Racerdude - Slashdot User

Comment Samsung Galaxy S4 available with Vanilla Android (Score 1) 223

by Racerdude on Friday July 26, 2013 @06:40AM (#44389523) Attached to: Forget Apple: Samsung Could Be Google's Next Big Rival

But then again they have released a version the Samsung Galaxy S4 as a pure "Vanilla" Android device. So that goes against the above theory

Comment $200.000 in fines (Score 5, Informative) 104

by Racerdude on Friday July 26, 2013 @04:55AM (#44389239) Attached to: Hallibuton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Simulation Data From 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

"Under the plea agreement, which requires court approval, Houston-based Halliburton will also face three years' probation, pay the maximum fine of $200,000..."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/25/halliburton-guilty-plea-destroying-evidence-deepwater-horizon/2588105/

Not too bad... I think they may be able to afford it.

Comment Re:Missing alternative (Score 1) 587

by Racerdude on Monday July 22, 2013 @06:31AM (#44348607) Attached to: Compared to my 1st computer's memory ...

I had a VIC20: 5kB of RAM, 3.5kB available to the programmer. But then perhaps you had the memory expansion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20

Submission + - HTC Joins Samsung in releasing Nexus Experience phone through Google Play

Submitted by FlatEric521 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:40AM

FlatEric521 writes: After Google announced a "Nexus Experience" Galaxy S4 and HTC started to sell their own unlocked HTC One, an announcement came out over the weekend that HTC would be joining Samsung in releasing a Nexus Experience phone. The HTC One Nexus Experience will be released on the same day as the S4 (June 26, 2013) for $599. As with the other Nexus phones, it is being shipped with a vanilla version of Android 4.2.2 with a promise of updates provided by Google. Is this a new trend we see starting, or an experiment that is doomed to failure?

Comment Re:TRS 80 Model I (Score 1) 623

by Racerdude on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:26AM (#43859785) Attached to: How Did You Learn How To Program?

10 CLS
20 PRINT "JOE WAS HERE"
30 GOTO 10

30 GOTO 20 ?

Comment Power Bars and Gatorade (Score 2) 292

by Racerdude on Monday April 22, 2013 @06:48AM (#43514109) Attached to: Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device?

If they eat "Power Bars and Gatorade" while gaming on the treadmill they're still going to be fat... Try water and the occasional banana... or, you know. REAL food

Comment Ballanced? (Score 4, Insightful) 211

by Racerdude on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:23AM (#43490191) Attached to: Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities In Java

"Organizations should to take a long, hard look at Java and answer for themselves if it's worth it, Williamson added.". This doesn't sound very balanced. It sounds like he has some sort of ulterior motive

Comment Re:Contract vs. Vendor (Score 1) 619

by Racerdude on Friday March 15, 2013 @10:48AM (#43182423) Attached to: Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4

Really? You have statistics that show that more than 50% of the people that bought a SGS3 were people who used to own an iPhone 4? Source?

Comment Re:Relativity (Score 1) 431

by Racerdude on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:12PM (#43172069) Attached to: EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures

This is like doping in cycling: Just as long as everybody dopes equally it's still a level playing field... Or perhaps he who as the most cash and the best doctors wins?

Comment Phone manufacturers won't like it (Score 1) 63

by Racerdude on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:13PM (#42546735) Attached to: Plasma Active, Sailfish, and Ubuntu Phone Developers Discussing Common APIs

Now this would be great! But I think there are very strong economic interests against this. A common architecture would mean the phone manufactures couldn't keep their users locked to the platform where they have all their apps.

Comment Nokia needs to start making Android phones (Score 2) 134

by Racerdude on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @10:07AM (#42336043) Attached to: Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung

Nokia's share will continue to drop for a while longer. Probably until they rethink their strategy and start producing Android phones. Windows Phone is a dead end.

Comment Re:Chinese (Score 1) 514

by Racerdude on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @05:25AM (#42334905) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?

I'm sorry, my bad. Any major language that is spoken in India

Comment Chinese (Score 1) 514

by Racerdude on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @04:54AM (#42334745) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer?

Chinese or indian

Comment Re:Microsoft Office (Score 1) 951

by Racerdude on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @03:42AM (#42052281) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

It was a Pulp Fiction reference. I don't think anyone got it though :(

Comment Re:Microsoft Office (Score 1) 951

by Racerdude on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:28AM (#42038031) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux?

"Microsoft Office" ain't no game I've ever heard of. Can you shoot monsters in Microsoft Office?

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