisch.net/

  12. Truth on Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Well.. it is.
    Republic : we elect people to go make decisions for us.
    Democracy: everyone votes on everything.

    Democracy is kinda like communism, it sounds good on paper but it's unworkable on any large scale.

  13. Re:At-Will on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 1

    To add on, we are NOT easily replaceable drones... this is a healthcare environment, at a high enough level to make it difficult to replace us.

  14. At-Will on Worker Rights Extend To Facebook, Says NLRB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm at an organization where a similar situation is proceeding through the HR hell.
    The unfortunate part is that as an at-will employee, which we all basically are at my job, they have to do something highly illegal to actually get sued for firing you. You can show up and pick your nose and get fired for it, and it's just "at will."...

    Now, if they actually said "Because of this" you might have a better case, because then they're stepping on first amendment stuff. But if they said "Because we want to" you'd be SOL. People don't get that your first amendment rights protect you from jail time, not protect you from any consequence at all.

  15. Pain Scale on School District Drops 'D' Grades · · Score: 1

    I work as a nurse, and we use the 0-10 scale for pain. 0 is no pain, 10 is the worst, most horrible pain you've ever had. Most people claim 8 while on their cellphone, eating a sandwich, or laughing with friends. At least a few times a shift someone will say "14" or "20". This marks them as idiots.

  16. Aviation/Space on Science, Technology, Natural History Museums? · · Score: 1

    Liberty Science Center in Jersey is pretty decent, and has the advantage of being right near the Statue so you can do that too.
    If you're aviation/space types, I recommend the Air Force Museum in Ohio.
    http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/exhibits/

    There's also the NASA sites - Houston and Canaveral both have extensive places to walk around and see things.

  17. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Isn't it required reading in darn near every 9th grade English class? I've always thought that R&J is a terrible intro to Shakespeare, he has so many better and more engaging works.. I'd have been much happier reading Titus Andronicus or even Much Ado About Nothing as a first crack at the Bard.

  18. Re:Stickers... on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's down there with "Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you?" on the worst pick-up line ratings.

  19. Responsive on Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback of Sorts · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have my Unicomp and I love it. There's nothing that gives you the same feedback in the fingertips as you type as a nice clicky board. My wife, on the other hand, hates it because - the bedroom is next to my office, and she can hear me at all hours of the night typing away. But... totally worth it.

    As a bonus, I honestly feel that I get less cramping and fatigue when I'm typing happily on this rather than the crap you get most times today. Not sure if there's anything to back that up with, but I graduated from a Microsoft ergo keyboard to this and I'm far happier now.

  20. The Classics on Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a mailbox here."

  21. Re:i'm suprised it's not more on CES 2009 Shrinks With Dwindling Economy · · Score: 1

    Speaking of important things, I wonder how the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo - running just up the street - will fare this year. Sure, consumer electronics are nice, but as we learn from Avenue Q:

    Trekkie Monster: In volatile market, only stable investment is porn!

  22. Re:There is a better way... on RIAA Case May Be Televised On Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perfect example for you. Did you like Men In Black? Because it wasn't available in this market on a single - just if you bought the album, which every other track was horrible on. Further, try Your Woman by White Town... they REALLY didn't have any other good songs, ever, but they didn't have a single either.

  23. Relativity on Is the Gaming PC Dead? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps what is dying is what arstechnica calls "The God Box"... but they've always also run "The Hot Rod" and "The Budget Box". In days gone by you almost needed the God Box to run the newest coolest toys (I remember having my boot disk to run Falcon back in the day because it saved memory to load straight into the game) but now the only game my sub $700 system can't run at pretty much full power is Crysis - and I think that was designed to just show off. I think there's still plenty of market for the Hot Rod and Budget Box, depending on your needs.

  24. Nursing on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1

    Aside from the initial passing of my board exam, known as NCLEX, and certification exams in my specialty, known as the CEN exam, each and every hospital I have ever applied to work for has had me sit down and take at the very least an EKG reading quiz, a pharmacology and med-math quiz, and usually a unit based (ER, ICU, etc) test with scenarios. It happens, get over it.

  25. Re:Google Games wouldn't be any good... on Could Google Become a Game Publisher? · · Score: 1

    The only bitch with the return policy is that the shipping to the moonbase remains prohibitively expensive, so you're probably better off just buying new Googlestuff and dunping the old Googlejunk into a Googlefill somewhere.