dimeglio - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Also, "mostly similar"? (Score 2) 140

by dimeglio on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:57PM (#48565509) Attached to: $35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O

How so? ARM processors are quite plentiful and support several operating systems already. Perhaps you're just not very familiar with them. Not to worry. There's plenty of material available.

Comment Re:For the Love of Cock! (Score 2) 89

by dimeglio on Thursday December 04, 2014 @03:39AM (#48520633) Attached to: Fraudulent Apps Found In Apple's Store

I think you proved his point.

Comment Re:Using NASA's dictionary (Score 1) 445

by dimeglio on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:39PM (#48282269) Attached to: Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes

Yeah, I remember vaguely. Didn't he say "major malfunction?"

Comment Re: Did they make money on Surface? (Score 2) 117

by dimeglio on Friday October 24, 2014 @09:13PM (#48226871) Attached to: Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion

Well it's about time they make money. Still going to take a while to recover all the loses of previous models. I expect it's not going to last long with all the cheaper equivalents popping out of Asia. I expect Surface is really a short term stint until OEMs catch-up.

Comment Re:True inventor of blue LED not awarded Nobel eit (Score 1) 276

by dimeglio on Thursday October 09, 2014 @03:48PM (#48105815) Attached to: No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED

I believe it was in fact Jacques Pankove but the LEDs they discovered were not very useful. Shuji Nakamura is indeed the one who made them useful.

Comment He should have invented the blue LED (Score 1) 276

by dimeglio on Thursday October 09, 2014 @03:46PM (#48105793) Attached to: No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED

The green and red LEDs were not as hard to develop as the blue one.

Comment Re:Mint (Score 1) 303

by dimeglio on Thursday October 09, 2014 @08:53AM (#48101657) Attached to: What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014?

I concur. For me, Mint is currently the leader in desktop Linux. Things just work. I expect other distros will also get better as a result. This is beauty behind the GNU license.

Comment Re: Very easy to solve (Score 2) 179

by dimeglio on Thursday October 09, 2014 @08:11AM (#48101427) Attached to: Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet"

The problem is not spying on US citizens, it's spying data from foreign citizens stored on US based cloud servers. Something the US will never stop doing any more than they will stop body searches on domestic/foreign flights.

Comment alien planets (Score 1) 89

by dimeglio on Friday August 29, 2014 @01:20PM (#47785605) Attached to: Astronomers Find What May Be the Closest Exoplanet So Far

This is more evidence that alien planets are common in the galaxy.

Strange statement. Why would anyone think planets were uncommon in the galaxy?

Comment Re:Misleading Labeling (Score 1) 64

by dimeglio on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @10:46AM (#47703243) Attached to: AMD Launches Radeon R7 Series Solid State Drives With OCZ

I suppose you'd get similar results if you just order Windows without being more specific. The skill lies in checking the right box next to the product you want.

Comment Re:Notify them (Score 1) 188

by dimeglio on Monday August 18, 2014 @04:00PM (#47697969) Attached to: Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware

Given their current market share in mobiles, it might be too late.

Comment Re:Thats a no brainer! (Score 1) 109

by dimeglio on Saturday August 16, 2014 @12:05PM (#47684641) Attached to: Why the Universe Didn't Become a Black Hole

Is it a case of "Honey, I Blew Up the Universe"? The total mass/energy would remain constant but space between particles would just grow larger. The energy which created, and is now expanding the universe, would likely be external to the universe itself.

Comment Re:Best Wishes ! (Score 2) 322

by dimeglio on Thursday July 24, 2014 @01:09PM (#47523511) Attached to: Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows

The have the Nadella hammer. Personally, I'd love to see one Windows instead of Home Editions, Professional Editions, N editions, etc. Let's just have one single edition that runs on everything.

Comment Re:Who couldn't see this coming? (Score 2) 300

by dimeglio on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:59AM (#47457743) Attached to: Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees

If Office were really on Linux I think you'd see Windows practically disappear.

Perhaps you're being a little too optimistic here.

Comment Re:To little too late. (Score 1) 71

by dimeglio on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:06AM (#47374839) Attached to: Improv Project, Vivaldi Tablet Officially Dead

Apple borrowed BSD for iOS, Microsoft borrowed Digital VMS for NT, Google borrowed Linux for Android, and Blackberry borrowed QNX for BBOS. Unless I missed some other big company, looks like no one really started from scratch.

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