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  1. Re:Creator and Overseer of Android Responds on Steve Jobs Lashes Out At Android · · Score: 1

    What exactly is "make install" supposed to do when building Android..?

  2. Re:Awesome. on Duke Nukem 3D On Unreal Engine 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Valve is on the short list of developers that still release tools (and super-encourage) the community to mod and make content for their games.

  3. Re:Archimedes, again? Really? on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Woah, woah, what's this "method" you're using to analyze this situation? It's no kind of science I've seen used on Mythbusters!

  4. Re:Nothing you cannot already get. on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not really sure how much of a change they would have to make, considering there was an article earlier this year on how someone removed the 3G unit from their iPad and replaced it with the insides of an.. wait, you guessed it, a MiFi. (article) My point being the 3G unit is modular in the iPad (unlike a phone's, which is integrated with the radio which is deeply involved with the phone's operation) and they could probably make a CDMA version.

  5. Re:The problem with wifi-only iPad on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who says wifi is stationary? I think you're missing the point, but so is Apple.

    If you're on stationary wifi, then yes, why do you need location services? But if you're on mobile wifi (tethering, MiFi, etc.), you might want to use it as a GPS or the like. Now, if it supported bluetooth GPS pucks (or nowadays, smartphones that will act as bluetooth GPS pucks) then there shouldn't be as much an issue.

  6. Re:The problem with wifi-only iPad on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, it's not coming from your wifi, it's coming from more or less a wardriving MAC GPS database.

  7. Re:Mainly the five most recent releases on Devs Grapple With 100+ Versions of Android · · Score: 1

    And considering most of those custom ROMs are built on top of official build versions, they're almost irrelevant.

  8. Re:Spoof accounts targeted by police on UK Police Force Posts All Its Calls On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Probably so they don't go over the API limits on one account.

  9. Re:Check, But Not Mate on Oracle's Newest Move To Undermine Android · · Score: 1

    Oh god, you scared me for a second when putting "brew" and Android in the same sentence.

  10. Re:Would work on stored sound too on High-Tech Microphone Picks Voices From a Crowd · · Score: 1

    GPS likely isn't accurate enough to handle the delay calculations, the accuracy being anywhere around 5-15 meters.

  11. Re:ugh...more of this? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    Probably. These are Apple products we're talking about, after all. Only the highest quality materials should be used to destroy the iPhone!

  12. Re:How easy are they? on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    Of course, especially since it's probably 1024kbit.

  13. Re:Where's the Venom? on Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments · · Score: 1

    The difference is one is a news site that you don't HAVE to comment on, or could comment on somewhere else, and the other is a video game forum. I don't think I have to go any further with the explanation of the latter.

  14. Re:In Canada... on AT&T To Allow Xbox 360 As U-verse Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    You kind of circumvented your own point - you're right, it is the service picking and choosing how devices work, but nobody said U-verse works that way, you only said Telus, which is not even in the same country.

  15. Re:Set-Top Box? on AT&T To Allow Xbox 360 As U-verse Set-Top Box · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is U-verse. You know.. fiber to the last mile, DSL to the home? There is no cable or satellite involved, here.

  16. Re:Uverse sucks on AT&T To Allow Xbox 360 As U-verse Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    The fact it hasn't supported Windows Media Center still blows my mind, considering the current set top boxes are running a form of it.

  17. Re:Four HD streams? on AT&T To Allow Xbox 360 As U-verse Set-Top Box · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically U-verse boxes are already running Windows CE - they look a lot like Media Center, and if you go into the About menu you can see Microsoft had their hand in it.

  18. Re:ugh...more of this? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    This isn't about scratching. The motion of pulling the device out of the case was causing the grit to crack the glass. Broken glass is far more serious a problem.

  19. Re:Glass on both sides? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    I thought that too, when I first heard about this, but then I saw a picture of what was definitely the back of an iPhone 4, and it was definitely cracked glass.

  20. Re:Both models are bad on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    Where does it say Google is making money from ads? During Logitech's presentation yesterday they said Google was making no money from the user experience, except from normal ads inside the built-in Chrome browser (to be expected). They're probably licensing it to the hardware manufacturers.

  21. Re:How easy are they? on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    I think you need to try your hand at math again. 1000kbit = 1mbit (in base 10)

  22. Re:Turn toolbars to sidebars on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    My bad, I thought that was normal behavior. I use Personal Menu which adds appearing on Alt, and I uncheck the Menu Bar.

  23. Re:This is why I don't get Twitter on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously you don't get Twitter, because you should follow things that interest you and aren't noise. Now it's very likely that people you friend on Facebook are friended because they are actual real life friends or family. I don't have a social obligation to follow my family on Twitter, but I can subscribe to accounts that I feel are not noise, and remove ones that are. If you're following noise on Twitter (or Facebook, really) it's your own damn fault.

  24. Re:Isn't this just summarizing twitter? on Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot comments are all posts.. all useless.....

  25. Re:Just once on G2 Detects When Rooted and Reinstalls Stock OS · · Score: 1

    Who on Earth said anything about an open phone? It's an open source project.