> If programming was easy women and children would be doing it ;-)

It may not be easy, and women and children are doing it.

Why should it be called *anything*? Branding is cool and all, but it's not like there is a law that your product be named. Apple does not "make" phones other than the iPhone so there should be no confusion.

- Sir, would you check our selection of Android phones?
- No, I'd like to buy an Apple phone / I'm interested in iOS devices / I want *one of these* here.
- Which one?
- 4S please / the shorter / less expensive / less magnificent one.
- Here you are, ... pesos please.
- Good bye.

Then leave it to the population how they call it :-)

So 720p is 768 rows, 1080p is 1080 rows and 4k is 2160 rows, and not even 4k columns? Who named it so? In Best Buy: "See how much better this 4k screen is, compared to that 1080"

> you're looking at 27.6 MILLION PARTS per panel, right now that means a lot of defects

At a sufficiently high pixel density (maybe a couple of thousand DPI), having a large number of bad pixels is OK as long as they are spread around evenly.

> The ones who don't get run over by buses are more likely to be the ones who pay attention to what's around them or the ones who never leave the house.

Or the bus.

You guys are awfully serious about this. The judge has a strong yet sophisticated sense of humor, and the ruling can be interpreted in multiple ways. I think a judgement that rules your product "cool" in writing is preferable over actually winning a petty case like this. Does anyone think the judge was unaware of the consequences of his wording, and how Apple can use it to its own benefit? And let's face it, Samsung et al do copy the success that they saw with Apple products like there's no tomorrow. If anything, the Apple posting is just and hilarious in many ways.

That's what you get if you deliver to the One Infinite Loop address.

You get my vote.

I made this mistake, and its contents (i.e., Windows 8 on portables might consolidate mobile and PC use cases) could have been summed up in half the length of the slashdot summary, which in turn was just astroturfing. Then, as usual with Microsoft propaganda trying to outdumb readers, the slashdot summary does NOT say: "Windows mobile version xxx is pretty good / growing / will be the good for whatever", but, adapting the message to the slashdot crowd, first it tactically discredits MS just to buy our agreement, then slip on the real message in parentheses, almost subliminally, which is the assumed 5% market share. It's not even near that except in certain Seattle and Espoo cafeterias.

The article itself is full of cheap dramatization like "When it was pointed out he forgot Microsoft, Schmidt said this wasn’t a mistake. (then in a standalone paragraph) I believe it is." and patronizing passages like "Seriously stop and think about this for a minute. [...] give it 12 months and try again."

> why not just install gnome or mate if you're unhappy with unity?

because XFCE looks better and is at least as good?

It's almost as if someone asked what equipment he needs for performing bypass surgery. First requirement would be a bookshelf (to be filled with books for one's study), and second is a cabinet for keeping degrees, diplomas and continuing education. I'd love to know what motivated the question to begin with, it sounds almost eerie, esp. the professional part. Maybe a PHB who wants to monitor his engineers' purchase requests or a lottery winner with his dreams.

Just put in a Fresnel lens; will not help with the sound, but fun to clean it.

Well, it's a glaring error coming from someone who teaches kids, period. You're right, we're not in class, but perhaps said teacher is eager to learn about and correct this basic issue. In addition, naming himself "VVrath" can be seen as solicitation for pointing out improvement opportunities, and who are you to interfere with that?

I realize that many slashdotters don't give a flying rat's ass about grammar (mixing their with there, it's with its), so feel free to mod this to oblivion while modding up the equally uninteresting grammar denialist ("shit like this", "we're not in class", wow this IS novel and insightful). I like the fact that some people have the spine to express what is worth expressing despite the wrath of the plebs.

I don't know where you get your numbers from and of what unit of measure. It's clear that thermal insulation is night and day between parallel panes with a distance in the teens (mm) filled with gas (i.e. standard fare double-pane window) vs. non-parallel pane windows which are filled with air (other gas would escape and would be too expensive at >10x the volume to begin with). Have you ever held your hand near a single-pane window in wintertime, as a more accessible experiment? The air falls down quite fast. Maybe it's not 5-6mph but between non-parallel panes air would rotate at several turns a minute.

If economical window sound insulation is needed, stick to parallel panes as the main window, filled with gas, and use glasses of unequal thickness, the heavier the better. An ex-relative of mine lives in a very busy city road and their three-pane window (getting more prevalent in Europe) does wonders without exotic things like non-parallel panes that insulate poorly and you can't open them. On a visit, it was quite an eerie feeling when they opened their window at once and all that noise came in.

Correct, since the libraries are either-or and 3.whatever was spottily supported the last time around (12 months ago), there are effectively two languages, Python2 (you need for those libraries) and Python3 (you'd rather use). Python's attractiveness diminished so much so that neither of these two languages were chosen.