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  1. Re:Shut up and take my money! on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    There is no added screen real-estate. The OS will double the size of everything effectively giving you a 1440x900 resolution with a high pixel density. Compare the iPad2 and iPad3 side by side and you'll see what I mean. One has a higher resolution but everything is the same size on both of them.

  2. Re:Shut up and take my money! on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    1. Cut the resolution in half and that is what you're really getting (just with a higher pixel density).
    2. At that price it should be a 512GB SSD.
    3. Could be faster.
    4. Should be double. 16GB kits can be had for around $100 these days.
    5. My 2 year old Thinkpad gets that.

  3. Re:Yes and no on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    mSATA cards are actually pretty easy to get these days. Many business laptops offer the option.

  4. Re:Retina Display is good and all, but... on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    DPI scaling in Windows breaks quite a few apps written in VB.net. I'm sure it breaks other things as well. Drove me crazy trying to figure out why my apps were not displaying the way they were designed on my laptop until I found out that the DPI was set to 125% out of the box (Thinkpad with the FHD display).

  5. Re:Nice specs...but.... on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    Thinkpads tend to hold value.

  6. Re:So According To The Article on Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives · · Score: 1

    That's not being lazy, that's working smarter. If you were lazy you wouldn't have an existing code base of quality code to copy from.

  7. Re:Get some offers on Ask Slashdot: Comparing the Value of Skilled Admins vs. Contributing Supervisors · · Score: 1

    Good way to get canned on the spot. You do not want to show the company that you will leave if you can make more money elsewhere, companies want loyal employees.

  8. Re:Women's Shelters on After Modifications, Google Street View Approved For Switzerland · · Score: 1

    It's much easier than that. Look for blurred out houses in a residential neighborhood.

  9. Re:Switzerland is not a EU member on After Modifications, Google Street View Approved For Switzerland · · Score: -1

    EU also refers to Europe.

  10. Women's Shelters on After Modifications, Google Street View Approved For Switzerland · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't blurring these out be the same as putting up a sign saying "Women's Shelter"? I thought those places were nondescript houses.

  11. Re:Stronger, lighter cars? on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: -1

    Lighter = Faster
    Faster = More Kinetic Energy

    Weight is not a factor

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy

  12. Re:Stronger, lighter cars? on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You assume the manufacturing process does not cause more damage to the environment than the weight saving offsets. Same as how buying a Prius is worse for the environment than buying a used (or even many new non-hybrid) cars due to the manufacturing process.

  13. Molecular Acid on Materials From Tough-as-Nails Crustacean Could Inspire Better Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Does this protect against it? Never know when you might be fighting Xenomorphs.

  14. So According To The Article on Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives · · Score: 1

    VB6 programmers are just lazy.

  15. Re:Record Videos on Subject To a "Stop and Frisk"? There's an App For That · · Score: 2

    Those quota's are illegal and the NYPD is being sued over them. This case is likely what caused this app to be created.

    http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/24/44142.htm

  16. Re:A tad longer than that on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    Do you have a link to get one at that price? The ones I've seen are HP branded and cost quite a bit more.

  17. Re:Define "enable?" on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. The U-Verse 2Wire equipment I got is ipv6 compatible but no firmware is out for it that supports IPv6.

  18. Re:mac on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to stop you at your first point. Once you drop a Macbook the unibody case gets tweaked and it is never the same again. Not to mention the entire case is the heatsink and will burn you if you actually use it for anything besides web surfing and word processing. I really do not get why people think it is a great design, window dressing and nothing more.

  19. Re:mac on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Since when has a Macbook Pro been an "extremely thin notebook"? Which is besides the point, you can get ultrabooks for less than a Macbook Air.

  20. Re:mac on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Macs use UEFI and not a BIOS. Modern PC laptops use UEFI now too. With an SSD you can cold boot Windows in under 20 seconds. In fact a Thinkpad has beaten the cold boot speed of a Macbook Air by booting in 7 seconds.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZ11MgtssM

  21. Re:mac on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    The one thing they do well is charge more than the hardware is worth just because there is a glowing apple on the back of the display. You can buy two non-Apple laptops with comparable hardware for the price of a Macbook Pro

  22. Re:Facebook buys Instagram on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which is paid when a stock is sold. In this case no stock was sold, it was simply transferred. Once those stocks are sold the proceeds become taxable. The very definition of capital is "cash on hand".

  23. Re:Facebook buys Instagram on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 2

    No taxes until the shares are liquefied.

  24. Re:When Zuckie himself is selling shares on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    $10/share? That is at least 10x the true value. I predict that in the next year or so their stock price is going to tank like so many did during the dotcom crash.

  25. Re:More covert THEY LIVE cameras on Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots · · Score: 1

    Strike that, I misread your comment.