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  1. Re:No surprise. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    Not really such a small step as you claim. The iPod was still a device with a touchwheel before the iPhone.

  2. Re:Sports Announcer Voice. on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 2

    ....and no one cares?

  3. Re:five models on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 1

    They're referring to iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, and iPhone 4S. Those are their basic models, each with upgraded specs from the last. Each came in different capacities (i.e. 16gb and 32 gb), but there's only really 5 different models, with their respective size and carrier variations.

  4. five models on On the iPhone and Apple's Meteoric Rise To the Top · · Score: 5, Insightful

    with just five different smartphone models under its belt during that span."

    That's a significant part of the reason for it, right there.

  5. Re:U.S. District Judge on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 2

    They launched the Tab 2 line in April, so this injunction is basically a nonissue at this point in and of itself. It's that it may influence any motion to bar the sales of the newer model.

  6. Re:I was a skeptic on Ubuntu's Unity... on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    Nobody outside the tech world uses stuff like "site:" on Google. Many don't even use enter to progress with their search - before Google Instant, they would click the button to search.

  7. Re:I was a skeptic on Ubuntu's Unity... on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    There really isn't a single CLI that an average person uses regularly. Even in games, they're being removed from many titles outright. Most chat programs aren't IRC, they're Skype or AIM which have approximately zero typed commands.

  8. Re:the price of gasoline, food, and housing on Apple Store Employees Soak Up the Atmosphere, But Not Much Cash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup, rent has definitely gone up. Increased demand for rentable properties and all that, given the lack of credit to buy...

  9. Re:Don't listen to the amateurs. on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    It wasn't, cowards start at 0 instead of the standard 1.

  10. Re:Chevy Volt on Tesla Delivers First Batch of Model S Electric Sedans · · Score: 2

    Except he's talking about something removable, as I understand it, which makes it more efficient at travelling than the Volt - there's no need to carry around that few hundred pounds of engine when it's not needed.

  11. Re:If you`re buying one of these . . . on Tesla Delivers First Batch of Model S Electric Sedans · · Score: 1

    How many people really drive across the country on vacation? I wager it's far, far less than 50% (which is a ridiculously conservative threshold for acceptability of such a vehicle into the US market to begin with), and that many of those people don't even use their own car - they rent.

  12. Re:5% more shiniez? I *must* have one! on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 1

    Considering that a 680 outclasses the living hell out of a 280, to the point where a 680 is able to turn up graphics higher than a pair of 280's in SLI, your blanket comparison (involving anything, including stuff down at the 640 level, which is still significantly weaker than a single 280) seems unfounded.

  13. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 1

    Since the industrial revolution, we've gone through a civil war, the end of slavery, two world wars, a great depression (where living standards dropped sharply), the space race, desegregation, the oil crisis and mini-depression of the late 70's - early 80's (again where they dropped), 9-11, and the first African-American president, among a huge number of other events, so using that as a starting reference point is really out of the bounds of this conversation.

  14. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 2

    Just think of it this way to feel worse - Ellison's worth, divided by the number of employees at Oracle, is over 300k per person.

  15. Re:Uh-oh. on Larry Ellison Buys His Own Hawaiian Island · · Score: 2

    Except it is a fixed size pie. The CEOs have a level of influence over how much the pie grows per year, but you can't seriously say that having an exceptional 10,000 person company with an average CEO is going to grow a company slower than an average 10,000 man company with an exceptional CEO. That leaves out that the CEO should continue to take a bigger portion of the growth of the pie every year until all of the growth is their share, which is exactly what's happening here.

  16. Re:Wait, what? on The Physics of the Knuckleball · · Score: 1

    A shitty rule that there's a line at all. Just make it out of the park - no controversy that needs instant replay to figure out the outcome! The foul pole issue is much more straightforward, though, and I've never heard of them actually using instant replay to figure that out. Especially from the umpire at home and on the base of that foul line, it's not hard to figure out where the ball was when it passed the foul pole.

  17. Re:Wait, what? on The Physics of the Knuckleball · · Score: 1

    How does instant reply fix that situation at all? When a spectator interferes with the game, the ump has to determine the most likely outcome of the play and call it as such. That's a rules failure, not a failure to see what actually happened, plain and simple.

  18. Re:Wait, what? on The Physics of the Knuckleball · · Score: 1

    Honestly, how hard is that one to figure out anyway?

  19. You're neglecting that the people who sell you the TV service are the people who sell you internet service.

  20. Re:Prediction on Shenzhou 9 Sparks Renewed Debate On Space Race With China · · Score: 3

    Google Payments and the Nissan Leaf wouldn't exist without the clear indicator that those products can succeed - neither was a precursor to the Musk products, and thus the Musk products had an impact on their creation.

  21. Re:well damn on US Consumer Bureau Opens Online Credit Card Complaint DB · · Score: 1

    Getting a mortgage, or a variety of other loans, does not automatically make you a debt serf.

  22. Re:Unfortunately for Seagate? on Hybrid Drives Struggling In Face of SSDs · · Score: 1

    I have a Lenovo here with an i7, 8GB of ram, and a 128GB SSD. It can clearly manipulate those large datasets, and regularly does - it's just built to be small and light for convenience's sake. I find it more useful than a "more powerful" laptop, since I always have it on me. I have a Toshiba Qosmio x300 laying around collecting dust, since it's a back-breaker to carry everywhere. It's worthwhile to hook the Lenovo up to a monitor though, since it is a bit small for all-the-time use. On the flip side, the monitor is awesome for small seating spaces like the train or a plane. I can't even open the Toshiba on a plane.

  23. Re:Compare a 10-15k HDD to a 5400 rpm one on Hybrid Drives Struggling In Face of SSDs · · Score: 1

    It will still need data from the hard disk, which is where you will still get slowdowns during boot, and on opening every new application and file...

  24. Re:Unfortunately for Seagate? on Hybrid Drives Struggling In Face of SSDs · · Score: 2

    Not once you're down in the 11" range.

  25. Re:My country has gone mad on Vermont Senate Hopeful Jeremy Hansen Responds On (Mostly) Direct Democracy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It becomes a far more interesting situation when there's 300 wolves, 15,000 sheep, and another 14,700 sheep that like to think they're wolves...