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  1. People play games, not hardware specification. Atari, NES, SNES, PS, PS2, Wii, all the weakest hardware specification, but great games. Just hardcore nerds cares about hardware specification.

  2. Sorry, but I like it. on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm tired to go to nice performances, including circus, movies, etc (i.e., most stuff that is funny in a dark room), and then people insists in get their big phones and tablets and turn on the bright screen in your face and ruin your experience, blocking your vision and spotting light in your eyes.

    If people really used to just attend urgency calls, devices like this will be not required. For sure, probably doctors will be allowed to keep their devices. In case of fire, there are employees in the place able to make a call. Like in the old days.

  3. I gave up on KDE... on KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I was a KDE 2 and 3 user. Then, when the 4 craziness started, I waited until 4.5, something like that. But the "everything is a widget" idea is really weird. With the plus of several bugs, kdm bugs, app launcher bugs, systray bugs, sound mixer eating memory, and, at every minor upgrade, I had to clean up my configurations to get the new version working. If not enough, they announced KDE 5, and all started again.

    I never liked Gnome shell. Not to mention all the removing-features-coolaid since 3.

    So, I started to use Unity, from Canonical. Smart defaults: launcher at left; when you click in a launcher icon last used window is selected (click again to see all app instances); HUD; the simple notifications; very stable and polished; getting faster every new iteration without major drawbacks (16.04 is really awesome).

    Now I can understand why Canonical sometimes follow their own way. They really provide polished and professional UX. Sometimes I disagree with some decisions (I really wish they keep working with Wayland), but in general, I really enjoy their products.

  4. Just to remind us that MS said they'll kill QNX in two years! Oh, the irony of the time... https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  5. But the new version IS using QNX.

  6. Re:have on A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    All good ideas for Gnome programs!

  7. Their goal is clear... on Welcome To Alphanumeric Car Hell (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hyunday already changed the internal design of its cars to be "restrained", like the German makers. Now they're changing the external layout. The next natural step is to change the names to be alphanumeric, like Mercedes/BMW/Audi.

  8. Re:There is no "removing" of anything... on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is: there are no Apple frustrated customers. They're already saying it's no problem the lack of headphone, because if you want to record the audio, you can record from the ear plug (while we know that bluetooth quality is poor due double compression).

  9. Every Slashdot reader uses a remote desktop on Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default Instead Of X.Org Server (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    God, every news about Wayland is worst then systemd news. Sounds like all Slashdot readers are using remote desktop over X and this will be the reality for all the users in the world in the desktop/mobile.

  10. Re:Brazil... on Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Embraer was founded by the gov, but it got privatization. it's a S.A. company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The Olympics are fully 100% gov with IOC helping to not blow the deadlines.

  11. Re:Brazil... on Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To build aircraft, politicians are not involved.

  12. Re: Facebook is still a thing? on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean, real life interaction? Oh no, this is scary! What will be her next step? Have real friends?

  13. Re:pretty sure this has always been the case... on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Borks Dual-Boot Partitions (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Service packs never made this in the past.

  14. Influences? on Interviews: Ask Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson a Question · · Score: 2

    What were the influences (I mean, other frameworks, even in other languages) you used while building the first Rails version?

  15. Re:Why exactly should I switch away from appear.in on Skype Meetings Is Microsoft's New Free Video Conferencing Tool For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    Same here. Team started with Hangouts, but it had 2 major issues: eventually it goes crazy and someone in the team cannot join it; the UI to start a Hangout and send the link to someone join it's really a pain.

  16. Wait for koreans... on Man Sets World Record With 25 Continuous Hours In Virtual Reality (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait until Starcraft get VR in South Korea.

  17. FBI can, but you cannot. on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    Do the same (pay a hacker to break a giant's product) and go to jail.

  18. But how about porn? on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It has a small chance to have porn content, or at least, nudes! I can take that risk!

  19. Microsoft, please, to give back to Canonical on Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, please, to give back to Canonical for the improved POSIX environment on Windows 10, can you update Skype for Linux?

  20. Wondering the language... on New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com) · · Score: 1

    ... as every popular language today states it's used by NASA!

  21. Yeap, without the bullshit, but using all the weird new Google UX. I.e., you'll face a hard time trying to start a new hangout, to invite someone, even to go offline.

  22. Take a bus in Brazil... on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1

    ... where the bus drivers usually start while you just climbed the bus, always go over the speed limit, and they already keep the door always opened (in order to be able to start while you are in the first rung).

    And still, less accidents with them, because other drivers know they're crazy and take care to never drive around them.

    PS: Crazy Bus, sounds like a Sega game.

  23. Re:What data did they want? on Brazil Facebook Head Arrested For Refusing To Share WhatsApp Data (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But laws in Brazil allow court to give an order to have access to this data in this specific case (specific person, specific phone number, evidence exists). On US, not.

  24. Probably... on New GitHub Upgrades Respond To Recent Complaints (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    ... like almost all startup workers using OSX, they don't believe in the power of open source tools. Aside the fact they use HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery/Boostratp, Rails, Jekyll, MySQL-or-Postgres-or-any-FOSS-NoSQL and probably Linux in the server.

  25. Re:That's basically what communism is. on Carole Adams, Mom Who Lost Son In San Bernardino Shooting, Sides With Apple (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, come here to South America. Visit me on Brazil, then go to Argentina and then Venezuela. And finish at Cuba.