Comment Sort by topic (Score 1) 230
Sort the books by topic. If you have a lot of books on the same topic sort by subtopic.
Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone 348
zacharye writes "The best-selling smartphone in the world is no longer an iPhone. New data released on Thursday by market research firm Strategy Analytics finds that Samsung's Galaxy S III was the world's top-selling smartphone model in the third quarter this year, displacing Apple's iPhone for the first time in years. Samsung announced earlier this week that cumulative Galaxy S III channel sales reached the 30 million unit milestone and according to Strategy Analytics, 18 million of those were shipped in Q3 2012. During the same period, Apple shipped an estimated 16.2 million iPhone 4S handsets, slipping into the No.2 spot for the quarter..." Also at Slash Cloud.
Comment Re:Game Controls (Score 1) 368
Am thinking that it should be trivial to rotate the viewport/camera in the opposite directing, to mostly counter-act the tilting of the world.
Yes it's trivial. The problem is that there will be a terrible lag and the viewport will be shaking all the time.
Comment The comparison is not fair (Score 1) 537
It might be not that hard to learn the new UI. It is probably hard to unlearn the old one.
And with years it gets harder and harder to learn new things and to change the old habits.
Submission + - What causes degradation of wireless signals over time? 4
acer123 writes: Lately I have replaced several home wireless routers because the signal strength has been found to be degraded. These devices, when new (2+ years ago) would cover an entire house. Over the years, the strength seems to decrease to a point where it might only cover one or two rooms. Of the three that I have replaced for friends, I have not found a common brand, age, etc. It just seems that after time, the signal strength decreases. I know that routers are cheap and easy to replace but I'm curious what actually causes this. I would have assumed that the components would either work or not work; we would either have a full signal or have no signal. I am not an electrical engineer and I can't find the answer online so I'm reaching out to you.
Can someone explain how a transmitter can /slowly/ go bad?
Can someone explain how a transmitter can
Comment Re:Read Error (Score 1) 204
The internet solved this problem for me long before I got my CD writer.
Meet the Very First Rover To Land On Mars 59
toygeek writes "Before Curiosity, before Opportunity, before Spirit, and before Sojourner, the very first robot to land on Mars was this little guy, way back in December of 1971. Called PrOP-M, the rover was part of the Soviet Union's Mars-3 mission, which had the potential to deploy the first ever mobile scientific instruments onto the Martian surface. Article also contains Russian video on early rovers."
Comment Yeah, right! (Score 1) 154
If what you want is an apple, all trees look like apple-trees.
Comment Really? (Score 1) 35
I thought curiosity killed the cat...
Comment Re:As if.... (Score 1) 407
As if there is a single man in the world would would take a contraceptive that shrank their testes....
Well, if the research would find something that will increase the piece above the testes, I bet many would take it without thinking.
Don't you read your spam?
Comment Re:Cool tech, but (Score 0) 333
First, they tell us, the more---the better.
Than, ppi is not that important, it is the amount of colours you get.
Than, after having billions or trillions of colours, they tell us, look, the CPU is running at 3Ghz.
Than, it is bigger! Than, it is smaller!
Who cares? But they sell!
Comment Great news (Score 2) 1
Finally someone increases only processing power per watt. I hope they (and others) continue to do this.
Comment Re:well, actually... (Score 1) 241
Isn't there a way on slashdot to block "funny" comments? Those years old "jokes" littering almost each science-related thread have no value at all for me.
Yeah! There really should be a "stupid" moderation!
Comment Re:Wasteland 2 (Score 1) 170
I have seen a sequel, a remake, people fixated on return on investment, and the established developers getting priority over new, unproven programmers.
The problem with the games is not the programmers, but the designers of the games. And part of the problem is focusing on increased complexity of graphics, but not the quality of the graphics or the gameplay.
Comment Re:The reason seems obvious to me (Score 1) 355
I had a similar path. But I skipped C. Now I understand C but because of my C++ skills.
C is just a terrible language. Pascal is much better language, but a little bit more verbose.
I don't think BASIC was a teriible language. It was quite good for the 8-bit mahcines. But what language do you learn programming is irelevant. The most important is to learn to think. And the more languages you know - the more you think.
